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Probably the most useful thing he could do.

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If you think of Joe Biden as a nice old man who was kicked to the curb, consider his administration’s jaw-dropping efforts to sabotage Donald Trump.

The president-elect plans to actually enforce federal immigration law starting Jan. 20, when Trump takes the oath of office. As the New York Post reported Thursday, Team Biden “is quietly rushing to implement new policies that will loosen restrictions on migrants who entered the US illegally – a parting attempt to thwart President-elect Donald Trump’s immigration crackdowns and mass deportations,” according to sources.

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George Orwell’s body lies a-spinnin’ in the grave….

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In a seven-page letter to the district council, the staff described an environment of increasing aggression, violence, and educational struggles that has left them overwhelmed and desperate for support.

Bringing the Turd World home.

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Time to leave.

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The Massachusetts Education Association apparently pushed three neighboring teachers unions to go on strike at the same time, sources close to the unions say.

Because of the strikes, schools in three districts in Massachusetts have been closed for over two weeks, leaving working parents in the lurch without child care and extending the school year into the summer break.

The Massachusetts Education Association, a branch of the far-left National Education Association, asked teachers union members in the North Shore area whether they’d be willing to strike for higher salaries and better benefits after the November 2024 elections, someone with knowledge of the meeting told The Daily Signal.

The Gloucester Teachers Association and the Beverly Teachers Association went on strike Nov. 8; the Marblehead Education Association followed suit Nov. 12.

Strikes are illegal for public employees in Massachusetts, so the teachers unions each have incurred fines north of $100,000.

Lesson: Don’t send your kid to a government school.

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*sigh* Buy ’em books, send ’em to school, and they still can’t pour piss out of a boot with instructions printed on the heel.

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Couldn’t happen to a nicer group of people.

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Death certificates have always provided broader and more accurate data than the FBI’s figures, but the gap between them has grown sharply under the Biden administration. This may indicate that local law enforcement agencies, states, and/or the FBI are undercounting murders.

Furthermore, the Biden administration FBI inexplicably revised its pre-Biden murder data all the way back to 2003, elevating the counts in certain years by up to 7%. The FBI made these unprecedented alterations without so much as a footnote to inform the public.

As a result of those factors and others, the gap between murders reported by the FBI and the number of homicides recorded on death certificates has grown from a low of 16 killings in 2003 to an average of 3,711 killings per year during Biden’s presidency.

Considering that such statistics are used by Deep State bureaucrats as a basis for public policy, this ought to bother everybody.

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Think back to that basic biology class you took in high school. You probably learned about organelles, those little “organs” inside cells that form compartments with individual functions. For example, mitochondria produce energy, lysosomes recycle waste and the nucleus stores DNA. Although each organelle has a different function, they are similar in that every one is wrapped up in a membrane.

Membrane-bound organelles were the textbook standard of how scientists thought cells were organized until they realized in the mid-2000s that some organelles don’t need to be wrapped in a membrane. Since then, researchers have discovered many additional membraneless organelles that have significantly changed how biologists think about the chemistry and origins of life.

I was introduced to membraneless organelles, formally called biomolecular condensates, a couple years ago when students in my lab observed some unusual blobs in a cell nucleus. Unbeknownst to me, we had actually been studying biomolecular condensates for years. What I finally saw in those blobs opened my eyes to a whole new world of cell biology.

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Cue meltdowns.

Trump immigration crackdown: Denaturalization just a drop in the bucket (The Hill) Bare-faced lie.

Immigration Expert Outlines Who ‘Gets Targeted First’ During Trump’s Mass Deportations (The Latin Times)

The 14th Amendment and naturalized citizens have long been a target (Daily Kos) Distortion.

The Trump administration’s next target: naturalized US citizens (The Hill) Bare-faced lie.

Don’t Do Trump’s Work for Him on Mass Deportations (Dara Lind/New York Times)

Linda McMahon, Trump’s Education pick, was sued for allegedly enabling sexual abuse of children (John Towfighi/CNN)

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have spelled out their plans for DOGE (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Police report reveals new details from sexual assault allegation against Trump’s defense secretary nominee (CNN)

Meyers, Williams Claim Trump Won Because ‘There is a Nihilism Afoot’

How Denver’s mayor is responding to Trump’s threats to defund sanctuary cities (Kyle Harris/Denverite)

Newsom Heads to California Counties That Voted for Trump (Shawn Hubler/New York Times)

Senate Democrat: Trump wants to ‘subjugate’ GOP senators with Gaetz appointment (Juliann Ventura/The Hill)

Remember how American voters so hated Project 2025, the playbook … (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters …)  No, ‘American voters’ didn’t hate it; progressives hated it and tried, through the Narrative media, to make it appear as if American voters hated it (which never went anywhere).

A Trump Judge Just Nixed Overtime Pay for Millions–and Media Yawned (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  OH NOES! TRUMP COOTIES!

The Trump team’s plan to resuscitate a dead oil project (Ben Lefebvre/Politico)

‘I Think He’s Completely Unfit’: Michael Pollan on Why RFK Jr. Might Be Right about Processed Food But Wrong About Most Everything Else (Katelyn Fossett/Politico)

Nonprofit Laid Out Road Map for Prosecuting Trump Supporters, and Arizona’s AG Seems to Have Followed It

California Can’t Afford Newsom’s ‘$100 Million’ Trump Resistance Lawsuits, Budget Watchdog Warns

As Trump Shakes Up Bureaucracy, PBS’s Barron-Lopez Pushes New Red Scare

Chaos reigns supreme in Trump’s Washington (Zachary Basu/Axios)

Inside Trump’s dramatic potential plan to shake up the FBI (Kaitlan Collins/CNN)  As if anyone at CNN really knows Trump’s plan for anything.

Trump’s daily chaos circus is already back in full force (Aaron Rupar/Public Notice)  Rupar is the guy after whom the term “rupar” was coined.

Foreign nationals propel U.S. science. Visa limits under Trump could change that (Jon Hamilton/NPR)  That’s because American schools are crap; we have to import from overseas to get someone even marginally competent.

The ‘Landslide’ That Wasn’t: Trump and Allies Pump Up His Narrow Victory (Peter Baker/New York Times)

When Pam Bondi Protected Foreclosure Fraudsters (David Dayen/American Prospect)

A Good Country’s Bad Choice (David Frum/The Atlantic)

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CBS’s Stephen Colbert welcomed House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to the Thursday taping of The Late Show to promote his new children’s book and to help explain the difference between Republicans and Democrats. This being The Late DNC Show, Colbert would conclude that the answer is that Republicans don’t believe everyone should have health care.

After Colbert asked the question the first time, he noticed Jefferies gave a generic answer about how Democrats wanted to make people’s lives better, “Just to drill down just a little bit deeper on that, because almost everything in what you just said, while a very good thing to say, a Republican sitting in that seat might say the same thing, other than access to health care for everybody. That might be the one thing where they would—”

The unintended joke is that there hasn’t been “a Republican sitting in that seat” for years, but nevertheless, as the audience started applauding, Colbert continued, “no, because they don’t believe in universal health care. They would like to get rid of Obamacare. That is the one big division, or that is one of the big divisions that you named. Are there other specific things that you go ‘I am a Democrat, therefore I believe this should happen. That my opponents do not believe should happen.’ That’s what I mean by define the Democratic message. What does it mean to be a Democrat as opposed to what it means to be, how you perceive the Republicans?”

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The day after the 2024 election, journalist Paul D. Thacker posted on his X account a series of expletive-filled posts from Laura Helmuth’s Bluesky account, in which she apologised “to younger voters that my Gen X is so full of fucking fascists,” upbraided high-school classmates for celebrating Trump’s win—“fuck them to the moon and back”—and described her home state of Indiana as “racist and sexist.”

The ensuing media firestorm led Helmuth to delete the comments and offer an unconvincing apology for her “offensive and inappropriate posts,” asserting that she ‘respects and values people across the political spectrum’ and remains “committed to civil communication and editorial objectivity.”

Shortly afterwards, the president of Scientific American, Kimberly Lau, released the following public statement:

Laura Helmuth has decided to move on from her position as editor in chief of Scientific American. We thank Laura for her four years leading Scientific American during which time the magazine won major science communications awards and saw the establishment of a reimagined digital newsroom. We wish her well for the future.

Helmuth made her own announcement on Bluesky, stating that she had “decided to leave Scientific American after an exciting 4.5 years” and was “going to take some time to think about what comes next (and go birdwatching).” Birdwatching here is the equivalent of an embattled politician who resigns in order to “spend more time with my family.” The pretext fools no one, but is plausible enough that the proclaimer may hope readers will believe that other people believe it.

ZMan says the quiet part out loud.

As the democratic mindset has settled upon us, the truth has been pushed to the edges of the public domain. Back in the bad old days when certain parts of the population were discouraged from voting, politicians were discouraged from lying. As we have become obsessed with making sure every voice is heard, politicians are now rewarded for perfidy. America is on the verge of becoming a nation of liars, just as Cyrus described the Greeks.

This is by design. The argument for democracy and the “free market” is that the magic of the marketplace will solve the perfidy problem. The expert who is always wrong, due to incompetence or discerption, will be revealed and ignored. The seller who rips off his customers will be found out and before long word will get around that he is a bad guy, and no one should buy from him. We no longer need a moral code in a democratized society, because the market will do the policing.

It turns out that this was a lie. For example, the drug makers lie about all sorts of things and never face any consequences. The miracle weight loss drug Ozempic may cause your heart to explode, but at least you will look good in the casket. Time after time we see the drug companies roll out miracle cures that are worse than the thing they seek to cure, but they suffer no loss of reputation. The people who needed to redefine the word “vaccine” are no redefining the word “healthy.”

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This is what the Democrats have in mind for America.

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There is a lot of anger among the leftists in the wake of the re-election of Donald Trump. Many of them are so afflicted with TDS that their anger often seems to bleed into blind rage. So what to do? Well, The Atlantic magazine has not the cure but what they claim is the prescription. Namely they suggest reading from a recommended book list. The problem is that their book suggestions seem to be like pouring high octane fuel on the TDS fire.

Ruth Madievsky made her book suggestions on Wednesday in “What to Read If You’re Angry About the Election.” The subtitle is “These seven books aren’t a cure for rage and despair. Think of them instead as a prescription.” As you will see her book suggestions seem more like rubbing salt in a wound rather than a prescription.

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Chuck Rocha, a Democratic operative and CNN contributor who was convicted of embezzling funds from a major labor union, is eying a bid to lead the Democratic National Committee.

The former adviser to Bernie Sanders’s 2016 presidential campaign said this week he is “seriously considering” a run for DNC chair in order to shake up the party after its landslide losses to Republicans earlier this month. Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley and Minnesota Democratic Party leader Ken Martin jumped into the race this week. Former Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is also reportedly mulling a bid to lead the committee.

Progressives have already come out against Emanuel. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) called Emanuel, the current ambassador to Japan, a symptom of the “seed of the party’s political crisis.” Liberal news outlets have questioned Emanuel’s “suspiciously timed” stock trades as ambassador to Japan, and rehashed his tenure as mayor of Chicago during the police shooting of Laquan McDonald.

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Already Trump is benefitting America. (Now, if we can get Barbra Streisand to leave … or, dare I to hope, Rob Reiner….)

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People eagerly give money to rich environmental groups. The Natural Resources Defense Council has $463 million in assets.

It claims it uses law “to confront the climate crisis.”

What it really does is pay lawyers to torture people who try to do useful things.

Example: America needs minerals like copper and silver to make things. Even President Joe Biden made a speech saying America will need 400-600% more such minerals to make “solar panels, wind turbines and so much more!”

An iPhone alone requires aluminum, iron, lithium, gold, copper …

But when investors dare try to dig up such minerals in America, the NRDC objects and uses political connections to stop them.

So, actually, it isn’t America that blocks new mines, but government that blocks them. An important distinction that ‘journalists’ ought to keep clear but seldom do.

Explorer Scout: “What use is calculus? I’ve never seen the need for it.”

My brother, the Explorer Post adviser and Dungeon Master: “You’re going from a five-foot wide corridor to a ten-foot-wide corridor. How long a spear can you get around that corner?”

Explorer Scout: “I have no clue.”

My brother: “Come, my child, while I explain to you the uses of maxima and minima….”

The Foundry.

President-elect Donald Trump’s win two weeks ago in Pennsylvania was always right in front of you if you were objectively listening to the concerns of the people and the data showing the most important, but misread trend of all: The Republican Party had now become the party of work.

In interview after interview, waitresses, welders, rank-and-file union members, plumbers, HVAC small-business owners, hairdressers, and barbers would tell national news reporters, including me, that they were voting for Trump.

No matter how often these voters said this, it often was dismissed as an outlier. Or it was placed in a silo of race, meaning it was only the white working class. The blindness among reporters and Democrats was that they thought it was only white middle-class voters behaving that way, missing that working-class voters of all races were voting shoulder to shoulder.

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Platform Bluesky is attempting to cater to its most anti-free speech users, claiming it will increase censorship to “max capacity,” but apparently it can’t crush speech fast enough to satisfy its user base. Many leftists, especially after the 2024 election turned into a landslide victory for Republicans, lashed out at President-elect Donald Trump’s ally and X owner Elon Musk, leaving X behind.

Many chose to create accounts on Bluesky instead, and the platform soon announced that its censors couldn’t handle the deluge of censorship demands, though it plans to keep trying. The platform even encouraged users to report content for censorship.

On Nov. 15, Bluesky Safety, the platform’s censorship team, posted, “Bluesky has grown by over 3M people in the last week — welcome! With every wave of growth naturally comes an increase in moderation reports. Here’s a status report on how the Trust & Safety team is handling it[.]” The account then acknowledged the massive flood of censorship requests and promised to “dial” its censorship group up to “max capacity.”

Perhaps they’ll get it out of their systems and leave Twitter and Facebook alone.

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In a decision which was expected and has long been previewed in international reports, the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday issued arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant over the war in Gaza.

Three judges of the ICC’s “Pre-Trial Chamber I” issued the warrants unanimously, accusing the Israeli leaders of crimes against humanity. They wrote: “The chamber considered that there are reasonable grounds to believe that both individuals intentionally and knowingly deprived the civilian population in Gaza of objects indispensable to their survival, including food, water, and medicine and medical supplies, as well as fuel and electricity.”

I see no ‘international arrest warrants’ issued for the Hamas leaders who orchestrated the Oct. 7 attacks. I wonder why.

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The Finnish Foreign Ministry will temporarily cease its aid programme for development cooperation with Somalia. The East African country has not cooperated with requests from the European Union member state to take back its citizens who currently reside illegally inside the Nordic nation.

4 Trump administration picks have sexual misconduct allegations in their past (Arden Farhi/CBS News)  And, as we all know, even a mere allegation is enough to get one cancelled.

Trump’s cabinet picks are agents of his contempt, rage and vengeance (Sidney Blumenthal/The Guardian)  All of the proglodytes who can’t get published in the U.S. go to The Guardian.

Merkel eviscerates ’emotional’ Trump in upcoming memoir (Joe Stanley-Smith/Politico)  Or at least her straw-man of Trump.

The Technology the Trump Administration Could Use to Hack Your Phone (Ronan Farrow/New Yorker) Child of Mia Farrow, Voice of the Crust.

Food Lobbyists Plot To Have It Their Way With RFK Jr.

Trump Sends Clowns to Cabinet Confirmation Circus (Karl Rove/Wall Street Journal)

Mark Milley disagrees with Trump pick on women in combat (Politico)  I’m sure he does. Milley is the poster child of a ‘woke general’.

Trump Recruits His Season 2 Cast Straight From the Small Screen (Michael M. Grynbaum/New York Times)  Just remember,  he’s the President and you’re not.

Here Are the GOP Senators Who Could Take Down Trump’s Cabinet Picks (Jonathan Martin/Politico)

Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi ‘get the hell out’ of US after Donald Trump’s presidential win: report

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The House of Representatives is becoming more of an insane asylum every day, and Rep. Jasmine Crockett is the perfect example of that. During a hearing on Wednesday, the Texas congresswoman went nuts, screaming about “oppression” and the “white man.” Some might call that racist. Democrats call that normal, as depraved as it is.

Representatives are representative, i.e. they reflect their constituents — that’s how they got elected.

If enough people in the district are crazy racists, their Representatives will be crazy racists, too.

None are more crazy and racist than black women. Maxine Waters. Cori Bush. Eddie Bernice Johnson. Sheila Jackson Lee. I’m sure you can fill in the rest of the list.

“Absolutely Insane”: Pentagon Officials on Trump’s Military Deportation Plan (The Intercept)

Trump’s immigration crackdown is expected to start on Day 1 (Politico) Well, that’s what we elected him to do.

The Great Deportation of 2025 (Foreign Policy)

Trump’s threats of mass deportations lead to hard discussions for families (NPR)

Prosecutors oppose tossing Trump’s hush money conviction but are open to sentencing delay (Associated Press)

Trump ignores transition rules. It’s a ‘hostile takeover,’ ally says. (Washington Post)

The rule of law is already being undermined in the presidential transition (Alexander B. Howard/CIVIC TEXTS)

Biden Rushes $275M More In Weapons To Ukraine Before Trump Enters Office

‘100% on board’: Border state offers Trump massive plot of land to aid mass deportation operation (Adam Shaw/Fox News)

Italian village offers $1 homes to Americans upset by the US election result (Silvia Marchetti/CNN)

Team Trump Wants the Poor to Suffer to Fund His Tax Cuts for the Rich (Rolling Stone)  When did you ever get a job from a poor person?

L.A. Enacts Sanctuary City Ordinance to Prepare for Trump’s Mass Deportations

Pete Hegseth Scandal Is Rattling Trumpworld: ” People Are Upset About the Distraction” (Gabriel Sherman/Vanity Fair)

Trump’s corruption of the DOJ goes much deeper than Gaetz (Liz Dye/Public Notice)

House Republicans are playing the Trump card in committee chair races (Eleanor Mueller/Politico)  OH NOES!

Raimondo’s new mission: Leave no cash for Trump (Steven Overly/Politico)

Playbook: The real divide roiling Democrats (Politico)

Trump Tariffs Are Inflationary Claim The Experts, But…

Behind the Scenes at a Secretive Gathering of Rising MAGA Donors (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)  Duhn dunh DUNHHHHHHH….

Please, Mr. President, ditch this dreadful duo – Gabbard and Gaetz (New York Post)

MSNBC Says Trump Coverage Must Change, Be ‘More Focused On Democracy’

Past Nominees Have Been Undone by Far Less Than What Surrounds Trump Picks (Carl Hulse/New York Times)  But slurs and innuendo and ‘allegations’ won’t work with Trump.

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Now if you own stock in a company, and you read a report that the prospects for that company are not good, that the cash dividend that the company is expected to pay to stockholders is in jeopardy, you can get out. You can sell the stock and invest somewhere else.

Per the Social Security Administration, there are 184 million Americans now working and paying Social Security taxes. Per the above notice from the Social Security Trustees, all those 184 million ages 57 and below will get only 79% of their entitled benefits at retirement (assuming they choose to start collecting benefits at age 67).

Does any one of the 184 million have an option to say, “No, thanks, I don’t want to be part of this,” and get out? Certainly not. The government forces you to participate, allegedly for your own good. They decide; you obey. It’s a reminder of what President Ronald Reagan called “the most terrifying words in the English language: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”

Social Security is a Ponzi scheme and always has been.

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Jewish patients coming to the University of California, San Francisco for medical care report hiding their identity, a senior faculty member at the school told the Washington Free Beacon.

The professor added that the public school has contributed to “an erosion of professionalism” and a “loss of the centering of the patient-physician relationship” with its activist teaching, per the Free Beacon.

The publication reported that a required, six-week medical “justice and advocacy” workshop taught that an anti-Israel protest on Nov. 16, 2023 — one that blocked the San Francisco Bay Bridge and prevented, among other vehicles, three UCSF trucks carrying organs to be transplanted that day — was a “‘direct action,’ akin to ‘sit-ins’ or ‘vigils,’ that disrupt ‘business as usual’ to ‘pressure targeted decision-makers.'”

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When Israeli soldiers began entering southern Lebanon as part of the IDF’s ground offensive, they encountered Hezbollah’s massive weapons stockpiles – most of them filled with advanced, recently produced Russian weapons, The Wall Street Journal reported.

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The issues arising from thousands of illegal immigrants pouring into Chicago from around the world have united many in the city’s black and Hispanic communities, who blame the government for the resultant social problems, including crime.

Local citizens say that their neighborhoods are less safe, their schools are overcrowded, already scarce jobs are now even harder to come by, and the distribution of municipal resources favors illegal immigrants.

“My beef is with the government, not with the migrants,” said Hector, a Hispanic pastor from Brighton Park on the city’s south side.

“There are a lot of injustices. We do not see equality. The migrants are given everything. The money is coming from our pockets.”

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How did college go from being a guaranteed ticket to the American dream to leaving graduates ghosted for minimum wage jobs?

I’m more interested in seeing an Amazon truck (or the FedEx guy) than any of my neighbors.

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Last November, University of Minnesota vice provost Harvey Charles traveled to Guangdong, China, to tour Sun Yat-sen University, the Chinese Communist Party-controlled college known for its top business school. It marked the first time a University of Minnesota delegation had visited the school since COVID, though Charles made clear that any geopolitical tensions stemming from the pandemic did not weaken his relationship with his Chinese counterparts.

“We were received warmly,” he said, “and their desire to continue collaborating with us was as enthusiastic, if not more so, than prior to the pandemic.”

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Canadian authorities are battling a surge in ISIS-related activity, with young recruits lured through social media platforms like TikTok fueling a resurgence of the terror group’s influence, Breitbart reported.

Imagine how peaceful the world would be if the Religion of Peace didn’t exist.

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n the ongoing battle against antibiotic-resistant “superbugs,” researchers have uncovered an unexpected vulnerability that could change how we fight these deadly infections – and it all comes down to a microscopic competition for resources.

The discovery comes at a crucial time. Current estimates paint a grim picture: drug-resistant infections already claim over one million lives annually, with deaths projected to nearly double to two million per year by 2050.

However, a team led by researchers at the University of California-San Diego may have found a new way to tackle this crisis without relying on traditional antibiotics. Their research, published in Science Advances, reveals that antibiotic-resistant bacteria have an inherent weakness – one that might explain why these seemingly unstoppable superbugs haven’t completely taken over.

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It’s yet another reminder of the dark days of pre-Musk Twitter when social media was completely dominated by blue-check Karens and a vast army of San Francisco-based moderators. In the wake of Donald Trump’s election victory which was helped in large part by Elon Musk, high profile celebrities along with washed up has-beens are announcing their great exodus from X.

Destination? Bluesky, a social media platform which is trying to recreate the progressive cancel culture hellscape of 2020 Twitter. It was created by former longtime Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, who later left the organization. The company recently reported an increase of 3 million users since October, rising to 15 million total users in November. Compare this to X with its reported user base of over 600 million and it’s easy to see why the political left was so enraged by the sale of the company to Musk with his abhorrent free speech policies.

It’s also hard to see how Bluesky represents anything other than a sweaty bubble of cope.

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Reducing body weight to improve metabolic health and related comorbidities is a primary goal in treating obesity. However, maintaining weight loss is a considerable challenge, especially as the body seems to retain an obesogenic memory that defends against body weight changes. Overcoming this barrier for long-term treatment success is difficult because the molecular mechanisms underpinning this phenomenon remain largely unknown. Here, by using single-nucleus RNA sequencing, we show that both human and mouse adipose tissues retain cellular transcriptional changes after appreciable weight loss. Furthermore, we find persistent obesity-induced alterations in the epigenome of mouse adipocytes that negatively affect their function and response to metabolic stimuli. Mice carrying this obesogenic memory show accelerated rebound weight gain, and the epigenetic memory can explain future transcriptional deregulation in adipocytes in response to further high-fat diet feeding. In summary, our findings indicate the existence of an obesogenic memory, largely on the basis of stable epigenetic changes, in mouse adipocytes and probably other cell types. These changes seem to prime cells for pathological responses in an obesogenic environment, contributing to the problematic ‘yo-yo’ effect often seen with dieting. Targeting these changes in the future could improve long-term weight management and health outcomes.

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(1) There is such a thing.

Google Scholar, a tool used by researchers around the world, was founded by two researchers. We started Scholar in 2004, physically delivering hard drives to the office (see fact number 2), and two decades later adding new AI features (see fact number 6). To celebrate 20 years of Google Scholar, here are 20 fun facts about its origins, how you can use it and what’s new.

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House Republicans pressed Deanne Criswell, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, about bias at FEMA after a supervisor directed staff to avoid helping Florida residents with signs supporting Donald Trump.

A FEMA supervisor, Marn’i Washington, told workers in a message to “avoid homes advertising Trump” as they canvassed Lake Placid, Florida, to identify residents who could qualify for federal aid after Hurricane Milton, The Daily Wire’s Leif Le Mahieu reported. The directive reportedly prevented FEMA from offering post-hurricane aid to at least 20 homes displaying Trump signs or flags in late October and November.

Criswell announced that FEMA had fired Washington and claimed Washington acted on her own initiative in giving these orders. Yet Washington claimed that her directions were not an isolated incident. Sources inside FEMA have spoken to The Daily Signal and other outlets, also saying that the direction for FEMA staff to avoid Trump supporters was not an isolated incident.

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“If you’re a biological man, you shouldn’t be in women’s restrooms.“

That’s just common sense—and common courtesy to women. Yet Rep. Nancy Mace, a South Carolina Republican, is being crucified by Democrat House members for wanting women’s spaces to be for women only.

“This is not just bigotry, this is just plain bullying,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., whined to Axios. A co-chair of the House Equality Caucus, Rep. Becca Balint, D-Vt., told Axios, “The cruelty is the point.”

Mace announced her resolution Monday, a couple months before Tim McBride, who wishes to be known as Sarah McBride, is slated to begin his first House term. (McBride announced he had “transitioned” while a student at American University in the 2011-2012 school year.) Mace’s resolution would require lawmakers and staffers to use bathrooms matching their birth sex.

Asked by reporters if her resolution was related to McBride, Mace said, “Yes.”

Another Fiasco for Trump as His Pick to Run Pentagon Suddenly Implodes (The New Republic) Say rather ‘crushed by the Narrative’.

Defense pick Peter Hegseth paid accuser to protect his career, his lawyer confirms (NPR) Knowing that all it takes is an accusation (Proof? Ain’t nobody got time for that.) to be destroyed.

Trump team weighs Pentagon pick after sexual assault allegation surfaces (Washington Poop)

Pompous ‘60 Minutes’ Smear Proves Team Trump’s Point About Skipping CBS

Lawyer tells ABC News his 2 clients told House Ethics Committee that Gaetz paid them for sex (ABC News) We lawyers call this ‘hearsay’ and there’s a reason it’s not admissible as evidence in court.

Trump’s War With the Press Takes a Terrifying Turn (Edith Olmsted/New Republic)  Yeah. He’s winning.

Palestinian Authority Mouthpiece Says Trump Is ‘Full of Racism’ But Can Be Manipulated

Top House Democrat: Gabbard ‘a national security threat’ to US (Tara Suter/The Hill)

Cabinet Conniptions: TV Journalists MELT DOWN Over Trump’s Cabinet Picks

Berkeley Communists Call For “Righteous Anger & Revolutionary Determination” Against MAGA 

How to Stop President-Elect Trump’s Potentially Abusive Domestic Deployments of the Military (Scott R. Anderson/The UnPopulist)

Health care organization launches ‘Stop RFK War Room’ (Megan Messerly/Politico)

Election Deniers? Same Left-Wing Group That Tried to Kick Trump Off Ballot Now Demands Recount

ACLU sues to get clues on Trump’s mass deportation plans (Russell Contreras/Axios)

Scoop: Trump personally squeezes senators on Matt Gaetz (Axios)

Bolton: Gabbard as DNI Should Give Relief to Russia, China

Trump Reminds Everyone: He Wants US Soldiers in US Streets (Josh Kovensky/Talking Points Memo)

Top Democrat on Ethics panel says she wants to publish Gaetz report (Nicholas Wu/Politico)

Republicans Who Voted for Merrick Garland as AG Complain About Matt Gaetz, Trump’s Choice  

Biden locks in $6.6B for TSMC chip factories, ensuring Trump can’t rescind CHIPS Act deal (Phineas Hogan/Arizona Mirror)  Gotta save that ten percent for the Big Guy.

Court Filings Place Matt Gaetz at a Second Drug-Fueled Party in 2017 (Jose Pagliery/NOTUS)  More allegations presented as if they were proof.

Google Hosts Party for Democratic Operatives Plotting To ‘Resist the Republican Agenda’

Threats Of Violence Against Trump Voters Surge

Kash Patel would do ‘massive damage’ to FBI: Ex-agent (Lauren Irwin/The Hill)

Biden should order background checks of Trump’s Cabinet picks (Frank Figliuzzi/MSNBC)

The corruption of MAGA comedy (Alexander Karn/Salon)

The Trump administration’s next target: naturalized US citizens (Steven Lubet/The Hill)

Throwback: Trump 2.0 is boosting some old economic ideas (Politico)  Yeah, the ones that worked.

Recess appointments complicate Republican honeymoon (Washington Post)  What ‘honeymoon’? Republicans haven’t had a ‘honeymoon’ since Eisenhower.

Democrats Used to Praise Trump’s New Border Czar for His Effectiveness at Deporting Illegal Aliens

The narrowest of margins – How to think about Donald Trump’s narrow, narrow victory (Garrett M. Graff/Doomsday Scenario)  So narrow that he won the popular vote.

‘Morning Joe’ meeting with Trump was driven by fears of retribution from incoming administration, sources say (Brian Stelter/CNN)

Trump Confirms Plan to Use Military to Carry Out Mass Deportations (Arianna Coghill/Mother Jones)

Trump Confirms Plans to Use the Military to Assist in Mass Deportations (New York Times)  There’s an echo in here….

The Horror! ABC, CBS Scared of Trump’s Picks to Lead Energy Department, FCC

Sex abuse allegations against Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth only make Trump like them more (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)  If you’re getting flak, that means you’re over the target.

Making cowardly Senate Republicans pay a political price (Jennifer Rubin/Washington Post)  Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

NY judge adjourns Trump hearing without explanation, delaying sentencing (Breanne Deppisch/Fox News)

Don’t let Matt Gaetz escape accountability – release the ethics report (Charlie Dent/MSNBC)

Fretting ‘Rule of Law’ With Trump Nominees, MSNBC Has Felon Embezzler As Guest

Gaetz, Gabbard and Hegseth are unqualified – Senate Republicans should reject them (Nick Akerman/The Hill)

Trump Defies the #MeToo Movement With Cabinet Picks Facing Accusations (Peter Baker/New York Times)  How dare he?

ACLU Sues ICE in Advance of Trump Deportations

N.Y. Prosecutors Oppose Dismissing Trump’s Conviction  Of course they do.

Donald Trump Has NOT Won a Majority of the Votes Cast for President (John Nichols/The Nation)  ELECTION DENIER! ELECTION DENIER!

ABC Joins Tattoo Smear Against Hegseth, NBC Mad He Wants to Punish Afghanistan Generals

Vice’s Hard-Right Turn to Trumpism (Nikita Mazurov/The Intercept)

A 2016 Replay? Trump Is Back in WH, and Guess What Google Is Up to Now

Trump Ally Claims Defamation by Lincoln Project

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The anti-Israel student group, Harvard Jews for Palestine, organized the protest against former Israel Defense Forces spokesman Ronen Manelis, who was speaking inside the Hillel. About a dozen agitators accused Israel of being a “terrorist state” and held banners with messages such as “Hillel Hosts War Criminals.”

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It was recently reported that corrupt Pentagon officials are “scrambling” to wipe all evidence of DEI before President-elect Donald Trump steps back into the Oval Office on Jan. 20, 2025.

Reported! That’s as good as proof to the Narrative Media.

Breitbart News wrote in its exclusive article that its sources stated that the Pentagon is in “absolute disarray” with “generals scrambling” because Trump plans to fire far-left senior military leaders who pushed DEI and other woke policies instead of taking care of combat readiness.

One source compared the organization’s situation to a hornet’s nest being kicked over, adding that “DEI pages are starting to disappear off the main websites.”

“They’re being archived as we speak. They are full-bore focused on cleaning up anything DEI-related,” the source stated.

Archived! DOWN THE MEMORY HOLE!

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Still smarting from the loss of its access to Washington as President-elect Donald Trump gears up to reenter the White House, the Left’s cancel culture enforcer has trained its sights on Not the Bee, the real-news partner of the Christian satire site The Babylon Bee.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, a far-left smear factory that gaslights its donors and engages in routine defamation against mainstream conservatives and Christians, targeted Not the Bee after Tesla Founder Elon Musk purchased Twitter in 2022. One of Musk’s first directives at Twitter was restoring The Babylon Bee’s speech on the platform, and it seems likely he bought the social media platform in part for this reason. Twitter had silenced the Bee for the crime of disagreeing with transgender orthodoxy, one of the key issues on which the SPLC will brook no dissent.

In fact, this connection may explain a secondary motive behind the SPLC’s attack.

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The Royal Canadian Mounted Police thwarted an Iranian plot to assassinate former Canadian Minister of Justice Irwin Cotler, a noted Jewish human-rights advocate who has strongly criticized the Middle Eastern nation’s regime.

The Globe and Mail, quoting an unnamed source Tuesday, reported that the RCMP informed Cotler on Oct. 26 that he was under the threat of assassination within 48 hours by agents of Iran.

Law enforcement knew about two suspects, but it is not known if they were arrested or if they left the country, the source said.

Imagine how peaceful the world would be if the Religion of Peace didn’t exist.

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The second weekend following the election that rocked the world had football players in the end zone doing the now-famous Trump Dance. The UFC event that put together the fabulous five of the MAGA/MAHA/DOGE team culminated with the winning fighter giving his prize belt to Trump himself.

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You know all these stories because there has been a sudden and remarkable shift in American politics. The pronouns are disappearing from bios, major influencers are hiding, pollsters are resigning, and a different ethos is obvious in every town center in America, even in blue states. It’s as if a curtain has been lifted or a big weight has been pulled off the chest of the body politic.