DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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Yesterday, news broke that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead a newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) focused on radically restructuring federal spending during Donald Trump’s presidency. What parts of government will be some of the easiest targets?

Using data from the OMB, 24/7 Wall St. identified the government agencies wasting the most taxpayer money. The 13 federal agencies on this list are ranked by the dollar value of overpayments made in the government’s 2023 fiscal year. All supplemental data in this story also came from the OMB report. Among these agencies, overpayments range from about $16 million to nearly $99 billion.

While some of this money is recoverable, taxpayers are ultimately on the hook for much of that wasted spending. The agencies on this list recovered a reported $25.2 billion in improperly made payments in fiscal 2023, some share of which was paid in error in a previous year. Still, this amounts to only about 14% of the total overpayments made in 2023. (These are the companies that receive the most in government subsidies.)

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I have started the process of applying for an Argentinian passport. If you live in Europe and have any familial connection to a far-flung land, you should consider this, too. Not to leave a sinking ship. I intend to stay and fight (by which I mean try to convince minds). But as an insurance policy. I’ve sat through history classes—as have many of you—wondering why on earth the Jews didn’t leave sooner.

Never again.

This week, Muslim extremists in Amsterdam went on a literal hunt for Jews. *Since setting this post to schedule on November 10th, Free Palestine activists in Sweden organised another such attack on Jews who were remembering Kristallnacht*

The American Mind.

With his historic re-election to the presidency, it would seem that Donald Trump’s legal problems are over. Trump, as practically everybody knows, has been the target over the last two years of numerous federal, state, and local prosecutions. Now that Trump will be returning to the nation’s highest office, these cases will be put indefinitely on hold or dropped altogether.

But if Trump’s problems in this respect are over, America’s are not. These cases present a problem for the nation because of the popular perception that they were merely a form of political “lawfare” brought to damage Trump, impair his candidacy, and prevent his return to power. Polls have shown that substantial numbers of Americans view these cases as politically motivated. Indeed, in what may come as a galling surprise to Trump’s political enemies, exit polls indicate that he won a majority of the votes of those Americans who believe democracy is under threat. This result surely reflects these voters’ sense that the various prosecutions of Trump were really an attempt to undermine democratic self-government by depriving the people of a free choice in the presidential contest.

John C. Wright.

Modern society faces seven mountains of madness, that is, seven institutional strongholds, captured by the enemy, that command the culture and war against it:

The Press and Hollywood
Washington and Wall Street
Academia, The Chattering Class, The Church

While the Church is not entirely captured, the number of priestesses, pro-abortion, pro-sodomite and pro-contraception denominations, bishops, and orders who have fallen away from Christian teaching is severe and severely scandalous.

With the election of Trump, the centermost of the mountains of madness, the stronghold of politics, takes are sharp and shocking blow.

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No matter how bad you think Covid policies were, they were intended to be worse.

Consider the vaccine passports alone. Six cities were locked down to include only the vaccinated in public indoor places. They were New York City, Boston, Chicago, New Orleans, Washington, D.C., and Seattle. The plan was to enforce this with a vaccine passport. It broke. Once the news leaked that the shot didn’t stop infection or transmission, the planners lost public support and the scheme collapsed.

It was undoubtedly planned to be permanent and nationwide if not worldwide. Instead, the scheme had to be dialed back.

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The Brookings Institution, an entity substantially funded by Big Tech and leftist billionaire George Soros, is whining for increased censorship in the wake of the 2024 election.

On Nov. 7, Brookings senior fellow Darrell West asserted Republicans won the 2024 election due to insufficient censorship of so-called online disinformation. Disturbingly, Brookings has financial ties to multiple Big Tech platforms that can censor speech online.

Brookings’ new commentary complained about President-elect Donald Trump and Republicans’ 2024 landslide victory, which reclaimed the House and Senate. Brookings highlighted “inflation fears, concerns about border security, worries about cultural issues related to race, gender, and sexuality, and feelings that President Joe Biden and the country as a whole were headed in the wrong direction,” but ultimately blamed alleged “disinformation.”

The Hill, a Voice of the Crust.

The University of Rochester in New York found “wanted” posters of Jewish faculty members on campus on Sunday night.

“This act is disturbing, divisive and intimidating and runs counter to our values as a university,” said university president Sarah Mangelsdorf.

“Furthermore, several of those depicted appear to have been targeted because they are members of our Jewish community. We view this as antisemitism, which will not be tolerated at our University. This isn’t who we are. This goes against everything we stand for and we have an obligation to reject it,” she added.

The school’s Department of Public Safety immediately began taking the posters down, highlighting the difficulty of the task in its statement.

Newsbusters.

President-elect Donald Trump may have overcome Google’s election interference, but the search giant continues to rig presidential race search results.

The Media Research Center found that Google provided a desert of left and legacy media sources for conservatives to wander through in search of right-of-center presidential race coverage on Nov. 12—exactly one week after the election. MRC researchers once again utilized the media list provided by AllSides, which classifies publications based on their “right” to “left” bias, and searched for the terms “donald trump presidential race 2024” and “kamala harris” presidential race 2024.” The first U.S.-based right-of-center result for the Trump prompt did not appear until the sixth search result on page 11, a New York Post article. This means that users had to pass over around a hundred search results before The Post.

Google did not display a single article from a U.S.-based right-of-center outlet in the 24 pages of search results for the Harris prompt. The first right-of-center result appeared on page six in the form of a Fox News video.

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Got them ol’ Deep State blues….

Nearly a month ago highly classified US intelligence detailing Israeli plans for a retaliation attack against Iran appeared online. The pair of documents were prepared by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and the leak immediately kicked off a massive federal investigation and hunt for the leaker.

On Wednesday federal prosecutors have revealed an arrest, with the NY Times reporting that “The man, Asif W. Rahman, was indicted last week in federal court in Virginia with two counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information.” He had worked for the US government overseas, and is being charged with two counts of violating the Espionage Act. The Times has followed with an update identifying him as a CIA official.

UPDATE: CIA Officer Arrested in Cambodia for ‘Deadly Serious’ Leak of Classified US Docs on Israel

The Washington Poop.

Voters in Montana, Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania — states that Donald Trump won on Nov. 5 — also voted for Republicans to take over Senate seats currently held by Democrats, helping Republicans secure control of the upper chamber.

After these flips, only Maine, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin will send a split-party delegation of one Democrat and one Republican to the Senate. That is the lowest number since Americans began directly electing senators more than a century ago.

The 17th Amendment was a mistake, a big step on the road toward twisting our Republic into a Democracy. Of course Democrats loved it.

Axios, a Voice of the Crust.

Democratic leaders are increasingly anxious about being left with a big bill from Kamala Harris’ campaign, which is likely to end millions of dollars in debt, four people familiar with the matter tell Axios.

Why it matters: Debt beyond a few million bucks could hamper the Democratic National Committee’s efforts to rebuild the party over the next four years.

I’m with you, brother.

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A journalist with the London Telegraph has been visited unannounced at her home by police in the UK who told her they are investigating a “non-crime hate incident” over a tweet she posted a year ago.

Yes, really.

Allison Pearson relates what happened on Sunday in an article, noting that police will not tell her which post is the subject of the investigation, nor will they tell her who her accuser is or what they feel offended about.

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entering the country—this is according to Die Welt, which published data by the Central Register of Foreign Nationals.

According to the report, a total of 4,614 people deported asylum seekers re-entered Germany in the first nine months of this year, despite an existing entry ban. In the same period, 14,718 migrants were deported.

Most of those who re-entered the country were Afghan nationals (443), followed by Moldovans (431), Syrians (385), Serbians (304), Macedonians (277), Algerians (266), Turks (255), Georgians (221), Albanians (220), and Bosnians (173).

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

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It’s that time of year again. The days are short. The nights are frosty.

It’s time for sleigh bells and Christmas trees and carolers.

And it’s time for terrorist attacks in German Christmas markets.

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Kinda late to the party.

Axios, a Voice of the Crust.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is getting caught up in the ideological infighting plaguing his party, with some members of his left flank dialing up their scrutiny toward him.

Why it matters: Jeffries’ loyalists have long touted his reputation as a unifier and coalition-builder, but some progressives are wondering aloud if he has the mettle to take on President-elect Trump.

Considering the role Arabs and other Muslims played in the slave trade, it always entertains me when African-Americans adopt Muslim names in order to seem more ‘ethnic’.

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The UN Climate Change Conference, known this year as COP29, kicked off on Monday and will last through the 22nd of this month. Many of the usual climate grifters have skipped the event as de-growth ‘green’ policies in the US are being prepared to be rolled back to some degree under a Trump presidency. Even Swedish far-left activist Greta Thunberg skipped the event (pre-occupied with pro-Palestine protests?).

On Tuesday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres told the world leaders who attended the event that last year’s meeting was a “master class in climate destruction,” adding, “The sound you hear is the ticking clock.”

Guterres also said the transition to clean energy “won’t be stopped by no group, no business, and no government.” He was likely referring to Trump’s plan to roll back certain climate policies that are strangling the economy and simultaneously boosting inflation, making US companies unable to compete in international markets. At the same time, China operates free of these de-growth policies.

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And the finger-pointing continus….

CNN.

The science is settled … until it’s not.

Financial Times.

That will get a bunch of panties in a wad.

US migrant rights advocates raise alarm over Trump appointments (Al Jaaeera)

Yale Psychiatrist: Harris Voters May Need To Cut Off Friends & Family Members

One of Trump’s Few Checks on Power? The Supreme Court He Shaped (Greg Stohr/Bloomberg)

White House races to dole out funding from key legislation before Trump takes office (Arlette Saenz/CNN)

’60 Minutes’: Depressed Scott Pelley Struggles to Comprehend Trump Win

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Directly Addresses People Who Voted For Both Her And Trump (Josephine Harvey/HuffPost) Splitters!

What Election Do These People Think We Just Had? – Democrats are inventing wild fantasies … (Jack Mirkinson/Discourse Blog)

Lead CBS, NBC Shows Ignore BOMBSHELL Report on FEMA Discriminating Against MAGA

A Look at Democratic Voter Turnout and Trump’s Election Victory (Michael C. Bender/New York Times)

David Remnick sounds off on the 2024 election, MAGA Media, Jeff Bezos, and more (Oliver Darcy/Status)

‘Hail Hitler and hail Trump’: People wave Nazi flags outside Jewish play in Michigan (David Edwards/Raw Story)

Those lovable uniters on the left advise Democrats to shun their friends and relatives who voted for Trump

Trump’s Cabinet Could Include Senator Who Tried to Fight Hearing Witness: Report (Nikki McCann Ramirez/Rolling Stone)

Resistance 2.0: Why The Campaign Against Trump Is Different This Time

Warren: Trump transition ‘already breaking the law’ (Tara Suter/The Hill)

He Went To A White Supremacist Event. Now He’ll Oversee Trump’s Mass Deportations. (Christopher Mathias/HuffPost)

Inside House Dems’ 11th-hour plot to sabotage Trump’s agenda (Andrew Solender/Axios)

Trump’s reelection casts a shadow over the start of global climate negotiations (NPR)

Musk Turning Himself Into the ‘Guest Who Wouldn’t Leave’ at Mar-a-Lago (Will Neal/The Daily Beast)

‘I Don’t Believe it’: Glaude Insists Trump Elected Because America Is Racist, Not Economics

How the Senate map explains Trump (Calder McHugh/Politico)

Trump Stole Bernie’s Working-Class Story. Dems Should Steal It Back. (Aaron Regunberg/New Republic)

Trump’s shadow falls on Chinese solar giant (Arianna Skibell/Politico)

CNN Cheers As Top Kamala Staffer Calls For Jan. 6 “Disruption”, Unelected Presidency

Chinese National Arrested Again After Multiple Efforts To Enter Mar-a-Lago

Women stockpile abortion pills before Trump term (Marisa Iati/Washington Post)

Iran Strongly Denies US Claims It Was Involved In Plot To Kill Trump

MSNBC Ratings Crater As Viewers Tune Out Trump Victory Coverage (Alex Griffing/Mediaite)

‘Trump Wins, Planet Loses’ – Morano heads to UN’s COP29 in Azerbaijan – Gore depressed – Bernie Sanders: ‘Struggle against climate change is over’

COP29 Will Be Haunted by the Ghost of the President Yet-to-Come

Springtime for Calling People Hitler

Blue state govs gear up to protect their people (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)

Left Blames Racist Minorities for Trump’s Win

Will the Supreme Court Stand Up to Trump? Can It? (Stephen I. Vladeck/New York Times)

Why Trump’s Deportations Will Drive Up Your Grocery Bill (Paul Krugman/New York Times)  That makes me feel better — Krugman has been wrong on his economic predictions Every.Single.Time.

RFK Jr. Isn’t Just Reckless. He’s Dangerous. (Michael R. Bloomberg/Bloomberg)  Trump cooties!

STUDY: 89 Percent Of Saturday Night Live’s Fall Campaign Jokes Targeted Trump

Trump Cabinet Picks So Far Decried as ‘Nightmare Fuel’ (Elise Stefanik/Common Dreams)

Will the American project survive the anger of white men? (Carol Anderson/The Guardian)

Welcome back to 1945

California Gov. Gavin Newsom will spend part of week in DC as he tries to Trump-proof state policies (Sophie Austin/Associated Press)

Rollo Tomassi: “Democrats don’t see men as having problems, they see men as being problems. Men responded to that and voted Republican.”

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The Dutch capital has become an effective no-go zone for Jews, who were the target of yet another round of antisemitic violence last night.

Violent pro-Palestine protesters—mostly young men, described by Germany’s Bild as “Jew haters”—took to Amsterdam, launching lit fireworks at cars, setting fire to a tram, and shouting “Kankerjoden,” which means “Cancer Jews.” Young people on scooters are also reported to have been actively seeking confrontation with police officers.

Footage of the chaos shared online appears to have been taken straight from a dystopian film.

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Even a youth football team is considered fair game by some extremist attackers, as long as the players are—or appear to be—Jewish. The 13-to-16-year-olds squad of Germany’s Makkabi Berlin, a team set up in the 1970s by Holocaust survivors, was attacked last week.

While playing in the Berlin borough of Neukölln, known for its large Arab and Turkish population, players were reportedly “hunted down” by a gang of Arab youths, armed with sticks and knives and shouting “free Palestine” and “f*****g Jews.”

One father took to social media to describe how his son was “deeply shaken” after being “insulted and even spat on several times.” He also accused the match’s referee of failing to properly intervene.

ZMan lays it out.

Trump has made it clear that he wants to use tariffs to redirect investment into the domestic economy. Another name turning up as a possible addition to the Trump team is Robert Lighthizer, who is both a China hawk and the architect of Trump’s trade policy in his first term. It is important to note that the changes Trump ushered in were not rolled back under Biden. Taken together, it is a clear sign that Trump 2.0 will be much more hawkish on the trade front.

Those familiar with the regulatory world remember the wild ride it was in Trump’s first term as they went on a deregulation spree. Expect Trump 2.0 to be even more aggressive, especially on the environmental front. His nominee for the EPA is Lee Zeldin, who the Gaia worshipers detest. Trump made it clear with the announcement that his job will be to clear the dense thicket of environmental regulations that make it hard to put a shovel in the ground for any reason.

Trump 2.0 will be helped by the courts in this regard. This year the Supreme Court ended what had been termed the Chevron deference. This was the rule that said the courts should defer to the regulatory agencies whenever there was ambiguity in the laws passed by Congress. Of course, this meant that everything passed by Congress was as vague as possible, to give total control to the agencies. This has been turned on its head by the courts.

“Chevron deference” was a great wart on the American legal system. We are well rid of it.

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The media spent months pre-hyping Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris. In its aftermath, stories claimed that the lip-synching sensation’s Instagram post drove half a million fans to not only buy overpriced merchandise, but to register to vote in the 2024 election.

The Kamala campaign embraced ‘Brat’ branding based on an album from a British half-Muslim pop star few Americans ever heard of. It brought out Beyonce to campaign (crucially not to sing) for Kamala who had tried to model her fanbase, the KHive, on Beyonce’s rabid Beyhive fans.

Kamala brought Oprah and Lady Gaga to Philly and Katy Perry to Pittsburgh. Julia Roberts cut an ad telling women to hide their votes from their husbands. In Michigan, white wife-killing enthusiast rapper Eminem headlined a Kamala rally while Obama rapped the opening of his ‘Lose Yourself’ (unintentionally revealing that he’s just as authentically black as Eminem.)

The American Mind.

On a long drive the day after Trump’s victory, after absolutely no sleep, deeply hungover, I turned to liberal radio as a much-needed painkiller. First I tried NPR, but even their coping and seething was too appalling to bear. So I sought out another source: Pod Save America, the famous podcast hosted by three famous former Obama staffers known for being Very Good Boys.

What struck me is how closely the hosts—Jon Lovett, Dan Pfeiffer, and Tommy Vietor—conform to a single archetype: that of the effeminate, white, male valedictorian-cum-Brooklyn striver under whose boot we’ve all been stuck for two decades. They are each one a variation on this platonic form, their speech patterns recognizable by the vocal fry that communicates, “I’m safe” while a certain scruffy growl from time to time adds, “but I’m still a guy.”

Members of this class are defined by a very specific perspective. I’ve noticed it ever since first encountering the species in New York in 2007. This perspective accounts for the major difference between what middle-class people teach their kids and what elites teach their kids—what state schools teach their students versus what the Ivys do. You can hear it vividly throughout the episode.

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Yet the solution they come up with is that they need more of a “narrative approach” to “storyelling,” so they can…continue to manipulate people into voting for them. At no point do they address what they actually believe. At no point do they consider that perhaps their beliefs are simply wrong, or perhaps insane, or perhaps completely radical. At no point do they wonder whether the problem might be, not that Democrats aren’t perceived as the party of working people anymore, but that they actually aren’t.

SciTechDaily.

A trio of research papers from Stanford Medicine researchers and their international collaborators transforms scientists’ understanding of how small DNA circles — until recently dismissed as inconsequential — are major drivers of many types of human cancers.

The papers, published simultaneously in Nature on Nov. 6, detail the prevalence and prognostic impact of the circles, called ecDNA for extrachromosomal DNA, in nearly 15,000 human cancers; highlight a novel mode of inheritance that overthrows a fundamental law of genetics; and describe an anti-cancer therapy targeting the circles that is already in clinical trials.

Donald Trump has promised a closed border and mass deportations. Those affected are taking action now (CNN)

What Trump’s mass deportation plan would mean for immigrant workers and the economy (CNBC)

Ramaswamy backs Trump’s mass deportations as ‘pragmatic’ approach (Politico)

Trump’s mass deportation plan is ‘where we need to start,’ says Sen. Barrasso (NBC)

Why Trump’s 2nd withdrawal from the Paris Agreement will be different (Politico)

Ramaswamy: Dems Should Back Down From Trump ‘Histrionics’

Immigration advocates brace for Trump: ‘Buckle up’ (Rafael Bernal/The Hill)

CNN Reboots Old Trump-Era Classic: MUH NORMS

There’s a Lot of Fighting Over Why Harris Lost. But Everyone Seems to Want to Avoid This Explanation. (Nadira Goffe/Slate)  Apparently Trump is a ‘fascist-loving felon’. Who knew?

MSNBC Is Still Unable to Cope With Trump’s Gains Among Latinos

Virginia Professors Infantilize Students and Selves Over Trump Win

Will Trump’s hush money conviction stand? A judge will rule on the president-elect’s immunity claim (Associated Press)

Round 2 in the Trump-vs-Mexico matchup looks ominous for Mexico (Associated Press)

California Group Rebranded as Anti-Trump Coalition Hours After the Election. It Could Suggest an Incoming Windfall for Progressive Orgs.

‘Managing Stress During Change’: Biden-Harris State Department Holds Therapy Session After Trump Win

The mirror of fascism in big tech

Courts restrained Trump in first term. Will they ‘check’ his power again? (Devin Dwyer/ABC News)

Protecting the rule of law under Trump is going to be precarious (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)  Unlike under Biden, where it was nonexistent.

Trump and Musk: The Bromance That Cannot Last (David Nasaw/New York Times)

Against Panic: A Survival Kit (Margaret Renkl/New York Times)  It would appear that the people who are meltime down most hysterically over Trump winning are all women.

How The View’s Sunny Hostin Killed Kamala’s Chances Of Topping Trump

Billionaire Pratt Will Move To America After Trump Win As Liberals Flee To Canada

CNN’s Acosta Frets Trump ‘Radical Ultranationalist Agenda’ with Dem Congressman

Stop Handwringing, Start Fighting (William Kristol/The Bulwark)

Authoritarianism Expert Shatters A Trump ‘Illusion’: ‘One Of The Biggest Scams Of All’ (Lee Moran/HuffPost)  Every Democrat (or is that Emocrat?) is an expert on authoritarianism.

WATCH: CNBC’s Joe Kernen Wrecks Anthony Scaramucci for Anti-Trump Grift

John Oliver Exposes Trump’s Likely Cabinet: ‘Oops! All A**holes’ (Sean L. McCarthy/The Daily Beast)

‘Nostradamus’ Prof Blames Elon Musk “Director Of Misinformation” For Huge Democrat Loss

Far-right leaders are winning across the globe. Blaming ‘the economy’ or ‘the left-behinds’ won’t cut it (Richard Seymour/The Guardian)  To the Guardian, there is no right but the far-right.

Glasser Spews Anti-Trump Bitterness, ‘Campaign of Lies Around Immigration’

Leaving on a Jet Plane? Trump Haters Could “Skip Forward” on a Four-Year Cruise

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It is no coincidence that both of the Democratic Party’s ‘black’ presidential nominees were not black Americans, but the children of radical third world students who appropriated the rhetoric of the civil rights movement to get ahead, without having any actual history or part in it.

Obama and Kamala are not the legacy of the slave trade, much as they have exploited that history, but the third world immigrants and students ushered in by the JFK administration.

Barack Obama Sr., Shyamala Gopalan and Donald Harris all arrived in America as foreign students within a few years of each other. They were part of a flood of foreign students brought to America by Cold War legislation meant to educate foreign elites in the United States.

Instead of ‘Americanizing’ the third world, Obama, Gopalan, Harris and thousands of others like them helped radicalize and ‘third worldize’ America. Many of the foreign students, like Kamala’s parents, never had any real intention of going home. Some stayed to radicalize American colleges and their American born children absorbed their politics and hostility to America.

Quillette.

Mind viruses seem to be all the rage these days. In his 2020 bestseller Parasitic Mind, evolutionary psychologist Gad Saad identifies “the tyranny of political correctness” and other “infectious ideas” that are harming our societies. A year later, from a different ideological angle, the philosopher Andy Norman published Mental Immunity, a guide to boosting your mental immune system against infectious “mind parasites.” And in his popular science book Foolproof (2022), psychologist Sander Van der Linden advocates “mental inoculation” against misinformation, fake news, and conspiracy theories. In various ways, each of these books suggests that beliefs act like infectious parasites spreading from one brain to the next.

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Jamal Simmons, a former aide to Vice President Harris, called for President Biden to resign so that the vice president can have his role for a short amount of time.

“Joe Biden’s been a phenomenal president, he’s lived up to so many of the promises he’s made. There’s one promise left that he could fulfill, being a transitional figure,” Simmons said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on a panel featuring anchor Dana Bash, in a clip highlighted by Mediaite.

“He could resign the presidency in the next 30 days, make Kamala Harris president of the United States,” he continued, drawing shocked reactions from others.

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As we have already highlighted, Kamala had demanded to only appear for an hour with Rogan, and wanted to do it outside of his studio, meaning he would have had to travel to a location of her choosing.

Needless to say, Rogan refused to meet the demands, reasoning that it simply wouldn’t be an episode of his podcast if that was to happen.

Rogan unveiled more of what went on with discussions between his team and Kamala’s campaign, noting “There were a few restrictions of things they wanted to talk about…They wanted to know if I’d edit it. I’m like, there’s no editing.”

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A neighborhood patrol organization in Crown Heights, a central neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, posted shocking footage on X showing a masked man attempting to snatch a child from his father while they were walking down the street.

“At approximately 3:30 p.m., this deeply concerning incident took place in the heart of Crown Heights. We are working hand in hand with the @NYPD71pct in identifying the perpetrator. Kudos to the father for his quick action,” Crown Heights Shomrim wrote on X.

Rabbi Yaacov Behrman, member of Community Board 9 in Crown Heights, NY, wrote on X, “This video is shocking. A perpetrator grabbed a Chasidic child who was walking with his father today at approximately 3:30 p.m. on Kingston near Lefferts Ave.”

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X owner Elon Musk, an avowed supporter of Presidential-elect Donald Trump and a potential administration assistant to root out waste, fraud, and abuse in government, tweeted a screen shot of a Newsmax broadcast this week.

The red-and-blue election state-by-state map on Thursday’s “Carl Higbie FRONTLINE” noted nearly all of the states that chose Vice President Kamala Harris were ones that have no voter ID on the books.

“Must be a coincidence ?,” Musk tweeted Sunday morning, sharing the Newsmax graphic that highlighted the impact of states that block voter ID requirements election integrity-seeking Republicans have long called for.

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While the anti-Israel sentiment on college campuses was tempered during the final months of the election campaigns, the rhetoric is reportedly getting more extreme now.

“We’re at that inflection point,” Columbia University adjunct associate professor Mitchell Silber, who runs a nonprofit to provide security for New York City’s Jewish communities, told The Washington Post.

“We’re starting to see a radicalization of their message: Blatantly pro-Hamas, blatantly pro-Hezbollah, blatantly pro-Houthis.”

UPDATE: Amsterdam Police Detain Pro-Palestinian Protesters at Banned Demonstration

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The complaints directed at FEMA leadership keep coming weeks after Hurricane Helene ravaged North Carolina and the 2024 presidential election flipped U.S. leadership.

Savage Operations founder Adam Smith, whose group assisted hurricane relief, claimed FEMA led with a culture of “fear” under President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris amid the reported skipping of homes with Donald Trump campaign signs.

“And one of the interesting thing was, is it was stated that, Hey, we can’t have our fingerprints on this, which I think leads back to the actual question, which is, What sort of culture and what sort of fear is there in place at some of the lower levels of FEMA personnel where they’re afraid they’re going to lose their job if they don’t speak up against actions that are blatantly not aligned with what the organization is supposed to be doing?” Smith said in a TV interview, as reported by Mediaite.

Defense News.

By 2030, the U.S. could have approximately 2.1 million unfilled manufacturing jobs. Not only are these lost opportunities for American workers, but this magnitude of unfilled manufacturing jobs could negatively impact the U.S. economy, costing us more than $1 trillion by the end of the decade.

Part of that cost will be realized in reduced production capacity, limited adoption of new, more efficient technologies and overall slower pace of development and innovation. Beyond the economic implications, our nation’s unfilled defense manufacturing jobs have significant national security implications for our country.

Forbes.

Moving abroad normally involves months of preparation, but many Americans feel a sense of urgency to leave the U.S. quickly. Here are 3 countries where you can launch a new life starting today.

UPDATE: Record numbers of wealthy Americans are making plans to leave the U.S. after the election (CNBC)

UPDATE: Californians reportedly preparing to flee country pending election results (New York Post)

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The physical world is an intricate dance between matter, information, and energy. Recognizing that mitochondria are alive will open new horizons into how we learn about, and build with, biology.

The cells within our body are the remnants of an ancient alliance.

In a 1967 paper called “On the Origin of Mitosing Cells,” American evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis proposed an idea that, upon first hearing, seems ludicrous. Her paper, in fact, was rejected by 12 different journals before it was published.

Margulis argued that one-and-a-half billion years ago, a primitive eukaryotic cell engulfed an oxygen-utilizing bacterium. But rather than digesting this bacterium — or conversely, the bacterium destroying its newfound host — the two cells gradually entered into an endosymbiotic relationship; the host provided nutrients and protection to the bacterium, and the bacterium supplied energy to the host. Margulis argued that this endosymbiosis event was a seminal “innovation engine” for biological systems, ultimately leading to the modern mitochondrion and chloroplast.

Politico, a Voice of the Crust.

Good.

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Law enforcement believe the activity, which makes it harder to then unlock the phones, may be due to a potential update in iOS 18 which tells nearby iPhones to reboot if they have not been in contact with a cellular network for some time, according to a document obtained by 404 Media.

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Thank you, Gavin Newsom.

Time to leave.

Trump, Who Was Charged with Mishandling Secrets, Will Get Classified Briefings Again (Brian Bennett/Time)  Apparently, when it comes to Trump, just being charged is a sufficient proof of guilt.

Election autopsy: 5 POLITICO reporters weigh in on what mattered (Politico) Four females and one male, which tells you nothing about Trump but a lot about Politico.

Cuban implies Trump’s tariff threat having negative impact ‘right now’ (Juliann Ventura/The Hill)  Yeah, well, how bright can he be? He supported Harris.

‘Normalized A Sociopath’: George Conway Tells ‘Sad Story’ That Led To Trump’s Win (Josephine Harvey/HuffPost)

Authoritarians like Trump love fear, defeatism, surrender. Do not give them what they want (Rebecca Solnit/The Guardian)

What Does It Mean That Donald Trump Is a Fascist? (Timothy Snyder/New Yorker)  It means you don’t know the meaning of the word.

None of the conventional explanations for Trump’s victory stand up to scrutiny (Ben Davis/The Guardian)

Scientific American Editor-In-Chief Has Spectacular Post-Election Social Media Meltdown

Nicole Scherzinger apologizes for ‘hurt’ caused by her commenting, ‘liking’ pro-Donald Trump posts

Sad: Liberal Forced To Have Second Meltdown After Forgetting To Press Record  Babylon Bee.

Student President Of Harvard’s Institute Of Politics Calls For End Of Non-Partisanship After Trump Victory

Trump on Day 1: Begin deportation push, pardon Jan. 6 rioters and make his criminal cases vanish (Associated Press)

Liberal Cat Ladies Reveal “Battle Plan” To Poison Trump Men With Aqua Tofana