The Morning Report — 2/23/24

Good morning, kids. Yet more banana republic bullshit this morning. Despite the fact that journalism today is regarded as a career that is about as respectable as child pornographer, real, actual dictionary-definition journalists are under the gun by the forces of corruption they have devoted their careers to expose. Except this time, there's a twist.

It's not the tentacles of a feral, government-run bureaucracy or corrupt judiciary putting the bite on the Fourth Estate. It's the Fifth Column within its own midst that's now doing the dirty work for them. Fascism by any other name would not reek so sickeningly:

CBS apparently seized computers, records and files of the now-former investigative reporter Catherine Herridge, who has recently been fired from the network, according to Jonathan Turley.

Turley, a professor at George Washington Law School, said he talked with people presently and formerly employed by CBS who confidentially told him they do not recall senior staff ever taking such a step before. At the time of her departure, Herridge was investigating special counsel Robert Hur’s report on President Joe Biden, allegations of corruption against the president and Hunter Biden’s laptop, Turley noted.

One former CBS journalist reportedly said staffers have never seen the apparent seizure of records and files from departing staffers.

The apparent seizure has caused a “chilling signal” across staffers at CBS, the journalist added, Turley wrote. A previous CBS manager reportedly stated that he had “never heard of anything like this,” as most departing journalists take their records and files upon leaving. He said the apparent seizure of her possessions is “outrageous” and endangered confidential sources, Turley added.

Turley said these files may contain sources that were handed confidentially to Herridge, making the company’s move “dead wrong.”

Paramount Global laid off Herridge, along with 800 jobs, in mid-February, the New York Post reported. Herridge left Fox News in 2019 after 23 years to work as a senior investigative correspondent for CBS News. She had previously been handed a prestigious award from the Congressional Medal of Honor Society.

Herridge is currently the subject of a First Amendment legal fight and could be held in contempt of court if she refused to disclose her source for investigative pieces she wrote in 2017, according to The Washington Post. U.S. District Court Judge Christopher R. Cooper reportedly ruled Aug. 1 that she had to disclose the sources who informed her about a federal probe regarding Yanping Chen, a Chinese American scientist, who sued the federal government for allegedly leaking private information to the journalist

The judge ruled Chen’s need for evidence overrides Herridge’s “qualified First Amendment privilege,” the outlet reported.

Herridge began her career during the halcyon days of the Roger Ailes era of Fox News, when at long last a major broadcast news network became respectable and wildly successful for merely reporting the news about as straight down the middle as it ever had been by any outlet up to that point – which as we now know was never. Of course, the erstwhile gatekeepers of what was and what was not worthy of reporting, and how it was to be reported defined that as "right-wing bias." Yet 1996 was when alternate media such as the internet, talk radio no longer shackled and muzzled by the Orwellian "Fairness Doctrine" and led by Rush Limbaugh finally challenged the media-propaganda complex for control of the narrative. Much like the coming of Trump forced all sorts of masks to be dropped and myths about how our government really operated to be exploded, so did the ascendancy of the original incarnation of Fox News expose the rank Leftist bias of supposed icons of impartiality like Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather and Peter Jennings as the hacks that they always were.

The toothpaste is out of the tube and there's no way to get it back inside. And as we now can see from the kangaroo court prosecutions of political enemies to the non-prosecution of criminals and leftist terrorists, they don't even care anymore.

Look what CBS did to Lara Logan in the wake of the hinky Clinton/Obama/McCain gun-running scheme to Islamic terrorists in Syria that exposed our diplomatic compound in Benghazi to an horrendous terror attack, as well as attempts to report about the true nature of Antifa, among other things.

Of course, we had another Fox alum James Rosen whom Eric Holder actively spied on at the behest of his boss, Obama, over his investigation into their ineptitude in dealing with NorK dictator Kim's nuclear testing. But, that's the government. You now expect them to spy on citizens and journalists for practicing actual journalism without a permit, and then railroad them into prison for crimes against the state. But CBS? The Tiffany Network? Outrageous!

Obviously, the reason Herridge is in the crosshairs is because she's way too close and accurate in her reportage about the rank corruption and criminality that is the sine qua non of the name "Biden." In doing that, it also exposes the mirror universe persecution of Donald Trump for all of those aforementioned high crimes and misdemeanors that have been projected onto him.

Meh, let's face it; Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants is an iridium albatross the size of Jupiter around the collective neck of the Democrats and they want him gone. The problem is they can neither get rid of him via the 25th Amendment after constantly pimping his being sharper than HAL-9000, nor allowing his removal over corruption after promoting the honest as the day is long bromide.

Then again, we have this clusterfuckery from the FBI.

The first question isn’t why special counsel David C. Weiss charged longtime informant Alexander Smirnov with making false claims about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter. The question is: Why now?

In 2024, an election year.

On Thursday, Weiss unsealed a 37-page indictment that charged Smirnov with making “a materially false, fictitious, and fraudulent statement” in June 2020 to an FBI agent about the Bidens seeking $5 million each from a Ukrainian energy concern, Burisma. A second count involves making a false entry on an FBI form.

The revelation gave oxygen to the legal defense team representing the president’s son.

Smirnov, who should be presumed innocent, was arrested at Harry Reid International Airport on Wednesday and has a hearing Tuesday before Magistrate Daniel Albregts in Las Vegas.

In March 2017, according to the indictment, Smirnov told his FBI handler about a call with a Burisma official and mentioned that Hunter Biden was a Burisma board member.

It wasn’t until June 2020 that Smirnov reported two earlier meetings that ostensibly occurred in 2015 and 2016. Travel records suggested they didn’t happen, Weiss asserted. Hence these charges against a small-change witness.

It’s “really hard for prosecutors to charge perjury,” University of Virginia law professor Saikrishna Prakash told me. . .

. . . In short, Smirnov worked as a “snitch.” Snitches have a reputation for playing law enforcement to their advantage, while law enforcement has a reputation for looking the other way. I have trouble believing that any FBI agent would consider going after a vice president’s son based on the word of a career informant. Indeed, the FBI didn’t find the accusations credible. Hence the lack of action, until now.

To the average voter, the real scandal is that Burisma recruited Biden to serve on its board for a position that, according to the New York Times, paid him more than $800,000 in 2013 and more than $1.2 million in 2014, while his father was vice president and Ukraine was part of the veep’s portfolio.

At the time, the New York Times reported, Hunter Biden “was a Yale-educated lawyer who had served on the boards of Amtrak and a number of nonprofit organizations and think tanks, but lacked any experience in Ukraine and just months earlier had been discharged from the Navy Reserve after testing positive for cocaine.” And still he earned that kind of money.

Weiss also has charged Hunter Biden with making false statements — for lying about his drug use while he possessed a gun. Weiss clearly takes perjury seriously. It’s downright refreshing.

So, on the one hand the FBI, as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the DOJ has been working in overdrive for almost the past 10 years to nail Donald Trump to the wall, along with anyone who was even thinking about the Capitol, let alone who might have been within a mile of the building on 1/6/21, and in that regard are considered on the front line in protecting "our precious democracy" (puke). But on the other, they're paying snitches – and Russian snitches at that! – to engage in criminal activities that might be perceived as entrapping the poor, unfortunate, put-upon struggling artist son of our greatest president (per the most honest, accurate poll ever)?!

Oh, the humanity!

Well, at least we have the GOP in or corner. Pfft.

In Joe Biden’s so-called Inflation Reduction Act, signed into law in 2022, estimates are that $1 trillion in climate pork is stuffed into the bill. For perspective, the current federal budget is roughly $7 trillion.

All this to support policies that are based on a lot of sound and fury but very little, if any, valid science. Restoration News’ Jeff Reynolds summed up nicely the flimsy nature of climate science in his recent two-part report, “How the Left’s global warming ideology wrecked science and how to stop it.” He concluded that the underlying science of Anthropogenic Global Warming has not been proven, its furtherance as an emergency policy imperative is based on massive data, temperature, and other manipulations, and all this deception is being protected through censorship aided by dutiful news media and compliant Big Tech.

For example, did you know that the U.S. EPA’s own data shows that 81 percent of U.S. weather stations report no increase in warm days since 1948?

You likely don’t know this because data like this is suffocated under a massive censorship regime that infects the highest levels of Big Science, Big Tech, and corporate liberal media. Only liberal propaganda gets through the rigid screen most of the time.

Where have Republicans been as Democrats have made deep strides in dismantling America’s robust and reliable energy supply? Mostly giving lip service and doing nothing where it counts—debating the science and scrutinizing the spending.

Big Climate’s’ 25-year blitz of propaganda on the American people has frightened Republicans from fighting back. The consultant class has convinced many GOP politicians to hedge the issue—not taking on the phony science but expressing platitudes about the environment. Thus, the propaganda on climate science, unrebutted, appears more valid as the years go by to casual news consumers.

That’s a shame, because “climate change” is a scam on many levels. Starting with the term itself, which was adopted by the left when “global warming” was too dangerously specific—and sometimes wrong. “Climate change” is the perfect propaganda phrase because it can never be disproved. All weather, cold or warm, wet or dry, is explainable as “climate change.” The phrase itself is nonsensical gaslighting—the climate has always changed and always will.

And, really. Even disregarding the Cheneys, what the fuck is wrong with Wyoming?

Carbon sequestration has become Republicans’ most popular answer to climate change, with GOP governors across western states pumping massive stores of concentrated CO2 into underground chambers. Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon, who chairs the Western Governors Association, currently leads the charge to his state’s detriment as a carbon-powerhouse and leading coal producer.

Last week, lawmakers in Wyoming heard from members of the CO2 Coalition who challenged Governor Gordon’s pledge to decarbonize the energy-intensive state with carbon capture programs. Dr. William Happer, the founder of the CO2 Coalition, compared such efforts to a “religion” before the Senate Agriculture, State and Public Lands and Water Resources Committee. . .

. . . Last year, Alaska Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy introduced a legislative package to “capitalize on carbon markets” with carbon capture programs, “particularly in Cook Inlet.”

In North and South Dakota, landowners have faced eminent domain lawsuits as a major carbon capture company constructs a more than 2,000-mile pipeline across the upper Midwest. Carbon capture projects have been championed by the states’ Republican governors, Doug Burgum and Kristi Noem.

“Today, we’re on our way toward achieving carbon neutrality as a state by 2030, thanks to our extraordinary capacity to safely store over 252 billion tons of CO2, or 50 years of the nation’s CO2 output,” Burgum said last year. “And in the process, we can help secure the future of our state’s two largest industries, energy and agriculture.”

. . . “Climate science should be less political, while climate policies should be more scientific,” the statement reads. “Scientists should openly address uncertainties and exaggerations in their predictions of global warming, while politicians should dispassionately count the real costs as well as the imagined benefits of their policy measures.”

Atmospheric carbon has also been shown to proliferate forest growth, known as the “greening” effect. Vegetation happens to grow faster in regions with relatively high concentrations of carbon dioxide. Michael Shellenberger explained in his 2020 book Apocalypse Never, “From 1981 to 2016, four times more carbon was captured by plants due to carbon-boosted growth than from biomass covering a larger surface of Earth.”

Seriously, you expect this utter horseshit from the Left. But GOP politicians from fairly solidly red states, some of which like Wyoming and the Dakotas that have boomed as a result of coal and fracking and the like? And supposedly Kristi Noem is being floated as a potential veep pick for Trump.

Carbon is life. If you are anti-carbon, you are anti-life. It's just that simple. But, the GOP is the Grifting Oleaginous Parasite party. Learn it and love it. Then kill it.

Have a good weekend.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Some feared the widespread outages could be a cyberattack, with one techie saying he “can’t imagine this is incompetence or a single node failure.”
  AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Users Hit by Massive Cellular Outage in US — As One Carrier Reveals Cause
• "What could possibly go wrong?"
  Bill Gates’ Dream of Blocking Sunlight About To Be Realized

ISRAEL AT WAR
• "Also, Israeli air force hits Hezbollah terror targets ‘deep’ in Lebanon."
  Israel To Press On With ‘Intense Ground Operations’ Against Hamas In Gaza Despite Biden Junta's Pressure
  
• "IDF soldiers put themselves in danger, and get killed, to please the US."
  Israeli Casualties Significantly Increase to Please Biden and Blinken
  
• "The National Jewish Advocacy Center asserts that on and after October 7, the date of the Hamas massacre of over 1,200 Israelis, the AP paid for real-time images of the attacks being carried out by photographers who are 'known associates' of the terrorist group. Included in the group of images were scenes of Israeli hostages being transported into Gaza, where many of them have since been killed."
  Jewish Group Sues AP For Providing ‘Material Support Of Terrorism,’ Paying Known Hamas Associates
  
• “Israel will continue to oppose unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state. Such recognition following the massacre of the 7th of October will give a huge reward to terrorism that was like no other and will prevent any future settlement for peace.”
  Israeli Parliament Votes Against ‘Unilateral Recognition of a Palestinian State’
  
• The Times of Israel notes that Netanyahu’s plan stipulates that “Israel will only allow the reconstruction of Gaza to begin after the completion of the Strip’s de-militarization and the commencement of the ‘de-radicalization process'” to end terrorist influence. (The points listed do not fill me with strength and confidence - jjs)
  Netanyahu Presents Plan for ‘The Day After Hamas’ in Gaza
  
• "Republicans in Congress concerned Biden [junta] trying to erode Israeli control over its capital."
  Biden Junta Won’t Say if West Bank Sanctions Apply to Jews Living in Jerusalem
  
• "First official report documenting sexual atrocities committed by Hamas reveals widespread rape, violent attacks directed on sexual organs."
  ‘Sadistic’ Humiliation, Mutilation, And Gang Rape Were Part Of Hamas Strategy, Israeli Report Shows
  * * * * *

• “You don’t get to speak for the rest of us, and the squad aren’t the only members of Congress who have experienced sexual violence,” wrote Rep. Beth Van Duyne (R-TX). “Stop playing the victim. Hamas is using rape as a weapon of war and it’s wrong.”  “For God’s sake, call it out!” she added.
  Titty-Caca AOC, Shit-Whore Bush Slammed for ‘Twisted’ Attack on AIPAC, Accused of Defending Hamas ‘Rapist Monsters’ over Victims
  
• Hasan’s own views on the value of human life are controversial, as he previously compared non-Muslims to “animals.”
  Mullah Mehdi Turns Hamas Spox in First Guardian Op-Ed After MSNSDAP Axing

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• Raymond Ibrahim: "The Islamic State adds Iran to its list of enemies alongside Israel and the 'Crusader States.'"
  Century Ending in "Y" Dept.: ISIS Renews Calls for Terror

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY

• "Between 2018 and 2023, FRC identified 915 acts of hostility against churches in the United States by analyzing open-source documents, reports, and media outlets. In just the last year alone (between January and November of 2023), 436 acts of hostility against churches occurred, according to the report. . . The report notes that the increase 'could be due in part to increased public reporting on crimes against churches, resulting in more available data than in the past.'”
  Report: Attacks on Churches Increased 800% in 6 Years

  BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS & DEMENTIA WATCH

• "The question is: Why now?"
  Special Counsel Indicts Hunter Biden — And Informant
  
• “I have had a 50-year career in a variety of business ventures. Joe Biden has never had any involvement or any direct or indirect financial interest in those activities,” James said. “None. I never asked my brother to take any official action on behalf of me, my business associates, or anyone else.”
  James Biden Claims President Was Not Involved In Family Business Dealings
  
• "Alexander Smirnov — the FBI source who told agents that Burisma executives discussed paying Hunter Biden and Joe Biden $5 million each to leverage U.S. policy in Ukraine to the company’s benefit — was arrested again Thursday pursuant to the same charges and same indictment that resulted in his arrest on Feb. 14, according to a legal filing. Smirnov was apparently at his attorney’s office in Las Vegas engaging in a legal consultation when authorities nabbed him again on Thursday."
  Feds Rearrest Burisma Bribery Source Just Days After Judge First Released Him

  SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION

• Judge Andrew Napolitano: "By rejecting established legal principles, this case has done more harm to the rule of law than any misstatement of asset worth has done to the banks. The government enacted a statute that permitted it to claim harm where none existed and then steal from a wealthy entity; and a judge — sworn to uphold the Constitution — let the government get away with it. Why do we put our liberties for safekeeping into the hands of those who destroy them?" (Good question, judge! - jjs)
  Donald Trump is a Victim of Government Theft
  
• "Trump’s side has said they plan to fight Engoron’s ruling."
  Trump Can't Postpone Paying $355 Million Judgement in NY Fraud Case, Scumbag Hack-in-Black Enron/Gorgon/Erdogon Rules
  
• "America isn’t free and elections can’t be fair if a former president can be the subject of a shakedown by his political opposition."
  If a President Can Have His Money and Property Snatched by His Political Opposition, This Isn’t a Free Country and We Don’t Have Fair Elections
  
• "It’s high time that nine justices of the Supreme Court unite in a single denunciation of lawyers like Smith who press novel legal claims for political blood sport."
  Jack Smith Will Annoy the Supreme Court
  
• David Harsanyi: "Just when you thought it was safe to go back on Facebook."
  The ‘Russia Collusion’ Reboot Is Going To Be Terrible
  
• As Willis secures the taxpayer-funded bag, Judge Scott McAfee is weighing whether to boot her off the Trump case over her relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade, who used his earnings from the case to take Willis on lavish vacations. Willis testified in court last week that her relationship with Wade began after she hired him in 2022, and that she repaid Wade with cash for her share of the vacation expenses. But a former friend of Willis testified that the district attorney began her relationship with Wade years before, in 2019. McAfee is expected to rule on Willis’s disqualification as early as next week.
  Fani Willis Secures the Bag, Gets $600,000 in Taxpayer-Funded Cars While Stonewalling County Audit
  
• Carroll's behavior was widely panned, and Megyn Kelly declared in a post on X/Twitter, "This is the kind of clip that could win Trump the election."
  E. Jean Carroll May Sue Trump Again, and the Reason is Absurd

  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• "Meanwhile. . . fully 56 percent of New Yorkers are living near the poverty line, a segment of the population that has surged since 2021. The number of New Yorkers living in poverty increased by 500,000 from 2021 to 2022, the largest increase in poverty since the data first started being tracked 12 years ago."
  NY City Council Calls for Investigation into Mayor Eric Adams’ Plan to Hand Illegals $10,000 Pre-Paid Debit Cards
  
• "The effects of the under-the-radar Biden/AMLO border plan have been visible in Texas border cities. According to a source within U.S. Customs and Border Protection, apprehensions along the Texas border have dropped by 60 percent between December and February. As reported by Breitbart Texas, the sudden reduction in migrant crossings along the Texas-Mexico border began shortly after a series of meetings between Biden and AMLO in late December, followed by a meeting between the Mexican President and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas shortly afterward."
  Biden’s Secret Border Deal with Mexico Could Leave Border Open for Years
  
• "This is what happens when you put your entire government into the service of an international cabal of despots at the United Nations and sit back and watch, as Joe Biden has done."
  The Illegal Immigration Invasion Isn't Due to 'Incompetence.' It's the Plan.
  
• One man offered a compelling reason for running for the hills and waiting things out, offering a chilling scenario "based on what I have seen from armed populaces rising against us in Afghanistan, and civil wars raging in Syria and Libya" and then painted a picture of the nitty gritty. Traffic, food, safe positions. How atrocities motivate a band of civilian militia members but how the enemy uses small militias against a defending army. 
  What Can You Do If We're Invaded? You're Not the Only One Wondering.
  
• "While the top nationality represented isn’t a complete surprise, with 28,000 criminal invaders from Colombia being encountered, coming in second are invaders from China, with 21,000 encounters in that sector alone since October. The rest of the top 10 includes, in order, Mexico, Brazil, Ecuador, Turkey, Guinea, India, Guatemala and Peru."
  CBP: Colombia, China Top List of Criminal Invaders' Country of Origin Along San Diego Sector
  
• "Engaging in a legal fight over Biden’s potential executive action could benefit the [so-called quote-unquote "president"], as it would allow him to further blame Republicans for failing to address the border crisis, the NYT piece suggested. Biden has tried to blame Republicans and Trump for the poor state of the southern border, claiming that the GOP hasn’t given him the legal authority he needs through Congress to make substantive changes."
  Report Suggests Biden Could Benefit If Fellow Liberals Sue Him To Stop Immigration Orders

  CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

• "I'm generally an optimist, but I don't see an easy way out of this. In the coming years, the Left will demand that you agree that 2+2=5, and when you refuse to applaud the madness, they will 'discover who the independent people' are, as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote in The Gulag Archipelago."
  Is It Too Late?
  
• "Carney, a federal judge within Orange County, California, dismissed the charges Wednesday against alleged white supremacists Robert Rundo and Robert Boman who were charged in 2018 with conspiracy to violate the Anti-Riot Act, as well as rioting at political rallies in 2017, according to the Los Angeles Times. Within his opinion, the federal judge stated that both men displayed they’d been selectively prosecuted in comparison to 'members of Antifa' and other 'far-left groups' who had reportedly physically assaulted Trump supporters at rallies, however, were not charged in the same manner."
  Ninth Circuit Steps In After California Judge Drops Charges Against Alleged White Supremacist
  
• “It’s one thing to disagree with us and even to protest us. We can have a normal conversation in that light, but you can’t expect a reasonable conversation with unreasonable people. It shows just how unhinged many of these people are that they would scream in our face, bark like dogs, and physically attack us while we are trying to stand for those who can’t stand for themselves,” Hughes told MRCTV.
  'Unhinged' : Trans Activist Gets Arrested After Crashing Virginia March for Life
  
• "Kamala Harris represents black excellence?"
  Video: Cicely Davis Delivers the Savage Truth About Progressive Blacks
  
• "Americans are under attack from every angle every day by a sometimes visible foe, but all too often by an enemy that hides in the shadows."
  Is America Still Worth Fighting For?

  FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• [Legal eagle Jonathan] Turley, a professor at George Washington Law School, said he talked with people presently and formerly employed by CBS who confidentially told him they do not recall senior staff ever taking such a step before. At the time of her departure, Herridge was investigating special counsel Robert Hur’s report on [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden, allegations of corruption against the president and Hunter Biden’s laptop, Turley noted.
  REPORT: CBS Seizes Computers, Records of Investigative Reporter Catherine Herridge
  
• "Libs Of TikTok, known for its amplification of crazy progressive social media posts on platforms like TikTok, Instagram and Twitter, alleged that its account with one of the world’s biggest payment processors, Stripe, was frozen and that was unable to access its funds with the company for a month. Raichik’s work has garnered her many high-profile fans including Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson, Ben Shapiro and even the platform’s owner, Elon Musk."
  ‘Libs of TikTok’ Claims Stripe Disabled Its Account and Froze Its Funds in Alleged Sabotage
  
• “We’re already working to address recent issues with Gemini’s image generation feature. While we do this, we’re going to pause the image generation of people and will re-release an improved version soon,” Google said in a Thursday X/Twitter post.
  Google Pauses Ultra-Woke Gemini AI Image Generator Following ‘Inaccuracies’ in Historical Photos
  
• Gemini wasn't built to serve different users. It was built by Google to "fix" problematic attitudes like yours and mine. Until Google solves its attitude problem toward us, Gemini will remain a bad joke instead of a useful tool.
  What the Hell Went Wrong With Google Gemini? It Isn't What You Think.
  
• “Google’s Gemini AI project doesn’t want to display images of white men – even historical figures. I think I may have figured out why,” Walsh wrote. “Here’s the founder of Google’s ‘AI Responsibility’ initiative, Jen Gennai, speaking in a keynote address in 2021. She openly suggests that she treats ‘Black, Hispanic and Latinx’ employees differently than white employees.”
  Founder Of Google’s ‘AI Responsibility’ Initiative Discussed Treating Minority Employees Differently, Has Pushed ‘Anti-Racism,’ Matt Walsh Reveals
  
• "Mayor Adams’ campaign to punish the companies for their alleged evil influence on kids is chutzpah run amok.  It’s an effort to change the subject from the real bad influences the city inflicts on our youths — such as schools that don’t teach and rotten public housing that breeds an underclass of high-school-age carjackers and murderers. Not, of course, that the “social” site owners don’t have plenty to answer for. Every political lie they post, every destructive “dating tip,” every sickening image that borders on child porn is reason to rein them in. But a New York City suit to shake them down for cash won’t do it."
  NYC’s Lunatic Lawsuit Against Social Media Could Drive Millions of Tax Dollars Away
  
• Speaking on a conference call on Thursday, Josh Visser, the Vice News executive editor, said company executives have not given him any indication of a website closure, calling the situation “very upsetting.”
  Vice Plans Hundreds of Layoffs: Trying to Sell the Business
  
• "The federal indictment says that Burke worked with a co-conspirator, who was not named, to hack Fox News’ systems and leak damaging unaired footage of Carlson’s interview with Kanye West that showed the now-disgraced rapper making anti-Semitic remarks. Other unaired footage of Carlson was also leaked to Media Matters."
  Blogger Who Allegedly Hacked Fox News Arrested On 14 Federal Charges

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• "How is [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden out to save democracy?"
  Saving Democracy by Going Around the Courts
  
• "What's a superpower to do when its government won't protect its vital industrial base – and neither will its vital industrial base?"
  Bye, Bye Boeing: Here Comes China’s Comac
  
• "For an election year, the incumbent and his regime are enacting conspicuously bad policy, causing disproportionate harm to we ordinary taxpayers."
  Why Are Our Basic Needs Being Ignored?
  
• “Once a new elite is in place, its members become rulers.”
  How Corporations Rule

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM

• "The company has changed its expectations to have only 50% of its sales be EVs by 2030, announcing that it will be updating its current line-up featuring the internal combustion engine into the next decade, according to Mercedes-Benz in its fourth quarter report. EV sales grew 21% year-over-year in 2023, but total car sales remained relatively the same, bucking hopes that EVs would fuel growth as the automaker pushes electric models."
  Mercedes-Benz Walks Back On Huge Electric Vehicle Commitment Amid Slowing Demand
  
• "‘Decarbonizing the West’ has become Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon’s signature initiative as chair of the Western Governors’ Association." (This asshole is a Republican - jjs)
  Governor of Nation’s Largest Coal State Leads Charge to "Decarbonize" the West
  
• "Republicans' secret weapon is the weakness of Big Climate's argument. It truly is flimsy and will collapse under even a moderate level of pressure. It's time to apply that pressure."
  Why Do Republicans Roll Over on "Climate Change?"
  
• "If Bluebell Capital wants to succeed in refocusing the BP board on its core business of oil and glass production, Bovina should start by having the BP board resign its WEF membership, and remove its rose-colored ESG glasses. If not, it will fail to notice that the net-zero blue sky actually is falling."
  BP's 'Green Energy' Blue Sky Is Falling
  
• For those who prefer their "meat" to be plant-based, I'm glad there are modern simulacrums far more appetizing and convincing than the flabby tofu burgers of prior decades. But this is a market in need of a shakeout, with too many high-priced players chasing after an increasingly price- and nutrition-conscious market — that's also far smaller than the optimists hoped. 
  Beyond Meat Promises Their New Fake Meat Will Suck Less
  
• "State leaders are setting an example that the world—and Golden State residents—can’t afford to follow."
  California’s Impossible War on Oil and Gas
  
• "The EPA’s proposal effectively stipulates that existing coal-fired power plants must cut their greenhouse gas emissions by 90% by 2040, and that new and existing natural gas power plants also make significant cuts to their greenhouse gas emissions depending on their size and situational use by mandating expensive and generally unproven technologies like carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) or blended hydrogen. During the White House interagency review process, several commenters highlighted serious logistical and technological flaws with the proposal, according to documents and communications obtained by the House Oversight and Accountability Committee."
  Officials Told Biden’s EPA Aggressive Green Power Plant Scheme Has Serious Flaws, Docs Show

  AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS

• "The report found what many have come to suspect over the years of disastrous government policy: Lockdowns and mask mandates not only did not work, they caused excess collateral damage; Covid hospitalizations and deaths were inflated; Covid was almost harmless to children and closing schools created excess collateral damage; bureaucrats and public health “experts” ignored decades of research and knowledge in how to handle an airborne contagion."
  Florida Grand Jury's Covid Findings are iInfuriating, But Just the Beginning

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• Aside from teaching kids that they’re innately racist if they’re white, that black people need to be put on a pedestal simply because of the color of their skin (which is in and of itself racist), and the idea of defunding the police, the coloring book also features sections about the sixth and seventh tenants of the BLM movement: “Queer Affirming” and “Trans Affirming.” Reminder: this book was passed out to elementary students as young as five years old.
  NY School Passes Out BLM 'Trans Affirming' Activity Book to Kids
  
• "The only thing missing from this initiative is a school-issued Che Guevara T-shirt and 'Queers for Palestine' laptop sticker. . . What We Believe: A Black Lives Matter Principles Activity Book, which is courtesy of the national organization Black Lives Matter At School, is still taught in 50 schools across 21 states and six countries."
  With "Restorative Justice" and Anti-Police Curriculum, Why Would You Send Your Kid to a NYC Public School?
  
• Christopher Rufo: "Another administrator at the Ivy League university appears to have plagiarized her dissertation."
  Harvard’s Plagiarism Problem Multiplies
  
• Robert Zimmerman: "The administration’s willingness to back down in this case however might be linked to the state legislature’s ban last year of all Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs at state-funded colleges, as well as the major heat from Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and four Texas congressmen (Chip Roy, Michael Cloud, Lance Gooden, and Dan Crenshaw), who wrote a letter [pdf] condemning the college for its treatment of Dr. Varkey and demanding a response from it by mid-January or be threatened with a loss of federal funds."
  Pushback: Stalinist St. Philip’s College in Texas loses 2nd lawsuit, reinstates teacher fired for daring to teach basic biology

  THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH

• "The Milwaukee initiative has all the markings of ‘Bidenbucks,’ an executive order that threatens to transform federal agencies into a get-out-the-vote machine for Democrats."
  "Bidenbucks" Stink Emanates From Leftist Group’s Voter Drive in Milwaukee Schools
  
• PILF’s analysis comes amid concerns over whether Arizona’s voter registration processes could lead to registering foreign nationals to vote. While Arizona requires residents to show proof of citizenship to vote in state elections, a 2013 U.S. Supreme Court decision forbade the state from implementing such a requirement for federal elections. As PILF noted, individuals who cannot provide Arizona with documents to prove citizenship “may participate only in federal elections” using a federal-only ballot.
  Report: 186 Now-Removed Arizona Voter Roll Names Were Foreign Nationals

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• "The donation and grant announcement occurred after the February 23, 2023, rail disaster in East Palestine, Ohio, which sits on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border. A Norfolk Southern train more than a mile long derailed, scattering dozens of train cars and toxic chemicals which spewed columns of black smoke for days."
  Sen. Bob Casey Gives Federal Funds to Norfolk Southern Days After Accepting Lobbyist Cash
  
• "Wyoming Republicans are governing more like blue-collar Democrats than principled conservatives." (The place has Cheney stench - jjs)
  Wyoming is the Epicenter of America’s Fake ‘Red State’ Problem

  POLITICS

• "Trump is leading former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley 63% to 35% among those who are 'very likely' to vote in Saturday’s Republican primary, a Suffolk University/USA Today survey found. All five voters responded affirmatively when hosts Laura Ingraham and Raymond Arroyo asked if Trump changed their mind during the town hall."
  Trump Wins Over Entire Panel Of Undecided Voters Following Town Hall Event
  
• "Though unconnected with former President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, the 917 Society’s choice of Gabbard as its dinner’s headliner is fueling speculation that Gabbard could be tapped for a role in a future Trump administration. Some even believe she could be a dark horse candidate for Trump’s vice-presidential nominee."
  Ex Dem Tulsi Gabbard to Headline Mar-a-Lago Fundraiser
  
• "He may have no choice."
  "Biden Will Win 2024" Due to Abortion Referendums and Democrat Voter Operation, Says Advisory Firm
  
• "Special elections are a particular type of election in which it’s tough to predict turnout on each side. The electorate that participates in a general election differs from the electorate that shows up in a midterm. And just as midterm elections can have little predictive value for the next presidential election, special elections have even less predictive value."
  NY-3 Tells Us Nothing & Everything About America’s Political Transition.

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• "Captagon is today‘s cocaine."
  Iran Is Using Drug Money to Fund Terrorism. We Can Fix That.
  
• Apparently, part of Biden’s plan has also included insulting Putin, which he did on Wednesday when he called the Russian leader a “crazy SOB” who “we always have to be worried about” when it comes to “a nuclear conflict.”
  Biden Junta Reportedly Warning Putin Not To Put Nuke In Space
  
• Doug Bandow: "Trump’s rhetoric is unvarnished. He’s still right."
  Trump is Blunt and Right About NATO
  
• "The Bush and Salinas families both had multigenerational plans for greater integration between Mexico and the U.S., but neither quite came off as expected."
  The Dynasties of NAFTA
  
• "As it stands, neither the United States, nor the EU, nor the British crown via state media BBC is any position to be handing out lectures on proper governance."
  WATCH: El Salvador President Empties Rhetorical Clip on Hostile BBC Reporter

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• "The shortfall is $73 billion, and Bidenomics appears to be a contributing factor to the deficit expansion."
  California’s Budget Deficit Is Even Worse Than Originally Projected
  
• "His out-of-control spending has created a ticking time bomb."
  The Problem for Newsom’s Aspirations: California’s Impending $73 Billion Fiscal Disaster

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• "Do you want the state to have a monopoly on violence or not?"
  Assisted Suicide Is an Abuse-Prone Legal Mess

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• "The landing of the vehicle, built by Intuitive Machines, also marked the first time in history a private company successfully pulled off the incredible feat."
  Private US Lunar Lander Odysseus Touches Down on the Moon for First Time Since 1972
  
• "The galaxy, known as ZF-UDS-7329, formed only 800 million years post-Big Bang and possesses more stars than the Milky Way. Unlike other galaxies, it appears to have formed without the influence of dark matter’s gravitational pull, which scientists believed — until now — was impossible."
  Scientists Baffled By ‘Impossible’ Galaxy Find

  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY

• "Republican AGs warn Supreme Court of 'devastating medical scandal' surrounding transgender procedures on minors."
  Red States Urge SCOTUS To Uphold Idaho’s Transgender Surgery Ban, Cite Daily Wire’s Bombshell Report

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• Daniel Greenfield: "Directors, writers and actors hired to fill DEI quotas make garbage that turns off viewers."
  Why Old TV Shows Are Beating Hollywood’s Billion Dollar DEI Machine
  
• Christian Toto: "Apolitical TV personalities take turns bemoaning sorry state of journalism."
  Drs. Phil, Drew Skewer Rampant Media Corruption
  
• "Who would put such a list together? Propagandists masquerading as academics, of course!"
  A Most Rank Presidential Ranking: Biden Is The 14th Best? Trump Last?
  
• "The wheels of justice may turn slowly, but in this case, justice is finally being dealt out to a serial perpetrator of harassment and fraud. It’s only a matter of time until Owens is forced to admit that she has wronged Clayton Echard, and we can only hope the media outlets that allowed her to use them as a weapon against him will vindicate him in writing and apologize for the part they played in printing unproven allegations."
  Bachelor Paternity Case in Court! Clayton Echard Wins Big.
  
• Robert Zimmerman: "When I was in the first grade in elementary school, I clearly remember my teacher, Mrs. White, describing Washington’s Farewell Speech and explaining very careful to our young minds the importance of these very ideas, the evils of factionalism and the importance of personal moral commitment, based on the known established religions. She, an ordinary person, understood them. She wanted to inculcate them into the next generation, for their own benefit."
  [Yesterday Was] George Washington’s birthday; He is the man we should always honor, not “presidents”
  
• "When 'anti-racists' look at great art, they see only one thing."
  Is God a White Supremacist?

  HITHER & YON

• Coach Herb Brooks: “I’m sick and tired of hearing about what a great hockey team the Soviets have. Screw ’em. This is your time. Now go out there and take it!”
  Happy Miracle on Ice Day!
  
• "Self-driving cars offer expanded freedom and opportunity, especially for the elderly—if regulators don’t block the road."
  Accelerate Autonomy

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