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A Chinese scientist posted the entire genetic sequence of the coronvirus-19 before China itself did. Then that posting was quickly deleted.

Two weeks before a researcher made the genetic sequence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus available to the world, another Chinese scientist quietly posted it to a U.S. government website.

The earlier posting doesn't change the virus' origin story ‒ whether it was sparked by a live animal market or leaked from a scientific laboratory.

But it does renew questions about how much China knew about the virus and when. It suggests that vaccine development could have started sooner. And it raises new questions about how much the U.S. government knew or should have known about the virus in those early days.

Mega-Study: Contrary to the foundational claim of the Decarceration Left, no, minorities do no receive harsher criminal penalties than whites.

An analysis of twenty years of academic literature found that there is little or no evidence that minorities are mistreated by the criminal justice system when it comes to punishment, despite assertions to the contrary by policymakers, media, and academics.

"In recent years it has become common belief within the scholarly community as well as the general public that the criminal justice system is biased due to race and class issues. We sought to examine this with meta-analysis. Our results suggest that for most crimes, criminal adjudication in the US is not substantially biased on race or class lines," professors Christopher J. Ferguson and Sven Smith of Stetson University found in a study to be published in the criminology journal Aggression and Violent Behavior and obtained by The Daily Wire.

"Overall, this is a cause for optimism," researchers concluded--though their findings also called into question the honesty and rigor of the work conducted by race-fueled scholars, whose weaknesses were highlighted this month in former Harvard president Claudine Gay.

As a meta-analysis, the study did not create a new dataset on criminal sentencing and race, but rather examined 51 studies conducted by others looking at the question since 2005. The numbers suggesting no or marginal racial bias in punishment were therefore collected by the existing studies, but those authors often claimed to have found racial bias in their writings, even when their numbers did not back it up.

"We express the concern that evidence for racial bias in the U.S. criminal justice system has been consistently weak, and that scholarly narratives have too often ignored this in favor of the systemic racism narrative," Ferguson and Smith wrote.

Skwad member and criminal fire-alarm puller proposed a reparations bill. He just wants a mere $14 trillion.

Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) proposed a $14 trillion reparations plan Tuesday "for the enslavement of Africans and its lasting harm on the lives of millions of Black people in the United States."

The progressive congressman called on the federal government to foot the bill, arguing that there's a way to pay for it "without raising taxes on anyone."

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"When COVID was destroying us, we invested in the American people in a way that kept the economy afloat," Bowman told the Journal News in an interview published January 16. "The government can invest the same way in reparations without raising taxes on anyone."

"Where did the money come from?" he continued. "We spent it into existence."

Yes, we printed up a ton of funny money and it jacked inflation up to backbreaking levels. We just devalued all the dollars in existence, which is exactly the equivalent of taxing people and just taking a portion of their wealth from them.

Bowman is among nine sponsors in support of H.R. 414, a resolution introduced by Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) in May 2023 to recognize that the U.S. "has a moral and legal obligation to provide reparations for the enslavement of Africans and its lasting harm on the lives of millions of Black people in the United States."

As everyone knows, Ron DeSantis suspended his campaign yesterday, and endorsed Trump over the "warmed-over corporatist" Nikki Haley and, of course, Joe Biden.

NBC "News:"

"Now, following our second-place finish in Iowa, we've prayed and deliberated on the way forward," he said. "If there was anything I could do to produce a favorable outcome, more campaign stops, more interviews, I would do it. But I can't ask our supporters to volunteer their time and donate their resources. We don't have a clear path to victory. Accordingly, I am today suspending my campaign."

"It's clear to me that a majority of Republican primary voters want to give Donald Trump another chance," he said, adding: "He has my endorsement because we can't go back to the old Republican guard of yesteryear, a repackaged form of warmed-over corporatism that Nikki Haley represents."

DeSantis' exit and endorsement of Trump makes it almost impossible for Nikki Haley to get the "win" in New Hampshire she needs, even counting on all of those Democrats voting in the primary.

Tucker Carlson on Nikki Haley and her major back, the Democrat friend-of-Jeffrey-Epstein and visitor-to-Pedo-Island Reid Hoffman:

At least 67 people have died due to the Global Warming arctic cold that has gripped the nation.

Much of the U.S. remained gripped by deadly Arctic weather Sunday -- with subfreezing conditions reaching as far south as Texas and Florida.

But the numbing cold is expected to ease up in the coming days.

The weather is getting warmer, but the confluence of warm and cold air will cause rain, snow, and ice before the frigid air is gone.

Warmth is set to thaw parts of the United States following frigid weekend temperatures -- but the warmer air will bring a risk of ice and flooding for some states, and another crippling winter storm is set to hit portions of the Plains and South into Monday.

A series of winter storms this month have killed at least 82 people in 13 states. The death toll climbed on Sunday after emergency management agencies in Oregon, Mississippi and Tennessee reported additional weather-related fatalities.

Now a series of fronts and low-pressure systems are working together to bring warmer air and tropical moisture into the eastern half of the US this week.

The arctic chill will be ending, and cities will begin warming up, with some seeing daily high temperatures increase by close to 30 degrees over the course of three or four days.

Temperatures will be significantly above average by the end of the week, with highs Thursday reaching the upper 60s to low 70s throughout the Southeast and temperatures in the 50s as far north as New York.

Overnight lows will soar into the 60s for parts of the Southeast, potentially breaking over 100 records for warmest daily lows.

All of this slipping and falling was caused by Global Warming.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:21 PM

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