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LIGHTNING DEAL: NYMPHY Solar Lights Outdoor. #CommissionEarned

PAGING DR. MILLEI: Currency Tailspin Forces Brazil’s Leader to Do the Unthinkable: Cut Spending: Brazil’s currency plunges to lowest level in 30 years after breakneck spending on pensions and social services. For months, Brazilian leaders have thrown…

EDITH WILSON’S CLOSEST ACCOMPLICES MAINTAIN THEIR OMERTÀ: Jacqui Heinrich Explains Why KJP Did Not Get 1 Q About WSJ’s Report on WH Hiding Biden’s Decline. From the WSJ: To adapt the White House around the needs of a diminished leader, they told…

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Censorship at Georgetown: A departmental journal editor says the quiet part out loud, and the professors applaud. It’s rare to see such overt ideological censorship in print. Most academics know enough to couch their…

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Joel Kotkin: The American university is rotting from within. This arrogance reflects decades of the sector’s rising power and influence. University became the ultimate passport into what Daniel Bell called the…

IGNORE THIS STUFF, IT’S JUST MORE ANTI-SCIENCE CONSPIRACY THEORY: Why do so many people have ultra-high levels of anti-spike antibodies years after receiving Covid mRNA jabs? It’s just a sign that the vaccines are working!

YEAH, WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING? Stunned Massachusetts educators, ADL call for MassCUE apology after ‘hateful’ anti-Israel and Holocaust rhetoric at conference. MassCUE’s fall education tech conference — held in partnership with the Massachusetts…

OPEN THREAD: Never give up! Never surrender!

THE NEW SPACE RACE: FAA updates Starship launch license for next flight.

THERE WILL BE SO MANY LAWSUITS: UCLA student sues California doctors, says she was ‘fast-tracked’ into transgender surgery.

TO BE FAIR, IT’S EASY TO FORGET: Breaking: That guy from the WSJ story who hasn’t been able to do the job since 2021 is currently the president — Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) December 21, 2024

ALL THE BEST PEOPLE TOLD ME THIS NEVER HAPPENS: 🚨BREAKING: An employee of the far-left "New PA Project" was just charged for REGISTERING DEAD PEOPLE TO VOTE! Voter fraud is REAL. I bet President Trump won by an EVEN BIGGER landslide than he did.…

NOT PERFECT, BUT MUCH IMPROVED: This is great https://t.co/KnSwLEjvjd — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 20, 2024 🚨 JUST IN: Speaker Johnson says he was in “constantly contact” with President Trump throughout the day, and believes Trump is “happy.”…

THE CURRENT INTERGLACIAL PERIOD IS NEAR ITS END, OR AT LEAST WOULD BE WITHOUT MANKIND’S CARBON EMISSIONS: Arctic Siberia summers were up to 10°C warmer than today during the Last Interglacial, study finds. Yes, that’s the Fallen Angels plot device, but I…

LAST MINUTE GIFT: Gifts for Men, Survival Kit and Equipment. #CommissionEarned

GOOD NEWS FOR FATTIES, AND DIABETICS: FDA says shortage of GLP-1 drug tirzepatide is over.

DETAILS: Saudi Suspect Plows Car Into German Christmas Market; U.S. Media Blames the Car.

THE 21ST CENTURY IS NOT TURNING OUT AS I’D HOPED: ‘Gooner 9/11’ averted as Zenless Zone Zero’s butt-obfuscation technology is rolled back in the face of horny outrage.

HAVING SOLVED ALL THE CITY’S OTHER PROBLEMS: ‘No One Has To Be Healthy’: San Fran Taps Fat Activist As ‘Weight Stigma’ Czar. Tovar is against so-called diet culture for the obese, rejects Ozempic, and believes that “no one has to be healthy.”…

WELL, HE’S RIGHT: You don’t hate the lying legacy media enough https://t.co/gMtjbp2EMG — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 20, 2024

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: Just Ban All the Cars Already. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, it’s an (almost) All Vehicular Madness/All the Time edition.”

READER FAVORITE: New Balance Men’s 608 V5 Casual Comfort Cross Trainer. #CommissionEarned

MYSTERY DRONES: Can’t Live With ’Em, Can’t Shoot ’Em.

OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY: Appellate Court Allows Joe Biden to Open Obamacare to DACA Illegal Aliens.

IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™ — Be a Shame If Y’all Got Caught in a Snowstorm.

READER FAVORITE: LEATHERMAN, Wave+, 18-in-1 Full-Size, Versatile Multi-tool. #CommissionEarned

IT’S HARDER THAN IT LOOKS: We’re about to fly a spacecraft into the Sun for the first time. Almost no one ever writes about the Parker Solar Probe anymore. Sure, the spacecraft got some attention when it launched. It is, after all, the fastest moving…

THE 21ST CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I’D HOPED, BUT I’M OKAY WITH THIS: From a friend of mine: 'AI holding Congressmen and Senators accountable to the voters for pork spending & stealth legislating in real time, before the vote, by READING THE 1000…

#JOURNALISM: Why are you leaving out the fact that it passed as a stand alone bill last March but was never brought up for a vote in nine months in Chuck Schumer's Senate? pic.twitter.com/GexJ9kJImu — Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 20, 2024 And why…

WE’RE MOVING TOWARD FIRING-SQUAD TERRITORY HERE, AREN’T WE? House Weaponization panel releases 17,000-page report exposing ‘two-tiered system of government.’ Tarring and feathering at least. This is literally making war against the American people for…