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Media: Who do you trust? 

‘Censorship is free speech’ is the establishment’s Orwellian line on Elon Musk’s Twitter crusade

 Is There Anyone Taking This Green Energy Transition Thing Seriously?

From MacDonald's Averting our Eyes:

 Frank James’s subway massacre undoubtedly has roots in untreated mental illness. But it was set in motion by America’s relentless focus on phantom white racism and by the unchecked urban anarchy of the last two years.

 Yet Another Conspiracy Theory Comes True: 'At Least 20' Feds Embedded at Capitol on Jan. 6

Chicago Rolls Out Lottery System Giving $500 Monthly Payments To Residents To Promote ‘Equitable Recovery’

 New Jersey politicians want to teach children the wrong lessons about 9/11

 The Costs and Benefits of Tribalism—A Roundtable

People are better at "reading" tribal members 

Chronicle:  What’s Going On at Yale Law School? A Lot of Drama

 Study Finds Florida Handled COVID Lockdowns Better Than New York And California

 Masking Is Back, and Democrats Will Regret It

 CNN+: A BOMB OF EPIC PROPORTIONS

Bill Maher: Dems are going to get their asses kicked because they've given up on common sense

 Biden's next plan for high fuel prices: Crappy gas

Made of food 

 Finland's official finding: NATO membership would enhance our security

On my nickel 

 This Is the War’s Decisive Moment. The United States and its allies can tip the balance between a costly success and a calamity.

 US government confirms an interstellar object has crashed into Earth. The US government has confirmed the suspicions of Harvard researchers that an interstellar object has crashed into Earth.

Cool 

From 2014, 120 years of climate scares

 A Warning From Shanghai. A new California bill threatens to strip doctors of their medical licenses for saying things the state doesn’t like. We don't have to imagine what that would look like.

Santa Monica:  The neighborhood that was too violent even for the Post Office

 Questions Loom After Verdicts in Whitmer ‘Kidnapping’ Trial. What did top government officials know and when did they know it?

Why did the FBI pull this scam? 

 Capitol Police ALLOWED Protesters to Enter Side Door – WILL BE USED IN COURT – “Dream Team” of Lawyers Including Alan Dershowitz Set to Defend January 6’ers

Wow. Some insurrection 

 NYT Report Reveals White House in Chaos Over Border Crisis

 Why Ukraine Is Winning. Ukraine’s success illuminates a strategy that has allowed a smaller state to—so far—outlast a larger and much more powerful one

 Americans Are “In Charge” of the War Says French Journalist Who Returned From Ukraine. “I found myself facing the Pentagon.”

Gee. No kidding 

 Microdosing psychedelics: Untapped potential in psychiatry?

Is a tiny bit of psychosis good for some? 

SNOWFALLS ARE NOW JUST A THING OF THE PAST

 Climate Cult Scientists Are Unhappy About This Whole Debate Thing

Check this out:  Nationalize the U.S. Fossil Fuel Industry to Save the Planet. Turning the biggest oil companies over to public ownership would serve several goals at once, including climate resilience.

 How Shops Use Psychology to Influence Your Buying Decisions

It is obvious 

 Lockdown States Pursued a Failed Policy, Study Finds

 Biden COVID czar: Sure, we may extend mask mandates on air travel

Insane 

 Philly Reinstates Mask Mandate After 46 Hospitalized Cases

Insane 

California looks to shorten work week, but not for everyone

 Citing ‘equity,’ nation’s largest four-year university system drops SAT, ACT admissions requirement

 San Diego's largest high school cut honors classes for equity

Just more dumbing down

 Twitter employees enjoy 'day of rest' after getting 'super stressed' by Elon Musk

Snowflakes, but it is California 

 HuffPo: Sure looks like Black Lives Matter was a racket, eh? Update: BLM responds

Allen West: Race and American Exceptionalism 

 Obamacare’s Hollow Celebration. Twelve years after its passage, the landmark law has expanded health coverage only modestly—while raising costs, reducing choice, and doing little to improve outcomes.

 China Taking Over Africa: 'China's Second Continent'

Yes, everybody talks about that. Africa is for sale.

 A big beautiful new spider for the eastern US

 Why the experts keep getting it wrong. Too many in academia and journalism are trapped by unquestioning groupthink.

 COVID, Gender, Climate, and the Collapse of Science. As many scientists have behaved like fools, the discipline itself is in jeopardy of being thought stained and unreliable.

 Elon Musk declines invite to join Twitter board; get the popcorn, Twitter memo kicks off fun!

 Elon Musk would like to share some of his mind-blowing plans with the folks working at Giga Texas

New Jersey To Teach Second Graders Gender Identity…

 Disney’s Demographic Fantasia and the ‘Underrepresentation’ Con

 Explaining the LGBT Explosion

 Jussie Smollett Releases Song After Being Freed from Jail, Blames ‘Race and Trans and Homophobia’

 U. Wisconsin Student Activists Celebrate Delay of Campus Free Speech Survey

 NPR Reporter Blasts Own Newsroom, Says Hunter Biden Story Merits Attention

 Judge: No, you can't cancel Trump's NYC golf course contract

 Fed Study: Stimulus Checks Worsened Inflation

 I Really Do Hate These Leftists

I don't, but I am confused by their logic. 

 Biden’s Energy Strategery

 BIDEN SENDS NEARLY $1 BILLION TO AFGHANISTAN SINCE TALIBAN TAKEOVER

 Escobar: Sit Back & Watch Europe Commit Suicide

Russia warns of 'direct military confrontation' with US as Ukraine forces retreat. Live updates.

 Why Are Biden and NATO Suddenly Willing to Provide Ukraine w/Heavy Weapons and Air Defense Systems?

 Head of Russia's Orthodox Church Calls on People to Rally Around Putin, Authorities

 Major move: Finland and Sweden to join NATO?

 Larry C. Johnson: "The Ukrainian Army Has Been Defeated. What's Left Is Mop-Up"

VDH:  Can Ukraine Ever Win?

Why does aluminum foil have a bright side and a dull side?

 Struggling Communities and Their Prospects - A new academic collection focuses much-needed attention on the challenges facing America’s small cities and towns.

Wind farms fined for killing eagles 

 Yes, The Dunning-Kruger Effect Really Is Real

 Jen Psaki Says Sex Reassignment Surgery, Puberty Blockers For KIDS Is “Best Practice”…

 Not a 'Kitchen Table Issue,' Jen Psaki? Actually, Our Kids Are All We're Thinking About

 I’m Being Investigated by the British Columbia College of Nurses Because I Believe Biological Sex Is Real

WaPo: Musk threatens free speech 

 Biden’s Ponderous Pandering on Student Loans

The day the big asteroid hit 

 I agree with scientists and journalists that damaging cold weather is caused by climate change

Sri Lanka in trouble after going organic 

 Containers To Be Removed From Massive Ship Stranded In Chesapeake Bay 

NYT's Top Editor Orders Reporters To "Meaningfully Reduce" Twitter Usage As Musk Joins Company's Board

 NO GROOMING ALLOWED

 ‘Okay Groomer’: Megyn Kelly Slams Transgender Push On Her Third Grader, Says ’It’s Like They Are Trying Recruit’

 Fox News Reporter Benjamin Hall Lost Limbs and One Eye No Longer Works After Ukraine Attack

 Fatal Police Shootings and Race: A Review of the Evidence and Suggestions for Future Research

 Texas Governor Greg Abbott Says He’s Chartering Buses To Send Illegal Immigrants To Washington D.C.

Insurrection: Congressman says he was the victim of an 'unprovoked' attack by a fox outside the Capitol

 Chicago Maroon editors apologize for publishing piece condemning anti-Semitism

 I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional

 The White House Is Pushing Puberty Blockers for ‘Trans Kids.’ 

 UNC Med School social justice update still teaches that organs aren’t gender-specific

 Biden: We need more oil from Canada, but not through a pipeline

 Democrats Are in Big Trouble With Their Dedicated Base According to New Focus Group Data

 Is Russia Running Out Of Troops?

 European Environmentalists Have Made Energy Independence Impossible

From Reality Cannot Penetrate Into The Fantasy World Of Climate Campaigners

 OK guys, how exactly are you going to “halve emissions by 2030” with China going all-out to build new coal plants on a scale far beyond anything the world has ever seen, and India (with population almost as large as China) not far behind, and the rest of Asia and all of Africa waiting in the wings?  You will not find the answer.  Go through the press release and the SPM and all you find is studious avoidance of any mention of the development plans of places like China and India.  Even the names “China” and “India” appear to be on some kind of taboo list. 

 Making Beethoven Woke - Revisionist performances of classic works deconstruct our precious links to the past

 Teen girls aren't going to forget

 Pope Francis Removes Cross from Event in Malta So Not to Upset Illegal Muslim Migrants

 The world is running out to time to blunt climate change. Where's the urgency?

 Historian Explains How 6 Presidents Fought Washington Swamp

 Elon Musk's New Stake in Twitter Makes Things Fun Again

 Shellenberger: Why Wishful Liberal Thinking Led To Disasters In Ukraine, Homelessness, & Climate

 Is Global "Democracy" America's Mission?

BLM Secretly Used Donor Money To Purchase $6 Million Los Angeles Mansion

 Developing: Clinton Lawyer Just Got Caught A In Big Lie By The Durham Investigation

 Rep. Tiffany: US 'Borderless' After Biden's 'Deliberate' Acts

 Hungarian Prime Minister Orban Warns Citizens of Western Alliance About Zelenskyy Role Advancing New World Order

 Why don't the media ever ask why previous IPCC predictions have been so wrong?

 New York set to ban natural gas in new buildings

 English Professor Orders Students Not to Use the 'Historically' Negative Word 'Female'

 CAN ELON MUSK SAVE TWITTER?

VDH:  We are watching a rare laboratory experiment in which the traditional American fringe is now in control of the government. 

Biden’s ‘absolute’ defense of Hunter leaves media and Justice Department in a muddle

 The unrestrained influx of illegal aliens continues on the Texas Border

 Dems have an opening for a midterm villain. Donald Trump, you're hired!

Putin Won't Go, Russia Won't Collapse—So What Will Biden Do About Ukraine?

 Biden’s Ugly Options in Ukraine. Pushing to defeat Russia has high risks and costs, but so do the alternatives.

 A Victim Too Far: How Transgenders Will Bring Down the Lefty Marxists Who Want to Destroy America

 California City Approves Program to Give Trans & Non-Binary Residents Guaranteed Income

 Chronic absenteeism in NYC public schools hits alarming 40%

 What Will Unions Mean to Amazon? Nothing.

 Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Results Not Strong Enough to Warrant Authorization for Children: Experts

 The SEC tries its hand at climate policy

 China Continues To Laugh At Western "Green Energy" Foolishness

 Looking for a Democrat who stands up to the crazies? Here he is

 Maxine Waters Tells Homeless to Go Home, Reporter Not to Report

 An Unconventional Analysis of Putin's War on Ukraine

Biden is looking to double his record on letting in illegal migrants

 Judge Strikes Down NYC's Toddler Mask Mandate, City Plans Appeal as COVID Rises Again

 Medical Student Purposely 'Misses' Vein With Needle When Patient Laughs at Her Pronoun Button

 It's OK To Say "Gay" But Please Don't Use Offensive Words Like "Boy" Or "Girl"

Gibson Bakery update 

 A Suicide Foretold: How Social Justice Rhetoric is Turning People off Human Rights

Sullivan had a "ghastly" experience with Jon Stewart 

 Not just Russia: America has a problem speaking truth to power, too

Biden's Border Nightmare Continues to Worsen

 Biden's energy screw-up

 The Rules About Corruption Just Don't Apply To The Bidens

 Biden’s Stunts Always Flop

Note: Not one of today's linked absurdities is an April Fools' jokes. 

 Warhol: The Void Beneath the Emptiness

Disney Silent On Leaked Videos That Tout Injecting ‘Queerness’ Into Kids’ Shows

 Disney death wish?

 California Reparations Panel Struggles To Decide Which Black Americans Should Receive Handouts

 No Free Thinkers Need Apply. Equity advocates have captured the field of public health.

 AT THIS POINT, EVERY “HATE” INCIDENT IS PRESUMPTIVELY A HOAX

 HOW CDC COLLUDED WITH TEACHERS’ UNIONS TO DEVASTATE AMERICA’S CHILDREN

 Rachel Walensky and the CDC Allowed Teachers Unions, Not "Science," to Dictate the Nation's School Closing and Masking Policies

 Why Men Must Be Asked Whether They Are Pregnant

 Yale: DEAN GERKEN’S GABBLE

 A Plastic Bag’s 2,000-Mile Journey Shows the Messy Truth About Recycling

 Too Much Lake Water is Climate Change, Not Enough Lake Water is Climate Change.

 UCLA race and equity director tweets: ‘[we all] hope Clarence Thomas dies’

 Less a Powerhouse Than a Parasite. What happened to the NRA?

British Government Looking For Ways To Tax EV Users

 Paycheck Protection Program led to 'the biggest fraud in a generation'

 Fed Finally Admits That COVID Stimulus Is Responsible For Hottest Inflation In A Generation

 The Atlantic manages to blame the collapsing US birth rate on... Trump

 Nearly 1 million migrants have already crossed the border in SIX MONTHS: Staggering figures revealed as Biden plans to give COVID vaccines to migrants and the White House braces for huge influx when Title 42 is dropped

 Putin has driven a rift between Russia and Ukraine that will likely never heal