YOU’RE DEFINITELY GOING TO NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Why the Public Hates the Press.

HEH: Chinese-made condoms too small, Zimbabwe’s health minister complains.

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I EAGERLY AWAIT COLIN KAEPERNICK AND THE NBA’S FORCEFUL CONDEMNATION OF THIS: Beijing’s Uighur Policy: ‘Show No Mercy.’

SWEDEN: Abandoning Malmo To Its Criminals.

CALIFORNIA BANS GOVERNMENT PURCHASES OF MOST GAS-POWERED CARS UNDER NEWSOM CLIMATE ORDER:

California state government on Friday stopped buying gas-powered sedans as part of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The directive by the state’s Department of General Services, which oversees purchasing and contracts for California state government, exempts public safety vehicles.

Sad! Why shouldn’t the CHP be driving Priuses as well? As Jim Treacher asked in September when a Fremont, CA “Tesla Electric Cop Car [Ran] Out of Juice While Chasing Bad Guy,” “The police are supposed to protect and serve. But what’s the point of protecting and serving the public if you’re not protecting and serving Gaia? It’s good to stop crime, but there won’t be any crime at all if everybody gets killed by the weather. That’s why I’m glad to see police departments switching to electric cars. Unlike those dirty gas-burning cars, electric ones are powered by… magic, I think? Goodbye, boys in blue. Hello, guys in green!”

BIG GULP: Scientists Capture Spectacularly Rare Footage of Deep-Sea Fish Devouring a Whole Shark.

FIGHT THE POWER: New Zealanders Are Keeping Their Guns And Buying More.

NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS:

● Shot: “We’re not pushing the party left, we’re bringing the party home. It’s time that we become the party of FDR again.”

—Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaking at a Bernie Sanders campaign rally in Coralville, Iowa, November 9th.

● Chaser: Ocasio-Cortez: ‘I’m Absolutely Comfortable’ Using Concentration Camp Term to Describe Border.

—Nicholas Ballasy, PJ Media, June 19th.

● Hangover: Ocasio-Cortez agrees with host calling Israeli Government “criminal” “white supremacist Jews.”

—Twitchy, July 30th.

● The D.T.s: New Documents Reveal FDR’s Eugenic Project to ‘Resettle’ Jews During World War II.

—Tablet, April 29th, 2018.

NBC ASKS WHY THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS A CESSPIT OF HOMOPHOBIA: Pete Buttigieg is struggling with black voters — and not just because he’s gay.

UPDATE: ABC ponders why the Democratic Party is a cesspit of sexism and racism: Kamala Harris’ Campaign In Free Fall, ABC Blames ‘America.’

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A WEAK CIVIL SOCIETY BREEDS THIS SORT OF THING: The generator mafia in Lebanon. “Nakhle, an official in the Energy Ministry, was admitting that the generator mafia bribes Lebanese politicians to make sure that EdL stays weak and blackouts persist.”

GENTLEMEN, YOU CAN’T TYPE HERE, THIS IS TWITTER! Twitter Suspends Pro-Trump Accounts Tweeting ‘I Hired Donald Trump to Fire People Like Yovanovitch.’

Somebody should write a book about how social media tips the scale.

NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT: Al Sharpton gets $1M in pay from his own charity.

After all these years, Reverend Bacon still knows how to bring home the bacon.

(KICKS STONE) THUS DO I REFUTE IT. New Quantum Physics Experiment Suggests Objective Reality Doesn’t Exist.

IT’S COME TO THIS: Heating Up Your Car This Winter Could Get You Fined In Massachusetts.

IS IT TIME FOR ‘RESTITUTION-BASED IMMIGRATION REFORM’? Bruce Ashford is Provost of the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, and his proposal comes out of a resolution approved by the Southern Baptist Convention. Step one is no amnesty.

OUT ON A LIMB: San Francisco And NYC Begin To See The Ugly Side Of Socialism.

FORMER NEW YORK MAYOR APOLOGIZES, SAYS HE WAS WRONG TO KEEP CRIME LOW: Michael Bloomberg Apologizes for Stop-and-Frisk: ‘I Was Wrong.’

THE DRAMA OF THE GIFTED CHILD: Kaepernick’s Kaper (Updated).

Note the Nike-endorsed former player’s choice of T-shirt for what was billed as a politics-free return to football: