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BREAKING: Iranian National With Machete, Pick Ax Detained on Bridge Near Mar-a-Lago.

REMEMBERING RUSH DRUMMER NEIL PEART: Rock’s Greatest Drummer (and Randian).

SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Group of unhealthy risk factors raises odds for blood clots.

ADVERSARY TECHNOLOGY: Woman Says Amazon’s Alexa Told Her To Stab Herself In The Heart For ‘The Greater Good.’

PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: NY Times Slapped With $5M Lawsuit For Citing SPLC, Branding Immigration Hawk a ‘White Nationalist.’ I would have added a zero to the claim, though to be fair he’s also asking for punitive damages.

I LIKE TO THINK OF IT AS OVERACHIEVING: “Taking a long-haul flight generates more carbon emissions than the average person in dozens of countries around the world produces in a whole year, a new Guardian analysis has found.”

Cool. Now do private charters.

NOT A HUGE RUSH FAN, BUT HE WAS A GREAT DRUMMER: Neil Peart dead at 67. RIP.

WINNING: Trump Boom Continues: Unemployment Remains at Record Low.

CLIMATE CHANGE: Human Bodies Have Steadily Grown Colder Over The Past Century, Evidence Shows.

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FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY: The Nugs Sauce Or Your Life.

And for our VIP members: Nancy Pelosi Might Be Killing the Dems’ White House Chances.

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ANSWERS TO THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop Has a Candle Called ‘This Smells Like My Vagina.’ But Does It Really?

DAVID HARSANYI: Pelosi’s Embarrassing Impeachment Blunder.

A new piece in Time magazine does shed some light on the thought process behind Pelosi’s decision to refuse to hand over articles of impeachment to a Senate whose majority doesn’t want them. One of the most interesting nuggets in the piece isn’t that Pelosi — portrayed as courageous risk-taker — had gotten the bright idea from CNN; it’s that she specifically got it from noted felon John Dean, Nixon’s former White House lawyer. Now, Dean is often portrayed as a patriotic, whistleblowing impeachment expert — which is true insofar as he planned the Watergate coverup, and then informed on everyone whom he conspired with after they were caught. His real expertise is cashing in on criminality for the past 50 years.

Surely Pelosi, blessed with preternatural political instincts, wouldn’t rely on Dean’s advice? Surely Pelosi wasn’t browbeaten into doing this by podcast bros and talking heads on America’s least popular major cable news network?

Nah. They’re both incapable of embarrassment.

WELL, YES, THERE ARE SCIENTISTS AT BERKELEY AFTER ALL: Scientists observe ultrafast birth of radicals.

UNEXPECTEDLY: Senate Dems Won’t Support Measure Praising U.S. Military for Soleimani Killing. “The resolution is structurally identical to the 2011 Senate resolution praising former president Barack Obama for the operation that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. At that time, all 100 Democratic and Republican members of the Senate joined to support that resolution.”

THANKS FOR SHARING: Elizabeth Warren: ‘I never wash my face.’

THE CONTENT OF THEIR CHARACTER: Against Tribal America. While progressives are desperately promoting racialism, Americans are less racist and more willing to marry outside their race than ever. And African-Americans are moving away from Democratic strongholds in the North to seek opportunity elsewhere. Of the 15 best regions in the country for African-Americans, Joel Kotkin notes in City Journal, 13 are in the old Confederacy (and the other two are in border states).

WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING? E-scooter injuries up 222 percent in last four years. Though I’d be willing to bet that E-scooter usage has increased by a bigger margin.

LATE-STAGE SOCIALISM: Curaçao can no longer handle the number of Venezuelans.

PUNCHING BACK TWICE AS HARD: NY Times Slapped With $5M Lawsuit For Citing SPLC, Branding Immigration Hawk a ‘White Nationalist.’

Read the whole thing.

NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” STILL PAYING HOARDING DIVIDENDS: AOC riles Dems by refusing to pay party dues, bankrolling colleagues’ opponents.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: How Negativity Can Kill a Relationship. We pride ourselves on the good things we do for partners and friends, but what really matters is what we don’t do. Avoiding bad is far more important than doing good, as Roy Baumeister and I point out in this Atlantic article discussing studies tracking married couples. It’s an excerpt from our new book, The Power of Bad, which notes that Anthony Trollope figured out this negativity effect in marriage long before social scientists, in his 1869 novel He Knew He Was Right.