THE BUILDING INSPECTORS ARE IMPERILING SF’S SHRINKING TAX BASE: Anti-Musk Twitter Users Sic San Francisco Building Inspectors on Company’s San Francisco HQ.

EPIC HOLIDAY DEALS are here. #CommissionEarned

FALLOUT: Russia’s Oil Exports Nosedive Following Price Cap. “According to one commodity-analytics firm Kpler, Russia’s seaborne exports fell by nearly 500,000 barrels per day on Tuesday, a 16% decline from the November average of 3.08 million bpd.”

MEN ON STRIKE: Men are dropping out of the labor force because they’re upset about their social status, according to a new study.

Men without four-year college degrees, between the ages of 25 and 54, have left the workforce in higher numbers than other groups. And they’re leaving because of their perceived social status relative to better-educated men of similar age, according to a new study from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

Non-college-educated men have seen their pay shrink by more than 30% since 1980 compared to the average earnings of all other prime-age workers. Their weekly earnings have declined 17%, while those of college-educated men rose by 20%, adjusting for inflation. That earnings loss has caused a decline in their social status, prompting them to walk away from work entirely, Pinghui Wu, the author of the study, wrote.

“For many workers, a job not only offers financial security, it also affirms their status, which is tied to their position relative to their age peers and many social outcomes,” Wu wrote.

The study found that the decline in earnings for non-college-educated men over the last four decades has increased their likelihood of leaving the labor force by nearly half a percentage point. That also accounts for 44% of the increase in their exit rate.

This seems to conflate a very real decline in earnings, with a decline in social status — though, to be fair, that’s also real.

CORN, POPPED: AOC Is Under Investigation by the House Committee on Ethics.

THE BUREAUCRACY WAS WEAPONIZED TO PROTECT DEMOCRATS: Judicial Watch: Secret Service Has Repeatedly Changed Story on Existence of Hunter Biden Gun Records.

FROM LAURA MONTGOMERY:  Long in the Land: A Science Fiction Lost Colony Adventure.

#COMISSIONEARNED

He’s a man on the run. But on this harsh alien world, freedom doesn’t mean he’s safe.Peter Dawe can’t face his mother’s relentless grief. With her anguish deepening his guilt and the colony’s governor out for revenge, he’s desperate to escape a deadly situation ready to explode. So he jumps at the chance to journey north away from danger, chasing the rare sight of a long-lost aircraft.

Buoyed by the glimpse of a machine he’s never seen before, Peter discovers the pilot desperately needs aid for his newborn son. But with sinister agents searching for them both, the remote planet may not be big enough to preserve the young fugitive from his enemy’s vengeance.

Can Peter find them refuge before they all fall to their doom?

Long in the Land is the thrilling second book in the Martha’s Sons science fiction series. If you like captivating world-building, edge-of-your-seat tension, and memorable characters, then you’ll love Laura Montgomery’s high-stakes tale.

Buy Long in the Land to make a stark choice today!

NEWS YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO USE:  You could have a penny worth $7K in your pocket — and not even know it.

SOMETIMES YOU ESCAPE:  The Pleasures of Yew-Toob.

SO, THAT’S A YES?  White House won’t say if Biden team told Twitter that Hunter laptop was ‘hacked’.

PUNCHING THE FASCISTS IN THE POCKET BOOK:  Grocery chain Kroger is expecting Republicans to save them from Dem regulation after years of going woke. Sen. Tom Cotton told them to pound sand.

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU CAN NO LONGER VOTE THEM OUT:  Headlines you never would have seen just a few short years ago.

AND 2022. AND ALL FUTURE ELECTIONS, UNLESS WE FIND A WAY TO STOP THEM:  The worst form of fascism from the far left: Rigging 2020.

WWII vets are spinning in their graves.

YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE HAS MORE OR LESS BEEN ABOLISHED:  Democrat Voter Fraud: A Brief History.

YEP:  Ukrainian drone strikes deep into Russian territory; MSM trying to Pooh-Pooh Twitter leaks; swarmism vs. caesarism.

STOP MAKING ME DO THIS, I DON’T ENJOY IT, AND I HAVE BOOKS TO WRITE:  Our Trump Card.

WELL, THAT DIDN’T TAKE LONG:  San Francisco: Don’t Release The Killer Robots.

YEP:  Twitter Files – Musk Fires Fox In The Hen House.

A LOT OF VERY VISIBLE ERUPTIONS. THERE’S ONLY ONE CONCLUSION:  Volcanic Eruptions Now Occurring in Indonesia and Italy.

Yep. You got it. Gaia hates it when Democrats are in power in the US.

WHAT’S THE FUN OF FREEZING IN THE DARK WITHOUT A LITTLE FAMINE THROWN IN?  Germany Bans Proper Farm Fertilizing to Serve Climate Insanity.

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: In Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day Address, Kamala Harris Urges Nation Not To Forget January 6. “‘Pearl Harbor was bad. They dropped bombs on big, big boats. But January 6 was even more bad,’ said Harris in her speech. ‘They did an insurrection. An insurrection on the government. And we almost became a Nazi country. Remember it? We should all remember. The passage of time is very significant, but it will never make January 6 go away from our hearts. Amen.’”

JOHN HINDERAKER: The Mystery of Woke Capitalism.

OPEN THREAD: God rest ye merry commenters, let nothing you dismay.

C’MON, LET THEM LIVE THEIR LOW-PROFILE LIVES IN PEACE: Evil global news media! Here are the reasons why you MUST stop hounding ‘Woko Ono’ Meghan and poor traumatized Harry — and just let them get on with their low profile work for Netflix, Spotify and a global publishing giant!

FINAL MOONWALKING MISSION SO FAR: Happy anniversary, Apollo 17! Final moonwalking mission launched 50 years ago today.