NOW OUT FROM ANDREW WAREHAM: The Africa Hand.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Here’s Hoping Fake Journalism Doesn’t Start World War III. “The word that comes up a lot when I’m writing about the Democrats’ flying monkeys in the mainstream media is ‘irresponsible.’ The rush to be a social media brand rather than a reporter leads to a lot of errors.”

A PLAYED-OUT ISSUE FOR HAS-BEEN POLITICIANS: Gun control support sags as Biden repeats ban call.

BEEGE WELBORN: COP27 reporting emotes like a romance novel and didja notice no one mentioned fires in the West.

JON MILTIMORE: Why Sam Bankman-Fried Sounded so Much Like a Rand Villain. “Bankman-Fried clearly liked to talk about his altruism, which many see as a clear and obvious virtue. Or is it?”

SECONDS OUT: Second Major Cryptocurrency Exchange Could Be Poised To Go Bankrupt.

Genesis Global Trading could be poised for bankruptcy less than two weeks after fellow cryptocurrency exchange FTX suddenly imploded.

According to a Monday report from Bloomberg, Genesis has been facing a liquidity crunch as users spooked by the collapse of FTX began rapidly withdrawing their assets. Unnamed sources told the outlet that executives at Genesis have spent the past several days asking investors for $1 billion in fresh capital, which has not yet materialized.

Meanwhile, back at FTX: Sam Bankman-Fried tries to broker FTX bailout from his home in the Bahamas, despite being booted from the crypto company.

WHY DOES RAPHAEL WARNOCK HATE VETERANS? This Vietnam Veteran Paid His Past-Due Rent. He Still Faces Eviction From Ebenezer Baptist Church’s Apartment.

KANGAROO PROSECUTION: Garland can’t hide behind his special counsel. “But making that decision at the front end of the investigation doesn’t insulate Garland from complaints that he made it out of political animus towards Trump and/or a desire to help his boss, who’s likely to run for reelection.”

I’m so old, I remember when all the best people assured me that he was a moderate, nonpartisan straight-shooter.

BIDEN GIVES PG&E $1 BILLION TO KEEP THE DIABLO CANYON NUCLEAR PLANT OPEN:

The case for nuclear power as a climate solution got a big boost Monday, when the Biden administration announced it’s giving Pacific Gas & Electric Co. a $1.1-billion grant to help the company keep operating California’s last nuclear plant.

The Diablo Canyon plant is currently scheduled to shut down in two phases, with the first reactor going offline in 2024 and the second in 2025. But Gov. Gavin Newsom has led a spirited push to keep the reactors humming five more years, saying they’re badly needed to help the Golden State grapple with power shortages and worsening heat waves.

The federal money doesn’t guarantee Diablo Canyon will stay open longer. But it increases the likelihood of California continuing to rely on the plant, along the Central Coast in San Luis Obispo County — despite decades of anti-nuclear activism and public concerns about what would happen if an earthquake erupts along one of the seismic fault lines near the facility.

Why it’s like Team Brandon thinks of the White House as a bank or something.

WARNOCK GOT A $16 MILLION EARMARK FOR BUDDY: As if more proof was needed that earmarks provide Members of Congress a handy tool for shoveling federal tax dollars to family members, friends, contributors and business associates, the Washington Free Beacon’s Alana Goodman nails the Reverend Sen. Ralph Warnock (D-Ga.).

“The funding was intended to construct a trail connecting a residential and commercial complex known as ‘Pittsburgh Yards’ with other portions of Atlanta’s BeltLine. The developer of Pittsburgh Yards is Columbia Ventures, part of the Columbia group of companies that co-owns and operates a low-income housing complex with Warnock’s church,” Goodman reports.

Warnock was assisted in securing the earmark by Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.). Warnock and Ossoff were elected in controversial run-offs in 2020. Warnock now faces another run-off, this time against Republican challenger and former Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker. Walker has made an issue of multiple evictions from the low-income housing facility.

“Columbia Residential, which manages the apartments, has filed eviction proceedings since the start of the pandemic against over a dozen residents, including one tenant who owed just $28.55 in late rent, the Free Beacon first reported.

“The apartment building has also been hit with multiple city code violations over rodent and bug infestations, overflowing trash rooms, and mold issues, according to records obtained by the Free Beacon.”

ONLY TRAGEDIES THAT FIT THE NARRATIVE WILL BE COMMEMORATED: One Year After Waukesha Tragedy, Biden Has Yet to Visit.

HOW MANY PERCENT GET KICKED BACK TO THE BIG GUY: Biden Agrees To Pay Climate Reparations—And China, the World’s Top Carbon Emitter, Could Profit.

WELL, THEY’LL JUST DEAL WITH IT BY HAVING THEIR FRIENDS IN THE PRESS IGNORE IT: The Black Hebrew Israelites are a real problem for the left. “Those individuals and groups have their own racial bigotry problems which, as noted above, often seem to lead to lashing out at other groups including Jews, white people and Native Americans. Brushing that aside as some kind of second hand racism caused by white supremacy doesn’t really grapple with the problem as it exists. It’s just a fancy (and not very convincing) way of passing the buck. And I think it’s fair to say there is a real problem if you look at some of these videos of the BHI marching yesterday in New York City in support of Kyrie Irving. . . . The point is, if you had a right wing group chanting this kind of anti-Semitic ideology about the Jews in Brooklyn, it would be on the front page of the NY Times tomorrow. Instead, all we got from the Times was this lame piece from Professor Dyson claiming white supremacy is the real problem.”

Everyone knows black people can’t be racist because they have no power it’s inconvenient for the Democratic Party narrative.

JULIETTE OCHIENG: Principles, Linear Existence, and Deep Space Nine.

GREAT GIFT: Creative Robot Style Desk Lamp Industrial Light for Bedside Table. #CommissionEarned

RED FLAGS: Why didn’t Club Q shooter get prosecuted for bomb threat and kidnapping allegations in 2021? “The Associated Press opts for the gun-control argument to frame its report today that Anderson Lee Aldrich “evaded” the red flag law in Colorado. However, the suspect didn’t evade anything, as it turns out that law enforcement and his family didn’t bother to employ it in the first place. And while they headline that claim about the red-flag law, their lead focuses on a much bigger failure.”

HE TREATED A PROTEST LIKE AN INSURRECTION, WHICH IS A HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION: Trudeau’s decision to invoke the Emergencies Act in order to deal with the Freedom Convoy is being reexamined.

He should be punished, as an example to others.

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Some Hard Truths About the Russo-Ukraine War. “What we’re witnessing is, in short, the least expensive generational kneecapping of a geopolitical rival in world history.”

EWE ARE WITNESSING A GREAT SUMMONING:  Massive flock of sheep has been walking in a circle for 12 days straight in China.

WELL, JEN PSAKI: Magistrate Judge “Openly Scoffed” at Former Press Secretary Jen Psaki’s “Efforts to Escape a Deposition in a suit over alleged pressure on social media firms to censor posts on topics like Covid-19 vaccines and election fraud.”

THE ACADEMIC EQUIVALENT OF REARRANGING DECK CHAIRS ON THE TITANIC:  New York tells schools to ditch ‘racist’ Native American mascots or risk state funding.

ABOUT TIME:  Pushback: Court orders school board to stop censoring and banning parents.

QUELLE SURPRISE:  Rev. Al Sharpton gets giant raise, and his charity spends $1M on jets, limos.

IT ALWAYS FELT WRONG TO ME TOO, NO MATTER HOW MUCH MY TECHY FAMILY MEMBERS SAID IT WAS LEGIT:  A Grand Puzzlement.

IF ANYONE SHOULD BE AWARE YOU SHOULD EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED:  Preparedness Pays: Draft Chapter 1A.