CON DNC EN MENTE, LA CIUDAD PROHÍBE LLEVAR ORINA, HECES: Marking Their Territory.

And in totally-radical-toilet news:

Female students at one of Latin America’s top Universities say trans activists staged a coup of a single-sex washroom on their campus, 

It started, you see, with feminist students painting a lesbian pride symbol on a wall near a campus library. As one does. This act of fearless self-involvement apparently inflicted nerve-shredding trauma on the trans activist contingent, who promptly denounced the lesbians as “TERFs, colonial fascists, and transphobes,” before announcing that lesbians are only permitted to use symbols of lesbianism that they, the trans activists, find congenial.

“Oh, and if the National Autonomous University of Mexico sounds familiar, you may be thinking of this odyssey of radicalism.”

DURHAM SHOCKER: Danchenko Was a Paid FBI Informant.

The purposes of making [Igor] Danchenko a [confidential human source (CHS)] should be quite clear. The Crossfire Hurricane investigation was plagued with problems from the outset. The reasons for opening the investigation were bunk. Those problems continued as the investigation went on, with claims of Trump/Russia collusion proven unverified or outright false. (Thus the targeting of Flynn for a Logan Act violation.)

That developed into the Carter Page FISA applications, first submitted to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) in October 2016, and which relied substantially on the Steele Dossiers (aka Steele Reports). The FISA applications were renewed three times – more on that later. Each application had its own problems, from FBI lawyers lying about Carter Page to the Court being generally misled.

Realizing its own misconduct, the FBI made Danchenko a paid CHS in March 2017 – just before the third FISA warrant was submitted in April 2017. This would allow Comey’s FBI to work directly with Danchenko in support of its counter-intelligence investigation against President Trump.

Danchenko being a CHS also served another purpose: it protected the Bureau and the Mueller Special Counsel from revealing their “sources and methods.” How do you hide misconduct? Bury the witness.

Read the whole thing.

AS THEY TAUGHT ME IN OSTEOLOGY, BONE IS LAID DOWN WHERE BONE IS NEEDED: Repeated Concussions Can Actually Thicken The Skull, New Evidence in Rats Shows.

SHOCKER: Study: Cannabis use during pregnancy may harm child’s long-term mental health.

CALIFORNIANS ADJUST TO NEW LIFE IN TEXAS: New video from America’s Newspaper of Record.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE:

https://twitter.com/knights_america/status/1568276361298743302

THE MATRIX PROGRAMMED BY TOM WOLFE IS STILL WORKING PERFECTLY: James Taylor sings ‘Fire and Rain’ to kick off White House Inflation Reduction Act celebration.

James Taylor is kicking off the White House’s Inflation Reduction Act celebration.

The six-time Grammy Award winner, 74, sang “Fire and Rain” in front of the White House on Tuesday afternoon. Taylor was seated in a navy-blue blazer and a gray hat as he strummed his guitar in front of the cameras and audience.

Taylor has shared his opinion on politics in the past. Under former President Barack Obama’s terms, the musician shared that he believed Obama was the greatest president of all time.

Related: NPR on the meaning of Taylor’s “Fire and Rain:”

Each of “Fire and Rain”‘s verses deals with an adversity Taylor has dealt with in his life. The first is about a friend, Susanne, who he found had died,

“At the time, I was recording in England with The Beatles, and my friends had sort of kept the information about this death from me because they thought, you know, `This is a crucial time for him, he’s doing his work, and we don’t want to upset him or bring him down.’ So my friend Richard Corey told me about it, but he had known about it for a month or so before he mentioned it to me. So that’s where `they let me know you were gone’ comes in.”

The second verse is when you’re still struggling to get off hard drugs,

“That was in New York, and that was when I came back to this country from London and was surprised that I’d picked up a habit. So I was physically very uncomfortable and having a rough time.”

And the third verse in the mental hospital at Stockbridge.

That’s quite a backstory for a song played on the day when the stock market tanked due to “unexpectedly” high inflation.

WE CAN DO BETTER: “Americans Own Over 415 Million Firearms.”

I mean, that’s fewer than two guns per American.

REMEMBER THAT HUGE TAX RETURN LEAK TO PRO PUBLICA? One who does remember is Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), and he had the temerity Monday to ask why Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen, the IRS and the Department of Justice (DOJ) haven’t said word one about the leak or hack.

Curiously, when The Epoch Times conveyed Grassley’s inquiry to the respective spokesmen, they either ignored the question or punted to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA). The TIGTA spokesman said he couldn’t say anything either.

PLEASE, PLEASE TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO ENJOY YOUR MSM SCHADENFREUDE!

The New York Times is experiencing labor issues, and I have to say I hope it goes on forever.

With any luck the reporters will go on strike and return sometime in 2480, so all the rest of us can get on with our lives without being subjected to the constant whinging of entitled Leftists living the high life in New York.

Reporters at the New York Times are up in arms over the paper’s demand that they actually return to the office 3 days a week rather than work entirely in their pajamas with an occasional jaunt to get a pumpkin spice latte.

The New York Post has the story, and I have to say a smile crept over my face as I read it.

As of Monday, 1,316 Times workers had signed a pledge not to return to the office. This includes 879 members of the News Guild, but also members of the Times Tech Guild and the union for Wirecutter, the paper’s product-recommendation spinoff.

“People are livid,” Tom Coffey told The Post. A 25-year veteran editor at NYT, he works on the news desk and serves on the union’s Contract Action Committee.

The New York Times is famous for being a sweatshop for the Ivy League crowd, and they have no shame about it. I say the Contract Action Committee should throw as much sand into the gears of the organization’s machinery as humanly possible. For justice! Liberté, égalité, fraternité!

It gets better: NYT staffers fight for the right to ‘work’-from-home.

And given their paper’s famed tact and sensitivity, it’s no surprise that the NYT‘s management have responded by only making the situation worse: tacky branded lunchboxes. NYT video journalist Haley Willis tweeted today: “The @nytimes is giving employees branded lunch boxes this week as a return-to-office perk. We want respect and a fair contract instead.”

All this, at a time when remuneration at the top is soaring. The publisher of the Times A.G. Sulzberger pulled in a total package of $3.6 million in 2021 compared to $2.4 million in 2020 and his colleague CEO Meredith Kopt Levien saw hers go up from $4.4 million to $5.8 million over the same period. Kerching!

Couldn’t happen to a nicer newspaper, eh?

No word yet if there were toy moose dolls inside the lunch boxes — which reportedly lacked handles, to rub a further pinch of salt into our aggrieved journalists’ wounds.

RIP: Ken Starr, Clinton investigator, dead at 76. Attorney Ken Starr died in Houston at the age of 76 from complications from surgery, his family said in a statement.

WELCOME BACK, CARTER! Breaking: Bidenflation still roaring as CPI hits 8.3%, core CPI near high at 6.3%; Update: Wage erosion continues.

How bad have things gotten?

UPDATE: Build Back Brandon! “So today, we’re celebrating.”

More: Great moments in optics:

More here: Inflation report sends Dow to worst day since June 2020.

(Updated and bumped.)

YES: Dear Mr. President: Seriously, please stop with these science “moonshots.”

NO MANDATES: Top Doctors Argue Against All COVID Vaccine Mandates.

READER FAVORITE: Bedside Lamp with USB Port. #CommissionEarned

FIRST AND SECOND AMENDMENT VIOLATIONS IN ONE: New York’s Concealed Carry Social Media Background Checks are Meant to Weed Out Political Views That Disagree With Those In Power.

DID ANYONE OUTSIDE THE BELTWAY EVER BELIEVE OTHERWISE? New Inflation Numbers Mean The U.S. Economy Is Destined For ‘Hard Landing.’

HMM: Trump’s Choice for Mar-a-Lago Raid Special Master May Be Brilliant…or Disastrous.

HOW’S THAT ZERO COVID POLICY WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? Millions of people under lockdown for 1,100 cases. When will China’s zero-covid policy end?

Plus: China’s tourism revenue came in at 60% of pre-Covid levels this holiday weekend.

And: Paralyzed by Covid Restrictions, China’s Consumers Are Closing Their Wallets.

Finally: Goldman Says China Will Stick to Covid Zero Even After Communist Party Meeting.

LET THE LAWSUITS BEGIN! After 19 years at FIRE, the last few of them as executive director, today I moved into private practice at the law firm of Allen Harris, where I’ll continue my advocacy for students and faculty members in free speech and due process cases–but as their personal attorney. (Anyone at FIRE can tell you that individual cases were always my favorite kind of work.) Happily, I also get to continue writing and speaking on FIRE’s behalf as a FIRE Senior Fellow, so I will continue posting plenty of FIRE news here on Instapundit. And for the many readers who have supported FIRE over the years, thank you–and I hope you’ll keep doing so!

THE NEW SPACE RACE: How Tiangong station will make China a force in the space race.

NOT ALL HEROES WEAR CAPES: Sixth Graders Protect Their Fellow Students From a Creepy Teacher.

MOVE YOUR MUSCLES: Older adults with regular activity routines are happier and do better on cognitive tests, study finds.

THE DIFFERENCE IS, IN 1984 WE WERE STILL FILLING THE THEN-NEW SPR: U.S. emergency oil reserves tumble to lowest since 1984.

QUESTION ASKED: ‘Is Crist Actively Trying to Lose?’ Charlie Crist wants vaccine passports for Florida.