COLLUSION: NFL’s Commanders Raise Questions About Financial Ties Between Liberal Activists and Oversight Committee Democrats. “The Washington Commanders are raising questions about the nexus between the law and public relations firms representing former team employees and the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee who launched an investigation last year into the team’s workplace culture. Lawyers for the franchise suggested in a letter to the House Oversight Committee last week that the law firm Katz Banks Kumin LLP—best known for its representation of Brett Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford—and the public relations firm SKDK may have a ‘financial stake in the outcome of the investigation.'”

It’s a culture of corruption on Capitol Hill.

CAPITOL POLICE ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL DURING PELOSI ATTACK: Just the News’ sources say the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) officer responsible for monitoring the live video feed from the Pelosi home in San Francisco saw nothing until a warning light flashed from the local police.

If voters put Republicans back in charge in the House of Representatives, the massive house-cleaning that is desperately needed in the administrative offices of the U.S. Capitol Complex are likely to be a first order of business, starting with the leadership of the USCP.

HOLIDAY DEAL: Nonstick Fry Pan Cookware Set. #CommissionEarned

SHARYL ATTKISSON: Biden Admin. reportedly failing to cooperate with IG probe into botched Afghanistan withdrawal.

Republicans are asking why the Biden Administration is allegedly attempting to obstruct the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction’s (SIGAR) investigation into the botched Afghanistan withdrawal.

In a letter to Inspector General (IG) John Sopko, Reps. James Comer (R-Kentucky) and Glenn Grothman (R-Wisconsin) state that the Biden Administration’s alleged failure to cooperate with the IG is leading to critical delays in Congress getting requested information.

Separately, the FBI is reported to have raided the home of an ABC News investigative producer, James Meek who was reportedly working on an investigation about the botched US withdrawal from Afghanistan. He is said to have since disappeared from public view, quit his job, and quit a book project he was working on.

The Republicans are asking for an immediate briefing to better understand obstacles prohibiting SIGAR from completing its investigation.

Read the whole thing.

My question is, what are they hiding that’s actually worse than what the whole world witnessed on TV last year?

UNFIT FOR OFFICE: Fetterman fumbles fracking question from Lemon … and more.

GRETA DROPS THE MASK: Greta Thunberg throws in her lot with the anti-capitalist Left.

So now we are finally seeing the contours of Thunbergism. Run your eye down the contributors to The Climate Book and you can see who she’s been reading: Jason Hickel, Kate Raworth, Naomi Klein. For these people the climate crisis isn’t man-made. It’s made by capitalism, as are the other forms of social injustice which plague society. There’s no GDP growth — especially of the capitalist sort — without increasing carbon emissions. The only solution to this state of emergency is for rich countries to immediately abandon economic expansion as a social goal.

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It is hardly surprising that Greta thinks this way given how closely tied environmental activism has become with the more experimental end of the modern Left. De-growth is surely not the only feasible solution to the climate crisis, but Greta appears to have no doubts. And, like the bulk of her generation, she has lost any faith in the gradualist, establishment Left’s power to change things. Her teens spent chiding national governments have made her one of the most famous people in the world — her twenties look set to be far more explosive, and even revolutionary.

Exit question from Jon Gabriel: “Wait, so it wasn’t a good idea to base your national security and economy on the tantrum of a scientifically illiterate Swedish teenager?”

ARE THEY TRYING TO PRE-TAINT THE RESULTS? Biden’s CISA Director Tells Us Not to Worry About Election Irregularities.

WILL AMERICAN CITIES FOLLOW SUIT? Vancouver Chooses Sanity: The city’s new mayor-elect defeated his progressive opponent with a campaign focused on public disorder.

Even a flatworm is smart enough to turn away from pain.

EXIT POLLS: Netanyahu’s Coalition Has Re-Taken Israel’s Knesset.

UPDATE: Hold Your Horses, Bibi Didn’t Win Yet. “Just as a final count might push Balad over the threshold, it may push other borderline parties, such as Yisrael Beiteinu, under the threshold. The chart below shows the election projections from three major news sources. Oh, and the party I supported מסיבת ממתקים וגלידות (Candy and Ice Cream Party), did not meet the threshold. Keep checking The Lid for election updates.”

(Updated and bumped.)

COVID ECHOES: Galactic Empire Requests Amnesty For Anyone Who May Have Gotten Carried Away And Blown Up A Planet.

WHY WE LOVE ELON:

U.S./CHINA RELATIONS MOVING TOWARD THE WAR STAGE. “The good thing is that the scary realities are now much more broadly recognized than they were a couple of years ago. The bad things are that a) conditions are deteriorating even faster than I expected, b) the cause/effect relationships and how they progress are not well understood, and c) nothing much is being done to halt their progressions.”

The Chinese have shitty leadership, but so do we, which exacerbates the risk of war substantially.

THE CURRENT LORDS WILL HATE SEEING THE PEASANTS PROSPER WITH BLUE CHECKS:

WHERE’S MY UMBRELLA? It’s time to play “find the falling Chinese rocket” once again: We can probably expect reentry into Earth’s atmosphere to occur about a week from today.

OPEN THREAD: Let’s go.

IT’S HARD TO THINK OF A POLICY THAT HAS HAD SUCH STAYING POWER DESPITE BEING SO UNPOPULAR: David Lat: Affirmative Action Is Going Down—And It’s A Good Thing Too.

JON GABRIEL:

As a lifelong Arizonan, I get a lot of questions about my state. How do you survive the 118°F summers? How “grand” is the Grand Canyon, really? Tell me about that time you found a scorpion in your boot!

Being a political commentator, however, the most common questions involve Arizona’s, well, peculiar politics. With former news anchor Republican Kari Lake leading in many polls for the governor’s race and former tech investor Blake Masters gaining momentum in his contest with Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, 2022 is no exception.

National Democrats were cheered to see Lake and Masters win their respective primaries, considering both to be too “MAGA” to win the general. This was the same strategy they tried with Donald Trump in 2016. We all know how that turned out.

These two supposed easy victories have turned into nightmare scenarios for Arizona Democrats, this after a surprising revival of the state’s Democratic party over the past two cycles. My fellow long-time Arizonans weren’t surprised.

Several years back, many considered Arizona to be the reddest of red states. When Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema won in 2018 and President Joe Biden and Kelly won in 2020, national commentators thought Arizona was turning blue — or at least purple.

Oops.

REMNANTS OF AN ALIEN BASE: Mars moon mystery: Strange structures found inside Phobos.

THIS JUST CAME OUT AND FOLKS HERE ARE PRETTY EXCITED:

HMM: Energy Company Warns Diesel Situation ‘Rapidly Devolving.’

THE QUAINT CUSTOMS OF OUR INNOCENT, LOVING INDIGENOUS PEOPLE: Before Being Ritually Sacrificed, This Nazca Child Was Drugged With Psychedelics.

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY UPDATE: Massachusetts offshore wind project “no longer viable.” “The problems being cited by the developers are no doubt familiar to almost all of you by now. They are describing global commodity price increases, sudden increases in interest rates, and supply chain woes that are slowing production and driving up costs. Declining labor force levels are adding additional concerns. All of these factors are combining to make the construction of the project unsustainable.”

In other words, the Biden economy killed it. Plus: “There’s an obvious bit of irony in seeing the same state and federal government actors who have pushed ‘green energy’ down everyone’s throats sitting on this particular sideline. Those same people whose policies helped drive this collapse in the supply chain and the labor market, along with the spike in the prices of pretty much everything, are now watching as one of their signature ‘clean energy’ achievements falls victim to the conditions they created.”

They’re idiots, and when you put idiots in charge, the result is disaster.

THERE HE GOES AGAIN: Does Joe Biden Know His Son Beau Did NOT Die in Iraq?

GOODS FOR A COLD WINTER: Wool blankets.

Propane heaters.

Hand warmers.

Butane stoves.

Long underwear.. #CommissionEarned

FLASHBACK: Progressives can’t get past the Knowledge Problem.