HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS: Gavin Newsom’s reparations committee will recommend handing out $223,200 per person to all descendants of slaves in California for ‘housing discrimination’ at a cost of $559BN – in nation’s biggest restitution effort ever.

EVERY MAJOR INSTITUTION HAS BEEN WEAPONIZED IN SUPPORT OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY: What Did The FBI Know and When Did It Know It? Juvenile bomb-threat caller never posed credible danger to HBCUs, but FBI refused to say so until after midterms.

The recently announced results of the FBI’s investigation into bomb threats made in February targeting Historically Black Colleges and Universities effectively debunk the narrative that these threats were made by a malicious group of white supremacists.

On November 14 — six days after the midterm elections — USA Today reported a senior FBI official said the “bulk of the threats leveled against historically Black colleges earlier this year are believed to be linked to a single juvenile who has been prosecuted as a minor by state authorities.”

The agency’s admission raised more questions than it answered. What the feds have not said is:

The race of the suspect
The motive of the suspect
When the suspect was charged
What state was the suspect charged in
Why the agency did not charge the suspect as an adult after terrorizing HBCUs

And perhaps most importantly: Why didn’t the agency share the results of the investigation far sooner than a few days after the midterm elections — and after multiple requests from Congressional Republicans and Democrats?

I think we know why.

KEVIN DOWNEY JR WITH NEWS YOU CAN USE: Pinko Alert! 3 Simple Ways to Recognize Who the Commies Are.

TRUE: Academia is adrift in a sea of low standards: The demand to make classes easier comes at a time when classes are as easy as they ever have been.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: China may get top ownership of US lithium mine. “A Canadian company is hoping to get approval and federal funding for a new lithium mine in northern Nevada, but former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Republican lawmakers are raising concerns about the mining company’s largest shareholder, a Chinese firm. The mining company is going through with an effort to dilute this Chinese ownership, but concerns remain about China’s potential influence over the critical mineral mine at a time when China is seeking to overtake the U.S. as a dominant global power.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: CNN Continues Overhaul but How Far Will It Go? “Licht is obviously serious about changing the direction at CNN. The question is, how far will he move it? CNN moved so far to the left that any new center it settles on could still be quite liberal.”

CRUSHING OF DISSENT: Hong Kong court delays trial of pro-democracy publisher Jimmy Lai.

Lai has done nothing wrong, except support free speech against a dictatorship.

SAY ANYTHING: Janet Yellen blames Americans’ ‘splurging’ for record-high inflation.

In other words, “Don’t blame us for conjuring trillions of dollars out of thin air and then giving it away. It’s your fault for spending it.”

Previously: “Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon, in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output.”

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Fish sticks, butter poached lobster, and controversy at Biden state dinner.. “First lady Jill Biden probably thought she was being cute when she talked about fish sticks in setting out the lavish preparations for tonight’s state dinner in honor of French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte Macron.”

MARK PULLIAM: An American Law School, Then and Now: Five decades of change at an elite institution. “Is the law school better than it was 50 years ago? If more resources per student and more student choices are indicators of quality, then it is vastly better. But I see no indications that the quality of intellectual training has improved. Nationwide, there is no evidence that first-year associates in law firms require less on-the-job training, and the legal professoriate is more detached from the concerns of practicing lawyers and judges than it was 50 years ago. Are today’s young lawyers more ethical and larger-minded than their predecessors? Are the additional resources per student worth the enormous increase in cost? It seems doubtful that that proposition would stand up to a rigorous cost-benefit analysis. And neither Texas nor any other highly-ranked law school is interested in conducting such an analysis.”

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: San Francisco’s Toilet of the Future Lasted Three Days Before a Systems Failure. “Did you read the part about the micro-retail kiosks? Art! Entertainment! Snacks! Video screens! A trip to the Bionic Bathroom can turn into a full day of fun!”

FACT CHECK: IRS Watchdog Destroys Media Claim That Trump Ordered Audits of James Comey and Andrew McCabe.

HOLIDAY DEAL: Rechargeable Flashlights. #CommissionEarned

FTX WAS A BUNCH OF PIKERS: After 1,600 auditors combed through DOD’s $3.5 trillion in assets and $3.7 trillion in liabilities, officials found that the department couldn’t account for about 61 percent of its assets, Pentagon Comptroller Mike McCord told reporters on Tuesday.

Related: Uncle Sam is playing the same game as broke, disgraced crypto king.

BILLY ‘WHITE SHOES’ JOHNSON WOULD NOT BE PROUD: Johnson scored a lot touchdowns for the old Houston Oilers, but scoring of a different sort happened at hundreds of white shoe law firms, according to Open the Books. Scoring of more than $800 million in PPP loans meant for struggling small businesses during the Pandemic, that is.

INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL JOURNAL UNMASKS THE MASKS: It’s taken several years but the evidence is steadily building that demonstrates requiring masks — cloth or N95, no matter — is an exercise in futility, if the purpose is the prevention of Covid spreading.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: US manufacturing activity contracts for the first time since May 2020.

ONLY IN COMBINATION WITH DEMOCRATIC CITY AND STATE GOVERNMENTS: Did the pandemic create an ‘urban doom loop’?

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Pharmacies seeing shortages of hundreds of medicines, including critically important antibiotics.

IS THIS THE ‘MOTHER OF ALL CHICKEN-AND-EGG’ PROBLEMS? Engineer Steve Laufman and Physician Howard Glicksman point to multiple such problems but this morning on HillFaith, they spotlight what Laufman calls “the mother of all” of them.

The new book from Laufman and Glicksman — “Your Designed Body” — is a rebuttal to Darwinian biologist Nathan Lents’ “Human Errors” which makes the case the human body is full of examples of lousy design — a panorama of glitches —  therefore it doesn’t point to a designer.

WELL, THE PRESS KNOWS WHO IT WORKS FOR: Media treats fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried with kid gloves because he was a Dem darling.

SHE’S NOT WRONG: South Dakota governor bans TikTok for state agencies, warning of security threat.

OH MY: Tara Reade Is Ready to Testify Before Congress Against Joe Biden.

NOW THEY TELL US: ‘The more you submit, the more we get paid’: How fintech fueled covid aid fraud.

“The faster the better,” the workers were told at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, as the little-known financial technology company Blueacorn raced to review small businesses that sought federal loans.

Speeding through applications, Blueacorn employees and contractors allegedly began to overlook possible signs of fraud, according to interviews and communications later amassed by investigators on Capitol Hill. The company weighed whether to prioritize “monster loans that will get everyone paid,” as the firm’s co-founder once said. And investigators found that Blueacorn collected about $1 billion in processing fees — while its operators may have secured fraudulent loans of their own.

The allegations against Blueacorn and several other firms are laid out in a sprawling, roughly 120-page report released Thursday by the House Select Committee on the Coronavirus Crisis, a congressional watchdog tasked to oversee roughly $5 trillion in federal pandemic aid. The 18-month probe — spanning more than 83,000 pages of documents, and shared in advance with The Washington Post — contends there was rampant abuse among a set of companies known as fintechs, which jeopardized federal efforts to rescue the economy and siphoned off public funds for possible private gain.

This isn’t even an unintended consequence.

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