IN OTHER WORDS, IT’S NEVER COMING AT ALL: CBO: Over 90 Percent of Promised Deficit Reduction in Manchin–Schumer Would Come after 2026.

PRIORITIES: Crime rate is up, but Stanford public safety board ‘fiercely focused’ on equity.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: The Flailing Ways of White House Spokesditz Karine Jean-Pierre. “This woman’s primary function is to be the spokesperson for the President of the United States and she doesn’t know the primary function of the Supreme Court of the United States.”

HIGHER EDUCATION, A CESSPOOL OF RACIAL HATE: ‘Take these m—–f—–s out’: Rutgers prof rails against white people while defending CRT: Professor Brittney Cooper called Critical Race Theory “the proper teaching of American history” and said that white people are “committed to being villains in the aggregate.”

AUGUST, 2022: Fed committed to getting inflation to 2% target, Barkin says. “The Federal Reserve is committed to getting inflation under control and returning it to the U.S. central bank’s 2% target, Richmond Fed President Thomas Barkin said on Wednesday, the latest in a litany of policymakers voicing determination to rein in price increases running at the highest pace in four decades.”

June, 2021: Fed’s Barkin says the current rise in inflation is clearly due to temporary factors.

HOW MAINSTREAM MEDIA GASLIGHTS CHRISTIANS: And conservatives, libertarians and anybody else who dissents from the Progressive Narrative of the moment. Natasha Crain points to five ways the gaslighting is most obvious.

IF ONLY WE STILL HAD A REPUBLICAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE – THIS WOULD BE LEADING THE NEWS:  Parents continue desperate search for baby formula as crisis continues.

#RESIST: American Farmer Puts Bill Gates on Notice. “Just like I don’t want a child abuser controlling even one child, I don’t want him to control a single acre.”

XI’S GOTTA HAVE IT: China’s Covid Zero Could Last for Years Because It Works for Xi.

For Xi, unlike most global leaders, the political risks of opening up are still far greater than the benefits.

Missteps in early 2020 to minimize — and in some cases obscure — the initial outbreak in Wuhan undermined the social contract that underpins the Chinese Communist Party’s legitimacy: An acceptance of one-party rule in return for competent governance that keeps the public safe and improves overall quality of life.

To win back trust, Xi used powers largely unavailable to democratic leaders to keep the virus out and limit fatalities. And it’s worked: While questions persist about the reliability of Chinese data, the country has reported just 5,226 Covid deaths since the pandemic began, compared with more than 1 million in the US.

“Questions persist” is putting it mildly.

WELL, THEY’RE RIGHT: Voters: It’s Biden’s recession, drove economy ‘into the ground’.

HARVARD WILL BE REPRESENTED BY ZOMBIES AND ORCS:  Oral arguments in the Supreme Court cases against Harvard and the University of North Carolina will be held on Halloween.  I hope that doesn’t turn out to be a bad omen.

Here’s one reason to want to rule against Harvard and UNC.  There are, of course, many others.

BRAD THOMPSON: Understanding Marxism.

UM, NO: Oh Yes, She Did: Karine Jean-Pierre Says It Was ‘Unconstitutional’ for Supreme Court to Overturn Roe.

REMEMBER WHEN SAN DIEGO WAS A CONSERVATIVE CITY?:  The San Diego Unified School District wants to overthrow “heteronormativity” and promote “genderqueer,” “non-binary,” “pansexual,” and “two-spirit” identities.  Home schooling just became even more popular.

THIS IS REALLY WORTH READING IN FULL:  UNC’s settlement of the Nikole Hannah-Jones lawsuit is really obscene. She gets a modest, but wholly undeserved amount of money ($75,000).  But she also managed to secure “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” sinecures for a boatload (20) university administrators.  Plus more.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Dark Money Network Boosts Wisconsin Dem Who Wants To End Undisclosed Funding in Politics.

JOHN FUND:  Will Sinema Be the Senate’s Iron Lady?

DEAL OF THE DAY: Feastoria Double Long Soft Rifle Case. #CommissionEarned

HMM: The U.S. made a breakthrough battery discovery — then gave the technology to China. “Department of Energy officials declined NPR’s request for an interview to explain how the technology that cost U.S. taxpayers millions of dollars ended up in China.”

I WOULDN’T BE SURPRISED IF THERE WERE MORE COMING: Princeton University ‘Reviewing’ Plagiarism Allegations Against Woke Professor: University has not said whether it will open a full investigation into Kevin Kruse.

PJ MEDIA VIP ROUNDUP: Don’t forget that VODKAPUNDIT promo code if you’ve been thinking of joining us.

Matt Margolis: The Media Is Wrong About the Kansas Abortion Vote. Here’s Why. “I would argue that the language of the bill is a tad misleading.”

Kevin Downey Jr: This Time It’s Personal. 10 NYC Thugs Rack up Almost 500 Arrests Between Them. “The city that never weeps over its explosive crime rate is about to cry.”

Yours Truly: BOMBSHELL: Demi Lovato Is a Woman (Maybe, for Now). “Even after years of great commercial success as an attractive and desired female, at nearly 30 years old, she still can’t definitively say whether her gender — a word with really no meaning in this context — matches up with her biological sex.”

AND WHATEVER YOU DO, DON’T MENTION THE WAR: Try not to think of a recession.

FROM ROBERT A. HOYT:  Almost Curable.

#CommissionEarned

Almost Curable’s fourteen short stories take you on a journey to equal few others. There are fantasies, like a long-dormant guardian waking to save a lost boy; or a luckless medieval princess finding her destiny; or even an angel helping a tech nerd fight off the devil, and then there are nightmares, from a steampunk adventure in which the characters have to face a literal dragon, and where dark elf ancestry can brand you for life. Or a land of living sugar slowly losing its fight with evil.
There are cautionary tales, like the one of the fully automated bio grocery store, or the one about AI watching your children.
And then then there are stories we don’t know what to do with — and doubt you will either — such as the one about the zombie dinosaur who is too cute to put down.
Enjoy a journey of adventure and wonder through these amazing stories.

THIS, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, IS AN AMERICAN GIRL:  Let’s hear it for the kidnapped Alabama girl who chewed out of her restraints and led cops back to her kidnapper and the decomposing bodies in his home.

THAT’S ONE THING PROGRESSIVES ARE GOOD AT. MAKING THE GUN INDUSTRY GO BRRRRT:  Gun sales in deep blue Massachusetts hit record levels: report.