LOL:

It ain’t demonizing if they are actually possessed by demons! https://t.co/Ef2iXIZtQP

— Larry Correia (@monsterhunter45) December 10, 2023

IN THE OLD DAYS, THE RESPONSE TO SUCH THINGS WAS BRUTAL AND INVOLVED MASS HANGINGS, THE BURNING OF VILLAGES, AND THE CONVERSION OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN INTO REFUGEES:

Houthis to world. Our Red Sea maritime interdiction has worked so well that we'll expand it.https://t.co/oZ4S8JNTcz

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) December 9, 2023

OUR DISINFORMATION GUARDIANS SEEM TO BE PURVEYORS OF SAME: Biden State Department Paid NewsGuard to Smear Conservatives.

OPEN THREAD: This time I remembered!

CHRISTOPHER RUFO: Is Claudine Gay a Plagiarist?

Further thoughts from Rufo, on his Substack.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China’s Landspace launches third methane Zhuque-2, targets 2025 launch of new stainless steel rocket.

PLAGIARISM PROBLEMS FOR HARVARD PREZ CLAUDINE GAY?

First, Gay lifts an entire paragraph nearly verbatim from a paper by Lawrence Bobo and Franklin Gilliam’s, while passing it off as her own paraphrase and language.

This is a direct violation of Harvard's policy: "When you paraphrase, your task is to distill the source’s ideas… pic.twitter.com/t6enHp3dN9

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) December 10, 2023

Some general thoughts of mine on plagiarism can be found here.

NOW THEY TELL US: The New York Times and other major media outlets had sixteen years to report on the restrictions they faced in reporting in Hamas-controlled Gaza. Crickets. Today, though, we learn from the Times:

It doesn’t say anything good about the media’s integrity that we didn’t hear about this until now, when Hamas has almost totally lost control of Gaza.

SUGAR IS ACTUALLY AS BAD FOR YOU AS THEY TOLD YOU FAT WAS: A Troubling Trend: The Steady Global Climb of Sugary Drink Consumption.

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: But where did it go?

LEARNING ABOUT SOME OF THE FORMERLY UNKNOWN UNKNOWNS: Hidden Impacts of Ferocious Volcanic Eruption Finally Revealed.

Undersea volcanic eruptions account for more than three-quarters of all volcanism on Earth, but rarely do we see the impacts.

The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai eruption of 2022 was a dramatic exception. Its furious explosion from shallow waters broke the ocean surface and punched through the stratosphere, generating supercharged lighting and an atmospheric shock wave that circled the globe several times. . . .

Their analyses show at least 6 cubic kilometers (km3) of seafloor was lost from within the caldera – 20 times the eruptive volume of the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption – and an additional 3.5 km3 of material was blasted out of the Hunga volcano’s submerged flanks.

To put that in perspective, previous studies of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai eruption estimated that 1.9 km3 (or 2,900 megatonnes) of material was ejected into the atmosphere.

That leaves roughly four-fifths of the ejected material in the ocean; material that was funneled into fast-moving density flows that scoured out tracks 30 meters deep in the seafloor and accumulated 22 meters (72 feet) thick in some places.

Almost as destructive to the planet as my SUV.

IT’S IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THIS: Biden in Hollywood: “You’re the Reason that Donald Trump is a Former President.”

MARK JUDGE: Maestro and Hollywood’s retroactive repression.

THE RISE OF ARMED JEWS: For many, own­ing a gun was ta­boo. Now they’re buy­ing them.

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Should you have a backup gun?

READER FAVORITE: Apple AirPods (2nd Generation). #CommissionEarned

TO BE FAIR, THEY’RE EVERYONE’S FAVORITE: ‘Appetite for drumsticks’: First prey found in a tyrannosaur stomach. Although how they ate them with those tiny arms continues to baffle scientists. . . .

FASTER, PLEASE: Researchers are upbeat about cardiac regeneration.

NOT DOSTOYEVSKI: War Crime and Punishment (VIP)

HMM: Weight-loss drug Zepbound now available at U.S. pharmacies.

A MARS-SHATTERING KABOOM: Listen To A Meteor Slam Into Mars and Watch The Aftermath.

THE IVY LEAGUE DEBACLE HAS REACHED THE “REPUBLICANS POUNCE” STAGE: As Fury Erupts Over Campus Antisemitism, Conservatives Seize the Moment. But not entirely: “Republicans have been attacking elite universities for years. After a tense congressional hearing last week, many on the left are joining them.”

CHRISTIAN TOTO: ‘SNL’ Goes ‘Republicans Pounce’ Route on Ivy League Presidents.

Tuesday’s Capitol Hill testimony from University of Penn President Liz Magill, Harvard President Claudine Gay and MIT President Sally Kornbluth shocked the nation. Each downplayed the antisemitism raging across their campuses, refusing to punish calls for genocide against the Jews.

Earlier in the day, Magill stepped down under extreme pressure from the Penn board. Gay and Kornbluth could be next.

Enter “SNL.”

Except the NBC show’s hard-Left biases refused to hold the presidents accountable. Instead, the sketch mocked Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y. who did nothing wrong save expose the trio’s moral rot for all to see.

She’s a Republican, though, and a Trump supporter. So she became The Target.

“SNL” player Chloe Troast’s Stefanik screams her questions like a lunatic, for starters. The three college presidents appear poised in comparison.

It’s the satirical version of, “Republicans pounce!”

For the uninitiated, that’s the way the corrupt mainstream press frames stories that look bad for Democrats or liberals. Instead of reporting the facts, journalists suggest the GOP is “pouncing” or “seizing” on the problematic party.

That latter route was chosen by the New York Times today, which some say is not a satirical TV show produced by Lorne Michaels, though the jury is still out:

20 MINUTES INTO THE FUTURE: The United States isn’t in a recession, but California is.

“These mounting economic headwinds have pushed the state’s economy into a downturn,” the LAO continues. “The number of unemployed workers in California has risen nearly 200,000 since the summer of 2022. This has resulted in a jump in the state’s unemployment rate from 3.8% to 4.8%, as Figure 1 on the next page shows.”

Figure 1 then graphs California unemployment rates going back to 1978, with dots indicating each time California’s unemployment rate triggered the “Sahm Recession Indicator,” which Figure 1 explains “signals the start of a recession when the three-month moving average of the unemployment rate rises by 0.5 percentage points or more relative to its low during the previous 12 months.”

Figure 1 also shows California triggering the Sahm Recession Indicator this year, in 2020, and during the Great Recession in 2008. “Whether the recent weakness will continue is difficult to say,” the LAO continues. “However, the odds do not appear to be in the state’s favor.”

President Joe Biden has long held California out as an economic model for the nation.

In terms of “California’s Potemkin environmentalism,” that’s certainly Biden’s goal, writ large, for the entire US economy. Even during the Schwarzenegger era, Max Schultz of City Journal, who coined that phrase, noted that California’s “celebrated green economy produces pollution elsewhere, ongoing power shortages, and business-crippling costs.”

OUT SOON: The Indoctrinated Brain: How to Successfully Fend Off the Global Attack on Your Mental Freedom. #CommissionEarned