KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Let’s Take Some Time to Dream About Fauci in an Orange Jumpsuit. “Fauci is the kind of guy who can make one long for the transparency and honesty of the Nixon days. Nixon, by the way, was president when Fauci first went to work for the federal bureaucratic behemoth.”

I’D SAY THE 96% RATIO IS ABOUT RIGHT: Jelly Roll admits he would get rid of 96% of his tattoos if he could: ‘It’s embarrassing.’ I’ve seen some truly beautiful and brilliant tattoos, but most of them are lame. And most people with multiple tattoos seem to just slap them on randomly, like a three year old with a book of stickers. This may be because they were drunk when they got them. Further research is indicated, grant applications forthcoming.

Plus: “I’ve got a Gerber baby smoking a joint tattooed on my arm. I don’t know who authorized this in my life or who was around me at this moment, but I hate them.”

THIS MAKES SENSE, SINCE HOLLYWOOD IS MADE UP OF NEUROTICS AND MISFITS: “Both films imagine the home as a place of repression.”

GIVING TEETH TO LAWS AGAINST AFFIRMATIVE ACTION RACIAL DISCRIMINATION. Relying on administrative agencies won’t cut it. It has to be individual liability and private rights of action, at minimum, to be real. Jail time for purposeful violations (not this “implicit” or “structural” baloney) should also be on the table. There is zero justification for letting apparatchiks use skin color to substitute for individual judgment.

DECLINE IS A CHOICE: “The racialization of medical education and medicine constitutes a national emergency.”

ANTISOCIAL MEDIA: Newsom Challenges Biden For Censor-In-Chief Title.

Nearly one year since Newsom signed AB 587 into law to “protect Californians from hate and disinformation spread online,” California’s attempts to legitimize its attacks on the First Amendment are in full swing.

“California will not stand by as social media is weaponized to spread hate and disinformation that threaten our communities and foundational values as a country,” Newsom said in a September 2022 statement.

The law requires Big Tech companies to submit reports to California Attorney General Rob Bonta detailing how they define terms such as hate speech, racism, extremism, radicalization, disinformation, misinformation, harassment, and foreign political interference and what they do to enforce censorship policies related to those categories. Starting Jan. 1, 2024, companies such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube will be required to disclose how many posts were deemed worthy of suppression, how many people viewed those posts before they were censored, and whether they reinstated the contended post following an appeal from the offending user.

Notably missing from the law’s requirements is a description of what the attorney general’s office plans to do with this information — besides blasting it out to the public. Given Bonta’s history of shamelessly demanding the CEOs of Meta, YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, and Reddit curb the “spread of misinformation and disinformation on social media platforms [that] has led to a proliferation of conspiracy theories, political violence, and threats to democracy ahead of the 2022 midterm elections,” it’s not a stretch to say he intends to use the data to pressure Big Tech into censoring even more content that the state deems wrongthink.

The real benefit of this law, as far as California Democrats are concerned, is that its mere existence will encourage social media platforms to do whatever they think Democrats want them to do. Not that most of them need much encouraging.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Dirty Money: Beto Clings to $100K from Sam Bankman-Fried After Pledge To Return Tainted Crypto Cash.

Beto who?

HOW MANY PEOPLE DIE FROM SNAKEBITES? “Here’s a statistic that might surprise you: Around 1 in 270 people in India die from snakebites by the age of 70. In total, around 50,000 to 60,000 people in India die from snakebites each year. In Australia, which is home to the most-venomous snakes in the world, that number is 2. Just two. . . . Snakebites have a treatment: antivenom. But it might surprise you to learn that antivenom still comes from a method that hasn’t changed much in over a hundred years.”

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Judge Approves Oregon’s ‘Terrible’ New Gun Control Law.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Europe in Uproar over Amazon and Apple Consultant Who’s Taken Top EU Job.

JON GABRIEL INTERVIEWS CAROL ROTH ON You Will Own Nothing (Video):

RUSSIA: Man tries to firebomb Lenin’s mausoleum in Moscow.

According to reports, a man in Moscow was apprehended on Monday evening after trying to throw a Molotov cocktail at the Lenin Mausoleum in Red Square. The incident did not result in any damage to the mausoleum.

The suspect, identified as 37-year-old Konstantin Stachukov, was detained at the scene.

Authorities have opened a case against him for “disobedience to the lawful demand” of an officer. While the motive behind his actions is still unknown, it has been noted that the same individual had previously been detained in May for carrying Molotov cocktails in Red Square.

Currently, there is no available information regarding the motives of the arsonist.

Other than Lenin having been a mass-murdering communist?

LIFE IN THE BLUE ZONES: NYC’s MTA: Welcome to the jungle. “Lemme recap – PAYING ridership is down, freeloaders cost them almost $700M last year alone, and the new union contract exceeds the budget by three quarters of a billion dollars in the first three years alone.”

On the other hand, the subways are filthy and unsafe.

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LIGHTNING DEAL: Adults Snorkeling Gear. #CommissionEarned

BLUE-ANON: CNN anchor claims Jack Smith visiting Subway is ‘a message to Donald Trump.’

An anchor on CNN claimed on Tuesday that special counsel Jack Smith visiting a Subway was “a message to Donald Trump.”

The statement comes on the same day Trump announced he received a letter notifying that “I am a TARGET” of Smith’s grand jury investigation. Footage of Smith leaving a Subway in Washington was played on the network and was discussed by network anchor John King.

“Jack Smith going to Subway today is a message to Donald Trump,” said King. “Donald Trump tries to intimidate people, he tries to bully people, he tries to scare you away. That was Jack Smith with no words and a simple $5 sub in his hand saying, ‘I’m here, I’m not going anywhere.'”

CNN’s TDS knows no bounds, But their obsession with Smith’s Subway run leads to the question: Just how much ham was in the sub? Ham Sandwich Nation: Due Process When Everything is a Crime: “Prosecutors themselves understand just how much discretion they enjoy. As Tim Wu recounted in 2007, a popular game in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York was to name a famous person—Mother Teresa, or John Lennon—and decide how he or she could be prosecuted. . . . With so many more federal laws and regulations than were present in Jackson’s day,8 a prosecutor’s task of first choosing a possible target and then pinning the crime on him or her has become much easier. If prosecutors were not motivated by politics, revenge, or other improper motives, the risk of improper prosecution would not be particularly severe. However, such motivations do, in fact, encourage prosecutors to pursue certain individuals, like the gadfly Aaron Swartz, while letting others off the hook—as in the case of Gregory, a popular newscaster generally supportive of the current administration.”

SAY ANYTHING: Biden Tries to Take Credit for Something Trump Did.

“One year after its launch, our Administration’s 988 suicide and crisis hotline has helped 5 million Americans when they needed it most,” Biden tweeted.

“One year ago, we launched 988 — a national network of crisis centers to answer calls and texts from folks who need rapid mental health care,” a separate tweet noted. “Mental health affects all of us. And I remain committed to ensuring that every American has access to support when they need it.”

There’s just one rather significant key detail that Biden neglected to mention: the hotline was created back in 2019 when Donald Trump was president.

Maybe Biden forgot.

WHEN EVERYONE IS SPECIAL, NO ONE IS: How equity in education means holding everyone back.

Education and employment should always be by meritocracy. Nothing else works.

TOO MUCH SOCIALISM IN THE POSTWAR ERA: Britain is a developing country: We aren’t leading the world: we’re trying to catch up. “As exciting as AI and other frontier technologies are, pinning the country’s hopes on them misunderstands how far behind the US we are across the board.1 The US isn’t rich just because it has a big tech sector: every single US state is richer per person than the UK, even places like Mississippi and West Virginia without big tech or advanced manufacturing sectors.”

Every successful system accumulates parasites. The West has been successful enough that its parasite load is now dangerously high. Britain has had the longest run of success in the West.

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BUT INDICTING TRUMP IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING EVAH:  Millions of Sensitive Pentagon Emails Accidentally Sent to a Russian Ally.

I believe that should be “accidentally.”