THE LID: Mask Mandates Will Spread If Not Contained.

An elementary school in an opulent Maryland suburb outside Washington D.C. sent a Sept. 5 note telling parents that all children would be required to wear masks indefinitely because three students tested positive for COVID.

Do not be fooled into thinking this is an isolated incident. If schools start requiring masks for tiny outbreaks — of a virus where children were safe even before the entire population acquired immunity and had access to vaccines — you can expect increased mask mandates throughout cold and flu season.

 Mask mandates act like a virus; they spread if not contained. Masks are a talisman to Montgomery County denizens, who consider themselves superior and lead Washington-based governance. They are the so-called experts. The school district was among the most locked-down and masked in America. If this “progressive” cabal restores mandates, others will undeniably follow.

Private colleges in Atlanta and New Orleans already mandated masks for the academic year. Joe Biden is masking up again, albeit inconsistently.

The elites discarded science and data in the past and now want their power back. Can facts stop them?

Mask mandates do not curb the spread of COVID-19 to any meaningful degree. Yes, well-fitted, high-quality masks appropriately worn can decrease the spread of respiratory viruses, but that doesn’t mean mandating them is important or that they don’t cause accompanying harm. The preponderance of research does not show any good effect for masks, especially among school children.

We know liberal politicians didn’t believe masks mattered because those who supported them also flouted them. Recall the photo of maskless Stacy Abrams posing before young, masked school children. They ought to have permanently ended mandates in schools.

IT’S FUNNY MONEY ALL THE WAY DOWN: Say, did Disney ever make money on its Star Wars movies? The problem? Kathleen Kennedy’s “undisciplined, profligate spending. As well as her determination to make divisive films that deliberately alienate the built-in audience. She’s basically using super-ultra-blockbuster budgets to make divisive independent movie political fare.”

AP IS HANDED AN ACTUAL PEE TAPE, CHOOSES TO ALERT CANDIDATE RATHER THAN COMMIT JOURNALISM:

[Susanna] Gibson posted her videos to a site where she had more than 5,700 followers. She said in the videos that she wanted as large of an audience as possible, saying “And I love that they’re all watching me getting f—-ed right now and it turns me the hell on…. Yeah I want to see you on Checkmates too.”

In exchange for her performing specific sex acts, she solicited monetary “tokens” from viewers, where 100 tokens is worth approximately $5. “Y’all can watch me pee if you tip me and some tokens,” she said. “Again, I’m raising money for a good cause.”

Correspondence viewed by The Daily Wire shows the Associated Press was tipped off about the pornographic content on September 5, but chose not to do anything with the story. It did, however, make Gibson aware of the videos, which she appears to have had taken down in the days after the Associated Press alerted her that they had been discovered.

The outlet did not cover the videos until September 12, after it had already been reported by others.

Michael Isikoff could not be reached for comment.

Related: Sex, Lies and Virginia Law: The Susanna Gibson Case.

GOOD. NOW FIGURE OUT HOW GROW THEM:  Scientists discover how brain cells die in Alzheimer’s in breakthrough study.

WELL, YES: UAW president: Democrats have abandoned us for their Green New Deal.

“UAW members feel abandoned by the Democratic Party,” former UAW President Bob King told POLITICO in an interview, saying that Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act has failed to benefit union workers. “I think there’s a segment of the Democratic Party that sees itself as serving corporations rather than the common good. … We’ve had a lot of disappointments.”

Well, that’s true for most anyone who voted for Biden.

GIGGLE:  Bud Light could lose retail shelf space as Dylan Mulvaney boycott persists: experts.

FEEL GOOD NEWS OF THE DAY:  In act of divine retribution, equestrian statue of Angela Merkel collapses spontaneously under its own weight.

IT’S TIME TO STOP IT:  Dr. Robert Redfield Comes Clean on Government Censorship.

IT’S A GOOD START:  Ibram X. Kendi’s ‘Anti-Racism’ Think Tank at Boston University Firing a Third of its Employees.

PEOPLE HAVE HAD ENOUGH:  NYC Protestors Drown Out AOC, Democrats at Press Conference Over Migrant Crisis.

SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED. BEHOLD MY SHOCKED FACE:  Racist Joe Biden Says Something Racist. Again.

BEACHES SOON TO RUN SHORT OF SAND!  Chicago Mayor Johnson Moves Toward City-Run Grocery Stores.

GOOD BECAUSE IT HAD ENTRAPMENT ALL OVER IT:  Jury clears 3 men in the last trial tied to the plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

THE CITIZENSHIP OATH HAS THE SAME PROMISE:  Foreign and Domestic.

WE’VE ALWAYS BEEN AT WAR WITH EURASIA:  School purges books published before 2008 in ‘illogical’ inclusivity push.

THEIR APPEAL HAS BECOME MORE SELECTIVE:  Disney reportedly slashes targets for Disney+ subscribers after hiking prices.

BIDENOMICS:  US retailer holiday hiring to drop to lowest level since 2008: report.

OH, PLEASE, MIKE “GO F*CK YOURSELF” WASN’T ADVICE!  Pence Reveals the ‘Advice’ Biden Once Gave Him.

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

DEMOCRATS. DEMOCRATS HAPPENED. Joel Kotkin: What happened to the great West Coast cities? Never before have all the burgeoning metropolises of the future started to shrink.

This is what happens when you’re governed by a ruling class that hates you.

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THE NEW SPACE RACE: China’s military sets up new base for space domain awareness.

JON MANCHIP WHITE, PLEASE CALL YOUR OFFICE: Giant Cracks Emerging Across US Southwest, Scientists Warn.

DON’T TRUST THE SCIENCE JOURNALS: Mainstream media trust is in the trash can because readers figured out they were too often being fed politically correct narratives at the expense of getting the full story.

Now along comes climate scientist Patrick T. Brown explaining why a similar malady afflicts Nature, Science and other influential academic journals concerning what can and cannot be published by researchers working on global warming/climate “change.”

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Has New Technology Really Made the Ford F-150 Raptor Better?