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CHANGE: Boston Police report from anti-abortion ‘Men’s March’: 17 people arrested after ‘unlawful, riotous, tumultuous assembly’: The counter-protesters ‘began pushing back at officers.’

The “extremely riotous” counter-protesters at the anti-abortion “Men’s March” over the weekend were reportedly told several times to disperse and stop blocking the permitted march before cops started making numerous arrests, according to the Boston Police report.

A march against abortion rights — which billed itself as an event to “abolish abortion and rally for personhood” — started outside of a Planned Parenthood in Boston and drew counter-protesters clad in clown gear.

The counter-protesters — called the “Clown March… to greet them with a joyful display of resistance” — marched to Kenmore Square, where they blocked the path of the permitted “Men’s March.”

“Upon the convergence, each group was screaming/shouting at each other and the opposing (blocking group) at times turning their rage at officers by threatening them, screaming fighting words, and attempting to agitate them,” the Boston Police report reads.

“It should be noted that these officers at the scene were tasked with protecting the First Amendment Rights of all, maintaining order, protecting the lives of the individuals from all sides, as well as arresting any violators,” the police report states.

After some time, the counter-protesters were ordered by the police incident commander to stop blocking the path of the permitted march.

“Superintendent Cahill ordered the large group several times to end their unlawful, riotous, tumultuous assembly,” the police report reads, later stating, “The crowd refused all orders and continued their tumultuous behavior.”

Cops began to try to physically move the crowd off the street, and clear a safe path for the march.

“This unruly crowd collectively began pushing back at officers, elevating their disorderly and unlawful activity to assaultive,” the police report reads. “This crowd created an extremely hazardous and offensive condition for officers and the individuals of the Men’s Rights Group who were attempting to pass by. After an exhaustive effort, Officers were able to eventually gain enough control to allow the march to proceed through Kenmore Square and towards their destination.

Protesters for non-lefty causes having their civil rights protected against lefty activists? You’re feeling the change of the guard.

MATT TAIBBI: It’s Time to Redefine “Fringe:” Critics of the rumored nomination of Dr. Jay Bhattacharya as director of the National Institutes of Health need to check the election returns.

And the science. The Covid hawks are not in the mainstream of either public opinion or scientific evidence. They should be lawyering up and researching countries without extradition treaties, not getting on their high horses about “fringe” science.

IT’S ALWAYS THE DEADBEATS WHO ARE MOST VOCIFEROUS ABOUT PROMISING JOY:

JOEL KOTKIN: The Tide Is Turning Against the Green Elites: Western publics are rejecting the self-destructive and immiserating policies of Net Zero.

It is the global climate-change conference that no one cares about. The latest United Nations (UN) ‘conference of the parties’, otherwise known as COP29, is currently being hosted in oil-rich, authoritarian Azerbaijan. Not many political heavy-hitters have decided to attend but assorted elites, grifters and media have attended hoping it will bring them more financial manna from heaven.

The late-19th-century US political wire-puller Mark Hanna once quipped: ‘There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can’t remember what the second one is.’ Billions, potentially trillions, have been sunk into green projects enriching the already wealthy and their nonprofits, in what outgoing US treasury secretary Janet Yellen has proclaimed the greatest business opportunity of the 21st century.

Hopefully, Yellen didn’t put all her financial eggs in the green basket. The election of Donald Trump as US president only adds to the current woes of the climate industry. The wind-energy sector is increasingly beleaguered and huge numbers of climate start-ups are failing. Despite receiving billions in subsidies, green companies are recording big losses, declaring bankruptcy or avoiding new projects – even in China. Yellen’s opportunity of the century is becoming its most obvious bust, with little apparent impact on the climate.

To be fair, it wasn’t ever really meant to do anything for the climate.

Plus: “The only major country set to benefit from the ‘energy transition’ is China, which continues to spew more greenhouse gases than all advanced countries combined. It is using efficient, cheaper fossil fuels to dominate the solar-panel industry, building its battery capacity to roughly four times the size of America’s while exercising effective control of rare-earth minerals and the technology for processing them.”

IT’S TIME:  We Railroad!

CHAT GPT, IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO?

Color me skeptical with regard to “remote viewing” in general, and doubly so with regard to AI based remote viewing.

OPEN THREAD: Mama just don’t understand.