NOBODY BUT LEFTIE TOOLS BELIEVES THE “MISINFORMATION” PROPAGANDA:

POLL: Americans rank free speech second only to inflation on their list of 2024 concerns, according to a new poll by FIRE. That’s higher than other hot-button issues like crime, immigration, and health care. pic.twitter.com/hGATDPvEJD

— FIRE (@TheFIREorg) October 24, 2024

OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK:  Nearly 1 million migrants staying ‘indefinitely’ in US under Biden-Harris ‘quiet amnesty’: House panel.

AGAIN, BEHOLD MY SHOCKED FACE:  IDF destroys Hezbollah tunnel prepped for terrorists to invade Israel.

IF ONLY THERE WERE SOME WAY OF PREVENTING THAT!  THE ANCIENTS HAD THIS WORD “BORDERS”, ANYONE REMEMBER WHAT THOSE WERE?  Tiny Ohio town sees population double with influx of 3,000 migrants from African nation as mayor blames ‘open border policy’.

NONSENSE – EXPLODING LITHIUM BATTERIES ARE NECESSARY TO SAVE THE CLIMATE!  The terrible fire risks of battery storage – and how we helped expose them.

Again, give them hair-shirts, small whips and no power whatsoever over the government of the west.

GEORGIA (THE ONE IN EUROPE) HOLDS ELECTIONS THIS WEEKEND:  Why Georgia should be on our mind.

IT’S A SINGLE INCIDENT, BY A SADLY CONFUSED INDIVIDUAL AND IN NO WAY POLICY OF THE WINGED PIGS DEMOCRAT PARTY:  Alarming Video Shows Democrat Tampering With Ballot Box in Montana.

But at this point, how many leftists are mentally confused, with the incitement from above?

I DON’T KNOW. A LOT HAVE BEEN GETTING SHOCK THERAPY:  But will loyal Democrats actually abandon their beloved party? History says no.

THE UNIVERSITIES ARE KILLING THEMSELVES ALREADY. AT THIS POINT SHUTTING DOWN THE FEDERAL LOAN PROGRAM IS A MINIMUM INJURY SOLUTION:  HUH? University President Says ‘We Must No Longer Be Neutral,’ Calls Trump ‘Threat to Higher Education’.

Most universities at this point are a threat to all education, lower, middle, self. What they’re doing, by and large, particularly universities run by people like this, is not education.  Teaching that still goes on is despite this type of administration.

BROKEN CLOCK, ETC:  The UN actually got it right? For once, yeah.

BUT DON’T BURN THE BOATS. NOT YET:  Clear the Decks Again.

IF THIS NATION CAN BE SAVED, REDNECKS ARE PART OF THAT:  The Remarkable Redneck Air Force of North Carolina.

I’D SAY IT’S TO RALLY THE TROOPS SUPPOSED TO COMMIT FRAUD SO SHE “WINS”:  The Atlantic Hit Piece On Trump Is A Psy-Op To Justify Post-Election Violence If Harris Loses.

SHE THINKS ANNIHILATING AMERICA IS THE RIGHT THING!   Kamala On Open Borders: “We Did The Right Thing” By Doing Nothing.

THIS IS INSANITY THAT DWARFS ALL THE OTHER CARGO CULT SCIENCE OF THE LAST CENTURY:  Danish Dairy Farmers Forced to Pay World’s First Carbon Tax on Livestock.

Someone give the eco freaks some hair shirts and self-whips. Let them beat themselves up and leave the rest of us alone.

SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED. BEHOLD MY SHOCKED FACE:  Israel Releases Documents Showing Collaboration Between Al Jazeera and Hamas Terror Group.

OPEN THREAD: Disport yourselves.

SO WHAT DON’T THEY WANT US TO NOTICE? THAT KAMALA’S AWFUL? TOO LATE FOR THAT, MUST BE SOMETHING ELSE.

I wonder if that wasn't the goal of the information operation to begin with? In a degraded information environment cui bono?

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) October 25, 2024

IT’S COME TO THIS: Woke doc refused to publish $10 million trans kids study that showed puberty blockers didn’t help mental health.

A prominent doctor and trans rights advocate admitted she deliberately withheld publication of a $10 million taxpayer-funded study on the effect of puberty blockers on American children — after finding no evidence that they improve patients’ mental health.

Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy told the New York Times that she believes the study would be “weaponized” by critics of transgender care for kids, and that the research could one day be used in court to argue “we shouldn’t use blockers.”

Critics — including one of Olson-Kennedy’s fellow researchers on the study — said the decision flies in the face of research standards and deprives the public of “really important” science in a field where Americans remain firmly divided.

Not surprisingly, J.K. Rowling pounced and/or seized at Olson-Kennedy’s hypocrisy:

HOW IT STARTED: It’s official: San Francisco’s office vacancy rate just set a record.

The office-vacancy rate in and around downtown San Francisco continued to creep upward to a new record high in the fourth quarter of 2023, according to a report from CBRE.

The increase, though expected, came despite the highest level of leasing activity since the second quarter of 2022 and pushed The City’s core business areas into new territory as the vacancy rate hit 35.6%, up 1.6 percentage points from the prior quarter, the commercial real-estate firm reported.

Meanwhile, the number of office-using workers was down slightly from the previous quarter to 345,200 from 346,500.

“Looking ahead, the vacancy rate will continue to inch upward but will likely peak in late 2024,” CBRE’s researchers predicted.

San Francisco has been particularly hard-hit, but it is not alone, with cities across the country also harboring expanses of empty office space as employers have shed space and workers have not returned to offices in the same numbers as before the COVID-19 pandemic because of the rise of remote work.

Moody’s Analytics issued a statement Monday saying much of commercial real estate was “stuck in limbo” despite positive signs in the broader economy, and the national office vacancy rate had risen to a record-breaking 19.6%, higher than the 19.3% peaks hit in 1986 and 1991.

San Francisco’s glut of office space is leading building owners to lower rents, with the average asking rate for directly leased space dropping 3.4% in the quarter and 8.7% for the year. That brought the decrease in average asking rate to 21.6% from its peak in early 2020.

How it’s going: City Hall Unveils Latest Plans to Redevelop Candlestick Point, 11 Years After 49ers Left.

More than a decade after the 49ers left Candlestick Park, the city has unveiled new plans for Candlestick Point, with 7,200 new homes, but it seems questionable whether there will be much call for all of the office space in this plan.

Your San Francisco 49ers played their last game at Candlestick Park on December 23, 2013. Eight months later, the last event that ever happened there was a Paul McCartney concert where he played “Live and Let Die.” But San Francisco lived and let Candlestick Point die, despite a grand 2016 plan for a retail, performance, and residential project that never got off the ground.

“Right now what we have in the absence of Candlestick stadium, which has been torn down for years, is a big gaping hole in the middle of a community,” the district’s supervisor Shamann Walton said at a Tuesday Board of Supervisors meeting. “It is nothing but a pile of dirt. That has allowed for increased encampments and other nuisances to continue to plague the area.”

The board was talking Candlestick, because they were considering new redevelopment plans for Candlestick Point, as KPIX reports. As seen above, the plan is intertwined with the highly beleaguered and possibly contaminated Hunters Point Shipyard redevelopment project, moving as two plans with one master developer. But the Shipyard is project is delayed by some sticky legal problems over faked soil samples.

So that means the Candlestick Point project is likely moving forward first.

But given San Francisco’s dire housing shortage, and glut of unwanted office space, do we really need that two million square feet of office and R&D? We already got more than we can handle! Regardless, OCII staff said there would also be “entertainment uses” in there, but did not elaborate on what those would be.

I’m sure the redeveloped Candle Stick Park office towers will be easily and quickly reached via California’s legendarily successful high-speed rail connections.

GEORGE GASCON’S SWAN SONG: Menendez brothers one step closer to freedom as Los Angeles district attorney holds bombshell press conference.

The Menendez brothers are one step closer to freedom after Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon recommended they be resentenced for killing their parents.

Gascon held a press conference on Thursday afternoon where he recommended Erik and Lyle receive a new sentence – 35 years after they murdered their parents Kitty and Jose inside their Beverly Hills mansion.

His recommendation is that they be eligible for parole immediately.

It will be up to a court to ultimately determine the final sentence for the brothers.

‘I believe they have paid their debt to society… and the system provides a vehicle for their case to be reviewed by a court of law,’ Gascon said.

The announcement comes on the back of mounting community pressure to reconsider the life sentences without parole Erik and Lyle received at their 1996 trial.

The brothers have never denied killing their parents, but have long claimed they were driven to do so after suffering years of sexual and physical abuse at the hands of their businessman father.

The public was unconvinced by their claims in the 1980s, believing instead they were ruthless monsters.

But in recent months, a TikTok movement of more sympathetic fans and a duo of Netflix shows has won them favor.

Now armed with Gascon’s recommendation, the Menendez case will return to court, where a judge will ultimately decide their fate.

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Gascon’s decision has been widely welcomed, but critics suggested he is using the Menendez case to win favor ahead of his reelection bid this November.

He is seeking re-election on a platform of sentencing reform, and is currently trailing his opponent, former US Assistant Attorney General Nathan Hochman.

Asked about the ‘politics’ of his decision on Thursday, Gascon insisted the optics played no part in his final decision.

Or, perhaps, they did: Progressive Los Angeles DA George Gascón in 30-Point Hole to Moderate Challenger, Poll Finds.

As Tom Cotton wrote in 2021: Recall, Remove and Replace Every Last Soros Prosecutor.

CHANGE: Red Faced Justin Trudeau Declares Canada in Crisis and Immigration Must be Slowed.

Oh, Canada. You massively hypocritical windbag neighbors to the North. Remember, when they said America was racist for wanting to slow down immigration? Guess what Justin Trudeau said today.

So, it seems like Justin is saying a large influx of immigrants has negatively effected Canadian society? That sounds like what he is saying.

Don’t let me down, Florida:

BEN DOMENECH: Welcome to Word Salad City — the vibes are running on fumes.

Welcome to Thunderdome, or as David Axelrod calls it, Word Salad City. Kamala Harris’s closing argument played out in a CNN town hall last night, and it wasn’t much of an argument at all. On question after question, Harris reverted to talking points that often had little or nothing to do with the query posed to her. On the border? No answer on why the administration took so long to act. On taxpayer funded benefits for illegal migrants? I was a prosecutor. On a border wall? It’s a dumb idea that I now say is a good idea.* On taxes? It’s a very complicated situation. On food inflation? Greedy price gouging grocers. On her weaknesses? They’re actually strengths. On any mistakes she’s made? She’s very well versed on issues. On the one single legislative priority she’ll have as president? Here’s a list to rival the Cheesecake Factory. On the filibuster? Apparently it’s in the House now, and we need to get rid of it to have Roe.

Other than that, everything went off swimmingly.

So here’s what we’ve got: a candidate who really does seem to be incapable of finding her way into bettering her closing message outside of abortion abortion abortion and Trump being Orange Hitler.

This is really all they can come up with? It’s a decidedly joyless way to finish this race, and it has seeped into the minds of Democrats, frustrating their voters as they wish she’d come up with something, anything, to fire back at a Trump-Vance ticket that has settled into a combination of McDonald’s-style showmanship and savage media bashing that is comfortably in their wheelhouse. The late breaking anti-Trump stories aren’t making a dent, and the late night hosts can only do so much covering for her. As Mark Halperin has been saying recently: It’s no longer even a contest between which candidate is having more fun on the trail. And it’s not hard to see why:

* Ace of Spades notes that “The Biden-Harris Administration was so determined that the wall should never be built that they sold off extremely expensive steel purchased by Trump for the wall for pennies to make sure that it could never be used to build a wall:”

The Biden administration is quietly auctioning off millions of dollars’ worth of unused parts from former President Trump’s border wall for peanuts — in an apparent end-run around pending legislation in Congress.

Since April, GovPlanet, an online auction house specializing in military surplus, has sold 81 lots of steel “square structural tubes” — intended for use as vertical bollards in the border barrier’s 30-foot-tall panels — hauling in about $2 million.

On Tuesday, GovPlanet netted $154,200 for 729 of the 28-foot-tall hollow beams, sold in five separate lots for an average $212 apiece.

Thirteen more lots are set to be auctioned on Aug. 23 and Aug. 30.

But just last month, as part of its annual defense appropriations package, the Democrat-led Senate passed a Republican-sponsored bill aimed at forcing Biden to stem the worsening migrant crisis at the US-Mexico border by extending the wall.

Up to $300 million worth of taxpayer-funded wall components have been left to rust since Biden came to office, Republicans have said.

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And while the lot listings scrupulously avoid identifying the tubes’ original purpose, viewers of the company’s Instagram page weren’t fooled.

“Good for building a wall,” a user called honest_jake wrote Aug. 3 under a GovPlanet Instagram post touting the sale of “industrial steel tubing” — an entry that was deleted from the social media site Friday.

“Why don’t you put that up instead of selling it,” added Brian Prewitt. “This is why tax payers are just about done paying taxes.”

More from Jeffrey Blehar: Harris Finally Crashes and Burns on CNN.

But in all honesty I don’t particularly care about what Dana Bash thinks, save as a media barometer. Former Obama grand strategist David Axelrod, on the other hand, is a legitimately intelligent observer of politics and was perhaps the most devastating of all in his analysis, precisely because Axelrod still has the bones of an old-school Chicago journalist and therefore cannot bring himself to openly insult people’s intelligence despite his obviously close associations with Obama and Democratic politics. (“It was a mixed night,” he euphemistically summarized.) His review is worth both reading and watching:

When she doesn’t want to answer a question, her habit is to kind of go to word-salad city, and she did that on a couple of answers; one was on Israel, Anderson asked a direct question, “Would you be stronger on Israel than Trump?” And there was a seven-minute answer, but none of it related to the question he was asking. And so, you know, on certain questions like that, on immigration, I thought she missed an opportunity, because she would acknowledge no concerns about any of the administration’s policies. And that’s a mistake. Sometimes you have to concede things, and she didn’t concede much. But I’ll tell you something, John King mentioned Bill Clinton; no one’s going to be Bill Clinton, but you do want to relate to the people in front of you, she didn’t do a lot of that. She didn’t ask them questions, she didn’t address them particularly, she was giving set pieces too much.

Partisanship inevitably warps perceptions, so I consider it a valuable data point that Axelrod — whose politics couldn’t differ more from my own — saw the exact same thing that I saw. (He was far more polite and circumspect about it, naturally.) In a world where you should always strive to calibrate your own biases against reality, that’s a solid indication that Harris truly failed last night. Her friends could only bring themselves, out of charity, to characterize it as a missed opportunity.

When you’re a Democrat who’s losing your mouthpieces at house organ CNN in late October, you’ve got problems. (The cockiness, eschew it, etc.) Or as America’s Newspaper of Record notes: Frustrated Democrats To Consider Letting Voters Pick The Presidential Candidate Next Time.

DISPATCHES FROM OBAMA’S THIRD TERM: Biden-Harris Admin Promotes Pentagon Employee Tied to Iranian Influence Network.

The Biden-Harris administration has promoted the senior Pentagon employee who was outed as a member of an Iranian government-run influence operation, Politico reported.

Ariane Tabatabai is now a deputy assistant secretary of defense within Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s office, where she will lead its force education and training division. Tabatabai, according to Politico, was offered the promotion last month. She previously served as chief of staff for the assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low-intensity conflict.

Tabatabai became a public commodity after a 2023 Semafor report outed her as a member of an Iranian government propaganda group known as the Iran Experts Initiative. The affiliation saw Tabatabai report back to Iran’s foreign ministry and communicate with senior officials in the hardline regime.

Tabatabai’s promotion comes at a curious time for the Biden-Harris administration. Over the weekend, classified U.S. intelligence on Israel’s military preparations for a strike on Iran leaked in a “deadly serious breach,” which the administration is investigating. While the leaker has not been publicly identified, the situation has raised concerns about a host of Biden-Harris administration officials, including Tabatabai, who want to increase diplomacy with Iran at the cost of the historically close U.S. alliance with Israel.

Tabatabai was a regular contributor to Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, and (unexpectedly!) the Atlantic, during President Trump’s (first?) term in office.

SOMETHING FISHY ABOUT THIS: A Shocking Amount of Seafood Isn’t What The Label Says, Study Shows. It’s not the first such study, either.