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STILL ENJOYING WOKE LINDSEY GRAHAM:

OPEN THREAD: What are your resolutions for 2019?

DON’T DO THIS: Mom accidentally fills home with deadly chlorine gas in attempt to unblock toilet.

21ST CENTURY PROBLEMS: L.A. Times, Tribune Pubishing Hit By Cyberattack Disrupting Paper Delivery.

I BLAME THE FOOD PYRAMID: Just How Fat Are Americans? A Stunning New Government Study Just Revealed the Truth in Time for 2019.

MYSTERIOUS SMOKE SIGNALS ANALYZED: Twitter Name Change Viewed As Another Hint Elizabeth Warren Could Run For President In 2020.

The name change was picked up by @CongressChanges, a Twitter bot that monitors changes to lawmakers’ Twitter accounts. The tweet stated that Warren re-named her account @ewarren. It was formerly called @elizabethforma, which includes an abbreviation for Massachusetts.

The change occurred Saturday night, according to reports.

It’s likely to be a crowded Democratic field during the 2020 election cycle, but at a minimum, Warren has got at least a 1/1024th percent chance of getting the nomination.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Women Attack ‘Sexist’ Shopping Spree Ad for Ruth Bader Ginsburg Movie.

Even liberal movies can’t avoid ticking off feminists.

In the lead-up to Christmas, Focus Features released a Facebook ad encouraging women to sign up to win a free shopping spree and a trip to Washington, D.C., to celebrate the release of “On the Basis of Sex,” a movie about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Women attacked this as “sexist,” “sexploitational,” and “deeply unsettling,” and it does seem particularly tone-deaf in context.

“Win a shopping spree and a trip to Washington, D.C. for you and a friend to celebrate the release of On the Basis of Sex based on a true story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” Focus Features wrote in the ad. The ad included a link to the Focus Features website and an invitation to sign up for the contest with a flashy picture of Felicity Jones in a suit in front of the Supreme Court.

Or to put it another way:

FASTER, PLEASE: The $35 billion race to cure a silent killer that affects 30 million Americans.

I blame the Food Pyramid.

PICKING WINNERS: I’m tracking what I believe is the NYT’s obvious selection for the 2020 Democratic Party nominee for President — Kamala Harris.

HEH:

HIGHER EDUCATION: Teaching The Students We Have, Not The Students We Wish We Had.

SPACE: How to Watch New Horizons’ Ultima Thule Flyby on New Year’s Day: A Webcast Guide.

SNOWFALLS ARE JUST A THING OF THE PAST: How to Understand The Religion of Climate Change and Those Who Believe In The End Times.

Related: Absolutely Clueless: Meet the Press just devoted an entire hour to what Dems apparently think is the top issue for America.

(Classical reference in headline.)

MAYBE MEXICO WILL BUILD A WALL BEFORE TRUMP: Now here’s an interesting idea from Monica Showalter, writing at The American Thinker: “Mexico can erect a border fence on its southern border, same as President Trump is trying to do on the U.S. southern border, to keep unauthorized migrants out. Given that it’s a far shorter border, it wouldn’t take much to get up.” More here.

SO DOES THIS MEAN WE SHOULD BE GLAD THAT MORE SPECIES ARE GOING EXTINCT? 60 percent of emerging infectious diseases come from animals, study says.

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“WOKENESS” IS A PARTICULARLY DUMB SPECIES OF MASS HYSTERIA:

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ANOTHER GREEN MYTH EXPLODED: Under current policies, residential batteries increase emissions in most cases.

TWO NBCs IN ONE:

● Shot: ‘Climate grief’: The growing emotional toll of climate change — Extreme weather and dire climate reports are intensifying the mental health effects of global warming: depression and resignation about the future.

—Headline and subhead, NBC News, Christmas Eve.

● Chaser: Chuck Todd Bans ‘Climate Deniers’ from Climate Change Special:

Chuck Todd gave a stunning example of the phenomenon this morning in his introduction of a Meet the Press special edition on climate change. Todd quite literally announced that dissent would not be tolerated. Here was Todd:

“Just as important as what we are going to do this hour is what we’re not going to do. We’re not going to debate climate change, the existence of it. The Earth is getting hotter, and human activity is a major cause. Period. We’re not going to give time to climate deniers. The science is settled, even if political opinion is not.”

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Note segundo: As Oren Cass has written at National Review: “The epithet ‘climate denier,’ intended to invoke Holocaust denial, has always been tasteless and inapt . . . But climate activists delighted in defining their opposition this way.” Chuck Todd should know better than to engage in this kind of ugly name-calling.

—NewsBusters, today.

Just think of Todd as a former and current Democratic party activist, now with a byline, and it all makes sense.