FROM SUMMER GRAYLING:  True Colours.

Jan Van Der Vaart is a legend. The focus of his magical Talent is pain, and he’s spent years in the military, then as a mercenary, making terrorists, cartels, and governments fear him. Finally, he carved out a safe haven for other Talents, and tried to retire… until one last job, cracking a black lab snatching Talents off the streets, went sideways. He’s left staggering down a rainy coastal highway, thumb out and hoping he’ll catch a lift before the kill team realizes they missed…

Aurelia Brinati is on the run. Having escaped five years of hell as an unwilling lab rat, she has a stolen car and a plan to hide from pursuers by taking passage on a cargo ship headed anywhere else in the world. When she picks up a stray sailor headed the same way, she rapidly discovers she’s out of her depths… and safe in the heart of the storm.

The entire world fears him… except her. Powers are gathering to recapture Aurelia, but they’d best beware. Jan and his friends will do whatever it takes to keep her safe… whether it’s murder, mayhem, or last-minute shopping runs to find something called cream of tartar for her snickerdoodle cookies.

EH. SO I SHOULD BLAME HIS CHILDHOOD? (NOT A FAN):  Dickens: His childhood made him.

SOMEONE GET THIS MAN SOME THORAZINE:  Attorney Claims There Is Zero Evidence Lindsay Clancy Murdered Her Children.

READING THIS IT’S IMPOSSIBLE NOT TO CONCLUDE A MINOR MIRACLE OCCURRED:  Breaking: attempted hijacking of FlyDubai flight to TLV thwarted.

LIKE ALL LEFTISTS, THEY DECIDED TO ELECT THEMSELVES A NEW PEOPLE:  Problem: Labour Is Deeply Unpopular For Importing Unassimilated Muslims. Solution: Import More Unassimilated Muslims.

TEN YEARS AGO:  “More And More Severe Storms”: When Can We Declare This Hypothesis To Be Definitively Falsified?

YES, IRELAND IS INCREASINGLY INSANE:  The Shame of Ireland.

STEALING PEOPLE’S WORK IS UNACCEPTABLE, WHETHER YOU USE AI TO ALTER IT, OR YOU ALTER IT YOURSELF:  Untouchable but real.

No, not all uses of AI are theft, anymore than your learning from published works, then writing your own is theft. BUT this case clearly is, and yes, it’s wrong. I have problems with the copyright law in the US because frankly my kids can make their own money and my grandkids, if and when, ditto. But knowing how long it takes for a career in the arts to pay at all I have to endorse some copyright so the creator (and his/her long suffering spouse) get some compensation for the years of nothing in the dark. Stealing people’s IP outright is wrong. Just wrong. Even when you don’t falsify that person’s pov.

YEAH. NO PAUSES:  Now let’s talk about “the pause” Trust me bro we don’t want to squelch AI forever bro it would just be a couple years bro while we get alignment right bro. Wait, where have I heard this song before? Oh yeah. “Two weeks to flatten the curve.” The “pause” rhetoric is meant to create the institutional machinery for permanent suppression and shift the Overton window towards public acceptance of same. It’s a dishonest move from people pretending they’re willing to accept a future return to pre-“pause” liberty when that is exactly the opposite of what they intend. When s camel tries to get its nose into your tent, the right thing to do is kick it In the snoot. Hard.

THE LEFT IS NOT EVEN HIDING THEY’RE IN THE PAY OF WEST TAIWAN, ANYMORE:  Enemy Actions.

EVEN I — AND I’M AWARE OF IT — SOMETIMES FALL IN THE TRAP OF EXPECTING REALITY TO BE FASTER AND MORE DRAMATIC THAN REALITY EVER WAS:  Cinematic.

OUR DESPICABLE MAIN STREAM MEDIA:  ‘Altercation’: Media Downplays Cockpit Stabbing on Flight Carrying 174 to Israel.

ONLY SPEAKING THE TRUTH:  Ron DeSantis, Florida Cabinet Declare CAIR, Muslim Brotherhood, and Antifa as Terrorist Groups.

WELL! I’M SHOCKED! WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THAT COMING?  UK PM Burnham: ‘Strong Indications’ Iran is Linked to RAF Fairford Plot.

NY MAY BE A SANCTUARY CITY BUT RESIDENTS ARE GETTING FED UP:  Feds urged to crack down on fake passports, green cards along NYC’s Roosevelt Avenue.

REFINERIES? WE DON’T NEED NO STINKING REFINERIES! £2 Diesel Disaster – Govt Missing in Action. A fracturing global diesel supply leaves the UK’s highly exposed diesel market facing crisis and a £2 per litre reality. Don’t let the Government turn a blind eye – support FairFuelUK’s call to action. £2 Diesel Disaster – Govt Missing in Action. A fracturing global diesel supply leaves the UK’s highly exposed diesel market facing crisis and a £2 per litre reality. Don’t let the Government turn a blind eye – support FairFuelUK’s call to action.

THOSE WEREN’T ‘ERRORS’. THEY WERE INTENTIONAL:  Watchdog Found Tons of Vetting Errors for Migrants Who Entered US After Biden’s Afghanistan Failure.

DO THEY HAVE ANY GASKETS LEFT TO BLOW?  Trump’s College Loan Tweaks Are Being Felt…and Campus Libs Are Going to Blow a Gasket.

AS I ALWAYS SAY, IT’S NOT THE RACE, IT’S THE CULTURE:  Importing the Middle East’s Clan Culture to Europe: How Assmilated Are the Danish Green Party’s Muslim Leaders? All Are in Favor of Arranged Marriages and Resent “Mr. and Mrs. Denmark” for Thinking of Those with Negative Connotations.

And the culture is rotten.

OH, VERY GOOD. ALSO ABOUT TIME:  Supreme Court Clears Trump Admin to Resume Third-Country Deportations for Now.

I SUPPORT THIS. AMERICANS SHOULDN’T BE SUBJECTED TO FOREIGN CENSORSHIP:  BREAKING: @SenMikeLee HAS INTRODUCED THE GRANITE ACT FOREIGN CENSORSHIP SHIELD BILL IN THE U.S. SENATE!

TO PREVENT THINGS LIKE THIS:  “Inside is a letter from the British threatening you with prison for exercising your 1st Amendment rights online. This is novel international tyranny and extortion.”

BILL GATES PART OF ANTI-AI PSY OPS:  Company Of Man Who Says AI May Kill Billions Can’t Keep From Deleting Customer Data.

Who is surprised? No one? I’m shocked, shocked, shocked. …  Bill Gates might kill billions.

ABOUT TIME:  Trump Administration Trashes Biden-era Title IX Rules, Sex Officially Defined by Biology.

YES, INDEED:  The math at the pump: Before you blame Trump, follow the damn barrel. Iran matters, refiners matter, supply matters—and the price on that sign has more than one father.

YEP. THE PSY-OPS IS “GAS IS EXPENSIVE, VOTE FOR COMMIES.”:  Media manipulates economic gloom — and it’s all about the midterms.

It worked for electing Clinton, after all. Are we going to fall for this nonsense again? With more openly extreme democrats?