AW. THE “NON-PROFIT” ECONOMY IS SHRINKING:  The Invisible Job Crisis: America’s Third-Largest Employer Is Hemorrhaging Talent.

I guess it’s “your USAID dollars finally not at work.”

THE VERY DELAYED CHRISTMAS CHALLENGE SHORT STORY:  A Light in Time.

HEY, DID YOU MANAGE TO MISS? From Sarah A. Hoyt:  No Man’s Land: Volume 1 (Chronicles of Lost Elly).

Sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic.

On a lost colony world, mad geneticists thought they could eliminate inequality by making everyone hermaphrodite. They were wrong. Catastrophically wrong.
Now technology indistinguishable from magic courses through the veins of the inhabitants, making their barbaric civilization survivable—and Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Kayel Hayden, Viscount Webson, Envoy of the Star Empire—Skip to his friends— has just crash-landed through a time-space rift into the middle of it all.
Dodging assassins and plummeting from high windows was just the beginning. With a desperate king and an archmagician as his only allies, Scipio must outrun death itself while battling beasts, traitors, and infiltrators bent on finishing what the founders started: total destruction.
Two worlds. One chance. No time to lose.

In case you’re worried it’s that kind of book, it’s not that kind of book.   Meaning that yes, “that seventies cover” is intentional, because when I was discussing it with the “sanity check” (well, as much as any) fans they said the problem was nothing much like this had been published since the early nineties, and most wild space opera was published in the seventies. So… it got that seventies (early eighties, maybe) cover, with bling and all.

Still worried?  Have some K-Pop!

INDEED, IT IS:  Good Clean Fun, Your Honor. In which two lads have a fight, make a plan, and form an unlikely friendship.

10 MILLION YEARS OF EVOLUTION MUST BE WRONG!  The Great Feminisation, part 4: The mistake of demonising men.

IS IT POSSIBLE THAT BLOWING UP DRUG BOATS WORKS? Why Trump is right to face down Venezuela.

I REALIZE YOU WILL FIND THIS HARD TO BELIEVE* …  Labour lies about assisted suicide neutrality, leaked policy document reveals.

*If you have completely ignored politics in Britain for the last fifty** years or so.
** At least

THAT’S GOTTA LEAVE A MARK:   People Are Driving to Tim Walz’s House and Calling Him This…It’s Hilarious.

Also, the simple truth if undiplomatically stated.

LEFTY TRUMP SUPPORTER? SOUNDS IMPLAUSIBLE BUT WE LIVE IN AN AGE OF MIRACLES:   Here’s What Caused a Lefty Trump Supporter to Laugh in the Face of a ‘View’ Co-Host on CNN.

IT PERSEVERES:   Perseverance moves west, into the barren hinterlands beyond Jezero Crater.

THIS IS THE STUFF THE HISTORY BOOKS WILL FOCUS ON, IGNORING ALL ELSE:  Chinese and Japanese Boats Have Standoff Near Disputed Islands as Tensions Increase.

UM:  FDA Moves to Curb Monkey Testing for Monoclonal Antibody Products.

IT WAS ALWAYS GOING TO END UP THERE:  Supreme Court To Hear Challenge To Trump’s ‘Birthright Citizenship’ Executive Order.

BECAUSE THEY CAN COME VIA OTHER COUNTRIES:  Why Somali migrants may still aim for US despite travel restrictions.

And let’s face it we’re a very rich teat to suckle on, aren’t we? Or we’ve been so far. I’m hoping we other measures in reserve to stop the nonsense.

BEHOLD MY SHOCKED FACE:   Dem state election board under fire after ICE-arrested superintendent surfaces on voter rolls.

I REFUSE TO BE PANICKED AT THE IDEA OF GIVING PARENTS MORE CONTROL OVER THEIR CHILDREN’S HEALTH:  US advisers scrap decades-long hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for most children.

GOOD, BUT ANYWHERE BUT FINANCE “EQUITY” IS A COMMUNIST BOONDOGGLE:  Federal judge orders Asheville to pay 5 white residents in discrimination lawsuit.

FROM CAROLINE FURLONG:   The Guardian Cycle, Vol.1: In Dreams and Other Stories.

A man whose debts must be paid by vengeance. A woman desperate to save her husband. A grieving father finding a young enemy soldier on his veritable doorstep…

These fantasy and soft sci-fi stories wonder whether or not heroes need families. Are we not told that families slow the hero down? Is it not typically implied that they get in the way of the adventure? Are they a burden, or truly the greatest strength from which the hero and those he loves can draw?

Six tales in this collection center on family, faith, and self-sacrificing love as men and women fight for the ones whom they hold most dear. Whether the enemy is inner turmoil, a nightmare, or a demon really does not matter. If the threat seeks to harm a member of the family, it is going to pay dearly.

WE ALL WANT IT:  Adventure and Fellowship.

NOW THIS IS THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY I’VE BEEN PROMISED:  Trump’s Next National Strategy Will Center On Humanoid Robots.

WHERE IS MY SHOCKED FACE AGAIN?  Internal Hamas Documents Reveal Terror Group’s Infiltration of UN-Affiliated Aid Groups in Gaza. 

SHINE THE LIGHT ON THE COCKROACHES:  Candace Owens Wanted a Spotlight. TPUSA Is Handing Her a Floodlight.

WELL SHE CAN TAKE HER OPINIONS AND FOLD THEM ALL IN CORNERS AND PUT THEM WHERE THE SUN DON’T SHINE:  Pramila Jayapal Thinks Everyone In The World Built America Except Americans.

Sideways.

THEY TRIED. UNDER THE AUTOPEN THEY TRIED THEIR HARDEST:  Democrats Would Like To Suppress Free Speech The Way Britain Does.

VERY MINNESOTA:  “Minnesota man” charged in serial rapes.