JUST IN CASE YOU THOUGHT HE MIGHT NOT BE DELUSIONAL:  Biden regrets leaving presidential race, thinks he could’ve beaten Trump: report.

THANKS JOE. WHERE WERE YOU WHEN THIS MIGHT HAVE MATTERED?  Retiring Sen. Joe Manchin Writes Scathing Tweet About Joe Biden.

NOT THE FIRST OF RECENT MEMORY:  What the National Archives Just Did Is a Total Scandal.

I’VE SEEN THIS, EXPLICITLY AND IMPLICITLY OVER THE LAST TWENTY YEARS. OVER AND OVER AGAIN, IN A BUNCH OF FIELDS:  Until a few years ago I was working as a mid-career research scientist, no I won’t tell you what field. Within my collaboration I was known for being extremely productive. I’ve seen jaws drop when I show colleagues my publication list.

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SHE REALLY WANTS BUSINESSES TO MOVE OUT OF NEW YORK, I GUESS:  NY Gov. Kathy Hochul Signs Law Forcing Energy Companies to Fund “Climate Change Superfund”.

BEHOLD! MY SHOCKED FACE:  Homelessness Increased by 18 Percent in 2024 and More Americans Can’t Afford to Buy Houses.

I FEAR NO LIVING HOSTAGES REMAIN:  Hamas Fires Long-Range Rockets at Jerusalem, Refuses to Provide List of Living Hostages.

FROM SARAH A. HOYT, ON SALE FOR 99c:  A Few Good Men.

#CommissionEarned

Lucius Dante Maximillian Keeva was born a prince…

or so close to it as makes no difference. He is the son of one of the fifty Good Men who — between them — partition and rule all of the Earth.
But for the last fourteen years, he’s been imprisoned in a small cell, in what amounts to solitary confinement.
You can’t stay sane in solitary confinement that long, not even if someone supplies you with reading material.
When Luce escapes, he finds that his family is dead and people are trying to kill him. He doesn’t respond as a sane man would.
It is just as well.
Restoring a constitutional republic to a world gone mad, five hundred years after the fabled USA vanished from the face of the Earth is not a job for a sane man.
And Luce Keeva is just the madman for the job.

HECK, YOU DON’T HAVE TO GET PAST THE MASTHEAD:  You Don’t Need to Get Past the Second Paragraph to Know This Politico Piece Is Insane.

NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THEIR “GUIDELINES” HAVE BEEN PROVEN RIGHT. THEY ALL MADE AMERICAN HEALTH WORSE.  FOR YOUR HEALTH, IGNORE THE FED GUIDELINES:  FDA Rewrites its ‘Healthy’ Foods Guidelines for First Time in 30 Years.

SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED:  Pictures Show Then-VP Biden Meeting Hunter’s Chinese Associates.

FED UP:  Illegal immigration isn’t just some abstraction. It’s directly affected me and my family several times in the last 12 months. And the local authorities don’t want to do anything about it.

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GOOD:  Georgia Lawmakers Can Subpoena Fani Willis Over Trump Case.

CIVICS EDUCATION, FRENCH STYLE:  Short but intense civic education lesson.

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WELL, OBVIOUSLY. BECAUSE THE BILLIONAIRE TAX DODGERS CAN CHANGE THEIR COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE AND EMPLOY EVERY LEGAL TRICK. THE GIG WORKERS NO SO MUCH:  IRS goes after gig workers instead of billionaire tax dodgers.

This is why the idiot left thinking they can weaponize the IRS against the “rich” (not the actual rich, who are their bosses, but never mind) is even dumber than their usual pretensions.

THEY FA-ED THIS IS THE FO-ING PORTION OF THE ENTERTAINMENT.  FAFO ALWAYS WINS:  Russia-linked cable-cutting tanker seized by Finland ‘was loaded with spying equipment’.

DON’T LET VIVEK’S RUNNING HIS MOUTH — WONDER WHO POKED HIM TO DO IT — DECEIVE YOU. THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS ALREADY A SUCCESS AND HE HASN’T EVEN BEEN SWORN IN. NATURE IS HEALING:  Mexico Seems To Drop The Hugs And Embrace The Bullets As Cartel Violence Rages On.

MY NOT SO HUMBLE (AH) OPINION:  All We Are Asking IS Give Kids A Chance.

IMPORTANT TO THIS IMPORTANT CONVERSATION:  An ongoing collection of H1B screenshots.

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GO READ:  Having lived in Silicon Valley for 20+ years and founded and sold an AI company, I’ve seen firsthand how we rely on H-1B to fill grueling, unglamorous coding jobs. These jobs are essential, and we need capable people doing them. But the system needs an overhaul.

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FROM SARAH A. HOYT AND ON SALE FOR 99c:  Darkship Revenge (Darkship Thieves Book 5).

The World Can’t Be Made Safe….

But it doesn’t mean Athena Hera Sinistra isn’t ready to try. Flying back to Earth Orbit from her asteroid home, leaving behind unresolved questions and turmoil, Athena becomes a new mother in orbit.

As is perhaps fitting, her daughter is born during battle with an unknown foe.

A battle that ends with Kit – Athena’s husband – missing, and Athena’s ship damaged.

So Athena names her daughter Eris, and goes to war.

What follows is a non-stop fight by a very angry mother, who wishes to make the world(s) safe for her newborn daughter, and other children too.

When the adventure is over, it is just the start of another, where children will be rescued, old tyrants brought to justice, and freedom restored.
If it can be.

BUREAUCRATIC MINDSET AT WORK: IF THEY’RE ACCESSIBLE PRANKSTERS WILL USE THEM AND THEN THEY’LL NOT BE OF USE:   Public can’t access fire extinguishers in subway system — and MTA has no plans to change that after horrific murder of woman on F train.

SOMEHOW LEFTIST IDIOTS WILL BLAME THIS ON ISRAEL:   Humanitarian aid stacks up at Gaza border as relief organizations won’t deliver out of fear of Hamas, violent looters.

DANG CRITICS – WHY ARE THEY ALWAYS RIGHT?   Hochul signs NY law that will charge $75B to oil, gas and coal companies for climate change — but critics say customers will pick up tab.

BY THE ‘CHRISTMAS TRUCE’ OF 1914 VIRTUALLY ALL OF THE INITIAL BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE SENT TO FRANCE WAS HORS DE COMBAT:  The lost legions of Christmas 1914.