THEY’RE SOOOO SMART:  CNN ‘Fact Checks’ Trump’s Claim of Soros/Bragg Connection, Accidentally Admits A Connection.

AS SHE SHOULD:  Maine Mother Suing School for Allegedly Hiding Her Child’s Gender Transition.

THE SHOE ONLY PINCHES IN THE OTHER FOOT:  Biden and Obama Suddenly Concerned About Democratic ‘Norms’ After Ouster of Tennessee Lawmakers.

SKILLS FOR OUR TIME:  Reading Pravda In English.

THE PRICE OF ELECTRICAL EVERYTHING:  United Nations to Begin Accepting Applications for Deep-Sea Mining.

BLINK?  FDA Approval Of Abortion Pill Mifepristone Is Revoked By Federal Judge.

SOMETIMES THE GOOD GUYS PUSH THE POINT HOME:  Fairness in Women’s Sports Act becomes law.

BY DAVE FREER, NOW A PROMETHEUS AWARD FINALIST:  Cloud-Castles.

#CommissionEarned

Augustus Thistlewood was an idealist. The youngest scion of a vastly wealthy family, he’d come to help the poor, deprived people of the strange world of Sybill III – a gas-dwarf world with no habitable land. The human population, descendants of a crashed convict transport, lived on a tiny, crowded, alien antigravity plate they called ‘the Big Syd’, drifting through the clouds in the upper atmosphere. It was a few square miles of squalor, in a vast sea of sky, ruled by the degenerate relics of two alien empires.
The problem was that the people of the Big Syd wanted to help themselves, first – to his money, his liberty, and even his life.
Only two things stood between them and this: the first was his ‘assistant’ Briz, – a ragged urchin he’d picked up as a guide. She reckoned if anyone was going to steal from Augustus, it was going to be her, even if she had to keep him alive so that she could do it. And the second thing was Augustus himself. He didn’t know what ‘giving up’ meant. Actually, he didn’t know what most things meant. As a naïve, wide-eyed innocent blundering through the cess-pit of Sybill III, he was going to have to learn, mostly the hard way. Some of that learning was going to be out in the strange society that existed on the endless drifting clumps of airborne vegetation, and the Cloud-Castles of the aliens who hunted across them. Most of it was learning that philanthropy wasn’t quite what they’d taught him in college.

POLITICS IS DOWNSTREAM FROM CULTURE:  Art Matters: The Death of Art vs the Art of Death. [VIDEO]

BEHOLD, MY SHOCKED FACE:  Veteran Democratic Operative Linked to Restart of Case Against Trump.

Recent press reports show that a veteran Democratic political operative played a large part in restarting the case against Donald Trump that the prior Manhattan District Attorney, the Justice Department, and Alvin Bragg himself previously declined to prosecute. Matthew Colangelo is closely aligned with President Joe Biden and his former boss Barack Obama.

Colangelo was a senior official in the Biden Justice Department and filled a variety of roles in the Obama administration, as an economic counselor, and then in the Departments of Labor and Justice.

The appearance of yet another Obama-Biden deputy in the nearly seven-year-long and ongoing anti-Trump operation may help illuminate why precedent and protocol have been trashed for the purpose of charging a former American president and the likely Republican candidate for 2024.

Trump’s opponents argue that the extraordinary punishment visited on him is commensurate with his extraordinary violations of political and social norms. But what if the norm-breaker at the center of the drama isn’t the 45th president of the United States but is rather his predecessor and his successor? — Read the whole thing.

WELL, PERSONALLY? I’LL BELIEVE IT WHEN SIGNIFICANT PORTIONS OF THE CLINTON, BIDEN AND OBAMA CLANS ARE BEHIND BARS:  Why I can’t believe “no one is above the law” arguments.

THIS USED TO BE  TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS (PREDATING CARTER’S CREATION OF THE DEPT. OF EDUCATION):  The Source of Our Freedom Is Our Creator, Not Government.

WHEN NOT MALICIOUS, THEY’RE STUPID:  FBI handcuffs, interrogates innocent Delta Air Lines pilot in botched Boston training exercise.

Abolish the FBI, salt the earth.

AND DELIVERED US BOUND TO OUR FOES:  Drowning in a Sea.

WE’RE DANCING IN A POWDER KEG:  Tucker Carlson Outlines the Ramification of Trillions in U.S. Treasury Bonds No Longer Needed as Global Securities.

WELL, OF COURSE THE JUNTA IS DOING THAT:  Florida Grand Jury: Biden Regime is Facilitating Sex Trafficking of Foreign Children.

Is it evil? Then they’re doing it.

OF COURSE. LIKE HOMELESSNESS:   The Border Isn’t Just a Crisis, It’s Also a Grift.

The Kakistocracy is also a Furtumacy.

HE’S NOT WRONG:   Trump: Our Country Is Going To Hell.

NO. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION HAD MORE SUPPORT ON THE GROUND:  Our French Revolution.

WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE VOTERS WERE POST-VITAL?  Chicago Doubles Down With Brandon Johnson.

THINGS ARE GETTING …. FUN:  Tennessee Legislature May Expel Riot Leader Members.

Not saying it wasn’t warranted, but if it goes national….

WELL, SURE, WHY NOT?  CDC Sending Team to Africa in Wake of Marburg Virus Outbreak.

AS A WOMAN, I DO NOT THINK MEN MAKE THE BEST WOMEN:  Nike Women Picks Trans Activist Dylan Mulvaney to Model New Activewear.

SEND US THINE ASTEROID, OH LORD:  NASA Embraces DEI Policies, Appoints ‘Diversity Ambassador’.

OH IT’S ONE OF THOSE DAYS:  Send Us Thine Asteroid, O Lord. [Video]