GET’EM WHILE THEY’RE YOUNG: Biden to Launch Kiddie Klimate Korps Jobs Training Program.

CHANGE: Project Veritas Suspends All Operations Amid Devastating Layoffs and Fundraising Struggles.

Project Veritas, the conservative organization founded by James O’Keefe, suspended all operations on Wednesday after another round of layoffs, Mediaite has learned.

According to a letter titled “Reduction in Force” that was sent to Project Veritas staffers by HR director Jennifer Kiyak on Wednesday, the organization is putting all operations on pause amidst severe financial woes.

“In the interest of preserving the possible future existence of Project Veritas we need to put operations on pause and, as communicated since the Spring, another Reduction in Force (“RIF”) is necessary,” Kiyak wrote.

Six staffers were laid off from the embattled organization this week, sources said, including all remaining journalists and one development associate. One former Project Veritas staffer said just 11 people remain on the non-profit’s payroll, including CEO Hannah Giles.

Despite all the bad-mouthing O’Keefe got from his old organization when they forced him out, his new organization seems to be doing just fine.

SHOT: Trump’s Plan to Visit Auto Workers May Have Democrats Scrambling.

Chaser: Striking Autoworkers Are Cool to Biden’s Embrace.

Hangover: Biden and GM CEO Mary Barra are buds. It could affect the strike.

I DO ENJOY THESE: Bad Guy Beatdown Roundup. “Time for a roundup of criminals who had critical failures in their Victim Selection Process rolls.”

PAULA BOLYARD ON MERRICK GARLAND: Is This the Most Dangerous Man in America?

WELL, YES: It’s No Accident The Southern Border Is Collapsing, It’s Intentional.

Customs and Border Protection shut down two international bridges to deal with the crisis. The mayor of Eagle Pass, Rolando Salinas, declared an emergency on Wednesday, it seems with good reason. He told The New York Post that the surge of illegal immigrants, most of them single adult men from Venezuela, has swamped the city’s only migrant shelter. Many of them, says Salinas, “don’t want to listen to instructions.” He added, “Not all of them come in peace.”

Bill Melugin of Fox News has been in Eagle Pass this week posting jaw-dropping videos and images of the influx, which sure enough consists of mostly single adult men. The lines stretch over the river and along both banks as far as the eye can see. Whatever you think of the border and U.S. immigration policy, this is shocking.

All of it recalls the mass encampment of some 15,000 Haitians under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas, two years ago. At the time, images of what looked like a refugee camp you might see in a war-torn country dominated several news cycles, goading the Biden administration to disband the encampment and deport a small number of Haitians as a warning to others. Most of them fled back across the Rio Grande rather than face being deported to Haiti, a country they had left years ago for better jobs in South America (which countries they in turn left for better jobs in the United States).

But notice how the illegal immigrants in Melugin’s footage are walking calmly, not running, not trying to evade Border Patrol. They show every indication they believe they will not be detained long.

You might call it a crisis by design, to coin an Insta-phrase.

ALL THE SMARTEST PEOPLE TOLD ME DISNEY HAD ALREADY WON: Huge Win for DeSantis and Florida as Disney Announces Massive New Investments.

TWO PLUS TWO EQUALS RACISM: U. Maryland professor gets $600k grant to make math more ‘diverse’ and ‘equitable.’

Nobody actually believes this garbage, but for mid-six figures, they’ll happily sell the hell out of it — and destroy their own institutions in the process.

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: NY Gov. Hochul Is the Biggest Dem Hypocrite on Illegals and That’s Really Saying Something. “Incentives: how do they work, Kathy?”

IMPRESSIVE: SpaceX rocket launches Starlink satellites on record-breaking 17th flight.

The company has also already topped last year’s record-setting 61 successful launches in a single year.

#RESIST: 10 Arrested as Staten Island Protesters Block Bus Full of Migrants.

GOODER AND HARDER: Gavin Newsom Is Going To Destroy California.

The latest legislation is the most sweeping emissions disclosure set of rules for big business to date in the country.

The policy would require more than 5,300 companies to report their emissions, according to Ceres, a nonprofit policy group supporting the bill.

SB 253 requires companies with greater than $1 billion in annual revenues to file annual reports publicly disclosing their direct, indirect, and supply chain greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, verified by an independent and experienced third-party provider.

SB 261 requires companies with $500 million in annual revenues to prepare biennial reports disclosing climate-related financial risk and measures they have adopted to reduce and adapt to that risk, with the first report due by January 1, 2026.

Democratic Assemblymember Chris Ward drummed up the usual unsubstantiated fervor and urgency in regard to climate change. “We are out of time on addressing the climate crisis,” Ward urged. “This will absolutely help us take a leap forward to be able to hold ourselves accountable.”

A great leap forward — into the abyss.

Previously: The Coroner Will Rule California’s Death a Suicide.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: The Democrat J6 Insurrection Hoax Keeps Getting Worse. “Oh, they can pretend to be horrified about what they say went on that day, be we know that they privately chuckle at how they’ve been able to turn their false J6 narrative into a weapon to destroy their political opponents.”

THIS IS CNN: CNN’s Ratings Hit Rock Bottom.

The channel’s rating hit a record low over the weekend in the 25- to 54-year-old demographic, earning just 55,000 viewers for its programming. The ratings are the worst since at least 1991, according to Nielsen ratings data reported by the New York Post.

Fox News performed best in the demographic, at 75,000 viewers, while MSNBC pulled the worst total at 47,000. Overall viewership for CNN was 345,000 viewers, far behind Fox News’s 683,000 viewers.

The poor ratings come months after the network’s former CEO Chris Licht stepped down after receiving internal backlash for his efforts to make the channel less partisan.

How’s that workin’ out for ya, CNN?

JAN 6 LOOKS INCREASINGLY LIKE AN FBI SAUSAGE PARTY: There Were More Feds Embedded at Capitol Riot Than Previously Thought.

HMM: China is on a mission to spread deflation worldwide.

China is currently experiencing an unusual trend, with negative inflation rates splashed across various price metrics. When consumer prices tumbled in July, the global community raised eyebrows. They did rebound a bit in August, but not enough to alleviate concerns. Food products like pork showcased some of the most drastic fluctuations. However, this decline isn’t isolated to food; sectors such as home appliances and transport are also seeing dwindling prices.

While some areas like tourism are witnessing a price surge, the manufacturing sector paints a grim picture. Prices are dropping across a staggering two-thirds of the primary categories. Even more disconcerting? China’s export prices, which are sagging across an array of products, signaling potential trouble for countries importing Chinese goods.
…
China’s dipping export prices might not spell as dire a consequence for global inflation as one might fear. The multiple layers of costs, coupled with profit margins later in the supply chain, restrict the might of China’s deflationary impact. However, dismissing China’s potential to influence global financial health would be nothing short of naive.

Indeed. At the very least since COVID, Xi’s thinking seems to be it doesn’t matter if China isn’t doing very well so long as China’s rivals are doing even worse. Exporting deflation at a time when the U.S. has been busy trying to inflate away crushing federal and personal debt would be a pretty neat trick, so far as Xi is concerned.

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR WEEKLY INSANITY WRAP [VIP]: The Coroner Will Rule California’s Death a Suicide. “California’s state and local governments took one look at their own dismal precedent and said, ‘Hold my half-double decaffeinated half-caf with a twist of lemon.'”

Plus:

• Mr. I-Have-A-Puppy-In-My-Van would like to teach you about parental rights.
• About that lost F-35B…
• A lovely and brave moment of sanity from Pennsylvania high school kids.

So much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.

PRIORITIES:

🚨Chuck Schumer just filed cloture on Air Force General Charles Q. Brown Jr to become the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

As Chief of Staff, Brown has put DEI at the center of the Air Force.

This is his memo from August of last year in which he outlines the Air… pic.twitter.com/hqMbo0e1Vx

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) September 20, 2023

Xi laughs.

AT LEAST IT WASN’T AN EMOTIONAL SUPPORT PEACOCK: HUD Sues Landlord for Refusing Tenant’s Request to Keep ‘Emotional Support’ Cat.

KEVIN SORBO: ‘Tolerant’ Hollywood Filled with ‘Anger and Hate.’

ANYTHING SHORT OF AGGRESSIVE TREATMENT FOR MENTAL ILLNESS AND DRUG ADDICTION IS UNLIKELY TO DO MUCH: Sacramento DA Files Suit Against the City Alleging Inaction on the Homeless Crisis.

OH: Kaiser workers in DC, Virginia, Maryland authorize strike. “If Kaiser workers end up striking, it could be the largest healthcare strike in U.S. history, union representatives estimate.”

POVERTY SUCKS: Huge New Bidenomics Fail Threatens Joe Biden’s 2024 Campaign.

SAD: Watching Girls Die Online.

When people talk about Instagram accounts that fetishize anorexia, they tend to focus on the anorexic herself. Look at how thin she is, and look at how she’s encouraging others to be sick, they huff, as though one can reasonably attribute malice or even motivation to someone so ill.

But it’s the followers who are more culpable, the people who sign up to watch these young women sicken and die right in front of them. For a lot of people, there is something thrilling in watching a woman waste away, maybe because it seems like the ultimate expression of female self-denial, a feminine helplessness, a sexless kind of self-published pornography.

Social media quickly went from sharing photos of the kids with grandma to a high-speed vector for the spread of mental illness.

IT CERTAINLY ISN’T HELPING: Joe Biden’s Age Isn’t the Problem. “The media, which, don’t forget, was openly speculating who might replace Joe Biden in 2024 just a few years ago, is now struggling to figure out how to remove Joe Biden’s age as an issue.”