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News discussed:

Democrats agreed on environmental/inflation bill

Airfield in Crimea spontaneously combusts

Also, a conscript barracks in Moscow caught fire. No casualties reported.

Also, a Belarusian air force base also spontaneously combusted

Secret Service deleted all their texts from around 1/6

Outgoing Pentagon officials also had phones wiped

Mar-A-Lago raided

Equifax glitch misreported credit scores for millions by up to 130 points. Class action lawsuit now. 

Pelosi went to Taiwan

PredictIt being shut down by Feds

Trump endorsed “Eric” in Missouri Republican primary

United Mine Workers of America to pay more than $13 million in compensation to an Alabama coal company 

Nebraska teen and mother facing charges for DIY abortion at 28 weeks, cops using Facebook messages as evidence

America’s most reliable newscaster ordered to pay $49.3 ($45.2 punative, $4.1 compensatory) million in damages to Sandy Hook families

Texas statute probably limits punitive damages to $750K

Happy News!

Kansas abortion amendment got crushed

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The thrice-damned NRC approved NuScale Power’s small, modular reactor designs

The NRC also approved the Vogtle power plant in Georgia to begin loading fuel and testing whether it can run commercially. This is the first new US power plant to receive such approval since the NRC was formed in 1974

7yr old saves 3yr old from drowning

TBC Episode on Labor Unions

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News discussed:

Bill passed Senate to subsidize chip manufacturing

Manchin made a deal on a deficit reduction/climate change bill

Bill protecting same-sex (and interracial) marriage passed House w/47 votes from R’s

House passes stupid dumb assault weapons ban. Probably (hopefully?) doomed in the Senate.

PACT Act failed to pass

Kevin Drum thinks the Republicans have a point

A 2016 law requires the Office of Management and Budget to establish a board to provide information on the effects of regulations related to federal research requirements and make recommendations on aligning and streamlining requirements

My IRB Nightmare - Slate Star Codex

16 years of Alzheimer’s research was based on fraud

Zvi: “If this is fraud, we need to update a bunch on the probability that a bunch of other stuff is also fraud.”

Evergrande defaulted on their debt

Four rural banks in China's central Henan province froze millions of dollars worth of deposits

Led to a banking scandal investigation

War 

with 

China?

NHS in Britain to close Tavistock child gender identity clinic over safety fears

had no standards of care

Whistleblowers report harassment and threats when they brought up these issues

FDA added “brain swelling” and vision loss to warning label of puberty blockers

Your Book Review: The Castrato

Zelenskyy calls for mass evacuations as fighting rages in Ukraine's east

Apparently the Russian economy is in the toilet

Record heat wave in Europe

Fires everywhere

It’s time to riot

Happy News!

Hero saves family from burning house 

Troop Deployments

Eneasz -  Well Actually Accuracy Is Important

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Idaho GOP overwhelmingly rejects adding abortion exception to save the life of the mother to their platform 

Ohio abortion clinic received calls from two women with ectopic pregnancies who said their doctors wouldn’t treat them 10-year-old girl who had been raped was forced to travel from Ohio to Indiana to get an abortion

An Abortion Is Not An Abortion If A 10-Year-Old Gets One, Says Anti-Abortion LeaderGermany: reject modernity, RETVRN TO COAL

Sri Lanka suffers critical existence failure 

Compare: protests in The Netherlands.

US and Russia getting into dick-measuring contest over Lithuania. 

Surprise Jan. 6th hearing!

Biden bought back “guilty until proven innocent” campus sexual assault rules

Omicron booster!

Paxlovid at the pharmacy!

SCOTUS granted cert in a worrisome election law case

Alito, Gorsuch, and Thomas all wrote in favor of this theory before

FDA killing smokers for lulz 

California passed a gun bill authorizing civil enforcement by individuals

Armed Bystander (carrying legally) stopped a mass shooting in a mall in Indiana 

MonkeyPox News:

Doesn’t require sexual contact. It is an overall rash that is easily mistaken for chicken pox.

It is primarily an affliction of MSM though. Seems to mostly be spread thru sexual networks

Cases in US up to 1800 as of a few days ago 

Receiving a vaccine up to four days after exposure can prevent disease onset altogether, but even getting it up to two weeks after exposure can reduce symptoms 

US has over 1M vaccines, but FDA bureaucracy has strangled distribution to ~1/10th of that 

2.5 M more Monkeypox vaccines ordered 

Happy News!

First batch of pictures released from the James Webb space telescope. 

the deep field image which shows clear lensing

a picture of Andromeda where individual stars are clearly visible

a patient in New Zealand has undergone gene-editing to lower their cholesterol 

Samsung has started initial production of its 3-nanometer semiconductor chips

Tata Chemicals opened the UK’s first industrial scale carbon capture and usage plant today, captures 40,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide each year

In England, a dog escaped only to return later that day with a ribbon won at a local dog show 

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News discussed:

Followup: Turkey is supporting Sweden and Finland’s NATO applications

SCOTUS News

Roe is dead

Egbert v. Boule - border patrol agents can’t be sued for excessive force

Ahmed v. Weyker - 8th Circuit - (deputized) federal officer invented a fake drug trafficking ring and fabricated a bunch of evidence

Byrd v. Lamb - 5th Circuit - DHS agent tried to kill a guy for personal reasons

NYSRPA v. Bruen - “may issue” gun permits are unconstitutional

Related - gun control bill passed Senate

Vega v. Tekoh - victim can’t sue for lack of Miranda warnings

West Virginia v. EPA - EPA can’t regulate carbon emissions

Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta - State criminal laws apply to non-Indians on Indian land

Biden v. Texas - Biden can end the “remain in Mexico” asylum policy

Denezpi v. US - double jeopardy clause is dead?

Carson v. Macon - essentially reiterates Espinoza saying school choice programs can’t exclude religious

Related - Shurtleff v. Boston - if State allows citizens to fly flags at city hall, they can’t prohibit “Christian flag”

KENNEDY v. BREMERTON SCHOOL DISTRICT - Coach leading prayer on field after game is OK

Clarence Thomas is at the peak of his power

Thomas: "substantive due process" is an oxymoron that "lack[s] any basis in the Constitution." 

Happy News!

FIRE goes global

PG&E Commissions Its Moss Landing Elkhorn Battery 

158 Tesla Mega-Batteries Will Boost Hawaii Green Energy By 10%, And Shut Down Coal-Fired Power Plant

Qilin Battery can achieve 1,000 km vehicle range

Implant that relieves pain on demand and without the use of drugs

A stray dog in the country of Georgia has appointed himself as the local crossing guard for young children crossing a busy intersection. He’s a very serious boy.

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Google seems to say that carbon footprint of solar breaks even pretty early and is at least better than gas and coal.

Here's the master study that articles tend to cite

Here is nasa giving irradiance data for new york

Family care centers in at least two states discarded thousands of cans of unopened, unexpired baby formula

Moderna has an omicron-specific booster that works really well!

Vaccine approved for humans under 5yrs old

Germany will use more coal! 

France’s nuclear energy output drops due to lack of maintenance of their nuclear fleet due to a pivot towards renewables

Chandler v California Department of Corrections targets California S.B. 132 

Collin Wright kicked off Paypal and Etsy soon after

WNYC and NYT both openly saying some kids may be being pushed into sex change too aggressively. 

FINA says to compete in swimming, transition must be before age 12

“Progressive prosecutor” Chesa Boudin crushed in San Francisco

The Asian Thing

A crazy dude almost tried to kill Brett Kavenaugh 

Inflation is high! But core CPI is falling

Employment is way up!

US to seize all imports from Xinjiang unless proven not made by slaves 

 Supreme Court allows states to use gerrymandered congressional maps in the 2022 midterm elections

SpaceX will be required to take more than 75 actions to mitigate environmental impacts before the company can receive a launch license for the site from the FAA

Turing test passed with flying colors

G7 discussing a price cap on Russian energy exports

Happy News!

Joe Biden proposes plan to save the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant

Driverless rideshare service approved in San Francisco!

Santa Claus is running for Alaska’s open house seat!

Vasectomy Switch! 

Popular/Beloved old lady had her house gifted to her by neighbors :) 

Diversity is supposed to be good because it promotes ... exposure to a wide range of ideas

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The receipt for the tactical vest worn by the Aurora shooter 

Kiel school had to open a Title IX investigation? 

The school closed the investigation

Abbott restarts production of specialty formulas at Michigan plant

CDC concluded its investigation with no findings of a link between Abbott formulas and infant illnesses.

Kyiv was hit by Russian missiles targeting a train yard used for food distribution.

SCOTUS blocked Texas social media law from going into effect

Also SCOTUS: ineffective assistance of post-conviction counsel can’t justify an evidentiary hearing in federal court

Iran seized a Greek oil tanker in the Persian gulf. 

Biden allowing solar panel imports from Asia for 2 years, and  invoking the Defense Production Act to help expand American solar panel manufacturing

Doctor Oz won the PA Republican primary

Boris Johnson Faces No-Confidence Vote Over Lockdown Parties

Podcast on nuclear regulation

Church Committee report 

Happy News!

A mom dodged cops and stormed the Uvala school to get her kid out. F*****g Chad As Hell.

THEY’RE BUILDING A HOTEL IN SPACE BEGINNING IN 2025

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News discussed:

The Ministry to Truth is dead? 

The director wanted to be able to edit tweets to add context

After 2 months of fighting, port city of Mariupol has fallen to Russia

NYT editorial urges Ukraine to consider surrender

Sweden and Finland applied for NATO membership

Turkey objects, claims they house Kurdish Separatists

Russia retaliated by cutting off gas to Finland

FDA shut down baby formula plant after voluntary recall in February.

Baby formula shortage results.

European formula is banned just because.

FactCheck.org says it’s “misinformation” to claim that the FDA isn’t awesome, and says the shortage isn’t anyone’s fault.

To solve this problem, congress passes a bill to give the FDA another $28M and allows food stamps (WIC) to cover more brands of formula. 

Also the military airlifted in 70,000 tons of formula from Germany. That’s enough for 9,000 babies and 18,000 toddlers for one week, and is not for retail, it’s going only to hospitals and clinics.

Elizabeth Warren Introduces Price-Gouging Bill

Quick analysis here

Twitter thread saying surge pricing ("gouging") should be mandatory

Insane racist kills 10 in supermarket shooting in Buffalo

Cites Great Replacement

That being said, leftists have been open about how replacing deplorables is a good thing.

Biden whoopsie on defending Taiwan vs China

Elon Musk accused of exposing himself to employee by “a friend” of employee, who pinky-swears that this totally happened.

Elon says he’ll vote Republican because Dems “have become the party of division & hate”

Tech stocks plummet, Musk tries to get better deal on Twitter purchase

Opening Argument on why It’s probably a pretext

Texas social media law allowed to go into effect

Text of the law

PopeHat thinks it’s bad

Afghan women will be forced to wear Burqas

Three schoolboys (age 13) are being taken to court in the US state of Wisconsin for sexual harrasement after one of them allegedly declined to use the they/them pronouns for a fellow student

StableCoins are dead, at least for now

Mercedes Lackey Cancelled

Happy News!

80,000 Hours releases climate change review endorsing “this is not an existential risk to the species”

New York Rolling Out Noise Law

“Something Weird” happening re Universe Expanding. 

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Russian blockade stops export of Ukranian wheat - 4.5M tons. 

Trains trying to take up slack, 600k tons/month.

Louisiana introduced a bill to classify any abortion after conception as homicide

Biden created a “Disinformation Governance Board” that’s totally not a Ministry of Truth

Nina Jankowicz has a book all about how hard it is to be a woman

PayPal canceled accounts of two prominent independent news outlets 

The news sites are critical of the war in Ukraine and call it American Imperialism

Criticism of the NYT Elon Musk hit piece 

NYT drops in stealth-edits

NYT requested an interview from a friend of Musk. His reply was f*****g epic.

Dave Chappelle tackled on stage by some dipshit

ACLU Wrote Amber Heard's Op-Ed for $3.5M. 

Smithsonian will be returning stolen artifacts

Happy News!

People aren’t as crazy as you think!

And they hate you less than you think!

Prometheus Fuels converts renewable electricity from solar and wind power into zero net carbon gasoline 

It’s likely that over half of Russia’s nukes are duds

Troop Deployments

David - Servant of the People is very good

Heumer on Abortion

Eneasz -  Secure abortion rights in your state

Wes - How to do a self-managed abortion

Don’t get misoprostal from veterinary sources!

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News discussed:

Maybe we already have missile defense tech?

Youtube video claiming we can handle intermediate range missiles, but not ICBMs with reliability

US intercepted an ICBM in 2020

Zvi post on game theory

Crisis Watch China-focused OSINT Substack

World food prices are up 13%

Major fires in Russian chemical plant, industrial center, and defense research buildings

Sweden and Finland will apply to join NATO

What is Germany doing?

Greg Abbott caused a huge traffic backup on the Mexico border for no reason

Florida stripped Disney’s independent status because of opposition to “Don’t Say Gay” bill

It’s definitely unconstitutional

Cases in China still increasing despite lockdowns

A nuclear-armed state accidentally launched a missile at another nuclear-armed state

CNN+ collapsed in less than a month

Macron won in a landslide

Federal courts keeps telling Biden to stop being racist

Agricultural bailout targeted only non-white applicants

Google’s AI-Powered ‘Inclusive Warnings’ Feature Is Very Broken

Trump held in contempt for failing to provide documents

Happy News!

UK building 8 more nuclear plants

Bailout for nuclear plants!

Mask mandate declared unconstitutional 

Now you can wear good masks if you want to

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News discussed:

Farmers planted extra wheat last fall due to expectation of conflict

Michigan Governor Kidnap Plot - 2 not guilty, 2 mistrial, due to FBI entrapment

Europe not paying for gas in rubles

Russia has withdrawn from Kyiv, focusing on Eastern Ukraine

Mass murder of civilians in Bucha and several other cities

Biden called Putin a war criminal

EU banning all bank transactions and coal imports

Russian state media is calling for full genocide

Poland is going full gigachad and has accepted 2.3 million refugees

Russian parliament introduced bill declaring any Russian speaker a citizen

Trump still asking Putin for dirt on Biden

7 hours of Trump’s call logs missing on 1/6. 

Unrest is beginning in China, possible riots?

Pets of COVID-positive citizens are killed

Zvi’s latest update

Far-Right French President Candidate has a good shot at winning

Ginni Thomas is a crazy conspiracy theorist

Amazon challenging union vote due to organizers handing out weed

MIT is bringing back the SAT

DALL-E 2 makes amazing art on demand

Googles Pathways Language Model explains jokes, and it can distinguish cause and effect and understand counterfactuals

AlphaCode can solve natural-language coding problems at the level of a new programmer. 

Socratic Modeling system

Musk not joining the Twitter board

State Court Finds California’s Diversity Mandate for Corporate Boards Is Unconstitutional

BLM is a huge scam

US passports now include Gender X 

Happy News!

Old skins cells reprogrammed to be young again!

“The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy estimates it would cost just over $24 billion to have prototype vaccines ready for each of the 26 known viral families that cause human disease.”

SCOTUS held that you can sue for malicious prosecution if your criminal charges are dropped

The Bayesian Conspiracy on whether you should punch Nazis

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