NATION
2 Judicial Strikes Against Efforts to Keep Trump Off Ballot
Special Counsel Lets Biden Off Scot-Free In Classified Docs Case While DOJ Tries To Imprison Trump For The Same Thing. Editorial Note: Actually, the two cases are not “the same thing”. As president, Trump had the legal right to possess and/or declassify classified material. As a vice president, Biden possessed no such right.
Video allegedly shows woman stealing ballots from Lawrence mailbox (Mainstreamish)
Nearly 450 patients at Massachusetts hospital may have been exposed to HIV, hepatitis (Mainstream)
NYC Mayor Adams reveals budget cuts will slash 4,000 police jobs over the next two years
Ivy League Backlash Draws Money, Students to Upstart University in Texas (Mainstream)
Teachers Union Head Mystified by Increase in Homeschooling
Why we are sleepwalking into tyranny
There are no limits to the lies when the target audience is essentially detached from reality. In the book 1984, George Orwell symbolized this by showing that the model citizens readily accepted the government decree that 2+2=5. Many of the lies of the left are equally absurd. They are direct contradictions of what we know to be true.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Václav Havel, two brilliant antagonists of tyranny, said that simply and steadfastly telling the truth was a fundamental weapon that citizens should use against tyrants. Solzhenitsyn said, “The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.”
WORLD
It’s Time to End Magical Thinking About Russia’s Defeat (Mainstream) Editor’s Note: Whatever else might be said about msn.com, they do sometimes get us past paywalls, in this case, WSJ.
Communications Blackout in Gaza as Fuel Runs Out
Friday’s Palestine solidarity rallies grip Türkiye as conflict lingers
Nigeria: a pro-Palestinian demonstration leaves one dead
Finnish parliamentarian criminally charged for social media post
HEMISPHERE
Democracy on the Line as Guatemalan Prosecutors Take Aim at President-Elect
Panama Canal restrictions to stretch into 2024 as low water levels persist
Chevron Expands Venezuela Oil Swap Deal as Sanctions Ease
HEALTH
Childhood Vaccination Rates Are Declining. You Can Blame MAGA Editorial Comment: We can also thank Pfizer and Moderna for fueling this trend.
MACRO
Americans Are Still Fleeing High-Tax States
Household electricity prices worldwide in March 2023, by select country
Average monthly electricity prices in Great Britain 2013-2023
MICRO
South Korea unveils plan to ban dog meat by 2027 (Mainstream) Editor’s Note: In the spirit of eclecticism, Zamisdat has now linked twice to WAPO. Still have not linked to Fox News, however, and I hope we never do.
Michigan records 133, 806 harvested deer so far for 2023.
Target Doubles Down, Faces Conservative Backlash As ‘Woke’ Christmas Decor Hits Shelves
WORTH ANOTHER LOOK
Remembering How Arturo Beltrán Leyva And 17 Other Inmates Escaped From Durango Prison
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