Common Factors

 But about 5.4 million of 7.5 million new gun owners over the past two years had previously lived in homes without guns. According to the study, that increase collectively exposes another 11m people in those homes to the risk of household firearms. [More]

Really? What happens and behaviors in high-risk homes track with what happens and behaviors in homes where the guns are lawfully possessed?

Y'know, if an honest person looked at this closely, he might start to get the idea that it's not the guns at all...

[Via Jess]

We're the Only Ones Making Quite a Splash Enough

 California deputy accused of tossing urine test proving woman innocent goes to jail [More]

No need to get pissy about it...

[Via Michael G]

Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before

'Islamophobic Hate Crime' in Virginia Turns Out to Be Fake [More]

There's something perverse about the fact that these things would better serve their agenda if they were real.

[Via Michael G]

Ability Disenfranchises?

Your anger at the SATs is actually anger at broader social conditions which the SATs reveal. None of the arguments against the SAT are correct, or even internally coherent.  Essays, too, are income stratified - because affluent kids actually are better prepared.  Grades (and all other educational data) are race and income stratified too, because those gaps in preparedness are real, so what the f*** are we even talking about here.  Educational testing is in fact remarkably valid, reliable, and predictive.  Why eventually ability reigns. [More]

Even us lowly public university graduates who held jobs through school can understand that.

[Via Michael G]

Who Will Check the Checkers?

 Readers were directed to a “fact check” performed by a Facebook contractor named Lead Stories. We find the “fact check” performed by Lead Stories to be inaccurate, incompetent and irresponsible. [More]

Yes, they adhere to "community standards."

[Via Michael G]

Self-Made Men

 How Did the FBI End Up in This Mess? [More]

They did it to themselves. And this hasn't ended.

[Via bondmen]

Speaking of Domestic Extremists...

 NEVER FORGET: Democrats Rioted, Attacked, Beat Trump Supporters During Their Insurrection at President Trump’s Inauguration [More]

The difference is the powers that be find them useful.

[Via bondmen]

Settling the Science

 Fauci, Emails, and Some Alleged Science [More]

It's been a while since I've been in school, but I don't remember political smear jobs being part of the scientific method.

Somebody needs to redo the Thomas Dolby video...

[Via bondmen]

Squid Pro Quo

 According to Flessner, Lightfoot "has made a deal with the national civil rights movement to raise money for her reelection ... In exchange for national civil rights leaders donating millions of dollars to her campaign, she will do their bidding, like she did in the Young case. Chicago will be poorer for it." [More]

She does have a face made for frog-marching...

[Via bondmen]

Where There's a Will There's a Way

 MAN ROBS STORE WITH HIS FEET? [Watch]

I thought this had to be a gag but found other accounts saying it happened in May 2020 in Brazil.

Someone should design a brace so that ATF can change the rules and ban it.

[Via bondmen]

Ready to Go All In

 Millions of Angry, Armed Americans Stand Ready to Seize Power If Trump Loses in 2024 [More]

Hell, I'd be happy if I could get a hundred of them to routinely share links.

UPDATE:

But it looks like we've found the new narrative:

Ex-Army Generals Fear Insurrection or 'Civil War' in 2024

Look for it to be amplified, get more hyperbolic, and be used as "justification" to initiate "Patriot Act remedies."

[Via bondmen]

The Malign Miss M

  He wants us all to be just like his state, West Virginia. Poor, illiterate and strung out. [More]

Talk about the very definition of a bigot.

Judge’s ‘Bad Actor’ Comments in NY v. NRA Case May Offer Members Hope

“So should that not matter at all that there are five million members, a number of whom had tried to appear here and have taken the position, well, look, don’t throw out everything just because of some bad actors?” Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York Judge Joel M. Cohen asked the attorneys. [More]

Will the intervenor efforts pay off?

What's in a Name?

 In November, the state Sex Offender Management Board voted to replace “sex offenders” with “adults who commit sexual offenses.” Then the board opened that decision up to public comment, and that’s where things went off track. [More]

Why? What was wrong with "f***ing perverts"?

[Via cydl]

Of Course You Realize This Means War

 “Neither the States nor the United State [sic] shall make or enforce any law infringing the right to keep and bear arms of the sort ordinarily used for self-defense or recreational purposes, provided that States, and the United States in places subject to its general regulatory authority, may enact and enforce reasonable regulations on the bearing of arms, and the keeping of arms by persons determined, with due process, to be dangerous to themselves or others.” [More]

No. Your move.

Don't fall for the con job.

The Beast with a Million Eyes

The new tech that finds enemies for you [Watch]

When they say "enemies" and when they say "you," who exactly are they referring to?

[Via Jess]

The Right Woman for the Job

 Greene last weekend posted a series of hateful anti-Trump, anti-Republican tweets by Kathleen Landerkin, the deputy warden of the Correctional Treatment Facility. Dozens of Donald Trump supporters arrested and charged for their involvement in the January 6 protest at the Capitol have been held at the CTF, denied bail by federal judges at the request of Joe Biden’s Justice Department. [More]

On the bright side, at least she won't have a crisis of conscience.

[Via Henry Bowman]

And There Was War in Heaven

 White House blasts Manchin's "inexplicable reversal" on Build Back Better Act [More]

I'm wondering if the "climate change" part of it would go after coal interests...

[Via DDS]

In the Spirit of the Season

 

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The wreath is a nice touch, don't you think?

[Via Len Savage] 

Let's Hope He Doesn't Pull an EPPStein

 Meet Ray Epps, Part 2: Damning New Details Emerge Exposing Massive Web Of Unindicted Operators At The Heart Of January 6 [More]

What other explanation besides a false flag conspiracy orchestrated by the government is there?

My guess this guy is sh!++!ing himself wondering when his handlers are going to decide he's too much of a liability and the reason no one has acted is because the ones directing things have so much to lose.

[Via bondmen]