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A composite photo of video footage from rapper E-40’s Instagram that includes Mayor London Breed attending the 49ers vs. Raiders game in Nevada on Sunday, Jan. 1, 2023, which was a day after San Francisco experienced one of the largest storms in the city’s history San Francisco found itself deeply under water on New Year’s Eve to the surprise of Mayor London Breed and other city officials, who said they were expecting less than an inch of rain. But a day after parts of the Mission, SoMa and other neighborhoods flooded with several feet of water, Breed flew to Las...

Over the past decade or so, many folks on the broad Right have noticed that practically all of our institutions don’t really work as they should. The natural tendency on the part of normie conservatives is to chalk this up to incompetence and corruption. Granted, those do come into play - and will continue to do so increasingly. Yet structurally speaking, our institutional dysfunctionality runs a lot deeper than a little graft or some skimming off the top. Our institutional failures are both purposeful and towards a specific end. Normies can perhaps be forgiven for not immediately coming to this...

Gay adult film star Shawn Wolfe has died of a reported drug overdose. The death of Wolfe, whose real name was Shawn Paul Bertrand, Jr., was revealed last week in a heartfelt Facebook post by his mother, Valerie Wellner. Bertrand was 35. “We are completely devastated at the overwhelming loss in our lives, in our family, in our world,” Wellner posted to Facebook. “There are no words, just broken hearts and endless tears of sadness and grief.”

Reading the mainstream media’s reaction to today’s payrolls report, one would be left with the impression that it was generally on the goldilocks side and indicative of a possible soft-landing – consider this from Bloomberg: “the US labor market stayed resilient last month while wage gains cooled, raising hopes that the economy may dodge a recession and the Federal Reserve will further slow its aggressive campaign of interest-rate hikes.”.. Which is accurate: wage growth indeed slowed down following a major revision to the data (remember that 0.6% M/M jump in average hourly earnings that freaked out the market last month?...

Maxine Waters flips out on the House floor. (Credit: C-Span.) There have been some positive aspects of this fight over the Speaker of the House. It’s shown us who is willing to fight for rules that are more favorable for the members to fight for their constituents as opposed to just shoving bills through without any thought or discussion. We’ve seen Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) hold that banner high, as well as some of the other 20 who are fighting for that cause. That’s an important thing to fight for, to bring some sanity back to the decision-making. Rep. Matt...

Heavy rain, powerful winds and over 30-foot waves battered Capitola overnight and into Thursday afternoon, wreaking havoc to coastal businesses. "We have sustained some significant damage on the Capitola Wharf, so we're declaring a state of emergency," Mayor Margaux Keiser said Wednesday afternoon. About 350 people were given evacuation orders in Capitola Village—the city's main tourist destination filled with shops and restaurants—and a neighborhood along the Soquel Creek, where the water level shot up above ten feet, beyond what city officials predicted. "Where we would have expected it with this high tide is probably around six feet, yet we were...

A ‘robot lawyer’ is all set to defend a speeding ticket on its first day in court next month. In February, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) developed by DoNotPay will advise a defendant during an entire court case, likely making it the first-ever case defended by an AI. The AI will run on a smartphone, listening in to the proceedings of the courtroom before instructing the defendant on what to say via an earpiece as reported by the New Scientist. The location of the court and the name of the defendant are being kept under wraps at the moment. In case...

A large window completely destroyed, a patio wiped out, a home off Yankee Point Drive was left with ‘extensive damages’ Thursday. With waves reaching up to 50 feet from the Carmel Highlands to Pebble Beach, Monterey County officials say they are keeping a close eye on the swells. A home in the Carmel Highlands was slammed by a 50-foot wave according to CAL Fire, KSBW was able to get an exclusive inside look at the damages. Advertisement CAL Fire crews were left to pick up the pieces of the home. The majority of the back portion of the home was...

Multiple airports in Sinaloa state are closed after an Aeromexico flight was reportedly hit by gunfireCanada's government is urging Canadians in Mexico's Sinaloa state to limit their movements and shelter in place amid an outbreak of violence in the country's northwest following the arrest of a notorious drug cartel's leader. Mexican authorities on Thursday confirmed the arrest of Ovidio Guzman, a 32-year-old senior member of the Sinaloa Cartel and a son of jailed kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. His arrest unleashed a violent backlash by gang gunmen on Thursday that shut the airport in the city of Culiacan as authorities...

Nonfarm jobs rose by 223,000 and employment jumped but huge divergences continue for the 9th month. Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its Monthly Payroll Report. Initial Thoughts The divergence between jobs and employment continues for the ninth month but lessened in December. However, the full time employment divergence did not budge. The divergences between jobs and employment date back to March. Payrolls vs Employment Since March 2022 Nonfarm Payrolls: +2,887,000 Employment Level: +916,000 Full Time Employment: -288,000 Full time employment is down 288,000 since March and down by 444,000 since May! Mainstream media misses general miss the big...

The term intermittent fasting covers several approaches. The "Eat Stop Eat" method: Alternate days of normal eating and fasting, including two non-consecutive fasting days in a week. The 5:2 method: This alternates between five days of normal eating and two days (which can be consecutive) of 70-75% calorie reduction during the week. Time-restricted eating: This consists of narrowing the food intake window to between 6 and 10 hours per day, fasting between 14 and 18 hours during the day. With the "Eat Stop Eat" and 5:2 approaches, the data has shown they can effectively help us lose weight and improve...

On the eve of Pope Benedict XVI’s burial, Piero Laporta, a retired Italian brigadier general, published a stunning piece on his own blog.This Catholic author, who previously lobbied to have Benedict participate (and influence) the controversial Synod on the Family some eight years ago, is now revealing that in the first weeks after the election of Joseph Ratzinger to the papal throne in 2005, an official of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) “was bragging about the resignation to which H.H. Benedict XVI of revered memory would soon be forced.”If this story is true, however, “soon” would have to mean...

You’d almost think, based on the media coverage in Boston, that the Messiah had showed up in the Massachusetts State House to be inaugurated as governor, not Maura Healey. Despite the inability of Supreme Court Justice Brown Jackson to be sure what a woman is, the media are trumpeting the “Historic Day” and just can’t stop congratulating Bay State voters on their wisdom in electing her, with extra special bonus points for her being a lesbian. These screengrabs from WBZ-TV, CBS Boston complete with "Historic Day" plastered over the video and smug grins from the talking heads express the masturbatory...

Former national security adviser John Bolton says he will run for the Republican presidential nomination, according to "Good Morning Britain." "Donald Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton has told us that he will run for US President in a bid to stop his former boss from getting the nomination," the British television show tweeted Friday morning. In a report introducing a Friday interview with Bolton, the show said: "John Bolton has exclusively told 'Good Morning Britain' he wants to become the next president of the United States."

Former President Donald Trump is facing a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the girlfriend of U.S. Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, who a medical examiner said died of natural causes a day after the Jan. 6 Capitol breach. Sicknick’s girlfriend Sandra Garza is seeking at least $10 million in damages from Trump and from each of the two men charged in connection with the Jan. 6 incident. “The horrific events of January 6, 2021, including Officer Sicknick’s tragic, wrongful death, were a direct and foreseeable consequence of Defendants’ unlawful actions,” reads the complaint (pdf), which was filed on Jan. 5...

In late May of 2021, the Illinois General Assembly jammed through SB 818, a bill to require so-called “comprehensive sex-education” to be taught in public schools, starting in kindergarten through 12th grade. It was signed by Governor JB Pritzker and became law on August 20, 2021, despite the hue and cry of parents and grandparents throughout the state. Public schools that taught health and safety classes would have to now teach left-wing sexuality classes to our impressionable young students. Because 70 percent of school districts have opted out of these new (destructive) standards, State Senator Ram Villivalam (D-Chicago) has filed...

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. -- Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin had his breathing tube removed and has begun talking with his care team, family and his teammates.

Steve Bannon, President Trump’s former Chief Strategist, wholeheartedly supports the 20 Never-Kevins in their pursuit to elect a Speaker who represents all Republicans in the House and the Trump-supporting base of voters. For years now Republicans in Congress and the US Senate have brazenly ignored and mocked their voters by their refusal to stand on principle and fight the toxic left in America today.

Buffalo Bills head coach Sean McDermott thanked a long list of people for going above and beyond since safety Damar Hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest on the field Monday night in Cincinnati, but he had one very important shout-out at the end of the list. “Finally and just as important as anything is glory to God for his keeping Damar and his family in the palm of his hand over the last couple of days and his healing powers,” McDermott said during a Thursday news conference. “The amount of faith, hope and love that we saw on display over the...