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Ed: Yeah ... I'm not really into that. Not surprised to hear that House Democrats are, though. Their counterparts in the Senate just spent the last six weeks pissing on the poor, on federal workers, and on airline travelers. 

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Axios: House Democrats have landed on their plan of attack to try to salvage what they see as an inadequate deal to end the government shutdown: A discharge petition on extending their coveted Affordable Care Act tax credits.

Why it matters: The tactic is a long-shot — it will require Republican support that may not materialize — but Democrats see it as their last hope to force a House vote on the issue.

Ed: Yeah, good luck with that one. Jeffires has to get a majority of the House to sign onto a discharge petition. He'd need to flip three House Republicans. Thomas Massie may oppose this Senate bill, but he's not going to support extensions on ObamaCare subsidies. 

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Then MGP of Washington State goes to the floor and files a resolution criticizing  Chuy Garcia, a member of her own party from a district 2,000 miles away.

Ed: Great job, House Dems. Five stars. No notes. 

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Ed: This is why I didn't bother to write anything about this story today. It's too obvious a narrative manipulation by Democrats on Capitol Hill to deflect progressive anger for their stupidity in playing chicken with the budget, for no good reason at all. And by "manipulation," I mean ...

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Techno Fog: Of course, context is necessary. Epstein’s email contains serious allegations - allegations that were denied by Virginia Giuffre, the redacted “Victim” named in the email. ...

There you have it. Trump never flirted with or had relations with Virginia Giuffre. She never saw Trump in Epstein’s presence or at his residence. She never saw Trump or met with Trump outside of Mar-a-Lago - certainly not at Epstein’s home.

But the fabrications don’t stop there.

Ed: Read it all. The big tell here was the redaction of Giuffre's name from an email that (a) had already been released without redactions and (b) highlighting an allegation that Giuffre had already denied under oath. This is what I mean by manipulation.

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Ed: Indeed. 

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Ed: We don't have to imagine it. Crockett has always been one of the most entitled members of the House. Now she wants to run for the Senate, but ... I don't believe that California, New York, or Nevada have any seats up for election in the midterms next year. Tough luck for Crockett. 

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Rep. Liccardo, living in a fantasy bubble, still couldn’t admit it. 

He blamed the GOP because they "run the government," as if that excuses the Democrat filibuster.

Make no mistake: Democrats owned the power to end the Schumer Shutdown on day one. The filibuster needed 60 votes. 

Republicans didn’t have the votes. Only Democrats could’ve stopped it, and they didn’t.

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Ed: And who was filibustering in the Senate? The Democrats ... until they weren't. These people aren't idiots. They just think YOU'RE idiots. 

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Kira Davis: We are now living with multiple generations of Americans who have adopted the worldview of their psychologically underdeveloped teachers.

And that raises another layer of this theory - the progressive takeover of education.

Slowly, over the last 50-75 years, leftwing politicians and activists have created more and more government classroom time for America’s children. From kindergarten to pre-k programs to free meals all day long, our children spend more time in the care of government and away from their families than ever before. Simultaneously, we have shifted our society to value academic pursuits over trades and other practical career paths. College is no longer an elite achievement, it is the standard. The result is a 13-20 year pipeline of children who will spend more waking hours with government employees and overpaid, elitist professors than their own parents.

The kids with the purple hair and the septum rings, getting pepper-sprayed by ICE agents in the city streets, are simply acting the way they were raised to act. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

It’s almost like the whole thing has been on purpose.

Ed: Kira's being sarcastic, of course. Read it all. And while you're at it, read this from two weeks ago, too ...

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Wai Wah Chin at the NY Post:  “Social,” “emotional,” “learning” are empathetic, comforting — irresistible — words, so with 49 states backing it and 83% of American schools using it, SEL is in a school near you. Yet most parents have no idea what it really means.

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SEL slips into classrooms with confusing tools and routines like “circle-time confessions,” “resilience circles,” “feelings check-ins” and goal-setting sessions that sound warm and wholesome but are more therapy than education. ...

This generation’s children, perhaps the most coddled and privileged ever, are now told they are “dysregulated” and beset by mental-health problems, so schools keep asking: Are you feeling OK? Stressed? Anxious? Emotionally fragile?

As the famous Dartmouth Scar Experiment showed, when people are told they’re scarred, they begin to act like victims. Keep asking well-adjusted kids if they feel bad; they’ll soon say yes. And just as happened to the experiment’s participants, expectations will create invisible limits on the kids.

After destabilizing students’ emotions in every class, even math and science, with “trauma-informed education,” SEL fills the void it created — with ideology.

Ed: As I have argued for at least the last two years, American Academia is entirely rotten and needs to be cut off from all federal funding. The same is true for primary and secondary education. We need to end the education monopoly at all levels and give parents the option to give their children an actual education. 

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Ed: Again, they think YOU'RE idiots and can be gaslit. Although I think Crockett may also be an idiot herself. 

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Darleen Click at Victory Girls: Timothée Chalamet, accomplished actor, made an observation about life, family and his own aspirations about a future family of his own and the usual suspects are ready to gather pitchforks and torches. ...

For years now we’ve watched as major media outlets have extolled the child-free lifestyle. What began as a side-eye to Yuppies of the 1980s became the embraced lifestyle of DINK power couples. From glamorous magazine spreads to advertising of exotic vacations and sleek urban interior design, 20 or 30-something couples with nary a child in sight have held sway. DINKitude is ubiquitous enough that now almost half of couples are childless and want it to stay that way. If they are happy, so be it. But why the hostility to Chalamet’s desire to have kids?

At a time of increasing depression and loneliness, this kind of backlash would appear to be defensiveness about a chosen lifestyle that is turning out not quite what the practioners had imagined. Certainly Chalamet is not alone is looking to a future that is more than just about self.

Ed: Of course he isn't alone. Having children is a testament to hope as well as the nuclear family. Progressives hate both equally. 

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Ed: Well ... at least Mexico is paying for THIS one. And it's very amusing that Sheinbaum feels the need to protect itself against cartels in the same way that Trump wants to use for the US, but somehow that's different. 

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Ed: Seems to be a theme, no?

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