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What We’re Reading: New York State Of Decline, Dems Go Hard Left, Shutdown Pain … And More

Is New York’s Decline Inevitable, No Matter Election Result?

Good And Hard, New York — Allison Schrager, Substack

Texas wants a piece of Wall Street — Sherwood News

Here’s where big Wall Street firms are moving as NYC looks poised to elect a socialist mayor — New York Post

Nearly a million New Yorkers ready to flee NYC if Mamdani becomes mayor — possibly igniting largest exodus in history: poll — New York Post

The Last Time New York Hit Rock Bottom — Washington Free Beacon

Democratic Party Now A Party Of The Hard Left

The Left’s Elites Have Big Plans For You, Peon — Open Society Foundations, via DataRepublican, X

Socialism And The Demise Of The Democrat Party — American Thinker

Hostile Takeover: The DSA’s Plan to Capture American Politics — Canary Mission

It’s a failed ideology, but devout leftists still believe in it — American Thinker

Suddenly, Latin America Matters To The U.S. Again

Optimism Is Back in Argentina — Foundation for Economic Education

Trump and Maduro are both amassing military forces as tensions build in the Caribbean — CNN

Trump advisor says Venezuela actions go beyond drug-trafficking — American Thinker

Trump administration is planning new mission in Mexico against cartels, current and former U.S. officials say — NBC News

Dems’ Unnecessary Shutdown Inflicts More Pain

Democrats divided over cutting deal to end shutdown — The Hill

Shutdown Hitting Millions of Homes That Depend on Heating Assistance — Breitbart

Every Shutdown in Last 35 Years Was Ended by a Continuing Resolution Like the One Dems are Rejecting — CNSNews

Democrats’ Support of Illegal Aliens Also Caused the Previous Shutdown — CNSNews

Media Malpractice, Or Is That Redundant?

BBC ‘Materially Misled’ Viewers to Believe Trump Encouraged January 6th Riots With ‘Doctored’ Clips — Breitbart

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes Took A Trip To China Paid For By Beijing’s Top Propaganda Front — Natalie Winters, Substack

President Trump Drops the Mic on 60 Minutes — Eric Daugherty, X

The Atlantic Says It’s Trump Officials’ Own Fault They Have To Flee Homes For Safety — The Federalist

Just 4% of Adults Have Great Deal of Trust in TV News, Newspapers — CNSNews

No End In Sight For American Education’s Tailspin

No A for Effort — David A. Bell, Substack

Harvard Students Sob, Skip Class, Plan Protests Over Grade Inflation Report  — New York Sun, via Archive.today

Failing Upwards: The Perverse Incentives of Teachers’ Unions — The Daily Economy

Schoolhouse Limbo: How Low Will Educators Go to ‘Better’ Grades? — Real Clear Investigations

A Nation Forgetting Itself: The Cost of Civic Illiteracy — Real Clear Politics

Artificial Intelligence: An End Or Beginning?

The Microchip Era Is About to End — George Gilder, Wall Street Jouurnal

Wall Street’s AI Obsession Makes Perfect Sense — Tyler Cowen, The Free Press

The most likely AI apocalypse — Vox, via MSN

What explains views about Artificial Intelligence? — Nathan Goldschlag, Substack

Don’t Miss This Miscellaneous, But Important, Stuff …

Dick Cheney, powerful VP who pushed Iraq invasion, dies at 84 — USA Today

How Hamas Is Exploiting the Trump Plan to Maintain Control of Gaza — The Gatestone Institure

Trump’s Trade Strategy on Trial in Supreme Court — Real Clear Politics

Trump tells Pentagon to resume testing US nuclear weapons — Reuters

How Germany Became the World’s Worst-Performing Economy — The Daily Economy

Comey expected to work for ‘President-elect Clinton,’ knew top aide was talking to media: emails — Just The News

Products, fuel, and electricity are the real climate challenges for the future — Ron Stein, America Out Loud News

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