Wednesday Whatnot

On a cloudy and mild Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, hate crime hoaxer Jussie Smollett's lawyers ask the Illinois Supreme Court to overturn his guilty verdict.

From FrontpageMag, congresscritter Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich) condemns memes inspired by the explosions of Hezbollah's pagers.

From Townhall, why was the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon carrying a Hezbollah pager?

From The Washington Free Beacon, according to a leaked text message, union members were offered $100 to attend a rally for congresscritter Susan Wild (D-PA).

From the Washington Examiner, California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) signs legislation that regulates deep fakes on social media.

From The Federalist, since former First Lady/Senator (D-NY)/Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wants to jail Americans for "misinformation", we should start with her.

From American Thinker, when will the Democrats and the media (if you'll forgive the redundancy) care about the damage caused by open borders?

From MRCTV, even if you don't have a social security number, California can give you a subsidized cell phone.  (Instead of an Obamaphone, would this be a Newsomphone?)

From NewsBusters, the Big Three networks still blasting Trump with 95 percent negative coverage.

From Canada Free Press, the aforementioned Hillary Clinton ignorantly suggests that the Chief Twit wants to rape singer Taylor Swift.

From TeleSUR, Mexican President-elect Elect Claudia Sheinbaum rejects an invitation from President Volodymyr Zelensky to visit Ukraine.  (If there weren't any Russian invasion going on, I'd love to visit Ukraine, if it were to involve a stop in Lviv, a.k.a. Lwów, from which my Polish grandmother emigrated.)

From TCW Defending Freedom, why does U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer have no compassion?

From Snouts in the Trough, the civilized world rejoices at Hezbollah terrorists getting blasted by their pagers, but the BBC is shocked.

From EuroNews, did a Hungarian company have anything to do with the exploding pagers?

From ReMix, Dutch King Willem-Alexander calls for migration control, citing the rule of law.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Magyar Nemzet.  If you read Dutch, as would be expected for a story from the Netherlands, I regrettably can't provide any source in that language.)

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a Syrian refugee allegedly vandalizes a memorial to the Protestant reformer Martin Luther in Wittenberg, Germany.  (If you read German, read the story at JouWatch.)

From Balkan Insight, North Macedonia's Constitutional Court temporarily "freezes" ethnic quotas in hiring.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco's Royal Air Force deploys two firefighter planes made by a Canadian company to fight wildfires in northern Portugal.

From The New Arab, according to sources, Israel planted explosives in pagers used by Hezbollah.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, Ethiopia's Ministry of Tourism launches the country's first-ever Tourism Satellite Account.

From the Colombo Gazette, the organization Reporters Without Borders raises concerns about freedom of the press in Sri Lanka, ahead of the country's upcoming elections.

From Free Malaysia Today, according to Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, halal certification in Malaysia will remain voluntary.

From the Borneo Post, when in Malaysia, don't trespass into any house or you'll go to the big house.

From Vietnam Plus, according to the Vietnamese Politburo, the country's north-south high-speed railway project is critical.  (Let's hope that they have fewer difficulties than the high-speed rail project in California.)

From the Taipei Times, the Taiwanese company Gold Apollo denies manufacturing the pagers which exploded in Lebanon.

From China News, Chinese scientists publish the first research paper on the lunar samples brought to earth by the Chang'e-6 spacecraft.

From The Korea Herald, South Korea confirms its fourth case of lumpy skin disease in cattle.

From The Mainichi, more nutrias, which are native to South America, are spotted along rivers in western Japan.

From Japan Today, a woman in the Japanese prefecture of Iwate kicks a bear in self-defense while holding her baby.  (Goldilocks has nothing on this gal.)

From Gatestone Institute, the longstanding tradition of hating Jews.

From The Stream, Israel's ultimate enemy is also the ultimate enemy of Christians.

From The Daily Signal, experts predict that up to 2.7 illegal aliens will vote in the upcoming elections.

From The American Conservative, can former President Trump beat back the "deep state"?

From The Western Journal, according to a new poll, the more Americans get to know presidential candidate Vice President Harris, the less they like her.

From BizPac Review, what Harris said to Trump after the second attempted assassination against him.

From The Daily Wire, a former Chief Patrol Agent claims that the Biden-Harris administration told him to hide the number of terrorists illegally crossing the border.

From the Daily Caller, according to a poll, a majority of voters support the mass deportation of illegal aliens.

From the New York Post, photos show the view that the second would-be Trump assassin had at Trump's Palm Beach, Florida golf course.

From Breitbart, the Biden-Harris administration refuses to condemn the threats to American freedom of speech by the E.U.

From Newsmax, the Federal Reserve cuts interest rates by half a point.

And from CBS News, more electronic devices carried by Hezbollah terrorists explode.