Daily Show’s Jordan Klepper Embarrasses Anti-Mask Parents  (Daily Beast) Or, at least, that’s what they’d like you to believe.

Lockdown Insanity: Broken Records, Broken Lives

“Immunity As A Service” – The Snake-Oil Salesmen & The COVID-Zero Con

The Lab-Leak Debate Just Got Even Messier

Italy Orders Companies Not To Pay Unvaccinated Workers

Norwegian Government Announces Lifting Of Final COVID-19 Measures

3,000 NYC Teachers Asked For Vaccination Exemptions, Union Says

A Nationally Televised Example Of The Chaos False Positive COVID Tests Create

NY Times’s Alarmist Covid Reporter Makes Up ‘Surge’ From School Reopenings

Judge Denies Police Union’s Effort To Delay Vaccine Mandate in Massachusetts

Natural Immunity After COVID Could Be Legal Defense Against Vaccine Mandates

Los Angeles Homeless Moving Back Onto Street After Cleanups

Radical Andrea Mitchell on Abortion: Men Just Don’t Understand!

Wealthy Germans Fearing Leftist Victory In Sunday’s Vote Scramble To Move Fortunes To Switzerland  As they do.

New York Gov. Hochul Launches Purge Of Cuomo Cronies  Every Turd World regime does the same.

AOC roasted for shedding ‘crocodile tears’ after crying over Israel Iron Dome House vote

‘Squad’ angers pro-Israel Dems with stance against Iron Dome funding

Time to Yank Your Kids Out of the Public Schools

American Wokeness Threatens to Infect Europe

Twitter and the ‘Fact-Checkers’ Line Up for Biden

Heckler’s Veto: 66% Of College Students Say Stopping Speech Is Free Speech

Why the White House and Democrats use $400,000 as the threshold for taxing ‘the rich’ (CNBC)

Pennsylvania university tells students ‘action could be taken’ if they use wrong pronouns

‘The Wire’ creator David Simon will pull upcoming HBO series from Texas over abortion law (CNN)

Stunning Interview Sees China Warn “23 Million Australians” That US Pact Now Makes Them “Target” For Nuclear Attack  Communists, like Muslims, are always a threat.

ACLU Rewrites a Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quote Because Men Can Have Abortions Too,

Facebook Fact Checkers Just Censored Peer Reviewed Science

Feds Give Planned Parenthood Millions in Pandemic Relief After Ruling it Ineligible for Gov’t Aid

Spain will ban selling fruit and vegetables in plastic containers starting 2023

Washington National Cathedral Names Artist to Replace Confederate Windows  Guess they were from the wrong nation.

Marvel Studios May Drop the ‘Men’ from X-Men  Why not? They’ve already dropped the men.

AOC Unveils Custom ‘Tax The Rich’ Tesla  Babylon Bee.

Oh No! Girl James Bond Is Foiled When Villain Places Details Of His Evil Plans In Pickle Jar  Babylon Bee. What my wife calls ‘hubby work’ – too bad 007 isn’t married.

‘Nasser Was Not An Outlier’ – Exposing The FBI’s Incurable Rot

California Voters Give Newsom Approval to Continue Regressive Policies Against the Working Class

Woke Was At Its Worst Last Week In Cook County

Mississippi Attorney General Details Abortion Case That Could Undo Roe v. Wade

Twitter and the ‘Fact Checkers’ Line Up for Biden

Lithuanian government warns about secret censorship features in Xiaomi phones

‘We’re All Pro-Life, Everybody’: View Hosts Dismiss GOP Guest Calling Out ‘Extreme’ Pro-Abortion Dems  And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

Democrats Push Tax Breaks for Union Political Activity

Border Patrol Agents Accused Of Patrolling Border  Babylon Bee.

Uma Thurman Shouts her Abortion: It Was ‘Path To Life of Joy & Love’  So I ought to be able to whack Joe Biden, which would similarly enrich my life? Is that what you’re saying?

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According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 4 million Americans quit their jobs in July 2021. Resignations peaked in April and have remained abnormally high for the last several months, with a record-breaking 10.9 million open jobs at the end of July. How can employers retain people in the face of this tidal wave of resignations?

Addressing the root causes of these staggering statistics starts with better understanding them. To explore exactly who has been driving this recent shift, my team and I conducted an in-depth analysis of more than 9 million employee records from more than 4,000 companies.

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In the space of one week, we have been subjected to the Met Gala, the Emmys, and the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly—three orgies of preening self-congratulation by disgraceful narcissists. Besides their total uselessness to society, these nauseating pageants have a few other things in common: they feature inane political statements by people with distinguished track records of feckless idiocy, they cost exponentially more money than they are worth, and they are forced relentlessly into our field of vision despite the fact that, if we have even a little dignity, we find them repulsive.

It has become standard practice to dismiss these sorts of spectacles as “irrelevant.” In one sense that is true: they are the farcical dying gasps of an American monoculture that was long ago hollowed out into a skin suit for entitled mediocrities to cover the nakedness of their souls. Though the Emmys’ ratings ticked up slightly this year, their overall pattern this millennium has been one of steady decline. Your average American has far more pressing things to do than mire his psyche in the interminable transcript of Biden’s speech to the U.N., and practically the only thing anyone has seen of the Met Gala was that dress AOC wore.

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orget what you hear most pundits saying about last week’s recall election that failed to unseat California Governor Gavin Newsom. Some Democrats think because Newsom ran on an anti-Trump platform that will bring the party success — or cause them less damage — in the next two elections.

They are wrong. The real story is the slow but gaining-in-speed exodus from California to states with lower or no state taxes. This mass exit likely reduced the number of people who might have voted to oust Newsom. Then there’s the rising cost of just about everything, including gasoline. At nearly $6 a gallon at some stations in the San Francisco Bay area and Los Angeles, California has the highest average price for gas in the nation.

There are also other forces at work.

Steve Sailer.

The sudden crossing of the Rio Grande river at Del Rio, Texas, by 15,000 Haitians is a reminder that the most prophetic novel of the last half century was the late Jean Raspail’s 1973 book The Camp of the Saints about a million third-worlders landing on the beaches of France, and whites being unable to summon the will to be so racist as to turn them away.

Do American leaders still believe that they have the moral right to protect the territory of the American people by force? Or will we unilaterally disarm in the Scramble for America?

How (Not) to Tax Billionaires (CNN}

Centrist Democrats threaten Biden’s agenda over opposition to lower drug prices (Salon)

Nancy Pelosi, Estimated To Be Worth $114 Million, Says Capitalism Has “Not Served Us Well” And “Needs Improving”

Census Data Confirm Migration from Big CIties

Ben & Jerry’s ‘Change Is Brewing’ Funds Defund Police Movement

Fiscally Responsible Democrat Says We Should Be Able To Destroy America For Way Less Than $3.5 Trillion  Babylon Bee.

Steve Sailer.

Olgiati’s house reminds me that I have an opened cardboard box sitting around that I need to stomp flat so I can put it in the recycling bin.

6 people shot, 1 fatally, in heart of Deep Ellum overnight, Dallas police say “The incident happened shortly before 12:45 a.m. near the intersection of North Malcolm X Boulevard and Main Street”

BLM Protest Planned at New York Restaurant Where Brawl Over Vaccination Proof Occurred

Cleveland mayor’s grandson fatally shot, report says

BLM to Protest Racist Karen Restaurant Hostess

Black Gunshot Victims Up 89% During Racial Reckoning

‘Hotel Rwanda’ Hero Guilty in Terrorism Case

More White Than Black People Want Police Abolished In Minneapolis, New Poll Finds

Democrats ‘Want People to Be Dependent on Government,’ Georgia Governor Says  Who doesn’t know that?

More Radical Than Roe: House Abortion Bill Would Repeal Existing Laws, Prohibit Future Pro-Life Laws

Hungary and Serbia Plan to Stop the Migration Tsunami

Dems Call For Infrastructure Spending To Build More Bridges For Haitian Migrants To Live Under  Babylon Bee.

Left Leans Into Champagne Socialism

AOC’s ‘Tax the Rich’ dress designer Aurora James owes debt in multiple states

Secession! Sarah Silverman Proposes Breaking America Into Two Countries

J6 ‘Chaos’ Total Bust For Media As Cops, Journalists And FBI Appear To Outnumber Protesters

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For a shoe-factory job paying $12 an hour, the actual cost of shoemaking — when adding benefits — grows to $16 an hour, compared with about $3 an hour in China, said Mike Jeppesen, head of global operations at Wolverine Worldwide, which owns brands like Merrell, Sperry and Keds. And that cost quadruples after wholesale and retail markups, he said, ballooning into a $50 price difference between a pair made in the U.S. versus in China.

Note the lack of mention of Minimum Wage regulations. The only way around the barrier of expensive labor is to exclude as much labor as possible through increased automation, and that doesn’t do domestic employment for low-skilled workers a bit of good. The Underclass benefits from cheap prices only to the extent that they can find the money in the first place, and government welfare benefits only go so far.

Apple executives talk impact of diversity initiatives at Congressional Black Caucus Foundation conference  The Congressional Black Caucus has only Democrats; black Republicans aren’t admitted.

White College Professor Tells Students She Will ‘Confront the Innate Racism Within’ Herself

This Police Department Is So Bad, a Cop Reported It to Black Lives Matter (Daily Beast)

Virginia high school teacher says making kids behave in class is ‘white supremacy’

Liberal groups prod Dems to raise taxes to pay for racial justice agenda

A historically Black town stood in the way of a pipeline – so developers claimed it was mostly white (The Guardian)

BuzzFeed Investigation: ‘Peg the Patriarchy’ Met Gala Outfit Appropriated from ‘Fat, Queer, POC’

Race-Baiting Don Lemon: ‘Fair’ to Call Clarence Thomas a ‘Sellout?’

World Economic Forum Tells US Colleges To “Re-Educate The Racists Among Us”

Haitians Trying to Flood Into Texas from Mexico, White House Responds by Banning Fox’s Drone Coverage

No, the Richest One Percent Don’t Pay 40 Percent of the Taxes. (New York Magazine) Chait admits that it’s ‘literally true’,but employs handwavium to demonstrate that it’s ‘deeply misleading’.

Gov. Newsom abolishes single-family zoning in California

Dozens of Florida students signed petition to abolish Constitution

California teacher hangs ‘F— the Police,’ ‘F— Amerikkka’ posters in classroom

Politico Reveals Full Acceptance of Social Media Censorship

Trans-Indoctrinated ‘Y: The Last Man’ Finds ‘Plenty of Men, None With Y Chromosome’

How Social-Justice Extremists Spawned a Generation of ‘Progressive’ Antisemites

No Fly Zone: FAA Shuts Down Fox News Drone Exposing Border Crisis

TikTok’s ‘Devious Licks’ Trend Leaving Nationwide Damage in Schools

Video of Tesla FSD almost hitting pedestrian receives DMCA takedown

Liberal Annoyed His Mask Hides How Smug He Looks For Wearing A Mask  Babylon Bee.

SALT Break Erases Most Of Democrat Tax Hike ‘On 1%’ – And AOC’s Suddenly Open To It

Brazen Muggers Ambush, Rob, & Shoot Customers Dining At Fancy NYC Restaurant

North Carolina Court Strikes Down Voter ID Law

CNN Hosts, Guests Demand GOP Surrender on Raising the Debt Limit  Yeah, they’ll get right on it.

Freeberg nails it.

All your life you have heard “Women fought for and won the right to vote” and it makes it sound like men were the Evil Galactic Empire and women were noble brave Ewoks on Endor…but, no. It was a constitutional amendment that had to be ratified by 3/4 of the states, and in order to ratify, you had to be a man. Men gave women the right to vote.

Ever since then, we have been dominated by what we might call The Hystericals. These are people who are driven into hysterics when they figure out there’s danger around…just humdrum, everyday, ordinary danger. In network security we call it “residual risk.” It goes with simply living life. When The Hystericals figure out residual risk has not been reduced to zero, which is an impossibility anyway, they insist on turning everything upside down. They don’t feel completely 100% safe yet, because they’re not, and so everyone else has to do some more accommodating. We need more taxes and more rules, to suit The Hystericals.

Fairfax County approves 5-cent tax on plastic bags  How quickly the rot spreads.

Ilhan Omar slams judge for blocking ballot measure to scrap Minneapolis Police Department

Major UK Fertilizer Plants Shuttered Due To Skyrocketing Natural Gas Prices

Illinois Dem Pushes for ‘Clean Energy’ Subsidies That Would Pad His Pocket

WSA Passport Acceptance – Visas on WSA Passports

Joe Scarborough Suppresses Most Serious China-Call Allegation Against General Milley  Servant of the Narrative.

WSJ: Big Tech Platforms Are Addictive, Toxic for Teen Girls and Minors

The new warrant: how US police mine Google for your location and search history (The Guardian)

TONE DEAF CNN Allows Ex-Planned Parenthood Prez to Demand: ‘Protect Our Children’

AOC Hit With Second Ethics Complaint Over ‘Tax The Rich’ Theatrics At The Met  Her dress reminds me of a Chick-Fil-A bag.

Federal Grand Jury Indicts Lawyer Who Represented Clinton Campaign

The Antiplanner.

Like many U.S. states, France has conducted a war on sprawl that has had economically ruinous and socially harmful consequences, yet produced no real benefits, according to a new paper from the Institut de recherches économiques et fiscales (Institute for Fiscal and Economic Research). Written by engineer Vincent Bénard, The War on Sprawl: An Irrational Political Obsession shows that anti-sprawl policies have caused a six-fold increase in land prices and significantly increased housing prices. This represents a transfer of wealth from low-income people who rent and/or have recently purchased homes to high-income people who have long owned their homes and may be landlords of rented homes.

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Fentanyl seizures in 2021 have nearly doubled 2020 numbers, according to records quietly released by Customs and Border Protection.

The “Drug Seizure Statistics” tool run by the agency disclosed on Monday that agents already seized 9,337 pounds of fentanyl by the end of July, a 94 percent increase from the 4,791 pounds seized in the entirety of 2020. In 2019, the agency seized just 2,804 pounds. CBP did not publicly announce the updated statistics.

According to CBP’s data, the vast majority of fentanyl seizures—1,110—have taken place at the southwest border, highlighting how the migrant crisis creates opportunities for cartels and other criminal organizations as law enforcement finds its resources strained. The influx of fentanyl also comes at a time when overdoses from the drug are set to break all-time records this year.

Canadian Schools Hold Book-Burning Demonstration To Be A More “Inclusive Country”

Missouri conservative group confronts student senator as he takes down and throws away flags from 9/11 display

How Europe’s doors are slamming shut for Americans (CNN) Gee, what a hardship.

Don’t let California become Texas, Newsom says — as residents, businesses flee

More examples of FB marking Mastodon related links as spam

Stelter SLAMMED for Claiming Anchors Were 9/11 Heroes While Leaders Were ‘In Bunkers’

YouTube Suspends Account Of Former Presidential Speechwriter  Bueller? Bueller?

Big Tech Shadow-Banned Rose McGowan: Report

More And More Australians Are Seeking To Leave The Country

REMINDER: Twitter Censored Dave Rubin For Predicting What Biden Did

Yeah, 9/11 Was Bad; But It Wasn’t ‘QAnoners Wandering Around The Capitol For A Few Hours’-Bad

Facebook Censored Me for Mentioning Open-Source Social Network Mastodon

Progressives Cheer As Man Pummels Woman  Babylon Bee.

Bucs-Cowboys opener begins with Black national anthem

Actress and ‘View’ Agree: TX Law Restricting Abortions Is Racist  The ghost of Margaret Sanger says, ‘They’re not killing enough black babies!’

Seth Meyers Rips Trump Military Board Appointees for Trying to Stick Around (Daily Beast) Yeah, we all look to Seth Meyers for public policy advice.

The Texas county that explains why Republicans are terrified (The Guardian) As if a Left Coast writer for the Guardian knows anything about Texas.

Los Angeles diners robbed at gunpoint on sidewalk café in broad daylight Maybe they need an open carry law for victims — the criminals appear to have one already.

California May Require Menstrual Products in Public Schools

Nets Skip WH Pulling ATF Nominee After Accusations of Racism Surface

20 Years Of Government-Sponsored Tyranny: The Rise Of The Security-Industrial Complex From 9/11 To COVID-19

Judges question constitutionality of felony charge against Jan. 6 defendants

BBC Admits Syria Chemical Attack Documentary Had “Serious Flaws”

Netflix ‘Gay James Bond’ Cartoon Embraces Demonic Eroticism, Calls Jesus ‘Her’

Trump: Downside of a 2024 Run Is That I’d Be Saving CNN

What Afghan Blunder? CBS’s King Helps Clinton Tout Voter Suppression as Real Threat

Rutgers and San Francisco State 9/11 Panel To Feature Terrorist Sympathizers n Of course they do.

$3.5T Reconciliation Bill Would Lavish Hundreds of Billions on Nanny State Education

Former Sen. Boxer Nudges Feinstein Toward Retirement  If I had a safe seat like Feinstein, they’d have to carry me out in a box.

On Morning Joe, Wash Post Book Critic Laments American ‘Blood Lust’ After 9/11

Wealthy School District Diverts $79M in COVID-19 Relief to ‘Equity’ Programs

Contest Challenges Inventors to Harness Wave Power to Desalinate Seawater (‘Scientific’ American)

Earth’s tipping points could be closer than we think. Our current plans won’t work (The Guardian)

Climate Crisis Shape Shifting vs Natural Diversity

A recent reversal in the response of western Greenland’s ice caps to climate change

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Journolist is no more. In 2010, the online forum where leftist journalists congregated to decide on the liberal talking points of the day was shut down by its founder Ezra Klein when the group was exposed.

And yet, leftists still manage to spout remarkably similar lines. When it comes to the Texas abortion law, the liberal trope of the times is the poor, besieged, “Uber driver.” The notion is that Uber drivers who transport women to abortion clinics will be sued by private citizens under the law, seeking an award of up to $10,000.

On Friday’s Morning Joe, MSNBC liberal analyst Jonathan Lemire, who also poses as a “reporter” for the Associated Press, mouthed the “Uber driver” line. We’ve put together a mash-up of multiple liberal worthies, starting with Lemire, all trotting out the “Uber driver” trope. leftists prefer to focus on supposedly beleaguered Uber drivers even though very few are likely to be sued because they want to deflect attention from what the true target of the law would be: the abortionists themselves.

Nobody who objects to abortion is going to waste time on some poor Uber driver. They’re going to go after the abortionists, which are the chief target of the law.

On the other hand, I can see the sue-and-settle scam artists who currently prey on businesses that don’t have the appropriate Americans With Disabilities Act accommodation provided rubbing their hands with glee. I suggest that the legislation was poorly drafted if it will allow this result (presuming that the Wokerati are interpreting it correctly, which is never a reliable assumption).

UPDATE: A Tight-Knit Circle of Internet Troublemakers Convinced Professional Journalists

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Despite more than 18 months of hardship, the stock markets have miraculously continued to move upward, indicating a renewed confidence in our economic recovery by investors, both domestic and abroad.

In other words, people not only want to see America win, but they also believe that America can win. In fact, the markets have hit record highs, surging 100% from where they were at the start of the pandemic. Although there has been some recent lag due to the COVID-19 delta variant, the markets have, for the most part, remained consistently strong.

Despite these trends from the markets that signal economic recovery, strength, and renewed interest from investors, the most significant concern that hasn’t been discussed enough by mainstream media outlets is the number of Americans who are refusing to go back to work.

But the Cloud People don’t want job markets to work,  which is why they keep trying to raise the minimum wage. They want as many people as possible unemployed so that they will be dependent on government benefits (and more willing to vote for the Party of Free Stuff).

Matthew Continetti.

Reading the twentieth-anniversary commemorations of 9/11 that have filled our prestige newspapers and magazines in recent days, it might seem as if Krauthammer was describing not only another time but another country. Those pieces tell an altogether different story: not of pride and resilience but of guilt, pathos, regret, and exhaustion. The reckless, slapdash, and deadly American withdrawal from Afghanistan has only thickened the funereal atmosphere. That “bedrock America” of courage and grit? It is obscured behind a fog of self-loathing.

For example: “After 9/11, the U.S. Got Almost Everything Wrong,” says one headline in the Atlantic. “9/11 was a test. The books of the last two decades show how America failed,” reads the title of an essay in the Washington Post. “Winning Ugly” is the name of an article in Foreign Affairs. A headline in the Spectator (U.K.) asks, “Is America still worth fighting for?” (The implied answer is no.) New York magazine, of all places, is chockablock with hot takes arguing that the war on terrorism wasn’t worth it: “America’s greatest existential threat wasn’t terrorism”; “The case for Iraqi reparations”; “Bin Laden Won.” The headline of an opinion column in the Washington Post: “We best remember 9/11 by moving beyond it.”

Australia Is Now Confiscating Booze Delivered To People Forced Into Lockdown

You Love to See It: Fake News Jim Acosta’s CNN Show Has Been a Complete Failure

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez mocked for using term ‘menstruating person’ to describe women in interview

“Housing Is A Human Right”: Rent Activists Step Up Pressure Ahead Of German Elections

The Logical Conclusion of ‘Social Justice’

‘Biology 101’? On CNN, AOC Blasts Texas Abortion Law for the ‘Menstruating Person’  For AOC and her ilk, ideology always comes first.

English Soccer Team Gets Booed For Virtue Signaling In Poland

MSNBC Gushes Over Abortion-Cheering Teen: ‘You Warned Us’ About Texas

GOP Leader McCarthy Asks Supreme Court to Rule House Proxy Voting Unconstitutional

DOJ Sues Texas Over Abortion Law

Judge Blocks Florida’s GOP-Backed ‘Anti-Riot’ Law

MSNBC Marks 9/11 By Trashing America: ‘Intense Islamophobia and Fear’

NY Times Loses It Over ‘Enemy’ Dems Opposing Biden, Pouncing GOP

Depraved Salon Pro-Abort Admits: ‘Satanists Are Right,’ Abortion ‘Sacred Ritual’

Democratic Staffer Leaving Senate for Facebook: Report  The revolving door is the first one on the left.

Merit System Is Unjust Because It Rewards Productive Individuals, Professors Argue  You can’t make this shit up.

Watchdog: ‘Unknown’ Ballots in Georgia, Pennsylvania Surpass Biden’s Margin of Victory There

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slams Texas GOP governor’s ‘deep ignorance’ on abortion (CNN)

The Taliban’s Ideology Has Surprising Roots In British-Ruled India (NPR) Yeah, that Brit Mohammed has a lot to answer for.

Biden Forces Out Trump Appointees From Military Academy Advisory Boards

Smug Lefty Seth Meyers Hates Texas and ‘Heinous,’ ‘Diabolical’ Abortion Law

ZMan pulls back the curtain a bit.

Eric Hoffer noted that people who are prone to join mass movements tend to join many of them, often going from one to another. It is not unusual for someone to go from one cause then to another that contradicts the prior cause in some way. The old stereotype of the middle-aged woman driving a Volvo festooned with bumper stickers from various causes does not spring from nothing. The vegan activist will be into saving animals, sustainable farming and oppose nuclear energy.

A good recent example of this is the amazing overlap in people who worship Gaia and those who are now Covidians. The people who carry grimy canvas sacks to the market as a sign of their piety are now wearing three masks in the car as they driver alone to the Whole Foods Market. That does not mean all Covidians were Gaia worshippers, but almost all Gaia worshippers embraced Covid. HBD people embracing Covid suggests their interest in biology is something other than empirical.

Why Texas’s strict abortion law is terrible for the economy (CNN) So was freeing Democrats’ slaves. I guess they would have objected to that, as well.

WaPo columnist complains media is ‘obsessed with not offending Republican readers’ Really? Hadn’t noticed.

Watch shameless shoplifters brazenly stroll out of Lowe’s store with packed carts

Somali feminist: Facebook is being used to silence me

China Accuses NATO Of Inflating Its ‘Purely Defensive’ Nuclear Arms Program   Purely defensive!

Australian Court: Facebook Can Be Sued for User Comments

No Anarchy for You! Portland to Cut Ties With TX Over Abortion Law  This is like Red China promising to punish Texas by refusing to export communism to the Lone Star State. (More States Pass Abortion Laws In Hopes Of Triggering Travel Ban From Portland  Babylon Bee.)

20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes off at airports?  Hint: No.

‘Gone Too Far’? Taliban Paints Over George Floyd Mural In Kabul  Uh-oh.

‘We’re On The Right Side Of History’, Says Party Whose Abortion Position Is Endorsed By North Korea, Harvey Weinstein, Church Of Satan  Babylon Bee.

Drama in Theatre Class: Gay Teacher Resigns Over Pride Flag

LAPD officers told to collect social media data on every civilian they stop

Lib Activist Group Warns Protesters: Men Can Have Abortions Too, Comparing GOP to Taliban is ‘Islamophobic’

“Harmful Language” Trigger Warning Added To US Constitution On National Archives Website  NOT the Babylon Bee.

Biden, Big Tech Sued For Censorship

Microsoft Teams To Delete ‘Inappropriate’ Messages: Report

Guardian: Young People Flocking to Climate Change Political Activism Careers And why not? It beats actually working for a living.

A Climate Solution Lies Deep Under the Ocean—But Accessing It Could Have Huge Environmental Costs (TIME)

CNN’s Camerota Laments Her PC Lifestyle Has Not Solved Climate Change

Cancel culture in climate change

Electric Vehicles produce substantial toxicity to Humans and Freshwater

Plano 8-Year-Old Raises More Than $1,000 For Healthcare Workers Through Labor Day Lemonade Stand (CBS News) If she weren’t black, of course, nobody would have even noticed, much less written a news story about it. Still, it’s good to see.

Minnesota man freed by Kamala Harris-supported bail fund now charged with murder

Lil Uzi Vert says fans ripped $24 million diamond out of his forehead Gee, I wonder why.

15 ex-NFL players say they engaged in multimillion-dollar nationwide fraud scheme

538: Why Can’t Colleges Hire More Black and Latinx Professors?

Tesla Wins One: Man Caught On Car Camera Faking Injuries In Louisiana Parking Lot

NFL Cancels Singer Victory Boyd’s Opening Day Performance for Not Being Vaccinated

Peter Boghossian.

Peter Boghossian has taught philosophy at Portland State University for the past decade. In the letter below, sent this morning to the university’s provost, he explains why he is resigning.

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Oh, ya think?

Recent news about EV battery fires does not bode well for California Governor Newsom’s executive order to ban the sale of gas-powered vehicles by 2035.

The Bolt, the only EV that GM is selling in North America, has been “tied to at least nine fires” since early 2020, and Hyundai’s vehicles were involved in about 15 fires. Meanwhile, three Tesla’s have burst into flames over the past four months. So far, 27 EV battery fires and still counting.

Virginia to Take Down Robert E. Lee Statue on Wednesday

MSNBC Very Worried TX Law Will Cause Violence At Abortion Clinics  Besides killing children?

Can Progressives Be Convinced That Genetics Matters? (The New Yorker) Going back to their roots?

Lies, omissions and false fact checks – a banner week for media disinformation

‘Independent’ Michigan Redistricting Commissioner Donated to Left-Wing Causes

California Bill Seeks to Halt Prison-to-ICE Deportation Pipeline Time to leave.

BoJo Breaks Promise With $50 Billion Tax Hike To Bail Out NHS The Conservative in Britain’s Conservative Party merely means Less Socialist Than Labour By A Bit.

Capitalization Is Oppression: Using Only Lower-Case Latest Act of ‘Resistance’  You can’t make this shit up.

An Example of How Transgender Rights Affect Women’s Safety

Whitmer Urges State to Repeal Abortion Ban in Case Roe Overtuned

Companies that are avoiding hiring in Colorado  Get Woke, go broke.

Judge Rejects Minneapolis Ballot Language on Policing

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Like all living things, humans are the product of a complex evolutionary history. Our ancestors’ environment and diets, and the limits of human biology, have led to adaptations that have improved our survival through natural selection. Despite these adaptations, our bodies remain prone to illness and disease. If we have evolved and adapted to our environment, why do we still get sick?

While remarkable at understanding the mechanisms of illness and disease, modern medicine can often overlook the underlying reasons for their emergence. Evolutionary medicine argues that understanding our ancestral history and the evolutionary reasons for illness can explain disease prevalence and provide insight for clinical care.

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The law, called SB 8, has come under fire for a provision that lets private citizens report people who facilitate illegal abortions. In the days since it passed, tech companies have joined progressive groups to oppose the bill. GoDaddy, which hosts millions of websites, announced Friday that it would stop supporting a website that allows people to report violations of the law. Days later, Uber and Lyft announced they are establishing legal defense funds for any drivers who are charged with aiding and abetting an illegal abortion. The ride-sharing companies will each donate $1 million to Planned Parenthood.

The incident highlights the increasing power that internet platforms wield in politics. Amazon Web Services kicked off conservative social media app Parler after the app was accused of hosting January 6 rioters. Right-wing app Gab suffered a similar fate in 2018. And PayPal, which has actively censored activists in the past, has announced it will partner with the left-wing Anti-Defamation League to remove the accounts of groups it deems “extremist.”

ZMan blows the whistle.

Back in the heyday of conservatism, Bill Buckley would often say you can know everything about a person’s politics from their options on abortion and Israel. It was true to the extent that it put them one side or the other of the consensus. By the late 20th century, the ruling consensus in Washington was pro-abortion and pro-Israel, but not publicly enthusiastic for either. These two issues were useful proxies for foreign policy and social policy at the time.

Something similar can be said of race and culture. Those who deny the reality of race are on one side of the great divide, while those who accept biological reality are on the other side of the divide. There is no middle ground. Those who think culture is a manufactured good are on the side of biology deniers, while those who think culture is the product of biology and time are on the side of the realists. Again, these are mutually exclusive positions that cannot be reconciled.

The GOP’s Texas-sized mistake on abortion (CNN)

Religious exemptions to vaccine mandates could test ‘sincerely held beliefs’ (NBC News)

Wealthy Lobbyists Have Already Slashed Biden’s Tax Reform by Three-Quarters (New York Magazine) My, what a surprise.

Why Is Religion So Preoccupied With Sex? (Psychology Today) Why is politics so preoccupied with sex?

Researchers studying Facebook misinformation say they were deplatformed  My, what a surprise.

Roadrunner Blocked by U.S. Border Wall Wins Best Bird Photo of 2021

We don’t need nearly as much protein as we consume (BBC) Whatever you’re doing, you’re doing it wrong, and we Smart People are here to instruct you.

Opponents of Texas Abortion Law Find Ally in Satanic Temple

Anakin Skywalker Hired By Planned Parenthood For His Speed And Efficiency Taking Care Of The Younglings  Babylon Bee.

Portland, Oregon, Weighs Boycott of Texas for Abortion Law  I can’t think of anything Oregon has that Texas might want, except maybe refugees from California, and even that’s not a sure thing.

Liberal Wants To Join A Union But Realizes He’d Have To Get A Job  Babylon Bee.

Freeberg nails it, as he always does.

It’s like the 1980’s all over again. Everywhere, I see people offering their opinions about abortion, and a lot of these opinions consist of nothing more than a showy cranky statement that some certain set of other people shouldn’t have opinions. Of course that’s a dishonest way to present a non-argument argument. What they’re really trying to say is “We want this other set of people to have a license to kill, but we know if we argued it that way we’d lose, so we’re going to argue about not arguing about it.”

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They think children are liabilities and not assets. You’ll notice our whole society is built around this idea now. “Who’s going to take care of him or her?” “How are you going to afford child support for three kids?” “Oh you are collecting child support from him, aren’t you?” “Better keep her happy fella, she’s a Fertile Myrtle and that would be one expensive divorce.” “He has special needs, how are you going to get him the help that he needs?” Etc….it used to be, the poorer the farmer, the more kids he would have to have. Children were assets, even if you were heartless, and if you had a heart they were a blessing. We don’t look at it like that anymore because, let’s be honest, we can’t. Liabilities aren’t blessings.

And in large part that’s true. Everyone is surprised that the population growth rates are crashing around the First World and chattering with nerves because those in the Turd World are the same as they’ve always been without any appreciation of the reality on the ground. In the history of the world up until Bill Gates, children were an asset – it took some time and effort to get them to a useful size, but once you did they pitched in and raised the entire family’s standard of living (at least the ones that survived). That is no longer the case. Hence, children have gone from being a Useful Thing to being a luxury, one that people are increasingly being unwilling t0 pay for. (The reason the illegitimacy rate is so high in the Diverse Part of Town is that being an unwed mother is the magic ticket allowing a teenage girl to escape the parental straightjacket and get off on her own, subsidized by Uncle Sam.)

So abortion is just the end of the spectrum that spans School Debt Forgiveness and I Don’t Have To Pay My Rent Because COVID and Free Health Care From Obama.

Scott Johnson at Power Line discusses at great length the degeneration demonstrated by Peggy Noonan, hitherto a reliable conservative voice, during the Age of Trump.

Noonan is a sore subject of long standing with me. She makes my skin crawl.

Noonan joined the crowd turning on George W. Bush in what I thought was (in Noonan’s case) a grossly unfair manner in 2008. Noonan wasn’t just unfair, she was also cowardly. I wrote critically about one of Noonan’s weekly Wall Street Journal columns in which she identified with the public disapproval of Bush that April in “Season of the witch.”

Having turned on George W. Bush, Noonan moved on to support the election of Barack Obama later that year. Noonan all but endorsed Obama in her 2008 column “Obama and the runaway train.” The anti-Bush and pro-Obama columns fit neatly together.

Tru dat.

The advent of The Magic Negro, and then of Donald Trump, has acted as a political power-washer upon the layers of nominally conservative and formally Republican ‘knowledge workers’ in D.C.–Noo Yawk Crust, sluicing away those whose attachments were weak and easily degraded. This ought to serve as a wake-up call to those who insufficiently cognizant of the corrosive effect of living adjacent to the Corridors of Power on The Other Left Coast. Perhaps it’s something in the water.

Read it.

In this first economic history of the 2020 COVID crisis, Columbia University historian Adam Tooze identifies some harbingers of the new world we have entered. Venerable retail stores went bust: Neiman–Marcus, J.Crew, Brooks Brothers. Kurzarbeit, the widely imitated German system of “smart” unemployment benefits in which government tops up income to keep people working, was extended to prostitutes. While big airlines withered, turning airports into empty Ozymandian mausoleums, travel on private jets continued almost uninterrupted.

Read it.

After all, subscribers to The Atlantic must make up a huge fraction of America’s gun murderers.

Steve Sailer does some entertaining fisking of one of America’s leading cucks.

MSNBC To Biden on Texas Abortion Law: Send in Force of Federal Abortionists!  Perhaps he can call the National Abortion Guard into Federal service.

Democrats Alarmed CEOs Not Rushing to Support Climate Bill Trillion Dollar Corporate Tax Rises

As If Millions Of Hollywood Celebs Suddenly Cried Out In Terror: China Bans “Effeminate Men” From TV

These companies are pushing back against the Texas abortion law (CNN) God forbid a company should not be able to get an abortion.

Bette Midler calls on women to refuse sex to protest Texas abortion law (The Hill)

Coloradans protest Texas’ new abortion law (The Denver Channel) I wasn’t aware that Coloradans depended on Texas for their abortions. Good to know … I guess.

Tradition of Afghan girls who live as boys may be threatened

Why Satanists may be the last hope to take down Texas’s abortion bill (Fortune)

Why Satanists may be the last, best hope to save abortion rights in Texas (Salon)

Parents sue California over mandated ‘chants to Aztec gods’ in ethnic studies classes

Taiwan Scrambles Jets Against Renewed Chinese Military Activity

Edinburgh’s computer scientists banned from using Alice and Bob as too Western

We asked you to suggest new names for Fort Worth’s White Settlement Rd. The winner … (Ft Worth Star-Telegram) White Settlement is a city in Texas so named because it was surrounded by skraeling settlements. They tried to change the raaaaaaaysis name in 2009 and it was voted down. But they’ll keep trying until they succeed.

The One Element Missing from the Discussion of Housing in CA: Tolerance

Trump Endorses Herschel Walker, Burt Jones in Georgia  Notorious racist Trump endorses a black guy for Senate – how did that happen?

Richard Lewontin’s Legacy of Fighting Racism in Science (Wired ‘Science’) Bet you didn’t know that there was racism in science. (‘Racism! It’s EVERYWHERE!’)

Former Georgia District Attorney Indicted for Obstruction in Arbery Case

Racist Democrats Desperately Try To Prevent Black Man From Becoming Governor Of California

Favorite MSNBC Radical Compares TX Abortion Law to Fugitive Slave Act

Democrats rush to find strategy to counter Texas abortion law (The Guardian)

John Roberts has lost control of the Supreme Court (CNN) Not that he ever had it.

Chelsea Manning Says She’s ‘Terrified’ of Former Pal Glenn Greenwald (Daily Beast) Except that the ‘she’ is a ‘he’ and the problem is that Greenwald accepts reality, as Manning doesn’t.

All Communications Between Myself and Chelsea Manning Since 2016: to Debunk Her Innuendo

House Republicans roast Nancy Pelosi over $200 million for San Francisco’s Presidio  Roll out the pork barrel!

Pennsylvania Republicans Launch Election Audit, Solicit Testimony on ‘Improprieties’

Australia Could Force Citizens To Report Their Location On-Demand Via Government Tracking App

Surge in Antisemitism Linked to Spread of Critical Race Theory

‘Fact Checkers’ Rush to ‘Correct’ Grieving Parents Who Ripped Biden

WORST Censorship in August: 5 Ways Big Tech Silenced Online Discussion

Democrats Eyeing Taxes On Stock Buybacks, Carbon Emmissions And CEO Pay  If it moves, tax it!

YouTube Removes Age-Restriction from Documentary on American Revolution after MRC Inquiry

House Democrats Pushing To Boycott Israel Go Silent on Taliban Boycott  Because some animals are more equal than others.

Mother Of U.S. Marine Killed In Kabul Attack Censored By Facebook

Telemundo Pushes Abortion Agenda, Slams Texas Law

No More Free Speech! Amazon Web Services to Proactively Remove More Content

Liberal Groups Sue Texas Officials Over Voting Law Changes  Saw that coming.

Apple’s Shortcuts leveraged to disrupt Texas anti-abortion website