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Today just about every part of this plan is illegal, culturally unacceptable, and economically unwieldy in most locations. These basement homes are too small to be approved by local authorities. Minimum square footage requirements have been put in place to filter out the riffraff who can’t afford larger homes. Most municipal codes insist on two off street covered parking spaces which, in this case, would be the same size and likely the same cost as the homes themselves. Growing vegetables on what should be a lawn is verboten in many locations, if not by the government than by private association bylaws. And building anything in stages is frowned upon since the present custom is to create a finished product all at once and never change any part of it without interacting with a host of special committees and review boards. I have no doubt that the four children, now in their 70s and 80s, who spent their early years in the basement house would never tolerate such activity in their own neighborhoods today. It’s just too trashy and sets the wrong tone.

While Afghanistan Fell, Military and CIA Focused on Diversity

New Dodgers Uniforms Strike Out With Latino Fans

Kellerman’s ‘First Take’ Legacy Smacks of Woke Derangement Syndrome  I like the term Woke Derangement Syndrome.

2 Employees Sue Missouri School District Over ‘Equity’ Training

China Wants You to Be a Woke ‘Anti-Racist’ While they Pursue Ethnic Cleansing

As US Schools Prioritize Diversity Over Merit, China Is Becoming the World’s STEM Leader

San Francisco DA faces second recall effort as residents ‘fed up’ with progressive ‘zero consequence’ policies

Apple’s Lisa Jackson talks environmental justice with US EPA Administrator Michael Regan

President Xi Calls For “Redistribution Of Wealth” To Help “Expand The Middle Class”  A Communist remembers that he’s a Communist.

Los Angeles County Sheriff Again Calls For State Of Emergency To Address Homelessness

Law Used to Prosecute Migrants in US Struck Down as Racist

CNN Analyst Argues AGAINST Rescuing Americans Outside Kabul Airport

CAIR Lectures Media About Accurately Quoting Jihadists

Beijing’s Bomb Buildup-Continues as Third New ICBM Field Uncovered

The purge of Asian American students at Thomas Jefferson High School has begun

American Bar Association Poised To Mandate Diversity Training, Affirmative Action at Law Schools

Critics Balk at CRT Training Video at Air Force Academy

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

I wish I had a nickel for every time I’ve found a Wikipedia article that got something wrong — and not just wrong, but obviously wrong to anybody who had even a casual interest in a subject. Wikipedia is the poster child for Gell-Mann Amnesia.

CBS Skips Own Reporter Getting WH to Be Noncommittal on Saving Americans

Chief Editor of Independent Belarus News Agency Missing After Raid: Association

American Historical Association Doubles Down on Support for Critical Race Theory

A Trip Through Hyper(Sensitive)Space: Disney Renames Boba Fett’s Ship To Something Woke

Stacey Abrams Staffer Shares Tweet Comparing United States to Taliban 

US Households Paying No Income Tax Hit 61% of Total Last Year

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There is no border crisis. Inflation is not happening and if it is it must be Trump’s fault. We must suppress energy development to prevent climate change then lobby OPEC to pump more oil. There is no such thing as critical race theory but also it is racist to oppose mandating it. Ignore whatever we said a few days or weeks before about COVID, and instead, believe whatever we think we just said. Are things getting out completely of hand? Time for another ice cream photo-op and a nap!

The Guardian.

Some people just don’t enjoy nature.

Ayanna Pressley, ‘cancel rent’ advocate, discloses thousands of dollars in rental income

Exclusive: Title, cover and details of new Trump book from Bob Woodward and Robert Costa revealed (CNN) Quick, let’s make some more money off of Trump while we still can!

Brian Williams Slapped with Unwelcome Afghanistan Truth Bomb by Guest

Elizabeth Warren Effect? Census Reveals Surge in People Identifying as White Native Americans

This Is CNN: Militants Chant ‘Death to America,’ But ‘Seem Friendly at the Same Time’

CNN Reporter Says German Army ‘Seems Friendly’ Despite Chants Of ‘Heil Hitler!’  Babylon Bee.

Science journals have been corrupted by China

Unhinged Atlantic Leftist Blames American People for Biden’s Failure

The Save Joe Biden Project: CBS Helps ‘Defiant’ President ‘Explain,’ Afghan Debacle

Federal Lawsuit Calls California Recall Election Unconstitutional

Hope Solo: Megan Rapinoe Bullied Teammates To Protest Anthem

Take Our Quiz To Find Out What Job You’ll Have In The Upcoming Communist Utopia!  Babylon Bee.

Kyle Bass: China To ‘Move In Under Security And Diplomatic Guise’ To Pilfer Afghanistan’s Trillions In Minerals

McMaster Blows Up CBS’s ‘False Narrative’ About Afghanistan

Rent Cancellation Advocate Rashida Tlaib Cleaned Up as Landlord During Pandemic

VIDEO: Biden Flacks Try, Fail To Spin Afghanistan Debacle

Free Society Dwindles As Permission Requirements Grow

Victor Davis Hanson.

Have we ever had a president who made no pretense about destroying federal immigration law and asking of Americans what he does not ask of those entering the country illegally?

Joe Biden has also conceded that his moratorium on housing evictions defied a Supreme Court ruling. He added that he probably didn’t have the legal authority to ignore the court but didn’t really care

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The United States has been a longtime member of Interpol, which has traditionally been led by democracies like France and Britain. When functioning properly, Interpol makes it less likely that murderers, human traffickers, and other criminals can escape their home nation’s criminal justice system. When it is abused, however, it can allow authoritarian regimes to harass political dissidents or to legitimize the expropriation of legitimate businesses.

Reinhard Heydrich was the head of Interpol in the 1930s.

Biden Administration Approves Record Increase in Food Stamps

The Lucrative Business of Woke Education

Taxing the Rich Is Failing to Ease the Global Housing Crunch  It’s working very well in pissing off the rich, however.

US Senate bill would legally require Apple to build a backdoor into iPhones

Schumer Urges Crackdown on Fake Vaccination Cards  Obviously more important than the fentanyl crisis or the porous border.

Bond Money to Build Water Reservoirs Sits Idle in California

Facebook bans publication of original historical documents

Company Behind Wall Streets’ Fearless Girl Statue Leaving NYC Offices

Orwellian! DHS May Tap Private Companies to Spy on Americans, Concerns on Rise: Report

CNN Sweats for Newsom: ‘Fighting For Every Vote’ Against ‘Vastly Out-Of-Step’ Elder

China Mocks “Embarrassed, Arrogant” US Forces While Praising “Friendly” Relations With Taliban

The Rehab Begins: Sick CNN Host Spins Biden’s Chaos in Afghanistan as ‘Brave’

Deranged MSNBC: ‘95%’ of Americans Agree With Biden

Vacuous Vaccine Hype: White House Press Secretary Claims The Shots Have Saved “Tens Of Millions Of People’s Lives”  Take your shoes off, Jen.

CNN Does It Again: Says ‘Death To America’-Chanting Taliban Warriors “Seem Friendly”

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The U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan has quickly become the most embarrassing national security debacle since the Vietnam War. Perhaps more importantly, however, the debacle is one of the most inclusive of its kind in American history.

The Biden administration’s Afghanistan policy may have failed in the conventional sense, but it was remarkably successful in terms of the gender and racial diversity of the individuals responsible for that failure. Many will die as a result, but blame for their deaths will be shared among an impressive array of female and BIPOC officials. All in all, this was a triumph of American exceptionalism.

Our diversity is our enemies’ strength.

Severian speaks truth to cower.

For as dumb as the average voter is — and you certainly don’t have to tell me — about specific stuff, the general questions of public policy aren’t that hard. The public, if consulted, gets them “right” about as often as the refs get the calls right, if only because, like the majority of balls and strikes etc., most times the “right” call is pretty obvious. Just to take one recent example, “our” ingnominious (a word this iteration of WordPress insists is a typo, how ya like that?) retreat from Afghanistan. Had the public been consulted at any point after the first, whack-’em-with-SF stage, none of the subsequent bullshit would’ve happened.

Is “nation-building” a viable thing in one of the world’s most backward places? Of course not. Any idiot can see that. Put the facts fairly to The People, let them vote on it, and the war is over by spring 2004.

The key concept with ‘democracy’ is not that The Peepul will get it right all of the time — they won’t, you know that and I know that — but that they get to decide, be they right or wrong, it’s their decision to make.

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We have the technology.

Rhode Island Teachers’ Union Sues Mother For Daring To Ask To See Her Kindergartener’s Curriculum

Hong Kong Democracy Group Behind Massive Protests Disbands

Taliban Spokesman Has Active Twitter Account, Trump Still Suspended

MSNBC’s Velshi Crew Condemns GOP: Redistricting Meant to ‘Disappear’ Minorities

ABC Defends Afghan Disaster, NBC Disappointed It’ll ‘Haunt’ Biden’s Legacy

DHS Bulletin Says Opposition To COVID Mandates Is Potential “Domestic Terrorism Threat”

CIA mocked from all sides over new ‘woke’ recruitment video

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Antifa, the urban terrorists, brutally assaulted Christians who were praying in a Portland park Saturday and the media have almost totally ignored it. Dressed in black, with face coverings, the left-wing nihilists destroyed the sound system and assaulted the Evangelicals with pepper spray and projectiles.

Andy Ngo, the reporter who has covered Antifa better than anyone—and has been beaten up for doing so—recorded this savage event. Flash bombs were thrown at kids as young as four months old. “Where is your god now?” asked an Antifa thug.

Independent probe into Instagram shut down

Obama Flack on MSNBC: Afghanistan ‘Hasn’t Quite Worked Out As We Thought’  No shit.

Hobby Lobby Loses Transgender Bathroom Access Case in Illinois

America is full of ‘democracy deserts’. Wisconsin rivals Congo on some metrics (The Guardian) Full of black people behaving badly?

The problem isn’t ‘inflation’. It’s that most Americans aren’t paid enough (The Guardian) And the Guardian, of course, knows what everyone ought to be paid.

Gender Reassignment Surgery Is Child Abuse, Says Texas Commissioner

Did Rep. Ilhan Omar Marry Her Gay Brother?

Study Finds Most Parents OK With Government Brainwashing Their Children If It Means Free Babysitting  Babylon Bee.

School Board Meetings Now Being Held In Football Stadiums To Accomodate All The Angry Parents  Babylon Bee.

The “media bias” no one talks about: Democracy vs. authoritarianism (Salon) Oh, WE talk about it all the time; it’s just Narrative Media (like Salon) who won’t talk about it, and get it wrong when they do.

Nets Hype Britney Spears, Ignore Border Crisis Worsening in July  I guess they know their audience.

France’s Macron to Boycott UN Racism Conference Over Anti-Semitism Concerns

Obama vs. the Neocons Over Iran

Illinois Is the First State to Have High Schools Teach News Literacy (NPR) ‘News literacy’ for NPR mens ‘obey the Narrative’.

He predicted the dark side of the Internet 30 years ago. Why did no one listen?  Because at any one time you can find hundreds of people ‘predicting’ stuff on all sides of any question. If we could figure out beforehand who was right and who was wrong, we wouldn’t be where we are today.

Tragic Consequences of the Vax in Hungary, Part Two

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Usually it’s the other way around.

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Perhaps because such men aren’t interested in women who worry about finding a man who makes as much as they do.

I’ve never once heard a man say ‘Gee, I hope to find a woman who makes as much as I do.’ If that had been my priority, for example, I’d still be single.

Governor Abbott Sets Kale Trap To Catch Texas Democrats Babylon Bee.

AOC, ‘Squad’-Backed Group Hails Convicted Cop Killers

Dana Gush’s Hourlong CNN Valentine for AOC

Loudoun County School Board Approves Transgender Privileges

Twitter locks account of India’s largest opposition party

New Batman Comic Reveals that ‘Robin’ Is LGBTQ  Who didn’t know that about Batman and Robin? His ‘ward’? C’mon….

Newsom Cracking Under Recall Pressure, Networks Ignore

NAACP Calls for DOJ Probe of Texas Dem Arrest Warrants

Poll: Majority of Democrat Voters Prefer Socialism to Capitalism  But you knew that.

Twenty Organizations Write Letter ‘Demanding’ YouTube to Ban ‘Misgendering’ and ‘Deadnaming’

Why Trump can’t resist running in 2024 (CNN) As if CNN had any clue.

Don’t Buy the Democrats’ Undemocratic Push to Remake America (Daily Beast)

Virginia teacher resigns at school board meeting, denounces ‘highly politicized agendas’

This governor had some harsh words for those who continue to question the 2020 election results (CNN)

Oregon Suspends Need For High School Graduates To Be Proficient In Reading, Writing, & Math

Arsonist Gets Almost 9 Years for Setting Fire to Minneapolis Phone Store

Gavin Newsom Goes Captain Queeg

Cancel Culture, Wokeness Will Destroy Our Country

Colbert Brutalizes Brian Stelter Over CNN’s Lack of Ethics on Cuomo

MSNBC’s Hasan Cries for Cuomo: ‘Sadder Day for Democracy;’ Only ‘Consequences’ for Dems

CNN Swoons Over ‘Glamorous’ AOC, Bemoans ‘Fox News Version’ of Her

Portland Homicides at Highest This Century, Near All-Time Record

Canceling The Constitution: Biden Hailed For Violating Rule Of Law To Extend Eviction Moratorium

Meet Chesa Boudin, the Rogue Prosecutor Wreaking Havoc in San Francisco

Nets Salivate Over Dems Trying to Waste Trillions on Socialism

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President Joe Biden has nominated Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti as ambassador to India. Assuming the Senate confirms him, Garcetti, who would leave office early (his second term ends in December 2022), might find India familiar in certain respects. Like Mumbai or Delhi, Los Angeles now has massive homeless encampments throughout the city, even increasingly in posh neighborhoods like Brentwood and throughout the middle-class strongholds of the San Fernando Valley. Late last week, as Garcetti prepared to leave town, homeless advocates, angered by a city ordinance against indiscriminate camping on city streets, vandalized Getty House, the mayor’s official residence.

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Three classes in particular at the academy are being taught with what critics say is the goal of social engineering and politicization of the 4,294 cadets: “Social Inequality,” “Military Leadership: Leading Inclusive Teams,” and “Politics of Race Gender and Sexuality and Diversity.” West Point also offers a seminar on diversity and inclusion that features images of Black Lives Matter protesters.

“All of those classes are primarily focused on teaching our nation’s young men and women Marxism in the name of ‘social equality,’” the military official told The Washington Times, speaking on condition of anonymity.

These are not Marxism but rather Progressivism, which, although they are fellow-travelers in the modern world, are actually distinct. Nevertheless, it is a disturbing thing.

Steve Sailer.

We live in an age increasingly resentful of the world-historical achievements of white men over the last six or eight centuries. Therefore, it’s worth trying to understand better how and why Europeans accomplished so much. Was it due to their vices, which surely our brave new world can do without? Or was it due to their virtues, about which we ought to think twice before discarding?

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Gary Maynard, age 47, set a series of fires in Lassen National Forest and Shasta Trinity National Forest, an area in rural Northern California near where the Dixie Fire, the second-largest in state history, still burns, federal prosecutors allege. California Forestry Department agents arrested him Saturday. He is charged with intentionally setting fire to public land and is being held without bail in the Sacramento County Main Jail.

Kamala Harris is utterly flubbing her job as veep

Wash Post: Biden Border ‘Failure Is Measurable, Politically Toxic’

Biden Rolls Out Red Carpet for COVID-Infected Illegal Immigrants

McAllen, Texas Mayor to Newsmax: ‘We Need Immediate Help’

Biden Unmoved on Afghan Exit as Taliban Sweep Provinces

Biden Nominee Claims Iran Not Pursuing Nuclear Weapons, Contrary to Evidence

Second Federal Court Blocks Biden Mandate Forcing Doctors to Perform Trans Surgeries

Biden Accuser Tara Reade Calls for ‘Real Investigation’

House Republicans Push Biden to Drop ‘Ghost Gun’ Regulation

America’s Inflation Debate Is Fundamentally Confused (New York Magazine)

Illinois Democrat claims ‘a little bit of inflation’ is ‘good thing’ as prices surge  Of course! Why would you want your money to keep it’s purchasing power? Foolish mortal!

Terrifying new study says our conspiracy theory epidemic could be a result of human evolution (The Hill)

A terrifying new theory: Fake news and conspiracy theories as an evolutionary strategy (Salon)

Apple squashes employee surveys on pay equity

Texas Democrat Compares DC Stay With Dangerous Civil Rights Struggle

The Kink Kontroversy

NY Times RAGES at Fox as Their Reporter Repeats Obama Talking Points to Acosta

Group Sues for Right to Carry Guns at Minnesota State Fair

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Rep. Andy Biggs filed articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday, accusing him of refusing to enforce laws against migrants illegal crossing the border, The Washington Times reported.

The Arizona Republican said in a statement that the country “is more in danger today” than when Mayorkas took office. He also insisted that the secretary “is failing to faithfully uphold his oath of office and is presiding over a reckless abandonment of border security and immigration enforcement, at the expense of the U.S. Constitution and the security of the United States.”

The statement added that “under his direction, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) “is systematically releasing COVID-19 positive aliens into our communities, subjecting the American people to unnecessary and avoidable risks.”

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

Donald Trump Is Disappearing From Our Conversations (Newsweek) Like this one?

Christian member of Finnish Parliament faces prison for questioning support of gay pride parade

Transgender woman gets into wild confrontation with Star Wars store owner over ‘offensive’ sign

The San Diego judge trying to upend California gun laws

Yank Her Now! Subway Franchises Want Rapinoe Removed From Ad Campaign

Dangerous Words Matter

Immigration encouragement as the new form of hybrid warfare?

Teen Vogue Wants Your Kids to Be ‘Democratic Socialists’

US Businesses Pressured to Stop Importing China’s Forced Labor Products  Good luck with that.

Y Chromosome Suspended From Twitter For Calling Laurel Hubbard A Man  Babylon Bee.

‘Too Damn Late’: Chicago Police Union Head Slams Mayor Lightfoot After Officer Slain

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Democratic governor Kate Brown of Oregon signed a bill last month that drops the requirement that high schoolers prove they can read, write, and do math at a basic high school level in order to graduate.

The bill, which the Democratic legislature passed in June in a mostly party-line vote, suspends Oregon’s high school graduation requirements for at least five years as the state works to reform its high school standards. A spokesman for the governor’s office told the Oregonian that suspending the proficiency requirements will benefit “Oregon’s Black, Latino, Latina, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander, Tribal, and students of color.”

You don’t really need
To know how to read
To follow the proglodyte program.

Freeberg jerks back the curtain.

So few among us have the capacity or spare bandwidth to deal with the awful truth, but here it is: Biden/Harris got 81 million votes, or democrats are stealing our elections. And it is virtually impossible for Biden/Harris to have received that many votes. Also, if the democrats did steal the last election, it is virtually impossible for them to have been doing it for the first time.

There is a real possibility, and some would credibly assert a likelihood, that democrats haven’t legitimately won a national election since Bill Clinton in 1992 (a three-way, Taft/Roosevelt/Wilson type of fluke).

The most ominous thing about this is the possibility, by no means remote, that very soon after people see posts like this on social media, those posts will be scrubbed.

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The annual Planned Parenthood gala is the mecca of liberal elitism. In any given year, one can find Meryl Streep, Scarlett Johansson, and Sarah Silverman rubbing elbows with Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, and other members of the Democratic Party’s power center, as they raise money for the nation’s largest abortion provider. They will gather at midtown Manhattan’s “premier event venue”—capacity 1,200 people—and then file to the exits for an afterparty hosted by a star of the show Queer Eye. Questlove will DJ. Vogue will provide fawning coverage.

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Physician burnout has been a problem for a long time, but it’s exploded since Obamacare. So many physicians are changing careers and retiring early that our projections about how many new doctors we need to produce each year in medical schools has turned out to be way off. We’re trying to fill the gap with nurse practitioners and physician assistants because it takes less time to educate those, but we still can’t catch up. Even the famously leftist medical journals are starting to take note.

This month’s “Family Practice News” has an article entitled, “Zero-burnout practices often solo, physician-owned.” They did a survey of several hundred small to medium-sized primary care practices and found that the burnout rate in solo practices was much lower than in other practice types.

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If a frank enemy of the United States had taker over the executive branch this past January, I wonder if he would conduct himself one whit differently than have Joe Biden, his administration, and his Democratic enablers in Congress and the media. This isn’t the point that Andrew McCarthy expressly makes in his August 7 NR column “Why the Border Crisis Is Here to Stay,” but the column supports the point and it is the one I would like to make.

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How would an enemy of the United States do any differently?

Freeberg heads down a rabbit hole.

Liberals go through the motions of coming up with brand new ideas, and then the conservatives complain about them. High up on the list of these complaints the conservatives have about the liberal idea, is the observation that the idea is anything but new.

Liberals then complain about the conservatives. They ascribe all sorts of personal defects to the conservatives that are rather silly, for if they apply at all, a search for an enthused self-identifying liberal who shares such defects in equal measure, is a brief search. High up on the list of these complaints the liberals have about conservatives that apply with equal legitimacy to liberals, is the complaint that conservatives do a lot of complaining. But that one, at least, has the virtue of being true.

Subway franchisees are fed up with Megan Rapinoe’s TV ads

Jeb Bush: Weak Americans Need to Import More Immigrants to Win Olympic Medals

Swiss Ph.D student’s dismissal spotlights China’s influence

VIDEO: Dems, Journos Keep Saying ‘Latinx’ Even Though Most Latinos Have No Idea What It Means

NY Times Crowns New Lefty Heroine Cori Bush on Eviction Moratorium: What Constitution?

One Man Killed After Homeless Crowd Attacks Couple At Seattle Encampment

FBI Officials “Widely Ignored” Rules In 2016, With Dozens In Contact With Reporters: Watchdog

Chinese City Offers $15,000 Reward For Snitching On Gatherings

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Earlier today, I wrote about an alleged ideological division in the Democratic party between the far left and the establishment. Now, I want to consider an ideological split in the Republican party about which Eliana Johnson filed this report.

That gap is related to, but not the same as, the division between hardcore Trump supporters and Republicans who would like to see the Party move on from the ex-president. It’s the divide between traditional free-market Reagan Republicans and Republicans who, in Eliana’s words, want the government “to get more, rather than less, involved in national economic policy in order to help advance a certain set of social and cultural goals.” Apparently, the emerging label for the latter group is “common good capitalism.”

As I have written before, when you stick a qualifier on the front of a term, the term no longer applies. ‘Common good capitalism’ is no longer capitalism, just an attempt to hijack the term in service to a non-capitalist political agenda.

9/11 families to President Biden: Don’t come to our memorial events  In which Democrats learn that the way they treated Trump can be dished out to them as well.

Conservative Commentator Allie Beth Stuckey Suspended From Twitter

The Society of Cultural Anthropology’s Campaign to Present American Populism as Fascism

You shouldn’t miss this massive bombshell in Trump’s ongoing election fraud lie (CNN)

Trump Nearly Enlisted the Justice Department in His Coup Scheme (New York Magazine)

Liberals Demand Kroger Boycott After Elaine Chao Joins Company’s Board (Newsweek)

Marjorie Taylor Greene Says Southerners May Shoot Vaccination Volunteers (Newsweek) Except that she didn’t.

Trump urges supporters to buy misspelled “membership” cards with image resembling Nazi logo (Salon)

Twitter ‘Temporarily Restricts’ Account of Trump’s Chief Spokeswoman

American Medical Association, Descending Into Wokeness, Calls for Eliminating Sex on Birth Certificates

Cori Bush Hires Mercenary Army To Arrest Anyone Who Doesn’t Want To Defund The Police   Babylon Bee.

Lincoln Project in Ruins: Disgraced Super PAC Abandons Headquarters

CNN Lets Two Dem Guests Slam Pardon of Mark McCloskey

A Single USWNT Player Didn’t Kneel Before Bronze Medal Match

Google founder gets New Zealand residency, raising questions  Too all such questions, the answer is ‘Money talks’.

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Parents concerned about the leftward tilt of K-12 schools should take a close look at an international organization that is influencing education systems worldwide.

In 2018, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, or OECD, announced its educational goals for the world in a document titled “The Future of Education and Skills: Education 2030.”

Among its recommendations: “Children entering school … will need to value common prosperity” above other concerns, and “curricula should continue to evolve, perhaps in radical ways” that “reflect evolving societal requirements.”

With the viral spread of critical race theory in tandem with gender theory flooding the world’s kindergarten classrooms and up, curriculum has most certainly evolved “in radical ways.”

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Historically, fire was a regular visitor to most Western forests, except moist locations like those along the Pacific Northwest coast and in British Columbia. Frequent or periodic fires from Indigenous burning and lightning strikes created patchworks of grasslands, shrublands and regenerating forests of all ages.

Past fires influence the way subsequent fires burn and what they leave behind. For example, Indigenous burning practices not only enhance cultural resources and wildlife habitat but also reduce the amount and connectedness of fuels that drive large, severe wildfires. Similarly, patchy burns from lightning ignitions create forest landscapes that are less likely to burn all at once.

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Follow the headline link, type in the name of an artist you love. Music Map offers completion if you are not certain of the spelling.

Once you find your artist, click the name and Music Map will build a tag cloud with artists related to your artist. The closer a tag is to your artist, the greater the probability that you will find their styles similar.

I’ve played with this a bit and, though it’s not perfect, I have enjoyed the rabbit hole of artists it’s led me down.

Freeberg nails it.

Rather than looking back on history to when society at large blamed Jews, poor people, rich people, blacks, whites, gays, witches, straights, women, men, etc….let’s remove the emotionalism from it and just call the scapegoated group A. The history of human beings is much easier to understand, when you look for the simpler patterns, because when you review it in this sort of context you find the patterns. And once you find them you see they’re not complicated. So the era is unspecified, but it was cool to blame A. Let’s leave the problems unspecified too. Cows gave spoiled milk, real estate & gasoline were expensive, unemployment was sky-high…whatever…everybody blamed A because it was cool to blame A.

The pattern you’re going to see as you read up on history is that an effort arose to defrock A of any influence. Lots of people from all sorts of different walks of life participated in it, and they believed in it passionately, so the effort was both intense and broad. There was little resistance against this. Resistance would have been punished, with a sneering attitude of…so what, you’re with the A? And so members of Group A became pariahs. They may or may not have been driven underground or herded into boxcars, but the one consistent thing is that they weren’t allowed to have an effect on anything.

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While much of the world has been focused on combating the global coronavirus pandemic, extremist and criminal groups have been carrying out kidnapping-for-ransom raids on Nigerian schools with the hopes of extorting local populations.

The Daily Signal has reported on those developments previously, but the situation has not improved. In early July, following six days of attacks, Nigerian authorities closed 13 schools after more than 125 students were kidnapped from a Baptist high school.

In addition to the kidnappings, 33 civilians were killed and four churches were burned.

According to Statisense, a Nigerian data company, more than 3,000 people have been kidnapped since January.

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“Honolulu native and American Army veteran with a gift to serve, he felt a duty to himself and his fellow citizens to be fully vaccinated,” reads a statement from his reps provided to People. “Although he was fully vaccinated, Ing was first diagnosed with pneumonia in mid-July then confirmed to have COVID-19 a few days later. After two weeks of battling COVID-19, Ing passed away due to cardiac arrest.”

Yeah, gonna run right out and get that vaccine.