Asians in San Francisco Are Angry That Their “Leaders” Won’t Protect Them from Assault,

California court strikes down transgender pronoun law as First Amendment violation

The biggest win for the working class in generations is within reach (The Guardian) Bernie Sanders lets his Progressive hang out.

Pennsylvania decertifies county voting system following private company audit promoted by pro-Trump state senators (Washington Post)

Shameless shoplifters: Retail thefts getting bolder in California and beyond

Cuban Authorities Begin Punishing Young Protesters

Watch: California Shoplifters Stroll Out Of TJ Maxx With Arms Full Of Merchandise

Cuba Demoted To “Not Real Socialism”

A YouTube chat about chess got flagged for hate speech

Facebook took our election ad money then bulk-deleted our pages

AG Garland Going to Chicago in Bid to Bolster Battle With Gun Violence  Perhaps some oppressed Person of Color will shoot him. That happens a lot in Chicago.

Oregon Congressman Proposes SPACE Tax To Penalize Billionaires Who Pay To Go To Space

Pennsylvania Decertifies County’s Voting System, Cites Violation Of Election Code

Twitter Suspends Nation of Islam for Alleged Vaccine Misinformation, Ignores Anti-Semitism

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Imagine if President Joe Biden said he would cancel the Fourth of July to give the United States time to reflect on the sins of its past. There would be no fireworks and no festivities, just a solemn order to self-flagellate.

If you happen to be from Canada, this is not a hypothetical scenario. It’s reality.

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The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee split along party lines during a Thursday morning vote on President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management.

The Democrats on the committee unanimously backed the nominee, Tracy Stone-Manning, in the face of fierce Republican opposition due to her involvement in a 1989 eco-terrorism incident and her alleged dishonesty to the committee about the incident.

Disney to Unveil Animatronic Biden at ‘Hall of Presidents’  Who can tell the difference?

Biden’s Wild Murder and Jim Crow Accusations

Biden White House Admits Using Big Tech to Silence Americans

Disney’s Animatronic Biden Praised As ‘Incredibly Realistic’ After It Short Circuits, Has Speech Malfunction (Babylon Bee)

Pew Poll: Republican Voters Fear for Their Children’s Future Under Biden

Texas Dem Celebrated Volunteer Event With ID Requirements

Hannah-Jones: “All Journalism Is Activism”

California Appeals Court Overturns Anti-Misgendering Law On First Amendment Grounds

‘Lawlessness’: San Francisco’s shoplifting problem increasingly frustrates business owners, employees

De Blasio lugs out giant $15B check to stump for congestion pricing

D.C. Council votes to raise taxes on the rich (Washington Post) That’s one way to get rid of rich people.

Many Big-City Democrat Mayors Defunded Police While Spending Heavily On Their Security Details

Pentagon Reportedly Tracking “Extremist” Web Searches Including “The Truth About Black Lives Matter”

Inspiring: US Women’s Soccer Team To Boycott Scoring Goals Until Racism Is Defeated (Babylon Bee)

AOC Says How She Accidentally Glued Her Face To Her Coffee Table Is A Clear Failure Of Capitalism (Babylon Bee)

CAUGHT ON VIDEO: AOC Illegally Parks Tesla Near Whole Foods AGAIN

Whitmer Kidnapping Defendants Claim Entrapment After 12 FBI Informants Involved In Plot

ACLU: “Gov’t Cannot Be Trusted to Label ‘Truth’ or ‘Fiction’ Any More than Facebook or Twitter”  Nor, for that matter, can the ACLU.

To Improve Olympic Chances, US Women’s Soccer Team Replaced By 15-Year-Old Boys Team In Wigs

Rasmussen Poll: Majority Want BLM Protests Inquiry, More Than Jan. 6

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Tomorrow is the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attack in Norway. On July 22, 2011, a man named Anders Behring Breivik detonated a truck bomb in central Oslo next to government headquarters, killing eight people. While police and emergency services were dealing with the aftermath, Mr. Breivik drove to the island of Utøya, where a summer camp for Socialist Youth was being held. There he methodically shot and killed sixty-nine teenagers with a high-powered rifle. When police finally arrived at the island, he calmly surrendered.

And because of bleeding-heart liberalism he is still alive today, being maintained at taxpayer expense. “He was sentenced to 21 years in prison, in a form of preventive detention that required a minimum of 10 years incarceration and the possibility of one or more extensions for as long as he is deemed a danger to society. This is the maximum penalty in Norway.”

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When considering these privacy issues, we might draw parallels with another technology. Many colour printers add secret tracking dots to documents: virtually invisible yellow dots that reveal a printer’s serial number, as well as the date and time a document was printed. In 2017, these dots may have been used by the FBI in the identification of Reality Winner as the source of a leaked National Security Agency document, which detailed alleged Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election.

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Standard metadata is difficult enough to avoid – you have to scrub it afterwards, and the only piece of information you can stop from being created in the first instance is photo geolocation. Photo response non-uniformity, however, is far more difficult to extricate. Technically, it should be possible to suppress, for example, by reducing the image resolution, says Farid. But, by how much? This of course depends on many factors such as the type of device used for image capture, as well as the fingerprint matching algorithm employed. There is no one-size-fits-all solution to fingerprint removal.

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Shane Sonderman, of Lauderdale County, Tenn. admitted to conspiring with a group of criminals that’s been “swatting” and harassing people for months in a bid to coerce targets into giving up their valuable Twitter and Instagram usernames.

At Sonderman’s sentencing hearing today, prosecutors told the court the defendant and his co-conspirators would text and call targets and their families, posting their personal information online and sending them pizzas and other deliveries of food as a harassment technique.

Other victims of the group told prosecutors their tormentors further harassed them by making false reports of child abuse to social services local to the target’s area, and false reports in the target’s name to local suicide prevention hotlines.

Eventually, when subjects of their harassment refused to sell or give up their Twitter and Instagram usernames, Sonderman and others would swat their targets — or make a false report to authorities in the target’s name with the intention of sending a heavily armed police response to that person’s address.

Yet another reason not to be on Twitter, Facebook, or other public-facing ‘social media’.

Sarah Hoyt turns over a rock.

Frankly, if the numbers don’t convince you this insanity is an illegal take-over of our institutions (partly by corrupt traitors within. Hey, anyone know how many lampposts there are in the continental US? Asking for a pissed off We The People) look at it from the psychological side: the only way a major party would run Joe and the Ho from a basement, with virtually no appearances in public, and on a platform of “we’ll open the border so you’ll be invaded, and tax you till you teeth hurt, oh and take away your fossil fuels too” is if they knew, because they’d been cheating for years, that they’d finally achieved a level of cheating in which they didn’t need any input from We The People, and no matter how we voted, their side would win. It was a potemkin campaign leading up to a grand theft election. (Or do you think they’re fighting so hard against election reform because they care about the individual? Ah!)

Preach it, sister.

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A New Jersey woman faces daily monetary fines if she refuses to remove obscene signs critical of President Joe Biden, NJ.com reported.

Patricia Dilascio, who lives in Roselle Park, New Jersey, has displayed anti-Biden flags containing profane words on her fence. The signs belong to her daughter, Andrea Dick.

Of course, if she were a member of a Fashionable Minority and the obscenities were aimed at Trump or the police, she would be The Darling of the Media, and nobody would dare touch her.

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Researchers from France and Russia have published a study indicating that the use of AI-driven probabilistic text generators such as GPT-3 are introducing ‘tortured language’, citations of non-existent literature and ad hoc, uncredited image reuse into previously respectable channels for the publication of new scientific literature.

Perhaps of most concern is that the papers studied also contain scientifically inaccurate or non-reproducible content presented as the fruits of objective and systematic research, indicating that generative language models are being used not only to bolster the limited English skills of the papers’ authors, but actually to do the hard work involved (and, invariably, to do it badly).

Follow the science, even if it’s bogus!

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Every time I write about the ghastly homicide toll in Chicago, our friend Dana Pico pipes up to remind me that the per-capita homicide rate in Philadelphia is actually worse. Do the math, says Dana, and the homicide rate in Chicago currently works out to about 27 per 100,000 population annually, while in “Kill-a-delphia,” the current rate is about 35 per 100,000 annually — about 25% higher. So while the forecast in Chicago continues to be “partly cloudy with widely scattered afternoon and evening gunfire,” it’s always pouring down murder in Philadelphia.

Don’t mess around with Texas — just move back to California

Fact check: Arizona audit chief baselessly raises suspicion about 74,000 ballots (CNN) Gotta push that Narrative!

Sorting out Trump’s comments on the Arizona audit (Politico)

Nikole Hannah-Jones said Cuba is among ‘most equal’ countries because of socialism

Julian Assange Case: Keystone Witness Admits He Lied, US Media Ignores

USA warns Hong Kong government may demand business and customer data, run surveillance without warrants

AOC Now Pushing Political Merchandise  KA-CHING!

Even CNN Admits Dems Won’t Press Cuba Because Many Support Socialism

Desperate Humanity Sends Robot Back To 2004 To Stop Mark Zuckerberg From Ever Inventing Facebook

Admitting It: CBS Cheers 1619 Project, Touts Idea That Journalism Should Be Activism

Texas Dems’ DC Fly-Away Will Cost Donors Combined $1.5M

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Two New York City Ivy League lawyers will stand trial in March 2022 for allegedly firebombing a police cruiser and distributing Molotov cocktails during the George Floyd riots last summer.

Defense lawyers for Colinford Mattis and Urooj Rahman have been in plea negotiations with federal prosecutors since February but have not come to terms, prompting U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan to set a trial schedule for both defendants. Pretrial motions are due on Sept. 17 and jury selection will begin on March 14, 2022.

The accused enjoy widespread support and sympathy from New York’s legal and media elites. Rahman is represented by one of the city’s best defense attorneys, and a former Obama administration official guaranteed her bail in the amount of $250,000. Both have been the subject of favorable profiles in New York magazine and NPR, among other venues.

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groups and fringe research circles, the controversy over cold fusion (sometimes called low-energy nuclear reactions or LENRs) refuses to go away. On one hand, ardent supporters have lacked the consistent, reproducible results and the theoretical underpinning needed to court mainstream acceptance. On the other, vehement detractors cannot fully ignore the anomalous results that have continued to crop up, like the evidence for so-called “lattice-confinement fusion” adduced last year by a group at NASA’s Glenn Research Center.

Scientists at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head Division have pulled together a group of Navy, Army, and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) labs to try and settle the debate. Together, the labs will conduct experiments in an effort to establish if there’s really something to the cold fusion idea, if it’s just odd chemical interactions, or if some other phenomenon entirely is taking place in these controversial experiments.

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For all the IITs’ proficiency at training and placing students, though, the coders, programmers, product developers, and engineers fanning out to global tech bring with them the troubled legacy of India’s caste system. On campus, students are surrounded by—and in some cases participate in—a culture of discrimination, bullying, and segregation that targets fellow pupils from India’s Scheduled Castes, also known as Dalits. The IITs officially discourage such harassment, but the prejudice against these students remains quite open.

Caste in India speaks, as race does in America, to centuries of social, cultural, and economic divisions. Unlike in the U.S., though, India has since 1950 had a national system of affirmative action designed to undo the legacy of bias. Among its provisions are ones that help Dalits and other oppressed groups get into and pay for college. For nearly half a century, IIT admissions have been subject to a reservation system that’s still hotly debated on the campuses. In recent years, the schools have opposed attempts to extend affirmative action to faculty hires, arguing it would dilute the quality of the applicant pool and undermine their meritocratic image.

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As the American left argues openly for socialism, it’s helpful to keep in mind just how dreadfully those policies have failed—and just how viciously socialists have responded to those who got in the way—in countries throughout the world. Watch the recent protests in Cuba and you will see how regular people feel about the direction the American left wants to take. They aren’t happy.

Since the communist revolution in 1959, leftists in America have celebrated purported Cuban progress in areas such as health care and education. Little mention was made in those quarters about the Cuban government’s human rights abuses, which include political executions, arbitrary imprisonments, an unfair legal system, and severe limits on freedom of expression, free association, free assembly, free movement, and, of course, a free press.

Howard Stern staffers score fast buyers for their homes amid NYC exits

CNN’s Cuomo Tries to Prove Illegals Commit Less Crime, But It Backfires

Wikileaks Co-Founder: Site Now Promotes Leftist Establishment Propaganda

‘The Government Is Losing Ground’ Residents Say as Gangs Take Territory in Venezuela’s Capital

Dozens Arrested As Antifa Clash With Police Outside Controversial Korean LA Spa  But Trump is obviously to blame.

Republican Confidence In “Science” Collapses: Gallup  With good reason.

Telemundo: Texas’ Election-Security Law Is Just Like Brutal Communist Cuba Repression

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For whatever the truth of the charge he levels, Francis himself seems to have weaponized the Latin Mass in the very act of suppressing it. The obvious goal of the motu proprio is to dissolve certain communities devoted to it, communities that have been a thorn in his side for too long. In the waning days of his pontificate, the thorn is being plucked.

It is rumored that earlier drafts were less charitable than the final documents. Yet the measures are draconian and the tone, though dignified, remains severe. To make matters worse, Francis has assigned to diocesan bishops the difficult task of suppression while reserving to Rome the right to veto particular acts of clemency, including (at article 4) any permission granted new ordinands to say the Latin Mass. For this, few of his brethren will thank him. Some, who themselves love and respect the vetus ordo, will resist him.

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Gas-fired stoves are emerging as a burning issue as American cities consider phasing out natural-gas hookups to homes and businesses to reduce carbon emissions.

Many restaurant and home chefs prefer cooking on gas-burning ranges, and persuading some to switch to electric stovetops is proving to be a hard sell—a sentiment the natural-gas industry has seized on to rally opposition to new local ordinances.

‘Buying Votes’ Is Good, Actually

Who is Assata Shakur, convicted cop killer granted asylum in Cuba and praised by Black Lives Matter

Betting On The Everything Bubble: Governments Worldwide Are Testing The New Limits Of Debt

Two-thirds of Southern Republicans want to secede  I’m surprised it’s that low.

“Let Them Die”: Fairfax PTA & NAACP Officer Calls For The Death Of Those Who Oppose CRT

Only 2 Networks (Barely) Mention New Record in Border Crisis, All Skip Hunter Biden Scoop

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In March 2019, tax expert Maya Forstater was dismissed from her job — legally, according to a later judicial ruling — for voicing the view that “sex is a biological fact, and is immutable.” When author J.K. Rowling came to Forstater’s defence, she was bombarded with abuse, including an invitation from one lady to “choke on my fat trans cock”. The case became a cause célèbre. But it is only one of many such cases. Today, anyone who ventures a controversial opinion on “trans”, race, disability, Middle Eastern politics and a handful of other issues risks being fired, insulted, intimidated and possibly prosecuted.

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It wasn’t easy to ruin California, but the Democrats have accomplished it.

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Quietly, proceeding by stealthy cat-like steps, the open-borders lobby has decided that permanent legal status for illegal aliens is something that Congress must cram into the “reconciliation” legislation.

‘Squad’ member Pressley donates to bail fund group that supports abolishing police

University of Alabama in Huntsville sued for allegedly violating state’s ‘Campus Free Speech Act’

Biased CBS Reporter QUITS, Now Free to Be ‘Candid’ About Pro-Abortion Views

Chinese Communist Party Officials Share Viral Video Urging Nuclear Strikes On Japan

CNN Praises Texas Dem Lawmaker for ‘Sacrifice’ of Abandoning Her Post

Arizona Senate Seeks More Voter Data as Election Audit Raises Questions

Ontario’s Grade 9 Will Be Taught That “Mathematics Has Been Used To Normalize Racism”

CHINA: Taliban Welcome Their New Chinese Overlords

Illinois first state to tell police they can’t lie to minors in interrogations

White Boy Summer, Qatar Edition: Fart Denier Eric Swalwell Rides Camel, Bares Nipples on $84K Desert Junket

Superintendent Who Eliminated Entrance Exam at Nation’s Top High School To Resign

Facebook axes CrowdTangle team over data suggesting right-wing success

Democrats Openly Assault Honest Elections, Ohio’s Top Election Official Says

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Michigan’s Republican senators, who hold a majority in the state Senate, used a procedural method this week to support the repeal of a decades-old emergency powers law with a petition that cannot be vetoed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

Michigan senators voted along party lines, 20-15, backing the petition to repeal the Emergency Powers of Governor Act of 1945, which was brought by the group Unlock Michigan and various people critical of Whitmer’s use of emergency powers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Severian scratches his head.

Everyone has asked that about the Republican Party at some time, and while the last few years have changed the answer, in most sentient beings’ minds, from “maybe” to “oh hell yes,” it’s not always the case. I’m not going to defend the GOP here — I know full well they’re merely the “right” wing of GloboHomo — but it’s interesting to think about those situations where emergent behavior looks like deliberate failure.

Navy more focused on diversity training than potential China threat: report

“Woke Coke” – UK Drug Dealers Peddling ‘Ethically Sourced’ Cocaine

Full-time minimum wage workers can’t afford rent anywhere in the US

Colbert Lies: GOP Voting Laws Will ‘Effectively Disenfranchise’ Blacks

What the Hell Happened to Bill Kristol?

BLM Under Fire for Praising Cuban Government

Tucker Goes All In, Airs Evidence “Improperly Duplicated” Ballots From 2020 Election

MSNBC Celebrates 25th Anniversary By Fantasizing: 16 More Years of Dem Rule!

Minneapolis Police Destroyed Evidence During Floyd Protest Last Year

Nancy and Paul Pelosi Making Millions in Stock Trades in Companies She Actively Regulates

MSNBC’s Ruhle Eager to Live in ‘Barbie DreamHouse’ of Socialism

YouTube Pulls Live Feed Of Arizona State Senate Election Audit Hearing

The Continued Betrayal of David French

Cuba Officially Promoted To ‘Not Real Communism’  Babylon Bee.

After Defending BLM Riots, MSNBC Ready to Jail Cuba Protesters

Nicolle Wallace: As an Ex-Republican, I Know They NEED Minority Voter Suppression

Another School Falls to Woke Culture by Erasing Its Catholic History

Democrats Agree to Return to Texas if Greg Abbott Leaves (The New Yorker)

Texas State Democrat mocked for calling himself ‘fugitive’ after fleeing state to block voting bills

De Blasio wants Manhattan congestion fee ‘as fast as humanly possible’

NAACP Offers Bail for Texas Democrats Who Left State

‘HOW DO YOU FIGHT THIS?’ MSNBC Panics Over a Possible Midterm Red Wave

CensorTrack EXPOSES Big Tech, Amasses 2,500 Cases of Online Censorship

FLASHBACK: Media Enabled Castro’s Brutal Communist Regime

Twitter sees jump in govt demands to remove content of journalists

Largest Peaceful Protest In Cuba In 6 Decades, Why Is AOC Hiding?

Twitter Says Government Demands To Remove Tweets From Journalists, News Outlets Jump 26%

Brave Texas Toddlers Flee State On Jet When Told To Eat Their Vegetables  Babylon Bee.

After Mocking Rising Crime, Cuomo, Lemon Worry Voters Now Blaming Democrats

Many Hong Kong Citizens Fleeing Amid China’s Crackdown

Governor Abbott Bribes Charter Plane Pilot To Take Texas Democrats Back To California Babylon Bee.

Facebook Knifes Its Own Analytics Tool to Hide Its Ben Shapiro Problem

Pa. County Won’t Offer Up Voting Machines to Election Audit

Georgia County Ballot Images Prompt Speculation Of “Provable Fraud”

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The attacks on meritocracy in higher education come from multiple directions. Universities throughout the country are discontinuing the use of school entrance exams like the SAT because they are “racist.” The National Educational Association, the largest teachers union in the country, even peddles this argument.

One Harvard University professor has written an entire book explaining how meritocracy is a myth that needs to be reconsidered. Other college professors go so far as to call meritocracy an example of white supremacy. For someone consuming the predominant narrative, it seems that merit is a stumbling block for creating an optimal system of higher education.

Gavin Newsom loses bid to list himself as Democrat on recall ballot

Twitter U-turns after conferring society’s highest honor – a blue check mark – on very obvious bot accounts

Abbott: Texas Dem Lawmakers Who Fled State Will Be Arrested Upon Return

MSNBC’s McCaskill Admits ‘Painful’ Truth: Fleeing TX Dems Akin to GOP Filibuster

Democrat Groups Plan To “Fact Check” Private Text Messages

NBC Applauds Texas Dems Subverting Democracy With Shameless Stunt

Democrat Governors Afraid Cuban Desire For Freedom Could Spread To The U.S.  Babylon Bee.

YouTube Censors Video of School Board Meeting on Mask Mandates

Other States Look To Texas For Advice On How To Get Democrats To Leave  Babylon Bee.

“It Needs To Be Hard For People To Remain Unvaccinated”: Making The Case For COVID Challenges

House’s Democratic Socialists Notably Silent on Cuba Protests

California Reconsiders Math ‘Social Justice’ Curriculum Overhaul Following Opposition

Cuban Police Arrest Regime Critic During Live Interview

Rapper Shot 64 Times as He Leaves Chicago Jail  Yet more Republican lawlessness

33% of Adult Male African Americans Have Felony Convictions,

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Apple might leave the UK market if it is forced to pay too much money to a patent troll, after losing a case last month, says the company’s lawyer. The case relates to a claim by Optis Wireless, which initially won a $506M award against Apple in the US, before the judgment was overturned on appeal.

Optis – which bought some standards-essential LTE patents in order to make claims like this – then won a separate case against Apple in the UK, this time claiming billions rather than millions …

A poster child for the potential damage that can be done under the current ‘intellectual property’ government-enforced monopoly

Moves to silence critical race theory have only amplified its virtues (The Hill)

Globe & Mail: Black Men Are More Psychotic, Whites Therefore Must be at Fault

MSNBC Doctor’s Conspiracy Theory: White Racist Pols Use Anti-Vaxxers to Endanger Blacks

Grief Counselors in Short Supply With Gun Violence Rising

Death at Chuck E. Cheese

Ibram X. Kendi’s Parents Worked to Give Him a Good Life. He Called Them Racists.

Shoplifting surge across the U.S.

Capitol Police to use Army surveillance system on Americans to ‘identify emerging threat’

There’s a New Review of Potential SARS-CoV-2 Origins. Here’s What Experts Think

Why so many geographic sites in the US still have racist names (CNN)

White House reporter: Democrats expect journalists ‘to be on their side,’ have ‘much thinner skin’

Guardian: Mass Immigration is Easing the Transition to a Climate Friendly Low Birthrate Future

Dems Now Woke to Being Alarmed About Crime

“Utterly Unacceptable”: Judge Blasts DC Jail For Not Allowing Jan. 6 Capitol Defendant Access To Evidence

Teachers Union Boss Weingarten: ‘We Will Teach Good and Bad’  Mostly bad, if you’re white.

How Long Will We Tolerate Teachers’ Unions Abusing Their Power?

NY Times Loves Commie Revival of Mao in China: ‘Violence Against Capitalists’

Joy Reid and Guests Proclaim: ‘We Will Never Have a Fair Election Again’  What does she know that you don’t?

Mom Says School Board Threatened to Sue Her for Seeking Public Information on Critical Race Theory in Curriculum

Tennessee Law Forcing Trans Restroom Warnings Blocked by Judge

Running for the School Board? You’re QAnon!

Illinois 1st State to Require Asian-American History in Schools

In Many Cities In America, The Criminals Are Starting To Gain Firm Control Of The Streets  A good reason not to live in a city, most of whom are run by Democrats.

Texas State Dems Consider Leaving State to Block Voting Reform

MSNBC Deceptively Edits McConnell In Attempt to Portray Biden Agenda as Popular

Former New York Times Editor: “I’m A Biased Journalist And I’m Okay With That”

Arizona Senate Conducting New Count Of Maricopa County Ballots

If You Ever Doubted Movie Critics Were Overwhelmingly Liberal …

Growing Number of Dems Fear Party Has Become Too Woke  ODF.

25K Applicants In First Week After Indiana Offers Free Gun Carry Licenses

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Dua Lipa is being sued after allegedly putting a paparazzi photo of herself on Instagram.

According to US court documents, the star was snapped queuing at an airport in February 2019 and later shared the shot with her fans “without permission or authorisation”.

Integral Images says Lipa profited from the photo, as her Instagram feed acts as a marketing tool for her music.

It is seeking $150,000 (£108,000) damages and has asked for a jury trial.

This demonstrates the Kafkaesque quality of current ‘intellectual property’ laws. Somebody takes a picture of YOU in a public place WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION and then sues YOU for using the photo.

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Hundreds of migrants rescued in the central Mediterranean disembarked on Friday in the southern Italian town of Augusta, in Sicily, after Rome-based maritime authorities agreed to give their ship a port.

The Ocean Viking vessel, operated by SOS Mediterranee, carried 572 people, including around 180 minors, after picking them up in six separate operations in Maltese and Libyan search and rescue areas, the European NGO said.

The way this ‘rescue’ scam works is as follows: Migrants set out from North Africa in some wretched excuse for a boat (often having notified one of these ‘charity’ NGOs beforehnd). As soon as they are outside of the original country’s territorial waters, an NGO ‘charity boat’ swoop in and ‘rescues’ them, then takes them the rest of the way to whichever EU country is the easiest target that day. Once they land as ‘refugees’, they get all sorts of assistance and benefits, eventually disappearing into mainland Europe where they can huddle together in ethnic ghettos and cause problems for local police and citizenry.

Many Mediterranean coastal municipalities are getting wise to this racket and refusing to let them land, triggering massive hand-wringing on the part of the Usual Suspects.

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Apparently the assassination wasn’t in favor of any particular successor, they just wanted to get rid of the current guy.

He must have really pissed somebody off.

I think, as a working hypothesis, that if a politician is worth assassinating, he has too much power.  Nobody would bother assassinating Creepy Joe, for example, because nothing would change.

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Daniel Horowitz points to an analysis by the Chicago Sun-Times showing that judges are signing off on the release of gang leaders and other notorious criminals. They are doing so pursuant to the First Step Act, the bipartisan, pro-criminal sentencing act that Donald Trump supported and signed into law.

Local prosecutors reportedly are at wits’ end over this development, as they should be. Chicago has been plagued by a surge in violent crime. Over the July 4 weekend, 22 people were killed and 90 wounded in the city. A 20-year-old college student was killed by a stray bullet that smashed through a window while he was sitting on a train.

How can violent criminals obtain release under the First Step which, its advocates assured us, would apply to drug felons, not violent ones? The answer stems to a large extent from the fact that drug charges are the tip of the iceberg for many violent felons.

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If you don’t like the explosion of violent crime, you’re a racist.

That’s the message sent by a top aide to the San Francisco district attorney to a self-described “Democrat” who had said on Twitter that the jump in crime had made people afraid for their lives and dubious about the city’s future.

The Democrat tweeted that “every single one of my friends right now is considering leaving” San Francisco because of the big increase in crime, adding: “My friends are scared for their children, and their husbands are scared for their wives.”

9 Countries Rejected Global Minimum Tax, Possibly Killing Deal

New Zealand Prof Kicked Off Twitter After Mocking Chinese Leader

In one-party states like California, recalls are the only way to keep pols accountable  Jonah Goldberg.

ABC, CBS Skip July 4 Weekend Shootings, NBC Downplays NYC’s Shooter Releases

UK Government Launches Multi-Front Attack On Freedom Of Expression Under Guise Of National Security

EU Parliament approves mass surveillance of private communications

Reports: 3 Enforcement Officers Shot and Wounded Outside Chicago Police Station

WORST Censorship in June: 5 Ways Big Tech Silenced the American People

Trump Sues Jack Dorsey, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai Over Social Media Censorship Of Conservatives

Sports Were Completely Saturated With LGBT Propaganda During June Pride Month

‘Decolonize your bookshelf’: Leaked documents show defense contractor Raytheon uses critical race theory

Thousands of teachers pledge to break anti-critical race theory laws  Don’t send your kid to a government school.

Amid critical race theory controversy, teachers union chief vows legal action to defend teaching of ‘honest history’  Unions are by their nature anti-American.

It’s Tough to Prove You’re a ‘True Conservative’ in the Trump Era (New York Magazine) Proglodytes like Ed Kilgore just love to lay down the law as to what constitutes a ‘true conservative’.

CBS Hides 1619 Project’s Distortions, Suggests Only Republicans Oppose It

Illinois’ Education Spending Soars While Outcomes Flatlined, New Census Data Shows

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You’ve got sliding blades, switchblades, even complicated blades triggered by linkages, but what Koss Workshop’s latest creation does is quite unique. The knife, literally titled ‘Weird Folding Knife’, sports a split handle design and a couple of linkages that allow the blade to slide in and out. The blade comes with a slot too, that keeps it aligned as you open and close the knife… and it’s entirely made from scratch using scrap metal and a fully-equipped metal workshop.

Severian reviews the ascendency of the face diaper.

In the previous installments in the series, I suggested that the purpose of PoMo propaganda isn’t, pace Dr. Dalrymple, to humiliate people by forcing them to repeat obvious lies. Rather, the purpose of PoMo propaganda is narrative reinforcement.

In part, I think the difference in our viewpoints is simply one of time. The Soviets weren’t history’s first attempt at a totally ideologized society — that would be Revolutionary France — but as students of the French Revolution, the Bolsheviks concluded that Robespierre and the gang hadn’t done enough to get the masses onside. Thus the Soviets seemed to assume that they needed to propagandize everyone. The Nazis followed a similar trajectory, because they, like the Soviets, were ideologically committed to the idea that the laboring masses were the backbone of their movements.

The Third Reich didn’t last long enough to figure it out, but in their 70-odd years the Soviets learned that “the masses” can be more or less ignored. They’re no threat to the regime. Your average Soviet “citizen” — Ivan Sixpack — would follow pretty much any rule, so long as he had a steady and predictable life course. That’s no slander on Ivan; it’s just the way people are. If you want proof, go look around — if I’d told you, back in the summer of 2019, about all the masks and the social distancing and the lockdowns and everything else, you’d have laughed at me. “There will be blood in the streets! No one will stand for it!”

ZMan doe some sociology.

People often join mass movements as a way to replace their own hated identity with that of the group. They immerse themselves in the movement or cause, losing themselves in the identity of the group. Their sense of who they are gets blended with the cause so that they are one with it. It is why their life is quickly organized around the cause they are in at the moment. Not everyone does this, of course, but every mass movement has true believers, people who become one with it.

This is why the true believer reacts to all criticism of the movement as if it were a physical attack on their person. They treat all opposition to their cause as a violent threat, because from their perspective, it is an attack on their person. Once who they are is indistinguishable from the identity of the group, any criticism of the group becomes a threat to their very existence. It is why reasoning with a true believer makes them more belligerent and hostile.

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Video footage showed that at least nine vandals smashed display cases, took handbags and left the building before police arrived. They were seen entering a possible getaway car with their hands full of looted merchandise.

The San Francisco Police Department has not arrested anyone yet; however, according to the Washington Examiner, law enforcement is ”analyzing videos and speaking with witnesses” to identify the culprits.

Time to leave.

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How Corey Johnson and Bill de Blasio spent your money like drunken sailors on their way out

San Francisco Neiman Marcus hit by shoplifters who fled with merchandise

Twitter has lost liability protection in India, government says

150 people fatally shot in more than 400 shootings over the 4th of July weekend

Twitter Restricts Tweets of Academic Who Mocked China Leader

Love Thy Neighbor… Or Go Burn Down a Retail Store. Your choice.

George Soros’ Open Society Foundations Pledge $100M to Spread Radical Feminist Ideas

Watch: Looters Ransack San Francisco Neiman Marcus In Broad Daylight

Happy July 4th! New Captain America Comic Says American Dream ‘Never Really Existed’

Antifa Attacked Protesters Outside Wi Spa in Los Angeles

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Max Lewis, 20, was commuting home from his summer internship Thursday when a bullet passed into his train and struck his neck. First responders transported Lewis, who was in critical condition, to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he passed away Sunday. Police say the student was not the shooter’s intended target, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. Authorities have not provided a description of the suspect.

Thursday’s shooting follows the killing of 31-year-old Anat Kimchi, a Jewish University of Maryland doctoral student who was stabbed by a homeless person while visiting the city in June. Kimchi’s assailant, who has been charged with first-degree murder, allegedly attacked two other women over a nine-day span last month.

Both killings come amid a surge in violent crime in Chicago.