NASA Satellites Find Upper Atmosphere Cooling and Contracting Due to Climate Change

Sixty years of climate change warnings

NY Times Claims First US Flag Divides People  The ‘first flag’ was modeled after the flag of the Honorable East India Company, thus establishing the American connection to free trade.

Target To Close Stores Early In San Francisco Due To Chronic Shoplifting

The “Deprogramming” Begins: Public Defender Representing January 6th Defendants “Re-Educates” Them

Michigan’s Gov. Whitmer Trails In New Poll  Gee, I wonder why.

Target, Walgreens make drastic changes due to increase in San Francisco thefts

Apple defeats attempt by TikTok and others to bypass App Tracking Transparency in China

Corporate Climate Claims in Australia Now Subject to Hard Regulatory Review

Leftists Blame Capitalism, Global Warming For Mexican State-Owned Oil Company’s Gulf Fire  State-owned oil production in Mexico has exactly zero to do with ‘capitalism’.

At Least 118 Shot in Chicago, NY Over July 4 Weekend

Calls to Defund NPR Over Its Talk of ‘Flawed’ Declaration of Independence

China State Media on July 4: America ‘Selfish,’ ‘Racist’  Although not as selfish and racist as the Chinese. You can look it up.

Biden’s illegal immigration mess

Top Biden Allies Worked for Group With Close Ties to Chinese Communist Party

Biden Tells Americans Getting Vaccinated Is “The Most Patriotic Thing You Can Do”  Democrats have very limited imaginations.

Treasury Announces Minting Of New Biden Coin Worth Sixteen Cents  Babylon Bee.
Ya save sixteen cents, whaddaya get?
A lot more government, and deeper in debt….

Read it.

Liberals get very testy when you suggest they lack patriotism, or worse, that they are ashamed of or actually hate the country deep down inside. But even the New York Times can’t conceal this any longer.

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Pope Francis plans to restrict priests from celebrating the Traditional Latin Mass, according to the Italian website MessainLatino.

In a story about French priests facing expulsion from an archdiocese due to their refusal to concelebrate Mass, National Catholic Register’s Edward Pentin reported Pope Francis aimed to limit the celebration of Mass in the Extraordinary Form, aka the Traditional Latin Mass.

The problem with having one guy at the top making all the decisions is that when he stumbles, everybody falls.

The Vatican ought to read a little history, such as that of the Old Believers in Russia.

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At a Los Angeles spa, a “trans woman” used the women’s locker room and waved his unit around in front of a group that included small girls. The women were understandably unhappy.

70% of San Francisco residents say quality of life has declined: poll  That’s what happens when Democrats run your state.

Former Police Officer Recounts Witnessing “Industrialized” Organ Harvesting In China

Bezos, Gates back fake meat and dairy made from fungus as next big alt-protein (CNBC) I doubt seriously that either of them eat any of that crap.

Squatters terrorizing NYC neighborhood flee after being outed by The Post

The battle for Mount Rushmore: ‘It should be turned into something like the Holocaust Museum’ (The Guardian)

Spain’s Proposed ‘National Security Law’ Would Allow Seizure Of Citizens’ Property During Health “Crisis”

NY Times Mocks Claims of ‘Mostly Peaceful’ Jan. 6, But Floyd Protests ‘Overwhelmingly Peaceful’

Facebook Censors #Revolution Hashtag

‘Harmful Extremist Content’? Why Does Facebook Want You to Be ‘Concerned’?

LA Violence Erupts Between SoCal Antifa, Protesters of Trans-Friendly Spa

Cities ranked by surveillance cameras per kilometer:

1. Seoul

2. Paris

3. Boston (Democrat-run)

4. NYC (Democrat-run)

5. Baltimore (Democrat-run)

6. San Francisco (Democrat-run)

7. Tokyo

8. London

9. Chicago (Democrat-run)

10. Philadelphia (Democrat-run)

11. Bangkok

12. Washington, D.C. (Democrat-run)

13. Milwaukee (Democrat-run)

14. Singapore

15. Seattle (Democrat-run)

16. Los Angeles (Democrat-run)

See whether you can spot the trend.

Megan McArdle.

So this isn’t just an essay about pie. It is a polemic. I want to convince you that American pie is special, because it is. American pie is great, in part, because of its rich, unlikely history. But American pie is also in dire straits, because American cooks have mostly forgotten how to make the most important part.

Which means that we are at risk of losing not just a dessert, but a little piece of who we are as a country.

She’s right. Nobody makes good pie any more.

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For the past three years, engineers at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Applied Science have been developing a type of material they’ve dubbed “metallic wood.” Their material gets its useful properties and name from a key structural feature of its natural counterpart: porosity. As a lattice of nanoscale nickel struts, metallic wood is full of regularly spaced cell-sized pores that radically decrease its density without sacrificing the material’s strength.

The precise spacing of these gaps not only gives metallic wood the strength of titanium at a fraction of the weight, but unique optical properties. Because the spaces between gaps are the same size as the wavelengths of visible light, the light reflecting off of metallic wood interferes to enhance specific colors. The enhanced color changes are based on the angle that light reflects off of the surface, giving it a dazzling appearance and the potential to be used as a sensor.

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This is just so entertaining that I had to mention it.

Schnorring is a Yiddish word for very aggressive begging. Both parties do it. But, at least for now, I am registered as a member of the Republican Party, so that is what I will be discussing. During election “season,” I get probably 100 daily texts, calls, and emails from the Party. Even during the merciful two or three weeks before the start of the NEXT campaign, I get somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 emails and 10 texts A DAY.

Some obscenely overpaid consultant has obviously conducted a seminar hitting every major psy-ops persuasion technique known to man in the eternal quest to separate me from my hard-earned money. And believe me, I am very small potatoes, barely a Tater Tot. I can only imagine the pleas and bribes for the major donors. “I think I can get you an ambassadorship to Uganda. I know you wanted to be the US Ambassador to the United Nations, because the restaurants in New York are so much better than the one in Uganda, but I’m afraid the Democrats have promised that to legendary billionaire Conservative Biden supporter, Cindy McCain.”

There are so many opportunities in life to be importuned by people wanting to spend your money that sometimes it seems a shame that they don’t have monasteries around any more. This is why my wife and I have a NO SOLICITING sign on the door, and why we regularly have to report two or three people a year for blowing past it. (They invariably start their spiel with ‘I’m not soliciting, but….’)

Since I regularly vote in the Democrat primaries (in my part of Texas the Republican primaries are pretty self-managing) in order to cause as much trouble as I can, the stuff I get is pretty much SJW bullcrap. Yeah, it gives me a chance to insult people who richly deserve it, but some days it gets wearing – I went to college with these people, I don’t want to be reminded that they actually exist in real life.

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After a year of violence and unrest, large American cities serve as a cautionary tale for the progressives in Washington who want to move the country further to the left. The Democrats’ airtight lock on the urban vote has allowed political leaders to pursue ideological agendas without fear of reprisal, which has revealed just how much the elite left – comprised mostly of affluent, liberal whites who dominate media narratives – is out of step with the concerns of rank-and-file urban residents.

(Hint: No.)

Victor Davis Hanson.

The military is not yet a revolutionary people’s army overseen by commissars. But it is getting there.

History Canceled? House Passes Bill to Remove Confederate Statues From Capitol

ABC Gawks at Police Overwhelmed By Killings, Ignore Dems Defunding

Nickelodeon Promotes Transgender Programming to Kids

Chinese censorship found at Australian universities – rights group

NYC mayoral primary race thrown into chaos as BOE appears to botch vote count

Rep. Ilhan Omar Doubles Down Comparing US, Israel to ‘Terrorists’

San Francisco Homeless Camp Costs $60,000 Per Tent, Per Year

Shocker: Bill Gates Thinks Caring About Diversity Has Nothing to Do with the Success of Microsoft

Dems Turn Major China Bill Into Green Slush Fund

Nation’s Largest Teachers’ Union Will Debate Resolution Accusing Israel of ‘Ethnic Cleansing’

HK media erase their archives amid rising arrests

NYC Election Board re-counting votes after 130k are discovered from a test run

Concerns Raised About Election Integrity After Biden Wins 80 Million Votes For NYC Mayor  Babylon Bee.

Nets BLASTED Georgia’s Elections Law, But Bury New York Debacle

NFL Introduces Rainbow Flag For Refs To Throw When Players Aren’t Being Gay Enough  Babylon Bee.

CNN Pundit Admits NYC Elections Board ‘Corrupt,’ But It’s a ‘Uniquely’ NYC Problem

NY Assembly to Begin Issuing Subpoenas in Cuomo Impeachment Investigation

In Hong Kong, Pro-Democracy Newspaper Closes and Editor Is Arrested

University Bans The Phrase “Trigger Warning” Because It Might Be… Triggering

Partygoers leave NYC park littered in trash after chaotic Pride event

CBS, NBC Skip Marine Shot in NYC, ABC Downplays Bloody Weekend

FISA Lie Brings Just One-Year Bar Suspension for FBI Lawyer

NBA, Nike, Apple, Google Silent on China’s Crackdown on Journalists in Hong Kong

Olympics To Kick Off With Ceremonial Lighting Of The American Flag  Babylon Bee.

UK celebs call for tax on iPhones & Macs to help fund creative arts  ‘Artists’ never lack schemes for how other people ought to fund the artists’ hobbies.

Panic at the New York Times: Leftists Are Losing Black and Brown Voters!

White House Defends Olympians “Protesting” Anthem As GOP Leaders Urge Ban On “Activist Athletes”  If the U.S. is paying for you to go to the Olympics, you don’t get to disrespect the flag.

Green New Deal Insurrectionists Blockade the White House, Demand Money

Woke Non-Binary MSNBC Guest Calls Track and Field Too ‘Gendered’

Mental Health Professionals Have Begun Suing Stanford

8th Grade Teacher Distributes Flyer Saying No Consent Needed for Abortion, Birth Control

Supreme Court Says Students Who Identify As Teachers Must Be Allowed To Use Teacher’s Lounge  Babylon Bee.

Ohio Democrats Bang on Desks to Disrupt Vote on Amendment to Protect Women’s Sports From Men

The Left’s War on Gifted Kids

Andy Ngo Is Latest Conservative Voice Canceled by Big Tech

Steve Sailer.

While this may sound like a new low in public disorder in the northern Bay Area, robbing news crews while they are on the air has been a Thing for at least a decade.

Since news crews are almost always white and robbers are almost always  black, this ought to surprise nobody.

Rapinoe No Victim: US Women’s Soccer Team Earned More Than Men’s Team

China’s Secrecy Affects US

Just Do It For China! Nike Declares Its Brand ‘Of And For China’

Hong Kong Police Arrest Former Apple Daily Journalist at Airport

Chicago Data Appears to Contradict Lightfoot’s Claim of Decline in Crime  BRAAAAAAAINS!

Oakland ‘Defunds’ $17 Million From Police Budget  Prediction: Crime will increase. Preduction: That increase will be predominantly black people. Prediction: Politicians will blame lack of gun control laws.

Facebook Soars Past $1 Trillion Market Cap After District Judge Dismisses FTC’s Anti-Trust Case

Experts SLAM Facebook for Allowing China’s Uyghur Genocide Propaganda

JUSTICE: Facebook Can Be Held Liable for Human Trafficking Cases, Court Rules

Over 500 Election Fraud Cases Are Pending In Texas Courts: Attorney General

CUNY Professor Resigns From Teachers’ Union That Condemned Israel

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Usually the word “hacking” implies breaking into someone else’s data, but farmers are having to hack their own farm equipment just to keep it running, reports Freethink. Companies like John Deere won’t license out the software necessary to diagnose and fix their increasingly complex farm equipment, forcing owners to source that software online.

The fight over “right to repair” doesn’t just extend to totaled Teslas—it affects what makes it onto your dinner table, too. Crops won’t schedule themselves around a 40-mile repair trip to a specific company’s dealership. Mother Nature does not care about John Deere’s terms of service. Farmers say that they need to be able to repair their own ag equipment on their own terms—either themselves or through independent mechanics—as they have always done.

Severian continues his deep dive.

Before turning to look at effective propaganda, let’s address an important objection from Anonymous White Male:

Oh, they always have a capital-T version of the truth, and they pretend to believe it. But, that capital-T truth is constantly changing. Sort of a fungible propaganda. Remember, Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia. Oh, damn! This is Monday. Remember Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.

I hate to sound like Ulynaov’s mini-me, but that’s the kind of “bourgeois objectivism” we need to get over, comrade. They don’t “pretend” to believe it, they DO believe it, with all their hearts and souls… and yet, they don’t believe it, because they can’t. We’ve always been at war with Eastasia today, and we must act like it, if we are to survive… and yet, the very act of “acting like it” entails knowing that we could easily have always been at war with Eurasia tomorrow, and acting like it. I can’t explain it, but somehow it must be both true and not true, simultaneously.

ZMan pulls back the curtain.

The Right is festooned with housebroken rebels. This is a legacy of Bill Buckley, who defined the opposition to the Left within the bounds of the acceptable. It was the Left, of course, that decided what was acceptable. Over the last 70 years, every great purge was led by the Buckley crowd. The Birchers, paleocons, populists, immigration patriots and so on were denounced and purged by Conservatives, after the Left decided they were no longer allowed in polite company.

In the current age, the contrast between the swelling hordes of people outside the bounds of the acceptable and the so-called conservatives is glaring. It was not always so, which would explain why so-called conservatives carried on as if they were rebels trying to topple the system. In the 1990’s, for example, Conservative Inc. could plausibly argue that the paleo remnant turning up at Ross Perot rallies or Ron Paul events were just a noisy minority, not the real alternative to the Left.

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We have written many times about the sad decline of the City of Minneapolis. Perhaps the number one villain of the story is City Council President Lisa Bender, who famously said on television that calling 911 when someone breaks into your house “comes from a place of privilege.” It is remarkable that such goofballs can be elected to public office.

Minneapolis’s Uptown district has been devastated by riots and general lawlessness since career criminal Winston Boogie Smith was apprehended by law enforcement and fired at officers from his Maserati. They fired back and killed him. He is now being canonized as a hero and a victim of police brutality. A second no-go zone in Minneapolis has been established as a tribute to Boogie.

YouTube takes down Xinjiang videos, forcing rights group to seek alternative  YouTube is becoming a Communist front.

More Police Officers Have Retired Or Quit In The Past Year Than Ever Before, New Survey Shows

No Space Left to Run: China’s Transnational Repression of Uyghurs

Bill Maher Diagnoses Liberal ‘Progressophobia’

It’s only $6 Trillion: ABC Pressures Manchin to Move Left, Bring GOP With Him

Yet More Olympics “Activism”: Medalist Turns Back To Flag During Anthem At Trials

Turmoil erupts in school district after claims that critical race theory and transgender policy are being pushed

Corrupt NYT Skips Dem Crime Crisis: ‘Opportunity to Beat GOP on Law-and-Order’

Blackouts Loom in California as Electricity Prices Are ‘Absolutely Exploding’  Time to leave.

Hungary Told To Repeal Law Banning LGBT Promotion To Children “Or Else Leave EU”  Time to leave.

Masks Required in Philly’s Naked Bike Ride  Be All the Pervert You Can Be — so long as you conform to the Narrative.

TikTok’s Chinese Parent Company Has Unlimited Access to American Data

“Enough Is Enough”: Los Angeles Sheriff Urges State Of Emergency On Homelessness

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For the past five months The Spectator World has been running an anonymous column called Wokeyleaks by a disillusioned social-justice warrior from within the entertainment industry. Wokeyleaks provides an encrypted email address (wokeyleaks@protonmail.com) to which whistleblowers can leak stories about the most shocking and ridiculous aspects of woke culture.

So far, we’ve covered the woke hypocrisy of corporations such as Youtube, Microsoft and Mercedes Benz who tweet their undying support for Gay Pride Month in the West, while staying shamefully silent about gay rights on their Middle Eastern accounts. We’ve covered the British spy agencies who are woke-policing their employee’s conversations and the billionaire attendees at the Saudi Aramco-sponsored World Economic Forum, who fly into Davos on their private jets to chat about climate change. We’ve even had a leak from a whistle-blower within the defense company Northrop Grumman where arms dealers are being given microaggression training so that no one gets triggered while they flog bombs to brutal regimes.

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What, did you think they were actually Catholic? You must not read the newspapers.

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The principal current focus of lawlessness is Uptown, formerly the city’s main entertainment district. Uptown is where Winston Boogie Smith opened fire on law enforcement officers who were trying to arrest him, leading to his own death. Expect his canonization any day now. Uptown has not been free from “protests,” which mostly means unchecked crime, in the weeks that have gone by since.

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I’ve been writing about Colorado cakemaker Jack Phillips’ fight against cultural authoritarians for a long time. This past March, I noted that Phillips would probably be badgered into the grave. And this week, Denver district judge A. Bruce Jones again found that the state could compel speech, claiming that Phillips had acted unlawfully when refusing to create a cake that celebrated the alleged gender transition of a Colorado activist.

When Phillips declined to participate in the wedding of David Mullins and Charlie Craig back in the summer of 2012 — this was before Obergefell v. Hodges and before gay marriage was even legalized in Colorado — he made himself the target of harassment by activists and “civil-rights” commissions that set out to destroy his business over a thought crime; by courts that set out to corrode religious liberty and free-speech protections; and by media that either don’t understand or don’t value free expression anymore.

Victor Davis Hanson.

Wokeism was never really about racism, sexism, or other -isms. Instead, for some, it illustrated a psychological pathology of projection: fobbing one’s own concrete prejudices onto others in order to alleviate or mask them.

Escape From Woke Metropolises  Rod Dreher.

Democrat Lawmaker Suggests Catholic Church Should Lose Tax Exemption If Pro-Aborts Denied Communion

“Inclusion” Means Excluding You

How YouTube’s rules are used to silence human rights activists

CNN’s John King Channels Despondent Dems Crying ‘Armageddon’ as Their Voting Bill Fails

California Gov. Newsom to Face Recall Election

Laughable: Joy Reid Claims No Constitutional Basis for Opposing D.C. Statehood  The same people who are adamant that black people are just as smart at white people keep putting stupid black people on TV. (Of course, they put stupid white people on TV too, so maybe they can’t tell the difference.)

Sesame Street Addresses ‘Complex Issues’ by Introducing Gay Couple in ‘Family Day’ Episode  ‘Complesity’ is merely the proglodyte foot-in-the-door to perversion. Once they get people to admit that ‘it’s complicated’, they stick the other foot in under the rubric of ‘nuance’ and eventually succeed in turning everything upside down. Abortion is the master template for this process, and it’s been working well for them the last five decades.

After Repeatedly Promising Not To, Facebook Keeps Recommending Political Groups

Giuliani Suspended From Practicing Law In New York The fact that lawyers, like doctors, require a ‘license’ to practice law (and the fact that you can go to jail for ‘practicing law without a license’, which means whatever the licensed lawyers masquerading as judges want it to mean) makes the practice of law open to flagrant political meddling — and, boy, do they.

Microsoft Exemption From Antitrust Bill Followed Company Donation to Top Democrat  Money talks.

China Kills Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Newspaper

YouTube removed 3.9M dislikes for White House

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Carl Nassib went from hero to zero in record time. Hailed earlier this week by the Left for being the courageous first active homosexual player in the NFL, Nassib is now getting canceled by the Twitter mob because he is a registered Republican who voted for Donald Trump. Oh, the agony of it!

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No one should be denied credit because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

Ostensibly to deter such discrimination, a proposal in Congress (HR 1443) would require small-business lenders to furnish data to the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau detailing the LGBTQ business-ownership status of credit applicants.

That mirrors current law imposing similar reporting on female or minority business ownership. But regardless of the supposed intent of the bill’s proponents, reporting requirements serve as a next step in bringing quotas to the credit markets.

Ironically, such quotas enshrine discrimination by making success in the marketplace partially contingent on membership in a politically favored category. That conflicts with the American ideal of equality under the law and equal protection of the law.

The fact that this legislation attempts to prevent discrimination against politically fashionable groups in the name of ‘equality under the law’, an obviously corrupt practice, is just a dance around the basic issue that is still unaddressed: What business is it of the government to prevent ‘discrimination’? ‘Equality under the law’ and ‘equal protection of the law’ are TWO DIFFERENT THINGS. They deal with how the government treats individuals with respect to the government — an important thing, no doubt about it, but not the most important thing … which is, how is it the government’s job to decide who I do business with? We used to have something in this country called ‘freedom of association’, which means that it was up to the individual to decide with whom he would associate, either socially or commercially. That freedom has been stomped into the dirt, and people walk over its grave daily without a glance. Even a news organization like The Foundry, which I’m sure describes itself as conservative, has given up the fight about basics and is just squabbling over the details.

Nowadays THE GOVERNMENT decides with whom you are allowed to associate, and in extreme cases CAN FORCE YOU TO ASSOCIATE WITH PEOPLE YOU DISLIKE. That is the essence of tyranny.

The future socialist dictatorship is already here; it’s just not equally distributed.

ZMan keeps pointing out the obvious to the clueless.

The sales pitch for the American political system is that it is a robust debate between two distinct political parties. The Republicans and Democrats are coalitions of interests opposed to one another. The groups that make up each party are held together by a shared ideological outlook. The Republicans are the conservative party, and the Democrats are the liberal party. The political process adjudicates the disputes between the parties over public policy and the result is a compromise.

In reality, America is a one party system. It has been since Gettysburg. The differences between the two parties are miniscule. This is why public policy never changes when the party in charge changes. The mild reforms of the Reagan years were followed by a consensus that remains in place to this day. There is some tinkering around the edges to keep up appearances, but otherwise the results of each election have no impact on public policy or the priorities of government.

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Liberal outlet Inside Philanthropy sang the praises of an extremist pro-abortion group funded by billionaires George Soros and Warren Buffett looking to revamp its baby slaughter advocacy.

Catholics for Choice (CFC), a leftist organization that twists the tenets of faith to sanction the monstrous act of abortion, is being rebuilt and rebranded at a time when “the politics of reproductive rights are approaching a boiling point,” IP fearmongered.

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Yes, he attended then-President Donald Trump’s rally in Washington, DC, on Jan. 6, but he never entered the Capitol. He was in a friend’s room at the JW Marriott a 30-minute walk away when the Capitol breach occurred.

Nonetheless, he was raided in February by the FBI anti-terrorism task force, handcuffed, paraded and detained for three hours while his apartment was ransacked and all his devices confiscated. Four months later, he hasn’t been charged and doesn’t have his devices back, but his neighbors are shunning him, and he’s had two strokes from the stress.

Your tax dollars at work.

“It’s A Sovereignty Issue” – Bermuda Pushes Back Against G-7 Minimum Corporate Tax Proposa

Lincoln Project Claims Exoneration by Law Firm of its Own Donors

Mayors Respond to the Murder Surge: We’ve Tried Nothing and Were All Out of Ideas!

Fredo Screams at Democrats: ‘Are You Ready to Play to Win, Now?!’

NYT Hypes Soros-Funded Group’s $20M Fight Against ‘Republican-Driven Voting Restrictions’

Biden Admin Launches “Firearms Trafficking Strike Forces” In Liberal Cities  Which is, of course, where the major problems with gun violence lie.

Michigan County Requests Audit of State’s 2020 Election Results

Pennsylvania Election Audit Shows Benjamin Franklin Voted For Biden  Babylon Bee.

Party Controlling Executive, Legislative Branches Blames Minority Party For Everything Going Wrong  Babylon Bee.

Norah O’Donnell Brags: CBS Is a ‘Fact-Based,’ ‘Fair,’ ‘Neutral’ Network

Zoom updated with custom video filters, support for gender pronouns, and more

U.S. Air Force Base Says Drag Queen Show Was “Essential For Morale”

‘Unbelievable’: Swedish Writer Says LinkedIn CENSORED His Profile for Users in China

Sports Illustrated, Woke Athletes Demand NCAA Punish ‘Anti-Trans’ States

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I’d eat beans and sleep on a board before I’d send my kids to a government school.

UPDATE School Board Walks Out in Virginia County as Parents Criticize Transgender Policy, Critical Race Theory

UPDATE: Va. School Board Meeting Devolves into Arrests of Gender Policy Protestors

ZMan not only pulls back the curtain but he jerks it completely off the rod.

A popular concept in right wing politics is the gatekeeper or sometimes called the controlled opposition. This is the person or group that appears to be in opposition to the Left, but is an insulation layer between the Left and genuine critics. The function of the gatekeeper is to prevent people from abandoning the political morality of the Left, while at the same time making sure to lose every fight with the Left. They channel opposition into positions that can never succeed.

Ben Shapiro is the most obvious example. His primary role is to funnel all opposition into a dead end. His answer to the tech monopolies, for example, is to tell people to build their own new internet. After all, only a communist would demand the government prevent private actors from trampling your rights. Of course, he always tone policing the language of the people he claims to represent. The point is also to cleanse the language of rhetoric that could be effective against the Left.

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Tribal societies don’t have the animus against cheating that WEIRD societies do.

Yes, that includes the Chinese and Koreans. If you’ve ever been to graduate school with Chinese or Korean students, you know that most of them plagiarize and cheat whenever possible, as a matter of course.

Coca-Cola Diversity Policy Risks Violating Anti-Discrimination Laws, Shareholders Warn

Professors Call For Hate Speech Protections To Be Extended To Animals  They’re so oppressed.

San Francisco Walgreens shoplifter seen filling bag with stolen goods arrested while ‘clearing shelves’: cops

The Democrats Have an Elitism Problem. Sheldon Whitehouse Is the Latest Example (Newsweek) Even a blind pig finds an acorn now and then; Newsweek wanders away from the Narrative.

US Olympic athlete Chelsea Wolfe threatened to burn flag on podium  The whole Trans thing may not succeed in destroying U.S. participation in the Olympics, but its increasing politicization will certainly destroy any lingering pretense of having an audience.

Quid Pro Quo? Amazon-Funded Progressive Group Calls Company ‘No. 1 Investor in America’

Colorado Mayor Suspends Pledge of Allegiance at Town Meetings  There must be a lot of Californians moving to Colorado.

A Court Ruled Rachel Maddow’s Viewers Know She Offers Exaggeration and Opinion, Not Facts

Woman Briefly Identifies As Man To Avoid Long Bathroom Line  Babylon Bee.

California will pay off all past due rent

US Govt Seizes News Websites Across MidEast, Including Iran’s PressTV

National Popular Vote Compact Would Disfranchise Smaller and Rural States

“Out Of Order!” Colorado Mayor Bans Pledge Of Allegiance, Then Snaps At Meeting Attendees Who Recite It Anyway  Time to leave.

On The Mean Streets Of America, The Gun Battles Never Seem To End…

Sesame Street Airs 4-Hour-Long Special Where The Count Counts All 471 Genders Babylon Bee.

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News accounts have been swirling for days (though conspicuously not in the NY Times, Washington Post, etc) that a very high ranking Chinese intelligence official (some reports say it is Dong Jingwei, the vice minister for state security) has defected to the U.S., and is confirming the lab leak hypothesis for COVID-19, as well as warning the U.S. of extensive penetration by Chinese agents.

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When my parents were in high school, this sort of thing was considered the essence of the high school experience: Preparing young people for Real Life, such as teaching young men basic trade skills and young women basic homemaker skills, because that’s what most of them would be doing once they walked away from graduation. It was only the combination of Everybody Needs To Go To College and Diversity And Inclusion took over the school systems that such skills-training started to atrophy.

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Most people have heard that old saw about “God made all men, but Sam Colt made ’em equal.” While it’s not strictly speaking completely true, it’s not entirely an exaggeration either.

Why The Davos Elites Just Played The ‘Jon Stewart’ Card  I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.

Police Chief Resigns Over Gun Law He Says Will Help Anti-Police Activists ‘Torment Law Enforcement’

ProPublica’s Half-Baked Exposé Continues To Captivate Credulous Media

Mayhem ensues as Antifa converges on Western Conservative Summit in Denver

Godfather Of Color Revolutions: Is George Soros The Most Dangerous Man Alive?

Governments Are Failing At Their Most Basic Duties… While Promising Free Stuff

ABC Boosts Dems Lashing Catholic Bishops Denying Communion to Biden

Houston PD Deputy’s Home Invaded, Wife, Stepdaughter Shot

Ex-Detroit Police Chief: ‘No Surprise’ Cops Quitting In Face Of Reforms

“Furious” Parents Slam NYC’s “Woke” $57K Spence School After It Shows Video Calling White Women “Entitled” And “Annoying”  Well, you’ve got to admit, they are — at least the ones that would send their kids to a school like Spence.

China Arrests Hong Kong Journalists for Violating Law That Was Praised in New York Times Op-Ed

NY Times Freak Out: ‘Ultraconservative,’ ‘Right Wing’ Southern Baptists

14 States Side With Christian Wedding Photographer Against NY’s Public Accommodations Law

9 Careers More Appealing Than Being A Police Officer In 2021  Babylon Bee.

Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2021

Atlantic Magazine Writer Admits Voter ID Does Not Suppress the Vote

CNN Fails to Link Liberal Policies to Surge in San Francisco Shoplifting

‘Big Brother’? San Jose Requires Gun Purchases To Be Videotaped   Time to leave.

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Middle income families are lashing out against Joe Biden’s punitive new tax plan that would claim a large chunk of the amount someone leaves to their kids when they die just because it has gone up in value over the course of their lifetime.

The harsh new tax – dubbed Biden’s ‘death tax’ – is hidden in his American Families Plan and it’s receiving ferocious backlash. It proposes that when someone dies, any asset they leave behind that has appreciated in value by more than $1million since the time they bought it should be taxed.

The tax rate would go as high as 40% – double what it is now – and it applies to how much the asset has appreciate. So someone who inherited a house their mother and father paid $250,000 for but that’s now worth $2.5million would have to pay tax on the difference.

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The realization that Rush’s show – which had continued since his death with guide hosts and taped Rush playbacks on various topics – was now, in fact, irretrievably over and never to return was both poignant and a tad unnerving for his fans.

Rush was a year younger than I am. I feel as if I ought to be making funeral arrangements, you know, just in case.

The Other McCain does the reporting that American media won’t do.

In case you didn’t see this story already, the fake “whistleblower” Rebekah Jones attempted to destroy the career of a Ph.D. student at Florida State University who only wanted to help get Florida’s COVID-19 death totals accurately counted. The word “psychopath” is now being widely used to describe the woman who was the subject of “Everybody Blog About Rebekah Jones Day” a couple months ago. Because I am a professional journalist, however, I would hesitate to use the clinical term “psychopath” because I have no credentials to make such a diagnosis and it might be construed as defamatory. Nevertheless, I have previously stated my opinion that Jones is “deranged, demented, daft, wacky, bonkers, non compos mentis, off her rocker, nuttier than a Snickers bar, a few fries short of a Happy Meal, and cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.”

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Feminism, micro-aggressions, and Wokeness. Nowadays, you strike up a friendship by trading pre-nups.

The Register keeps you up to date.

With no one onboard to fix it, the craft has been directed to slowly return to base, where it’s hoped it can be repaired.

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A Chinese subsidiary of the Japanese camera company Canon installed AI-powered cameras that only let employees enter office rooms if they were smiling. The cameras were trained to detect if people were grinning happily or not, according to a report on surveillance in the workplace in China by Nikkei Asia.

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When Deer Park resident Brandon English got home from work on Wednesday, his house was hot.
“(My wife) had it cranked it down at 2:30,” English said. “It takes a long time for this house to get cool when it gets that hot.”
English’s wife and their daughters decided to take their afternoon nap earlier in the day.
“They’d been asleep long enough that the house had already gotten to 78 degrees,” English said. “So they woke up sweating.”
Without anyone touching it, they said their thermostat was changed while they were sleeping, making their home unbearably hot.
“Was my daughter at the point of overheating?” English said. “She’s 3 months old. They dehydrate very quickly.”
His wife received an alert on her phone soon after that. The family said their thermostat had been changed remotely, raising the temperature of their home during a three-hour “energy saving event.”

I don’t want a Smart Home. I want a home that will do what the hell I tell it to.