‘I have to leave’: Migrants flock to US ‘mobility’ centres in Latin America (Al Jezeera)

Germany is the ‘sick man of Europe’ — and it’s causing a shift to the right, top economist says (CNBC)

Chicago Teachers’ Union President, Hater Of Private Schools And School Choice, Reportedly Sends Child To Private School

CNN Promotes Gay Couple Fleeing Louisiana for New York

CNN Host Phil Mattingly’s Pauline Kael Moment

“Unprecedented Levels” Of Theft In Nation’s Capital Forces Supermarket Chain To Remove Name-Brand Items From Shelves

Small Towns Disbanding Police Forces, Citing Hiring Woes

Economists typically rely on bogus population data

Tech workers flocked to Austin. Now they’re desperate to get out

Asylum Applications in the European Union Keep Rising

CNN Cheers Anti-Gun Group Targeting Generation Z

From One Unapologetic Media Hoax to the Next

Italian and Greek PMs Form Alliance to Stem Surging Illegal Migration

Come downstairs or we’ll eat your order, delivery workers tell customers

Woman, 60, Beaten With Own Cane in NYC Subway Station

Parents’ Nightmare Shows It Matters How States Implement School Choice

Teachers’ Union To Teachers: Destroy Evidence Of Student Gender-Identity Survey

BREAKING: More than 60 training center activists named in RICO Indictment

California Mom Wins Settlement Against School District That Socially Transitioned Her Daughter

Gates of Vienna.

Thirteen years ago Thilo Sarrazin was reviled and cancelled for daring to suggest that Germany, through its disastrous migration policies, was in the process of abolishing itself.

Well, now it’s pretty much official: Germany has abolished itself. I assume that being able to say “I told you so” is cold comfort for Mr. Sarrazin in his role as a German Cassandra.

An arrogant Iranian-German woman named Naika Foroutan has written a book in which she admonishes Germans “who have lived here for a longer time” to get used to the fact that their country no longer belongs to them.

Read it.

People who get tattoos are narcissists.

Narcissists are crazy.

Crazy people are dangerous.

Why American families are leaving the US for Europe (CNN) Of course, more are coming here from Europe.

The Culture Wars Are Tearing the Close-Knit Country Music Community Apart (Rolling Stone)

Country Music Scene Split by Culture Wars: ‘The Heels Are Dug In’ (The Messenger)

Nashville music scene fractured by culture wars, lineups changed after political disputes: ‘Doors are shut’ (Fox)

Newly Arrived Migrant Commits Serial Acts of Violence in NYC (NewsMax)

San Francisco Records More Than A Dozen Suspected Overdose Deaths In One Day  Drug addiction tends to be a self-correcting problem.

US Retailers Voice Alarm at Rising Theft, ‘Flash Rob’ Attacks

What the Contradiction of Slavery Tells Us About Abortion Rights (N.Y. Times) Narrative, straight up.

Canada Shut Its Land Border to Asylum Seekers. More Refugees Came Anyway

Why Wisconsin Republicans Are Talking about Impeaching a New State Supreme Court Justice

California Democrat Regrets Backing Liberal Crime Bill Amid Retail Theft ‘Epidemic’

The Daily Chart: Burning Man Blues

California tech transplants unhappy with exodus to Austin, report says

Negative impact of vegetarian and vegan labels

ZMan has a subscription site on SubscribeStar.com that is well worth the pittance it costs. In addition to what he publishes publicly, he adds extra content, essays and a regular Sunday podcast. Here is the ‘cover letter’ for the most recent podcast.

The end of summer is finally here, which means the election season officially starts. I have said this a million times, but it bears repeating. I am not all that interested in this election. There is a very good chance that it makes 2020 look like the model of integrity. The shenanigans in both parties will set all-time single season records for shenanigans. I like shenanigans as much as the next guy, but I am struggling to get interested in what is coming down the road.
The reason is mendacity fatigue. There is a limit to how much lying one can take before you find it both boring and exhausting. Everything the Never Trump loons say is a lie. Everything the various influencers online say about the candidates is a lie. The regime toadies do nothing but lie. Of course, the regime is a volcano of lies that rain down on us all day, every day. It is exhausting trying to keep up with the lies and there is no real benefit to doing it. It is all a pointless noise.
That is another thing that is sapping my interest. If there was some chance that someone could do something useful in the White House, I could maybe talk myself into grasping at that straw, but that is the lesson of the last decade. There is so solution at the ballot box. If by some miracle Trump wins, we know he will do nothing, even if he actually tries to do something. None of the zombies will do anything but more of the things everyone hates.
Maybe that is the 4-D chess being played. The people in charge have grown tired of the farce of elections, so they are trying to make them as awful as possible. At some point they offer blessed relief by cancelling further elections. To save our democracy, we have to end these terrible elections that are causing people to lose faith in democracy. It sounds ridiculous, but is it anymore absurd that the stuff we now see every day in the political system?

Highly recommended.

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Ali Bongo was elected President of Gabon in 2009, re-elected in 2016, and again this week. Many election observers complained of multiple voting irregularities in all three elections, but Mr. Bongo told a friendly media that those observers were enemies of democracy, the people had spoken, and he would humbly serve his country as he was called upon to do. Coincidentally, he has been accused of attempting to control the media as well.

Gabon is a member of OPEC and brings in billions in oil revenue every year, but the population remains poor. Mr. Bongo has been accused of enriching himself and his family by selling influence to foreign interests. He has used the police and the courts to prosecute his political opponents. He has even used riots and violent gangs to intimidate voters who don’t support him.

I know what you’re thinking — thank God I live in the land of the free and home of the brave — nothing like that could ever happen here. Gosh, those poor third-world people sure have screwed up politics, don’t they? Lordy.

Where was I?  Oh, yes.

Fla. School District Removes Dozens of Explicit Books (NewsMax)

NYPD Deploys Drones to Monitor Weekend Parties

Sneaking Past SCOTUS: California Dems Attempt Affirmative Action Workaround

Don’t Look Up! ‘Orwellian’ AI Traffic Cameras Raise Privacy Concerns

Sweetened Drinks Are Linked to Chronic Liver Disease And Liver Cancer

Alaska Set to Ban Trans Girls From High School Girls’ Teams

Tech CEO Warns of Pulling Convention From Liberal S.F.

DC Police Backtrack, Say No Investigation Into DC Abortion Clinic

New Jersey governor says state can’t handle NYC migrants (Politico) But Texas, Florida, Arizona, New Mexico, and California can–no problem!

Election workers have gotten death threats and warnings they will be lynched, the US government says (Associated Press) And they’ve never lied to us before….

100s Of ULEZ Cameras Destroyed By Vigilante Group Following Wider London Roll-Out

The Neo-colonialism of Animal Rights in India

Being ‘Trans’ is the UK’s New Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free Card

Why Do Democrats Treat Parents Like Natural Enemies of Their Own Children?

Highways are the next antiabortion target. One Texas town is resisting. (Washington P0st) Only the Narrative can persuade the WaPo to say anything about a small town in Texas.

Why Are So Many Pretendians Lately Women?

Stranger Than Fiction: Apple TV+ Show on LGBTQ Runners Claim Running Is Unsafe, Non-Inclusive

EXPOSED: More Than 3,500 Minors Underwent Transgender Surgeries in 5 Years, Study Says

Big Three Ignore Rising Prices, As Government Reports Increase in Inflation

Boaters deal with ‘modern-day pirates’ in the East Bay

Police Seized Innocent Peoples Property, Kept It for Years. What Will SCOTUS Do?

What Big Labor Doesn’t Want You to Know This Labor Day

City Of Chicago Sues Murder Victims For Not Getting Out Of The Way Of Bullets (Babylon Bee)

“You Don’t Listen To The Press… I’m Telling You”: WaPo Columnist Bump Strikes Out At Those Questioning Prior False Claims

Killed for a Rainbow Flag: Are Critics of Trans Ideology Responsible?  Hey–they didn’t start the fire.

California Community College Profs Sue State Over DEI Teaching Mandates

Finger-pointing and frustration over migrant crisis leads to a total breakdown between White House and NYC mayor (CNN) Trouble in Paradise.

Capitol Physician Medically Clears Bowl Of Jell-O To Serve In Senate (Babylon Bee) Soon to be on a Democrat ticket near you.

Massachusetts Governor Calls In National Guard Amid Growing Blue State Freakout Over Migrants

New York Times Column Strains to Find Nefarious Reason Conservatives Oppose Chinese Totalitarianism

Wild Mobs Of Young People Totally Out Of Control

What responsible media coverage in the Trump era would look like (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin is back on the Bash-Trump Beat.

More Men Opt for Vasectomies Amid Abortion Bans  Hey, if they want to keep their defective genes out of the gene pool, they’re free to do that. In fact, I would encourage it. Natural Selection works every time it’s tried.

Govt of Canada proposes a 4% Link Tax  If it moves, tax it. If it doesn’t move, tax it anyway.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Pretty much everyone now agrees that shutting down our schools during the covid epidemic, at the demand of teachers’ unions, was one of the most catastrophic policy decisions of modern times. As I have said before, it is unfortunate that some old and very sick people had their demises hastened by covid, but what government did to our children, for no good reason, was a crime.

Having skipped school for a year or more courtesy of the teachers’ unions, a great many kids have never gone back, at least not on a consistent basis. Why should they, once not showing up got the official OK? Alpha News has the distressing statistics for Minnesota. True, Minnesota is a deeply troubled state. But I doubt the numbers would be much different in other blue states.

People are realizing that government schools aren’t the valuable asset that they once where, and are now actively harmful, both to a child’s education and to society in general. Parents are discovering that there are other and better resources available. In a (mostly) free-market system, that’s all it takes.

NYC migrants living in temporary shelters don’t need vaccinations to initially enroll in public school (Fox) More special privileges for ‘migrants’.

NYC schools readying to welcome migrant children (Fox 5 New York)

Flood of asylum-seeking children raises staffing concerns at NYC schools (CBS New York)

NYC scrambles as hundreds more migrant kids enroll in school — just days before classes return (N.Y. Post)

California Democrat frustrated by rising theft admits liberal crime bill was ‘big mistake’ (Fox)

Bay Area official wants to start task force amid rising retail theft (ABC)

San Mateo County supervisor calls for task force amid rising retail theft (KPIX)

San Mateo County official seeks retail theft task force (San Mateo Daily Journal)

Force-Feeding Ideology in Elementary Schools

San Francisco May Lose Lucrative Tech Conference Because of Drugs and Homelessness, Organizer Says

Invent Your Own Gender. Governor Gavin Newsom Encourages Youth With Millions In Taxpayer Support

No matter how much you disdain CNN, it is not enough (Hot Air)

Chicago News Crew Robbed At Gunpoint While Reporting On String Of Robberies

Rise In Crime: Nordstrom Closes Shop In SF, Dollar Store Locks Up Merchandise

A crackdown on ‘woke’ coverage is tearing Atlanta magazine apart (Washington Post)

PBS Laments ‘Backlash’ Against ESG Investing: Ignore Those Lower Returns for Now

We, The Targeted: How Government Weaponizes Surveillance To Silence Its Critics

Meet the Canadian Psychiatrist MSNBC Is Using To Defend School Shutdowns

Drag Queen Principal Reportedly Previously Arrested for Child Porn

Confessions of a Conservative Harvard Graduate

New Deckchair for the Titanic: Ex-BBC, NYT Tapped to Lead Poisonous CNN (NewsBusters)

The Crisis in Liberal Cities: The Tug of War Between Ideals and Realities (The Foundry)

5 Late Night Hosts Combine Forces In Vain Attempt To Produce A Single Funny Joke (Babylon Bee)

Is a Worker Revolt Brewing After Michigan Repeals Its Right-to-Work Law?

From One Unapologetic Media Hoax To The Next

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A few years ago, my daughter-in-law, an RN who left nursing for a better-paying administrative job in an expanding hospital conglomerate, almost quit when she was assigned to call doctors listed on a computer printout to tell them that they were spending too much time per patient and that was deemed unacceptably inefficient. Several told her that they were going to quit anyway because it was an intolerable setup.

My first legal job as a law student paralegal was doing document searches at NIH and the Library of Congress for medical malpractice litigators. (The world would not be online for another decade or so). I was hired in part because I had been a clinical lab tech in the Army and had worked nights at a local large hospital lab so I could navigate the material. Aside from a few cases involving really bad docs, it was surprising how much of a liability problem there was in information management and flow: Important things missed with disastrous results.

It seemed (seems?) as if MDs had to be dragged kicking and screaming into a far more integrated team approach in an increasingly complex environment. How do we encourage, liberate, and reward the best performers at every level and yet still make the quality of delivery uniformly better? I have seen firsthand that a change of shift from one set of nurses to a less gifted or less motivated crew is like night and day for service quality (and malpractice risk). The personal touch matters. A lot of medicine appears to remain a matter of intuition, empathy, art, and virtue, not just science. Are mega-corporate environments by nature hostile to that reality?

The salary a single person needs to get by in every U.S. state (CNBC) Four of the top five are blue states, and the fifth is Alaska.

America’s most expensive states revealed: From splashing out $500 a month for groceries to spending $10,000 on a funeral – here is where US citizens pay the most (UK Daily Mail)

Massachusetts ranked as one of most costly U.S. states to live (Boston 25 News)

Most and Least Expensive States for Homeowners (GOBankingRates)

Vanguard joins BlackRock in rejecting more ESG proposals from shareholders (Fox)

NYC migrant shelter neighbor says he’s ‘a prisoner in my own neighborhood,’ after cops install surveillance cameras outside his house (N.Y. Post)

NYC migrant crisis: ‘They’re coming at a rate of 3,000 a week’ (Fox 5 New York)

Furious Staten Island resident vows community will stop migrant shelter in its tracks: ‘This is ground zero’ (Fox)

Lying Gender Ideologues Mutilate Young and Vulnerable (The Foundry)

Grandmother of Sex-Trafficked Teen Files Lawsuit Against School Who Helped it Happen

Facebook Suspends Election Interfering Fact Checker… For Now

News Emmy Numbskulls Honor Dan Rather with ‘Gold Circle’ Award for ‘Persistent Excellence’ (NewsBusters)

Beware the woke therapists – and many of them are woke, especially the young ones  (The New Neo)

Why Founding Fathers ‘Deliberately Made Congress Weak,’ Professor Explains (The Foundry)

Whitmer Administration Used ‘Calculated’ Scheme To Hide Sensitive Email From the Public, Lawsuit Says

Canada, citing potential dangers, warns LGBTQ travelers of US risks (Reuters) Perhaps the U.S. ought to warn heterosexual travelers about Canada risks.

After MRC Pressure, NBC Covers Gold Star Hearing, ABC & CBS Ignore (NewsBusters)

Mystery Swirls Over Batch Of Thousands Of 2020 Voter Registration Forms In Michigan

10 Signs That US Culture Is Being Turned Completely Upside Down

‘Catch And Release’: Suspect in Viral LA Flash Mob Robbery Was Released on Cashless Bail One Day Before Heist

Special session ends in chaos on TN House floor (WKRN Nashville)

Settlement Reached in Mom’s School Trans Case

Virginia School District Launches Transgender ‘Student Rights’ Portal Violating Youngkin’s Parental Rights Policy

Behind the Euphemism of ‘Gender-Affirming Surgery’

Most Church of England priests back gay marriage, survey finds (The Guardian)

Rep. Malliotakis Urges Staten Island Secede Over Migrants

The Newsom Shadow Campaign Emerges from the Shadows?

Not in this backyard (Politico)

Chicago TV Crew Mugged While Reporting on Robberies

Judge Tosses Lawsuit Against Horny Trans Woman in Sorority

Steve Sailer.

Can Republican voters ever stop playing Charlie Brown to the Democrats’ Lucy van Pelt?

Richard Epstein.

The United States military position is of increasing vulnerability as the Army, Navy, and Air Force all fail to meet their annual recruitment goals. It is no accident, for the situation dates back to the botched withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan in August 2021. It is hard for young men and women to want to join a service that was humiliated by an operation that left thousands of Afghans in the lurch—only to be executed after receiving the Taliban’s worthless promise of amnesty. Acts of this sort have long-term consequences, including precipitating what is now widely acknowledged to be an ongoing recruitment crisis for the military that could jeopardize the status of the all-volunteer force that has been a staple of American policy for fifty years. The shortage is fed by a general loss of confidence in the military by the American public—the number stands at 60 percent, the lowest in over two decades.

There are, as ever, multiple innocent explanations for the shifts in supply and demand, so the now-chronic shortages can be attributed in part to other socioeconomic factors beyond the ability of the military to recruit. The low unemployment rate offers potential recruits an enlarged set of nonmilitary options. A second factor is the apparent increase in parental pressure to attend college before settling on a career, which reduces the supply for military positions. There are additional difficulties on the supply side. High on this list are the declining fitness of potential recruits, who grapple in increasing numbers with obesity, drugs, and criminal records. This effect is then compounded by a reduced willingness to serve. It is possible of course to increase the number of recruits by lowering the standards for enlistment, as is being done, but only at the cost of a likely reduction in the performance levels of the military services. And it is also possible to sweeten the pot for potential recruits by offering them signing bonuses of up to $50,000, which, however necessary, counts as an open admission that all is not well within the system.

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The Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss has a profound interest in American politics. Over the years, he has pumped $475 million he has earned manufacturing medical devices into left-wing advocacy groups – $72 million in 2021 alone, according to a new report from the conservative watchdog group, Americans for Public Trust.

According to a biography of Wyss written by a sister, Wyss’ goal is not to bend laws to his business’s advantage but to “[re]interpret the American Constitution in the light of progressive politics.”

Although foreigners are prohibited from donating money directly to political causes, Wyss has donated lavishly to progressive political organizations. The New York Times reported in 2021 that these include the “Center for American Progress and Priorities USA, as well as organizations that ran voter registration and mobilization campaigns to increase Democratic turnout, built media outlets?accused of slanting the news?to favor Democrats, and sought to block Mr. Trump’s nominees, prove he colluded with Russia and push for his impeachment.” Since 2016, some $245 million of his spending on American politics has gone to Arabella Advisors, which controls a vast network of progressive nonprofits which, among other activities, has financed hundreds of smaller groups that campaign for specific issues and candidates. Arabella, which raised $1.6 billion in 2021, was dubbed by The Atlantic “The Massive Progressive Dark-Money Group You’ve Never Heard Of.”

Recent Mask Mandates Lifted Amid Pushback

German Court Sentences Judge For Ruling Against Government’s Mask Mandates

Where to Find a PCR COVID Test (and Why You Need One)

Watch: Canadian Activists Demanding Return Of Mask Mandates Attack Counter Protester

Republicans demand answers from Garland on Covid relief fraud (NBC News) Good luck with that.

A New COVID ‘Variant’? Ron Paul Warns “They Want Us To Shut Up While They Do It Again”

The Foundry.

A nonpartisan organization that trains election workers from across the country is now being run by two liberal voting activists—one who previously worked for the nonprofit that distributed hundreds of millions of dollars of Mark Zuckerberg’s election grants during the 2020 elections. The grants were supposedly to “help” local governments run elections, but most of the money went to election offices in Democrat-run localities.

Meanwhile, most board members of the National Association of Election Officials, commonly known as The Election Center, are current or former elections officials from heavily blue counties.

The Foundry.

You may never have heard of the Foro de São Paulo, since Western media tend to ignore it, but it’s the world’s largest and most impactful Marxist international organization.

The latest São Paulo Forum gathering demonstrated how pro-China and pro-Russia this radical body is, and how it retails its winning blueprint throughout the world.

Rubbing elbows at this summer’s gathering in Brasilia, Brazil’s capital, were members of the Chinese Communist Party, Cuba’s Communist Party, and the Democratic Socialists of America—the party of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and U.S. Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.; Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.; Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y.; and Cori Bush, D-Mo.

Protests erupt in Libya over contact with Israel (BBC) There’s no pleasing some people.

AIR DEFENSE: Another Vehicle Mounted AUD

SEA TRANSPORTATION: China is Number One

RINO Watch: Watch: Romney Calls Bottomless Ukraine Aid “The Best National Defense Spending We’ve Ever Done”

Blue-chips shift to ESG metrics to reward top executives (Financial Times)

Oregon, other states that protect transgender health care now try to absorb demand (Statesman-Journal)

Elite Crackdown On Free Speech Worldwide Intensifies

Watch: School Board Fires Satan-Worshipping Non-Binary Teacher

Top Law Schools Promote Ditching The Constitution

NYC Anti-Migrant Rally Erupts in Violence Near Gracie Mansion

The Positive Feedback Loop: How Totalitarians Instill Fear & Restrict Human Rights

EU’s Draconian Social Media Censorship Laws Are Now Officially Enforceable

House Republicans’ road to power runs through New York. Stefanik is driving. (Politico)

Disney Stock Plunges To 9 Year Lows After Multiple Woke Box Office Failures

If the U.S. economy is doing well, why do so many Americans say it’s terrible? (Popular Information) The ‘experts’ keep lying to us.

Fists Fly, Bodies Slammed As Antifa Crashes Anti-Migrant Protest At NYC Mayor’s Mansion

Trans Woman Gets Away With Exposing Himself, Obesity Covered His Genitalia

Times Square back to the bad old days: ‘It’s a sh-thole’ (N.Y. Post)

Young High Income Earners Are Flocking To Florida And Texas, New Study Shows

From COVID To Climate Change: Vehicles For Global Authoritarianism

New York Is Full (The Atlantic)

Back To Indoctrination With The Left’s Pro-LGBTQ ‘Teachers’

Texas sends 10th migrant bus to Los Angeles after mayor decries move as ‘political act’ (Fox) I guess only Democrats are allowed to do ‘political acts’.

The next big abortion battleground: Pennsylvania (Politico)

Hochul and Adams face off over foie gras (Politico)

The experts speak

Psaki Doubles Down on Lie Democrats Don’t Support Late-Term Abortions

New York Spending $20 Million Per Month To House Migrants On Randall’s Island

New Liberal Supreme Court Creates ‘Seismic Shift’ in Wis.

NewsMax.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s call for a “new census” is causing much backlash over missing people in his country, The Washington Post reported.

López Obrador says the number of Mexico’s missing persons is much lower than the 100,000 listed last year. He has dispatched officials to check whether people initially reported as disappeared have returned to their families, The Post said.

Families and advocates of the disappeared persons, however, fear López Obrador is trying to lower the numbers artificially before an election year.

Karla Quintana, the head of the government commission responsible for the official count, abruptly resigned on Wednesday “in light of the current context.”

Gates of Vienna.

Much of the Third World has been hoofing it to Germany for the last eight years so that they can hold out their hands and yell “Gimme!” Now a new naturalization law put into place by the traffic light* government will allow all those newcomers to continue their “gimme” act as full German citizens.

* “Traffic light” coalition government:
Red: Social Democratic Party
Yellow: Free Democratic Party
Green: Alliance90 / The Greens

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After Joe Biden’s recent delayed visit to Maui in which he fell asleep during a ceremony honoring the people killed during the terrible event and chuckled about almost “losing his wife, his corvette and his cat” in a fire, many questions about the calamity remain unresolved. Without any obvious pressure from the federal government to get answers, Hawaii’s Democrat leadership is left to its own devices. They are even attempting an information blackout instead of begging Maui citizens for their forgiveness.

Multiple reports from Lahaina indicate that West Maui residents ran into government barricades while trying to flee the rapidly expanding fire; with the survivors being forced to disobey the blocks and bypass police. It’s yet another bizarre occurrence in a long list of disastrous decisions made by Hawaiian officials that likely cost hundreds (if not thousands) of lives.

The government gave no warning siren, denied access to water for fighting back the blaze, and set up barricades which stopped people from escaping. It’s almost as if the state government did not care about a high body count…

Viral video: Did an S.F. cop sit by and watch thieves break into a parked car? (S.F. Chronicle)

‘This has to stop’: S.F. police to use new tactic to crack down on car break-ins (S.F. Chronicle)

San Francisco police to deploy ‘bait cars’ to curb auto break-ins (S.F. Gate)

Their School Days Start With Border Patrol—and Searing Heat (The New Republic)

Hochul Urges Biden to Authorize Work Permits for Migrants (NewsMax)

Pennsylvania Transgender Coach Changes In High School Locker Room (NewsBuster)

South Carolina Supreme Court Upholds Ban on Post-Heartbeat Abortions

Hundreds Protest Court Mandate Preventing Removal of San Francisco Homeless Camps

NC Gov. Vetoes Election Bill, Sparking Showdown with GOP Supermajority

‘Not Indoctrination’: Judge Rejects Maryland Parents’ Plea to Restore Opt-Out for LGBTQ Books

EXCLUSIVE: Economists Blast Fact-Butcher Glenn Kessler for Torturing Facts on Inflation

Americans Panic Search “Live Off Grid” As Housing Crisis Worsens And Democrat Cities Implode

Catholic School System Asks Students To Use Biological Pronouns And Names  I guess the Roman church is not completely lost in Wokery….

Fact-Checkers Say ‘No One Supports Abortion Up Until Birth.’ These Prominent Democrats Disagree.

New Gun Law Uses ‘Flawed Logic’ to Violate Constitution

Sleeping Rough In London On The Rise Again

Fund the Police: LA Votes To Put $1 Billion Toward Cops’ Pay

Ilhan Omar Met With Al Qaeda Allies on Trip Funded by Islamic Terror States

Dollar Tree is the latest retailer to say shoplifting is squeezing margins

Research Suggests Politicians Are More Likely to Be Psychopaths My, what a surprise.

Maryland Court Rules Parents Have No Say in Child’s Education  Well, not exactly….

Busing Illegal Immigrants to Blue America Is Working: Democrats Deserve Blame for Biden’s Border Crisis

Bicyclist Wants To Be Treated Like A Car But Also Be Able To Just Kinda Break The Rules When He Wants To (Babylon Bee)

Takeaways from the first Republican presidential primary debate (CNN) Narrative!

The first Republican debate’s biggest highlights: Revisit 7 key moments (CBS) Getcher Narrative!

The great debate: Republicans take center stage (The Hill) Hot fresh Narrative, right here!

Who ‘won’ the first GOP debate? (MSNBC) You won’t know what to think without a Narrative!

US Christians need to stop being so precious about their religion (Open Democracy) Tell that to Muslims–if you dare.

South Carolina Supreme Court Rules State’s ‘Heartbeat’ Abortion Law Constitutional (The Foundry)

NYC Mayor Wants Gov. Hochul to Foist Migrants on N.Y. State (NewsMax)

Ohio Ballot Initiative Is a Trojan Horse—and a ‘Right’ to Abortion Is Just the Beginning (The Foundry)

Mexican Cartels Increasingly Use Drone-Dropped And Roadside Bombs

United Nations Countering ‘Deadly Disinformation’ Through Creation Of ‘Digital Army’

Parents Deride School ‘Tag’ Bans as ‘Regulatory Overreach’

Half of Imprisoned Men Who Identify as Transgender Women Convicted of at Least One Sexual Assault

Republicans Debate To See Who’s Going To Lose To Biden In A Landslide Mail-In Vote In Middle Of Night (Babylon Bee)

These Airlines Have the Most Hidden Fees

Abbreviated Elements of How Democrats Have Ruined Everyone’s Political Prospects

Charlotte Pride Nixes Harvey Milk Award After Realizing the Winner Is a Pedophile

US Postal Service to unveil stamp honoring Ruth Bader Ginsburg (The Hill) Let’s see … nope, no stamp for Scalia. Or Rehnquist. Or O’Connor. Or any Republican.

Elon Musk Vows To Sue Soros-Funded NGOs Over Free Speech

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“Focus on the signal, not the noise,” is a phrase that might as well have been coined by Steve Bannon given how frequently he and his acolytes make use of it. At this stage in the game, it should be the mantra of the MAGA movement writ large; for the hour is already late, there is a mountain of work left to do to haul President Trump over the finish line: navigating a corrupt, weaponized justice system; dealing with rigged election procedures; combatting both soft and overt censorship by mainstream networks and social media – and that is just the tip of the iceberg.

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From the shit-covered streets of San Francisco to the crime-ridden boroughs of New York City and the migrant-packed neighborhoods of London and Paris, timepiece aficionados are hiding their expensive wristwatches.

Why? A tidal wave of Rolex theft is sweeping across the Western world. Those once flaunting their Rolex, Patek, and Audemars Piguet – the wrist trophies of ‘success’ – are leaving them at home. New data from Bloomberg, citing The Watch Register, revealed a staggering $1.3 billion in luxury watch thefts last year.

The Watch Register said on its website its “database currently lists over 80,000 lost and stolen watches, and is growing rapidly.” The database contains 850 different brands and watchmakers, including Rolex, Omega, Cartier, Audemars Piguet, Patek Philippe, Richard Mille, Breitling, TAG, Heuer, IWC, Jaeger LeCoultre, and others.

Every nation is becoming a Turd World nation.

In deadly Maui fires, many had no warning and no way out. Those who dodged barricades survived (Associated Press)

The Facebook settlement claim deadline is Friday. Here’s how to apply. (Washington Post)

Facebook users have until Friday to claim free money (KSAT San Antonio)

Time is running out to file claims for Facebook’s $725 million data privacy settlement (East Idaho News)

Facebook owes you $725 million – here’s how to get your share (The Shortcut)

A made-up pronoun is now a participation trophy for people who can’t participate in actual life (Greg Gutfeld)

NYT Columnist Proposes Banning Elections to Save Democracy! (NewsBusters)

Chicago Dem Predicts City’s Migrant Crisis Will Intensify Ahead of Democratic Convention (Washington Free Beacon)

Bud Light Backlash “Shows Little Signs Of Abating”, Citi Warns

204 Chicago Homicides In Mayor Johnson’s First 100 Days, Including Four Teenagers Killed Last Weekend

Australia’s Misinfo Bill Paves Way For Soviet-Style Censorship

How Inflation Destroys Civilization… And What You Can Do About It

Jacky Rosen Praised an LGBT Group That Teaches Children About Witchcraft and Masturbation (Washington Free Beacon)

Law School Administrators Huddle To Circumvent Affirmative Action Ban

3 red states will elect governors this fall. Could Democrats have a chance? (NPR)

Is Crime Still Illegal?

CNN Legal Analyst ‘Perplexed’ by DOJ’s Corruption

Outgoing Ivy League Presidents Get Sweetheart Home-Loan Deals  My, what a surprise.

Cash payments above €3000 to be outlawed in Netherlands

Man flees China by riding jet ski hundreds of miles to South Korea (NBC)

Rosen Thanks Group That Teaches Kids Masturbation

Va. Parents Petition High Court on School Admissions

11th Circuit Reinstates Alabama Law Protecting Minors From Gender-Transition Hormones

Sherrod Brown Demands Financial Transparency. For Years, He Failed to Disclose Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars in Assets.

Court Rules for Michigan Apple Orchard That Refused Same-Sex Weddings

The Washington Post Has Misgivings About Democracy When It Impedes the Left

Activist Behind SCOTUS Affirmative Action Case Sues Law Firms

To Combat Crime Surge In American Cities, Many Turn To Private Alternatives

The Antiplanner.

The news media is discovering something that the Antiplanner has been saying for years: so-called affordable housing isn’t affordable. The federal, state, and local governments spend tens of billions of dollars a year subsidizing supposedly affordable housing, yet few people who need such housing get into the projects and many of those who do can’t afford the rents that are charged.

As a recent article in the LAist points out, more than 450,000 households in Los Angeles have incomes low enough to qualify for affordable housing, yet fewer than 50,000 such units have been built. One project that opened in 2022 received 7,500 applications for just 65 apartments.

Moreover, developers that receive subsidies to build affordable housing are only required to provide that housing at affordable rates for 30 to 40 years, depending on the subsidy program. Since these programs began in the 1980s, many of the new housing projects that are built are simply replacing older projects that are now being rented for market rates, thus not increasing the supply.

The American Mind.

In any event, and for the purposes of what is relevant in Jack Smith’s two indictments, the factual grounds on which President Trump allegedly committed crime(s) within his official duties as president have already been twice considered by the House of Representatives, for which the president—in conformance with Article II, Sec. 4—was acquitted both times by the Senate. Because the Senate voted not to convict President Trump of his alleged crimes, any and every remedial measure afforded by the constitutional process has already been exhausted. Therefore, to continue to bring charges against the president for the asserted crimes on which he has already been prosecuted is by definition an abuse of the judicial power and an expressed violation of the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment: “…nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb…”

Democrats: “Constitution? We don’t need no stinkin’ Constitution!”

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

It has been observed that the demand for racism outstrips the supply, and hence the need for defining racism down to sweep up any observable disparity between racial groups or “microaggression,” or the proliferation of outright race hoaxes, such as racist graffiti on college campuses, etc. Academia and the media are driving this trend. Zach Goldberg a while ago charted out the rise in mentions of race and racism in the major media, but worth repeating here.

The American Mind.

In August 1966, communist leader Mao Zedong commenced “Red August,” a campaign amidst the wider Cultural Revolution to wipe away the “Four Olds” of Chinese society: old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits. He infamously used university students, and other younger children, as foot soldiers to carry out mass beatings and destroy important cultural and historical institutions.

The outsized rule of juveniles and young adults in the subsequent massacres perpetrated by the Red Guards was not at all unique. In Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge, children were also enlisted as foot soldiers, prison guards, and executors of public shaming of non-compliant adults. The weaponization of children and adolescents is a marked feature of left-wing movements across the globe.

The American Left has ensured that children occupy an increasingly active role in our country’s political and culture wars. Childhood no longer exists outside the realm of conflicts between adults. If anything, children are now being told that they must take center stage as the voice of moral righteousness on the most controversial issues of the day. Look no further than Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan remarking that “when our children tell us who they are, it is our job as grown-ups to listen and to believe them.” In Flanagan’s reality, the immature should lead adults in determining cures to societal ills.

Storeowner shot to death right in front of her shop after dispute over LGBTQ+ pride flag, authorities say (CBS) I love that phrase: ‘a blended family’

This quirky Portland hardware store says its 48th year could be its last (Oregon Live)

Court Docs Suggests Reason for Kansas Paper Raid (NewsMax)

If Trump, Biden Nominees, No Labels Will Launch Bid (NewsMax)

County Attorney in Texas Switches to GOP (NewsMax)

These Are The Dirtiest Cities In America  All run by Democrats.

Uniparty’s Plan To Save “Our Democracy” Unfolds

US ‘Rent-A-Womb’ Industry Thrives Due To Demand From Parents In China: Researcher  And thus are birth-right citizens.

Portland School District Workshops ‘Equitable Grading Practices’ That Outlaw Zeros for Cheating, Missing Work

Feminist UCSF School Of Medicine Professor Says Children Can Be “Gender Minotaurs”

Districts Quietly Putting Police Back in Schools

‘Luxury’ Migrant Smugglers Arrested in Italy

From Press Room Raids to Indictments, Anything Goes When the Government Piles On

Sen. Ted Cruz Demands Anheuser-Busch Hand Over Dylan Mulvaney Information  Ted Cruz is starting to make my ass tired.

Paid to Strike: California Dems Push Unemployment Benefits for Striking Workers

EXCLUSIVE: St. Louis University Pushes Ideological Transgender ‘Toolkit’ on Med Students (The Foundry)

Struggling Police Forces Look to Hire Noncitizens (NewsMax)

New York and California Each Lost $1T When Financial Firms Moved South

St. Louis University Pushes Trans Ideology on Med Students

When Trans Activism Becomes Government Policy

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Low-level clashes occurred in Wallonia following the shooting death of a man by police in the French-speaking town of Liège over the past weekend. The unrest spread to the nearby city of Herstal Saturday and Sunday night.

The shooting occurred in the migrant suburb of Oupeye near Liège city centre late Friday afternoon, August 18th, when a man on a quad bike failed to comply with an order to stop and instead proceeded to run a police officer over. The officer, who was subsequently hospitalised, opened fire on the man who was pronounced dead at the scene.

The growing movement against noise pollution (NPR)

Businesses in downtown Portland struggle through slow summer season (ABC)

These 14 American Cities Have A ‘Target’ Of Banning Meat, Dairy, And Private Vehicles By 2030 (The Federalist)

New York State’s governor joins President Biden in making it clear to New York City: you’re on your own. (City Journal)

First Amendment lawsuits challenge state’s DEI rules for community colleges (S.F. Chronicle)

Transgender Powerlifter Smashes Women’s World Record By More Than 440 Pounds

Understanding The Parasitic Cooperation Between Globalists And Leftists

Dependency On The State Is The Core Of The Takeover Plot Of Humanity

Legalise Euthanasia, or Risk Falling Behind, Warns Finnish Doctor

France Stops Fewer Migrants, Despite Brits Footing the Bill

Wikipedia donations used for politics, not for running Wikipedia

Hawaii State Government Attempts Information Blackout On Maui Fire – Refuses Media Access

Freeberg nails it.

When I emerged into adulthood, something that happened quite awhile ago by now, I quickly learned that pairing yourself up with a female wasn’t at all like casual dating in high school. It was a rite of passage back in these olden days. Wounded, incomplete, damaged and/or spoiled and anti-social females would sprout and then grow their trails of wreckage of failed & dysfunctional relationships with both men and women, romantic & otherwise, with this leitmotif of “I don’t take any crap and they can’t handle a strong woman.”

A particularly keen and disciplined observer might have noticed that whether these women thought of themselves as leaders or not, they weren’t running very much of anything, and were leading no one. Truth was, they just never learned to share an endeavor, or life itself, with another person. Or share nothing and just enjoy spending time with another. They were too broken and too damaged.

We quickly learned to run in the opposite direction when we heard the words “strong woman,” or “men are intimidated by me.” It’s a little disconcerting to see the negative energy from all those years ago, radiated yet again by someone who was so far away from even being conceived. It means something is sustaining this rot, keeping it infected and putrid. Something that packs a lot of influence.

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The reductio ad absurdum notwithstanding, one need only visit a major European city to see how moot this point really is. London has earned a reputation for high crimes, yet Britain has some of the strictest gun laws in the world. Apparently, criminals find other ways to do harm to innocent people.

For many years now, Sweden has been plagued by a high rate of gun violence, despite it being practically impossible for law-abiding citizens to buy a firearm.

American states and cities with strict gun laws are also the ones with the highest rate of gun-related crimes. New York is a notorious example, but so is Baltimore in Maryland. California, which boasts some of the toughest gun laws in America, is home to endemic urban decay, including out-of-control crime.

The city of Washington, D.C., forces you to meet 23 different criteria in order to obtain a concealed carry permit, presumably to keep guns out of the hands of criminals. Yet that very same city is a cesspool of armed robberies, carjackings, and other gun violence.

5th Circuit Slaps Down FDA Again for Illegally Dropping Abortion Pill’s Safety Rules (Daily Signal)

Planned Parenthood Appeals Ruling That Let Neb. Abortion Ban Stand

Sen. Kaine: ‘Frustrated’ GOP Will Stop Tuberville Protest

After Years In The Wilderness, Conservative Christian Education Is Being Born Again Post-Pandemic

Math For Dummies

Christie Calls for Federal RICO Investigation of Antifa Rioters  Took him long enough.

“Leave Neutrality Behind”: Soros-Backed UT Austin Initiative Embraces Advocacy Journalism

Californians Hoping Hurricane Will Wash All Poop Off Sidewalks (Babylon Bee)

The Other McCain.

Last year, my son Jefferson was studying the Punic Wars — Hannibal, Cannae and all that — and in discussing it with me, remarked that at the time, slaves were about half the population of the city of Rome. These were white slaves, however, and the Roman Empire collapsed long ago, so there’s no “critical theory” or “systemic racism” angle to be exploited for political gain, which is why most people never contemplate the condition of Roman slaves. Of course, considering the general decline of education in this country, most Americans know next to nothing about ancient Rome, and in particular don’t understand the path by which Rome went from a Republic to an Empire. Julius Caesar was aligned with what was called the Populares (democratic) party in Roman politics, whereas Cicero was a leader of the Optimates (aristocratic) party. It was on behalf of “the people,” therefore, that Caesar assumed the dictatorship and, after his assassination led to civil war, it was Caesar’s ally Mark Antony who insisted on Cicero’s assassination.

Some scholarly readers will protest against my drastic oversimplification of this history — necessary for the sake of brevity — but my point is that (a) ancient Rome was not a democracy, and (b) it was the populares who, by their opposition to the senatorial voices of aristocratic tradition, helped pave the way toward the destruction of the Republic and the tyranny of imperial power. “Democracy” ruins everything.

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“The Plumber Problem” is a phrase I coined to describe the experience of watching a movie that touches on some subject area that you know way more about than the average person, and then some inaccuracy in what’s depicted distracts you and takes you out of the movie. (This can occur in any work of fiction, of course: movies, TV, books, etc.)

Here’s an example. A plumber is watching a movie with a scene where something having to do with pipes is integral to the plot. But it’s all wrong, and the plumber’s mind rebels. No one else in the audience is bothered. They’re all still wrapped up in the narrative. But the plumber has a problem.

Readers of speculative fiction have this all the time. Historians have this problem all the time with ‘historical’ fiction & movies. Military people especially have this problem all the time.

The Plumber Problem is loosely related to the “Gell-Mann amnesia effect” which is “the phenomenon of experts believing news articles written on topics outside of their fields of expertise, yet acknowledging that articles written in the same publication within their fields of expertise are error-ridden and full of misunderstanding.”

The American Dream Is Dead for Us Working Class Americans (Newsweek)

Raising White Flag? Rep. Buck Breaks Silence on Big Tech Censorship Battle (NewsBusters)

Radically Biased Google Programs AI to Summarize News for Users (NewsBusters)

Vetoes Overridden: NC Legislature Protects Gender-Confused Minors, Parental Rights, and Women’s Sports (The Foundry)

Federal judge rejects push to block Florida Chinese land ownership law (Politico)

Philadelphia SEPTA Driver Resigns After Having His Gun Stolen Off His Bus While On Break

Leftist Establishment Dismayed By Rise Of “Populist” Candidate In Argentina

FLASHBACK: Hawaii Official Who Allegedly Withheld Water From Firefighters Says ‘Equity’ Comes First

‘Tanning Mom’ Patricia Krentcil Announces Run For Florida Senate Seat (Huffington Post)

Don’t Bring Your California Transportation Policies to Texas (The Foundry)

Philly Businesses Set Booby Traps to Deal With Drug Addicts (NewsMax)

Maui Emergency Management Chief Resigns Amid Criticism

Resignation Calls Mount After Maryland Superintendent Public Records Destroyed In Test Score Scandal

From Press-Room Raids To Indictments, Anything Goes When The Government Piles On

Why San Francisco is make or break for Gavin Newsom (Politico)

Doug Casey On How Economic Witch Doctors Convince Everyone They’re Neurosurgeons

Texas Lawsuit Could Make Planned Parenthood Bankrupt (NewsBusters)

American democracy is cracking. These forces help explain why. (Washington Post) Gitcher Narrative, right here….

Trudeau Under Fire After Trans Powerlifter Shatters Women’s Records

New York Launches Plan To Rezone Midtown Offices To Houses  If the owner wanted to do that, they wouldn’t let him. But if they want to do it, to make Bidenvilles, why, it’s a great idea.

‘Squad’ Member With $250k in Student Debt Wants To Cancel All Loans

Chicago Democrat Asks Gang Members To Limit Shootings to Nighttime

Californians Prepare For Hurricane By Nailing Plywood Boards Onto Their Tent Flaps (Babylon Bee)

Driverless Cruise car collides with SF fire truck, injuring passenger

Minnesota police force’s resignation sparks outcry: ‘Defund the Police lunatics’ just got their wish (Fox)

Entire police force of small Minnesota city resigns, citing low pay (Washington Post)

An entire police department quit over $22-an-hour pay, saying there is ‘zero incentive’ to work there (Insider) The market works, even when you don’t want it to.

City of Goodhue reaches deal with sheriff on police coverage (Fox 9 Minneapolis-St Paul)

Fed, economists make course correction on US recession predictions (Reuters)

As recession fears fade, we may be experiencing a ‘richcession’ instead — here’s what that means for you (CNBC)

Will The U.S. Enter The Recession Experts Warned About For Months? It’s Complicated (Forbes)

Recession Warnings Keep Coming. How Worried Should We Be? (The Motley Fool)

Should We Be Using Recycled Plastics in Construction Materials? (Mother Jones)

Hundreds protest new ‘tent city’ for migrants at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center; Curtis Sliwa among those arrested (N.Y. Post)

Arrests made at asylum seeker shelter protest in Queens (CBS)

Former New York City GOP mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa arrested during Queens protest: report (Fox)

Queens senior center staff expresses concerns about migrant shelter’s impact on its center (Spectrum News NY)

Gen Z reclaims the word ‘hater’ in viral backlash against ‘culture of inclusivity’ (N.Y. Post)

5 Things You Can Do Right Now to Fight the Deep State (The Foundry)

LA Hotel Converted to Homeless Housing Suffers $11.5 Million in Damages

With Veto Override, N.C. Limits LGBTQ+ Instruction

Appeals Court Backs Abortion Pill Restrictions; Supreme Court Appeal Planned

Feminist medical school professor says trans kids identifying as ‘minotaurs’ are part of ‘gender revolution’ (Fox)

Medical school professor says children can be ‘gender hybrids’ like a ‘gender minotaur’ (Washington Examiner)

Anheuser-Busch Heir Offers to Buy Back Family Business (NewsMax)

Harvard University Shows Students How To Milk Welfare System

“Doom Loop Walking Tour” Of San Francisco Sells Out

Inside the campaign to cancel sex ed (Popular Information)

Minneapolis Arts Center Slammed For Encouraging “Family Friendly” Demon-Summoning

Chess Body Bans Transgender Women From Women’s Events

Hawaii Vows to Prevent Land Grabs After Wildfires  Just sell your land to the State! They will protect you!

You Could See The Appeals Court Ruling on the Abortion Pill Coming From a Mile Away (Esquire)

CNN Lets Fired Librarian Falsely Claim Her Library Had No Sexually Explicit Content

Woke Hawaiian Official Stalled Release Of ‘Revered Water’ Until It Was Too Late To Save Maui

ELITIST: Charlie Sykes Scolds GOP for Listening to Their Voters

Fifth Circuit Rules FDA Must Restore Vital Safeguards for Abortion Pill

Prince Immediately Regrets Waking Rachel Zegler With A Kiss After She Starts Ranting About The Patriarchy (Babylon Bee)

Congress Investigating Democrats’ Alleged Use Of Non-Profits And Foreign Money To Win Elections

Clinton Flunkie Robert Reich to MSNBC: We’re Living in a ‘Goldilocks Economy’

The Hard-Tweeting Defense Lawyer GOP Candidates Have Learned to Fear (Politico) Talk is cheap.

California Achieves World’s First Crime Rate Of Zero After Legalizing All Crime (Babylon Bee)

Spree Of Robberies, Car Thefts Drive Chicago Crime To New Highs

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

We noted here the last few days that the predictable rush to blame the horrific Maui fires on climate change goes against what the so-called “consensus” science of the IPCC says about attribution of specific weather events. But you can’t stop the narrative for pesky little details like that.

But maybe the climatistas are right—just not in the way they know. In fact, it’s their fault. It is thought that the Maui fires were likely started by sparks from electric utility lines owned by Hawaiian Electric, just as the fires that killed nearly a 100 people in Paradise, California, a few years back were ignited by poorly maintained PG&E power lines. The Wall Street Journal reports this morning that Hawaiian Electric has been aware for years of the vulnerability and hazards of its electricity lines, but has done virtually nothing about it.

Why? The Journal’s subhed provides the answer: “It made little progress, focusing on a shift to clean energy.”

UPDATE: Hawaiian Grid Operator Focused on Promoting Green Energy Instead of Wildfire Preparedness

UPDATE: Hawaiian DEI kook refused to divert water to fight fires

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Why does anyone still live in San Francisco? Why would any group hold a convention or similar event there? Why would a tourist set foot there? That city has been so badly governed for so long that the question is no longer whether it will thrive, but rather, whether it will survive.

Many San Francisco businesses have closed their doors, while others are barely hanging on. Gump’s is an upscale department store that has been in business on Post Street for 165 years. But its Chairman, John Chachas, has seen enough.

ESG cheerleaders are suddenly pivoting and and running for cover (Fox)

This Psychologist Wants To Vaccinate You Against Fake News (WIRED)

Major San Fran retailer condemns city, state leaders in full-page ad: ‘Abject disregard for civilized conduct’ (Fox)

166-year-old luxury retailer in San Francisco warns: This could be our last year (CNN)

SF icon Gump’s writes open letter to San Francisco leadership slamming city’s current conditions (CBS)

San Francisco’s “Tyranny of the Minority” (City Journal)

China adopts interim AI rule requiring technology to back the communist system

Soros-Backed Calif. DA Facing Recall, Charges of Nepotism (NewsMax)

When All Crimes Are Those Against The State

Judge: New Texas Election Law Unconstitutional; Appeal Next

Texas Lawsuit Could Bankrupt Planned Parenthood Chapters

Entire police department resigns in Minnesota city, leaves mayor ‘blindsided’: ‘Zero applicants’ (Fox)

Branding Expert: New ‘Snow White’ Could Ruin Disney

‘Stay Home’: Feds Tell San Francisco Workers To Telecommute Due To Crime Wave

Watch: San Francisco Retailers Are Abandoning The City In Droves

Republicans Introduce Bill to Repeal DC Home Rule

Blue State Blues: ‘Raped And Pillaged’: Maui Fire Survivors Describe Nighttime Looting, Botched Supply Drops

FLASHBACK: Feds Accused Incoming Dem National Convention Chair of Steering Funds to Illegal Clinton Shadow Campaign

Boston University hires Harvard disinformation scholar Joan Donovan (Washington Post) A fat ugly white woman instead of the usual fat ugly black woman. That’s odd.

Target Sales Hit by Pride Month Backlash

The Locus of Racist Evil Has Finally Been Unveiled: Kindergarten Teachers

Hawaii governor says state is looking to ‘acquire land’ destroyed in fires (The PostMillenial) Big Brother wants your land, because obviously he knows better how to use it than you do.

Making Everything Gay: Princess Penises, Trans Elders, Hip Hop & Pikachu

CNN Declares The Goal Of CRT Bans Is To Make Children Dumber

You Can Always Leave: Australian Girl Triggered by American Flags…in America

NYC Mayor Calls On Biden Admin To Expedite Work Permits For Illegal Immigrants

Liberal Dark Money Behemoth Faces IRS Complaint Over Alleged Bait-And-Switch Scheme

CNN Beclowns Itself Pushing Gibberish ‘Neopronouns,’ ‘Nounself Pronouns’

All About the (Qatari) Benjamins: Qatar Funded Ilhan Omar’s World Cup Trip

Definition: To edit a video or audio clip (typically by removing context) such that it appears to suggest the opposite of the actual case.

Examples:

• The Charlottesville Fine People Hoax: Deliberately truncated to remove Trump’s explicit disavowal of the Nazis in the march and to exclude them from the previous remark that the people marching included ‘fine people’.
• The Drinking Bleach Hoax: Deliberately truncated to remove Trump’s beginning and ending comments making clear that he was talking about the use of light as a disinfectant.
• The Covington Kids Hoax: Deliberately truncate to make it seem that one of the kids had confronted the Old Indian Agitator when it was the other way around.

Named for Democrat ‘journalist’ Aaron Rupar, who makes this sort of thing a regular practice.

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Quilette.

To hear almost anyone tell it, racial preferences in university admissions are dead. But this pervasive sense of finality belies a curious silence in the Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions. The Court never expressly overrules the line of precedent that has allowed universities to discriminate for the last 50 years. Without a direct overruling, how can we know whether the Supreme Court has ended racial preferences or simply renovated the existing case law?

A careful reading of the Chief Justice’s opinion and an understanding of his judicial philosophy indicates that the Court has left universities with no realistic means to rely on racial preferences in admissions, even if the case law stating otherwise lingers in a vegetative state. Four key cases have formed the foundation for racial preferences in student admissions, with a case called Grutter v. Bollinger as the cornerstone. The Students for Fair Admissions case presented the Court with a choice: either apply the existing test under Grutter and friends or uproot the whole line of precedent.