Washington Post.

In the first ruling of its kind nationwide, a Montana state court decided Monday in favor of young people who alleged the state violated their right to a “clean and healthful environment” by promoting the use of fossil fuels.

This is horseshit.

First of all, there is no such right that can be enforced by a court without a degree of judicial authoritarianism foreign to the entire history of the United States. If people don’t feel that they have a sufficiently ‘clean and healthful environment’, the remedy is through the political process and the legislature; that’s what they’re for.

Secondly, a state of the United States has sovereign immunity unless what they do violates some provision of the U.S. or State constitution, neither of which is either alleged or demonstrated here.

This is a result of rampant Wokery in the educational system wreaking its havoc on the judicial system like a smallpox pustule erupting on a body. There is serious sickness here, and even if it is caught and corrected, it will leave scars.

Scott Adams claims that the COVID authoritarianism was merely a dress rehearsal for the upcoming more serious Climate Change authoritarianism. I hope he’s wrong, but I’m afraid he might be right.

Christie says no one has given him a loyalty pledge to sign (Politico) Perhaps because any ‘loyalty pledge’ from Christie isn’t worth squat?

Big Tech Should Pay Its “Fair Share”… The Best Way Is To Leave California

Questions Over Legality of Kan. Newspaper Raid

Video Shows Looters Ransacking L.A. Nordstrom

Massachusetts passed a 4% millionaire’s tax last year. Now every public school student is going to get free lunch. (Business Insider)

‘Huddled Masses’ Update: Why Is This ‘Crisis’ Costing New York Billions?

Rod Dreher.

Confession time! I did something last weekend that I’ve never done before: I read a business book.

It’s called Truth To Power, and it’s the memoir of André de Ruyter, who led the troubled South African power monopoly Eskom for three years, before resigning in early 2023. Over his short, fraught tenure, he uncovered criminal networks stealing from the company, allegedly with the collusion of partners high in the ruling African National Congress. On his way out the door, someone in his office tried to poison him with cyanide. Quite a business climate South Africa has these days.

Downtown San Fran Office Tower Sells At 66% Off As CRE Crisis Claims Another Victim

Future Headline: Oakland Police Advise Residents To “Appear As Poor As Possible”

Vos says lawmakers may consider impeachment if Protasiewicz doesn’t recuse from redistricting cases (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)

McDonald’s Scrubs Mentions Of “ESG” From Its Website

Crime blotter: Apple Stores hit with forklift, serial thefts, and slight-of-hand cash robbery.

Washington Free Beacon.

Postliberals are on the march. Whether it is decrying modern American conservatism, cheerfully embracing the administrative state, or insisting that tyranny is the natural fulfilment of Anglo-American classical liberalism, a slew of books written by postliberal intellectuals seeking to save us from the delusions of liberal order—political, legal, and economic—continue to appear.

65% of migrants handed notices of 60-day shelter limit say they want to leave system: NYC officials (AMNY)

New York leaders strike deal to relocate 1,200 asylum-seeking families; Schenectady County says, not here (CBS)

Judges Question Gov’t-Big Tech Collusion: ‘Unsubtle Strong-Arming’ (NewsBusters)

Court Blocks Idaho Law Restricting Trans Students’ Restroom Use (NewsMax)

Skittles Catching Flak Over Black Trans Packaging (NewsMax)

Anarcho-Tyranny in Seattle and L.A. (The Other McCain)

Growing Segregation by Sex in Israel Raises Fears for Women’s Rights (N.Y. Times) Apparently women have a right to pester men whenever they want to.

Downtown SF office building sells for 66% below assessed value

Harvard University Encourages Students To Go On Food Stamps

New California Gas Czar Will Boost Prices Even Higher

New York rights groups call for fast-track work permits for asylum seekers (The Guardian)

Corporate America is rebranding ESG (Axios)

California Dem says he’s not suspending campaign; blames ‘now-former aide’ (The Hill)

Bernie Sanders funneled $200K in campaign cash to wife and stepson’s nonprofit institute, records reveal (Fox)

Appeals Court Rules Against Drug User Gun Ban Cited in Hunter Biden Case (NewsMax)

‘Criminals Are Running This City’: Veteran Seattle Cop Resigns With Scathing Letter (Washington Free Beacon)

California Is The Most Costly State For Starting A Business

Thank Unions: Hottest Job Is $170k UPS Driver

Manhattan Rents Hit Record High As Lease Activity Slumps, Indicating Deepening Affordability Crisis

It Was Pelosi: Former Capitol Police Chief Reveals ‘Set Up’ Behind January 6

‘He Was Alive’: Tormented Chinese Doctor Recounts Harvesting Organs In Back Of Van

DeSantis Fires Another ‘Soros’ Prosecutor Over ‘Needless Pain, Suffering, And Death’

How Are Iowa Democrats? ‘I Can’t Even Describe to You How Bad It Is.’ (N.Y. Times)

Doctors Group Urges Peers to Rethink Minors Trans Care

The Arc of Reform–New College of Florida votes to abolish its gender studies program.

Austin School District Shuttles Students to Raunchy Pride Parade

Tennessee Teachers’ Union Drops Lawsuit Demanding Right To Deduct Fees From Paychecks

The Anti-Democratic Party

‘UNMITIGATED DISASTER’ Lawmakers Call for School Choice After Students Soil Themselves Stuck on Buses Until 10 p.m.

Ohio vote shows enduring power of abortion rights at ballot box, giving Democrats a path in 2024 (Associated Press)

Historic Supreme Court case could imperil the entire US tax code (The Hill)

China to require all apps to share business details in new oversight push (Reuters)

The toughest plastic bag ban is failing: A tale of smugglers, dumps and dying goats (NPR)

‘ESPECIALLY CRUEL’: Mother of Down Syndrome Daughter Calls Montgomery County’s Denial to Opt Out ‘an Attack on Children’

First, NY Democrats Came for Pizza Ovens. Now, They’re Coming for Ice Cream Trucks.

Elite Universities Strategize To Maintain Diversity In Admissions Despite Supreme Court Ruling

Schools Intent on Skirting Supreme Court Diversity Rulings

Catholic Couple Sues Mass. for Woke Foster Parent Policy

Biden’s first climate czar, Gina McCarthy, is getting a big new gig (Washington Post) The Crust take care of their own.

Lawmakers Rip Hochul, Adams for Seeking Migrant Funds

Democrats Are the Party of Spoiled Children

The Barack Obama Cover-Up (Ben Shapiro)

STUDY: CNN Desperately Tries to Shove ‘Bidenomics’ Down Americans’ Throats

Massachusetts Starting To Wonder If Trump Was Onto Something With That Whole ‘Build The Wall’ Thing (Babylon Bee)

Voters in Ohio reject GOP-backed proposal that would have made it tougher to protect abortion rights (Associated Press)

Dana Bash’s BIG LIE: Suggests No Dem Supports Abortion Until Birth

Air horns and moving trucks: How Oakland, California, residents are facing a surge in crime (CNN)

LGBTQ+ veterans file civil rights suit against Pentagon over discriminatory discharges (CBS)

How Feminist Movement Drew Ideology From the Occult

Porsche Goes Woke, Erases Jesus Statue From New Promo Video

DC’s City Council Slashed Police Funding. Now, Its Members Want More Cops as Shootings Plague City.

Barack Obama’s Self-Made Myths Still Stand

This family is moving to Italy because they’ve had enough of the US (CNN)

Target Sued Over LGBTQ Merchandise Backlash

DeSantis Suspends Prosecutor for ‘Dereliction of Duty’ on Crime

Win for reproductive rights as Ohio voters reject effort to make it harder to amend state constitution (The Guardian) Ponder the sort of world in which a newspaper reporter can call killing your child ‘reproductive rights’.

On-Campus DEI Bureaucrats Already Ditching New Loyalty Oaths

Maddow MELTDOWN: Falsely Claims AR-15 for ‘Babies’ Has Hit the Market

Arizona Universities Drop DEI Wording in Job Posts

NYT’s @paulkrugman – Mendacious, an idiot, or both?

They Just Keep Coming: German Asylum Applications Up 80%

Oakland Mayor Asks Residents To Blow Air Horn Once To Announce Stabbing, Twice For Shooting (Babylon Bee)

Turning California Purple

Gender Medicine’s ‘Dr. Frankenstein’ and His Nonsensical Surgical Option for Kids

Fighting Crime by Shooting Back

The American Mind.

A feeling of triumph has flushed through the conservative ranks this summer with the Supreme Court’s blockbuster decision in Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. Harvard College and SFFA v. University of North Carolina to invalidate Harvard’s and UNC’s affirmative action programs. And it’s true that there is much in the SFFA opinion to celebrate. But the decision will not end, or even do much to threaten, affirmative action programs. As I have explained elsewhere, unless we get a legal and cultural paradigm shift in how we think about diversity and the civil rights regime, affirmative action is here to stay.

Three Generations of Affirmative Action, Two Generations of Erroneous Predictions

There is a kind of affirmative action amnesia that sets in at such moments, causing us to forget how long the practice has been in place and how many times we have erroneously predicted the program’s demise. In a 2021 law review article, I demonstrated how, although affirmative action in higher education can be traced to the beginning of the civil rights revolution in the late 1940s, scholars have been consistently and erroneously predicting the demise of affirmative action for nearly 50 years. To illustrate how often scholars have erred on this point, I began the article by collecting a sample of publications, dating all the way back to 1978, predicting the end of affirmative action. This sample constituted over 50 citations and took up several pages of law journal space.

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One of the oddest things that has been accepted with little real challenge is the notion that there is such a thing as a ‘hate crime’. Throughout the western world we have seen legislative changes and judicial advice that embeds the new notion that a crime is particularly heinous if it is motivated by an entirely subjective interpretation of whether it was motivated by ‘hate’ and whether that hate was directed at particular groups. We now have ‘hate crime laws’ on the statute books, in one form or another, of every western nation.

Logically the notion of a thing called a hate crime is a peculiar one. It is one which immediately moves the matter of law from the punishment of actions to the interpretation of thoughts. That in itself subjectifies what is going on in the judicial process and makes it inherently more prone to error.

We no longer have to prove simply that a harmful action took place, we now also scale and grade those actions by mind reading the thoughts that lay behind them, and by deciding that some thoughts are more wicked than others and some groups more deserving of protection than others.

It’s all part of easing ‘CrimeThink’ into the legal system. Orwell was a better forecaster than he knew.

Are G.O.P. Voters Tiring of the War on ‘Wokeness’? (N.Y. Times) Not that I’ve seen.

Pope Francis Labels Transsexuals “Daughters of God” Following Meeting

Spain’s Supreme Court Upholds “Gender Theory” in Schools

UK Tories Introduce New Initiatives on Illegal Migration

Cultural Globalism: USAID Engages in Ideological Imperialism With LGBTI Inclusive Development Policy

NY Times Writer Mocks ‘Wave of Whataboutism From Trump World’ on Biden Money Scandals

OOPS: ‘Fact Checker’ Accidentally Admits Leftists Want Porn In Schools

CNN.

“I told them I could see it at Terminal 1 baggage reclaim in Chicago, and they said ‘We have no record of it.’ I asked them to call Chicago, and they said ‘No, we’re not allowed.’ They said they’d put notes in the system and the baggage team would take care of it.”

When the bag still didn’t arrive, and Shuster called a third time, she was told “We have no idea where it is.”

They also told Shuster that she had the wrong claim number – impossible, she thought, because she still had the sticker that had been attached to her boarding pass. The other half was on the bag.

In fact, they were right – sort of. The claim number was indeed the same as the tag that had been attached to her bag – but the check-in agent had attached the wrong tag. This one was for another passenger, who was traveling from Baltimore to Chicago only. That meant the bag had been taken off the plane at O’Hare and sent straight to the reclaim belt, instead of being loaded onto the Denver flight.

The significant aspect of this is that the incompetent airline is United. In fact, in every single such case that I have read, the incompetent airline is United.

Anybody who ‘flies United’ these days is an idiot.

Quillette.

I’ve worked as a professor in an English department for the last 15 years, and I spent the 10 years prior to that as a student in English. Over the course of that time there was never a period when the English major wasn’t in decline. For the first half of the 20th century, English departments occupied a critical and celebrated position in the American university. But by the time of Sputnik and the beginning of the space race, the field had begun a long slide into obscurity.

Today, most people who take English departments seriously are English professors and the handful of students who still choose the major. Current university administrators see the English department as serving a gatekeeping role: the required freshman-level courses generate massive enrollment, mostly from students who are not prepared for the demands of college writing. Thus, in the eyes of the administration, the job of the English department is remedial—getting those students “up to speed” so that they can do the writing required by their majors (which are overwhelmingly housed in other departments). Liberally educated professors in other disciplines often have a nostalgic reverence for the humanities and humanistic knowledge, but they know that English professors no longer serve as guardians of that tradition. In fact, it’s common knowledge that the vast majority of English faculty are resolutely opposed to traditional notions of humanistic inquiry. For that reason, they have become a parody of the erudition that used to be synonymous with literary study.

Fortune.

Stakhanov’s personal striving, commitment, potential and passion led to the emergence of a new ideal figure in the imagination of Stalin’s Communist Party. He even made the cover of Time magazine in 1935 as the figurehead of a new workers movement dedicated to increasing production. Stakhanov became the embodiment of a new human type and the beginning of a new social and political trend known as “Stakhanovism”.

That trend still holds sway in the workplaces of today – what are human resources, after all? Management language is replete with the same rhetoric used in the 1930s by the Communist Party. It could even be argued that the atmosphere of Stakhanovite enthusiasm is even more intense today than it was in Soviet Russia. It thrives in the jargon of Human Resource Management (HRM), as its constant calls to express our passion, individual creativity, innovation and talents echo down through management structures.

But all this “positive” talk comes at a price. For over two decades, our research has charted the evolution of managerialism, HRM, employability and performance management systems, all the way through to the cultures they create. We have shown how it leaves employees with a permanent sense of never feeling good enough and the nagging worry that someone else (probably right next to us) is always performing so much better.

CNN Denies Democrats Protested Recent Republican-Won Elections

Morning Joe Doubles Down on Devon Archer Testimony Lies

Mississippi cannot strip convicts of right to vote, federal appeals court rules (NBC) Since when does a federal court have oversight over a State constitution?

News From San Francisco: ‘A Lot of People Around Here Have Mental Issues’ (The Other McCain)

Factional Warfare in Sweden: Eritrean Cultural Festival Devolves Into Anarchy

CBS Runs Puff Piece On Far-Left Barbara Lee’s Senate Campaign

Democrat Congressman Lied About Devon Archer Testimony, Transcript Shows

Country lacks a unifying voice in aftermath of Trump charges (Washington Post) “No trusted figure has emerged to reassure the country in a shattering moment…” Where is Big Brother when we really need him?

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Three years have passed since the city of Beirut was nearly turned to rubble by history’s biggest non-nuclear explosion, which killed well over 200 people and injured thousands. In the intervening time, no official has been held accountable for allowing a vast stockpile of industrial chemical ammonium nitrate to be haphazardly stored in the heart of Beirut for seven years.

The dangerous chemicals ignited on August 4, 2020, creating a massive shockwave that tore through several neighborhoods, causing over $15 billion in damage. According to experts, had the blast not happened by the sea, the entire city of Beirut would have been wiped off the map, as the shockwave was felt as far away as Cyprus.

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Anti-Christian hatred and attacks are becoming more and more common in Israel, as some are calling the levels of violence a “crisis” for the conservative government led by Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu.

The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Archbishop and soon-to-be Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, has spoken out regarding the growing anti-Christian attacks in Israel in a recent interview with Vatican News.

“Let us say that these clashes, these spats, these accusations, these insults, are not new. But the exponential increase in these phenomena, especially in the Jerusalem area, in the Old City, has become a matter of concern and an issue on the agenda that worries both the Christian community and the Israeli authorities,” Archbishop Pizzaballa said.

Oakland NAACP Begs For More Cops Amid ‘Heyday For Criminals’

Al Sharpton Beclowns Himself, Displays His Ignorance About the Revolutionary War in Remarks on Trump Indictment (RedState)

Sub-Saharans Flourished Biologically in the United States

DeSantis appointee to Disney board taught seminar using discredited research claiming White people were slaves in America (CNN) Discredited!

US court tosses conviction after judge says Black man ‘looks like a criminal’ (Reuters)

The Preventable Death of Khaliyah Jones

After helping prevent extinctions for 50 years, the Endangered Species Act itself may be in peril (Associated Press)

Why the diversity-industrial complex bubble burst (N.Y. Post)

Why it’s time for the C-suite to double down on DEI (Fast Company)

DEI positions dwindling amid company layoffs, Republican political pressure, and court decision (Just The News)

Governor Of State People Are Fleeing From Agrees To Debate Governor Of State They Are Fleeing To (Babylon Bee)

Library Of Congress Decides To Go Ahead And Clean That Flute Lizzo Borrowed One More Time (Babylon Bee)

“We’re Going To Take Over”: Chicago Residents Threaten To “Deal With” Influx Of Disruptive Illegals

Court Upholds Indiana Transgender Students’ Bathroom Access

‘We Did This to Ourselves’: Victim of ‘Brutal’ Portland Attack Regrets ‘Defund the Police’

New Jersey To Separate Sex Ed Classes By Gender Identity, Not Biological Sex

Anheuser-Busch Down Nearly 30 Percent in US

Feinstein Cedes Power of Attorney, Clings to Senate Seat

Dem Lawmakers Heaped Praise on This Celebrity School. It’s Failing Students and Taxpayers.

Affordable Sprawl vs. Costly Walkability

NYT: “In Most Modern Foraging Societies, Women Have Played a Dominant Role in Bringing Home the Game”

Asylum Seekers Only: New 128-Apartment Complex To Open in Berlin

Transgender Player Leads Wyoming Tennis Official to Resign

SEE YOU IN COURT: Parents Challenge LGBTQ Book Policy That Requires Teachers ‘To Shame Children’ for Religious Faith

‘We’re Not in a Great Place’: Democrat Group Behind the ‘Squad’ Lays Off Half Its Staff (Washington Free Beacon)

A Progressive Powerhouse’s Surprise Layoffs Fuel Concerns About The Left’s Future (Huffington Post)

Why child marriage is legal in California — and the unexpected groups fighting to keep it that way (L.A. Times) Of course, the incident they use as an example not only didn’t happen in California but also involved ‘evangelical Christians’, the sort of people the Narrative media love to witch-hunt. One mention conspicuous by its absence is ‘Muslim’, although there are some vague references to ‘immigrant families’.

The Pro-Trans Medical Establishment Does the Very Thing It Falsely Accuses Conservatives of Doing

Tiny Texas Border Town Really Sorry To Hear About New York City Struggling With A Few Thousand Migrants (Babylon Bee)

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Through a string of unchecked acquisitions over 30 years, Tyson Foods, Cargill, JBS USA Holdings, and National Beef have gained control of roughly 85% of the total hog, cattle, and poultry processing market. For brevity, we’ll call these four meat processing corporations “BigAg” (or “the cartel”).

The one health care solution to protect everyone from outrageous medical bills (Fox)

Wisconsin Supreme Court chief justice accuses liberals of ‘raw exercise of overreaching power’ (Associated Press)

Lawsuit Challenges California’s’ DEI Program for Doctors (NewsMax)

Tenn. AG Probes Transgender Clinic for Billing Fraud (NewsMax)

Partner in NYC Mayor’s Anti-Violence Initiative Busted in Gun and Drug Bust (Washington Free Beacon)

No Labels, No Cash: Third-Party Ballot Access Group Raised Zero Dollars in First Six Months of 2023 (Washington Free Beacon)

“Major Artery” In Downtown San Fran Is Deserted

CBS Joins ABC in NYC Immigrant Sob Story, Omits NYC is Sanctuary City

Networks Ignore DOJ Investigation of Corrupt NJ Senator Bob Menendez

Democratic Senator Lobbies Egypt to Free Cleric Who Called for Murder of Israeli Tourists

NYC Accused of Using Migrants in Bid for Federal Aid

Adidas $437M Yeezy Profit to Benefit Anti-hate Groups

Americans Continue to Move out of Big Cities (Antiplanner)

British Rowing Bans Transgenders from Women’s Division

Dem Rep Attended Art Show Celebrating Palestinian Terrorists and Calling for Destruction of Israel, Photos Show

Watch: Bill Maher Says Democrats Are ‘Full Of Shit’ When It Comes To Illegal Immigrants

Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders Demand Closure Of “$50 Billion Crypto Tax Gap”

AOC, Cohorts to Visit Left-run Latin American Nations  At taxpayer expense, of course.

Democrat Mayor Pleads Guilty to 140 Child Pornography Charges

Alabama GOP Proposes Ban on Teachers Union Donations to Candidates

Mayor Eric Adams has messed up the migrant crisis in NYC (N.Y. Post)

Adams warned Biden there was no room for migrants. Now they’re sleeping on the sidewalk. (Politico)

NY leaders push for federal help with migrant crisis (Fox)

Meta starts blocking news in Canada over law on paying publishers (Reuters)

‘Don’t Buy the Rebrand:’ Vivek’s Warning About ESG Coverup on Fox Business (NewsBusters)

Pivotal Date Approaches as Far Left Battles to Enshrine Abortion Into Ohio Constitution (The Foundry)

Non-Citizens Can Become Police in Illinois Under New Democrat Law

NYC Mayor Unveils $500 Million Blueprint To Fight Gun Violence—With No Plans To Hire More Officers

New Boycott As UK Coffee Giant Celebrates Women Having Breasts Removed

The Immigration Disaster, New York Edition

German Village Successfully Revolts Against Refugee Centre

Swedes Turn to Vigilante Justice To Deal With Migrant Crime

DeSantis-controlled Disney World district gets rid of all diversity, equity and inclusion programs and staffers (NBC News)

Meet the Company Trying to Control Your Mind

Generational Wealth: Lincoln Project Hires Cofounder’s Son

WaPo Laments Couple’s Hard Life Because They Didn’t Abort Their Twins

Cops still take more stuff from people than burglars do

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Why do electric car batteries frequently burst into flame? In my opinion, EVs are essentially an obsolete technology even without this glaring flaw. But those who are trying to force them down our throats should be made to explain why this isn’t a serious issue.

Woke culture has pushed this mom too far (Fox)

DEI is failing because it ‘promotes division instead of unity’: DEI pro (N.Y. Post)

Companies are ‘diversity ditching,’ which could have long-term consequences on employee retention (Fortune)

Why companies are souring on DEI (Washington Examiner)

The Indoctrination Of America’s Boys Is Not Working…

NBC Ignores Archer Testimony In Favor of Interview with Megan Rapinoe

Banks Take The Lead In Establishing Personal Social Credit System, Critics Charge

Adams warns NYers migrant crisis is coming ‘to a neighborhood near you’ — as he slams Biden’s liaison offer (N.Y. Post) Be careful what you wish for, Sanctuary City, you just might get it.

Teamsters Sacrifice 30,000 Workers: 3 Ways Union Contributed to Yellow Trucking’s Demise

No Bail for Any Crime in Illinois as Judge OKs Democrats’ Law

Miami Population Drops for 1st Time Since 1970

Florida Tourism Board Eliminating DEI at Disney World

Supreme Court Justice Jackson’s second error reveals another industry gone woke (Fox)

“Everything Is Changing” – Californians Struggling With High Rent Prices, End Of Eviction Moratoriums

The Price Point of Virtue-Signaling

NBC Lionizes Joe Biden Taking YEARS to Acknowledge Granddaughter

Job Listing For Obama’s New Personal Chef Receives Zero Applications

Justice Jackson Accused Of Second Glaring False Claim In Affirmative Action Dissent

EXCLUSIVE: GOP Demands Probe Into $20 Million Planned Parenthood Obtained Through CARES Act

10 Signs That The Mainstream Media Is Not Telling You The Truth About The Economy

The Antiplanner.

A few years ago the New York Times was praising Portland as the “city that loves mass transit” (meaning it loved to spend money on mass transit, not actually ride it) and the city where people were willing to live lightly in 400-square-foot apartments. How the mighty have fallen: Last Saturday, Portland rated most of the top half of the Times front page with an article about homelessness, drug addiction, and death.

A broken U.S. immigration system is helping foreign countries woo California’s tech founders. The Golden State’s new global talent program could reverse the trend (Fortune)

As NYC limits access to migrants and asylum seekers, many are left homeless (NPR)

Can New York City shut its door on migrants? (Spectrum News NY1)

‘I’m not wanted’: Florida universities hit by brain drain as academics flee (The Guardian) Good luck trying to survive in California.

The CBDCs Are Coming, And The Elite Plan To Use These “Digital Currencies” To Enslave Humanity

Great Wealth Migration: New York, California Tax Revenue Tumbles Amid Exodus 

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“The twin gods of Smooth Traffic and Ample Parking have turned our downtowns into places that are easy to get to, but not worth arriving at.” The quote is from urban designer Jeff Speck. It’s hard to think of a pithier one to describe the parking pandemic blighting America’s city centers — except perhaps the title of a Bloomberg article on the same topic: “Parking has eaten America’s cities”.

That article cites a 2018 study of the space and money devoted to parking in five American cities. In that year, both Seattle and Des Moines had 1.6 million parking spaces. New York City had 1.85 million, and Philadelphia 2.2 million. Tiny Jackson, Wyoming had 100,000 parking spaces, roughly one for each inhabitant.

Seattle had 30 parking spaces per acre, roughly five times the number of residential units. In Des Moines, the parking-to-housing ratio per acre was around 20 to 1. Only New York had more housing units than parking spaces per acre. That worked out to 0.6 parking spaces per household (but then again, only 45% of New York households own a car).

On average, about one-fifth of all land in city centers is dedicated to parking. But what’s the actual harm being done by all that parking space? For one, city centers that are more “parkable” become less walkable. In other words, fewer things are casually accessible.

Chicago residents sound off on illegal immigrants in neighborhood: ‘They disrespect us, rob us, harass us’ (Fox)

Broadway Armory’s Senior Center Won’t Close As 250 Migrants Move Into Gym Shelter (Block Club Chicago)

Volunteer-run migrant shelter ‘left in the lurch,’ seeks city support (Chicago Sun-Times)

‘A troubling pattern’: has Hollywood given up on pushing for diversity? (The Guardian)

Billboards Encourage Idaho Residents Leave To Get Abortions

2 Non-Woke Companies Offer Job Placement Help for Bud Light’s Laid-Off Employees

‘Defund the Police’ Democrat Pramila Jayapal Sinks $50K in Campaign Cash Into Home Security

Judge Halts Ban on Montana Drag Performances

Pennsylvania Revives Effort To Impeach ‘Soros-DA’ Larry Krasner

WashPost Writers Fight On Hunter’s ‘Sweetheart Deal,’ Hillary’s Server

PolitiFact Defends ‘Chestfeeding’ For ‘Transgender and Nonbinary Dads’

Almost nothing has come from all the talk about states banning drag in front of kids (NPR)

Jordan Peterson Schools Bill Maher on Canadian Fascism

Calif. Tax Revenue Drops $343M as Wealthy Earners Flee State

Port Of Baltimore Is One Of The “Hottest Beds Of Stolen Vehicles Leaving The Country”

Leftist Parents “Flee” Florida Because Of New Laws Blocking Child Mutilation

Senate Democrats Push Egypt to Free Cleric Who Ordered Killing of ‘Any Zionist’

Whoopi: ‘I Want Outside Countries to Step In,’ Takeover U.S. Border

Family Torn Between Placing Grandpa In Hospice Or Having Him Run For Senate (Babylon Bee)

Explaining The Mass Exodus Out Of America’s Large Left-Wing Cities

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Tom Lewis is among America’s most generous philanthropists. Over more than 20 years, his T.W. Lewis Foundation has funded causes helping children and families, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations like The Heritage Foundation.

But he’s now taking a different approach with colleges and universities after a controversy at Arizona State University. Lewis pulled his funding following the school’s mishandling of an event with Charlie Kirk and Dennis Prager in February.

The Arizona State event was hosted by the university’s T.W. Lewis Center for Personal Development. It sparked outrage from professors and accusations of censorship from the center’s former executive director.

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It was a strange experience watching the House hearing in which Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was testifying. The topic was censorship and how and to what extent federal government agencies under two administrations muscled social media companies to take down posts, ban users, and throttle content. The majority made its case.

What was strange was the minority reaction throughout. They tried to shut down RFK. They moved to go to executive session so that the public could not hear the proceedings. The effort failed. Then they shouted over his words when they were questioning him. They wildly smeared him and defamed him. They even began with an attempt to block him from speaking at all, and 8 Democrats voted to support that.

This was a hearing on censorship and they were trying to censor him. It only made the point.

Black Woman Who Claimed She Was Kidnapped By White Man With ‘Orange Hair’ Admits She Made It All Up

Kentucky Nurses Take Mandated Training: ‘White Silence is Racist’

Oldest Black fraternity pulls 2025 convention out of Florida citing ‘hostile’ policies (Tallahassee Democrat)

NPR Music: Jason Aldean Song and Video Attacks Cities ‘Using Racist Dog Whistle’  Remember: If you hear the dog whistle, you’re the dog.

After Tyre Nichols’ death, DOJ launches civil rights investigation into Memphis police, city (USA Today) Unmentioned in all of the coverage, unless they are forced to do so, is the fact that all five of the officers in question are black. I guess they were white supremacists and didn’t know it.

Black Leaders Decry DeSantis’ ‘Policy Violence’

Civil Rights Groups Rip ‘Soul Fest’ at Confederate Park

Rod Dreher.

is unlikely that Europeans will understand the controversy over Jason Aldean’s No. 1 country music hit “Try That In a Small Town,” and why it matters. But it really does matter, and you can’t really understand what’s happening in the U.S. culture war unless you take the Left’s smear of Aldean seriously.

Jason Aldean is a popular country music singer who, this past May, released a song called “Try That In a Small Town.” It’s a bog-standard country tune, undistinguished musically or lyrically. The song is a taunt to criminals and violent protesters, of the sort that flooded American cities during the Summer of George Floyd in 2020, and afterward. It tells them that if they try to get away with crime, or violently disrespecting authority, in a small town, they will be met with violence. Aldean has a line referring to the fact that small town people are armed.

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When leftist ideologues constantly excuse criminality and other anti-social behavior, or even (as with violent and misogynistic rap lyrics) celebrate it, and at the same time damn white conservative males as bigots for writing songs defending law and order, and affirming the morality of violence to stop criminals—well, this is how Trump voters are made.

Sharpton: ‘Crime Boss’ Trump Immune to Lawsuits Because GOP is Racist (NewsBusters)

Starbucks Hired Eric Holder To Conduct a ‘Civil Rights Audit.’ The Policies He Blessed Got the Coffee Maker Sued.

The New Authoritarians: How Professors Are Now Calling For Biden To Simply Defy The Supreme Court

Bowe Bergdahl’s Court-Martial Conviction Voided by US Judge

One Of The Biggest Organizations Helping Democrats Win Elections

Democrats Run The Most Crime Ridden Cities In The US – But Is The Situation Even Worse Than We’re Told?

Pulling Back Curtain on ‘Erosion of Parental Rights’ in California

Scientists Say Recycling Has Backfired Spectacularly

Daughters of the American Revolution Faces Revolt, Resignations Over New Policy Admitting Biological Men

“Six-Month Rush-Job”: Ice Cube Tells Tucker Why He Refused COVID Vax

¡Cuidado!: Mexican Consulate Warns Citizens About Rising Crime in D.C.

Myocardial Injury After Covid-19 mRNA Booster Vaccination

Who Ordered The Lab-Leak Cover-Up?

California Population Will Remain Stagnant Through 2060, State Forecast Projects  Betcha anything that it goes down.

Doctors who put lives at risk with covid misinformation rarely punished (Washington Post) In the Narrative media, ‘COVID misinformation’ means ‘telling the truth about the Pandemic Panic’.

Bernie’s Minimum Wage Bill Would Kill 1.7 Million Jobs and Decimate Restaurant Industry, Report Finds

A California professor sues over new DEIA performance reviews

John C. Wright.

The idea is that the smartest kids are admitted to the best schools, where they’re taught by the top minds in the sciences, philosophy, law, medicine, and the arts. They therefore possess both the highest degree of natural aptitude, and have been provided with the best possible training, meaning that they are naturally the most suited to take society’s reins.

What universities really sell isn’t an education: it’s the credential.

Credentials are meant to serve a crucial social function. They’re supposed to be a guarantee that a potential employee or professional has mastered the skills for which his services are being retained.

At some point over the last generation, the ruling class shifted its emphasis from competence to ideological loyalty.

Fed-up NYC businesses sound off as migrant crisis causes chaos in the streets, hits shops’ wallets: ‘Enough is enough’ (N.Y. Post)

Dem Governor: Failing To Notify Parents When Their Child Changes Gender Is ‘The American Way’

California Dem Says His Party Is Throwing Money Away

A ‘Traumatic Fight For Survival’: The Demise of San Francisco Should Concern All Americans

Twitter rival Mastodon rife with child-abuse material, study finds (Washington Post)

Desperate SF Grocery Stores Turn To High Tech Upgrade To Combat Theft

Senate Democrats Sneak Gun Control Into Military Funding Bill

More Grooming From Netflix as Adults Host ‘Alternate Prom’ for Kids at Drag Bar in ‘Survival of the Thickest’

Detransitioner Sues Doctors Who Treated Her Depression with Transgender Surgery

NYC Businesses Fed-Up With Migrant Influx

Pushing LGBTQ Agenda, Top California Educrat Disrupts School Board Meeting. Board Rules Against Him Anyway.

AOC Is Just a Regular Old Democrat Now (New York magazine)

Federal Judge Blocks Arizona’s Transgender Sports Ban After Challenge From Prepubescent Transgenders

Rep. Gaetz Intros Bill Ending ‘Unqualified’ Birthright Citizenship

Quilette.

Fake reviews, vindictive editors, ignorant reviewers, “moderation” without reading, rejections for want of “a critical theory lens,” retention of submissions for a year without review, and defamation. If you think I gathered these abuses of peer review in only “woke” fields, think again. They’re problems in the hardest of sciences. And if you think academics can avoid these abuses by keeping out of politics, think again. Submissions are being rejected for their subjects or conclusions.

I received more stories of abuses than were released for publication, because of fears of professional retaliation. I will publish here only stories from academics prepared to go on the record, including myself.

The Antiplanner.

As if the 15-minute city wasn’t bad enough, planners are now promoting what they call the 20-minute suburb. According to its supporters, suburbanites are fed up with driving everywhere and are demanding that the suburbs be rebuilt at higher densities with lots of “town centers” so that everyone can walk to a shop in 20 minutes.

How do planners know this? Because during the height of the pandemic, a lot of people bought bicycles causing, for a brief time, a bicycle shortage. Based on this and similar anecdotal information, planners agree that the time is ripe to completely rebuilt the nation’s suburbs by eliminating single-family zoning and building lots of dense mixed-use developments.

These are not new ideas. Instead, like the 15-minute city, these are just the same tired old New Urbanist ideas with a catchy new name.

Opinion: Diversity programs were once celebrated. Now an uproar over DEI has cost a college president her job (CNN)

US Banks Are Abruptly Freezing Accounts, Halting Withdrawals Without Warning or Explanation: Report

Police towed RVs from a homeless camp to her street. Now residents are moving out, ‘our tenants have left’ (Fox)

Nicklaus: It’s time to find alternatives to the harmful St. Louis earnings tax (St. Lous Post-Dispatch)

Walking is getting a lot more dangerous

California Demographers Forecast Population To Stagnate By 2060

Texas’ Operation Lone Star Seizes 422 Million Doses Of Fentanyl, Nearly 400K Migrants Arrested

Solvency Dies in Darkness: Washington Post On Pace to Lose $100 Million This Year

Illinois’ No Cash Bail ‘Spits in the Face’ of Crime Victims (NewsMax)

The Rise Of Totalitarianism: Banks Denying Services Based On Political Views

Young people are flocking to astrology  Every person I have ever met who believed in astrology was a Democrat.

Chesa Boudin, Ousted San Francisco DA, Now Pulls Six-Figure Salary at UC Berkeley  The Crust take care of their own.

Ocasio-Cortez joins writers and actors on the picket line: ‘Direct action gets the goods’ (The Hill) Cheap virtue-signaling.

Florida Man Shoots & Kills Pregnant ‘Boyfriend’

A radical idea: Just give kids lunch (Washington Post) News flash: We’re already ‘just giving them lunch’. That’s what the School Lunch Program is all about. Try a little reading first.

STUDY: Broadcast Networks Continue To Prioritize Illegal Aliens Over America

Chelsea Handler Bursts Into Family’s Living Room To Tell Them She’s Totally Happy Being Child-Free And Not At All Miserable (Babylon Bee)

Mayor Adams’ new 60-day shelter limit in NYC blasted by migrants: “I don’t want to sleep on the street” (N.Y. Daily News)

Tyranny of the minority: Liberal law profs urge Biden to defy the courts and the public (The Hill)

Teachers’ union conference led by Randi Weingarten offers trainings on ‘affirming’ children’s LGBTQ identities (Fox)

Velshi Dismisses IRS Whistleblower Hearing As ‘Stunts And Conspiracies’

Google Tests AI Tool To ‘Help’ Journalists Write News Articles

Inside Biden’s unusual hidden campaign (Washington Post)

They Checked Out Pride Books in Protest. It Backfired. (New York Times)

Oakland Fails Women As Staggering Crime Surge Goes Unpunished

Democrats scramble to reach voters after Florida cancels mail-in ballot requests (NBC News)

You’ll Need a ‘Visa’ for Europe Soon

‘No One Needs An AR-15’ Says Person Who’s Obviously Never Seen The Cockroaches In Texas (Babylon Bee)

Read it.

From the Great Recession to 2020, Yellow nearly went bankrupt four times. In each episode, the trucking giant was saved — thanks to concessions from lenders, the Teamsters union, the federal government or often all three.

As a result, some of Yellow’s 30,000 employees weren’t too scared when the company began warning this summer that the end times were coming again. “It’s like crying wolf at this point,” Yellow mechanic Brian Atchely told FreightWaves earlier this month.

Now — as a strike looms, customers begin to pull freight and the Teamsters union refuses to meet — industry watchers are on alert that the trucking fleet may finally shutter. Ahead of a federal court hearing on Friday, Yellow said a work stoppage could force the company into a Chapter 7 liquidation bankruptcy proceeding.

Truck drivers are grappling with the idea that they could lose their jobs. Some 22,000 Teamsters members work at Yellow.

Look for … the Union label….

Wall Street Journal.

The ongoing saga of the severely mentally ill in America is stirring attention again in a sadly familiar way. In Los Angeles in early 2022, a 70-year-old nurse was murdered while waiting for a bus, and two days later a young graduate student was stabbed to death in an upscale furniture store where she worked. That same week in New York City, a 40-year-old financial analyst was pushed onto the subway tracks as a train was arriving, killing her instantly.

All three assaults, random and unprovoked, were committed by unsheltered homeless men with violent pasts and long histories of mental illness. In New York, the perpetrator had warned a psychiatrist during one of his many hospitalizations of his intention to commit that very crime.

California State superintendent kicked out of school board meeting following passage of new transgender policy (NBC Los Angleles)

California school district stands up for parental rights as Newsom targets conservative school boards (Fox)

Texas A&M President Resigns Over Botched Hiring of Woke Professor

‘You Will Not Bully Us’: California School Board Shuts Down State Superintendent

Muslim Migrants Carry Their Contempt for Women to New Lands

‘We have no more room in the city’: NYC announces shelter limits for asylum seekers (NBC News)

5 California cities ranked among the 10 least educated in the U.S. (KTLA)

SOS: The Left’s MISSgendering, Sniffing Kids and Drinking Horse Pee

Gay Men Reportedly Have Their Baby Killed After Surrogate Gets Breast Cancer

House Biden Hearings ‘Died in Darkness’ — Washington Post Had NOTHING in Paper

Video Of Deserted Mall And Streets In Downtown San Fran Reveals Democrats Destroyed City  Except for the ‘unhoused’, of course.

Pushback Forces Major Retailer To Shelve Graphic Book On Sex Aimed At 10 To 15 Year Olds

Relocating To Austin Can Save High-Income New Yorkers $250,000  And they’ll still be in a little blue bubble all their own.

Randi Weingarten’s Union Descends on DC To Instruct Teachers How To Push Radical Agenda on Students

‘This Is a Really Big Deal’: How College Towns Are Decimating the GOP (Politico)

The Washington Post Celebrates Illegal Abortion Pill Distribution

Nike Ad Touts Rapinoe as ‘American Hero’ as She Advocates for Men Competing in Women’s Sports

Harvard Law Professor Forgets Why Judicial Review Exists

New Jersey Sues Feds Over NYC Congestion Pricing Plan

‘Sound Of Freedom’ Shatters Expectations, Hits $100 Million Milestone At Box Office

Senate Dems Pledged To Return Donations From FTX Fraudster. They Still Haven’t.

Biden’s Education Department to Hold Summit on Race in College Admissions Despite Recent Supreme Court Ban

Lefty ‘Journalism’ Site Dubs Maryland the ‘Patron State’ For Abortion

Seattle Public Schools Offer FREE ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ For Kids 10 and Up

The Decline of DEI

Stanford president resigns after fallout from falsified data in his research (NPR)

Over 400 migrants bussed from NYC to Erie County as asylum seeker crisis spirals: officials (N.Y. Post)

Virginia Dems Take Lavish Trip to Africa on Taxpayers’ Dime

WATCH: Homeless Man Attacks Santa Monica Councilman Who Asked Him To Stop Littering

“This Year Is The Worst”: SF Walgreens Store Suffers 20 Thefts A Day, Chains Up Freezer Section

Illinois Delegated Control Over Its “Ban On Book Bans” To Self-Described Marxist

FACT CHECK: CNN Is a ‘Nonpartisan Media Outlet’

YouTube Censored Detransitioner’s Story While ‘Glamorizing’ Pro-Trans Content

Doctors in the Northeast launch abortion pill pipeline into states with bans (Washington Post)

ABC Stood Alone as They Ignored Damning IRS Whistleblower Testimony

The European Court of Human Rights Attacks Free Speech

Shield Laws Let Doctors Mail Thousands of Abortion Pills

Your children belong to the schools, where their trans status will be kept secret from parents

CRE Panic Hits Baltimore As Second Office Tower Dumped At 69% Discount

Democrat AGs Scramble To Convince Companies DEI Is Still Legal

Upstate Motel Kicks Out Guests After NYC Moves Migrants In

Transgender Triple Murderer Harassing Women in California Prison, Inmates Say

Winner Of $1 Billion Powerball Jackpot Excited To Finally Be Able To Afford An Apartment In L.A. (Babylon Bee)

The hometown of San Francisco’s drug dealers

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“It’s only ‘democracy’ if your side is winning,” the managing editor of this publication is prone to muttering. She is referring, of course, to the hypocrisy of our managerial elites. They bleat loudly about the ‘dangers to democracy’ posed by right-wing populist movements—but silence anyone in the public square with whom they disagree. In the name of ‘protecting’ democracy, our elites operate anti-democratically—like dockside bullies.

They do this by blocking accounts, cancelling contracts, disinviting people, shutting down servers—or through vandalism and violence. With these tactics, progressives have achieved a near-total stranglehold on communications, entertainment, media—and, thus, on our culture and even our very minds. Additionally, manipulative campaigns and a constant flow of media disinformation have created a ‘false consciousness’ among the unwitting public. This leads them to believe that conservatives really are ‘fascists,’ that abortion somehow does preserve women’s dignity, and that the ubiquity of rainbows is a sure sign of our moral emancipation.

Naturally, the surveillance state is employed to track and monitor any dangerous idea that contradicts this state of affairs. Anyone who resists or violates the ever-shifting ‘community guidelines’ is punished. The rest of us learn to do what they tell us. We learn to obey.

The American Mind.

As part of its “celebration of Pride Month,” the Biden-Harris Administration announced that the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) will “appoint a new coordinator to address the growing threat that book bans pose.” The White House alleges that “book bans” can “create a hostile school environment [that] may violate federal civil rights laws.”

The creative new strategy has already been tested in Forsyth County, Georgia, where a federal government investigation found that district-level discussions about not including certain books in school libraries can create a hostile environment for students who associate with the identities portrayed in the materials being challenged. The Biden Administration’s new book czar is likely to launch similar investigations around the country. This will lead to a new level of federal micromanagement of K–12 education, undermining local school districts’ ability to curate educational resources that align with local priorities and sensibilities.

What activists deceptively characterize as “book bans” amount to routine decisions about what to teach or what books to include in school libraries. Asking whether materials are age-inappropriate is the basic, commonsense place to start when curating a library collection or developing a curriculum. Those decisions inevitably lead to including some materials and excluding others. Just as we do not teach calculus to third graders, materials that are pervasively vulgar or developmentally inappropriate for young children should not be acquired in the first place. The limited space on school shelves should be filled with materials that area families believe convey maximum educational benefit to students.