Sen. Dianne Feinstein confused by VP Kamala Harris’ participation in tie-breaking vote: report (Fox)

Children’s Hospital ‘Health Hero’ Award Given To Trans Democrat Pushing Child Sex Changes

Comedian Arrested In Beijing As Informants Become Norm Again In China, Eroding Mutual Trust

French Bill To End Woke Rewrites

Memorial Day: Ten WORST Anti-Military Smears from Lib Journalists

United Methodist Church Seeing Disaffiliations Over LGBTQ Issues

Old Navy To Shutter Downtown San Francisco Store Amid Retail Exodus

Antisemitic Speaker Addresses CUNY Law Graduates

Judge postpones showdown over 14th Amendment debt powers (Politico)

Liberal US Cities Top Global List For Highest Homelessness Problem

‘CUNY has become the home of hate’: Lawmakers including Ted Cruz slam NYC college for allowing ‘hateful graduation speech’ by law grad who called for attacks on ‘fascist’ NYPD and military – all while getting her education on the taxpayer’s dime (UK Daily Mail)

Biden world confident in a Trump rematch but preps for a surprise (Politico)

The Other McCain.

Remember when President Obama got elected and America’s public schools suddenly became excellent? No, you don’t remember that, because it never happened. The guy Obama appointed as Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, is a Harvard-educated liberal who had previously been appointed by the Daley machine as Chief Executive Officer of Chicago Public Schools, where he worked no miracles, and neither did he do anything during his eight-year tenure as Secretary of Education that anyone remembers as praiseworthy.

Former employee reveals shocking conditions in NYC migrant hotel: ‘Free for all’ (Fox)

Migrant children in NYC left alone to drink, do drugs, ex-Midtown hotel worker says (N.Y. Post) Getting them used to life as Democrats?

Colonie supervisor says NYC violated county emergency order on migrants (Times-Union)

Outrageous! Taxpayers will pay Randi Weingarten a pension because of government’s special deals with unions (Fox)

Winnie the Pooh ‘Run, Hide, Fight’ Book Draws Parents’ Ire (N.Y. Times) Blue cities training up a new generation of victims.

Citywide Youth Curfew Begins In Baltimore As Mayor Strives To Restore Law And Order

Christian Students Sue Professor, Claim She Forced Them To Pay $99 To Fund Left-Wing Activism

Private spies hired by FBI and corporations infiltrate Discord, Reddit, WhatsApp

CNN Claims Work Requirements Are Offensive to Poor People

Kerik to Newsmax: Blame NYC Teen Crime Spike on City, State

Bud Light Offers $2.99 18-Pack After Sales Tumble Accelerates

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

A global consensus has emerged that governmental responses to covid-19, which mainly involved shutdowns, limitations on mobility and other aspects of freedom, mask mandates, and vaccination requirements, did an enormous amount of harm. The issue is sometimes posed in terms of whether governments’ responses did more damage than the epidemic did. But that isn’t actually the right question. The epidemic happened. The question is whether the epidemic + government restrictions on freedom was better or worse than the epidemic alone would have been. And the answer is, worse. The net effect of government responses was catastrophically bad.

Workplace expert explains how CEOs are being dragged into culture wars (CNN) “Dragged into”? They’re jumping in with both feet.

“It’s Time To Pay”: Democrat Voters Demand Fulfillment Of Past Promises From Reparations To Sanctuary Cities

NYC Democratic Councilman Under Fire for Anti-Italian Bigotry  Notwithstanding that he is a Person of Color.

NYC Outlaws Discrimination on the Basis of Weight, Height  Short people and fat people appear to be a vital Democrat constituency.

Study: At all levels of public office, threats now come with the job (Washington Post) Perhaps because government employees have never been more willing to act tyrannically.

‘Everything Was Just a No’: Progressives Frustrated After Colorado Legislative Session (Bolts)

Justin Trudeau Championing “2SLGBTQI+” Rights

EU Council President Atones for Overspending by Spending More

Downtown San Francisco is at a tipping-point

State Farm halts new property insurance policies in California

Attacks on trans athletes have little basis in science (S.F. Chronicle) Narraitve sophistry.

LA Nonprofit Giving Meth Pipes To Homeless Sparks Debate Over “Harm Reduction” Approach

Fluoride Lawsuit Against EPA: Alleged Corruption, Shocking Under Oath Federal Statements

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

You would think a team named “Dodgers” would know how to dodge a culture war battle they can’t win (see: Target, Bud Light), but no, the Los Angeles Dodgers managed to get picked off in the most embarrassing fashion in a pickle-style rundown entirely of their own ineptitude. Surely the conservative (and Catholic) O’Malley family that used to own the Dodgers—before the onerous estate tax forced the family to sell the team back in the 1990s after Peter O’Malley died—are rolling in their graves.

But there’s a larger lesson here. Back in 1984 I attended the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco as a credentialed reporter (you can read the long feature Ken Masugi and I filed, “Revenge of the Nerds,” here). The day before the convention opened, there was a large gay pride parade on Market Street, which I watched from the sidewalk for the show. It was what you would have expected—a flamboyant and festive display of gay fetishes and skimpy costumes made mostly of leather, along with lots of banners expressing grievances against the Reagan Administration for not instantly curing AIDS with more money.

I somehow got to chatting on the sidewalk with a Republican campaign operative who was observing the convention, and he remarked, “In 1972 we paid people to do this to McGovern, and now the Democrats are doing it for us for free.” Sure enough, Democrats running the convention were careful to keep this sideshow out of sight as much as possible. They knew political poison when they saw it, though Jeanne Kirkpatrick nonetheless later stuck them with the label “San Francisco Democrats.” Though she had foreign policy chiefly in mind, there was a distinct undercurrent of their victim mentality that defines the party’s dominant ideology today.

Washington Free Beacon.

Sen. Bob Menendez (D., N.J.) is under federal investigation for allegedly accepting a luxury car and apartment from a halal meat company.

Federal agents are investigating whether Menendez and his wife Nadine Arslanian received the gifts from IS EG Halal, a New Jersey company that won an exclusive contract with the Egyptian government to certify halal meat exports to the country, a decision that attracted scrutiny because the business is run by a Christian and lacks experience in halal certification. Now law enforcement is working to determine whether Menendez, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that dishes out billions of dollars to Egypt, took action in the Senate to benefit the company in exchange for gifts.

This is not the first time that Senator Menendez has been investigated for corruption.

Menendez was previously tried in 2017 in a public-corruption case, which ended in a mistrial. He was tried for allegedly taking $1 million in gifts—including private flights and trips—from a Florida doctor who wanted help with visas.

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In 2017, Dr. Jerry Coyne of the University of Chicago complained that the residual effects of Christianity were holding Western civilization back. How? It was Christian ethics, he said, that were preventing legal infanticide from making a comeback.

“The reason we don’t allow euthanasia of newborns is because humans are seen as special, and I think that comes from religion, in particular, the view that humans, unlike animals, are endowed with a soul,” he wrote. “It’s the same mindset that, in many places, won’t allow abortion of fetuses that have severe deformities. When religion vanishes, as it will, so will much of the opposition to both adult and newborn euthanasia.”

Many philosophers share Coyne’s views. Princeton bio-ethicist Peter Singer argues that only religious superstition is keeping us from killing infants, a practice he believes to be perfectly ethical. As he wrote in Practical Ethics: “Killing a defective infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person. Sometimes it is not wrong at all.” For Singer, the baby-killing of our bloody pagan past is a source of nostalgia rather than horror.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

How bad is America’s education system? Worse than you can possibly imagine.

Tom Veal.

In the post mortems on Ron DeSantis’s less that wholly satisfactory campaign debut, I’ve seen plenty of derision – Donald Trump is firmly aligned with the Left here – and some pro-DeSantis apologetics, mostly along the lines of, “Everybody will forget this in a week or two.” What I haven’t seen is so much as a breath of suspicion that the Twitter Spaces meltdown might not have been simply the result of the deployment of not-adequately-tested technology. Yet the grounds for suspicion sit in plain sight.

When Elon Musk acquired Twitter, many, many employees did not welcome their new overlord, to put it mildly. They were overwhelmingly Musk-hostile for a variety of reasons, some stemming from his imperious management style, others from dislike of his perceived political opinions, which jibe poorly with the tech world’s longstanding woke orthodoxy and increasingly woke orthopraxis. Many malcontents were fired in the wake of the takeover, but Musk couldn’t, even if he seriously tried, get rid of them all and conjure a loyal work force into being.

Democrats unanimously back debt ceiling discharge petition (The Hill) No doubt they do

.House Ethics Committee Concludes Probe Into Rep. Eric Swalwell’s Associations With Alleged Chinese Spy  The Crust take care of their own.

Parents Take School Board to Court for Assigning LGBTQ Books Without Their Consent

Criminal Justice Disaster

“There’s Poop Everywhere”: San Francisco’s Office District Not Only A Ghost Town, It’s Also Covered In Sh*t

Drag Queen Urges People to ‘Come Out’ in North Face Pride Ad

Withdrawing Your Own Cash? NatWest Bank Wants To Know Why… And See Proof  Time to change banks.

NBC Bemoans Target Removing Transgender, Pro-Satan Clothing

Supreme Court sides with grandmother who lost home, equity because of back taxes (USA Today)

Teachers’ Union Told LA Dodgers Students Could Die If Drag Queen Nuns Weren’t Re-Invited to Pride Night

Target loses $9B in week following boycott calls over LGBTQ-friendly kids clothing (N.Y. Post)

Mitchell, Socialist Rep. Want To Spend Even More Money Amid Debt Fight

Moving to France Showed Me True Cost of ‘Free’ European Health Care, Child Care, and Retirement  TANSTSAFL.

San Francisco Mayor Flees Speech on Crime as Violent Crime Is Committed

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Of all the strange phenomena of our strange era, the most inexplicable to me is woke capitalism. We see it all around us: Major League Baseball moving the All-star Game out of Atlanta (does anyone remember why?), Delta Airlines aligning itself with the Democratic Party, the Bud Light fiasco.

Along with Budweiser, a number of other companies have driven off the “pride” cliff. This is only a partial list, but let’s start with Target. Target has been aggressively featuring its Pride collection, which includes women’s swimsuits with extra crotch room to make them comfortable for “women” who are men.

How the technology behind ChatGPT could make mind-reading a reality (CNN)

Here’s how AI is being used to unlock secrets still hidden in the human brain (Fox)

How AI is learning to read the human mind (UK Telegraph)

Commentary: MRI scans and AI could read what we’re thinking. The implications are terrifying (Channel News Asia)

‘I Don’t Want Any Other Parent to Live Nightmare That I Am Living,’ Woman Tells House Panel of Daughter, 20, Killed by Illegal Alien

Top 10 Companies That Ignore First Amendment Rights

Musk Signals Twitter’s HQ May Leave in San Francisco

NY Governor Tells Local Leaders Not To Be So ‘Bigoted,’ Let Migrants in

European-Level Taxes Coming to America If US Keeps Up Unsustainable Spending (The Foundry)

Target Stock Sinks Nearly 10 Percent Amid Pride Backlash

Nebraska Enacts Bill Protecting Minors From Gender Transitions, Unborn After 12 Weeks

Texas Set to Give Boot to Leftist DEI Offices at Public College Campuses

Montana 1st to Ban People in Drag From Reading to Kids in Schools, Libraries

Chicago Carnival Invaded By “Flash Mob” Of Over 400 Teenagers

Parents Sue Elite Schools For ‘Indoctrinating’ Their Kids With DEI ‘Bait And Switch’

University Of California Moves Toward Hiring Illegal Immigrants In Violation Of Federal Law

Senate Finance Committee Dems Said They’d Fight Dark Money. They Just Fawned Over a Liberal Dark Money Operative.

Target removes some Pride Month products after facing threats (Washington Post)

Watch: Hillary Is Still Whining About Losing 2016 Election

PolitiFact Goes To Bat For Gender Ideology: ‘Gender Is Different’

GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna seeks $16 million fine against Adam Schiff for ‘lies’ about Trump-Russia collusion

Seeking asylum and work, migrants bused out of NYC find hostility (Associated Press) That’s what happens when people break the law, especially people named Mohammed.

LGBT Pride ‘Youth Carnival’ Bars Parents From Attending

LA’s Soros-Backed DA Sitting on 10,000 Cases

Ethics Committee Ends Swalwell Probe: No Action Taken The Crust take care of their own.

Supreme Court saves California’s bacon with this ruling (Fox)

Whitmer signs red flag law allowing temporary removal of guns from those deemed dangerous (Detroit Free Press)

Anheuser-Busch to Buy Back Unsold, Expired Bud Light

Anheuser-Busch Loses Highest LGBTQ+ Equality Rating

Teens Throw Prom for Transgender Youth

‘Psst! Hey Kid, Wanna Change Your Gender?’ Says Target Dog Emerging From Clothes Rack (Babylon Bee)

Ed Dept.: Book Removals May Have Violated Student’s Rights

Lawmakers Want Answers On NIH Trans Kids Study That Led To Two Suicides

Texas Passes Law to Ban DEI at State Universities

Michigan State professor forces students to fund personal political group

NYC’s Migrant Welcome Center Filled to Capacity  Just think of what it’s like in Texas.

CBS Gives 2+ Minutes to Fake Travel Warning, Only 40 Sec to Tim Scott

Infanticide: The Next Logical step?

7 news outlets reimagining political journalism in smart ways (Washington Post) All of them pushing the Narrative.

There’s no hypocrisy in treating Dianne Feinstein and John Fetterman differently (MSNBC) The fact that they have to say that in print is damning.

The looming existential crisis for cable news (Washington Post)

Stolen Valor? NBC Takes Credit for Scoop Reported by NewsNation…ONE Month Ago

Do Americans really want “unbiased” news? (Vox) The Narrative media would like you to think that they do not.

Gov. Kathy Hochul urges suburban county executives to reject “bigoted policies,” welcome asylum seekers (CBS News) Good luck with that.

Dem Governor Declares State of Emergency Over Republicans’ School Choice Plan

CNN needs a new chief. Here’s the ideal candidate. (Washington Post) Of course! An openly biased reporter with no executive experience is the ideal pick! Thank you, Jennifer Rubin!

DISD parents concerned about ‘run, hide, fight’ Winnie-the-Pooh book

Google Doodle Celebrates First Indigenous Transgender Water-Skier With No Legs (Babylon Bee)

AI scanner used in hundreds of US schools misses knives

Target holds ’emergency’ meeting over LGBTQ merchandise in some stores to avoid ‘Bud Light situation’ (Fox) Good luck with that. I, for one, will never cross the threshold of a Target again.

Sanctuary City Bummed Now That It Has To Do The Actual ‘Sanctuary’ Part  (Babylon Bee)

On the migrant crisis, NYC Mayor Eric Adams is everywhere and nowhere (N.Y. Post)

NYC Mayor Adams: Migrants should be sent to every city ‘throughout the entire country’ (Fox) No,  just the ‘sanctuary cities’, to remind them not to be virtue-signaling hypocrites.

Mayor Eric Adams on asylum seekers: NYC carrying “burden” of “nation problem” (Face the Nation) Guess he hasn’t seen any video from Texas or Arizona.

Back in hoodies and gym shorts, Fetterman tackles Senate life after depression treatment (Associated Press)

“Isolated Event” Again? All Voters Of New York County Falsely Identified As Democrats In Voter IDs

“Not Our Beliefs” – Bud Light Distributor Sends Out Public Plea to Bring Back Customers

NYC Has A Shoplifting Problem… And Kiosks Aren’t Going To Stop It!

Democrats Create a Transgender Child Kidnapping Network

How Much Does PolitiFact Favor Kamala Harris Over Mike Pence? Bigly

Female High School Track Athlete Loses Spot In State’s To Biological Male

Fox News Employee Handbook Embraces Woke Gender Rules

The American Mind.

In Japan, social withdrawal among young men is now so severe that the Japanese have a very specific term for it: hikikomori. Hiki means “to withdraw,” and komori means “to remain inside.” At least 1.5 million Japanese people, many of whom are young men in their twenties and thirties, have completely withdrawn from society.

They don’t date; they don’t mate; they don’t work; and they don’t socialize. In short, they refrain from doing anything that requires them to leave their hyper-isolated chambers.

Many of these young males are hurting—financially, spiritually, and psychologically.

Up until very recently, hikikomori was considered a culture-bound syndrome, a problem unique to Japan. That is no longer the case. Hikikomori is now a global phenomenon, observed across the world regardless of culture—from Asia to Europe to the United States.

Huh. I didn’t know this was an option.

The American Mind.

Marymount University sits on a high hill over the Potomac River, in northern Virginia. Founded in 1950 by a religious order devoted to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, the school’s undergraduate courses focus on the humanities—or they did until the president and the board of governors met to “restructure” earlier this year. This meant gutting nearly all the humanities, plus mathematics, science, and even theology and religious studies.

The sheer extent and suddenness of this transformation caught the public’s imagination. A small university’s restructuring is not typically the stuff of frontpage, international headlines. But these cuts perfectly illustrate how Christian education has squandered its moral, intellectual, and religious inheritance in a 100-year search for prestige—a search which has been inevitably followed by a retreat into rootless, commercial secularism and left-wing, political glad–handing. In this, the plight of Catholic universities offers a microcosm of the institutional capture that afflicts traditional institutions around the country. But it also offers instructive, object lessons in how to fight back.

Prior to, oh, say, Vatican II (early 1960s), this could not have happened. The entire reason for ‘Catholic schools’ was to provide education with a Catholic intellectual foundation explicitly separate from secular intellectual fads and fashions. But that was then; this is now.

ZMan turns over a rock.

In The Past is a Future Country, Ed Dutton and J.O.A. Rayner-Hilles, argue that the West is about to be swamped by an unsustainable wave of stupid people. This is not the result of immigration, but rather the culmination of an evolutionary process that began in the Industrial Revolution. Darwinian selection weakened along with the increase in living standards. The result is a steady increase in narcissistic stupid people who undermine the fundamentals of Western society.

In this post, Ed Dutton makes the point that liberal female politicians are getting dumber, as a result of this process he outlined in his book. He relies on two examples, Sanna Marin of Finland and Angela Rayner of Britain, to make his point. Both women are on what we insist on calling the Left and both women are morons. Not only are they stupid, but they appear to have come from stupid parents. They are Nth generation morons who have risen to the top of politics.

It is an amusing and satisfying read for people who think of themselves on the Right, even if he is making sweeping claims from just two examples. For as long as anyone can recall, the people we call the Left have claimed that their opponents are unsophisticated morons who should be dismissed. Having this turned on its head with the use of the human sciences is good fun, but it may be missing the real cause for the great dumbing down of Western politics.

Report: Texas Bill Trades National Guard Troops for New ‘Border Force’

2023: Echoes Of 1973

Musk Demands AP Back Claims Or Retract Article Over ‘Unchecked’ Stolen Election Tweets

Colorado GOP fears it’s ceding ground to Democrats (The Hill)

“Deep Level Of Corruption”: Gen. Flynn Condemns FBI Following Durham Report

Is Self-Defense Becoming Illegal?

David Axelrod: After Barack Obama, America will never be the same (CNN)

Activist moms spy on each other in culture wars over schooling (CNN)

Trans-Madness

Satanists Find a Home at SatanCon in Boston  Not a surprise.

Victor Davis Hanson: Hillary ‘Colluded’ With Russia, ‘FBI Knew’

The Durham Report Indicts The Deep State… And The Media

High School Boys Send a Clear Message to Trans-obsessed State Legislators – Report

The New Bar Exam Puts DEI over Lawyer Competence

A call to arms: Defending America’s soul in an age of extremism (The Hill) The Law of Liberal Projection strikes again. Apparently the people wanting to kill unborn babies and mutilate children aren’t the extremists he’s talking about.

NewsBusters.

In theory, the Durham Report and the testimony of FBI whistle blowers was to be about the internal conduct of the FBI.

It was that, to be sure. But without doubt the combination of the two was a decided fusillade that hit the once impenetrable fortress that was the credibility of the American mainstream media. And specifically the credibility of The New York Times, The Washington Post and the Pulitzer Prize.

House Republicans Demand FBI Reopen Clinton Investigations

How Biden Turned ‘Sanctuary City’ Democrats Into Ruthless Border Hawks  Actually, I think Greg Abbot had more to do with it….

For Decades, Democrats Have Been Ignoring Evidence And Facts It’s what they do best.

Media’s Worst of the Week: Mayor Pete Solves Masculinity

The Beltway Media Is Spreading Debt Limit Misinformation (The New Republic)

FLASHBACK: David Letterman and the Liberal Politics of Late Night

‘Live laugh lesbian’: Target’s cheeky Pride collection strikes again (NBC News) Don’t shop at Target. Don’t give money to people who hate you.

OffGuardian.

There is so much going on we don’t know about. Like I’ve said before, we definitely have reached that critical point of being a “closed system.” The mainstream media are all in on it, so they control the flow of information. No one knows what is happening unless they literally see it or experience it.

It is fascinating how if you don’t receive reliable information about what’s going on, you really don’t know at all . . . even in your own neighbourhood. Remember the Soviets would come and carry people away in an apartment building and no one there would know, MAYBE one person, the person living next door, but that’s it. They would just disappear. And only the people who KNEW them would even know that.

There could be people all around us dying, being persecuted for this or that, and no one would know it. And then stuff happening in the next city, or in Europe…no one knows ANYTHING reliable now unless they see it with their own eyes. Once a free press is gone, we are totally blind. Very few people seem to know this or accept it if they know it.

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Border Patrol agents in San Diego have come under fire twice in a week at the U.S.-Mexico border, including as they were aiding an injured, abandoned four-year-old boy who had been dropped over the border wall.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said in a statement that agents near the San Ysidro port of entry on Monday aided an injured 4-year-old who had been dropped over the primary border barrier by an illegal immigrant.

“Agents reported hearing both the impact and ricochet of gunshots off of the secondary border barrier just north of their location,” the CBP statement said.

Eric Adams slams NYC Council for lack of support, ‘total disrespect’ on migrant crisis (N.Y. Post)

NYC continues to scramble to house migrants as crisis continues (Fox)

NYC backs off plan to place migrants in school gyms after protests: ‘The parents won’ (N.Y. Post)

In private call, Mayor Adams scolds NYC Council members for ‘disrespectful’ tone over migrant response (N.Y. Daily News)

Trans influencers find it harder to get deals after Bud Light’s Dylan Mulvaney fiasco (N.Y. Post)

Federal Judge Blocks Most of N.J. Concealed Carry Law

Tampa pride event cancelled after DeSantis signs ‘anti-drag’ bill (NBC News)

Virginia to Be Only Southern State With Full Abortion Access

Nevada Gov. Lombardo Vetoes Three Gun Control Bills

The Post-Liberal Authoritarians Want You To Forget That Private Companies Have Rights

Nets Ignore Hearing on FBI Retaliation Against Whistleblowers

Dodgers Remove Gay ‘Nun’ Group From Pride Night

Abbott confirms first bus of migrants has arrived in Colorado (The Hill)

Why Dianne Feinstein Shouldn’t Quit (TIME)

Who Is Better At Raising Your Child, You Or The State?

UC regents take groundbreaking step toward hiring immigrant students without legal status (L.A. Times)

The technocratic face of authoritarianism

The Russiagate Players Got Rich and Escaped Consequences

Dove Produces Ultra-Woke Ad To Change Beauty Standards In Video Games?

World watches in disbelief and horror as U.S. nears possible default (Washington Post) The world of the Narrative media–does any other world count?–at least. The rest of us couldn’t care less.

Season Finale of NBC’s ‘Law & Order’ Portrays Assassin of Pro-2A Senator as Victim

WATCH: Fetterman Struggles Through Press Conference

‘Squad’ Rep. Bush Pushes for $14T Reparations Bill

Rep. Cori Bush introduces resolution on reparations for Black Americans (Washington Post)

NYC hospital ‘Karen’ paid for Citi Bike at center of viral fight with black man: lawyer (N.Y. Post)

The Movement to Stop Dollar Stores From Suffocating Black Communities  I’ll bet you didn’t know that dollar stores were ‘suffocating black communities’.

Greene says she feels ‘threatened’ by Bowman after Capitol steps encounter (The Hill)

The Man Who Called Breonna Taylor’s Killing “Justified” Could Be Kentucky’s Next Governor (The Nation) As indeed it was.

Washington Examiner.

election are damning enough. The FBI allowed itself to become a conduit for disinformation instigated by a partisan political campaign and possibly influenced by the very foreign actor it was allegedly investigating.

But when you take a step back and put the Durham report into the broader context of the CIA’s involvement in suppressing Hunter Biden’s laptop and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s involvement in suppressing the investigation into the origins of COVID, a disturbing pattern emerges: The Democratic Party, the liberal media, and highest levels of the federal government are routinely conspiring to spread disinformation for plainly partisan ends.

Have all the beers gone woke? An investigation. (Vox)

Miller Lite’s ‘woke’ apology for bikini girl ads sparks new beer industry controversy: ‘Really odd’ (Fox)

See the ‘woke’ Miller Lite commercial that has critics calling for boycotts (CNN)

WHAT?! Microsoft CEO Preaches ‘Opportunity’ to ‘Retool’ People with AI

Texas passes bill stripping authority from cities (The Hill)

Florida Bill Would Crack Down on ‘Woke’ Finance Company Morningstar for Actions That Harm Israel

North Carolina Republicans Override Veto, Allowing 12-Week Abortion Ban To Become Law (Huffington P0st)

North Carolina bans abortion past 12 weeks, overriding governor veto (Washington Post)

Riley Gaines details ‘traumatic’ experience with Lia Thomas and SFSU assault (Washington Examiner)

White House faces pressure from the left to buck mainstream antisemitism definition (Jewish Insider)

Parents hit out at Waldorf school’s explicit sex ed curriculum featuring graphic pictures: ‘Nauseous’ (N.Y. Post)

University of Wyoming sorority sisters say they ‘live in fear’ of trans member (N.Y. Post)

NY Times Publisher: No Bias Here, Just a Sophisticated ‘Metropolitan Sensibility’

Will Abortion Kill The GOP?

The PBS ‘NewsHour’ Is a Democrat Spin Hour

‘We Sale Your Bank’: WaPo Reporter Rewrites Disastrous Fetterman Word Salad as a ‘Quote’ (PJ Media)

Marriage Counselors Are Getting Into BLM, DEI, and MeToo

Senate Democrats, Not Exactly Firing on All Cylinders

Labour Party Looking To Extend Voting Rights to EU Citizens

Bud Light Sales Keep Dropping as Summer Approaches

Fetterman’s Comments at Hearing Raise Eyebrows

WATCH: Fetterman Speaks Incoherently After Media Said He’s ‘Ready To Work’

Robust One-Nation Conservatism Is What Woke Globalist Elites Fear Most, Heritage Foundation President Tells London Conference

FBI Leadership Sabotaged Clinton Foundation Investigations: Durham Report

LGBTQ+ Activists Decry Policy That Won’t Let Them Fly ‘Pride’ Flags Outside Schools

Nets Pout Over Pro-Life NC Law as ABC Explains What It Means for a ‘Pregnant Person’

Teachers in This School District Use Planned Parenthood Guide to Sex Ed for Middle Schoolers

4 More Companies Go ‘Full Bud Light,’ Daring Consumers to Boycott  Tuborg. Heineken.

Civil rights leader to deliver keynote at New College alternative graduation (Sarasota Herald-Tribune)

Trump-backed Cameron Wins Ky. GOP Primary for Governor

Can Reparations Bring Black Residents Back to San Francisco? (N.Y. Times)

UK: No-fault evictions to be banned in reform of rental sector Illustrated by a picture of a Woman of Colour just so you know who the Official Victim is. Wouldn’t want you to get that wrong.

Former NBA Star Says Suns are Racist for Firing Monty Williams as Coach

St. Louis Top Prosecutor Kim Gardner Resigns

CBS Elevates Shoplifter as Community Pillar ‘Helping Black Trans’ Kids

A White Woman and a Black Woman Teamed Up to Lucratively Exploit the Starbucks Racist Bathroom Incident for Years. But Then …

NAACP warns Congress against debt ceiling deal that would ‘harm’ Black communities (NBC News) In the Narrative media, ‘harm’ is ‘not giving us as much money as we want’.

Read it. And watch the video.

The latest example was served up on Monday, as two families brawled just beyond Disney World’s entrance gates, in a fight that reportedly arose from a family’s desire to take a photo at the iconic location.

The Orange County Sheriff’s Office responded to emergency calls at 2:30pm. Reportedly, one family asked another family to move so they could take a group photo at a spot that has the Magic Kingdom train station as a backdrop, along with Mickey Mouse topiary and, this year, a sign calling out the 100th anniversary of the Walt Disney Company.

Tempers flared, and violent impulses prevailed as a member of one family reportedly punched a member of another in the face. Things then quickly devolved into the kind of messy, co-ed slugfest seen with increasing regularity as American society steadily unravels — and companies like Disney set out to destroy the values that once bound it.

The Antiplanner.

Crime, on-line shopping, telecommuting and exorbitant rents are all contributing to the decline of downtowns, observes an article on CNN Business. But the real reason downtowns are declining, according to the article, is that people don’t live in dense enough neighborhoods.

“To reinvent downtown retail,” asserts the article without any room for debate or citation of evidence, cities need “denser neighborhoods with a broader mix of affordable housing, experiential retail, restaurants, entertainment, parks and other amenities.” Where have I heard that before?

How are denser neighborhoods going to solve crime and homeless problems? How are they going to fill office spaces when people are working at home? How will they get people to stop shopping on line? How will they make rents more affordable when higher densitis increase land values?

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

The global liberal movement is trying to destroy modern, scientific agriculture. Liberals want organic farming–no intensive nitrogen fertilization–along with an end to animal husbandry and banning of pretty much all effective herbicides and pesticides. All great ideas, if you don’t care about billions of people dying. Just ask anyone in Sri Lanka or the Netherlands.

Residents, business owners fleeing Dem-run cities in droves as homeless camps wreak havoc: ‘Absolute madness’ (Fox)

NYC faces ire of residents over plan to house migrants in Brooklyn elementary school gym (Fox)

Dave Chappelle Rips San Francisco: ‘What the F— Happened to This Place?’

Rashida Tlaib Asks Supporters To ‘Chip In’ So She Can Host More Anti-Semitic Events

Chicago Mercantile Exchange CME Threatens to Flee Chicago as Myr. Johnson Takes Office

America’s Powerful Intellectual Class Finds ‘Joy In Making Us Obey And Be Compliant,’ Warns Scholar

Court order that could end US health law’s preventative care mandate put on hold (Associated Press)

WATCH: MSNBC Takes Less Than Half Hour to Declare 300-Page Durham Report a Nothingburger

Report: Mexican President Mum on Cartels During Border City Visits

WHO Pushes “Early Childhood Masturbation” For Toddlers, Encourages Questions About Gender Identity For Kids Aged 4

Billy Joel to Florida

NY Parents In Uproar As City Houses Migrants In School Gyms

How a Few Stories of Regret Fuel the Push to Restrict Gender Transition Care (N.Y. Times)

Top OBGYN Organization: Abortion Is ‘Settled Science’

Soros-Backed Prosecutor Dropped Previous Assault Charges Against Man Arrested for Attacking Dem Staffers With a Bat  What goes around, comes around.

Media Admits They Lied About That Russia Collusion Thing But Are Totally Telling The Truth About Everything Else  (Babylon Bee)

Musk says George Soros ‘hates humanity,’ compares him to Jewish supervillain (Washington Post)

Disc Golf Org. Wins Appeal To Protect Women’s Division At Tournament

Newsom Warned Migrants Could ‘Break’ California. Now Dems Want To Give Illegals Unemployment.

Dem Legislators Reintroduce Bill to Expand Supreme Court

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A California city may lose out on a new restaurant from world-famous chef José Andrés because of its ban on natural gas.

The owner of the mall where Andrés was set to open his Mediterranean restaurant Zaytinya is threatening to sue Palo Alto over the ban, which starting this year prevents new buildings from having natural gas connections.

The restaurant relies on “traditional cooking methods that require gas appliances to achieve its signature, complex flavors,” said Anna Shimko, a lawyer representing the group that owns the Stanford Shopping Center where Andrés leased space for the restaurant. Palo Alto city council members discussed the letter behind closed doors on May 8 but took no public action.

Shimko said the building’s plans were approved by the city in 2019, years before the gas ban was imposed. She added that some of the appliances the restaurant staff needs “do not have electrically powered equivalents.”

“Without a gas connection and appliances, Zaytinya would be forced to alter its signature five-star reputation,” Shimko said, adding that if the ban is enforced, “Zaytinya will likely choose not to locate within the city.”

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The head of the Satanic Temple in Austin, Texas, is set to give an invocation before Tuesday night’s city council meeting in San Marcos, Hays County.

No surprises here. San Marcos is one of the blue urban pustules on the otherwise rosy red cheeck of Texas.

The American Mind.

According to a recent report in the New York Post, many members of Gen Z (Zoomers) are lousy employees. A majority (65 percent) of employers say that they’ve had to fire them more often; one out of eight Zoomers were fired from their jobs in the first week; and three out of four employers “say Gen Z is hardest to work with.” Most of the challenges of working with Zoomers are attributed to their general lack of professionalism, excessive sense of entitlement, and most of all, their addiction to smartphones. Apparently, the Zoomers struggle more than the millennials (my generation), who are usually the subject of such generational criticisms: “even Millennials and prior generations understood that you come to work and you do what your employer asks of you.”

Who would’ve guessed that a culture that abhors character development, celebrates mediocrity, and encourages screen addiction from an early age would produce a generation of incompetent young adults who can’t function in the workplace? Who could believe that indoctrinating them with identity politics would make them overly sensitive and impossible to work with? How is it possible that so many people who grew up in broken homes, never had a father, lost their innocence at an early age, had poor mental health, and never practiced religion could be so moody, flaky, and inconsistent?

‘I declared myself not woke’: What happened when a critic of anti-racism ‘ideology’ led DEI at a Bay Area college (S.F. Chronicle) She’s fat, has blue hair, and undoubtedly ‘identifies’ as black. I don’t believe her.

Vice and Motherboard owner files for bankruptcy (BBC)

Here’s what could happen to the military if the US defaults on its debt (The Hill)

NYC May Start Charging Fines That Vary With Offender’s Income

NYC Converts Hotels To Shelters To Accommodate Expected Influx Of Illegal Immigrants

Toronto ‘Anti-Capitalist’ Pay-When-You-Can Cafe Shuts Down After Just One Year  Markets work, even when you don’t want them to.

“It’s Just Not Safe”: Decades-Old Baltimore Business Closes Shop Because Of Crime, Blames Democrats

Head of Planned Parenthood: Expand SCOTUS  Pack the court!

Planned Parenthood vs. The Supreme Court

How A Left-Wing Activist Group Teamed Up With Big Pharma To Push Radical Gender Ideology on American Hospitals

Dems’ great hope to hold the Senate: GOP primary implosions (Politico) Be careful what you wish for….

Hospitals create police forces to stem growing violence against staff (NPR)

Coastal Cities Priced Out Low-Wage Workers. Now College Graduates Are Leaving

Planned Parenthood Backs Court-Packing, Term Limits for Justices

San Francisco Announces Plan To Release Monkeys Onto The Streets To Fling Away All The Poo  (Babylon Bee)

The Next Bud Light? Miller Lite Under Fire for Feminist Commercial

The American Mind.

With the recent irresponsible bank bailouts by the U.S. government and culture war over Bud Light, American capitalism seems to have gone off the rails. However, there’s a method to the madness. These shenanigans are symptoms of an underlying malady. It goes by various names—crony capitalism, ESG, woke capital—but its essence is simple: cool, calculating deals between elites to maximize wealth and power.

Standard economics provides the interpretive key. All we must do is take the toolkit economists use to analyze “private” choice, such as exchange in markets, and apply it to “public” choice, namely politics. Collective action is absolutely a forum for exchange. Representatives from Podunk and Decadentapolis logroll to get each other’s bills passed. Bureaucrats from the Department of Mission Creep and the Micromanagement Agency trade influence and favors to acquire larger budgets. It’s exchange all the way down. Crony-wokeism is no exception.

Washington Post.

At the Nation’s Gun Show in Chantilly, spirits seemed high. People wandered from booth to booth, and the scent of popcorn filled the air. It could have been mistaken for a state fair or weekend flea market were it not for the rows of weapons and accessories — gun parts, AR build kits and body armor — laid out on every surface. It was easy to overlook the one common emotion underlying the event: fear.

Here were weekend shoppers intently inspecting tools of death: moms testing the heft of handguns and fathers stocking up on ammo. When I asked attendees and sellers what gun ownership meant to them, most replied with the same word: “protection.”

New York Times.

In Paraguay, the Colorado Party has held power for seven decades. On Election Day, it rounds up Indigenous people and pays them for their votes.

Much the same way Democrats do ‘ballot harvesting’ in urban slums.

Ron DeSantis tiptoes around Iowa as Trump cancels visit amid tornado threat

White Christian nationalism emerges from shadows of GOP politics (MSNBC)

San Francisco Democrat Pushes To Restrict Gun Use By Security Guards 

Clarence Thomas Is What He Wrongly Accuses Black Folks of Being (The Nation)

Defending white nationalists, Tommy Tuberville fears a military that is ‘going wrong’ (Washington Post) He’s not ‘defending white nationalists’, of course; that’s just the twist put on it by the WaPo.

How Women’s Swimming Got So Transphobic (The Nation)

MSNBC Host Katie Phang Accuses Daniel Penny of ‘Murder’ In Subway Death of Jordan Neely

Why Some Companies Are Saying ‘Diversity and Belonging’ Instead of ‘Diversity and Inclusion’ (N.Y. Times)

DeSantis gets millions in taxpayer money to fight lawsuits over hard-right policies (Tallahassee Democrat)

How to Raise $89 Million in Small Donations — And Make It Disappear (N.Y. Times) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

Daniel Penny’s Supporters ‘Disgusted’ by Manslaughter Charge

Free speech or federal crime? Protesters are still marching outside conservative Supreme Court justices’ homes (NBC News) Federal crime–the law is clear, the Attorney General is partisan, and the Narrative media are biased.

NYC’s ‘lack of communication’ on migrant dump ‘unacceptable,’ Mayor Mike Spano says (N.Y. Post)

New York City plans to temporarily house migrants in hotels in other counties. Two counties are suing to stop it (CNN)

Migrants have arrived in the Hudson Valley. What happens next? (Times-Untion)

The real reasons stores such as Walmart and Starbucks are closing in big cities (CNN)

This is the REAL reason for the retail apocalypse! Chains such as Walmart, Nordstrom and Walgreens are shuttering due to crime, work from home, online shopping and rising rents, experts say (UK Daily Mail)

Interview with a gender clinic whistleblower

Oregon GOP Walkout Targets Bills On Abortions For Children, Gun Control

After-School Satan Clubs Are Hot, Hot, Hot!

Alarming Surge In Gun Shop Robberies As Democrats Fail To Enforce Law And Order 

Election Group With Ties To Soros, Zuckerberg Meets In Washington For Conference Closed To Public

PBS, NPR Act Like Democrat Team Members in Live Coverage AND Bias By Omission

Heap Big Trouble For Fauxcahontas?

Oxford Union To Set Up “Welfare Spaces” For Students To Cope With Gender Debate

NYC Hotel Kicking Wedding Parties to Curb to Take in Migrants

Sen. Feinstein’s Stock Trades Get Aaron Rodgers’ Attention

Wedding Parties, Homeless Vets Booted From NY Hotels To Make Room For Migrants

Never Forget: A Retrospective On The Media Lies Surrounding COVID

WashPost Writer Philip Bump Lets Cat Out of the Bag on Zuckerbucks for Democrat Turnout

NYT: Cleopatra Was Black Because It Makes Us Feel Good to Say She Was Black

Critical Race Theory Has a Scholarship Problem  I.e. it doesn’t have any.

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There is nothing wrong with admiring the bravery of Ukraine’s stand against Russia. In fact, I don’t think I’d felt that much ebullient pride, seeing the Ukrainians turn back the Russians from Kyiv, since the time I saw the once iconic but now forgotten ink-stained fingertips of Iraqi voters defying terrorist threats to go out and vote in 2005. In both cases, the West seemed to stand for the universal aspirations of all. In an age that oscillates between radical nihilism and a natural yearning for certainty and purpose, it was such a joy—and a relief—to see that Western values stood for something: something others wanted; something others would die for, when many of us can’t even muster the courage to speak up at the office watercooler to the woke ideologues who police pronouns and see ‘phobias’ more often than your average hypochondriac feels the onset of an illness.

Ukraine and the Ukranians, to some extent like the Iraqis of the millennial aughts, have unfortunately become the West’s—particularly America’s—panacea for our own civilizational fecklessness. Whether you call them ‘globalists’ or ‘neoliberals,’ or as in America the ‘uniparty’ of Democrats and Republicans, the West’s promoters of endless, contingency-free, lethal aid to Ukraine suffer a proximity infatuation of purposiveness—of trying to find one’s own meaning through somebody else’s existential struggle. At the same time, Ukraine’s struggle against Russian aggression serves what is arguably a much more delusional, if not dangerous, illusion for a certain kind of American and pro-Atlanticist conservative in Europe: the illusion that Ukraine’s patriots can fill the West’s spiritual and cultural void.

Adams considers housing migrants in shuttered prison (Politico)

NYC Mayor Adams plan buses migrants past county with ‘immigrant protection’ law to Republican-led counties (Fox)

NYC mayor suspends right-to-shelter ahead migrant wave (PIX 11 News)

California reparations committee calls for ending cash bail, no longer prosecuting low-level crimes (Fox) Rules are for thee but not for me.

New NC Supreme Court Majority Overturns Prior Majority’s Unconstitutional Interference in Redistricting

Almost Nobody Feels Safe on San Francisco Area Public Transit, Government Survey Finds  Time to leave.

Zooey Zephyr Poses for Photo With ‘The Squad’

Two Youths Commit Suicide In Taxpayer-Funded Cross-Sex Hormone Study

“We Have Reached Our Limit”: NYC Suspends Shelter Rules Ahead Of Title 42 Expiration

Judge in Virginia Strikes Down Federal Limit on Age of Handgun Buyers (N.Y. Times)

Poland: Draft Bill Would Ban Sex-Change Surgery for Children

Criminal investigation into Sen. Bob Menendez expands with new subpoenas (NBC News)

NYC Council Passes Weight Discrimination Bill

11 Defensive Gun Uses Show How Lawful Gun Owners ‘Get It Right’

Ireland: 10,000 Jobs Lost After Asylum Influx Cripples Hotels

CNBC’s Kernen Takes Lefty Senator to School Over ‘Disingenuous’ Gaslighting on Debt Ceiling Blame

Time Magazine Celebrates Mother’s Day By Promoting Abortion

Progressives Want To Eliminate Wealthy Entrepreneurs But Need The Wealth They Create  Otherwise they soon run out of other people’s money.

University of Colorado: Assume Everyone Is Trans

Every State Is a Border State: How the Migrant Crisis Impacts Wisconsin, Alabama, Virginia

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It goes without saying that there should, for reasons of social justice, be full representation of all demographic groups in all human endeavors: for example, in scientific fraud. There is, apparently, a lamentable underrepresentation of women in biomedical research papers subsequently retracted because they are fraudulent in some way, such as in the manufacture of data or in the falsification of pictures.

Having a semiprofessional, semi-prurient interest in fraud and forgery, I follow—admittedly in somewhat desultory fashion—an excellent website called Retraction Watch. It is there that I read a paper that analyzed the proportion of what was once called the fair sex among the authors of retracted papers. Overall, women were only slightly underrepresented in the biomedical sphere, but slight injustice is still injustice.

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Let me start with the positive. There is not a single day that has gone by that I have not felt truly honored to work with such an incredible group of people who spent every waking hour on behalf of victims. This opportunity has been a gift for which I have no words to explain the extent of my gratitude.

My partners, our Victim/Witness advocates, our Investigators, our support staff, the police officers and detectives, time after time I see each of you putting everything you have into helping people we encounter on the worst days of their lives. So often I see our personal lives, and indeed at times our own well-being, set aside just to do a little bit more on that last case for that last victim. It’s been nothing short of inspiring not as a lawyer, but as a person.

And yet, I’m leaving. Why could that be? The simple fact is that this State and County have set themselves on a course to disaster. And the worst part is that the agency for whom I work has backed literally every policy change that had the predictable, and predicted, outcome of more crime and more people getting hurt.

Mayor Eric Adams signs executive order loosening NYC shelter requirements as migrant crisis ragess (N.Y. Post) Be careful what you wish for, Sanctuary City, you just might get it.

Rockland County battling Adams plan to bus asylum seekers (Fox 5 New York) God forbid Texas should send migrants to New York, but NYC is free to send them upstate.

New York Gov Hochul issues emergency order before Title 42 expires, as NYC begins busing migrants to suburbs (Fox News)

Local State of Emergency Declared in Chemung County as Title 42 set to expire (MyTwinTiers)

Marketing guru behind Budweiser’s iconic ‘Whassup!’ and ‘Talking Frogs’ commercials says Anheuser-Busch has ‘destroyed 20 years of work in one week’ with Dylan Mulvaney debacle (UK Daily Mail)

Chicago gay bars boycott Bud beers over Dylan Mulvaney flap (NBC News)

Chicago gay bars dropping Bud Light, Goose Island amid backlash for transgender ad campaign (Chicago Tribune)

Texas Republicans take ESG battle to insurers (The Hill)

Environmental, social, governance investing an ‘undemocratic tax’ on economy, Reyes says (KSL)

Up to 1,000 migrants arriving daily in NYC — and that number could skyrocket with Title 42 lift: city official (N.Y. Post)

Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney ‘can’t sleep’ over Bud Light backlash (N.Y. Post) Cryin’ all the way to the bank.

Colorado Teachers’ Union Passes Anti-Capitalist Resolution, Sparking Outcry From Republicans

Feinstein Finally Returns, Restoring Dems’ Full Majority And Leftist Judiciary Pipeline

Oakland Teachers Strike In 5th Day Over Higher Wages, Climate Justice, Homeless Housing, Reparations

Why Legacy Media Won’t Cover The CIA’s Alleged Attempt To Influence The 2020 Election

Elon Musk Is Wrong. Encouraging Voting Isn’t Nefarious. (New York Magazine) But ‘harvesting ballots’ is. Voting by dead people is. Voting by illegal immigrants is.

“Were You Expecting Us?”: ATF Agents Go ‘Door To Door’ To Confiscate FRT-15 Triggers

Trump’s Falsehoods and Bluster Overtake CNN Town Hall (N.Y. Times) Falsehoods! Bluster!

Adams Weakens Right-to-Shelter Rules, Anticipating Migrant Surge (N.Y. Times)

Did Tucker Carlson Just Kill Cable News?

Why Did Reformers First Love Then Loathe Lunatic Asylums?

Directly from the deep state to you: The report

Leading trans doctor insists non-verbal, autistic minors can consent to sex change, can ‘draw their feelings’

Spiraling in San Francisco’s Doom Loop

CNN Fact-Check Defense Of Hillary Gets Her Abortion Stance Wrong

San Francisco Target Robbed 10 Times a Day, Stores Flee

Is the debt ceiling constitutional? (Vox) Since when does Vox care about ‘constitutional’?

As NYC Tries To Bus Migrants Out, Texas Set to Bus More In

MSNBC Blames U.S. Sanctions On Communist Cuba For Border Crisis

Judge’s Order Halts NYC From Sending Migrants to Suburbs

18- to 20-year-olds can’t be barred from buying handguns, judge rules (Washington P0st)

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

In today’s developed world, average people can achieve a higher standard of living than has ever before been possible. In fact, the difference between an “elite” standard of living and that enjoyed by people of average, or a little more than average, means, has dwindled to near-insignificance. It is fair to say that today, an “elite” American has little more chance of living a satisfying and happy life than the average American.

Our “elites” consider this situation intolerable, a fact that explains much of our current political turmoil. Liberals are trying to drive down the standard of living for all Americans. True, their own standards will suffer slightly. But if you are a multi-millionaire, how much do you care if your electricity bill doubles? The salient fact is that a general decline in standards of living will increase the disparity between the “elite” and the rest of us. That, I think, is the goal of many liberal policies, and the main reason why most rich people are liberals.

Today, a person of ordinary means can toss some steaks on the grill on Memorial Day. That is a good thing, in most people’s opinion, but it galls “elite” leftists, who eat steak themselves but are annoyed that the rest of us can afford to do so, too. Hence the Left’s war on meat, the point of which is to drive up prices so that they can afford steak, pork chops, bacon, etc., but you can’t.

Same strategy as the ‘raise my taxes’ scam.