Pocahontas: If I ‘Had a Penis’ I’d Be President

Google Realizes It Needs to Do More to Fight Misinformation in Searches

Zuckerberg-backed curriculum pushes far-left ideologies on reparations and defunding the police

Ex-NY Times Editor: Bosses Wouldn’t Run Sen. Tim Scott’s Op-Ed Without Schumer’s OK

CNN Host Coates Tries to Suggest That Republican Party May Be No More

Gender Differences in Peer Recognition by Economists

New York Scraps ‘Inmate’ in State Law Over Word’s Stigma

New York Gun Bans Alarm Residents of Upstate Bear Country

How Gov. Greg Abbott Texas-Sized a Crisis for NYC Mayor Eric Adams

Recruitment is now a real threat to a frail force facing formidable foes

At This Manhattan Middle School School, Sixth-Graders Are Asked To Surveil Friends and Family for ‘Microaggressions’

Boston Children’s Offers ‘Gender-Affirming’ Hysterectomies  And I would encourage them to do so. We really don’t want these genes in our gene pool.

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The Chinese Communist Party has purchased hundreds of thousands of acres of U.S. land since 2010. It acquired 352,140 acres of U.S. land through the end of 2020, a report by The Heritage Foundation said. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.)

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Recently, the Chinese company Fufeng Group purchased farmland just 12 miles from the Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota. Tuberville, who labeled China as the top adversary of the U.S., expressed concern over that purchase, as well as about the Chinese government “getting involved in financial institutions and some of our manufacturing, where we know that they steal as much intellectual property as they possibly can.”

Try purchasing land in Red China and see how far you get.

Twitter To ‘Pre-Bunk’ Election Claims During 2022 Midterms

Historians privately warn Biden that America’s democracy is teetering (Washington Post) Gee, the Narrative Media have been trumpeting that for the past six years. I guess they don’t let Biden read or watch the ‘news’.

‘Soros-funded’ Virginia DA and Youngkin official duke it out over state’s historic crime wave

Book bans are threatening American democracy. Here’s how to fight back. (Washington Post)

Fargo school board votes to stop saying Pledge of Allegiance at meetings

Abbott’s campaign hits back after NYC Mayor Adams threatens to bus New Yorkers to Texas

Chicago won’t raise property taxes as much as it could under Mayor Lightfoot’s inflation-tied budget rule, but $42 million increase still planned (Chicago Tribune) BRAAAAAAAINS!

‘I’m just trying to make the world a little brighter’: how the culture wars hijacked Drag Queen Story Hour (The Guardian)

Fed up with repeated break-ins and crime, Bay Area laundromat owners move out of CA (ABC)

CBS Cries Over ‘Inhumane’ GOP ‘Stunt’ Sending Migrants to NYC

Payoffs to Community Organizers Double the Price of a D.C. Bridge

The Guardian of Propaganda

Girls School Near Nashville Opening Its Doors to Transgender Girls  Such a school would get no daughter of mine. I suspect that its clientele will change radically.

Woke Airline Policies Threaten Safety, Workers Say

Trans Rapist Illegally Distributes Hormone Pills. Media Silent.

Teachers Union Promotes Pronouns Cards for Students: ‘Hello, My Pronouns Are… ’

NFL, ESPN Censor God & Jesus Comments Of NFL Player’s Son

Illinois Public Schools Opt Out Of Left-Wing Sex Ed Standards

Counselor For Sex Offenders Defends “Minor-Attracted Persons”

North Dakota School Board Scraps Pledge of Allegiance Because It’s ‘Simply Not True’

Twitter Reintroduces Election Misinformation Rules Ahead of Midterms

Another Truth Ministry? Government-Funded BBC Establishes First ‘Disinformation’ Correspondent

New Hampshire Dem’s Ad Portrays Left-Wing Lawyer as Blue-Collar Mechanic

Will ‘Centaurus’ be the next global coronavirus variant? Indian cases offers clues (Nature)

Does washing clothes eliminate monkeypox? What to know about disinfecting for the virus (Ft. Worth Star-Telegram)

Can monkeypox virus spread on clothing or grocery items? An expert weighs in (KABC)

Everything you need to know about the monkeypox health emergency (Ars Technica)

Double mRNA COVID-19 vaccination found to increase SARS-CoV-2 variant recognition (News-Medical)

This antibody may protect against COVID-19 and all its variants – study (Jerusalem Post)

Why the WHO is renaming monkeypox (The Hill)

The features of the newly emerging SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.2.75 subvariant (News-Medical)

Omicron BA.4/BA.5 escape neutralizing immunity elicited by BA.1 infection (Nature)

What you need to know about the next generation of COVID vaccines (Boston Globe)

Newly identified Langya virus tracked after China reports dozens of cases (The Guardian)

Georgia health officials release guidelines to protect against monkeypox transmission (WXIA)

Top NYC Health Official Claims ‘Retaliation’ After Monkeypox Messaging Dispute

Former Megadonor Says COVID-19 Vax Misrepresentations Chased Him From Dem Party

CDC Drops COVID Quarantine, Screening Guidelines

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Here’s the best possible spin on the staggering $369 billion in energy and climate handouts included in the Inflation “Reduction” Act: It’s not as bad as last year’s draft.

There’s nothing to reduce gasoline and electricity bills. Nothing to increase American energy production. Nothing to spur innovation. Instead, it will increase taxes on average Americans, exacerbate inflation, hike prescription drug prices, and swell federal debts.

Why? Here’s a sampling of what’s in that $369 billion.

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One might think that the worst of online leftism can be found on Twitter, but you’d be wrong. Instagram is home to a plethora of sharable infographics that serve to propagate the woke orthodoxy to as many young minds as possible. Specifically, the account Impact has some of the most hilariously bad takes in the world of lefty infographic drivel.

Seven out of 10 people aged 18-29 use Instagram, and the platform is relatively on par with Twitter in serving as a news source, according to Pew Research Center. Instagram is a broad, direct avenue for ideas to be disseminated to the youth.

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The pandemic was supposed to ease high housing prices in coastal superstar cities. Instead, it spread them nationwide.

Don Lemon rejects ‘narrative’ that CNN is moving toward political center

Don Lemon rejects ‘narrative’ new CNN boss wants to shift network to political center with Charlamagne Tha God

Pro-Antifa California teacher given 3 years’ salary to resign: report

Two House Democrats cut ads for Liz Cheney in Wyoming (The Hill)

Kinzinger allies unveil new push to recruit ‘pro-democracy’ candidates (The Hill) On the road to becoming a Democrat in name as well as in nature.

Sen. Wyden Proposes Big Tax Hike on Oil Companies Making More Than $1B  Democrats never see a Deep Pocket without feeling a compulsion to pick it.

GOP Rep. Beutler, Who Voted to Impeach Trump, Concedes Primary Loss  Karma is a bitch.

The Chickens Of ‘Woke’ Are Coming Home To Roost On Business Heads

Michels Wins Wisconsin GOP Gov. Primary; Trump’s Endorsements Sweep 6-0

Texas Still Busing Migrants to NYC Despite Mayor’s Threat  Hey, enough New Yorkers are moving to Texas that it’s only right we balanced things out.

Every Single Senate Democrat Just Voted Against Defining Pregnancy As A Biologically Female Process

Twitter Suspends Journalist Paul Sperry After FBI Trump-Raid Tweets

How Vulnerable Dems Used Legislative Gymnastics To Pretend They Were Against New Taxes

Former FBI Agent Says Agency’s Political Bias Started Under Mueller

Buffoonery: Paul Krugman Suggests Dems May ‘Save’ Civilization with Insane Inflation Bill  If Princeton is actually paying him to teach economics, they ought to demand a refund.

Twitter Suspends Russian Foreign Ministry Account For COVID Origins Theory

Biden: No Guns for Weed Smokers

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German citizens are being told what they will have to do in the coming winter. In addition to freezing and starving, they will be required to get a Corona “booster” every three months.

Back-to-School Blues: Droves of Americans Ditching Public School

CBS Censors Own Documentary After Ukraine Outraged

George Soros and His Woke Prosecutors

Rejecting Christian Nationalism Is What Jesus Would Do (Daily Beast) As if anybody at The Daily Beast had the slightest clue as to what Jesus would do. That’s like asking Himmler what’s kosher and what’s traif.

2 Democratic lawmakers encourage Wyoming voters: Change parties and back Cheney (ABC)

… ‘and Her Merry Persons?’ New Robin Hood a Black, Female Gen-Zer  They deform everything they touch.

Poll: 70 Percent of Texas Teachers Considering Leaving Profession  Being Woke in a red state will do that to you. Of course, the sooner we get rid of such people the better.

Princeton Introduces ‘Diversity’ Search Filter for University Vendors

Progressive Pollster Finds That People Oppose Progressive Policies

ACLU wants US border officials to stop helping Abbott remove illegal immigrants (Washington Post) Of course they do.

Sarah Hoyt.

Either they find secret stuff they can use to do their big Stalinist show trial and finally imprison him — yes, they really believe this, because he’s a “bad man” so of course he must have recorded himself twirling his mustache and talking about his love affair with Putin — OR they piss us off so much that we erupt into civil war and then they can put us down easily, because frankly there’s only a couple thousand of us, and we’re all racist rednecks and over 70. So it will be trivially easy, right?

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The first thing you need to understand is that evil people assume everyone else is evil. Crooks assume everyone else is a crook, and pathological narcissists think everyone is a pathological narcissist. You have to understand that to realize why they act the way they do.

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The drab white left and its minority whipping class consists of the worst people in the world. They are the worst because they have fostered a culture that encourages destroying the things they secretly admire and promoting the things they privately hold in contempt. The left cannot stand being reminded of achievements it has never achieved and thus assumes moral superiority in order to circumvent personal integrity. Unfortunately, the most destructive representative of this phenomenon is today’s watered-down WASP, who insists upon milquetoasting his heritage into soggy oblivion by taking the best of his traditions and putting them to work in the service of his own self-subversion. It is a curious state of affairs.

Curious, and depressing.

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A Joe Biden donor is the organizer behind a U.S. Senate debate in Georgia that will allow Democratic senator Raphael Warnock to symbolically debate an empty podium after Republican challenger Herschel Walker turned down the invitation.

Atlanta Press Club director Lauri Strauss, who is organizing the debate, and at least three other members of the group’s board have donated thousands to Democrats, including Biden, Georgia Democratic senator Jon Ossoff—and Warnock himself.

CBO: Inflation Reduction Act Won’t Reduce Inflation

Democratic ads boosted extremists in Republican primaries. Was that wise? (The Guardian)

Winners and losers from the Democratic tax, health care and climate change bill (The Hill) Not even the Narrative Media pretend it’s for inflation control any more.

Forward! Is America’s latest third party marching to power – or oblivion? (The Guardian)

Houston Newsmakers: Political extremes lead to 3rd party effort in Texas, and more (Click2Houston)

Second terms for Biden, Trump “worst thing” for U.S., voters say in new poll (Axios)

‘What exactly are they doing?’: 45 S.F. traffic cops issue just 10 citations combined a day (S.F. Chronicle)

Uganda suspends operations of charity championing LGBT rights (Reuters)

Los Angeles voters to decide if hotels will be forced to house the homeless despite safety concerns

Here’s the Truth About What ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ Would Do

Entertainment Companies Start Dumping Woke Content As Viewership Tumbles

Michigan AG calls for special prosecutor in case now involving her Trump-backed opponent (Politico)

Pro-Tax-Hike Dem Continues To Fail To Pay His Own Taxes

‘Peak Berkeley’: Protesters Halt Low-Income Housing Project

Another Aspect of the Dem Disaster: Drug Price Controls  Price controls lead to shortages. Always have; always will. Shortages lead to a system where those with political connections control who gets what.

Ex-RNC Chair-Turned-MSNBC Republican Backs Dem Meddling in GOP Primaries

N.Y. Mayor Requests Federal Help for Migrants Bused in From Texas

Liberal PBS Pundit Compares His Hero Liz Cheney to… Obi-Wan Kenobi

The tax provisions of the new climate and taxes bill

Five States Will Decide If the 2024 Election Can Be Stolen (Bloomberg) Of course, they’re worried about Trump supporters stealing the election, which means that’s what they’re planning to do.

Axios-Ipsos Poll: Republicans Want to Move to Red States, Dems to Blue (Axios) My, what a surprise.

ACLU Calls on UN To Demand US Dole Out Reparations

Report: While AOC Backed NYPD Cuts, District Saw Soaring Crime

Homan slams Mayor Bowser, Mayor Adams for immigration hypocrisy and ‘out-of-control crime’ in sanctuary cities

Taxes, housing, sunshine: Don’t count on Florida’s new arrivals to go back to New York  (Palm Beach Post)

Nearly 2,000 NYPD cops quitting before getting full pensions — a 71% jump from 2021  Gee, I wonder why?

US library defunded after refusing to censor LGBTQ authors: ‘We will not ban the books’ (The Guardian) I guess ‘democracy’ only counts when it’s Woke.

The new Yellowstone: Chris Pratt’s new Navy thriller The Terminal List defies woke critics’ scathing reviews to shoot up ratings chart with 1.6 BILLION minutes of streams (UK Daily Mail)

Sens. Sanders, Warren set to give billionaires free pass after years of knocking tax loopholes for wealthy

California will soon start giving kids free money for college. Here’s what families need to know (S. F. Chronicle)

Democrats plan to challenge parliamentarian on insulin cap (The Hill)

A challenge for antiabortion states: Doctors reluctant to work there (Washington Post) I guess PRIMUM NON NOCERE doesn’t mean anything any more.

The Corruption of Medicine Heather MacDonald.

Despite Strict Gun Control, California Had The Most Active Shooter Incidents In 2021: FBI

NPR Reporter Upset by Republicans ‘Shunning Mainstream Press’ for Their Liberal Bias

Republicans have long feuded with the mainstream media. Now many are shutting them out (NPR) “Mommmeee! Johnny hit me back!”

“Revolution Has Begun”: 75,000 Brits To Stop Paying Power Bills Amid Inflation Storm

You Know It’s Bad When… Bernie Mocks Dems’ “So-Called Inflation Reduction Act”

‘Stampede’ Quitting NYPD Even Before Reaching Pension Status

Bill Maher Slams “Fat Celebration” And “Body Positivity”

Amnesty is now utterly morally bankrupt

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The number of U.S. jobs jumped 528,000 last month, the Labor Department reported Friday, and the unemployment rate fell to 3.5% from 3.6%, matching a five-decade low. But that top line masks the drop in July of the labor force participation rate to 62.1% in July from 62.2% in June.

This is still far below the 63.4% labor force participation in February 2020, which translates to millions fewer people who would otherwise be working today compared to before the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Yesterday the New York Times attacked Republican governors for sending a handful of the illegal immigrants who have invaded their states to other jurisdictions. The Times headline was “G.O.P. Governors Cause Havoc by Busing Migrants to East Coast.”

No. The havoc was caused by the Biden administration luring illegals to the border and inviting them to cross without consequences. A tiny fraction of the havoc the Democratic Party has inflicted on red and purple states is now coming home to roost in blue states. That is a good thing.

Schumer calls economists ‘wrong’ who are cautioning Manchin’s spending bill will increase inflation  I guess Schumer doesn’t feel any obligation to ‘follow the science’.

GOP governors sent buses of migrants to D.C. — with no plan for what came next (NPR) The plan is that ‘sanctuary city’ mayors have to put their (or their taxpayers’) money where there mouth is. Talk (especially virtue-signaling) is cheap.

How Ruth Bader Ginsburg Will Have the Last Laugh on Samuel Alito (Politico) The farce is strong in this one.

How the climate bill could save you money on electricity, cars and appliances (CNN) That’s our Narrative, and we’re sticking to it.

New data sheds light on one method to combat election lies (NPR) Apparently the plan is to double down on the Narrative.

If Dems Fought an All-Out Culture War, They’d Win (Daily Beast) They are, after all, the Party of Hate.

A dad and his daughter came from Brooklyn to S.F. for Outside Lands. Then their rental car got broken into (S.F. Chronicle)

State Legislatures Are Torching Democracy (The New Yorker) In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

ABC, NBC Promote ‘Historic,’ ‘Massive’ Democrat Spending Bill, Omit Criticism

UN Chief Urges Tax On Oil Industry For “Grotesque Greed”  How about a tax on the U.N. for ‘grotesque greed’?

FLASHBACK: CBS Exposed Danger of Illegal Border Crossings… From Canada

Lena Dunham’s VILE New Film Features First ‘Abortion Baby Shower’  I guess it’s a cascade of blood from between her legs.

Absurd MSNBC: Racist, Transphobic, Flat-Earth Pro-Lifers Want To Criminalize Miscarriage

The Liberal Media and the Criminalization of American Politics

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The situation in Germany, and elsewhere in the West, has come to resemble more and more the scenario in “The Marching Morons”, a novella written in the early 1950s by C.M. Kornbluth. The increasing use of advanced technology has reduced the employment opportunities for low-skilled, less intelligent workers, whose numbers are increasing. In a high-tech society this creates a pool not just of the unemployed, but of essentially unemployable people. As pointed out by the translator of the following article, a large (but not precisely known) number of work-averse culture-enrichers may be added to the pool of citizens who subsist on what has become for all practical purposes a Universal Basic Income.

In the following report, Friedrich Merz, the leader of the CDU (the party of former Chancellor Angela Merkel), criticizes the state subsidy of hundreds of thousands of people who do not work, but are perhaps capable of doing “simple jobs”. He isn’t specific about what sort of work these not-so-bright people could do — perhaps polishing the shoes and the limousines of state functionaries such as himself.

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Global warming religion is international, and the same anti-farming movement is coming soon to the U.S., the world’s number one agricultural economy. The first target will be nitrogen-based fertilizers, which are a principal foundation of the world’s ag productivity. Without fertilizers, the world will go hungry.

That leads to target number two: animals, especially cows. By far the largest crop in the U.S. is corn, and that corn is fed to cows and pigs to produce steaks, ground beef, bacon, pork chops, and so on. Liberals will argue that this is “inefficient.” People should live on vegetables and insects, and animal husbandry should be phased out. The fact that cattle also emit methane, primarily by chewing cud, makes their decline an added bonus from a global warming perspective.

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Making food scarce and expensive, so that much of the population is threatened with starvation, has another benefit for liberals. They can respond by writing people checks representing food subsidies. Thus they turn millions of formerly self-sufficient Americans into government-reliant serfs. It’s a win-win, if you are a liberal.

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Jobs data reported this week by the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that, as of the last business day of June, there are 10.7 million job openings. Hence, according to the numbers, there are many more available jobs than willing workers.

At the same time, the U.S. unemployment rate’s just 3.6 percent – near a five-decade low. So, by the numbers, the economy is at full employment and still overflowing with jobs to be filled.

The U.S. economy couldn’t possibly be in a recession, given this robust and healthy jobs market, could it?

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“Today’s job situation has nothing at all to do with a booming economy.  All those jobs are sitting there open because NO ONE WANTS THEM.  The people who once filled jobs like that don’t want to work.  That is not the sign of a strong jobs market.  It is the sign of a very sick job market.  What it means is that the labor market is no longer able or willing to supply labor.  That’s called “broken.”  

Randi Weingarten blasts ‘right-wing extremists’ for fighting ‘culture wars’ in conference speech  American Federation of Teachers comes out of the closet.

Why is a Hungarian autocrat and Putin ally in Dallas? (Dallas Morning News) A Voice of the Crust is not afraid to ask the easy questions.

College is increasingly out of reach for many students. What went wrong? (NPR) Government paying for college.

Wisconsin Dem Senate candidate spent nearly $600k on police detail while cozying up to defund police movement  Safety for me but not for thee.

A stunning GOP losing streak since Dobbs could remake the midterm landscape (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin indulges in some wishful thinking. “I think we can! I think we can!”

Judge Rules Medicaid Must Cover Transgender Surgeries

Law-Abiding Gun Owners Will Not Harm You. But Criminals Will.  Armstrong Williams points out some inconvenient truth.

Michigan Town Votes to Defund Library Over LBGT Books

Post Roe v. Wade Ruling, Will We See More Startups Offering Abortion Pills?

Gideons Now Smuggling Thomas Sowell Books Into Public Schools (Babylon Bee)

Rod Dreher.

Late last week, I made a trip to Krakow, and then to Czestochowa, to visit the Jasna Gora shrine, the spiritual heart of Polish Catholicism. Though I am no longer a Catholic, it was deeply moving to see so many Poles so openly devoted to Christ in the Catholic faith. Though Polish Catholicism faces tremendous challenges — multiple Poles have told me that they fear Poland will go the way of Ireland within a decade or two — for the moment, it is admirable and, for visitors like me from the post-Christian West, moving to see so much open devotion.

The comfort I took from being among Polish Catholics, and the admiration I have for how their faith brought them through so much suffering, only exacerbates the incomprehension I have over how Pope Francis and the bishops seem so dead-set on destroying the Catholic faith — or if not destroying it, per se, then on turning it into something it never has been.

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Leftist thought leaders insist that we are facing an environmental holocaust unless we immediately, drastically reduce carbon emissions.

Yet, it’s curious. The governing and influence elites demand massive societal sacrifice, while they are apparently not concerned enough to alter their own extravagant lifestyles. They own multiple sumptuous homes, cars, and yachts. They fly individual private jets to their annual meetings in Davos, Switzerland, where they assure each other it is their solemn responsibility to save the rest of us from ourselves.

They refuse to engage in thoughtful debate of any notions that challenge their woke orthodoxy. Instead, those advocating ideas different from their own are dismissed as “climate deniers.”

Take electric vehicles. EVs are touted by enviros as the obvious antidote to carbon-belching SUVs. But they aren’t.

Fossil fuels produce most of their electricity. The manufacture and disposal of batteries and the rare metals required have significant environmental impacts. A growing consensus now acknowledges that EVs may produce more net carbon emissions than today’s cleaner-burning gasoline cars.

You would think anyone with genuine concern about the environment might reconsider EV policy. But they don’t engage. Instead they soldier on, funding yet more subsidies, benefits, and charging stations. Taxpayers get dinged for billions with no discernible benefit.

Texas keeps pressure on DC as more migrant buses arrive near US Capitol

Manchin-Schumer spending bill could eliminate 30,000 jobs, new analysis shows

‘Grotesque greed’: immoral fossil fuel profits must be taxed, says UN chief (The Guardian) When I hear ‘grotesque greed’, I automatically think about the U.N.

New executive director of liberal dark money education group has repeatedly called to defund the police  Apparently the first thing one does on getting a new job these days is go back and delete all of your old tweets.

‘The battle continues to grow’: Deep-pocketed education group targets contested states (Politico)

California’s woke kindergarten lessons: ‘This is the greatest outrage’

California school district paying 20K for ‘Woke Kindergarten’ consulting

6 books beyond ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ that explore the loss of reproductive rights (CNN) In the Narrative Media, ‘reproductive rights’ means the right not to reproduce by killing your child.

‘Morning Joe’ Tees Up Anti-Birth Dem to Spread ‘Dangers’ of a ‘Post-Dobbs America’

Report: Wikipedia Will Only Allow Approved Editors to Alter US ‘Recession’ Articles

Excusing Illegal Immigration Comes Back to Bite Mayors of DC, NYC

Leaked Email Shows NYC Struggling To Cope With ‘Drastic Influx’ Of Illegal Aliens Amid Border Crisis

Navarro on Kansas Support for Abortion: GOP Has Mistresses Too!

How prestige outlets like The Guardian get away with copypasta “First, there is the practice that undermines any notion their purpose is to inform their readers. Which is that they don’t fucking cite anything. Ever. There are zero, zip, nada, links or citations.”

In boosting Trump acolytes, Democrats become what they once condemned (Washington Post) Megan McArdle.

Get Woke, Go Broke: $90 Million BatGirl Movie Gets Canned  The actors don’t care. You can bet that they got paid – they just don’t get their usual gross points.

Sex Redefined (Nature)

DeSantis Removes State Attorney Who Vowed Not to Prosecute Abortions

Another One Bites the Dust: Netflix Cancels Lesbian Vampire Show

Newsom Demands Hollywood Return to California for Abortions, Tax Cuts

Déjà Vu: Another Democrat Thinks Parents Shouldn’t Have a Say in Their Children’s Education

It’s Official: The View Announces Hire of 2 Faux Conservative Co-Hosts

Shipping’s New ESG Rules Could Starve Millions

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Those familiar with George Monbiot’s journalism – to use the word in its loosest and most absurd sense – will know of his strange, almost pathological obsession with farmers. He writes endlessly about abolishing livestock farming and rewilding agricultural land, but shows little care or consideration as to what should happen to the families and communities for whom farming is not just a livelihood but a way of life. His new book Regenesis continues in this misanthropic vein.

One must admire the clever way in which Monbiot has critic-proofed this book: the first chapter is so piercingly dull that no one other than manic greenies will bother reading it. A whole 26 pages are dedicated to a lump of soil that Monbiot unearthed from his allotment.

George Monbiot is one of The Guardian’s favorite eco-cranks, the British version of Robert Reich.

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This is truly silly. The purpose of allowing a deduction for children on taxes is that children require support, which involves extra expenditure and (like the corresponding tax credit) the government gives people a break. Certainly pregnancy involves a bit of extra expense but nothing like what a born child would cost.

On the other hand, I love seeing people able to deduct stuff from their taxable income and thereby reduce the amount the government is allowed to confiscate. And I suppose any economic incentive for women to carry their children to term rather than kill them is a good thing.

Kyrsten Sinema and bipartisan group of senators introduce bill to restore abortion rights (Arizona Republic)

Bipartisan senators introduce bill to codify abortion rights (The Hill) In the Narrative Media, ‘bipartisan’ means ‘we’ve gotten the Usual RINOs on board’.

Blue State Blues: GEICO closes all California offices, lays off workers: report

Cognitive decline linked to ultraprocessed food, study finds (CNN) Not just processed, but ULTRAprocessed!

Passenger fined $1,874 after two undeclared McMuffins found in luggage (CNN) “Australia’s Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry said a “range of undeclared risk products,” including the fast food items, were detected in the passenger’s rucksack by a biosecurity detector dog named Zinta.”

This summer may be one of the most consequential in US democracy (The Guardian)

Economist slams Facebook for ‘absolutely Orwellian’ fact-check upholding Biden’s recession denial

Where does Mitt Romney stand on proposed law to protect same-sex marriage? (Deseret News)

Manchin disputes data showing social spending bill would raise taxes on middle class during recession

In Mattapan, bike lanes divide the community: ‘They’re just trying to push us out’ (Boston Globe)

Blue State Blues: S.F. legacy restaurant says goodbye after 45 years, plus more recent closures

Counterfeit, Black Market Abortion Pills Flood Internet With Help of Corporate Media

Blue State Blues: NYC Store Locks Down Cans Of Spam Amid Crime Wave

Chetty: Charles Murray Was Right in “Coming Apart” But Let’s Obscure It

Democrats’ Approval of Supreme Court at Record-Low 13% (Gallup) I’m not surprised.

Pennsylvania Dems Are Switching to Republicans by the Thousands  I’m pretty sure it’s just Democrats trying to game the Republican primary. But still.

Atlanta Will Spend $300k To Dodge Pro-Life Laws, Citing Racism and Bidenflation

Twitter Still Allowing Communist Chinese to Post Threats as Pelosi Visits Taiwan

‘Absolutely Orwellian’: Facebook Censors Economist For Correctly Defining ‘Recession’

Private Equity Giant Taps Schumer’s Son-in-Law as Lobbyist

As Crime Soars, Democratic Voters Turn on Left-Wing Prosecutors

The Great Awokening Is as Just as Feverish in the UK as the US

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In my experience, mass transit works best in densely-populated cities. There is a lot more actual demand for mass transit, and city systems can be full at least during rush hour. Unfortunately, the Leftists who run West Coast cities are enamored of mass transit, and totally ignore the fact that they simply lack the “mass” to make it work. Seattle is in love with “light rail,” and their mostly-leftist voters voted to increase taxes on everything (sales, property, cars) to pay for a light-rail system. That system is partly running now, from north Seattle to the airport, but it really isn’t drawing many riders.

Of course, they hadn’t counted on a pandemic of respiratory disease that shut down the system for months, then had few riders when it re-opened; they had successfully persuaded citizens that they should fear all their fellow citizens, which doesn’t contribute much to the demand for packed rail cars or buses. Of course, Sound Transit bemoans its funding shortfalls, which could have been expected in any case. Then, they let kids ride free, contributing even more to the funding shortfall. And their trains have become rolling homeless shelters, making legitimate riders very uncomfortable.

All of these people wished that they lived in New York City, or maybe Chicago, where buildings are piled higher and deeper, everybody works in the center and lives in the periphery (because they can’t afford to live in the center), and everybody’s ‘neighborhood’ is full of strangers who don’t speak English but are willing to sell you foreign food that you pretend to like because that’s Hip And Trendy.

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Looking out the window of a plane flying over Boulder, Colorado, recently, I was reminded how much American universities stick out from their surroundings.

I’d never been to Boulder, or visited the University of Colorado’s flagship campus there, but even from 30,000 feet, I could tell exactly where it started and ended. The red-tile roofs and quadrangles of the campus formed a little self-contained world, totally distinct from the grid of single-family homes that surrounded it.

In urban universities, the dividing line between the campus and the community can be even starker. At the University of Southern California, for example, students must check in with security officers when entering the gates of the university at night. At Yale, castle-like architecture makes the campus feel like a fortified enclave.

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Bearing Arms reported several firearm-related companies had their corporate accounts canceled by UPS. Not only that, but some of these companies also have had packages damaged or lost while in transit to customers.

One ammunition distribution company called “The Gun Food” reported out of a recent 18,000 rounds of ammunition shipped with UPS, only 6,000 made it to the end destination.

CNN Chief’s Republican Apology Tour

Manchin says Republicans in ‘normal times’ would be supporting energy, health care bill (CNN) That’s because ‘in normal times’ Republicans are just as much Big Spenders as Democrats. That’s how Trump got nominated and elected, because people don’t want ‘normal times’ any more.

Manchin admits ‘mistake’ saying past spending bill wouldn’t cause inflation, hopes he isn’t wrong again  The formula for success: If you make a mistake, why, repeat it!

Congress on “high alert” amid security threats (Axios)

US faces new era of political violence as threats against lawmakers rise (The Guardian) Perhaps because the ‘laws’ these ‘lawmakers’ make only make things worse.

ABC panel criticizes Democrats meddling in GOP primaries: ‘Embarrassingly hypocritical’

How the media is falling short covering the economic rollercoaster (CNN) Paul Krugman, who has never been right yet in his economic predictions, is CNN’s go-to guy. (Stelter Brings on Economic Dunce Krugman to Say US Not in Recession)

Sting warns during Warsaw concert of threats to democracy (Associated Press)

Overturning Roe v. Wade isn’t the end for abortion opponents (Associated Press)

Major legal fights loom over abortion pills, travel out of state (Washington Post)

Alabama Constitution of 2022 removes repealed laws, racist language

CNN panelist says legislative victories won’t be enough for Dems in the midterms: ‘Downtowns are still empty’

Corporate Media Have ‘Gosnelled’ The Ohio Child Rape Story

Who Is the Psychiatrist Behind the Antidepressant Study Taking Over Right-Wing Media? (Rolling Stone)

PolitiFact Lets Al Gore Smear Away, But Rushes to Defend AOC ‘Arrest’ Publicity Stunt

The creation of the trans child

Wikipedia has blocked editing ‘recession’ as people change definition

These Colorado Dems Say They’re Running To Help ‘Working Families.’ They Voted for New Taxes Amid Rising Inflation.  To proglodytes, any tax is a good tax.

States may revive abortion laws from a time when women couldn’t vote (Washington Post) dunh-dunh- DUNHH!  Or even from a time when nobody could vote! OH NOES!!!

TikTok Permanently Removes MRCTV Account Without Explanation  Ye shall know the truth … except on Tik-Tok, Twitter, and Facebook.

LA Landlords Call For End To Eviction Moratorium  Who would be so foolish as to be a landlord in a Blue state?

England RFU Bans Transgender Women From Playing Female Rugby

Episcopal Church Invites Drag Queen to Pride ‘Chapel’

The View: Drag Shows Are Fine for Kids, No One Killed By Them Like Guns

Lena Dunham Is Totally Triggered About Abortion Rights (Even Though She Had a Hysterectomy More Than Four Years Ago)

Manchin Reconciliation Package Includes Policy He Once Called ‘Ludicrous’  When all is said and done, Democrats never forget which side they’re on.

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The chief executive of the world’s largest industrial landlord was robbed outside his San Francisco mansion last month and called on the mayor to address the “absolutely unacceptable” rise in violent crime in the city.

Hamid Moghadam, CEO of San Francisco-based Prologis, told the San Francisco Business Times that several men robbed him at gunpoint outside his home on June 26, taking his Patek Philippe watch. The robbery happened in the Pacific Heights neighborhood where tech investor Peter Thiel, Oracle’s Larry Ellison, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have homes.

My heart breaks for him.

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Under normal circumstances, it would be perfectly appropriate for the Supreme Pontiff to express shame for the persecution of pupils at the Residential Schools operated by the Church in Canada between the 1870s and 1990s. Last year, it was reported that the graves of 200 children had been found near one of these schools in British Columbia. That may be fake news. Some experts believe that the “graves” were soil disturbances and point out that they have not been excavated. No one disputes, however, that children suffered monstrously. Former pupils have talked of savage beatings and being forbidden to speak their native languages. Hundreds of sexual predators were protected.

But this pope has little moral authority to apologise for anyone else’s crimes. To understand why, we need to travel 6,500 miles from the scene of Francis’s meticulously staged expression of remorse in Edmonton to a dusty city in the subtropical north-west of Argentina. Although Orán has only 73,000 inhabitants, it does have a cathedral — a spiky concrete tent that embarrasses even the local tourist board.

‘It’s a sick game’: Social psychologist argues social media is ‘undermining’ democracy (CNN) But what isn’t, these days?

Video appears to show migrants led from bus to DC church, located steps away from U.S. Capitol

Baker signs sweeping reproductive rights bill into state law (Worcester Telegram) In the Narrative Media, ‘reproductive rights’ means the right to avoid reproducing by killing your your child.

Massachusetts governor signs bill safeguarding reproductive, gender-affirming health care into law (The Hill)  As with most Democrat legislation, the name of the bill is a catalog of what it doesn’t do.

‘FEELS LIKE IT’S A WHACK-A-MOLE’ Minnesota election officials on misinformation front lines (Star-Tribune) Yeah, people just won’t get with the Narrative.

Lawrence Jones asks if Democrats should worry about mass exodus from blue states  Ought to be ‘whether’, not ‘if’.

Tenderloin jazz club pillaged, owners disappointed with SFPD response (KTVU)

Seattle Pacific University sues WA attorney general, saying probe into LGBTQ+ policies violates religious freedom

Journalists Tank Their Remaining Credibility With Recession Denial

Three more GOP impeachers face their primary juries (Washington Post)

Strong, Independent Woman Needs Man To Leave Toilet Seat Down Or She Will Literally Fall In (Babylon Bee) You may laugh, but I know of an incident.

US faces new era of political violence as threats against lawmakers rise (The Guardian) Perhaps because ‘lawmakers’ are making laws that their constituents don’t want?

Manchin Triggers Todd by Refusing to Say if He Wants Dems to Keep Congress

We must radically change election administration to preserve American democracy (The Hill) In the Narrative Media, ‘American democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

Why New York City needs Final Five Voting (N.Y. Daily News)

Chile is updating its constitution for the 21st century. The US should follow its lead (The Guardian) Yeah, like we’re going to take the advice of British Socialists.

In viral ad, doctor calls Texas governor to get permission for abortion (Washington Post) Ponder the irony of a pro-abortion group calling itself “Mothers”.

World Economic Forum calls to reduce private vehicles by eliminating ‘ownership’

How Democrats Can Kneecap the Supreme Court’s Next Attack on Democracy (Newsweek)

Michigan Supreme Court: Law bans discrimination based on sexual orientation (Detroit Free Press)

How the Daily Mail and the New York Times Cover a Big Defeat for Transmania

CNN Poll: About two-thirds of Americans disapprove of overturning Roe v. Wade, see negative effect for the nation ahead  (CNN) And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

More Than 400 TV Showrunners Demand Netflix, Disney and More Offer Safety Protocols in Anti-Abortion States (Variety) I think we ought to encourage ‘Hollywood people’ from entering or doing business in ‘anti-abortion’ states.

Wikipedia changes the definition of recession and then locks the page

MSNBC’s Willie Geist Alarmed by GDP Numbers While Stephanie Ruhle Tries to Redefine Recession

Dems Brainwash Young Voters With Chinese Communist Party Affiliated App.

Portland Schools Teaching Young Children About ‘Infinite Gender Spectrum’

Lighten Up Sanchez: Dem Rep. Flips Off GOP Dugout at Congressional Baseball Game

Soros-Funded Wikipedia Redefines ‘Recession,’ Edits Page at Least 116 Times This Week

Democrats Quickly Redefine ‘Loss’ After Losing Congressional Baseball Game  (Babylon Bee)

These Two Californian Parents are Fighting Back Against State’s New Transgender Laws

Human smugglers peddle misinformation to US-bound migrants on Facebook, watchdog says (CNN) As indeed so does CNN.

Human smugglers often target migrants with misinformation on social media: watchdog (The Hill) As indeed so does The Hill.

Hulu Denied Democratic Political Ads From Airing. Two Days Later, It Changed Its Mind.

‘Kids Are Off-Limits’: DeSantis Sues Bar That Let Children Attend Drag Shows

Tiresome: MSNBC Tees Up Far-Left Guys With Lazy Softballs on Abortion

‘It’s Hurting People’: Sen. Mike Lee Calls for End of Obamacare 

Stacey Abrams Can’t Find a Georgia Cop Who Supports Her  Gee, I wonder why.

The Fake Electors Scheme, Explained (N.Y. Times)

The Facebook police

Maine Gov. Mills Wants To Enshrine Abortion In State Constitution

CNN’s Romans Spins Definition of Recession, Declares Some Are Always In A Recession

FDA Slaps Warning on Puberty Blockers

‘Newspeak’: AP Style Features Woke Guidelines Gender Identity Terms

UN Official Running Investigation Into Israel Defends Colleague Who Said Jewish Lobby Controls Social Media

Ann Coulter lays it on the line.

I see the pro-abortion crowd is still bragging about their “10-year-old rape victim,” lamenting that the poor kid had to travel all the way from Ohio to Indiana to get the abortion. They make it sound like a trek from Iran to Iraq in the 13th century.

I don’t expect coastal liberals to know this, but Ohio is next to Indiana. The drive from the child’s home in Columbus, Ohio, to the abortionist in Indianapolis takes 2.5 hours. The cost of the gas was probably a greater trauma for the family than the trip.

But as long as they’re going to keep talking about how hard it is to get an abortion in Ohio, I’m going to keep talking about how hard it is to assimilate the third world to first-world norms about women and children.

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Gee, we didn’t have these problems when Trump was President.

The fundamental flaw in ‘Make America Great Again’ (Washington Post) It’s liked by Republicans.

SF man gets red zone parking ticket after curb was repainted while his car was parked  Life in a Blue State.

California ice cream shop owner ‘not surprised’ after thieves ravage business, steal ATM  Life in a Blue State.

MSNBC Pushes Disinfo About MO Pregnancy Law, Domestic Violence Stats

Italian Conservatives Call For Greater Border Security After Footage Of Migrant Violence Goes Viral

Top Senate Democratic candidates refuse to say whether men can get pregnant, or define the word ‘woman’

Pennsylvania Has A Youth-Crime Crisis  Life in a Blue State.

Ohio Dem Worked To Raise Taxes To Boost Teacher Pay. Executives Got the Money First.  My, what a surprise.

Don’t Call the New Federal Gun Law a Gun Law

PBS Declares Conservatism Should Reject Conservative Polices, Dobbs  You can’t make this shit up.

Columbia University Fencer Defeats Lia Thomas For ‘Woman Of The Year’ Nod

Rainbow Haired Dr: Parent’s Who DON’T Chemically Castrate Children Are Abusers

CBS Lionizes Indiana Abortionist, Allows Her to Peddle Disinformation on Post-Roe America

Iowa School District Allows Students to Spend Overnight Trips With Whichever Gender They Identify With  What could possibly go wrong?

Soros Network Defends Progressive Prosecutor Who Lied on Crook’s Behalf

UN Official Investigating Israel: ‘Jewish Lobby’ Controls Social Media

Academy Of Breastfeeding Medicine Advising Hospitals To Use Term “Father’s Milk”  You can’t make this shit up.

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ZMan turns over a rock.

Given that we live in an age of universal deceit, at least by those in positions of authority, the evolution of lying suddenly matters a great deal. Part of it is that we are better able to see the lying of the people in charge. Before the mass media age, it was hard for people to get information on official lies. Of course, it was also much harder to promote official lies. Mass media results in a sense of mass cooperation, which means the communications revolution has revolutionized mass lying.

Even adjusting for our natural recency bias, institutional lying has exploded over the last thirty years in America. Every day someone from the government stands in front of cameras and blatantly lies about things. They know they are lying. The people in the press room know they are lying. Everyone in the room knows that the people watching it know everyone involved is lying. There is the sense that the people in these positions look at lying as a game where the biggest liar wins the day.

This is not a new thing. For twenty years the drug companies have said that serotonin levels are responsible for depression. It turns out to be wrong and the studies they relied upon were obviously wrong. In other words, they should have known their claims were false, but they had a billion reasons to lie, so they lied. This sort of deception has become the norm.

Ron Paul.

After two years of unprecedented government tyranny in the name of fighting a virus, the prime instigators of this infamy are walking free, writing books, and openly pretending they never said the things they clearly said over and over.

Take Trump’s White House Covid response coordinator Deborah Birx, for example. She was, as the Brownstone Institute’s Jeffrey Tucker points out in a recent article, the principal architect of the disastrous “lockdown” policy that destroyed more lives than Covid itself. Birx knew that locking a country down in response to a virus was a radical move that would never be endorsed.

So, as she admits in her new book, she lied about it.

‘Elmo Wants to Be an Upstander to Racism’: ‘Sesame Street’s’ Racial Justice Curriculum Begins With Infants

Teachers Worried Their Gay Students May Regress And Turn Straight Over Summer Break (Babylon Bee)

Abolish State Senates (American Prospect)

Meet the FBI Analyst Behind The Decade’s Biggest Political Disinformation Campaigns

The left is starting to realize AOC is just a performance artist

Scientists Unveil Periodic Table Of Genders (Babylon Bee)

Why progressive Democrats are losing ground (Washington Post)

Woman Terrified She May Have To Actually Use One Of The Dozens Of Cheap, Readily Available Methods of Birth Control In Post-Roe America (Babylon Bee)

Interstate Travel Post-Roe Isn’t as Secure as You May Think (WIRED)

Former Californians Begin Grumbling In 105-Degree Texas Heat: ‘It Would Be Better For Us To Go Back To Slavery Under Pharaoh Newsom!’ (Babylon Bee)

Corporate America reckons with its role in reproductive rights (NPR)

“We failed”: Gay Republicans who fought for acceptance in Texas GOP see little progress (Texas Tribune)

Richer people left San Francisco in the pandemic. And they took billions of dollars with them (S.F. Chronicle) Wow, who could have seen that coming?

Nazi protesters show up outside young conservatives meeting in Florida  A transparently obvious false-flag operation.

Florida Methodists sink into the mire

If you have a miscarriage in Republican America, your health is now at risk (The Guardian) Says somebody who knows nothing about health care, America, or the law….

Highly potent weed creating marijuana addicts worldwide, study says (CNN)

How The Fight To Ban Abortion Is Rooted In The ‘Great Replacement’ Theory (FiveThirtyEight)

A Company Flees Illinois for Florida, Showing Red States’ Appeal

Democrat Insurrection: Liberal Hill Staffers Arrested for Storming Dem Leadership Office

Seven Australians Refuse To Wear Pride-Themed Jersey For Match

Maryland School District Prohibits Faculty From Disclosing Children’s Use of Pronouns From Parents

New HHS Rule Would Force Insurers to Pay for Children’s Sex Changes

Polygamy Seen as Possibility Under House-Passed Marriage Bill  My, what a surprise.

You’re Going to Miss the Deep State When It’s Gone (Daily Beast) Oh, I don’t think so….

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We are just 15 weeks away from election day in what is already shaping up to be a contentious 2022 midterm season. If the press follows their typical campaign play book, journalists will pick out certain conservative candidates who commit gaffes or make odd comments and try and make them the face of the GOP.

One thing they won’t do is single out the radical, extreme nature of some of the Democratic Party’s most well known congressional members: The Squad.

Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as well as far-left representatives like Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley, have been gaffe machines in the last few months. Most recently, some of them pretended to be restrained by police officers using invisible handcuffs while protesting for abortion at the Supreme Court.

But there’s also been far more serious moments. Congresswoman Tlaib, it was revealed in July, had campaign events in 2018 organized by alleged terrorist financiers. Also, the Somali-born politician introduced a resolution in May that recognized the “catastrophe” of the creation of Israel.

But you wouldn’t know about any of these because the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts haven’t covered them. Here’s the four Squad scandals the press should have been covering.

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I reported yesterday on the damage that Ukrainian gypsies are doing by exploiting the asylum system in Germany. According to the following report, not only gypsies, but Ukrainian migrants in general, are methodically siphoning off large amounts of German taxpayers’ money.

Meltdowns Have Brought Progressive Advocacy Groups to a Standstill at a Critical Moment in World History (The Intercept)

Inside the Woke Meltdown at One Domestic Violence Organization (Washington Free Beacon)

Bill Nye reveals which TV shows get science right (Entertainment Weekly) If only we could depend on Bill Nye to get science right.

The education of Adam Kinzinger (Washington Post) Don’t think of it as selling out; think of it as buying in.

Nancy and Paul Pelosi are trading large — with a wealth of hypocrisy

‘It looks terrible’: Dems prep a tax cut for business as broader agenda stalls (Politico)

Growing Concerns About Festival Safety After Shots Ring Out at Chicago’s Shakespeare in the Parks (NBC)

Is Democracy Constitutional? (The Atlantic)

Leftist Verizon Shuts Off Conservative One America News

How Central Planners Sow Seeds Of Economic Ruin

Abortion, Slavery – Who’s Claiming Ownership Over Human Bodies?

Democrats’ contraception bill would force taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood (Washington Examiner)

NY Times Splashes Liberal Hysterics on Front Page: Interracial Marriage Under Threat?

‘US democracy will not survive for long’: how January 6 hearings plot a roadmap to autocracy (The Guardian) He’s right, although not the way he means it.

Trump’s criminal intent is now clear. Merrick Garland’s intentions aren’t. (MSNBC)

Swedish Rent Control Exposes The Problem With Government Price Controls

After Recent Turmoil, the Race for Texas Governor Is Tightening (N.Y. Times) More wishful thinking.

Liz Cheney: Protecting U.S. democracy is bigger than keeping House seat (Axios) Not to mention getting a well-paid job in the Ruling Class and (inevitably) a lucrative book deal (wait for it….).

Todd Lets Gore Compare ‘Climate Deniers’ to Police Officers in Uvalde

Woke Activision Employees Walk Out In Pro-Abortion Protest  The rise of Tantrum Politics.

NEW: Twitter Bans ‘Groomer’ Insult  Down the Memory Hole!

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Last Wednesday, hundreds of truckers protested at the Los Angeles-Long Beach port, some trucks slowed down traffic on the 110 while others took part by refusing to take on loads.

Their message was timed not just for Los Angeles County voters who backed the leftists threatening to put them out of work, but for retired general Stephen Lyons.

The former general who had served as the Commander of the U.S. Transportation Command had been picked by the Biden administration as its Port and Supply Chain Envoy and was there to see the ports through which much of the country’s international cargoes flow.

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Roma clans “from Ukraine”: Germany’s asylum capacities are exhausted.

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Let’s just Follow The Science. What could go wrong?