One month in, abortion bans are hell on Earth (Washington Post)

SFPD warns you might want to leave your expensive watch at home (KRON)

What Will Democrats Say If Their MAGA Candidates Win? (Daily Beast)

Newsom signs California gun bill modeled after Texas abortion law (CNN)

Bill to prevent lawmakers and their spouses from stock trading at standstill as Pelosi faces backlash

LA DA Gascon losing a second top adviser amid recall effort and public fury over crime

The Guardian view on European democracy: central bankers are villains and heroes (The Guardian)

NC town’s entire police force quits in protest over progressive town manager

DC’s Solution to Illegal Immigrants Bused From Texas: ‘Put Them on Train to Miami’ 

“Offer Large Sums Of Public Money”: Law Professor Calls For Congress To “Buyout” Conservative Justices

Missouri Sheriff Refuses To Hand Over Gun Owners’ Info To FBI: ‘I Will Go Down With The Ship’

Immigration Amendment Doesn’t Belong in National Defense Authorization Act

‘Your Problem Now’: Illinois Gov J.B. Pritzker Celebrates GOP Billionaires Fleeing His State for Florida

Pennsylvania Prohibits ‘Zuck Bucks’ Ahead Of 2022 Midterms

Republican Mayra Flores Accuses Democrat Opponent Of Paying Blogger For Racist Posts

HUNTING REPUBLICANS: Evening Nets Minimize Zeldin Assassination Attempt: ‘Sharp’ Keychain Weapon

CNN Hypes Newsome ‘Trolling’ Texas, Supreme Court on Guns  Proglodytes spend a lot of time breathing their own exhaust.

Trudeau pushes ahead on fertilizer reduction as provinces and farmers cry foul

Criticism Dogs Merriam-Webster Dictionary’s Redefinition of ‘Female,’ ‘Male’ to Include Gender Identity 

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German Foreign Minister Annalena “Airhead” Baerbock is concerned that there may be a popular uprising if Germany does not regain its access to Russian natural gas before the coming winter. Evidently the deployment of the Bundeswehr to suppress public dissent is not expected to be enough to quell the anger of German citizens when they face freezing to death.

Colbert and Chris Hayes Love New ‘Standard’ for Congressional Hearings: 100% One-Sided

Cruel Irony: Minneapolis Neighborhood Pays Extra for Cops After Department Defunding

Indoctrination: 50 Schools Given $10k To Promote LGBT Ideology

Court Overrules School District That Banned Father Who Exposed Obscene Library Books

HUNTING REPUBLICANS: CBS, MSNBC BURY Attempted Stabbing of Conservative GOP Congressman

NASCAR Driver Mugged At Gunpoint During Pitstop At Chicago Cup Series Race (Babylon Bee)

DOJ Sabotaged Trump Release Of Russiagate Docs

NewsGuard Failing Fox News Because of ‘Journalistic Standards’ Is a Pathetic Joke

Women’s March: ‘Abortion Is Safer Than Giving Birth’  Except for the child.

PBS, Planned Parenthood Team Up To Spread Lies About Pro-Life Laws  Of course they do.

San Francisco criminal justice system rocked by ‘earthquake’ under new DA, activist says

Crime-Obsessed San Francisco Flirts With ‘Police State’ Crackdown (Daily Beast)

Tammy Baldwin, who is gay, confronted Marco Rubio about calling same-sex marriage vote a ‘stupid waste of time’ (CNN)

Justice Jackson dissents in first vote as Supreme Court won’t reinstate Biden immigration policies (CNN)

Sailboat off Florida coast intercepted with more than 150 migrants on board

Pelosi says her husband never made stock purchases based on info she gave him Of course not, Perish the thought.

Schumer’s legal weed bill is finally here (Politico)

California alleged drug traffickers in massive fentanyl bust no shows in court after release on cashless bail

What Harvard means by ‘diversity’ (Boston Globe)

‘Silent majority’ of Disney employees oppose woke ‘godmother’ name change, cast member says

Former U.N. ‘relief chief’ shares his secret for coping with crises: a ‘sunny gene’ (NPR)

Teachers’ union survey backfires, turns into ‘epic self-own’ for Democrats, says education policy expert

Democrats Cede ‘Party of Education’ Label to GOP: Poll (U.S. News)

Pennsylvania Lawmaker Issues Report Detailing ‘Myriad Of Election Issues’

Antifa Summer Camp In Portland Teaches Anarchy To Children

Inside the Woke Meltdown at One Domestic Violence Organization

Carrier location data usage again under investigation, after promises broken

YouTube To Remove Abortion Videos Spreading ‘False Claims’

Twitter Operating Loss $344 Million In Q2, Blames ‘Musk Deal’

ZMan’s weekly podcast. Highly recommended.

Something I did not cover in the show is the fate of the most popular president in human history, who has come down with Covid. This is interesting for all sorts of reasons, not the least of which is that Biden used to angrily lecture us that only unvaccinated people could get Covid. It seems like a long time ago, but he was the leader of the “pandemic of the unvaccinated” chorus.

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Putting that aside, you see the problem we have by the near total silence from the Republican party on this issue. They could be using this to hammer Biden, but they were onboard with the vaccine mandates too. The same is true of the conservatives, who forgot all about their principles during the panic. All of these people believe the same things, they just disagree over the presentation.

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Scott Adams predicted, back when Trump was elected, that eventually Republicans would be hunted.

Have you ever heard of an attack on a Democrat?

Reducing Patient Access to New Medications Is the Left’s Latest Medicare Price Fixing Scheme

Why Democrats are begging Trump to start 2024 right now (Politico)

The vanishing center of American democracy (The Hill)

American democracy is not just about majorities (Knox News)

Lemon Denies Economics, Claims More Oil Supply Won’t Help

Nets Hide MAJOR News Feds Ready to Indict Hunter Biden

Portland Parents Encouraged To Send Their Kids To “Social Justice Summer Camp”

New York Times Demands Colleges Raise ‘Standard of Care,’ Provide Abortion to Students

How Democracy Dies in the 21st Century (The Atlantic) By not conforming to the Narrative, of course.

This is what it looks like when women become second-class citizens (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin loses her shit. (Jen, the first words of the Hippocratic Oath are PRIMUM NON NOCERE ‘First not to harm’. That leaves abortion out.)

‘I Was Wrong’: Paul Krugman Kicks Himself For His Awful Inflation Takes

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Professor Doctor Sucharit Bhakdi is a German virologist and professor of microbiology. He is an ethnic Thai who was born in the USA and educated at schools in Switzerland, Egypt, and Thailand. He studied medicine at the University of Bonn. Prior to his retirement, he was a professor at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and, from 1991 to 2012, director of the Medical Institute for Microbiology and Hygiene in Germany.

Dr. Bhakdi was interviewed recently in Sweden by Swebbtv. His remarks concerned the Wuhan Coronavirus, and especially the experimental mRNA treatment that is intended to mitigate the effects of infection with the disease. He was vehement about the evils of the “vaccine”, and criticized the Swedes and the Danes for failing to stand up against the pressure to have themselves and their children “vaccinated”.

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Meet the new GDP prototype that tracks inequality (NPR)

Immigrants bussed from Texas and Arizona welcome in nation’s capital, say residents

House Democrats tout bill to add four seats to Supreme Court (The Hill) Just enough to give them a liberal majority! What are the odds?

House votes to protect same-sex marriage in case the Supreme Court rescinds it (NBC News)

AOC fakes being handcuffed after arrest at abortion rights protest

As professionals flee antiabortion policies, red states face a brain drain (L.A. Times) Wokerati who are willing to kill children are ‘brains’ we can do without.

De Blasio Gave Up on Running for Congress — But He Can Use Money He Raised to Pay Off His Old Debts  How convenient! (Maybe that’s why Beto keeps running….)

EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, approved

The Secondhand Censorship Effect: The Real Impact of Big Tech’s Thought-Policing

Florida or California? Surely, You Jest.

Ruhle Falsely Claims Pro-Life States Make It Harder to Treat Miscarriages, Vote

Hollywood Reveals Plans to Strongly Push Pro-Abortion Agenda in Post-Roe America  My, what a surprise.

Miriam-Webster Alters Definition Of Female To Be More Inclusive

AOC Still Handcuffed As Capitol Police Misplaced The Invisible Key

RINO ALERT: Confessions of a Conservative Apostate (The Atlantic) This guy was never a ‘conservative’.

Half of Americans anticipate a U.S. civil war soon

Latino Media Mad That Sanctuary Cities Are Asked To Provide Sanctuary

Army Set To Cut Force-Size By 20,000 Amid “Unprecedented Challenges” In Recruitment

Pelosi Is Poised To Score Big From Semiconductor Bill  What’s the use of having power if you can’t abuse it?

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There’s a 2005 episode of Doctor Who in which David Tennant’s Doctor turns against Prime Minister Harriet Jones and undermines her with six words: “Don’t you think she looks tired?” Veiled as concern, it’s barely a criticism at all but it generates sufficient uncertainty about her health and leadership to inspire a vote of no confidence. Doubt is contagious. The tenor of the current grumbling about the state of the Marvel Cinematic Universe reminds me of that. Not terrible, not failing, but don’t you think it looks tired?

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When a Democrat occupies the White House, you can be reasonably sure that administrative agencies will start bending rules to get results that they can’t get through normal procedures.

Witness, for example, the rise of the agency “guidance” document. These are documents that express an agency’s view of what the law is. They are not, however, formal rules that have the force of law.

Still, any regulated entity would be foolish to ignore an agency guidance document because it knows the agency will enforce its new understanding of the law. The agency’s bureaucrats in charge of dishing out fines and other administrative penalties will treat the guidance as if it’s binding.

Think of guidance not as a command, but as an implied threat. Yes, it’s not technically a rule that you have to follow, but if you don’t go along willingly, we’ll break your kneecaps … bureaucratically.

A recent decision by U.S. District Judge Charles Atchley struck a blow against these shenanigans, and that’s a good thing.

Homeland Security records show ‘shocking’ use of phone data, ACLU says (Politico)

DHS spent millions on cellphone data to track Americans and foreigners inside and outside U.S., ACLU report says (NBC News)

America’s wealth inequality is a domestic IED, ready to ignite (The Hill) Weaponizing envy.

Federal agencies lay the groundwork to ignore the Supreme Court (The Hill)

Social justice summer camp started by anarchists to be held in Oregon (ABC)

Let’s rebuild the US microchip industry – not give it a $50bn-plus check (The Guardian) Bernie Sanders seems to think you can rebuild an industry for free. Maybe you can, on his planet.

Congress moves to protect marriage equality after Roe decision (Axios)

Dem Staffers Unionize, Citing Poor Pay and Pervasive Sexual Harassment

How the Left Hopes to Seize Control of Local Election Offices

San Francisco’s New DA Goes On Firing Spree After Voters Recall Soros-Backed Predecessor

US Retailers Boost Security Personnel To Combat Soaring Thefts And Violent Crime

Nets Ignore Paul Pelosi Buying Millions in Chip Stocks Prior to House Vote

Worksheet At Boston High School Suggests Assassinations As Legitimate Form Of Resisting ‘Oppression’

Hundreds Of California Truckers Block Oakland Terminal Access To Protest AB5

ABC Loves ‘Lifelong Activism’ of Hanoi Jane Fonda: ‘Legend,’ ‘Royalty’  “Treason doth never prosper; what’s the reason? If it do prosper, none dare call it treason.”

NPR Clarifies Disinformation Team’s Job Will Be To Spread More Disinformation  (Babylon Bee)

“Morally And Intellectually Corrupt”: UCLA Prof Resigns In Protest Over ‘Viewpoint Intolerance’

Amazon Sues Facebook Administrators Over More Than 10,000 Groups Used To Coordinate Fake Product Reviews

Less Than Half of San Francisco Students Are High-School Ready. More Than a Fourth Are Chronically Absent.

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Houston Methodist Hospital System is in the middle of a staffing emergency. They have over 400 fully-vaccinated employees out sick with Covid-19. They fired 153 people last year who refused the hospital system’s vaccine mandate. This is a statement from a hospital system spokeswoman:

“We have 400 employees out sick with COVID. They are out sick without severe illness. We stand by the effectiveness of the vaccine,” Asin responded.

Those two sentences contradict each other. The spokeswoman has no idea. No mind, it appears.

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Is anyone surprised that the CDC has extended the public health emergency regarding COVID-19 for 90 more days? Of course, their “reasoning” is that cases are once again increasing; 95,000 new cases are being reported daily, and hospitalizations are “beginning to increase again.” At this point, I frankly do not care about these results: COVID is going to COVID, and what in the world does it mean that hospitalizations are “beginning to increase”?

What does this extended declaration tell us?

Trying to keep the PANIC going….

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For weeks now, farmers in the Netherlands have been engaging in fierce protests over their government’s plan to halve the country’s nitrogen and ammonia pollution by 2030. It is estimated that this plan—which will mandate emissions cuts of 95% in some provinces—will require a 30% reduction in livestock and will drive many of the nation’s farmers out of business.

The protests have been remarkably heated, as tens of thousands take to the streets to block the country’s highways, torch bales of hay and spread manure around politicians’ homes. In one incident, Dutch police actually fired live rounds on one of the protesters as he attempted to breach the police line with his tractor.

Yes, the scenes coming out of the usually quiet Dutch countryside are shocking. But they should not be. They are just the early stages of a great worldwide battle that is shaping up between the free people of the world and the technocrats, who are starting to clamp down on them in the name of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Enslavement.

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Current American popular culture eerily demands the same behavior of ordinary Americans as Havel’s hypothetical greengrocer. Whether you’re putting on a face mask before entering a grocery store or stringing up a pride flag for the month of June, Americans are signaling their conformity to the whims of the ruling class. Whether they’re actually an ally or think masks are effective is irrelevant. Like Havel’s greengrocer, all that matters is their desire to show that they’re team players. The only difference is that it is the retaliation of social media mobs rather than NKVD agents that citizens fear now.

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The logic of the left accepts political violence. A few years ago, one of its acolytes tried to wipe out the congressional Republican caucus on a softball field; last month, another member of the MSNBCNN target demo tried to off Justice Kavanaugh for somewhat limiting the ability of progressives to conveniently kill babies. Even the reaction to the recent molestation of the famously beer-ophilic jurist as he nibbled on a rib-eye at Morton’s in DC was indicative – this personal confrontation was celebrated by the left instead of decried. What’s the logical limit when you sign onto the idea that one can legitimately influence politics via the personal intimidation of officials placed in office by our agreed constitutional procedures? If you can get in his face, why can’t you slap it? Or put a bullet in it? If there is a boundary, the left is not setting it.

China Demands Preferential Treatment on Climate Change

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

We have been writing for a long time about the fact that transitioning from fossil fuels to wind and solar energy is catastrophically bad policy, not only because those forms of energy are intermittent and therefore inadequate, but also because China dominates the market for wind turbines and solar panels. Going “green” means turning over our economy–our lives–to the Chinese Communist Party.

This issue has been a dark secret if you rely on liberal news outlets for information, but now a glimmer of reality seems to be breaking through. I haven’t seen this reported domestically, but the Guardian has the story: “Breaking from China’s clean energy dominance ‘imperative’, US and Australia say after new climate tech deal.”

Baen just announced that Eric Flint has died. A tragic and irreparable loss.

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Perovskites are semiconductors with a special crystal structure that makes them well suited for solar cell technology. They can be manufactured at room temperature, using much less energy than silicon, making them cheaper and more sustainable to produce. And whereas silicon is stiff and opaque, perovskites can be made flexible and transparent, extending solar power well beyond the iconic panels that populate hillsides and rooftops across America.

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No part of our culture has been immune from the disease of woke-ism. Whether one studies corporations, educational institutions, the media, federal and state governments, woke-ism has corrupted every part of our culture to one degree or another. When I contemplate how to even begin to break its hold on our country, that proposition appears overwhelming. Where to start? How to make legitimate inroads? How to get an informed audience to consider the issues and make changes?

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Since Covid, the NHS has struggled to return to normal. Whilst it is now seeing patients at a pre-pandemic level, the pressure is being described by senior figures as being at crisis level. If things are this bad in the summer months, the annual winter crisis — a national ritual not observed in many other first-world countries — will be much more serious still.

We should not let these acute crises obscure the fact that the Health Service systematically underperforms on key metrics: for example, it is below average internationally when it comes to preventing death from heart attacks, strokes, cancer and lung disease.

Despite this, it is fast becoming an unsupportable drain on the public finances. According to the King’s Fund, the NHS budget for England ran to £190.3 billion in 2021/22. Even before Covid, Health Service spending amounted to 7.2 per cent of GDP. By 2024, healthcare is projected to consume 44 per cent of day-to-day government spending, up from just 27 per cent in 2000.

All this despite the fact that more and more Britons are turning to the private healthcare market. Our out-of-pocket spending on medical bills is now almost on a par with America, an extraordinary failure considering that we have a high-tax, low-growth economy, with lower than average wages while forking out for universal provision.

The British NHS is the poster child for government-provided health care, and a potent reminder that the people on the left side of the IQ curve will cling to something that’s free even when it is demonstrably bad.

This is the future that the Obamacare Left want us to have.

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Taxing cloud computing is not my idea. It’s billionaire Mark Cuban’s idea. I first learned about it during his interview on the Pomp Podcast, then again in another interview with POLITICO.  It’s a potentially profound idea that’s worth a deeper exploration and thoughtful discussion.

There aren’t a whole lot of details around it. Cuban’s proposal is a “2% cloud tax”. The motivation, I believe, is to use the tax revenue to fund long-term economic recovery from COVID-19, as well as evening the playing field between the hyper-scale cloud computing platforms and other less technically sophisticated businesses, especially in AI. These cloud platforms are often called “digital landlords” and for good reasons. The tech giants who built these hyper-clouds have massive advantages in building AI products and services that will continue to displace workers, who rely on low or predictable skills in both blue and white-collar industries.

So how do we tax the cloud in a way that does even the playing field but does not discourage innovation? Assuming 2% is the right tax rate, how should the 2% be applied?

The world is full of people who think they ought to have the right to spend your money whether you like it or not. The tax system is their primary vehicle (organized crime is Number Two).

Joel Kotkin.

With inflation soaring, trust in governments plummeting, and the global economy teetering on the brink of collapse, one might expect to see the masses out in the streets, calling for the heads of their rulers. But instead of rage and rebellion, we mostly see apathy. Rather than getting radicalized, people are dropping out.

Washington Post.

Fareed Zakaria spends too much time breathing his own exhaust. (He’s a Yalie. That’s what he was trained to do.)

Democrats don’t build things. They’re good at destroying things (like Confederate statues). They’re great at spending money (especially YOUR money). They’re outstanding at using YOUR money to buy the votes of simple-minded or venal people who are ready, willing, and able to support the Party of Free Stuff.

The only answer they have to any question is SPEND MONEY. (Not their money, other people’s money.) Their Golden Age was the Depression, in which Franklin Roosevelt took an ordinary regularly occurring economic downturn and stretched it out over a decade (in which he got to be President for twelve years, which would have been sixteen if he hadn’t died). The motto of the Democrats is, and always has been, “Tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect.” That’s the only thing they do well, and they do it well enough to make life miserable for the rest of us.

‘Pronouns’ are the least of our problems.

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There are two major forces at work within the US economy today that pull in different directions but end up in the same place: These forces are price inflation caused by central bank stimulus along with supply chain instability and recession triggered by rising interest rates. Immense corporate and consumer debt also play a role, but this ties in directly with the interest rate issue.

In other words, we are looking at a classic stagflationary scenario amplified by years of fiat dollar printing by the Federal Reserve. The only element that has been missing is rising unemployment, until now.

The word “recession” is being used liberally lately and there is a good reason for this – It is vague and gives the public little to no idea of what to expect or how bad the economic downturn could get. It is also a convenient distraction from the much more dangerous issue of rising prices. If a “recession” is on the way, won’t this mean prices will fall? Not necessarily, at least not anytime soon.

I guess “Learn to code!” is going to start ringing pretty hollow.

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In a dangerous game of wack-a-mole, Mexico nearly eliminated rampant gasoline pipeline thefts only to now see cartels and common thieves stealing $1 billion worth of liquified petroleum gas (LPG) each year from state-owned Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex.

Under Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, theft from gasoline and diesel pipelines plummeted 94% after he deployed the National Guard and military surveillance to watch over the supply arteries. The glow of that success has been dulled, however, as criminals have switched to tapping the country’s 1,000 miles of LPG pipelines.

Pemex found more than 2,400 illegal taps last year—up more than 10-fold in just three years. LPG is Mexico’s top source of energy for heating homes and is also used in cooking. The thieves sell directly to homeowners and food merchants, often using trucks disguised to look like legitimate delivery vehicles.

Nobody considers ‘stealing from the government’ to be anything other than clever, and when the government owns the oil company, well….

The Other McCain turns over a rock.

“Survival of the fittest” is so much easier when the unfit, recognizing their own genetic inferiority, decide for themselves that it’s wrong for them to reproduce.

Hirono under fire for remarks on Constitution: ‘Who the heck would know what our Founding Fathers meant?’  Anybody who was willing to do the research – not Lazy Mazie, for sure.

What Josh Hawley doesn’t get in the discussion about ‘pregnant people’ (Washington Post) It’s not about facts–it’s about the Narrative.

Chicago Mayor Lightfoot in Europe touting city’s ‘thriving economy’ as businesses flee city  BRAAAAAAAINS!

Newsom calls out DeSantis spokesperson who suggests critics of ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill are ‘groomers’ (The Hill)

Pennsylvania officials sue county election boards in the latest confrontation over certifying results (CNN)

50 years after ‘American Pie,’ Don McLean fears ‘some kind of civil war’ (The Hill)

Scarborough Claims Cops on 1/6 Would Have Shot Protesters If They Were Black or Muslim

PolitiFact: It’s ‘Mostly False’ To State the Truth About States with No Abortion Limits

Confidence in Public Schools Turns More Partisan

Ruhle Falsely Declares U.S. Doing Better on Inflation Than Most

Sorry Gals, a FLA Public School Says You’re Now ‘People With Vulva’

Elizabeth Warren Wants To Shut Down All of the Country’s Crisis Pregnancy Centers

Head of Crisis Pregnancy Center Rebukes ‘Horrific’ Claims of Sen. Elizabeth Warren

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Just how bad are America’s cities doing under the watch of their Democrat leaders? Even ultra-woke Starbucks is pulling up stakes in Democrat-run cities where drug use, homelessness, and crime have made staying in business untenable.

ZMan says the quiet part out loud.

A recent Gallup survey reports that confidence in institutions has fallen to an all time low among Americans. The only institutions trusted by a majority of people are small business, the military and the police. The last two are dropping quickly, which makes sense given the behavior of these institutions. A military full of drag queens and a police force siding with barbarians does not inspire confidence. Faith in small business simply reflects the fact that people continue to trust good people.

The normal reaction from the usual suspects is to blame their favorite bogeymen for the collapse in social trust. They will not use the term “social trust” as that risks entering a forbidden zone, but that is the topic. Trust in institutions is a proxy for social trust, how much people trust the people they do not know in their community. A big driver of the collapse in social trust is a generation of open borders. When your neighborhood is full of strange aliens, it is hard to trust anything or anyone.

As is often the case, the flood of aliens into your neighborhood is a symptom of a much bigger problem that lies at the heart of it. The people in charge simply cannot stop lying, which reflects on the institutions they control. The obvious example is the news media, which is approaching single digits in the Gallup poll. The fact that anyone trusts the media is an argument against universal suffrage. Many people, at least ten percent based on the survey, are too stupid to vote.

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Using a self-serve checkout counter could get you framed for stealing, warned one lawyer on social media.

Attorney and influencer Carrie Jernigan, who often shares legal advice to her 1.2 million followers on TikTok, has alleged that stores are using security footage at the register to accuse innocent customers of theft.

“As a criminal defense attorney, I advise most people to steer clear of self-checkout,” Jernigan says in a video that’s racked up over 2 million views.

CNN’s Brian Stelter lets Nina Jankowicz off the hook on the misinformation she peddled during interview

What the liberal justices’ scorching dissent reveals about the US supreme court (The Guardian) Scorching!

Iowa Dem Supports Free Speech—Unless You Criticize Democrats

Starbucks Closing 16 Stores In Major Cities Due To ‘Increasing Threats’ From Bathroom Drug Dens

Polls Indicate More Breakfast Tacos Leaning Republican (Babylon Bee)

Illinois Economy, Jobs Suffer Under Potential Presidential Candidate J.B. Pritzker

AP Admits Mexican President Got Along Much Better with Trump

Oregon School District Votes to Keep Pornographic Book Available to Kids

Colorado Politicians Try To Bully Local Newspaper Into Submission

RINO ALERT An Anti-Trump Republican Group Is Back for the Midterms (N.Y. Times)

Mexican cartel smugglers nabbed with $1.2M worth of meth in NYC — then released thanks to lax bail laws: feds

Nets Ignore News Hunter Biden Could Face Federal Prostitution Charges

Nets Ignore Internal White House Concerns Biden in Mental, Physical Decline

NY Times Whines About Republicans, First Amendment Interfering with Censorship Efforts

New Jersey Dems Ban Microbreweries From Hosting Happy Hour, Serving Cocktails  The new Puritans strike again.

Study Shows U.S. 4th Graders Now Gay At A 12th-Grade Level  (Babylon Bee)

Drugmaker Asks US Regulators For Approval Of Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pill

Why is it so hot in the UK and elsewhere in Europe and what are the dangers? (The Guardian)

US cruise ships using Canada as a ‘toilet bowl’ for polluted waste (The Guardian)

Scientists Puzzled by Soaring Global Methane Levels (Newsweek)

Can we actually measure rising sea levels with Plymouth Rock? (Boston Globe)

California’s Energy War on the Poor

Climate change is not just about Carbon Dioxide

Another Alaskan Oil Project Could Be Shelved Over Environmental Concerns

Local Governments Ban Natural Gas. Goodbye to the Gas Range and Cheaper Heat.  Time to leave.

Nina Jankowicz on paused disinformation board: ‘There was a disproportionate focus on me’

The Supreme Court’s impact on the midterms and American democracy (The Hill)

The Supreme Court just had its most conservative term in nine decades (NPR)

‘I’m angry. I’m terrified. And I’m determined’: Crowds turn out for reproductive rights rallies around Alaska (Anchorage Daily News) The picture says it all. For the record, I don’t regret her abortion either.

Abortion access advocates plan several Alaska rallies for Saturday (Alaska Public Media) The picture says it all. For the record, ‘handmaidens’ were younger and better looking.

Restoring US abortion access won’t be easy – but we need leaders who will try (The Guardian)

Dwindling reproductive rights is “single-biggest issue” for economy, Commerce Secretary says (Politico)

The Role of Controlled Opposition in Manufacturing Phony ‘Consensus’

Fox Highlights Illegals Plotting July 4 Attack as CNN, MSNBC Bury

NY Times Stirs Front-Page Fear: GOP Mixing ‘Religious Fervor With Conspiracy Theories’

Labor Unions Reduce Product Quality

Floating abortion clinic proposed in Gulf to bypass bans (Associated Press)

Future college students rethink schools in states banning abortions If this reduces the amount of Wokeness among students in red state colleges, that’s great.

Wake Up West! UK Lawmaker Proposes Communist Chinese-Style Truth Score

China Protester Soundly Beaten By Wimbledon Security Guards

Senator Warren Leaps Out Just In Time To Swat Prenatal Vitamins Away From Woman Leaving Pregnancy Center (Babylon Bee)

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

The Left has a rather schizophrenic attitude toward protests and demonstrations. Some are wonderful, like the George Floyd riots, which were not, in fact, protests at all. Or like arson and other destruction committed at pro-life facilities. Others are detestable, like the Dutch farmers’ protests, or the French “yellow vests,” or the Canadian truckers. Some protests, too, can only be ignored, like when hundreds of thousands of pro-life citizens show up for their annual march in Washington.

Currently the Left is “demonstrating” against the Supreme Court justices who concurred in the Dobbs decision. A few nights ago, as Scott has noted, left-wingers harassed Justice Brett Kavanaugh and other diners at the Morton’s steak house in D.C. Liberals viewed this effort as a triumph–Kavanaugh reportedly had to exit out a back door–and a pro-Democratic Party organization is now offering cash bounties to anyone who sees a conservative justice out in public in time for a flash mob to assemble.

When asked about such tactics, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was nonplussed. These are peaceful demonstrations, she replied, the very essence of democracy!

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A New York City bodega group says the Big Apple should adopt a local version of Florida’s controversial “Stand Your Ground” law after a Manhattan store worker was charged with murder for defending himself.

United Bodegas of America — which has rallied behind Jose Alba, the 61-year-old shop employee facing a slay rap after fending off a violent ex-con — said Sunday that the measure is needed to protect others who toil behind the counter.

“Bottom line — in Florida, this is what you would consider stand your ground,” UBA spokesman Fernando Mateo said at a press conference, referring to Alba’s case.

“That’s what New York City needs,” Mateo said of the law.

The battle for reproductive rights moves to the front register (Star Tribune) Calling killing your child ‘reproductive rights’ is like calling murder ‘health care’.

Couple exit Cape Cod and head for rural Georgia’s lush, rolling hills  Time to leave.

Is our democracy on the verge of committing suicide? (The Hill) What democracy?

If Tucker Runs in 2024, Here’s Who the Democrats Need (Politico)

Nancy Pelosi goes on lavish Italian vacation as inflation back home hits 40-year high

Nobody likes self-checkout. Here’s why it’s everywhere (CNN)

WashPost ‘Fact Checker’ MILDLY Chides Biden, Press on 10-Year-Old Rape Victim Tale

Tapper Confronts Illinois Gov on Why He Ignores Chicago Shootings

Teachers go to the ‘dumbest colleges’ — who said it and why it matters

Stelter Allows Former Ministry of Truth Head to Spread Disinformation

Steve Sailer.

The pervert lifestyle in action.

For Left-Wing Lawmakers, Only ‘Choice’ Permitted Is Abortion

Tim Cook goes for a ride in Rivian electric pickup at Sun Valley ‘summer camp for billionaires’

Schumer-aligned dark money nonprofit raked in record $105 million from anonymous donors, tax forms show

Secret Service denial of Hutchinson story fuels attacks from both sides (The Hill)

Ducey signs universal school vouchers into law; public education advocates launch referendum  The importance of government schools as indoctrination platforms for leftist ideology is being made increasingly plain.

Trust in newspapers and television news collapses to historic low  Gee, I wonder why.

Left-Wing German Minister Wants To Confiscate Guns Owned By Members Of Right-Wing AfD

Dutch House Greenlights Work From Home As Legal Right

MSNBC Hypes Not Celebrating July 4th Due to ‘Evil of the Republicans’

Liz Cheney’s Latest Fans: Democratic Donors  My, what a surprise.

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The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday announced it has told carriers to stop delivering auto warranty robocalls, citing it as a top complaint from consumers.

The FCC said it has authorized all U.S.-based voice service providers to stop carrying traffic from Roy Cox Jr., Aaron Michael Jones, their Sumco Panama companies and other international associates believed to be behind the more than 8 billion robocalls generated since 2018.

The US supreme court poses a real threat to Americans’ democracy (The Guardian)

Why Democrats are not pursuing a constitutional amendment for abortion rights  They know it won’t pass.

Gun-Makers Go South

Governor Newsom announces California will make its own insulin

Dems propose raising taxes on couples making more than $500k

How Pro-Abortion District Attorneys Aim to Derail Pro-Life Laws

Big Tech Isn’t Woke… It’s Totalitarian

EU Gives €220,000 In Taxpayer Money To Fund Drag Queen Courses Aimed At Young People

Arizona passes law criminalizing recording of police (within 8 ft)

Violent Leftists: Four Catholic Churches Vandalized in Wisconsin over Roe Verdict

Poland Rapidly Finishes Its Border Wall Preventing Belarus’ Putin Pal Dictator from Flooding It with Third World Immigrants; Washington Post Is Disgusted

Debunking The Key Misconceptions About Oil And Gas Prices

Fear Mongering Salon Claims Abortion Waiting Periods Will Kill People

Manhattan’s Soros DA Throws the Book at Bodega Worker Attacked by Violent Criminal

ABC, NBC Chalk Up Abe Assassination to ‘Gun Violence’ in Country With ‘Stringent’ Gun Laws  Japan has possibly the most stringent anti-gun laws in any country outside of North Korea.

Wisconsin Supreme Court Outlaws Election Drop Boxes, Ballot Harvesting

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Get woke, go broke! After years of shoving leftist propaganda into children’s entertainment, Disney has learned a hard lesson in playing identity politics..

According to BoundingIntoComics, cry-baby “Lightyear” Director Angus MacLane is attacking critics after getting beat by “Minions: The Rise Of Gru.”

The woke film Lightyear opened to a dismal $51 million, which was way below expectations. According to The-Numbers, the film was never able to reach commercial success as it dropped 64% during its second week and then another 64% during its third week.

Compared that to Minions: The Rise Of Gru: The non-woke children’s movie matched Lightyear’s entire domestic run during opening weekend to $107 million. The film now sits at $140.6 million and $93.7 million internationally, totaling $234.3 million. The disparity between the two is telling, but this fact upset many Hollywood lefties.

Democrats: Party of Tax and Spend

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The surge in violent crime that began a few years ago continues. It will abate only when Americans demand and get action from local and national leaders.

The crime numbers we’ve seen already this year highlight the problem.

A serious upswing in violent crime often follows significant anti-police protests and less aggressive policing. Researchers call this the Ferguson Effect or the Minneapolis Effect.

The events of the summer of 2020 created a perfect storm.

ZMan watches the dumpster fire.

In many ways, Johnson is like Donald Trump in that he represented the unhappiness of the Tory voters, even though he never really sympathized with them. Trump rode popular discontent into the White House but was obsessed with gaining elite approval. Johnson rode a populist wave into power, but never seemed to understand any of it.

There are, of course, lots of different opinions on the two men, but the one thing everyone agrees upon is the best people hated them. The reason the best people hated them is they appeared to side with the rabble against their betters, which is the one unforgivable sin in this age. Just about any degenerate act can be forgiven, but if you go against the family, you will never be forgiven. Like Trump, Johnson never seemed to understand this for some reason.

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Another parallel to Trump is that the British ruling elite now faces the same trouble as the American elite in that a replacement is not obvious. In 2020 the selectors in Washington settled on a bumbling old simpleton because the other options were terrifyingly incompetent. No matter how angry you may be at the orange dirt monster, the thought of Elizabeth Warren in charge is a bridge too far. Bernie Sanders was literally their next best option.

Ann Coulter has some fun.

The Second Amendment does not refer to “muskets”; it refers to “the right of the people to keep and bear arms.” “Bear” means to carry, so any handheld firearm carried by the military can be carried by the people. Just as the musket was once carried by our military, the AR-15 is a handheld arm (technically, the less powerful version of the automatic M-16) carried by our military today. As soon as the U.S. military goes back to muskets, then muskets it is!

But I’m not here to refute idiotic arguments. These guys may as well claim that the First Amendment protects only speech delivered in pamphlets and sermons, but nothing communicated on television, the internet, or with poster boards and Magic Markers.

The Second Amendment is nearly the only prescriptive policy in a document that liberals have been trying to pump their nutty ideas into for 50 years. Unfortunately for them, there’s nothing in the Constitution about a right to dance naked in strip clubs, contraception, marriage or sticking a fork in a baby’s head.

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We’re used to getting the short end of the stick out here in Flyover Country, whether it’s from a lack of regular news-media attention or from our vastly inequitable share of investments by venture capitalists.

Now you can add the dismal science to the list of coastal biases against the heartland that are doing real harm not just to how we’re perceived, but also to how we live.

“They don’t see the economy that many of us see and that I see,” Ernie Goss, an economist at Creighton University in Omaha, told me. “We’re speaking to farmers and bankers, and what they see isn’t the same as what [economists] in New York or D. C. see. They have blinders on. They don’t even have a feel for the distances involved our here for EV chargers.”