Students who pass white privilege test can win a gold star at UK university

Wikipedia Co-Founder Criticizes Site, Says It Has Slid Into “Leftist Propaganda”  My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

NPR Perfection? Used ‘Pregnant People’ or ‘Person’ Seven Times In Article

US School Board Group Asks Biden for Help Against Growing ‘Threat’

David Hogg’s Anti-Gun Campaign ‘Fades Into Darkness’ As Millennials Embrace Second Amendment

NYT: There’s More Haitians Where These Came from

Apple employee activism is shifting the balance of power, suggests report  Steve would never have .put up with this shit.

Andrea Mitchell Plots Strategy With Radical Abortion Guests

National School Board Association Demands Biden Treat Fed-Up Parents as Domestic Terrorists

Infographic: How To Tell A Prison From A Public School  Babylon Bee.

California outlawed all-white-male boardrooms – reshaping corporate America

CNN Terrified of ‘Angry Mobs’ aka Parents Protesting Liberal School Boards

Terrifying New Horror Movie For Liberal Audiences Shows Politicians Leaving Them Alone, Letting Them Make Own Decisions  Babylon Bee.

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Drivers heading south on U.S. Route 183 in Austin, Texas, have become familiar with a billboard urging city police officers to relocate to Spokane, Washington to become deputy sheriffs and collect a $15,000 bonus.

The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office has targeted Texas’ capital city, already in a personnel crunch as the homicide rate reached a record high, along with other jurisdictions that recently slashed police budgets.

Amid the “defund the police” movement in 2020, the Austin City Council cut the police budget by about one-third and eventually lost 150 officers. In August, shortly before the city reached its all-time record for annual homicides, the council restored the funding.

“Austin is not Texas, although you can see Texas from Austin.” — Kevin Williamson

To Build Back Better, Tax Ultra-Wealthy Families Like Ours (TIME) Nothing stopping you from writing the government a check.

Milley calls war in Afghanistan a ‘strategic failure’ for US, warns Taliban ‘remain a terrorist organization’

MLB Ships Jobs to China To Build Closer Relationship With CCP

A Peek Inside Corporate America’s Ascendant Woke-Industrial Complex

FBI Statistics Show a 30% Increase in Murder in 2020. More Evidence That Defunding Police Wasn’t a Good Idea.

Who Would Hide a Jew If Nazis Took Over America?  Dennis Prager.

Are Democrats Repeating The Mistakes Of 2016?

Chuck Todd: GOP Are Being ‘Absurd,’ Trying ‘To Punish the American Economy’  Hey, they’re not the ones trying to spend $3.5 billion that we don’t have.

Liberal Hypocrisy: Chapter 12,186

Why The Globalists Hate Populism

Feminism Without Women

How Soft Was MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on AOC? Let Us Count the Ways…

Powell, Yellen Face Off Against “Mad Maxine” In House Testimony

Michael Moore Slams Bush ‘War Criminals,’ Fight Climate Change Instead

Panicked Andrea Mitchell Demands Biden Tell Dem Moderates to ‘Get in Line’

Smith & Wesson Ditches Massachusetts Over Pending Legislation, Moves Headquarters To Tennessee

“Tax The Rich” Mantra Is Rooted In Sociology, Not Economics  Yup. They just hate rich people.

Jobs for Sale: Corruption and Misallocation in Hiring

Newly Freed Britney Spears Bewildered As She Steps Out Into Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland Of California  Babylon Bee.

Texas Acquires COVID-19 Monoclonal Antibodies, Bypassing Biden HHS Limits: Governor

YouTube Suddenly Deletes, Then Restores Ron Paul Institute’s Channel After Backlash

US Published National Debt: $28T. The Truth: $146T. Each Taxpayer’s Share: $951k

CNN Blames Record Surge in Homicides on Police, Guns

Policing Pronouns: How “Misgendering” Is Becoming The New Battleground Over Discrimination

ZMan is not optimistic.

Way back when the government kicked off the Covid panic, smart people pointing out that shutting down the world to bend the curve was not a cost free way of addressing the problem. In fact, it was a very expensive and risky solution to a problem that was best addressed through traditional means. The world has a pandemic every 15 years and a severe one at least once a generation. Humans have figured out to tough out these naturally occurring events.

Shutting down the world and making people stay home from work is a novel invention, so there was no way to know what would happen. Human societies are tough, so it took a while for the problems to manifest. Initially, those who could work from home worked from home and those unemployed were supported with subsidies. This could never be a permanent condition, so we have been trying to transition back to normalcy for the last six months, but things are nowhere near normal.

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In the opening pages of The Genetic Lottery, Dr Kathryn Paige Harden sets out her mission: “What I am aiming to do in this book is re-envision the relationship between genetic science and equality. … I will argue that the science of individual differences is compatible with full-throated egalitarianism.” In this respect, Harden’s book bears a striking resemblance to last year’s The Cult of Smart, in which Freddie deBoer argued that “Hereditarianism [is] the best hope of a twenty-first century left” and proposed that recognising genetically based differences in academic ability was “simply taking left-wing thought to its logical conclusion.” The critical difference is that Harden is a tenured professor in the genetics of human behaviour and she is lending the full weight of her scientific credentials to this moral and political crusade. This makes The Genetic Lottery a dangerous book that threatens to make our genetic advantages and disadvantages a new front in the culture wars.

Snip Snip: ABC Edits Out Obama Opposing Biden’s ‘Open Borders’ in Interview

Brothels And Illegal Massage Parlors Outnumber Starbucks 2-To-1 Across NYC

NYT Reserves All Sympathy for Pro-Abortion Side in TX: ‘Sentenced to Being Parents’

Cuomo, Lemon Claim CNN Has ‘News Accountability’ Unlike Fox News

Who’s homeless enough for housing? In San Francisco, an algorithm decides

House Dems Propose $100 Billion Tax Hike Targeting The Poor

Democrats Suggest Giving President, Treasury Power To Raise Debt Limit

Matt Walsh, Parents Slam Virginia School District’s ‘Indoctrination and Psychological Abuse of Kids’

NY Times ‘Redesigned’ the American Flag: It’s WAY Worse Than You Imagine

Leftists Deeply Afraid Things Could Go Back To Normal Babylon Bee.

Republican Cheney Offers Strong Defense of Milley, Invokes Jan. 6 Capitol Riot  Going full RINO.

John Leguizamo Laments That Movie About Video Game Italians Is Missing ‘LatinX’ Actors  Maybe because they aren’t Italian?

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Ben John, 21, a former student, was convicted of a terror offence after downloading almost 70,000 white supremacist documents and bomb-making instructions.

He didn’t actually do anything, or plan to do anything. He just had information in his possession.

He was given a two-year suspended sentence at Leicester crown court after his conviction on 12 August of possessing a record of information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism.

Just for possessing information. This is what Britain has descended to. But that’s not the worst part.

Among those who called for the sentenced to be reviewed was Hope Not Hate, the anti-racism campaign group, which said it was unduly lenient and sent a dangerous message at a time when the far right poses Britain’s fastest-growing terror threat.

They want him to go to prison for ThoughtCrime. Welcome to IngSoc.

Biden-Aiding Media Helps Him Claim His Agenda Costs ‘Zero Dollars’

Arizona Senate Hears Of Multiple Inconsistencies Found By Election Audit  Nothing to see here … move along, move along….

DCCC Chair Said Stimulus Would Fuel School Reopenings. In His District, It Hasn’t.

Crazy People Are Dangerous

NY Gov. Hochul: Unvaccinated People ‘Aren’t Listening to God’  God doesn’t speak to Democrats. At all.

RNC Suing 2 Vermont Cities for Giving Voting Rights to Noncitizens

Preschool Funding in $3.5 Trillion Spending Bill Is Modeled After Failed Head Start Program

Virginia Parents Say School Board Gag Rule Stifles Criticism

CBS to Dems: Stop ‘Squabbling,’ Just ‘Reshape’ Country With Socialism!

Nation Correspondent Praises ‘Martyrs’ of Palestinian Violence

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Hammer tech.

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And all of them have lead in their butts. Tell me I’m wrong.

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It is a particular fantasy of the western left that the abject failure of the Cuban economy is somehow the fault of the USA. For example, some 58 British Corbynista and SNP MPs have recently signed a motion attacking what they call the US “blockade” of Cuba.

Of course there is no blockade, only a partial embargo. The two are absolutely different. A blockade would require the US to prevent the movement of goods and people to and from Cuba. The US laws that constitute the embargo only limit what US citizens and companies can do in relation to Cuba. They don’t prohibit Cuba from doing anything.

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Ending the US embargo wouldn’t make much difference to Cuba. Its essential problem is the failure of its economic model. The regime is not only unable to breed chickens. Prior to the communist takeover the largest Cuban export to the US was sugar, and the second largest export was coffee. Both sectors have been largely destroyed as a consequence of nationalisation and under-investment.

Liz Cheney: ‘I Was Wrong’ in Opposing Gay Marriage in Past  RINO conversion almost complete….

Yale’s failed Singapore venture: More American arrogance in Asia (Salon) Singapore refused to put up with Yale’s Woke bullshit, and Salon is NOT happy.

Biden’s multi-trillion bet to change America is in peril as Trump waits to pounce (CNN) And nobody can pounce like Trump.

Texas governor to Border Patrol agents under investigation: ‘I will hire you’ (Politico)

These tiny homes in Los Angeles offer the city’s homeless a new lease on life (CNN) Needless to say, none of them meet the city’s present building code.

UK Labour Leader Says It’s ‘Wrong’ To Say That Only Women Have A Cervix

Activists want Apple import ban over forced labor

Stelter Math? Somehow, Spending $3.5 Trillion Isn’t Really Spending $3.5 Trillion  I guess he forgot to take his shoes off.

Dem Inflates Résumé Ahead of Crucial Iowa House Run  As they do.

Sandy’s crying game explained

Senior Fed Economist Slams Economics As “Arrant Nonsense”, Hints It Perpetuates “Criminally Oppressive, Unjust Social Order”

Boss Warns All New Employees He Will Fire Them Immediately If People On Twitter Tell Him To  Babylon Bee.

Speech Police! Twitter Explores Filter to Squash ‘Potentially Harmful or Offensive’ Replies

California to Mail Every Voter a Ballot in Future Elections For convenience, rhe Democrat candidates will already be marked.

Pritzker Goes To Bat For What The Wall Street Journal Calls “One Of The Greatest Fiscal Cons In History”

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An irony of the modern age is the growing absence of reason and the growing predominance of mysticism among the atheists.

Witchcraft is popular among the Woke.

Every ‘modern pagan’ I’ve ever met, every believer in palmistry or astrology or magic healing crystals, is a liberal Democrat. Guess why that is.

The Problem Is Not Just Xi Jinping; It Is Communism

When a national park erodes environmental justice (The Hill) What distinguishes ‘environmental justice’ from just, you know, justice? (The political agenda!)

New CA law allows to pull identifying info of gun owners from state registry

Judge rejects leftist Fairfax prosecutor’s deal of three years for child rape

Free Parking Is Killing Cities  That’s right! We need to make parking expensive so people won’t go there! That will save them!

Noam Chomsky on the cruelty of American imperialism  His bread-and-butter since his academic career stalled.

Inaccuracies, irresponsible coverage, & conflicts of interest in The New Yorker

Iceland elects its first female-majority parliament

Stelter: ‘Assignment’ for Journos Is to ‘Prevent’ GOP from ‘Undemocratic’ Power in 2024

NYC Fast Resembling San Fran & Vancouver ‘Cities Of The Walking Dead’ As Junkies, Dealers Take Over Midtown Streets With Impunity  Time to leave.

NY Times Excuses Australia’s Authoritarianism in Failing Fight Against Covid

Daily Show’s Jordan Klepper Embarrasses Anti-Mask Parents  (Daily Beast) Or, at least, that’s what they’d like you to believe.

Lockdown Insanity: Broken Records, Broken Lives

“Immunity As A Service” – The Snake-Oil Salesmen & The COVID-Zero Con

The Lab-Leak Debate Just Got Even Messier

Italy Orders Companies Not To Pay Unvaccinated Workers

Norwegian Government Announces Lifting Of Final COVID-19 Measures

3,000 NYC Teachers Asked For Vaccination Exemptions, Union Says

A Nationally Televised Example Of The Chaos False Positive COVID Tests Create

NY Times’s Alarmist Covid Reporter Makes Up ‘Surge’ From School Reopenings

Judge Denies Police Union’s Effort To Delay Vaccine Mandate in Massachusetts

Natural Immunity After COVID Could Be Legal Defense Against Vaccine Mandates

Los Angeles Homeless Moving Back Onto Street After Cleanups

Radical Andrea Mitchell on Abortion: Men Just Don’t Understand!

Wealthy Germans Fearing Leftist Victory In Sunday’s Vote Scramble To Move Fortunes To Switzerland  As they do.

New York Gov. Hochul Launches Purge Of Cuomo Cronies  Every Turd World regime does the same.

AOC roasted for shedding ‘crocodile tears’ after crying over Israel Iron Dome House vote

‘Squad’ angers pro-Israel Dems with stance against Iron Dome funding

Time to Yank Your Kids Out of the Public Schools

American Wokeness Threatens to Infect Europe

Twitter and the ‘Fact-Checkers’ Line Up for Biden

Heckler’s Veto: 66% Of College Students Say Stopping Speech Is Free Speech

Why the White House and Democrats use $400,000 as the threshold for taxing ‘the rich’ (CNBC)

Pennsylvania university tells students ‘action could be taken’ if they use wrong pronouns

‘The Wire’ creator David Simon will pull upcoming HBO series from Texas over abortion law (CNN)

Stunning Interview Sees China Warn “23 Million Australians” That US Pact Now Makes Them “Target” For Nuclear Attack  Communists, like Muslims, are always a threat.

ACLU Rewrites a Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quote Because Men Can Have Abortions Too,

Facebook Fact Checkers Just Censored Peer Reviewed Science

Feds Give Planned Parenthood Millions in Pandemic Relief After Ruling it Ineligible for Gov’t Aid

Spain will ban selling fruit and vegetables in plastic containers starting 2023

Washington National Cathedral Names Artist to Replace Confederate Windows  Guess they were from the wrong nation.

Marvel Studios May Drop the ‘Men’ from X-Men  Why not? They’ve already dropped the men.

AOC Unveils Custom ‘Tax The Rich’ Tesla  Babylon Bee.

Oh No! Girl James Bond Is Foiled When Villain Places Details Of His Evil Plans In Pickle Jar  Babylon Bee. What my wife calls ‘hubby work’ – too bad 007 isn’t married.

‘Nasser Was Not An Outlier’ – Exposing The FBI’s Incurable Rot

California Voters Give Newsom Approval to Continue Regressive Policies Against the Working Class

Woke Was At Its Worst Last Week In Cook County

Mississippi Attorney General Details Abortion Case That Could Undo Roe v. Wade

Twitter and the ‘Fact Checkers’ Line Up for Biden

Lithuanian government warns about secret censorship features in Xiaomi phones

‘We’re All Pro-Life, Everybody’: View Hosts Dismiss GOP Guest Calling Out ‘Extreme’ Pro-Abortion Dems  And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

Democrats Push Tax Breaks for Union Political Activity

Border Patrol Agents Accused Of Patrolling Border  Babylon Bee.

Uma Thurman Shouts her Abortion: It Was ‘Path To Life of Joy & Love’  So I ought to be able to whack Joe Biden, which would similarly enrich my life? Is that what you’re saying?

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According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 4 million Americans quit their jobs in July 2021. Resignations peaked in April and have remained abnormally high for the last several months, with a record-breaking 10.9 million open jobs at the end of July. How can employers retain people in the face of this tidal wave of resignations?

Addressing the root causes of these staggering statistics starts with better understanding them. To explore exactly who has been driving this recent shift, my team and I conducted an in-depth analysis of more than 9 million employee records from more than 4,000 companies.

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In the space of one week, we have been subjected to the Met Gala, the Emmys, and the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly—three orgies of preening self-congratulation by disgraceful narcissists. Besides their total uselessness to society, these nauseating pageants have a few other things in common: they feature inane political statements by people with distinguished track records of feckless idiocy, they cost exponentially more money than they are worth, and they are forced relentlessly into our field of vision despite the fact that, if we have even a little dignity, we find them repulsive.

It has become standard practice to dismiss these sorts of spectacles as “irrelevant.” In one sense that is true: they are the farcical dying gasps of an American monoculture that was long ago hollowed out into a skin suit for entitled mediocrities to cover the nakedness of their souls. Though the Emmys’ ratings ticked up slightly this year, their overall pattern this millennium has been one of steady decline. Your average American has far more pressing things to do than mire his psyche in the interminable transcript of Biden’s speech to the U.N., and practically the only thing anyone has seen of the Met Gala was that dress AOC wore.

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orget what you hear most pundits saying about last week’s recall election that failed to unseat California Governor Gavin Newsom. Some Democrats think because Newsom ran on an anti-Trump platform that will bring the party success — or cause them less damage — in the next two elections.

They are wrong. The real story is the slow but gaining-in-speed exodus from California to states with lower or no state taxes. This mass exit likely reduced the number of people who might have voted to oust Newsom. Then there’s the rising cost of just about everything, including gasoline. At nearly $6 a gallon at some stations in the San Francisco Bay area and Los Angeles, California has the highest average price for gas in the nation.

There are also other forces at work.

Steve Sailer.

The sudden crossing of the Rio Grande river at Del Rio, Texas, by 15,000 Haitians is a reminder that the most prophetic novel of the last half century was the late Jean Raspail’s 1973 book The Camp of the Saints about a million third-worlders landing on the beaches of France, and whites being unable to summon the will to be so racist as to turn them away.

Do American leaders still believe that they have the moral right to protect the territory of the American people by force? Or will we unilaterally disarm in the Scramble for America?

How (Not) to Tax Billionaires (CNN}

Centrist Democrats threaten Biden’s agenda over opposition to lower drug prices (Salon)

Nancy Pelosi, Estimated To Be Worth $114 Million, Says Capitalism Has “Not Served Us Well” And “Needs Improving”

Census Data Confirm Migration from Big CIties

Ben & Jerry’s ‘Change Is Brewing’ Funds Defund Police Movement

Fiscally Responsible Democrat Says We Should Be Able To Destroy America For Way Less Than $3.5 Trillion  Babylon Bee.

Steve Sailer.

Olgiati’s house reminds me that I have an opened cardboard box sitting around that I need to stomp flat so I can put it in the recycling bin.

6 people shot, 1 fatally, in heart of Deep Ellum overnight, Dallas police say “The incident happened shortly before 12:45 a.m. near the intersection of North Malcolm X Boulevard and Main Street”

BLM Protest Planned at New York Restaurant Where Brawl Over Vaccination Proof Occurred

Cleveland mayor’s grandson fatally shot, report says

BLM to Protest Racist Karen Restaurant Hostess

Black Gunshot Victims Up 89% During Racial Reckoning

‘Hotel Rwanda’ Hero Guilty in Terrorism Case

More White Than Black People Want Police Abolished In Minneapolis, New Poll Finds

Democrats ‘Want People to Be Dependent on Government,’ Georgia Governor Says  Who doesn’t know that?

More Radical Than Roe: House Abortion Bill Would Repeal Existing Laws, Prohibit Future Pro-Life Laws

Hungary and Serbia Plan to Stop the Migration Tsunami

Dems Call For Infrastructure Spending To Build More Bridges For Haitian Migrants To Live Under  Babylon Bee.

Left Leans Into Champagne Socialism

AOC’s ‘Tax the Rich’ dress designer Aurora James owes debt in multiple states

Secession! Sarah Silverman Proposes Breaking America Into Two Countries

J6 ‘Chaos’ Total Bust For Media As Cops, Journalists And FBI Appear To Outnumber Protesters

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For a shoe-factory job paying $12 an hour, the actual cost of shoemaking — when adding benefits — grows to $16 an hour, compared with about $3 an hour in China, said Mike Jeppesen, head of global operations at Wolverine Worldwide, which owns brands like Merrell, Sperry and Keds. And that cost quadruples after wholesale and retail markups, he said, ballooning into a $50 price difference between a pair made in the U.S. versus in China.

Note the lack of mention of Minimum Wage regulations. The only way around the barrier of expensive labor is to exclude as much labor as possible through increased automation, and that doesn’t do domestic employment for low-skilled workers a bit of good. The Underclass benefits from cheap prices only to the extent that they can find the money in the first place, and government welfare benefits only go so far.

Apple executives talk impact of diversity initiatives at Congressional Black Caucus Foundation conference  The Congressional Black Caucus has only Democrats; black Republicans aren’t admitted.

White College Professor Tells Students She Will ‘Confront the Innate Racism Within’ Herself

This Police Department Is So Bad, a Cop Reported It to Black Lives Matter (Daily Beast)

Virginia high school teacher says making kids behave in class is ‘white supremacy’

Liberal groups prod Dems to raise taxes to pay for racial justice agenda

A historically Black town stood in the way of a pipeline – so developers claimed it was mostly white (The Guardian)

BuzzFeed Investigation: ‘Peg the Patriarchy’ Met Gala Outfit Appropriated from ‘Fat, Queer, POC’

Race-Baiting Don Lemon: ‘Fair’ to Call Clarence Thomas a ‘Sellout?’

World Economic Forum Tells US Colleges To “Re-Educate The Racists Among Us”

Haitians Trying to Flood Into Texas from Mexico, White House Responds by Banning Fox’s Drone Coverage

No, the Richest One Percent Don’t Pay 40 Percent of the Taxes. (New York Magazine) Chait admits that it’s ‘literally true’,but employs handwavium to demonstrate that it’s ‘deeply misleading’.

Gov. Newsom abolishes single-family zoning in California

Dozens of Florida students signed petition to abolish Constitution

California teacher hangs ‘F— the Police,’ ‘F— Amerikkka’ posters in classroom

Politico Reveals Full Acceptance of Social Media Censorship

Trans-Indoctrinated ‘Y: The Last Man’ Finds ‘Plenty of Men, None With Y Chromosome’

How Social-Justice Extremists Spawned a Generation of ‘Progressive’ Antisemites

No Fly Zone: FAA Shuts Down Fox News Drone Exposing Border Crisis

TikTok’s ‘Devious Licks’ Trend Leaving Nationwide Damage in Schools

Video of Tesla FSD almost hitting pedestrian receives DMCA takedown

Liberal Annoyed His Mask Hides How Smug He Looks For Wearing A Mask  Babylon Bee.

SALT Break Erases Most Of Democrat Tax Hike ‘On 1%’ – And AOC’s Suddenly Open To It

Brazen Muggers Ambush, Rob, & Shoot Customers Dining At Fancy NYC Restaurant

North Carolina Court Strikes Down Voter ID Law

CNN Hosts, Guests Demand GOP Surrender on Raising the Debt Limit  Yeah, they’ll get right on it.

Freeberg nails it.

All your life you have heard “Women fought for and won the right to vote” and it makes it sound like men were the Evil Galactic Empire and women were noble brave Ewoks on Endor…but, no. It was a constitutional amendment that had to be ratified by 3/4 of the states, and in order to ratify, you had to be a man. Men gave women the right to vote.

Ever since then, we have been dominated by what we might call The Hystericals. These are people who are driven into hysterics when they figure out there’s danger around…just humdrum, everyday, ordinary danger. In network security we call it “residual risk.” It goes with simply living life. When The Hystericals figure out residual risk has not been reduced to zero, which is an impossibility anyway, they insist on turning everything upside down. They don’t feel completely 100% safe yet, because they’re not, and so everyone else has to do some more accommodating. We need more taxes and more rules, to suit The Hystericals.

Fairfax County approves 5-cent tax on plastic bags  How quickly the rot spreads.

Ilhan Omar slams judge for blocking ballot measure to scrap Minneapolis Police Department

Major UK Fertilizer Plants Shuttered Due To Skyrocketing Natural Gas Prices

Illinois Dem Pushes for ‘Clean Energy’ Subsidies That Would Pad His Pocket

WSA Passport Acceptance – Visas on WSA Passports

Joe Scarborough Suppresses Most Serious China-Call Allegation Against General Milley  Servant of the Narrative.

WSJ: Big Tech Platforms Are Addictive, Toxic for Teen Girls and Minors

The new warrant: how US police mine Google for your location and search history (The Guardian)

TONE DEAF CNN Allows Ex-Planned Parenthood Prez to Demand: ‘Protect Our Children’

AOC Hit With Second Ethics Complaint Over ‘Tax The Rich’ Theatrics At The Met  Her dress reminds me of a Chick-Fil-A bag.

Federal Grand Jury Indicts Lawyer Who Represented Clinton Campaign

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Like many U.S. states, France has conducted a war on sprawl that has had economically ruinous and socially harmful consequences, yet produced no real benefits, according to a new paper from the Institut de recherches économiques et fiscales (Institute for Fiscal and Economic Research). Written by engineer Vincent Bénard, The War on Sprawl: An Irrational Political Obsession shows that anti-sprawl policies have caused a six-fold increase in land prices and significantly increased housing prices. This represents a transfer of wealth from low-income people who rent and/or have recently purchased homes to high-income people who have long owned their homes and may be landlords of rented homes.

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Fentanyl seizures in 2021 have nearly doubled 2020 numbers, according to records quietly released by Customs and Border Protection.

The “Drug Seizure Statistics” tool run by the agency disclosed on Monday that agents already seized 9,337 pounds of fentanyl by the end of July, a 94 percent increase from the 4,791 pounds seized in the entirety of 2020. In 2019, the agency seized just 2,804 pounds. CBP did not publicly announce the updated statistics.

According to CBP’s data, the vast majority of fentanyl seizures—1,110—have taken place at the southwest border, highlighting how the migrant crisis creates opportunities for cartels and other criminal organizations as law enforcement finds its resources strained. The influx of fentanyl also comes at a time when overdoses from the drug are set to break all-time records this year.

Canadian Schools Hold Book-Burning Demonstration To Be A More “Inclusive Country”

Missouri conservative group confronts student senator as he takes down and throws away flags from 9/11 display

How Europe’s doors are slamming shut for Americans (CNN) Gee, what a hardship.

Don’t let California become Texas, Newsom says — as residents, businesses flee

More examples of FB marking Mastodon related links as spam

Stelter SLAMMED for Claiming Anchors Were 9/11 Heroes While Leaders Were ‘In Bunkers’

YouTube Suspends Account Of Former Presidential Speechwriter  Bueller? Bueller?

Big Tech Shadow-Banned Rose McGowan: Report

More And More Australians Are Seeking To Leave The Country

REMINDER: Twitter Censored Dave Rubin For Predicting What Biden Did

Yeah, 9/11 Was Bad; But It Wasn’t ‘QAnoners Wandering Around The Capitol For A Few Hours’-Bad

Facebook Censored Me for Mentioning Open-Source Social Network Mastodon

Progressives Cheer As Man Pummels Woman  Babylon Bee.

Bucs-Cowboys opener begins with Black national anthem

Actress and ‘View’ Agree: TX Law Restricting Abortions Is Racist  The ghost of Margaret Sanger says, ‘They’re not killing enough black babies!’

Seth Meyers Rips Trump Military Board Appointees for Trying to Stick Around (Daily Beast) Yeah, we all look to Seth Meyers for public policy advice.

The Texas county that explains why Republicans are terrified (The Guardian) As if a Left Coast writer for the Guardian knows anything about Texas.

Los Angeles diners robbed at gunpoint on sidewalk café in broad daylight Maybe they need an open carry law for victims — the criminals appear to have one already.

California May Require Menstrual Products in Public Schools

Nets Skip WH Pulling ATF Nominee After Accusations of Racism Surface

20 Years Of Government-Sponsored Tyranny: The Rise Of The Security-Industrial Complex From 9/11 To COVID-19

Judges question constitutionality of felony charge against Jan. 6 defendants

BBC Admits Syria Chemical Attack Documentary Had “Serious Flaws”

Netflix ‘Gay James Bond’ Cartoon Embraces Demonic Eroticism, Calls Jesus ‘Her’

Trump: Downside of a 2024 Run Is That I’d Be Saving CNN

What Afghan Blunder? CBS’s King Helps Clinton Tout Voter Suppression as Real Threat

Rutgers and San Francisco State 9/11 Panel To Feature Terrorist Sympathizers n Of course they do.

$3.5T Reconciliation Bill Would Lavish Hundreds of Billions on Nanny State Education

Former Sen. Boxer Nudges Feinstein Toward Retirement  If I had a safe seat like Feinstein, they’d have to carry me out in a box.

On Morning Joe, Wash Post Book Critic Laments American ‘Blood Lust’ After 9/11

Wealthy School District Diverts $79M in COVID-19 Relief to ‘Equity’ Programs

Contest Challenges Inventors to Harness Wave Power to Desalinate Seawater (‘Scientific’ American)

Earth’s tipping points could be closer than we think. Our current plans won’t work (The Guardian)

Climate Crisis Shape Shifting vs Natural Diversity

A recent reversal in the response of western Greenland’s ice caps to climate change

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Journolist is no more. In 2010, the online forum where leftist journalists congregated to decide on the liberal talking points of the day was shut down by its founder Ezra Klein when the group was exposed.

And yet, leftists still manage to spout remarkably similar lines. When it comes to the Texas abortion law, the liberal trope of the times is the poor, besieged, “Uber driver.” The notion is that Uber drivers who transport women to abortion clinics will be sued by private citizens under the law, seeking an award of up to $10,000.

On Friday’s Morning Joe, MSNBC liberal analyst Jonathan Lemire, who also poses as a “reporter” for the Associated Press, mouthed the “Uber driver” line. We’ve put together a mash-up of multiple liberal worthies, starting with Lemire, all trotting out the “Uber driver” trope. leftists prefer to focus on supposedly beleaguered Uber drivers even though very few are likely to be sued because they want to deflect attention from what the true target of the law would be: the abortionists themselves.

Nobody who objects to abortion is going to waste time on some poor Uber driver. They’re going to go after the abortionists, which are the chief target of the law.

On the other hand, I can see the sue-and-settle scam artists who currently prey on businesses that don’t have the appropriate Americans With Disabilities Act accommodation provided rubbing their hands with glee. I suggest that the legislation was poorly drafted if it will allow this result (presuming that the Wokerati are interpreting it correctly, which is never a reliable assumption).

UPDATE: A Tight-Knit Circle of Internet Troublemakers Convinced Professional Journalists

Read it.

Despite more than 18 months of hardship, the stock markets have miraculously continued to move upward, indicating a renewed confidence in our economic recovery by investors, both domestic and abroad.

In other words, people not only want to see America win, but they also believe that America can win. In fact, the markets have hit record highs, surging 100% from where they were at the start of the pandemic. Although there has been some recent lag due to the COVID-19 delta variant, the markets have, for the most part, remained consistently strong.

Despite these trends from the markets that signal economic recovery, strength, and renewed interest from investors, the most significant concern that hasn’t been discussed enough by mainstream media outlets is the number of Americans who are refusing to go back to work.

But the Cloud People don’t want job markets to work,  which is why they keep trying to raise the minimum wage. They want as many people as possible unemployed so that they will be dependent on government benefits (and more willing to vote for the Party of Free Stuff).

Matthew Continetti.

Reading the twentieth-anniversary commemorations of 9/11 that have filled our prestige newspapers and magazines in recent days, it might seem as if Krauthammer was describing not only another time but another country. Those pieces tell an altogether different story: not of pride and resilience but of guilt, pathos, regret, and exhaustion. The reckless, slapdash, and deadly American withdrawal from Afghanistan has only thickened the funereal atmosphere. That “bedrock America” of courage and grit? It is obscured behind a fog of self-loathing.

For example: “After 9/11, the U.S. Got Almost Everything Wrong,” says one headline in the Atlantic. “9/11 was a test. The books of the last two decades show how America failed,” reads the title of an essay in the Washington Post. “Winning Ugly” is the name of an article in Foreign Affairs. A headline in the Spectator (U.K.) asks, “Is America still worth fighting for?” (The implied answer is no.) New York magazine, of all places, is chockablock with hot takes arguing that the war on terrorism wasn’t worth it: “America’s greatest existential threat wasn’t terrorism”; “The case for Iraqi reparations”; “Bin Laden Won.” The headline of an opinion column in the Washington Post: “We best remember 9/11 by moving beyond it.”

Australia Is Now Confiscating Booze Delivered To People Forced Into Lockdown

You Love to See It: Fake News Jim Acosta’s CNN Show Has Been a Complete Failure

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez mocked for using term ‘menstruating person’ to describe women in interview

“Housing Is A Human Right”: Rent Activists Step Up Pressure Ahead Of German Elections

The Logical Conclusion of ‘Social Justice’

‘Biology 101’? On CNN, AOC Blasts Texas Abortion Law for the ‘Menstruating Person’  For AOC and her ilk, ideology always comes first.

English Soccer Team Gets Booed For Virtue Signaling In Poland

MSNBC Gushes Over Abortion-Cheering Teen: ‘You Warned Us’ About Texas

GOP Leader McCarthy Asks Supreme Court to Rule House Proxy Voting Unconstitutional

DOJ Sues Texas Over Abortion Law

Judge Blocks Florida’s GOP-Backed ‘Anti-Riot’ Law

MSNBC Marks 9/11 By Trashing America: ‘Intense Islamophobia and Fear’

NY Times Loses It Over ‘Enemy’ Dems Opposing Biden, Pouncing GOP

Depraved Salon Pro-Abort Admits: ‘Satanists Are Right,’ Abortion ‘Sacred Ritual’

Democratic Staffer Leaving Senate for Facebook: Report  The revolving door is the first one on the left.

Merit System Is Unjust Because It Rewards Productive Individuals, Professors Argue  You can’t make this shit up.

Watchdog: ‘Unknown’ Ballots in Georgia, Pennsylvania Surpass Biden’s Margin of Victory There

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slams Texas GOP governor’s ‘deep ignorance’ on abortion (CNN)

The Taliban’s Ideology Has Surprising Roots In British-Ruled India (NPR) Yeah, that Brit Mohammed has a lot to answer for.

Biden Forces Out Trump Appointees From Military Academy Advisory Boards

Smug Lefty Seth Meyers Hates Texas and ‘Heinous,’ ‘Diabolical’ Abortion Law

ZMan pulls back the curtain a bit.

Eric Hoffer noted that people who are prone to join mass movements tend to join many of them, often going from one to another. It is not unusual for someone to go from one cause then to another that contradicts the prior cause in some way. The old stereotype of the middle-aged woman driving a Volvo festooned with bumper stickers from various causes does not spring from nothing. The vegan activist will be into saving animals, sustainable farming and oppose nuclear energy.

A good recent example of this is the amazing overlap in people who worship Gaia and those who are now Covidians. The people who carry grimy canvas sacks to the market as a sign of their piety are now wearing three masks in the car as they driver alone to the Whole Foods Market. That does not mean all Covidians were Gaia worshippers, but almost all Gaia worshippers embraced Covid. HBD people embracing Covid suggests their interest in biology is something other than empirical.

Why Texas’s strict abortion law is terrible for the economy (CNN) So was freeing Democrats’ slaves. I guess they would have objected to that, as well.

WaPo columnist complains media is ‘obsessed with not offending Republican readers’ Really? Hadn’t noticed.

Watch shameless shoplifters brazenly stroll out of Lowe’s store with packed carts

Somali feminist: Facebook is being used to silence me

China Accuses NATO Of Inflating Its ‘Purely Defensive’ Nuclear Arms Program   Purely defensive!

Australian Court: Facebook Can Be Sued for User Comments

No Anarchy for You! Portland to Cut Ties With TX Over Abortion Law  This is like Red China promising to punish Texas by refusing to export communism to the Lone Star State. (More States Pass Abortion Laws In Hopes Of Triggering Travel Ban From Portland  Babylon Bee.)

20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes off at airports?  Hint: No.

‘Gone Too Far’? Taliban Paints Over George Floyd Mural In Kabul  Uh-oh.

‘We’re On The Right Side Of History’, Says Party Whose Abortion Position Is Endorsed By North Korea, Harvey Weinstein, Church Of Satan  Babylon Bee.

Drama in Theatre Class: Gay Teacher Resigns Over Pride Flag

LAPD officers told to collect social media data on every civilian they stop

Lib Activist Group Warns Protesters: Men Can Have Abortions Too, Comparing GOP to Taliban is ‘Islamophobic’

“Harmful Language” Trigger Warning Added To US Constitution On National Archives Website  NOT the Babylon Bee.

Biden, Big Tech Sued For Censorship

Microsoft Teams To Delete ‘Inappropriate’ Messages: Report

Guardian: Young People Flocking to Climate Change Political Activism Careers And why not? It beats actually working for a living.

A Climate Solution Lies Deep Under the Ocean—But Accessing It Could Have Huge Environmental Costs (TIME)

CNN’s Camerota Laments Her PC Lifestyle Has Not Solved Climate Change

Cancel culture in climate change

Electric Vehicles produce substantial toxicity to Humans and Freshwater

Plano 8-Year-Old Raises More Than $1,000 For Healthcare Workers Through Labor Day Lemonade Stand (CBS News) If she weren’t black, of course, nobody would have even noticed, much less written a news story about it. Still, it’s good to see.

Minnesota man freed by Kamala Harris-supported bail fund now charged with murder

Lil Uzi Vert says fans ripped $24 million diamond out of his forehead Gee, I wonder why.

15 ex-NFL players say they engaged in multimillion-dollar nationwide fraud scheme

538: Why Can’t Colleges Hire More Black and Latinx Professors?

Tesla Wins One: Man Caught On Car Camera Faking Injuries In Louisiana Parking Lot

NFL Cancels Singer Victory Boyd’s Opening Day Performance for Not Being Vaccinated