It Hit 80 Degrees in the Arctic This Week  Women and minorities hardest hit.

Scientists identify a temperature tipping point for tropical forests

This Week’s Disasters, Climate Change and the Pandemic

THE CONSENUS FRAUD part 1 – Climate of Freedom Series

Sir David Attenborough: ‘Coronavirus pandemic has swept climate change off the front pages’  Funny how ‘dying next week’ tends to take the attention off of ‘dying in forty years’.

Yahoo! Spreads Liberal Think Tank Claiming Virus ‘Spiking’ in Counties That Voted for Trump

Wallace, Goldberg Bash ‘Twitter Troll’ Press Secretary McEnany

‘Indefensible And Grotesque’: Jonah Goldberg Slams Kayleigh McEnany, And Chris Wallace Joins In  Jonah Goldberg takes his role as shill for the Crust very seriously.

Q. Why Is the SAT Falling Out of Favor? A. Asian Supremacy, by Steve Sailer

White Supremacist Groups Are Thriving on Facebook  Something called the ‘Tech Transparency Project’ hears the dog-whistle so you don’t have to.

Chuck Todd Laments Biden Has to Answer for Racist ‘You Ain’t Black’ Comment

‘Breakfast Club’ Host Says Biden Apology Isn’t Enough: ‘The Best Apology Is A Black Agenda’

Charlamagne to MSNBC’s Joy Reid: Biden Apology ‘Cool’—But What About Reparations?

The New Yorker is a foundational Voice of the Crust, so you know where this is going to come out.

We all agree that inequality is bad. But what kind of equality is good?

Except, of course, that ‘we’ don’t — certainly proglodytes all agree that inequality is bad, and the mass of the Great Unwashed, subject to proglodyte media brainwashing would probably sign on to that, but those who claim that ‘inequality is bad’ never bother to justify that assumption; they just AssUMe and move on.

This article also follows the Modern Journalism Model of beginning with a Pulitzer-qualifying story rather than trying to establish a basis for a reasoned argument; this is very handy when you’re trying to use intellectual smoke-and-mirrors to get your political assumptions slid in under the radar so that your audience doesn’t realize that you’re actually assuming what you ought to be proving.

Paul Mirengoff at Powerline does a little fisking.

David Brooks, the pet pseudo-conservative at the New York Times, gets a lot of unearned respect from the Usual Suspects in the National Review/think-tank crowd, and I’ve never understood why. When he is right, it’s when he writes a thumb-sucker full of tedious platitudes, and when he addresses current affairs, he is invariably wrong.

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Was thinking about similarities and differences between the reaction to AIDS and to SARS-2. AIDS hit much more slowly, of course. It was way more dangerous per customer, but it was obvious early on that it was only spreading in a small fraction of the population.

The health authorities such as the CDC didn’t believe in quarantine then, either, and they prevailed. They were wrong, of course. They spent a lot of effort trying to convince the public that HIV was a significant threat to straight men and women: that was a lie. Presumably it was motivated by the probably-correct notion that people wouldn’t give a shit unless they were personally threatened, or possibly just because. Wiki is still doing its part to further nonsense on this topic: ” Announcements by various celebrities that they had contracted HIV (including actor Rock Hudson, basketball star Magic Johnson, tennis player Arthur Ashe and singer Freddie Mercury) were significant in arousing media attention and making the general public aware of the dangers of the disease to people of all sexual orientations.” Arthur Ashe got a bad transfusion: as for the others, what do you think?

Although it really did manage to spread in the general population in Sub-Saharan Africa – but not much elsewhere.

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The mayor had warned last week, “Anyone tries to get in the water, they’ll be taken right out of the water,” while also threatening summonses for violators as the city battles to keep the coronavirus under control by banning swimming for now.

But Sliwa, dressed in a wet suit — and his trademark red Guardian Angels beret — strolled into the surf and swam around for about an hour without consequence, while a crowd of people on a pier near the old Parachute Jump cheered for him.

Seven or eight Parks officers tried ordering the Guardian Angels’ founder and mayoral candidate out of the drink at one point, but when he refused, they just stood and stared from the sand.

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Electric VTOL air taxis are one of the great emerging technologies of our time, promising to unlock the skies as traffic-free, high-speed, 3D commuting routes. Much quieter and cheaper than helicopter travel, they’ll also run on zero-local-emission electric power, and many models suggest they’ll cost around the same per mile as a ride share.

Eventually, the market seems to agree, they’ll be pilotless automatons, even cheaper and more reliable than the earliest piloted versions. Should the onboard autopilot computers get confused, remote operators will take over and save the day as if they’re flying a Mavic drone, and every pilot gone will be an extra passenger seat in the sky.

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Facebook and Twitter’s decision to allow their workers to telecommute permanently could shake up Silicon Valley’s demographics and potentially lead to red states turning purple as people continue bailing on California for Texas and Arizona, among other states.

Michigan Governor Extends Lockdown Orders Until Mid June

De Blasio: No Swimming or Gathering on the Beach This Weekend  You will note that the mayor is not wearing a mask.

YouTube Censors Doctor Knut Wittkowski For Opposing The Tyrannical Lockdowns

Michigan Builders Call Gov. Whitmer’s Workplace Requirements Unconstitutional

Ignoring Warnings, Mich. AG Sued to RAISE Lake Level Ahead of Dam Break—to Protect Mussels  The Michigan Attorney General seems to be a real piece of work.

PBS Cues Guest to Slam ‘Infantile’ Conservative View of Freedom

Silicon Valley Tech Giants Caught Providing Services To Blacklisted Chinese Security Firms

WH Did Not Give ‘Adequate Response’ to Probe of Watchdog’s Firing: Congressional Aide  Scraaaaaaape that barrel….

MSNBC Claims Trump Is Endangering Lives in Brazil

Trump’s Genocidal Decision, by Audacious Epigone

MSNBC’s Brian Williams, Nicolle Wallace Hate-Bomb Trump Church-Opening Orders

‘Bullhorn From The BS Bully Pulpit’: Chris Cuomo Calls Trump A ‘Demagogue’ For Church Reopening Position

Washington Post’s Milbank: ‘If Trump Likes Hydroxychloroquine, He’ll Love Camel Urine’  Dana Milbank is a poster child for how educational standards at Yale have degenerated.

MSNBC’s Velshi: Trump Deeming Churches ‘Essential’ Could Violate ‘Church and State’  And, of course, Velshi has demonstrated a deep understanding of the Constitution and its history….

Hypocritical Mika Brzezinski Desperately Tries to Censor Trump

Moore Fantasizes About Forcibly Removing Defeated Trump From Office: ‘Best Eviction Ever’

Michigan Dam Failures and Climate Change

Time: Climate Change is a Threat to Expensive French Wine  Women and minorities hardest hit.

Mississippi Delta marshes in a state of irreversible collapse, Tulane study shows

Naomi Oreskes, the Golden Opportunity

Claim: Climate Change Requires Streamlining of Cash Deliveries to Remote Aid Recipients

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The argument that vitamin D deficiency may contribute to more severe cases of Covid is gaining ground. It is now reaching the point where it is surprising that we are not hearing from leading medical officials and politicians that people should consider taking supplements to ensure they have sufficient vitamin D.

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If you are interested in that sort of thing, which I am.

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Every cloud has a silver lining.

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Twitch tried to downplay concerns over an advisory board member who identifies as a deer and believes many gamers are “white supremacists.” Twitch, the platform for watching internet celebrities broadcast as they play video games, lit fire to a cultural powder keg in mid-May. The company appointed a transgender streamer who identifies as a deer among its “Safety Advisory Council.” Now it’s trying damage control.

I have substantial reservations about any organization that goes by the name Twitch.

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Years ago I learned that when the Scottish Enlightenment said they loved “Equality” and when the French Philosophes echoed that same sentiment, they were talking past each other. Hume and Locke wanted a voluntary equality of opportunity, while the French wanted a compelled equality of result. But there is no indication that either side understood that the same word meant different things across the English Channel. As a result, it took much longer for the rest of the world to understand the intellectual horror that was the French Revolution.

This is why people go to war over the definitions of words (‘gay marriage’ is a good case in point). Those who control what words mean wind up controlling how people talk about something which in turn results in control over how people think about things. Consider the Trayvon Martin case and the attempt by the media to tag the shooter as a ‘white Hispanic’.

The Left understands this at a deeper level than the Right, which is why they end up winning more often than not. The intellectual damage of smears like ‘price gouging’, ‘black market’, ‘windfall profit’, ‘pink slime’, and innumerable other tendentious terms is almost incalculable.

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They’ve been linked to road rage, pathological gambling, and complicated acts of fraud. Some make us less neurotic, and others may even shape our social relationships. It turns out many ordinary medications don’t just affect our bodies – they affect our brains. Why? And should there be warnings on packets?

This is why I don’t use recreational drugs — I’m very happy with who I am right now, thank you.

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The coronavirus pandemic, and resulting government response, has created one of the greatest disruptions to daily life in modern American history. With much of the country now focused on “reopening,” pundits and policymakers have focused their attention on what the “new normal” of a post-COVID America looks like. Although much of the attention has been focused on the future of massive public gatherings and changes to American work environments, the most significant change to American societies may be faith in our governing structures.

Actually, we’d prefer that they die, preferably in great pain.

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I’m not sure but I think this is a metaphor for the Biden campaign.

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Articles in college alumni magazines, even in the Ivy League, are usually puff pieces about academic programs and professors. They are designed to make graduates feel so good about their alma mater and its intellectual achievements that they will write out yet another donation check. Seldom do the articles circulate much outside of the closed circle of alums. Not so with a 1,007-word piece in the May – June 2020 issue of the Harvard Magazine entitled “The Risks of Homeschooling” in which Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Bartholet recommended a “presumptive ban” against parents’ educating their children at home (as between three and four percent of US parents currently do). That is, unless these parents can prove to educational authorities “that their case is justified.”

Michigan care home patient, 75, brutally beaten in attack caught on video; Trump reacts

Women of All Racial Backgrounds Are Marrying Less—Why?  Maybe it’s just that nobody wants to marry them.

Still No Motive Known in Delaware Veterans’ Cemetery Massacre, by Steve Sailer

Biden To Black People: If You Vote For Trump, ‘You Ain’t Black’

Marvin Lewis Says Proposed NFL Draft Rules For Hiring Minority Coaches Is ‘Like Having Jim Crow Laws’

Controversy Erupts After Biden Tells Black Voters Considering Trump “You Ain’t Black”  Imagine that.

Sen. Tim Scott Slams Joe Biden For Saying If Black People Vote For Trump, ‘You Ain’t Black’  Hey, he didn’t say anything that Al Sharpton hasn’t said before.

Symone Sanders Covers For Biden’s Comments About Black Voters, Claims He Spoke ‘In Jest’

America ‘Impervious to Black Pain’: Pandemic Race-Baiting at Wash Post

‘Too Direct For My Tastes’: Juan Williams Stops Short Of Defending Biden’s Comments On Black Voters

Felonious Fingers Biden: If You’re Black But Can’t Decide Between Me and Trump, Then You’re Not Black  Ace of Spades spins the news.

Ancestry.com Revokes Genealogies Of African Americans Who Don’t Support Biden  Babylon Bee.

‘Do You Know Who My Boyfriend Is?’: Police Video Shows Aaron Judge’s Girlfriend During Her DUI Arrest

Biden campaign downplays ‘you ain’t black’ comment as made ‘in jest’

Biden Suggests Black Trump Supporters ‘Ain’t Black,’ Diddy Tells Biden ‘The Black Vote Ain’t Free’  Could have fooled me.

The Three Strangest Lines from Biden’s Breakfast Club Interview

Biden Says We Should Look at His Record on Race. It Doesn’t Help His Case

University Of California Drops SAT And ACT Requirements, Claims Tests Are Discriminatory  They are — against insufficiently intelligent people. Connect the dots.

‘Proud Bigot’: Black Voices For Trump Board Member Shreds Joe Biden’s ‘Ain’t Black’ Comment

CNN Whiffs On Biden Error — He Apologized For ‘You Ain’t Black’ Remarks And They Still Didn’t Give It Airtime

Greenpeace Climate Activists Take on Silicon Valley: Slam Big Oil Connections

Climate Activists Fear Post Covid-19 Commuters Will Avoid Public Transport

The planet has a problem with buildings: Here’s how smart ideas, tech and design can change that

This Is the Last Known Footage of a Living Thylacine

These endangered whales are disturbingly thin—why that matters

California trash-to-hydrogen plant promises dirt-cheap, super-green H2

There is no Climate Emergency !

The Looming Failure of Wind Energy

Monbiot vs Moore: “You Provided Us with No Solutions” to Climate Change

Is This Controlled Demolition All Over Again?

Judge Nixes Bid to Stop Coal Sales That Trump Revived

Nets Skip Church Burned for Opening, Whine Trump Didn’t Wear Mask

‘Here’s Your Mask, A**Hole’: Hollywood Nags Rage at Trump’s Choice to Forgo Mask

The Trump effect: Why conservatives are downplaying the coronavirus  The mind-readers at Vox give you the benefit of their psychic powers.

Michigan AG: Trump was ‘incredibly disrespectful’ to our state  No, just to your tyranny.

Republican anti-Trump group releases new ad trolling president and his campaign manager  RINOs on parade.

Brainy Reporters Play Dumb on ‘Obamagate’

Scarborough Rips Zuckerberg for Allowing ‘Vile, Despicable Lies’ About Fauci on Facebook  But vile despicable lies about Trump are okay.

Mavericks Owner Cuban Slams President Trump as Weak, Ineffective Leader  I guess he’s thinking of running for something as a Democrat.

ADL Chief Slams Trump for Praising ‘Anti-Semite’ Henry Ford  He probably praised slave-owners George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, too. The swine.

Obama’s Ambassador To Beijing Compares Trump To Hitler On Chinese TV

NY Times Praises Pelosi’s Politicized Mask Wear, But Ivanka Looked Like ‘Movie Bank Robber’

Colbert Blasts Trump ‘Disaster,’ Asks Biden: ‘Are You Gonna Beat This Guy?’  Hint: No.

The antimalarial drug Trump took for covid might actually be dangerous  No. If it were dangerous, it couldn’t be used for malaria. This is just scare-mongering on the part of a supposedly ‘technical’ web site.

Trump’s favorite COVID-19 drug might actually increase risk of death  No. If it did, it wouldn’t be allowed for use against malaria. This is just scare-mongering on the part of a supposedly ‘technical’ web site.

CNN Cries ‘Danger’ at Trump Calling Church ‘Essential’: ‘Political Opportunity’ During Pandemic!

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Once you’ve started using an ad blocker, you’ll wonder how you ever lived without it. Blocking ads will reduce your risk of being defrauded or getting a computer virus, and make your computer run faster than when it was new.

Freeberg is apprehensive.

oe Biden is all-but-obliged to pick a Karen as his running mate. Not a “could be male Karen or could be female Karen,” but a double-ex chromosome, born-with-vagina-and-everything lady-Karen. He’s said so. And it won’t be a soothing, common-sense, quiet-strong type woman either. She’ll be a screech-wort. a scrunt. The kind whose presence you never leave without a sigh of relief. A scold. A shrew. A beeyotch.

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Shortly before wrapping up an impromptu press conference in which President Trump declared places of worship essential during the pandemic, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany delivered a scorching presentation to the White House Press Corps on Friday – after accusing them of failing to do their jobs regarding ‘Obamagate.’

“Did anyone take it upon themselves to pose any questions about Michael Flynn and unmasking to President Obama’s spokesperson?” she asked.

One journalist stammers, “but buh but Flynn’s name wasn’t mas–”

To which McEnany cut back in, continuing “So I would like to lay out a series of questions and perhaps, if I write them out in a slide format – maybe we’re visual learners and you guys will follow up with journalistic curiosity.”

The new White House Press Secretary is bringing a gun to a knife fight. Pure Trump.

Kevin Williamson puts the boot in.

The New York Times report on Joe Biden’s insistence that some black voters “ain’t black” is a truly remarkable piece of non-journalism. The trouble to which Astead W. Herndon and his editors went to avoid looking at the story head-on is remarkable if only from a purely compositional point of view.

The bombshell line is mentioned in the lead and then followed by . . . paragraphs of tax-policy details.

Babylon Bee.

Can’t get more socially distant than that.

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Perhaps they suddenly realized that they’re living in a Communist dictatorship.

Scott Johnson at Powerline rips the mask off of Minnesota.

Minneapolis boy mayor Jacob Frey is concerned that Governor Walz is enjoying all the action. He means to get in on it. Frey has now ordered face masks to be worn by those over the age of 2 inside all places of public accommodation, effective next week. Noncompliance is subject to a $1,000 fine.

Who was that unmasked man? We are about to find out. The rest of us will avoid places of public accommodation in Minneapolis and tell Mayor Frey to shove it. I could write the Star Tribune editorial that will support this imposition in my sleep tonight.

Culture-Enriching Crime Wave in the Netherlands

Youths Gone Wild in Barcelona

Self-Deportation: The Solution to Migrant Crime in the Netherlands  We lawyers call it ‘fleeing the jurisdiction’.

Sweden Cared More About Islamophobia Than Saving Elderly in Nursing Homes

Afghan President and Rival Strike Power-Sharing Deal After Months of Feuding

Iran Supreme Leader: Americans Will be Expelled From Iraq and Syria

Supreme Court: Sudan Can’t Dodge Punitive Damages in Embassy Bombing Cases

Saudi Shooter Who Killed Three US Sailors Was In Contact With Al-Qaida, Investigators Say

FBI Cracks Into Pensacola Shooter’s iPhone, Find “Significant Ties” To Al Qaeda

Fresh Rocket Attack On US Embassy In Baghdad Amid Renewed Anti-America Protests

Iranian Government Touts Virtual Quds Day Hatred

Stage Set For Intifada: PA’s Abbas Ends All Agreements & Security Cooperation With Israel & US  Will that mean that they return all of the handouts we’ve given them over the years?

Migrant Youths Riot In Paris Again, Attack Police With Fireworks

New Study Evaluates Major Drivers of Palestinian Terrorism  Well, to begin with, they’re a bunch of psychotic haters….

How the Libyan conflict became the Middle East’s most important proxy war

9/11 Terrorist Reportedly Renounces Al-Qaida, Requests Representation From Giuliani

Iranian Government Releases Anti-Semitic ‘Final Solution’ Poster

Reports: ISIS Chief Allegedly Arrested in Iraq

“Arab Male” Storms the Gate at Corpus Christi Naval Air Station; Stopped by His Conscience and a Hail of Bullets, But Mostly the Hail of Bullets

Migrants Riot For Fourth Consecutive Night In Paris

Pakistan Internationa Flight Carrying 107 Crashes Into Karachi Neighborhood

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Some historical movements fade into oblivion. (Meet any physiocrats lately?) But not fascism. Despite the fiery demise of the Nazi regime 75 years ago this month, the idea of fascism has retained its power to arouse fear and contempt—even in countries where it poses no realistic threat to the prevailing liberal democratic order. In the realm of US politics, the term has become common currency among detractors of Donald Trump—while on the other side of the spectrum, conservatives use it as a casual slur to attack COVID-19 lockdown policies they deem misguided. When protestors used the f-word to describe New Jersey’s pandemic response (on Victory in Europe Day, or VE Day, no less), state governor Phil Murphy properly replied that the malapropism created “a disgusting false equivalence.”

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Plant Vogtle in Georgia installs more Westinghouse reactors while Oregon-based NuScale awaits final approval of its small modular reactor design.

Anderson Cooper reacts to ‘utterly heartless’ Trump tweet  CNN.

Trump just said the corrupt part out loud  Washington Post.

Trump Is Failing at Governing But Winning at Authoritarianism  New York Magazine.

Biden Warns of ‘Abuse of Power’ in a Measured Trump Critique  Although not as bad as Blue State governors, of course. Or the FBI under Obama. Or the CIA under Obama. Or the DOJ under Obama.

Kayleigh McEnany Rips CNN’s Chris Cuomo For Taking ‘Less Safe Version’ Of Hydroxychloroquine

McCaskill: There’s ‘No HINT of Corruption’ in Obama-Biden Days, Trump Will ‘Lie’

Is Trump more left-wing than Biden?  A proglodyte hopes so.

MSNBC Analyst Calls Trump a ‘Personal Public Health Hazard to the Citizens of This Country’

Mark Cuban: Trump ‘Always Plays the Victim Card’  Perhaps because he has so many people trying to beat up on him. Just perhaps.

Amanpour Mocks Trump’s ‘America First’ as ‘First’ in Corona-Deaths and Infections

Some Intel Officials Say Trump Is Impatient, Difficult to Brief  I guess we just have to impeach him, then.

Al Sharpton: Trump Attacks Obama Because He’s ‘Everything Would Have Wanted To Be In Life’  A slacker who never held a real job? I suspect not. (Twenty Questions for Barack Obama)

Chuck Schumer Floats Theory Trump Is Taking Hydroxychloroquine Because ‘Maybe A Friend Owns Stock’  Perhaps because that’s what Schumer would do.

Michigan Attorney General Says Trump Will Be Asked ‘Not To Return’ If He Does Not Wear A Mask  And Trump will tell him to stick it where the sun don’t shine.

The Nation Columnist Defends Joe Biden From Tara Reade: ‘I Would Vote For Joe Biden If He Boiled Babies And Ate Them’

Mika Brzezinski Demands Twitter Censor Trump, Gets Torched by Ted Cruz  Funny how Republicans never demand that Democrats be censored, it’s always the other way around.

Blowhard Paul Krugman Babbles that ‘Trump and Company’ Want ‘Thousands of Americans’ to ‘Die for the Dow’

‘View’ Gives Schumer Nearly Half the Show to Attack Trump, GOP on Coronavirus, Election

Mark Cuban’s mindless critique of President Trump

Michigan AG Bans Trump For Not Wearing A Mask, Calls POTUS A ‘Petulant Child Who Refuses To Follow The Rules’  I’d love to see the Michigan AG try to stop Trump from coming to Michigan.

NY Times Says Vote Fraud ‘Debunked,’ Worried Trump Will Reject Election Results

Climate change is turning parts of Antarctica green, say scientists

Mount Everest is visible from Kathmandu for first time in living memory

A ‘Hyperactive’ Hurricane Season Is About to Strike  Women and minorities hardest hit.

Climate change and a pandemic of lies

Forecasters Expect Above-Normal 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season

Australia Enrages Activists, Embraces “Technology Neutral” Carbon Credits

Deadspin Rages About Failure Of NFL Affirmative Action Proposal

DeAndre Baker Claims He Was Playing ‘Madden’ When Alleged Armed Robbery Occurred

Episode 988 Scott Adams: Things Getting Back to Normal Because the News is About Racism Again. Normal Might be Overrated.

Stacey Abrams Says She Will Step Down As Governor If Asked To Run For VP  Babylon Bee.

Jen Rubin Thinks It’s Racist to Criticize Stacey Abrams

No, Alison Roman isn’t racist

University of California Will Stop Using SAT, ACT

Ahmaud Arbery killing: Man who filmed shooting is arrested on suspicion of murder

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A Mississippi church suing the city over coronavirus restrictions was burned in a suspected arson fire.

First Pentecostal Church in Holly Springs, Mississippi was burned down Wednesday. The attackers left graffiti that said “Bet you stay home now you hypokrites.”

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Well, that’s what happens when you’re state is run by Democrats.

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As a tactician, I need to ensure the boat is fast. Otherwise, we’re not going to win, regardless of how well I do my job. And, since the main was always front and center for me, I was constantly studying it, ensuring my mainsail trimmer was doing his/her job. I hope the following will help you better understand the connection between the science and sail trim—and there’s plenty more detail in the book.

Just in case you were wondering. I know I was. (‘Does this bunt make my sail look fat?’)

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DNA damage is common to our cells, but when we’re young our bodies can fix it pretty easily. Unfortunately we lose that ability over time, leading to many of the symptoms of aging that we know all too well. A new study from MIT has found that reactivating a certain enzyme improves repair of DNA damage in neurons, which helps Alzheimer’s patients and others with cognitive decline.

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In April, the mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) began letting new users sign up for Google Fi using the eSIM embedded in iPhone XR, XS, XS Max, 11, 11 Pro, 11 Pro Max and 2020 iPhone SE. With Google Fi version 2.5, which was released on Monday, Google is starting to slowly introduce eSIM support so that its MVNO members can free up the physical SIM slot on their dual-SIM iPhones.

I have no idea what ‘Google Fi’ is, but it sounds very interesting.

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And he was a … wait for it … Democrat. What are the odds?

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Except that the women won’t be fat ugly Karens.

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Damn, Trump is just such a tool of Putin….

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Guess who is finding out that dense urban living and cattle-car mass transit have a down side?

As cities from New York to San Francisco have locked down in recent months to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, many residents have decided they’d rather wait out the pandemic elsewhere. While the wealthy have settled into their second homes in the Hamptons or Lake Tahoe, many young people are leaving expensive shoe-box apartments to shelter with their parents in the suburbs.

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It’s embarrassing enough for New York Times reporter Lisa Lerer, who covers “campaigns, elections and political power,” to publicly admit she has no idea what “red-pill” signifies. A reference was recently tweeted by technology entrepreneur Elon Musk, who is fighting California’s coronavirus restrictions on business, and Lerer was on it, in her political rundown in Tuesday’s edition.