Indians are being held up as a model minority. That’s not helping the Black Lives Matter movement CNN.

White people say they want to be an ally to Black people. But are they ready for sacrifice?  The Guardian.

‘Legacy Media Can Stop Trying To Gaslight Everyone’: Dana Loesch Sounds Off On Armed Homeowners

Seattle Police Chief Asks Why Black People Keep Dying In The ‘Black Lives Matter’ CHOP Zone  Boy, that’s a tough one….

EU Excludes US From Safe Travel List, Provisionally Includes China

Walmart to Stop Selling ‘All Lives Matter’ Products

WashPost Reporter Says ‘Climate Change’ Is a ‘Racial Justice Problem’  Is he sure he doesn’t mean that racial justice is a climate change problem? I can never keep them straight.

Man Shot After Protester Fires Handgun Into SUV During Utah BLM Protest

New York Times Columnist Paul Krugman Says Coronavirus Is Coming For ‘White Supremacists Driving Golf Carts’

Terry Crews Blasts BLM for Black Supremacist Tendencies, Gets Hounded by Mob

ESPN’s Black Radical SJW Jamelle Hill Sets Out to #Cancel Everyone In the Universe, But Trips Over Her History of Homophobic and Transphobic Tweets

Equality At Last: Disney Confirms Winnie The Pooh Will Now Be Voiced By An Actual Bear  Babylon Bee.

Trump in ‘fragile’ mood and may drop out of 2020 race if poll numbers don’t improve, GOP insiders tell Fox News  The Independent, a British tabloid that has no more idea of what Trump’s thinking than you do.

Democrats Accuse Trump Of ‘Glorifying White Supremacy’ With Mt. Rushmore Rally Yeah, that whole Lincoln thing is a dead giveaway.

Daily Beast Hammers CNN’s Van Jones From Left: Secretly Working With Trump on Policing?

DNC Deletes Tweet Claiming Trump ‘Glorifying White Supremacy’ at Rushmore Event

NY Times Spews Fake History, Blames Trump for ‘Violence Against Transgender People’

California developer of ‘micro’ nuclear reactor aims to prove environmentalist doubters wrong

Molten Salt Reactors Are Nuclear’s Future. How Do We Get There?

The South Pole has been warming at three times the global average over the past 30 years, study says  CNN.

Forbes Censors Award-Winning Environmentalist’s Apology Over Three-Decade ‘Climate Scare’ – So Here It Is

On Behalf Of Environmentalists, I Apologize For The Climate Scare

Pro surfers hit artificial waves in the heat of the climate crisis

Guillotine Placed Outside Jeff Bezos’ D.C. Home by Anti-Amazon Protesters

The Calamity of Models – Podcast with Willis Eschenbach

Polar bear habitat in Canada and eastern Alaska compared at end of June 2012-2020  More throw pillows, not as many ash trays?

House Dems Unveil Aggressive Plan to Tackle Climate Change  At your expense, of course.

George Washington Monument Defaced In New York City

Protesters Demand $1 Billion Cut To New York Police Department Budget

I’m Reporting From Seattle’s CHOP. Here’s What It’s Really Been Like.

Media Cover-Up: ABC, NBC Claim Radical St. Louis Mob Was ‘Peaceful’

‘They Nearly Killed Me’: Journalist Andy Ngo Testifies Before Congress On Antifa Violence During Portland Protests

Public Schools Will Be Forced To Allow Biological Males On Female Sports Teams If Joe Biden Wins, According To Biden

LA County Board of Supervisors Cuts Police Budget $145.4M

Youth killed in another shooting in Seattle’s occupied protest zone

LA Orders Closure Of Beaches For July 4th Weekend, Sheriff Refuses To Enforce Ban

After Defunding The Police, The Pentagon Could Be The Next Target Of The Far Left

EU Excludes US From Safe Travel List, Provisionally Includes China

Tucker Carlson Cooks Democrat in Republican Clothing Senator Mike Braun

As Republican Politicians Continue to Act as Paid Fixers for Big Business, Big Business Continues Taking the Hard Left Side in the Culture War

‘I Wouldn’t Appreciate Having An AR-15 Headed My Way’: Joy Behar Says St. Louis Homeowners Should Have Joined Protesters  Oh, like that’s going to happen.

War in Antifastan: Has Violence in CHOP Zone Become Too Much for Seattle?

Sydney Powell: Obama and John Brennan Prosecuted Michael Flynn Because Flynn Knew About the “Billions of Dollars” in Off-the-Books Operations They Were Running, and Planned an Audit

Demonstrator Shoots Bystander at Anti-Police Rally in Utah

8 Big Tech Firms Attempting to Silence the Right, Steal 2020 Election

Democrats Prepare To Celebrate Dependence Day  Babylon Bee.

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Harvard has announced it will lift a blacklist on unrecognized single-sex student organizations, including fraternities and sororities, following the Supreme Court’s ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County.

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“The court accepted the plaintiffs’ legal theory that the policy, although adopted to counteract discrimination based on sex, is itself an instance of discrimination based on sex,” Bacow continued. “In reaching this view, Judge [Nathaniel] Gorton relied heavily on the reasoning in one of the appellate decisions (Zarda v. Altitude Express) that was affirmed by the Supreme Court [in Bostock]. It now seems clear that Judge Gorton would ultimately grant judgment in the plaintiffs’ favor in the pending lawsuit.”

Perhaps someday soon we can convince the Supreme Court that ‘affirmative action’ preferences are in fact racist.

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Over the past couple of days, the dominant left-leaning media have again demonstrated a tendency to ignore gun owners who intervene to fight back against violent criminals as most national news shows ignored the fact that an alleged gunman in Louisville, Kentucky, Steven Lopez, was taken down by a bystander with a gun who shot him in the leg.

So far, Fox News Channel’s Fox & Friends is the only national news show to inform their viewers of this key detail of a story about one of the liberal protest gatherings that got out of hand.

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Hammer tech.

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Over the weekend Minneapolis’s FOX 9 broke Tom Lyden’s story of the three Minneapolis city council members who have private security officers protecting them at city expense. Tom’s story is posted here. The video is below.

The three council members are vocal proponents of substituting a Department of Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows for the Minneapolis Police Department. They all voted in favor of the ordinance advancing such a proposal last week. I posted a copy of the ordinance here yesterday.

The council members — Andrea Jenkins, Phillipe Cunningham, and Alondra “Arma virumque” Cano — are a little vague about the threats to which they have been subject. Lyden obtained this giggle-inducing quote from Jenkins: “My concern is the large number of white nationalist(s) in our city and other threatening communications I’ve been receiving.” I’m thinking the number of white nationalists in Minneapolis must be smaller than the the number of Minneapolis members in our local chapter of the Republican Jewish Coalition. Considerably smaller.

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People who aren’t in long-term care and don’t have certain serious pre-existing conditions face very little risk. Almost none of the deaths from COVID-19 occur among people in that category. Leave the bars and restaurants open, and let the virus spread among the healthy so that they develop the antibodies. Then they will no longer spread it, and it will die out in due course, whether a vaccine is developed or not.

The ginning-up of panic over a “second wave” of COVID has already begun. It’s designed to do economic damage (which is always bad for an incumbent president) and induce the states to implement mail-in ballots, which should be more than enough to elect Joe Biden.

In any case, masks are widely considered ineffective. They simply serve as a signal. They say: “I’m a drone in the Hive.”

And let’s face it: the disease itself is mostly a hoax. Now that millions of people are being tested, the incidence of positives is increasing, but the death rate keeps dropping rapidly. That is, the coronavirus is mostly killing people in nursing homes and similar facilities. When it’s done scything its way through those institutions, there are hardly any victims left to kill off.

At this point, the crisis is an entirely political operation.

Michael Schellenberger: “On Behalf Of Environmentalists, I Apologize For The Climate Scare”

Chicago man killed 2 teens after they asked how tall he was, police say  It’s a black thing, you wouldn’t understand.

5 things to know about the district attorney who charged the officers in the Rayshard Brooks case CNN. Well, he’s black; what else would you need to know?

‘He’s gonna come down’: Black Lives Matter and Christian activists clash in St. Louis over statue of city’s namesake

‘Risking everything’: Officer quits after saying police were ‘railroaded’ in Rayshard Brooks case

Gaming Out the Left’s Race Strategy From Here

WaPo Editrix: White Women Are Lucky That We Are Just Calling Them Karen’S. and Not Calling for Revenge.

Gun-Toting St. Louis Lawyers Defend Mansion From BLM Protesters In Viral Video

REPORT: NBA Players Will Be Able To Put Social Justice Messages On Their Jerseys

Kenny Stills Rips Miami Dolphins Owner Stephen Ross’ $13 Million Donation To Fight Racism As A ‘Tax Write Off’

Zimbabwe Shutters Stock Exchange, Blocks All Mobile Money Payments As Currency Collapses (Again)  Black people seem to have a problem running a country full of black people. Why should we trust them to run a country full of white people?

‘Why Are You Protecting It?!’ — BLM Activist Berates Older Black Man Who Spoke Against Tearing Down A Statue

WaPo Editor Says White Women Are ‘Lucky’ Black People Are ‘Not Calling For Revenge’  No, black people are lucky black people are not calling for revenge — white people have more guns.

Fox Soul Airing Louis Farrakhan’s Address on July 4

Netflix Is Making A Series About Colin Kaepernick’s Life, Will Consist Of 6 Episodes

BET Awards Host Imitates ‘Karens’ in Racist Skit

Alabama Mayor Resigns Following Alleged Comments About Crimson Tide Football’s Black Lives Matter Video

Rapper DaBaby Reenacts George Floyd’s Death During Pre-Taped BET Awards Performance

BLM Protester Kills Photographer Who Supported The Movement

Media Misleads About ‘Peaceful’ BLM Mob Harassing Armed St. Louis Couple

NWSL Players Kneel During Anthem for Black Lives Matter

REPORT: Meghan Markle Calls Woman Who Claimed She Was Set On Fire By Four White Men

‘Who Are You Talking To?’: Protester Defending Roosevelt Statue Clashes With Counter-Protester

HATEFUL D.L. Hughley on CBS: Cops Love Mass Murderers More Than Black Motorists

Lena Dunham Says She Will ‘Sit Down’ And ‘Shut Up’ In Post About Her ‘Privilege’  Every cloud has a silver lininng.

CBS Frets Efforts to Block Stimulus from Illegal Immigrants

COVID-19 Hype Is Essential…

AP Exclusive: China Forces Birth Control, Sterilization on Uighurs to Suppress Population

Extreme Politico: Why Is Biden Rejecting ‘Bold’ BLM Proposals?  Because they are too batshit crazy even for Biden?

The New Normal In NYC? 11 People Shot In Under 12 Hours

WashPost Scolds Youths on COVID Spread, But Avoids Scolding Protests

One man killed and another wounded in Seattle’s occupied protest zone

St. Louis Catholics Attacked Defending Statue of City’s Namesake

1 in 5 Ballots Rejected as Fraud Charged in New Jersey Mail-In Election

Large US Cities Report Uptick in Shootings  ‘Large U.S. Cities’ = ‘Cities Run By Democrats’.

“He Just Floored It!” Detroit Police SUV Filmed Plowing Through Protesters

The Facebook ad boycott is a convenient virtue-signal

Pompeo Demands China End ‘Horrific’ And ‘Dehumanizing’ Forced Abortions, Sterilizations Of Uighurs

MSNBC Brings on Anti-Semite Sharpton to Attack Zuckerberg, Facebook ‘Hate Speech’

Two George Washington Statues in NYC Defaced With Red Paint

‘It Highlights Capitalism’s Brutality’: Socialist Seattle City Councilmember Blames Capitalism For Latest CHAZ Shooting

So CNN: Stelter Sets Up Moyers to Smear Trump Fans as Wanting Reporters DEAD  Well, some of us do.

Iran issues arrest warrant for Donald Trump over killing of Qassim Soleimani 

TOP 12: Biden Is the Enlightened Alternative to Deadly Trump

More Morning Smears from Scarborough: Trump Is Either ‘Addled’ or a Russian Spy!

Scarborough: Intel Agencies Think Trump Is ‘Mentally Deficient’ — Didn’t Brief Him On Alleged Russian Bounties

Facebook Caves to Liberal Pressure and Agrees to Censor Trump

What Would Trump Do with a Second Term?  He could spend four years playing golf and just keeping Joe Biden from being President, and I’d call that a great Presidency.

CNN’s Stelter Compares Trump’s America to Soviet Union: ‘What is the Cost of Lies?’  He ought to look in a mirror, then.

Reddit Joins Trump Purge, Removes Popular Political Forums in Response to BLM

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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Atlanta’s interim Police Chief Rodney Bryant was about to address the City Council on the unrest plaguing the city when a councilman informed Bryant:

I was just notified there was a young man who was just shot and killed at 377 Westchester Boulevard. Can you get a unit out there? He’s been on the ground and there’s no police who have come. He’s dead already, he’s on the ground and the residents have put a sheet over him and the police still haven’t arrived.

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NYPD officers in Harlem were prevented from responding to a shots-fired call by demonstrators throwing objects at their vehicle.

They’ll be sorry, and it will be their Own Damned Fault.

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But, of course, as Democrats keep telling us, there’s no such thing as voter fraud, and Democrats certainly wouldn’t do any such thing….

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Thank God for those strict gun control laws in Chicago, or the place would be like Texas.

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The most shocking aspect of the wave of rioting and destruction that has been unleashed on many of our American cities in the wake of George Floyd’s death is not that there is an underlying discontent with the rate of progress in racial equality. That is understandable. What is not is the way that mayors, governors and members of Congress have not just tolerated, but endorsed, mob violence as an acceptable weapon of social change.

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Tyler Gerth, the 27-year-old man who died during a protest in Louisville, Kentucky, was a photographer and strong supporter of the ongoing protests, the Louisville Courier Journal reported.

Gerth died Saturday night after he was shot during a protest in Jefferson Square Park. The shooting occurred after Steven Lopez, 23, got in a dispute during the protest and came back with a gun, according to the Courier Journal’s report.

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Over the years, we have periodically reported of the occasional gold bar discovered as counterfeit in Manhattan’s Diamond District which instead of containing the yellow precious metal would be filled with gold-plated tungsten or in some cases copper. The news would spark a brief wave of outrage, prompting physical gold holders to run ultrasound spot checks of their inventory, at which point interest would wane and why not: buyer, after all, beware in gold as in every other market, and if someone is spending thousands to buy fake gold, well that’s Darwinism in action.

Yet one market which seemed stubbornly immune to any counterfeiting was that of physical gold in China, which was odd considering that over the past decade China had emerged as the world’s biggest counterfeiter of various, mostly industrial metals used to secure bank loans, better known as “ghost collateral”, and which adding insult to injury, would frequently be rehypothecated meaning often several banks would have claims to the same (fake) asset.

Matt Taibbi.

A core principle of the academic movement that shot through elite schools in America since the early nineties was the view that individual rights, humanism, and the democratic process are all just stalking-horses for white supremacy. The concept, as articulated in books like former corporate consultant Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility(Amazon’s #1 seller!) reduces everything, even the smallest and most innocent human interactions, to racial power contests.

It’s been mind-boggling to watch White Fragility celebrated in recent weeks. When it surged past a Hunger Games book on bestseller lists, USA Today cheered, “American readers are more interested in combatting racism than in literary escapism.” When DiAngelo appeared on The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon gushed, “I know… everyone wants to talk to you right now!” White Fragility has been pitched as an uncontroversial road-map for fighting racism, at a time when after the murder of George Floyd Americans are suddenly (and appropriately) interested in doing just that. Except this isn’t a straightforward book about examining one’s own prejudices. Have the people hyping this impressively crazy book actually read it?

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In 2008, Mark Bauerlein wrote “The Dumbest Generation, How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future.” Judging by events in the intervening dozen years (and especially in recent months), it appears that Bauerlein’s assessment was premature and perhaps even too kind.

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Colorism, the bias against people of darker skin tones, has vexed India for a long time. It is partly a product of colonial prejudices, and it has been exacerbated by caste, regional differences and Bollywood, the nation’s film industry, which has long promoted lighter-skinned heroes.

Oh, it’s olde than that. Varna, the term used in India for the complicated hereditary caste system, literally means ‘color’, and the lighter your skin color the higher in status you are. I suspect that it’s a relic of the Aryan invasion of India staring around 2000 BC.

Steve is learning at long range.

Speaking of dangerous, this weekend, I saw something that should sober up every cocky soy merchant out there who thinks it will be easy to overrun America, loot houses, and confiscate guns. I was in a room full of very ordinary conservative American outdoorsmen, and every one of them could kill a person, or group of people, easily at 500 yards. The instructors could shoot well over 1000 yards, and there are a lot of other snipers and competitors like them.

One of the teachers is a hunting guide. He goes to Alaska and helps bear hunters. He knows how to live in the wilderness. He’s tough. He is a combat veteran. He seems like a nice guy, but anyone who tries to pull anything near his home and family could end up feeding crows and possums, fast. Based on the things I heard him say about his military history and his feelings about leftists who might try to start a civil war, he is one of the last people on earth I would want to upset.

There is a huge number of people with similar skills all over the US. I don’t think leftists understand this. Leftists tend to be very ignorant about firearms and the outdoors. They don’t know what the people they hate do for fun.

I wouldn’t mind learning how to shoot accurately at over 1000 yards.

Steve Sailer.

For example, today when yet another delegation of Mostly Peaceful Protesters broke through a gate and onto private property in St. Louis, a rich couple who have painstakingly restored one of the city’s most magnificent mansions brought their guns out onto their porch to make sure the mob kept moving on past. New York Timeseditorialist Binyamin Appelbaum immediately explained the antiquarian angle that justifies breaking and entering….

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his is a tough one for Marxists to understand, but the political reality has been apparent for quite a while: small business remains generally conservative, but big business is mostly on the Left. How can that be?

The answer is partly economic. Conservatism favors open competition and innovation. Big business is, for the most part, on the other side of those concepts. The easiest path for the largest companies is to partner with government, erecting roadblocks to upstart competitors in the form of expensive regulations, and blocking innovation so that small competitors have little choice but to sell their inventions to more established companies.

Big government likes this arrangement, too. It is easier for the government to collaborate with, and to control, six banks, say, rather than one thousand. In the modern world, big government likes big business, and vice versa.

Audacious Epigone.

As the commercial and residential real estate markets collapse in the coming months, the currently untenable financial situations of municipalities across the country are going to become catastrophic. The Fed preemptively promised months ago to cover the shortfalls, because the dollar is invincible and inflation is impossible so there’s nothing to worry about. Didn’t you see we trimmed the balance sheet a bit last week? Oh, the market dropped 3% over those five days? Purely coincidental!

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With school districts across the country announcing their plans for next year, it’s clear that a battle is brewing, or at least should be, between teacher’s unions and parents.

On one side, the teachers, who overwhelmingly don’t want to go back to work. And the unions, of course, have their backs, because protecting teachers is their job, despite the fact that parents know their kids need to be back in classrooms come fall.

Steve Sailer.

The concept of the Hate Hoax that I might have helped originate in 2004 is definitely a useful one, but it needs to be kept in mind that not every example of Hate Hysteria is a Jussie Smollett-style preplanned hoax.

Some aren’t hoaxes at all: for example, when college students reported a Ku Klux Klan dragon was in the science lab, it turned out to be a white dust cover shrouding an instrument.

Others were intentional but not pre-planned. For example, in the ur-Hate Hoax, 15-year-old Tawana Brawley in 1987 gets home late from being out with her boyfriend. Her parents are furious at her for violating their rules. So … she starts making up a story which comes to include her being gang-raped by six white cops. Soon the young Al Sharpton is promoting her story on television, as if he’d been hired by Tom Wolfe’s publishing house to prove that their new bestseller The Bonfire of the Vanities was ripped from next month’s headlines.

“Eat The Rich!”: BLM Invades Beverly Hills – Then The Cops Showed Up

Othering Your White Uncle Was Just the Beginning

Woman Assaulted At BLM Protest For Holding “Police Lives Matter” Sign

One Dead, Another Injured in Shooting at Jefferson Square Park in Louisville

Wisconsin man who triggered protest charged with extortion – StarTribune.com  The truth is out there.

As COVID-19 Cases Spike Nationally, Black Lives Matter Plans More Rallies, Marches  I like it when evil people get sick.

Orange County Democrats condemn ‘racist’ comments by John Wayne, call for airport to drop his name  It was only a matter of time.

‘Don’t be a sheep’: Sheriffs rebel against new statewide mask requirements

MSNBC’s Alter: Trump, GOP Governors Have ‘Rivers of Blood’ on Their Hands  As much as Democrat Andrew Cuomo? I think not.

The rise of coercive progressivism

Hell Hath No Fury Like A Woke Liberal Woman Scorned

What’s Bill de Blasio’s problem with Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jews?

Barr: Widespread mail-in voting ripe for fraud ‘that cannot be policed’

Sisyphus (hears Xi laughing): Minneapolis ‘Disband the Police’; Council Members Using Private Security

What a JOKE: Pelosi Says MSNBC Is Being Too ‘Fair’ to Republicans

Trump admits it: He’s losing  Politico.

Candidates who recover from Trump-like deficits are rarely incumbents  CNN.

Trump’s perverse pandemic response has thrown health officials into a vortex of fury  Washington Post. Vortex! Of fury!

John Bolton Slaps Down Chuck Todd’s Theory That Trump Is ‘Afraid To Make Putin Mad’  Whatever Trump may be afraid of, it isn’t Putin.

Global Warming Is Melting Our Sense of Time  New York magazine.

A Disastrous Summer in the Arctic  The New Yorker.

A Winning Trifecta for Climate Science and Rationality

CLAIM: 100 degrees in Siberia? 5 ways the extreme Arctic heat wave follows a disturbing pattern

Vermont Senate Passes Right to Sue if the State Fails to Meet Climate Targets  Yeah, that’ll end well.

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It has now been over a month since the killing of George Floyd, and still Yale University has yet to say anything about a process to strip the painful memory of its slave-trader namesake Elihu Yale. Not even a committee to think about a process to come up with a consultation for concepts and ideas about a new name paradigm. Yale’s administrators are failing even to rise to the level of administrative bureau-speak. I keep being told that “silence is violence,” and Yale’s silence is more deafening than noise-canceling headphones!

If they removed the name, they would never get another dime from the vast majority of their alumni. Money talks.

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A suite of experiments that use the gene-editing tool CRISPR–Cas9 to modify human embryos have revealed how the process can make large, unwanted changes to the genome at or near the target site.

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Something strange happened to the news over the past four years. The dominant stories all resembled the scripts of bad movies—sequels and reboots. The Kavanaugh hearings were a sequel to the Clarence Thomas hearings, and Russian collusion was rebooted as Ukrainian impeachment. Journalists are supposed to hunt for good scoops, but in January, as the coronavirus spread, they focused on the impeachment reality show instead of a real story.

It’s not just journalists. The so-called second golden era of televi­sion was a decade ago, and many of those shows relied on cliff-hangers and gratuitous nudity to hold audience attention. Across TV, movies, and novels it is increasingly difficult to find a compelling story that doesn’t rely on gimmicks. Even foundational stories like liberalism, equality, and meritocracy are failing; the resulting woke phenomenon is the greatest shark jump in history.

Storytelling is central to any civilization, so its sudden failure across society should set off alarm bells. Culture inevitably reflects the selection process that sorts people into the upper class, and today’s insipid stories suggest a profound failure of this sorting mech­anism.

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Inverted tropes also define the relationship between the Left and the Right. Rather than tell a new story, the Left and Right tell genre fiction that depends upon their mutual opposition for meaning. Pope Benedict XVI once argued that modernity brought the believer and the atheist closer together because the believer is tempted by doubt while the nonbeliever is tempted by “perhaps it’s true,” and both stories are linked by fundamental uncertainty. A similar dynamic ex­plains why our politics is simultaneously divisive and homogeneous. The Bass Pro shopper tells a story in which patriotism is expressed through the consumer choice to wear an American flag T-shirt. The Bushwick woman tells a story in which getting an ugly haircut makes her “nonbinary.” These stories don’t make sense unless they are told in opposition to the story of the libtard, or the patriarchy, respectively. Polarization makes political actors dependent on their political opponents, which increases divisions because any area of agreement threatens to erode entire political identities. These lazy stories find their apotheosis in our politicians.

Andrew Sullivan.

Iconoclasm is not just vandalism and violence. It is a very specific variety that usually signifies profound regime change. That’s why the toppling of old Soviet monoliths in the 1989 liberation of Eastern Europe was so salient. They were important symbols of that sclerotic Soviet empire’s power. And for true revolutionary potential, it’s helpful if these monuments are torn down by popular uprisings. That adds to the symbolism of a new era, even if it also adds to the chaos. That was the case in Mao’s Cultural Revolution, when the younger generation, egged on by the regime, went to work on any public symbols or statues they deemed problematically counterrevolutionary, creating a reign of terror that even surpassed France’s.

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Paterson City Councilman Michael Jackson, 48, Councilman-Elect Alex Mendez, 45, Shelim Khalique, 51, and Abu Razyen, 21, were charged with crimes including fraud in casting mail-in votes, unauthorized possession of ballots, and tampering with public records.

Guess that Party!

Severian does a deep dive.

I’m increasingly convinced that the Left have screwed the pooch. bigtime.

First, consider the argument, detailed below, that the “Left” is far from a monolith. To us outsiders, it looks like one big, shiny black obelisk of bugfuck lunacy, but it’s actually more like an avalanche — a whole bunch of little pebbles of bugfuck lunacy flowing willy-nilly in the same general direction. The general direction in which they’re flowing is, of course, “the destruction of Western society,” and that’s step two of my argument: The pebbles at the front of the avalanche believe they’re somehow controlling the avalanche… but meanwhile, the big boulders in the back know better. For them, this is endgame.

As Z Man keeps pointing out, lots of what we’re seeing in the Imperial Crapital is a palace coup. There’s open civil war on the Left. I, too, have been beating this drum for years. The orcs and their True Believer enablers in the Media are fed up with triangulation and half-measures. As radical as Pelosi, Schumer, Schiff et al seem to us, the orcs and their propagandists see nothing but geriatric White milquetoasts. They hate Boomers for the same reasons we do, but double, because while we hate them for not riding gracefully into the sunset like every previous generation, the orcs, being natural conspirazoids, see The Man keeping them down again.

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In a college Roman history class, we read Ronald Syme’s The Roman Revolution (1939). If memory serves, Syme described how Augustus became king, in fact, if not in name, while observing all the niceties of the Republic. The Senate still met but Augustus was firmly in charge. I wonder if we’re in danger of having our country decisively change while the institutions appear to continue.

In 2016, James Comey withheld from the Gang of Eight the investigation of the Trump campaign. The FBI investigation of the HRC private server was a joke and never was seriously pursued. But the pursuit of a Trump and his advisors was ongoing. Comey doubtless withheld the information from Congress because the four Republicans in the Gang of Eight would have protested. The bureaucracy felt itself a fourth part of government immune from oversight.

The First Amendment means little when the SJW mob comes after you. Citing facts only makes things worse since they are a hate crime when they subvert the narrative.

All the pieces of paper in the world won’t help you if the people in charge of the process ignore them and get away with it. Japanese American citizens found this out during World War II — the government ignored the Bill of Rights and nobody in the population was willing to call them out on it, so they were able to run roughshod over the Constitutional rights of thousands of people.

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According to this report by CNBC (which can’t be happy about it), a social medium platform called Parler is suddenly making huge strides. After a Wall Street Journal story reported that Team Trump is looking for alternatives to Twitter and Facebook, and mentioned Parler as such an alternative, Parler quickly became the top-ranked iPhone app in the news category, ahead of Twitter and Reddit. The number of Parler users increased from 1 million to 1.5 million in about a week, according to Parler’s 27-year-old founder and CEO John Matze.

UPDATE: Conservatives are flocking to the social media app Parler

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Democrats say Black lives matter but it’s becoming clear they only matter sometimes, which explains why Democrats blocked Tim Scott’s justice reform bill.

Conservative Journalist Jack Posobiec Assaulted By DC Antifa

Andrea Mitchell Tries to Save Doomed D.C. Statehood by Crying Racism

CNN’s Coates Excuses Anarchy: Statue Vandalism Is ‘Symbolic Speech’  Symbolic of anarchism.

Robert Johnson’s Big Idea: $14 trillion in slavery reparations to African-Americans

On MSNBC, NYT Writer Calls for Reparations, Then Says It’s Not Enough

‘Y’all Don’t Even Know The History’: Sign-Carrying Black Man Rips Protesters Who Want To Take Down Lincoln Statue

Washington D.C.’s Lincoln Statue Still Standing After Protesters Vowed To Remove It

Poor, Poor Pitiful Black Girl

A Convicted Terrorist Sits On Board Of Charity Handling Black Lives Matter Fundraising

Wisconsin Man Who Allegedly Ripped Down Statue Of Abolitionist Is Also Charged With Looting A Jewelry Store  Criminals gotta crime.

Jon Stewart Apologizes for His Blazingly White Daily Show Staff

Athletes Threaten Not to Play If Student Who Mocked Floyd Isn’t Punished  Except that, nowadays, telling the truth about Floyd (that he was career criminal who was on drugs and died of his own medical conditions rather than police misconduct) qualifies as ‘disparagement’.

White Feminist Declares Tennessee Heartbeat Bill ‘Racist,’ ‘White Supremacy’

Crikey Slams Bipartisan Climate Policy Offer: “offering to deal with terrorists”

Study: Imprisonment for Climate Deniers is Too Blunt and Risky

Accusation Implodes in MN Global Warming Lawsuit

Extinction Rebellion Communication Head Quits After Researching Nuclear Power

Why Climate Change Won’t Be Stopped  Because everyone realizes it’s a scam?

The Debate Over Burning Dead Trees to Create Biomass Energy

CMIP6 Climate Models Producing 50% More Surface Warming than Observations since 1979

‘Urgent Matter Of Public Health’: MSNBC’s Chris Hayes Says Trump Should Resign  Yeah, i’m sure Trump will follow Chris Hayes’ advice on that.

Trump-Hating Networks Pounded Pence with Questions Trashing Rallies as Dangerous

MSNBC Hosts Fret Over Trump Vowing to Punish Rioter ‘Terrorists’

Trump’s freeze on new visas could threaten US dominance in AI  I’ll risk it. (These Chicken Littles seem to think that if these sweatshop IT workers don’t get in to the U.S. they’ll go Someplace Else and Invent Stuff that we won’t have access to. If there were somewhere else they could go, they wouldn’t be so eager to come here.)

CNN’s Keilar Accuses ‘Deliberately Negligent’ Trump of ‘Killing Americans’  As many as Cuomo did? Does he have an actual number?

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Most engineering projects in the U.S. have used the international foot since 1959, but land surveys—which map boundaries and infrastructure locations—use whichever foot an organization or state wants. (The international foot is exactly 0.3048 of a meter, whereas the U.S. survey foot, 1200/3937 of a meter, has an unending decimal.) This means that anyone working in multiple U.S. locations or with different agencies must keep careful track of which foot is in use. A recent poll of 530 attendees of a National Geodetic Survey Webinar, who were mostly surveyors, found that 62 percent blamed confusion between the two feet for problems in their work.

I’ll bet you didn’t know that.