Severian is delightfully dyspeptic today.

At the gym today, I saw a Karen exercising alone, masked up of course, making sure to maintain six feet social distance from everyone. I confirmed the latter experimentally — I saw her heading towards the water fountain, so I set course to intercept. Her ostentatious vaudeville veer away from me would’ve done Buster Keaton proud. Naturally, being the asshole I am, I gave her a cheery “good morning!,” but that’s neither here nor there. What’s important is: This little episode shows why I’m an idiot.

Like lots of folks watching the Great Kung Flu Freakout unfold, I figured it would be over in a month or two, three tops. My reasoning was simple: Once Karen realized she was stuck inside with the kids, and couldn’t spend her days out self-actualizing at the shopping mall and the nail salon, she’d demand Fauci’s head on a pike, and that would be that.

ZMan does some anthropology.

Over the last forty years, American politics has been taken over by actors, performers, producers, storytellers and so on. It is just a show. If you want to be in politics, it means being a show man. You have to have an act, something you do that sets you apart from the other acts on the stage. Ocasio-Cortez is a national figure because she came up with an act that appeals to the women of her generation. She is as dumb as a hamster and has no useful skills, but she may be President one day.

This new high status type, the shameless attention whore interested only in appealing to the base instincts of the mob, is having an effect on society. Younger generations, especially the women, are relentless drama queens. The “woke culture” stuff is really just a way for talentless young women to get attention. Male video game culture seems to be a similar phenomenon. It is a way to be special without having to do anything that is difficult or demanding. You get to be a hero from the couch.

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Not the sort of thing you expect to see in the Washington Post.

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A provision in President Biden’s American Jobs Plan to make housing more affordable by giving cities incentives to abolish single-family zoning has a number of flaws. Most important, single-family zoning didn’t make housing expensive and abolishing single-family zoning won’t make it more affordable.

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When Democrats get caught in a political pickle, they can count on the borrowed authority of “journalists” and “fact-checkers” to bail them out. Take failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams’ pressuring corporations to put a financial squeeze on Georgia.

She began a March 31 op-ed in USA Today by writing: “Boycotts work. The focused power of No, trained on corporate actors used to being told Yes, can yield transformative results. As a Black person, a Southerner, an American, I respect and defend the right to boycott—and the advancement of civil rights has relied heavily on economic boycotts.”

On April 2, Major League Baseball announced it was yanking the All-Star Game out of Atlanta, and activists such as Abrams suddenly wanted to sound less like boycott boosters.

Twitter’s sidebar came to the rescue on April 22. One of its article headlines read, “Stacey Abrams encouraged Americans to invest in Georgia-based businesses after new voter laws were passed, according to journalists and fact-checkers.” That sounds contrary to the spirit of what Abrams wrote.

The world would be a better place were there not so many fat ugly black women stirring up hate & discontent.

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A divided panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco reinstated a Trump administration order that permitted removal of the guns from the State Department’s Munitions List.

 

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Ahead of President Biden’s address to Congress tomorrow, NBC Nightly News spent part of its Tuesday newscast gaslighting the American people about the President’s foreign policy successes in his first 100 days and trying to memory hole former President Trump’s seismic moves around the globe. At one point, they pushed the lie that Trump had never confronted Russia in any way and then lashed out at Israel while protecting Iran.

Yeah, apparently all those sanctions were a covert mash note.

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The Babbitt family, he said, disagrees with the Department of Justice’s move to not pursue criminal charges against the officer, adding “clearly, the officer required willfullness … he could clearly see that she was not armed” and didn’t present an immediate threat. The officer also didn’t give ample warning before the shooting, Roberts said.

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Healy, who is based in Dallas, said hundreds of people per day are moving to his city. He pointed out that 70% of the people moving in are from California and increasing “luxury price points.”

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In AIP Advances, by AIP Publishing, scientists in China report the development of a highly efficient desalination device powered by solar energy. The device consists of a titanium-containing layer, TiNO, or titanium nitride oxide, capable of absorbing solar energy. The TiNO is deposited on a special type of paper and foam that allows the solar absorber to float on seawater.

When sunlight strikes the titanium layer, it heats rapidly and vaporizes the water. By placing the unit in a transparent container with a sloped quartz roof, the water vapor can be condensed and collected, producing a copious amount of freshwater.

Perhaps California ought to invest is some desalination plants rather than sucking up all of the water in the Colorado River. (Drought-hit California moves to halt Nestlé from taking millions of gallons of water)

Climate tipping points may have been reached already, experts say (CBS News) And have been for the last forty years, by my count.

Electric Cars: What to Do With the Dead Batteries?  SMUGMOBILE!

Can U.S. Power Plants Support Electric Cars?

UNFCCC Extends the Deadline for Climate Award Entries

Ever Deeper And Deeper Into “Climate” Fantasy

Desolation Row

Corporations just don’t get it. A reckoning is coming. (Washington Post) Sounds like a threat to me.

New Chinese Decree Forces Religious Leaders To Actively Support Communist Party

‘Awakening From Being A Democrat’: Rose McGowan Compares Leftism To Cult

Jailing Of 4 Doctors For Illegal Organ Extraction In China Casts Spotlight On Forced Organ Harvesting

Sex deniers are the new flat earthers

BLM-Radicalized Actress Vows ‘No More Cop Shows for Me’

Sen. Amy Klobuchar details how government could regulate Apple’s App Store ‘tax’

Police Applications ‘Historically Low’ in New Jersey, Philadelphia  Gee, I wonder why.

Darkness Falls: Bezos-Owned Washington Post To Stop Keeping Track of Biden’s Lies

Jim Jordan Demands Answers From Biden’s Attorney General After ‘Anarchists’ Cause Nearly $20,000 Of Damage

Biden Education Chief Pushed ‘Woke’ Curriculum in Connecticut

State of Maine lays off 15 independent consultants on $13k a month amid efforts to implement troubled Workday system

Biased Judge Hides Behind ‘Moot’ in Tossing Schoolgirls’ Lawsuit Against Trans Athletes

“I’m Really Living The Life Over Here” – Hot Mic Catches Illinois Profs Gloating About Social Justice Infestation In Schools

Cuomo Exploring Legal Options To Contest Census Results  When in doubt, sue — especially if you can use taxpayer money to pay for it.

‘That’s Not Systemic Racism!’: Leo Terrell Gets Into Yelling Match With Geraldo Rivera Over Police Reform

Massachusetts Lawmakers May Have Finally Found A Way To Drive Out Their Last Three Gun Manufacturers  Plenty of room in Texas, y’all.

Vaccinated? Great. You should still wear a mask when gathering in public, experts say. (Washington Post) Gotta keep that panic going!

Shh — The Media Doesn’t Seem To Want You To Know COVID-19 Cases Are Plummeting Nationally

Covid Non-Compliance Rates

Dr. Fauci: US Should Begin Seeing COVID Turning Point in ‘A Few Weeks’

Cleveland Indians GM Says Players ‘Free To Make Their Own Choices’ After Pitcher Compares Vaccine Panic To Nazi Germany

As the Pandemic Wanes, Government Authorities Take One Last Aim at Kids

WORRY: ABC Warns That ‘Early Covid Hero’ Newsom Could Be Recalled

CDC: Many Americans Can Now Go Outside Without Mask  That’s very white of them.

Empowering SJW Protesters: WashPost’s Blackistone Slams IOC’s Ban On Protest

CDC Officials Recommend People Stop Giving Them Wedgies  Babylon Bee.

Florida School Announces It Won’t Employ Vaccinated Teachers Or Staff

Entire Water Polo Team Drowns Kneeling For National Anthem  Babylon Bee.

In Ma’K the Knife News

BLM Co-Founder’s Jail Reform Group Dropped $26,000 At Luxury Malibu Beach Resort  They’re so oppressed.

Canadian City Offers COVID Shots To “Black And Other Racialized Populations”  They’re so oppressed.

Andrew Brown Was a Career Criminal

Suspect Arrested After NYPD Detective Is Struck On Head With Stick

ESPN’s The Undefeated Publishes Absurd Article About Black Quarterbacks Being Treated Unfairly In The NFL  They’re so oppressed.

New Law Will Require Cops To Call LeBron For Permission Before Making An Arrest  Babylon Bee.

“Help Me to Hate White People”

Bezos-Owned Washington Post Endorses Terry McAuliffe Over Two Qualified Black Women

Texas rancher says smugglers damaging property: ‘Things are worse than ever’ at border

Federal Agency Won’t Say How Kamala’s Book Ended Up In Welcome Bags For Migrant Children

Biden’s Stimulus Checks “Wreck Labor Pool” As People Get Paid To Stay Home 

Joe Biden’s Anti-American Foreign Policy

Think Biden’s Tax Hikes Wouldn’t Negatively Affect You? Then You Are Very Wrong

The Liberal Media’s 100-Day Swoon Over Kamala Harris

Biden Setting Federal Minimum Wage At $15. Executive Order Doesn’t Include Past Promise On The Issue

Joe Biden’s skewed climate change priorities

Biden Has Issued 94 Executive Immigration Orders In His First 100 Days  And they are still flooding over the border.

GOP Senator Demands Watchdog Investigate Energy Secretary’s Involvement With Electric Car Company

GOP Reps. Demand Biden Admin Provide ‘True Cost’ Of Border Crisis To Taxpayers

State Department Refers To Border Situation As ‘Irregular Migration’ In Statement Praising ‘Vice President’s Leadership’

NC protesters march on County Attorney R. Michael Cox’s home following Andrew Brown Jr. killing  We live in an age where some people automatically respond to certain types of incident by forming a mob and besieging somebody they don’t like. That doesn’t strike me as progress.

Ted Cruz won’t break ties with an extreme nativist group? Shocker. (Washington Post)

In the U.S, praise for Anglo-Saxon heritage has always been about White supremacy (Washington Post)

‘A Page Out Of The Wallace Playbook’: Joy Reid Doubles Down On Comparing Ron DeSantis To Segregationist George Wallace

Anti-Trump Group Hands Out A Ton Of ‘F’ Grades On Republicans’ ‘Democracy’ Report Cards

‘MSNBC Republican’ Elise Jordan: You Have To Work Hard ‘To Be More Loathed Than Ted Cruz’

Hateful Activism: Far-Left CNN Host Pamela Brown Rages Against GOP Anti-Rioting Bills

CBS Sitcom Portrays 1980s Michigan as Jim Crow South

Liberal Doctor on ABC Medical Show: ‘Right Is So Intolerant’, Trump Voters ‘Should Be’ ‘Vilified’

Woke Coke: Rasmussen Poll Shows 37% of Americans Buying Less Coca-Cola

‘Wokeness Is A Problem’: James Carville Says Democrats Won’t Admit That Because They’ll Be ‘Clobbered Or Canceled’  Says one of the founders of witch-hunt culture.

Twitter Goes Berserk at Rose McGowan Calling Democrats a ‘Deep Cult’ in Rare Fox News Interview

CEO Fired After Mocking Teenager Who Wore A Dress To Prom

‘Reading Rainbow’ Host Defends Banning Books, Calls Cancel Culture, ‘Consequence Culture’

FBI Opening Civil Rights Investigation Into Fatal Andrew Brown Shooting

WashPost Declares: Presidential Democracy Is A-OK With Biden! Fact Check Database to End

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Florida-based attorney Benjamin Crump has a pattern of making inflammatory and false statements about deaths that were later protested by the Black Lives Matter movement.

Crump has represented Jacob Blake and the families of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and Breonna Taylor. Here are some examples of false or unfounded claims the lawyer has spread.

That’s what lawyers do. Especially, that’s what lawyers hired by alleged victims do.  They don’t want justice. They want revenge. And they want money. The lawyer wants fame. And he wants money.

No surprises here.

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When I first encountered critical race theory (CRT) in the early 1980s, I considered it an interesting, albeit flawed, part of a larger interesting but flawed academic movement — critical legal studies. Nowadays, however, I consider CRT to be superstructure built to cover the fact that Blacks, to a disproportionate degree, have not done what it takes to succeed in a society where barriers to their advancement have largely been removed (and where Blacks sometimes are treated more favorably than Whites due to their skin color).

CRT has produced a war on standards — standards like grades, test scores, rules of school conduct, criminal laws — that are supported by common sense and vast experience, and that wouldn’t be questioned if Blacks were meeting them to the same degree as Whites and Asian-Americans. That war is destructive. America can’t be a great country if it discards important, time-tested standards. I doubt it can even be a well-functioning society.

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Hunter Biden, the president’s son, seemingly faces no legal consequences for a possible deception during a background check while buying a gun.

It’s not clear whether the younger Biden broke the letter of federal gun law, although several legal experts and commentators say the question warrants an investigation.

Biden bought a .38-caliber revolver in Delaware on Oct. 12, 2018, according to an account by Politico published last month.

Politico reported: “Hunter responded ‘no’ to a question on the transaction record that asks, ‘Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance?’”

Does it surprise anybody that he lied?

Does it surprise anybody that he’ll never suffer any consequences in a situation where anybody not named Biden would probably go to jail?

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Next up: Republican lawyers launch ad urging Americans to sue the government.

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And people who prefer mea,t throwing up.

You will note that nobody is trying to develop meat-based fake plants.

Humanity evolved to eat meat as well as plants. Vegetarians are science-deniers.

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It’s the constitutional duty of the Census Bureau to track the population growth and shifts between the states and appropriate House seats accordingly, which feeds into the Electoral College calculation (House seats plus Senate seats). But according to the suggestions of CNN Prime Time host Chris “Fredo” Cuomo and fellow CNN host Michael Smerconish, the bureau exclusively helps Republicans and increases their disproportionate representation in U.S. politics.

Val Demings: officer who shot Ma’Khia Bryant ‘responded as he was trained’ (The Guardian)

The worst examples of critical race theory in schools

Video Shows Michigan State Rep. Name-Dropping Gov. Whitmer During Drunk Driving Arrest

BLM Oscars Opens With ‘Preaching’ on Derek Chauvin Trial

Chinese American Man Attacked in New York in Another Incident Against Asians

Illinoisans Overwhelmingly Oppose Racial Indoctrination Rampant In Schools, Yet They Cower In Silence

Gigantic Brawl Breaks Out At The Miami International Airport In Insane Viral Video

18% of Harvard’s Admissions Offers Are to Blacks  They’re so oppressed.

3-Year-Old Boy Shot Dead At Birthday Party

Watch: Massive Brawl Breaks Out At Miami International Airport  You will note that these are not white people.

Playskool Releases ‘My First Knife Fight’ Playset  Babylon Bee.

RACE OBSESSED: Hollywood Reporter Keeps Diversity Scorecard for Oscars

Drunk Michigan Democrat Invoked Whitmer’s Name During DUI Bust

WashPost Columnist Lamely Argues ‘Conservative’ Case for Racial Reparations

Chad Johnson Pays A Man $1,000 To Give Him A Ride To Starbucks  He’s so oppressed.

By the Way, Where Were All the White Supremacist Riots Over the Floyd Verdict?

Kamala Harris Says Demands For Her To Visit Border Are ‘Political Games’  Her entire life is a ‘political game’.

‘Heartless, Greedy Smugglers’: Border Agents Furious Over Video Of 2 And 6-Year-Old Child Lowered 30 Feet Over Wall

In Disgracefully Soft Interview, CNN’s Bash Doesn’t Ask Kamala About Failure to Visit Border

Sen. Paul: White House Mask “Theater” Is “Discouraging People” From Getting Vaccinated

Some Officials Told Illegal Migrants They Were Going To California And Deported Them To Mexican Border Towns Instead

Kamala Harris To Chair New White House Task Force Encouraging Labor Union Membership

The Targets of Biden’s War on “Domestic Extremists” May Not Be Who You Think  I think ‘Republicans’. What do you think?

College of the Ozarks Stands up to Biden’s Transgender Executive Order

‘Nobody Has Done More To Enrich Organized Crime’: Border Patrol Union President Criticizes Biden On Border Security

Americans Will Officially Need A Vaccine Passport For Travel To Europe In 2021

Meanwhile, Back in COVID-Land

Corona: Information, Misinformation, Disinformation, and Propaganda

Indian Vaccine Makers Jack Up Prices As Outbreak Worsens; 1st COVID “Triple Mutant” Identified

Moderna waiving Intellectual Property rights for the remainder of the pandemic

Moderna’s Pledge Not to Enforce Patents on Their Covid-19 Vaccine Is Worthless

Fauci Flip-Flops Again: Outdoor COVID Infection Risk Is “Miniscule”

Airline Bans Alaska Lawmaker For Repeatedly Violating Mask Policy, Making Her Commute Infinitely Harder

EU sues AstraZeneca over breach of Covid-19 vaccine supply contract

NY Times’ Bruni Fawns Over Dr. Fauci, Secular Saint, Ignores Lies to Public

Possible Vaccine Side Effect Connected To The Heart Now Being Studied

INSANE! Google Blocks Access to Doc Showing Vaccine Side Effects in News: Report

More Drug Overdose Deaths Than COVID-19 Casualties Reported In San Francisco Last Year

Maryland To Probe Chauvin Defense Witness’ Tenure As State’s Chief Medical Examiner

ACLU Again Cowardly Abstains From an Online Censorship Controversy: This Time Over BLM

AG Garland: Justice Dept Investigating Louisville Police After Breonna Taylor Death  I am SO glad this clown isn’t on the Supreme Court.

‘Tell Him Which Country He’s Living In’: Joy Behar Slams Lindsey Graham For Claiming There Is No ‘Systemic Racism’ In America  I’m more curious about the country that Behar is apparently living in.

Interrogating Jane

UCLA Students Are Claiming That Automatic Soap Dispensers Are Racist  Well, I’ve always thought so.

In Britain, the rich are richer but the poor far poorer than in Europe (The Guardian)

Parents outraged over Nickelodeon segment that teaches kids about ‘environmental racism:’ ‘Nothing is sacred’

‘The Problem Is Your Ideas Are Stupid’: Bill Maher Rips Millennials For Supporting Communism And Abolishing Police

GOP Lawmaker Urges FBI To Reassess Decision Concluding 2017 Baseball Shooting Was “Suicide By Cop”

#OscarsSoWoke Bludgeoned Viewers With BLM Propaganda

The Ignorant World And What to Do About It

Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Keeping Transgender Athletes Out of Girls Sports

Portland Fights 1000% Increase in Murders With Unarmed Park Rangers

China Censors History-Making Chloe Zhao’s Oscars Success

Amid Violent Crime Wave, 24 Year Old Reporter Shot Dead In Kansas City The victim was white, so you won’t see much mention of this in the Narrative Media. There certainly won’t be any protests or demonstrations.

‘Stop The RACIALIZATION Of Everyone’: Tulsi Gabbard Says Mainstream Media And Politicians Are Forcing Racial Division

Downtown Portland: The Sequel

After 11 Months Of Rioting, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler Calls For Citizens To ‘Stand Up’ To The ‘Mob’

 I No Longer Recognize Minneapolis. I No Longer Want to Live Here.

Female High School Students Appeal Ruling on Transgender Athletes

Political Correctness is (Even) Worse than Cancel Culture

Facebook Stopped Employees From Reading Internal Report About Insurrection

Not Woke Enough! LGBTQ Community Refuses To Endorse Jenner for CA Gov

‘1619 Project’ Creator Nikole Hannah-Jones Joining Faculty At University Of North Carolina

Firm Recounting Arizona Ballots Wants Methods Kept Secret

NYC Records Most Violent Week This Year With 46 Separate Shootings 

Politico Orders Staff to Avoid the Term ‘Border Crisis’…After ‘Trump’ and ‘Crisis’ Used Endlessly

Oscar Winner Pushes Killer Cop Myths: ‘Today The Police Will Kill 3 People’

Naya Rivera, Jessica Walter Among Those Omitted From Oscars ‘In Memoriam’ Segment

Outsports Douses ADF In Hate After Judge Dismisses Transgender Suit

A Letter to the Cancelled

Arts Council Apologizes For Funding ‘White, Western Eurocentric’ Opera And Symphony In North Carolina

Obama administration scientist says climate ’emergency’ is based on fallacy

Study finds ride-sharing intensifies urban road congestion

Children of Chernobyl cleanup crew don’t have excess mutations  I’ll venture to guess that the sea levels around them aren’t rising either.

Failed Climate Predictions

A Seaweed Diet Could Eliminate Most of Cows’ Greenhouse Emissions

Your Government Inaction: Bottle Bills

Climate change and the 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals

All Scientists Forced To Retire After Realizing The Science Is Now Settled  Babylon Bee.

ITV’s Lorraine Show Caught Lying! Photoshops The Same Picture To Push For Climate Lockdowns

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There are days when you wonder whether the New York Times editorial staff is working overtime to amuse us, or whether it comes naturally. They’re keeping alive the stale old sixties cliche, “Any country that can land a man on the moon can solve. . .” Of course, it is the perfect cliche for a president who hails from liberalism’s mesozoic era.

I’ll just point out that nobody is expending any effort to create meat-based fake plants.

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Last week, the Senate confirmed Vanita Gupta as Associate Attorney General, the number three position at the Department of Justice. Every Republican Senator except Lisa Murkowski, the Arlen Specter of the Klondike, voted against confirming Gupta.

Had Gupta’s nomination been rejected, the post would very likely have been filled by someone equally radical. However, that nominee probably would have been less vicious and less dishonest than Gupta. That’s the downside of her confirmation.

Victor Davis Hanson.

A multiracial democracy of the 21^st century has abruptly begun worshiping superficial appearances, as it announces that everything from the order of vaccinations and farm aid to cash vouchers for the poor and dorm selections will be determined by race, in utter violation of the U.S. Constitution that is increasingly despised, especially its Bill of Rights. (Have you noticed that the Left now feels about the First Amendment the same way it always despised the Second?)

Victor Davis Hanson.

Our finally irony this week? Who is the White Privileg-ist of all? Hunter Biden, of course.

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The draft rule primarily adds and alters definitions that are used to implement federal firearms laws. The new definitions make it possible for firearms to have more than one “frame or receiver.” A conclusion that is both at odds with the controlling federal statute and could disrupt the entire industry. It also creates an entirely new marking requirement for certain Federal Firearm Licensees that has no basis in federal statutes.

In effect, the rule would mean that many manufacturers would need to get pre-approval from ATF for new firearm designs. To put it another way, the draft takes 107 pages to say “we’ll know it when we see it.”

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Former secretary of state John Kerry snitched to Iran about Israel’s efforts to undermine the rogue regime’s interests in Syria, according to leaked audio that surfaced over the weekend.

Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, one of Kerry’s closest friends on the world stage, revealed in the leaked audiotape his “astonishment” at Kerry’s willingness to rat out an important American ally. Iranian leaders have repeatedly called for the destruction of Israel.

Snitching, or the act of revealing sensitive information about a so-called friend to impress another friend or authority figure, is generally frowned upon, especially among Democrats. Former president Barack Obama, for example, held a reelection fundraiser in 2012 featuring a number of NBA players, including prominent anti-snitching advocate Carmelo Anthony.

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The United Methodist Church (UMC) is facing a schism as conservative Methodists are attempting to break away from the Church over their beliefs about homosexuality, according to The Christian Post.

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It’s the first malaria vaccine to exceed the WHO’s goal of 75% efficacy.

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The Autonomous Weeder kills weeds without harming soil or water, and it operates autonomously, eliminating the reliance on manual laborers.

Thank you, minimum wage.

He’s got a  point.

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For decades the Rick Desautel had been told by courts and governments that his people no longer exist in Canada.

But Desautel and others in his community in Washington state have long argued that they are descendants of the Sinixt, an Indigenous people whose territory once spanned Canada and the United States.

On Friday, Canada’s highest court agreed, ruling that Desautel and the 4,000 other members of the Colville Confederated Tribes in Washington state were successors to the Sinixt – and as a result, that they enjoy constitutionally protected Indigenous rights to hunt their traditional lands in Canada.

And a beer….

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Everything is content. We all “pray in swear words,” to borrow Barlow’s phrase, and emerging forms of art are conspicuously products, characterized by their sale prices and ownership status as much as aesthetic merit. Free or not, content is still a commodity, inherently shaped by the platforms that circulate it and responsive to their incentives, monetary or otherwise. Rather than overthrowing the corporate entertainment industry, the internet has led us to internalize that industry’s logic, precipitating what is often called the “creator economy.” A host of intermediaries providing payment management systems, distribution infrastructure, marketing support, and systematized artificial scarcity are emerging to help individuals commodify and monetize more of their online presence. Intellectual property hasn’t faded away; instead it has become even more embedded in the fabric of the internet.

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As Philadelphia’s top law enforcement officer spent two weeks on a jaunt through Europe financed by a liberal dark money group, the city witnessed 3 murders, 30 rapes, 63 armed robberies, and 120 assaults with a firearm.

Philadelphia district attorney Larry Krasner traveled to Germany and Portugal in May 2019, a year in which his city experienced a 12-year high in homicides. Liberal dark money group Fair and Just Prosecution footed the bill for Krasner and other attendees to learn from the European countries how to ease up on crime.

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President Biden claimed that Derek Chauvin’s conviction on Tuesday “ripped the blinders off for the whole world to see the systemic racism” of police. With the police shooting that same day of 16-year-old girl in Columbus, Ohio, the White House again pushed the racism claim, noting that this was just another example of how “police violence disproportionately impacts Black and Latino people.”

But where is the evidence for these claims? In Chauvin’s trial, the prosecution never once mentioned evidence that the now-former officer is racist. A day after the verdict, the Biden administration announced plans for a pattern-or-practice investigation of the Minneapolis Police Department to determine if there is such racism, but the administration’s comments sure sound as if they have already determined the study’s outcome.

What are mere facts, compared to The Narrative?

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Apparently the Biden Boom consists of people with enhanced unemployment compensation and stimulus checks deciding to Just Stay Home and let the government support them.

You always get more of what you pay for.

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For centuries, using a sextant, a sailor could mark a ship’s location by making a few calculations to determine a star’s position relative to the horizon. Now a high-tech version of this maritime tradition is finding its way back into practice.

GPS is indispensable these days—but it’s still incredibly fragile. It can be spoofed with a fake satellite signal, hacked by an adversary, or simply destroyed. Spoofing, hacking, or destroying the stars? Not happening.

Police investigating after victim found fatally shot at Dallas car wash

NYT: We Are Not Going to Let Knife Girl Go

CNN’s Screaming Jim Acosta Is Now a Kiss-Up Karen with Maxine Waters

Pittsburgh Steelers Player Justin Layne Hit With Felony Gun Charge

“Biden Is An Idiot” – Fmr Police Officer Blasts Democrats For “Riding The Wave Of Dead Black People”

‘Insanely cheap energy’: how solar power continues to shock the world (The Guardian) And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

Fact check: Photos show no change in sea level over 99 years but don’t disprove climate change (USA Today)

Just in Time for Earth Day: 7 New Sustainable (and Stylish) Hotels (Architectural Digest) Nothing says ‘We are the Crust’ like spending Earth Day at a posh hotel.

Global reorganization of ocean currents could have ‘devastating effects’ on climate, experts say (The Hill)

Why Wind and Solar Energy Are Doomed to Failure

John Kerry, Biden’s ‘climate czar’ admits U.S. carbon dioxide emission cuts are pointless