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I built Heathkit stuff in high school and the Navy. They were first-rate.

Miami-Dade cops looking for gunmen, getaway vehicle after mass shooting at rap concert

The Second Amendment is not about guns — it’s about anti-Blackness, a new book argues (CNN) Of course, at CNN EVERYTHING is about ‘anti-Blackness’.

White mom charged with ‘medical child abuse’ for subjecting black daughter to unnecessary treatment (Daily Mail)

Will Eliminating Standard Tests Really Reduce Racial Disparities In Education?  Jonathan Turley. Hint: No.

ABC’s chief White House reporter: A lot of reporters have ‘egg on their face’ over Wuhan lab-leak theory

This concert ticket costs $18 — or $1,000 if you’re not vaccinated (Washington Post)

German Judge Declares Mask Mandates Illegal And Harmful To Children

The Covid lab leak theory is looking increasingly plausible  Matt Ridley.

 Letter from a Calgary Jail

California Restaurant Owner Tacks On $5 Fee For Customers Who Refuse To Remove Masks  That’s a bit much.

Fauci Stokes Pandemic Fears Despite Plummeting Cases And Deaths  My, what a surprise. (I’d love to have a peek at Fauci’s investment portfolio.)

Climate ECS Closure

Solar farms: A toxic blot on the landscape

A fiery past sheds new light on the future of global climate change

Activist heads explode as USFWS says oil activities pose minimal risk to polar bears in AK

Gaetz’s GOP Primed Young Women to Sell Sex to Men Like Him (Daily Beast) And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

Drive Out ‘Demons’ From GOP’s ‘Big, Ugly Hate Machine’ Before It Ends Democracy  Better hurry.

Oklahoma Names Portion of Highway After Trump

Another Deranged Trump Vengeance Fantasy from Vanity Fair

Roger Stone Predicts ‘Fabricated’ Trump Indictment to Cover Up Voter Fraud

Kamala Harris Visits Tomb Of Unknown Soldier To Tell Him To Enjoy The Long Weekend Babylon Bee.

‘Competence Is Actually at the Helm’: MSNBC Regular’s Laugh Line of the Day

Russia Monitoring Biden’s “Persecution” Of Capitol Hill Rioters & Their “Opposition Rights”

China Allows Families To Have Up To 3 Children Amid Dramatic Drop In Birth Rates  That’s very white of them.

‘Blue Lives Murder’ Merchandise For Sale On Amazon

New York Times Opinion Editor Denies They’re Progressives or Partisans And if you believe that one they’ll tell you another one.

Woman Catches State Police Attaching Tracker to Her Car, Now They Want It Back  So give it back. Use a hammer on it first, though.

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In order to carry out the business of increasing property values, the HOA enacts and enforces a series of rules designed to ensure that neighborhood standards of conformity are met. You?ve probably noticed that HOA neighborhoods tend to have dozens or hundreds of substantially identical homes. This is by design. Conformity is easier to enforce in similar homes. Customization of any kind becomes easier to spot.

The HOA will limit what color you can paint your house, how many people can live in it, how many – and what type of – vehicles you can park in the driveway, how often you need to paint the exterior, where you place your garbage dumpsters, and the condition of your landscaping. They can also prevent you from adding on to the house, or maintaining out-buildings, like tool sheds or a tree house for your kids. And that?s just the general stuff.

Once you?ve been prohibited from doing something with your property, or made to do something you don?t want to, you begin to get a clearer picture of what?s really going on.

To add insult to injury, should you be found to be in violation the HOA has the legal right to impose legally enforceable fines on you, that are automatically attached to your property.

They give you a very good look at America under Communism, with Karens in charge. You don’t want that.

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I’m sure you’ve been on the edge of your chair.

“Short words are best, and old words, when short, are best of all.”

Sarah Hoyt says what we all know to be true.

Prove to me that we’re not being run by a cabal of our enemies. Prove it.

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In this special edition of The American Mind Podcast, Michael Anton, former Trump official and senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, is joined by Curtis Yarvin, formerly “Mencius Moldbug” of the successful blog “Unqualified Reservations.” The two debate what to do if and when the current regime crumbles under the weight of its own incompetence. Yarvin makes his case for a Big Tech CEO-turned-monarch.

Yarvin is one of the most outrageous people you will ever encounter. Unqualified Reservations, although now no longer current, is easily found archived on the Internet; it’s lots of fun.

Victor Davis Hanson.

Once upon a time long ago, we agreed there were certain immutable laws of human nature. These laws were based on facts, reality, and data.

In other words, we accepted common sense about the way the world worked according to logical and even “scientific” principles. That assumption defined us as “enlightened” rather than Dark Age reductionists and ideological- or myth-driven zealots.

Not now. “Progressives,” especially the media, are most often regressive, anti-Enlightenment, and intolerant people, who start with a deductive premise and then make the evidence conform to it—or else.

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I am not making this up.

The film is Reichardt’s eighth feature and if you’ve seen Meek’s Cutoff, a sort of western, or Wendy and Lucy, possibly the best dog film ever, you will know she is a singular filmmaker whose characters always serve as plot rather than serve the plot, which is a joy. It opens in modern-day Oregon as a dog digs up something in the woods. And I don’t need to be cagey about what the dog finds as it happens in the first few minutes. It discovers a pair of human skeletons positioned in such a way that you understand that whoever they were, they were close.

This is the first evidence I’ve seen that magazines, like radio stations, can suddenly change format.

The Guardian.

More Woke contempt for everybody else.

The reason cat videos out-earn ‘real artists’ is because more people are willing to pay for cat videos, which have demonstrable entertainment value, than ‘real artists’, most of whom don’t. All ‘Big Tech’ has done is made this truth painfully apparent to those who believe that their artistic taste is superior to everybody else’s.

(Ask Taylor Swift or Garth Brooks — or Beyoncé or CardiB – when was the last time they ‘begged for tips’?)

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President Biden’s infrastructure plan includes $20 billion to pour landfill into major access roads to cities, to eliminate racist community divides, reduce CO2 emissions, and revitalise inner cities by ensuring people who work in cities are incentivised to live near their workplaces.

Democrats love using YOUR money to empower them in telling you how you ought to live.

What is critical race theory, and why do Republicans want to ban it in schools? (Washington Post) Damage control from the Narrative Media.

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NPR, repeating blatantly biased coverage by the Associated Press.

If Republicans had done this to stop a Democrat measure, the Narrative Media would be trumpeting ATTACK ON DEMOCRACY!

And it’s just posturing,  because the Governor can just call another special session, which this shenanigan will almost guarantee.

The move was reminiscent of 2003 when outnumbered Democrats twice broke quorum to stop Republican efforts to redraw voting maps. House Democrats first left the state en masse for Ardmore, Oklahoma only to return several days later. Senate Democrats delayed a special session that summer by going as a group to Albuquerque, New Mexico for several weeks.

Ultimately, neither effort worked as the Democrats eventually returned to the Capitol and Republicans passed the bill.

Study Alleges Proof China Lab Created COVID, Covered It Up

Molecular Biology Clues Portray SARS-CoV-2 as a Gain-of-Function Laboratory Manipulation of Bat CoV RaTG13

Bayesian analysis concludes that SARS-CoV-2 is not a natural zoonosis

‘Looks like she’s 19’: Uproar after Biden’s remarks about girl at Virginia military base  Creepy Joe emerges at last.

Biden Frees Al Qaeda Ally Who Plotted to Smuggle Nukes Into US

‘Every State … Is Now A Border State’: Former DHS Secretary Says Biden Administration Is ‘Breaking The System’

Gas Is Going To $5 Per Gallon: First In California, Then Across The Country

Biden Budget Drops Hyde Amendment, Opens Door for Publicly Funded Abortions

The tax system is built to favor wealthy Whites, new book argues (Washington Post) Capitalizing ‘White’? Is that allowed?

First Anniversary of the Racial Reckoning’s Murder Surge

2 Dead, 20 Wounded in Miami Concert Shooting  The ration of dead to wounded suggests, under Sailer’s Law, that the perpetrators were POX. But we shall see.

REPORT: Atlanta Braves Star Marcell Ozuna Arrested On Domestic Violence Charges

Inside the not OK corral

Jury Takes 2 Hours to Find Carjack Murderer Not Guilty

Younger Latinos confront immigrant parents on race, Black history (NBC News)

Dalton parents enraged over ‘masturbation’ videos for first graders

Students sign fake petition to cancel Memorial Day, call it a celebration of ‘US imperialism’

DC students eagerly sign fake petition to cancel Memorial Day over ‘American Imperialism’

Anniversary of the Mostly Peaceful Protests Intensifying

New York Mayoral Race Tests Dem Stance on Defunding Police

Italian Court Fined For “Playing Down Gender-Based Violence”

In Mexico, Cartels Are Hunting Down Police at Their Homes

New York Times Channels Leftists Upset at Biden’s Alleged ‘Silence’ on Abortion

Thousands March in Colombia’s Bogota to Demand End to Protests, Roadblocks  Not the Babylon Bee.

‘Blue’s Clues’ Releases Song Featuring Same-Sex Couples, Transgender Children And Drag Queens

Social Cost (Benefit) of Carbon Dioxide from FUND with Corrected Temperatures, Energy and CO2 Fertilization

Simplified climate modelling. Part 1: The role of CO2 in paleoclimate

Texas Republicans finalize bill that would enact stiff new voting restrictions and make it easier to overturn election resultss (Washington Post)

‘Assault on democracy’: Biden torches Texas voting bill (P9litico) ‘Democracy’ is apparently a code word for ‘vote fraud’.

Texas Legislature close to adding new restrictions to voting process (CNN)

How Hollywood’s ‘Jesus’ Jim Caviezel Went Full QAnon (Daily Beast) And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another on.

Roger Stone predicts a Donald Trump criminal indictment is on the horizon (Salon) Just like Climate Change!

Twitter Outraged Over Teacher Telling Educators to Embrace Anti-Racist Thinking or Be Fired

Angry ‘woke’ parents and teachers are trying to silence critics of critical race theory

The anti-elite elites who want to thwart a Jan. 6 commission (Washington Post) Whose turn is it to be the ‘elite’?

US seeks dismissal of cases against Trump for clearing Lafayette Square (The Guardian)

DOJ asks judge to dismiss cases against Trump, Barr for Lafayette Square clearing (The Hill)

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema Won’t Explain Why She No-Showed for the Capitol Riot Commission Vote (Daily Beast) Perhaps she didn’t think it was important.

Drive-By Media: ABC, NBC Take Shots at Texas Election Integrity Bill

SMACKDOWN: Bill Maher Eviscerates NYT’s Kristof on Israel-Gaza War

NY Times Suddenly Laments Cancel Culture… When Journalists and Dems Are Targeted

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Throughout history, there have been numerous accounts of segmented sleep, from medical texts, to court records and diaries, and even in African and South American tribes, with a common reference to “first” and “second” sleep.

Medieval monks would use this period to sing the canonical hour of Matins.

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Give some credit to Lori Lightfoot. She’s really good at wrecking things.

When America’s most Innsmouth-ian politician took over Chicago in spring 2019 (presumably for lack of any other volunteers), it was hard to imagine screwing up the city worse than it already was. The city was already losing population. It already had the most murders of any US city and a top-30 violent crime rate overall.

But Lightfoot rose to the challenge and then some. She inherited a city with 563 murders the year before she took office. In the 365 days between George Floyd’s death and the one-year anniversary of his demise, the city clocked more than 800, including 105 in a single month and 18 in a single day. When hundreds of city buildings were looted in the nation’s worth rioting outside Minneapolis, Lightfoot’s response to an upset alderman was ‘No offense — fuck you.’ When the alderman somebody leaked the audio to the public, Lightfoot accused him of breaking the law, but it turned out the one breaking the law was Lightfoot herself by holding secret conference calls with the city council.

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The most interesting thing about what the Fed is now doing is that it is illegal. The Fed’s argument that it is not monetizing the US debt fails now on its own terms. The Fed is buying treasuries for no purpose other than to directly finance the government’s escalating debt.

Steve Sailer reports … with video.

Parents in the North Carolina city of Greensboro are outraged after authorities say six students and a mother entered a school to beat up a 14-year-old girl in her classroom.

Read it. And watch the video.

Many have seen this as another instance of Biden’s weird obsession with little girls. Yes, but I think the truth is worse than that. Biden’s handlers have undoubtedly warned him many times not to act inappropriately toward little girls, but when he goes off-script, as here, he can’t help himself. As indicated, too, by the manner in which he speaks, I think Biden is well into his dotage. Like many elderly people suffering from dementia, he is prone to blurting out inappropriate thoughts that happen to cross his mind.

And the very Narrative Media folks who were s0 eager to crawl up Trump’s anus with a microscope are rushing to pooh-pooh this obvious evidence of Biden’s condition.

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A Stockton, California high school principal was escorted off of school property by law enforcement officers after his controversial graduation speech, telling the crowd, “Successful people stomp on each other,” on Thursday.

Stagg High School Principal Ben Nakamura gave the graduating class of 2021 a lot to think about in his commencement speech Thursday morning. While the school board said they got many complaints saying Nakamura inappropriately used the graduation as an opportunity to complain about personal issues, some community members have said it was unfair that he was removed from the graduation.

In an email to Newsweek, Melinda Meza, a spokesperson for Stockton Unified School District, said they “received several complaints from parents that the principal at Stagg High School used the graduation as a platform for his personal grievances.”

California.

Lawrence O’Donnell Goes on Witch Hunt to Smear GOP: ‘McCarthys’ Don’t Care About Police

Matt Gaetz Tells Fans to Carry Out ‘Armed Rebellion’ Against Government if Neccessary (Daily Beast)

Revealed: majority of people charged in Capitol attack aren’t in jail (The Guardian) The Horror! (Neither are the majority of the people who participated in the Portland and Seattle riots; they aren’t even charged.)

CNN: Homeland Security Says Commemorations of Tulsa Race Massacre Could be Target for White Supremacists

Tapper Merges New Novel with CNN’s Theme: ‘Donald Trump Is The Devil,’ Owns the GOP

Brinkley Condemns 100 Million ‘Xenophobic and Anti-Democratic’ Americans

NPR’s ‘Fresh Air’ Talks Up GOP Voter Suppression with New York Times Reporter

Virginia County’s Schools Warned To Revoke Teacher’s Suspension For Declining to Use Students’ Preferred Pronouns

Rep. Smith: Biden Budget Release Shows ‘How Proud They Are of This Disaster’

Biden Banking On $3.6 Trillion Tax Increases To Fund Agenda Plans  Such plans, like all government plans, are based on the assumption that the victims will just sit there and cough up, which they won’t; they’ll adjust their behavior to avoid as much of the tax increase as possible, so the hikes will realize much less net revenue than projected. This happens so consistently with revenue projections that I’m surprised they even bother any more.

Brilliant: Trump Begins Running 2024 Campaign Ads On Gas Pumps  Babylon Bee.

California cafe owner charges customers $5 fee for wearing masks

Is Ivermectin The New Penicillin?

So Much for Cillizza’s 2020 CNN Hype That Dr. Fauci ‘Crushed’ Trump on Wuhan Lab Leak

Virologists Say Genetic “Fingerprints” Prove COVID-19 Man-Made, ‘No Credible Natural Ancestor’

Oregon Is Proof That Leftist Politics Ultimately Lead To Tyranny And Decay

CNN, AP, Daily Beast headlines refer to illegal immigrant convicted in Mollie Tibbetts murder as ‘farm worker’

Virginia teacher placed on leave after speech disputing ‘biological boy can be a girl and vice versa’

NBC Ignores Mollie Tibbetts’ Murderer Found Guilty; ABC Hides Immigration Status

L A Times Publishes Beijing-Funded Propaganda, Conceals China’s Massive Coal Use & Emissions

Surprising sea ice thickness across the Arctic is good news for polar bears

Ocean Temperature Limit – Corrections and Part 4

A New Kind of Denialism

Daily Caller Sues Racist Chicago Mayor For Blacklisting White Journalists  BRAAAAAAAINS!

18-year-old accused in 4-year-old Dallas boy’s death allegedly grabbed another toddler in February

NC Lt. Gov. Robinson to Newsmax: Critical Race Theory Mirrors Ku Klux Klan

US Embassies Worldwide Are Flying BLM Flags This Week

The First American City To Authorize “Reparations” Is Already Regretting It

After Grade-Rigging Scandal, Baltimore City Schools No Longer Holding Back Failing Students

BLM has made UK race relations worse  As it was intended to do.

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That would be a useful thing.

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1 Muslim + 1 RPG + 1 ‘sky pool’ = you do the math.

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My, what a hardship. Why not ban their sale in Texas until they stop killing people?

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It was ten years ago this May that Weinergate grew into a scandal that destroyed the career of New York Democrat Anthony Weiner. On May 27, 2011, the then-Congressman sent a sexually explicit picture of himself to a woman following him on Twitter. After the picture of his erect penis became public, Weiner spent days saying it wasn’t him and suggesting he’d been hacked. Bizarrely, liberal journalists attempted to defend him, offering all sorts of ridiculous explanations.

Concocting the Narrative is SO tiring. “But Oceania has ALWAYS been at war with EastAsia!”

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Bill Maher may be a malicious Leftist, but he’s an entertaining malicious Leftist.

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YOU COULD fill a small library with books on right-wing populism. Some authors argue that these movements emerged in reaction to relatively recent events, such as the financial crisis of 2007-09 or the advent of social media. Others look to longer-lasting regional trends, like European integration or racial politics in America.

Thomas Piketty, an economist, became famous for a book that analysed 200 years of data on wealth inequality in a wide range of countries. This month he published a paper, co-written by Amory Gethin and Clara Martínez-Toledano, which applies a similar approach to the relationship between demography and ideology. Its findings imply that the electoral victories of Donald Trump and the Brexit campaign in 2016 were not an abrupt departure from precedent, but rather the consequence of a 60-year-old international trend.

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The paper finds that income and education began diverging as predictors of ideology long ago. In 1955 both the richest and the most educated voters tended to support conservative parties. Conversely, both poorer and less-educated people mostly chose labour or social-democratic ones.

Today, wealthy people still lean to the right. In contrast, the relationship between education and ideology began to reverse as early as the 1960s. Every year, the 10% of voters with the most years of schooling gravitated towards left-wing parties, while the remaining 90% slid the other way. By 2000, this had gone on for so long that, as a group, the most educated voters became more left-wing than their less-educated peers. The gap has only grown since then.

The Other McCain gives you the details.

Say hello to Joshua Nazario, 22.

Daley was waiting for a train on the southbound N/Q/R/W platform around 10 p.m. Wednesday when suspect Joshua Nazario, 22, crept up from behind and started hacking away at her neck and shoulders, cops said.

Freeberg nails it.

It continues to surprise me, how many people say “We need to come together and stop being so divided,” and then immediately turn around and support a political party dedicated to bringing pain.

We shouldn’t have such a party in the United States, let alone a major political party. No organized party should remain organized after making it their priority that it should hurt this much to make a quarter millions dollars a year. Or that it should cost this much to hire unskilled help, should the need arise. Or “No justice, no peace.” Or that every divorce that might possibly happen, has to happen. Or that it ought to hurt this much to buy a gun, or the ammunition for it. Get hired/promoted when you’re a white guy. Register your car. Buy a kilowatt-hour of energy. Buy groceries. Water your lawn.

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These people are lying and don’t know they’re lying. They get away with it a lot, because they look sincere. Well that’s the thing about lying to yourself: You look sincere, because you are, and yet if you aren’t being truthful with yourself then you can’t deal truthfully with anyone else. And the truth is, an agenda of hurt is going to cause division. You can blame the division on the other guy, but there’s nothing divisive about “Please don’t make it painful for me to run a business when you aren’t helping anybody by doing so, just to make it painful to run a business.”

Look at the word order of what he says and tell me I’m wrong.

The Media’s Embarrassing Incuriosity About Wuhan

Newsom Announces Sweepstakes Where 5 Lucky Winners Get To Move Out Of California Babylon Bee.

Former State Department Official Says Idea COVID-19 Emerged Naturally Is “Ridiculous”

McDonald’s Drive Thru Backs Up For Miles As Dr. Fauci Keeps Changing His Mind  Babylon Bee.

Alleged ‘Insider’ Says Facebook CENSORS Content Based on COVID Criticism: Project Veritas  My, what a surprise.