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The city of Lubbock, Texas approved an ordinance banning abortion procedures within city limits and declaring itself a “sanctuary city for the unborn” Saturday.

While not the first, Lubbock is now the largest city in the U.S. to approve such a measure, but it will likely face legal challenges from abortion advocates who argue the measure is unconstitutional. The move comes just months after Planned Parenthood opened its first clinic in the city, according to the Texas Tribune.

Lubbock residents backed the measure with 62% of the vote on Saturday, joining dozens of other Texas cities that have already passed similar ordinances. Lubbock is the first of these cities to make a declaration while already having an abortion clinic within its limits.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

(Florida has pythons. Texas does not. Take whatever action you think is appropriate.)

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Odd form of DNA helps viruses resist their host’s defenses.

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3D weaving is in its infancy but it has already been used to create medical implants from polyester and to form aircraft bodies from carbon fibres.

But the technology could be scaled up to create buildings, the designer argued.

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At issue was the case of a woman who suffered burn injuries after a hoverboard she purchased on Amazon in 2015 via a third party merchant caught on fire. Amazon argued that it was merely the platform connecting customers with sellers, but the appeals court found there was a “direct link in the vertical chain of distribution under California’s strict liability doctrine.”

California’s strict liability doctrine was the hook upon which my Torts professor in law school used to hang his You Can’t Make This Shit Up stories on Friday when nobody wanted to do any work.

If necessary, Amazon can just refuse to sell products in California. Let’s see how long California can hold out.

Dr. Fauci to India: Fight Deadly COVID-19 Surge ‘Like a War’  Wh0 was that masked man?

Aussies Trying To Return Home From India Face Up To $66,600 In Fines Or Five Years Imprisonment

Would You Spray This DIY COVID-19 Vaccine Up Your Nose?  No.

SNL Provides Its Cast With Actual Safe Space Away From Guest Host Elon Musk

Why the GOP Is Ideologically Lost (New York Magazine)

CNN’s Kamau Bell: U.S. ‘Was Built on Racism,’ ‘Is Run by Racism’

Prosecutors Seeking Stiffer Sentence Against Derek Chauvin  The fact that this is politically-motivated ought to be obvious to the most casual observer.

Oh, NOW the Lefty ‘View’ Hosts Find GOP’s Jenner a Threat

Hysterical Outrage Mob Cancels Jeopardy! Winner For “White Supremacist” Hand Sign (Babylon Bee: MLB Umpire Ejects Catcher For Making Multiple Racist Gestures)

Software Firm Basecamp’s Employees Resign in Mass Exodus  In these degenerate modern times, PC-brainwashed tech people refuse to work for a company that isn’t explicitly Woke. (One-Third Of Basecamp Employees Quit After Ban On Political Discussions At Work)

Snowflake Safe-Zone: Triggered SNL Cast “Won’t Be Forced” To Appear Alongside Elon Musk  I guess Elon Musk isn’t Tony Stark after all….

New Jersey Teacher Suspended After Profane Rant Calling George Floyd A ‘F**king Criminal’  Except, of course, that he WAS a fucking criminal, which is why he was being arrested. Popular mythology to the contrary not withstanding, people don’t just cruise around looking for black people to arrest; they arrest people who are suspected of being criminals. George Floyd’s record is pretty clear that he was an habitual criminal, and indeed when he was arrested he was chock-full of illegal fentanyl, which is why he died.

The Left Continues to Destroy Itself and Others With Evidence-Free Destruction of Reputations  Glenn Greenwald.

“The Staffing Shortage Is Real” – Manhattan Restaurants Struggle To Hire As Millions Paid Not To Work

Liberals just cannot handle a Black conservative

House Republicans Question WH ‘Political Interference’ in Census Numbers

The Pandemic Made the Top 1% Richer. Why We Need Wealth Tax (Time Magazine)

What the back-and-forth over America being a ‘racist country’ is actually about (Washington Post)

The American Right Is The New Target Of Washington’s “War On Terror”

New York Times Bitterly Complains as Florida Republicans ‘Pass Voting Limits’

California Expands Early Release Eligibility For Up To 76,000 Inmates, Including Violent And Repeat Felons  You do the math as to what portion of these are likely to be, you know, white people.

NPR Disinformation: GOP Bills Attacking ‘Mostly Peaceful’ Protests

Antarctic ‘doomsday glacier’ may be melting faster than was thought  (The Guardian)

This new beer tastes like climate change, and it’s not good  (Washington Post)

Latest JMA Data Show France, Ireland And Finland Have Cooled In March, No Warming!

Even the Spies Are Woke

The strange truth about Japan’s climate change target

Oceanic Warming? Well, sorta.

Bill Nye on Climate Deniers: “There’s an old saying — ‘science proceeds one funeral at a time’, … but it’s not happening fast enough.”

Why Climate Science Is Like the Rest of Science

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Position papers by a national association for math educators that were shared by the education department argue “tracking” students — sorting advanced ones into separate classes — results in the over-representation of white and wealthy students.

“Those that have been privileged by the current system must be willing to give up that privilege for more equitable schooling,” one of the papers reads.

Equality of result never happens from getting poor performers to perform better — if they could perform better, they wouldn’t be poor performers — but invariably by hindering excellent performers from performing as well as they could.

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I’d submit that the most important political observation of our time is James Poulos’s theory of the pink police state. A pink police state, as Poulos understands it, is a regime that abandons political freedoms in exchange for interpersonal ones — a regime that exists not to preserve political liberties as conventionally understood, but to guarantee social entitlements. The pink police state isn’t concerned so much with whether the trains run on time or whether would-be invaders are kept at bay. No, what really matters is whether the citizens are being sufficiently “nice” to each other.

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Can trees sponge metal from the soil? Researchers use an experimental metal farm to find out.

The Other McCain just paints what he sees.

When Tucker Carlson talks about “replacement,” every liberal jumps up and starts screaming about a white supremacist conspiracy theory. But in California, “replacement” is not a theory, it’s a fact. Southern California is now just the northernmost province of Latin America. Only 14% of students in L.A. public schools are white. Sixty-six percent are Hispanic. To the south, in Orange County — which 40 years ago was the setting for Fast Times at Ridgemont High — half the public-school students are Hispanic and just 25% are white. There is no future for white people in California. They are persona non grata — an unwelcome presence in a state steadily taken over by Mexicans.

Every analysis of California’s demography always cites the high cost of housing as the reason Americans are leaving the state, but they never explain why high housing costs don’t discourage Mexicans from moving into California. About 10 years ago, I visited California a couple of times and resident explained what’s really happening. You see, Mexicans have no problem with moving eight, 10 or 12 people into a suburban three-bedroom, two-bath home. This isn’t “overcrowding” compared to what they left behind south of the border, so the Mexican immigrant can rent a 3BR/2BA house, then sublease space to another half-dozen Mexicans, and that explains something else you’d notice if you spent as much time as I do watching YouTube video of police chases. Every time TV choppers cover these pursuits in Southern California, you’ll notice that the streets in every neighborhood are lined with cars. Why is this? Don’t these houses have garages and driveways? Oh, wait a minute . . .

This has implications for Calexit. What happens once the tipping point is reached and the majority of Calivornians are ‘Latinx’ and they decide to leave the U.S. and return to Mexico? Is a Democrat Congress or a Democrat President going to be able to stop them?