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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

28th May 2021

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.

 

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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

28th May 2021

David Chipman Will Tax And Register Your AR-15 If He Can’t Ban Them

GASLIGHTING: AP ‘Fact Check’ Tries to Protect Biden from Rising Gas Prices

Teacher Compares Disputing ‘Anti-Racism’ To Sexually Abusing Children

Facebook to Resume Funding Candidates, but Only Those Who Certified Biden’s Win

McAuliffe Takes Thousands from Teachers’ Union as Leader Defends 1619 Project

Defund Police Protest Canceled After Someone Steals All Their Signs Babylon Bee.

Black Lives Matter and the Psychology of Progressive Fatalism

The Space and Air Forces Launch an LGBTQ Task Force  (Wired ‘Science’)

LOL: Jake Tapper Imagines Himself as ‘Not Particularly Opinionated,’ He’s Just Pro-‘Truth’

Tech Trade Groups Sue Florida Over Social Media Law Signed by DeSantis

2 Men Charged With Allegedly Blazing Up Police Car During George Floyd Protest

First Major Teachers’ Union Backs Israel Boycott

Princeton No Longer Requires Classics Majors To Learn Latin Or Greek — Another Case In The Dumbing Down Of American Education  At least at Princeton.

GLAAD Rubber Stamps Hulu’s Trans Propaganda Film

What’s Going On With Mexican Politics? 88 Mayoral Candidates Murdered, 18 Register As Trans Women For “Gender Parity”

 

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Today in Black Privilege

28th May 2021

Spain’s postal service introduces skin-tone stamps to fight racism — and makes the whitest one the most valuable (Washington Post) (What’s Your Favorite Color?)

‘Anti-Racism’ Activists Outraged After Spain Tries Honoring George Floyd With ‘Equality Stamps’ Showing Different Skin Colors

Critical race theory is a lens. Here are 11 ways looking through it might refine your understanding of history (CNN) Anything to prevent you from seeing it straight on.

VP Kamala on Warpath Against Reporters Who Don’t Understand Her Lived Experience as a Sorority Girl

Lockheed Martin Put Executives Through Training to Unlearn ‘White Male Privilege’: Report

Police Arrest Two Men Suspected Of Murdering Army Colonel And His Wife

Cop Fired for Mocking LeBron James on TikTok  Can you imagine a headline LeBron James Fired for Mocking a Cop on TikTok? No, you can’t, because that would never happen.

A Woman Got A $385 Ticket For Talking Too Loud

Massachusetts School Hangs Black Lives Matter Flag Days After the Group Condemned Israel

Students Attack 14-Year-Old In Classroom, Mom Joins In

Insane Joy Reid Guest Attacks White Liberal Historian for Writing About…Racism?

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

28th May 2021

Why a ‘crushing’ day for Big Oil represents a watershed moment in the climate battle (CNBC)

Both Sides Declare Victory in Aussie Children’s Climate Litigation Coal Case

Greatest Single Day Gains In Greeenland Ice Happening Now.

The temperature–CO2 climate connection: an epistemological reappraisal of ice-core messages

Australia: Court rules climate change “duty of care” to future generations exists  I used to like Australians. Now … not so much.

 

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Today in Witch-Hunt Culture

28th May 2021

Whatever Republicans are doing, it isn’t working

No-Joy Reid Rants: ‘Gun Fetishist’ GOP Causing Continual Death

Men Thrown Out of Yankee Stadium for Hanging ‘Trump Won’ Banner

Rutgers Administrators Apologize for Condemning Anti-Semitism

 

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Today in the Biden-Harris Slow-Motion Train Wreck

28th May 2021

Biden Admin Can’t Guarantee Taxpayer Aid Won’t Enrich Hamas

Granholm’s Green Energy Millions

Biden To Hold Event With Ralph Northam, Two Years After Saying He ‘Lost All Moral Authority’ And Should Resign

As Nets Cover-Up Border Crisis, Fox Shows How They’re Getting in

Romanian Gypsies Are Crossing the Rio Grande

Appellate Court Strikes Down Racial and Gender Preferences in Biden’s COVID Relief Law

Biden Admin Plans To Direct $861 Million To Central American Countries So That Their People Won’t Invade The Border

 

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This Anti-Israel Model Caught Protesting With Hate Crime Suspect

28th May 2021

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Bella Hadid’s activism in defense of Hamas-run Palestine is now entangling her with radical hate-crime perpetrators. The American-Palestinian model posted a picture of herself sitting on a car along with other Pro-Palestine protestors at an rally in Brooklyn on May 16 to her 43 million Instagram followers. Within the photo, which received over 4.5 million likes and has since been deleted, appears a man by the name of Waseem Awawdeh, 23, who four days later, was arrested for participating in the brutal mob beating of an innocent Jewish man in Times Square.

Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.

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The Health Alliance

28th May 2021

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Antagonism to Big Health is making unlikely allies of crunchy moms and right-wing trads.

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Madison Becomes Last of Wisconsin’s 5 Largest Cities to Face Election Complaint

28th May 2021

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Saying they are concerned about liberal groups entrenched in administration of Wisconsin elections, a crowd of about nearly 140 turned out for a “Standing Up for Voter Integrity” rally at the State Capitol.

The sponsor of the rally, the Wisconsin Voter Alliance, has led legal challenges to the third-party groups accused of infiltrating the elections in Madison and the Badger State’s four other largest, most heavily Democrat cities.

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Lost Hoppe

28th May 2021

ZMan does some sociology.

In the 20th centur,y as the country transformed from a republic into a social democracy, the franchise quickly started to expand to include all men, then women, then blacks. Now we are extending the vote to criminals, foreigners, and the imaginary.

One reason for this is the very nature of democracy. In a world of fifty percent plus one there will always be a large minority unhappy with the result. In order to avoid conflict, the natural elites form parties, which allows them to form a consensus around a set of compromises on the important issues. This is something that was the norm in the 20th century, whether it was in multi-party parliamentary systems or the two-party bicameral system in America. Liberal democracy was about consensus.

While that greatly reduces the number of people who feel left out of the result, it creates a new problem. Reformers now need to break the consensus in order to get the changes they think are required. That is difficult, so they instead look to increase the number of those outside the consensus. Put another way, the reformer looks for new voters, rather than trying to challenge old voters. Get enough new voters and the outsiders can challenge the prevailing consensus.

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Thought for the Day

28th May 2021

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ISLAMOCOPIA FRIDAY: What’s New in the Religion of Peace

28th May 2021

Sweden Goes From Being One Of The Safest Countries In Europe To The Second Most Dangerous

Hamas Calls For An Israeli ‘Cease-To-Exist-Fire’  Babylon Bee.

US Has Not Verified Death Of Boko Haram Terrorist Leader, Despite Reports

Police Say 1 Arrested in Attack on Jewish Men in Los Angeles

Hamas doesn’t want a Palestinian state

‘Teach Them A Lesson’: Son Of Hamas Co-Founder Who Became A Christian Urges Israel To Kill The Terror Group’s Leaders

Iran Blocks Inspectors From Accessing Nuclear Site Images As Vienna Deal Looms  Time to start bombing.

‘I would do it again’: Suspect accused of pummeling NYC Jewish man shows no remorse

Iran Reportedly Faces Another Mysterious Explosion

There is Nothing so Cheerful as a Brightly Burning Car

Learn From Gaza, Prepare For Hezbollah

Palestinian Supporters Of Rival Factions Hamas And Fatah Brawl At Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound

Palestinian Man Stabs Two Israelis in Jerusalem  Only two?

Israel Seizes Contraband Headed to Gaza

Marching With Hamas, NBC’s Engel Touts Terrorist ‘Wave of Popularity’

Israeli Police Shot Assailant Who Stabbed Two People In Jerusalem: REPORT

The Effects of Cultural Enrichment on Italy and Spain

Being Green Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry

Amid a Spate of Anti-Semitic Attacks, Orange County Muslim Leader Incites More Hatred

Jew-Hatred on the Streets of the Netherlands

Biden Campaign Alumni Blame Israel for Hamas Rocket Attacks

Syrian Gets Life Sentence for Knife Jihad Against Gay Couple in Dresden

Congo: The State Of Siege Solution

Boko Haram’s demise will only strengthen Isis in Africa  Muslim terrorists, like the poor, we have always with us.

Celebrating the Mongrelization of France

Taliban Tells Neighbors To Not Host US Troops Withdrawing From Afghanistan

University of Chicago Student Leaders Condemn Israel in Unsigned Anti-Semitic Letter

The PLO Antisemitic Riots and Jihadization of American Cities are an Immigration Issue

UN Rights Chief: Israeli Strikes in Gaza May Be War Crimes No mention of Hamas missiles, of course.

Criminal Migrants Can’t Be Deported From Sweden Because… COVID

 

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Big Tech as Big Brother

28th May 2021

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… let’s remember that Facebook censored all talk about the Wuhan coronavirus originating in a Chinese lab. There was always legitimate reason to believe that the virus might have originated there. But only now that the evidence establishes a strong likelihood of this will Facebook finally permit the matter to be discussed on its platform.

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Laser Pulses Travel Faster Than Light Without Breaking Laws of Physics

28th May 2021

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The speed of light may not necessarily be constant. Light travelling through a plasma can appear to move at speeds both slower and faster than what we refer to as “the speed of light” – 299,792,458 metres per second – without breaking any laws of physics.

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Not Graphene: New Type of Atomically Thin Carbon Material Discovered

28th May 2021

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Researchers at the University of Marburg in Germany and Aalto University in Finland have now discovered a new carbon network, which is atomically thin like graphene, but is made up of squares, hexagons, and octagons forming an ordered lattice. They confirmed the unique structure of the network using high-resolution scanning probe microscopy and interestingly found that its electronic properties are very different from those of graphene.

 

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Today in Black Privilege

27th May 2021

Brandeis assistant dean defends critical race theory: ‘All White people are racist’

Stop Saying ‘People of Color’ When You Mean Black (Newsweek) ‘People of Color’ is just a Politically Correct way of saying ‘colored people’; how about POX for short?

White Brandeis University Dean Posts ‘I Hate Whiteness’ on Instagram

Descendants of Blacks Enslaved By Native Americans Push Back On Renaming Columbus Day

Is there any proof that George Floyd was killed because he was black?

A look behind the “White Men as Full Diversity Partners” re-education program

Daily Caller News Foundation Sues Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot For Refusing Interview With White Reporter  BRAAAAAAAINS!

Former Black Panther Leaders Spoke at Democrat-Hosted Event

Criminals Who Targeted Auto Shop With White Supremacist Graffiti Turn Out To Be Two Black Men  Yet Another Race Hoax.

Declining BLM Madness Triggers Bitter Sports Media Agitators

Florida School Board Removes Call To Dismantle ‘White Advantage’ After Parents Had Something To Say About It

 

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Today in Witch-Hunt Culture

27th May 2021

Lockheed Martin is forcing a ‘neo-racist’ reeducation camp on employees, subsidized by taxpayers

Team Biden wants white teachers to undergo anti-racist ‘therapy’

MSNBC Host Cuts Short McCarthy’s Rebuke of Greene: ‘Blah Blah Blah It Came 5 Days Late’

Trump Posts Long, Whiny, Bitter Blog After New York Grand Jury Reports (Daily Beast) Not as whiny as Daily Beast ‘reporting’ about Trump, though.

German voters’ view of personal wealth causes problems for the left (The Guardian) I.e. it’s not socialist enough.

Amy Cooper Didn’t Learn Much From Her Time As ‘Central Park Karen’ (New York Magazine)

USA Today Removed Word ‘Male’ From Female Athlete’s Op-Ed On Biological Males In Girl’s Sports, Calling The Term ‘Hurtful’

Attacks on Cops Blamed on White Supremacists in CBS’s S.W.A.T.

Teacher At Minneapolis School Reportedly Placed On Leave After Wearing Trump Mask On Anniversary Of George Floyd’s Death

Candace Owens Says Facebook Censored Her for COVID Vaccine Criticism

University of Chicago Student Leaders Condemn Israel in Unsigned Anti-Semitic Letter.

Dennis Quaid Reveals His Roommate’s Reaction When He Voted For Reagan: ‘You’re Kicked Out Of The Hippies’

Desperate AP Reporter: Deny Trump Credit for Early Call on Wuhan Lab!

 

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

27th May 2021

Facebook Stops Removing Posts Claiming COVID-19 Man-Made After Lab-Leak Hypothesis Finally Goes Mainstream

“I Don’t Know Of A Bigger Story In The World” Right Now Than Ivermectin: NYTimes Best-Selling Author

“They Didn’t Even Try To Respect The Contract” – EU Demands Massive Fine In Lawsuit Against AstraZeneca

Fight to Hold Andrew Cuomo Accountable ‘Feels Like Upward Climb,’ Janice Dean Says

“Vaccine-Induced Covid-19 Mimicry” Syndrome

NY Times Covid Scribe: Just Stop Talking About ‘Racist’ Lab Leak Theory!

Lab Leak Theory Was Suppressed Because ‘Scientists Recoiled Against’ Trump, Health Researcher Says

‘Follow The Science’ Crowd Finally Admits Their COVID-19 Censorship Was Political

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

27th May 2021

The Pandemic Didn’t Slow Climate Change. It’s Actually Speeding Up, Experts Warn (NPR)

Satellites may have been underestimating the planet’s warming for decades

Shell Gets Wrecked In Landmark Climate Ruling, May Set Precedent For Oil Industry

How Many People Die When Polluters Exceed Their Limits?  (Wired ‘Science’)

One-third of Americans unwilling to spend $1 to fight climate change

It’s Time for Climate Realism When It Comes to China

The Supposedly Eco-Friendly Biden Admin Backs Trump’s Alaska Oil Drilling Project  Money talks.

World Now Likely to Hit Watershed 1.5 °C Rise in Next 5 Years  (UN News) Or maybe not.

‘An Inconvenient Truth’: Climate Depot Founder RIPS Media Still Pushing Gore’s Climate Alarmism

 

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Today in the Biden-Harris Slow-Motion Train Wreck

27th May 2021

https://dyspepsiageneration.com/wp-admin/upload.phpBiden ATF pick David Chipman botches assault rifle definition at contentious hearing Hey, he knows one when he sees one.

DHS Secretary Defends Handling Of Border Crisis Even Though Migrants Are Flooding Into US

Biden Unveils $6 Trillion Budget That Will Raise Federal Spending To Highest Post-WW2 Level

Republican Reps. Visiting The Border Slam Biden Policies And Continuing Crisis

Stocks Snap Lower As Biden Budget Suggests Retroactive Capital Gains Tax Hike

Increased Number Of Migrants From India And Haiti Attempting To Cross Into The US

Not Even The Soviet Union Paid People To Stay Home

 

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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

27th May 2021

Why conservatives really fear critical race theory (Washington Post) The mind-readers at the WaPo know all about it, of course.

The Tortured Saga of America’s Least-Loved Policy Idea (Politico) Least-loved by proglodytes, that is. Plus the usual conservative-bashing; can’t forget that.

People Are Calling Out “Normal” Parenting Tactics That Are Actually Toxic, And It’s So Important (BuzzFeed) The proglodyte war against normality is heating up.

Why income inequality is growing at the fastest rate among Asian Americans (CNBC) They say that like it was a bad thing.

Illinois Constitutional Amendment Is “A Monstrous Giveaway To Public Unions”

Ireland Rejects US Plan For Global Minimum Tax, Will Keep 12.5% Rate

CNN Guest: Police Are Like ‘Weeds’ You Have to ‘Kill’ to Make Grass Greener

‘The Hamas Caucus’: Republicans Launch Explosive Term For Ocasio-Cortez ‘Squad’

New Amazon Bond Film Will Feature 007 Assassinating Small Business Owners  Babylon Bee.

The Woke-Industrial Complex

Despite Initial Claims Drop, Almost 16 Million Americans Remain On Government Dole

Far-Left Groups Are Inciting Violence Across Colombia, and the Media Is Providing Cover With a Disinformation Campaign

ABC’s ‘A Million Little Things’ Pushes BLM Narrative for Third Straight Week

Teen Valedictorian Ordered to Remove God from Graduation Address

City Councilman Who Voted To Withhold Funds From The Police Has Car Stolen By Kids In Broad Daylight

New York resembles a war zone

CNN Teams Up With Democrats to Trash New Texas Concealed Carry Law

California Public School Gives Third Graders Assignment About ‘Place on Gender Spectrum’

Mayor Lightfoot Pushes Permanent 10pm Curfew On Liquor Store Sales In Chicago  BRAAAAAAAINS!

 

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NJ Postal Worker Admits Discarding Election Ballots

27th May 2021

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A New Jersey mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service, Nicholas Beauchene, 26, admitted to discarding 99 election ballots and nearly 2,000 pieces of other mail on Thursday.

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‘Defund the Police’ Mayoral Candidate Dragged by Thieves Stealing His Car Amid Atlanta Crime Wave

27th May 2021

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I often wonder how a corrupt dullard like Joe Biden managed to become leader of the free world. The more powerful the Democrat party gets, the worse their leaders seem to become. Consider areas completely controlled by Democrats, like, for example, Atlanta. Antonio Brown recently became the youngest person ever elected to Atlanta’s city council. Also the first openly gay man. He ran on a platform of defunding the police and other trendy leftist policies. He is the man on the left in the picture, which was taken at a protest march calling for justice for black transgender people he organized last June. A city councilman organizing street protests. Against the government that he represents. Ok.

Soon after the protest march, Mr. Brown was indicted on fraud charges. Among the charges are allegations that he falsely claimed to the victim of identity theft, provided false financial information on loan applications to buy a Mercedes and a Land Rover, and committed credit card fraud. Among other things. Being under indictment for fraud would presumably limit one’s options in the job market. So Mr. Brown went into a field in which such things are actually resume-builders. Soon after his indictment, he announced that he was running for Mayor of Atlanta. Mr. Brown announced that he is innocent of the fraud charges, and would not allow the allegations to disrupt his work for the city and his constituents. Because that’s just the type of selfless, community-minded guy he is.

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Thought for the Day

27th May 2021

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How Many Trillions to Waste?

27th May 2021

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President Biden wanted to spend $2.25 trillion we don’t have on projects we don’t need. Republicans countered by saying they weren’t willing to spend more than $568 billion we don’t have on projects we don’t need. President Biden, desiring to show he was willing to compromise, offered to spend $1.7 trillion we don’t have on projects we don’t need.

Now the latest is that Republicans have agreed to spend “close to $1 trillion” we don’t have on projects we don’t need. Whereas Biden hinted that he would agree to raising taxes on corporations and people who earn more than $400,000 a year to pay for part of his plan, a key provision of the Republican proposal is that taxes won’t be raised on anyone to pay for it, thus absolutely ensuring we won’t have the money to pay for their infrastructure projects we don’t need.

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What Homelessness and Climate Change Have in Common

27th May 2021

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

Let’s start with this NPR (NPR!!) report on the $1 billion Los Angeles is spending on homelessness, with no apparent effect on actually reducing homelessness:

The high public cost of LA’s first sanctioned campground — more than $2,600 per tent, per month — has advocates worried it will come at the expense of more permanent housing. [Emphasis added.]

What a minute—what? $2,600 per month, per tent?!?! 

As the kids say, AYFKM!? Only government could spend more for tents than you’d have to pay for a rental apartment even in high-priced Los Angeles. You can shoplift ten tents from a store (without risk of prosecution in California right now) for that amount.

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On Covid, a “Strange New Respect” for Tom Cotton, But Not Enough

27th May 2021

Paul Mirengoff at Power Line.

Glenn Kessler, the Washington Post’s fact checker, has an written an article called “Timeline: How the Wuhan lab-leak theory suddenly became credible.” The title itself needs to be fact checked against the content of Kessler’s piece. Kessler’s timeline shows that the leak theory was always credible. What’s changed is that the theory now can be deemed very likely true.

See Freeberg’s treatment of the term ‘fact checker’ below.

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What Fact Checking Is

27th May 2021

Freeberg nails it.

And so I am to believe that these professionals and volunteers apply their talents and resources to something already known to be true, and check it for something. Like for example, whether the people for whom they work, have an interest in the rest of us knowing that fact, or whether they have an interest in that fact being suppressed. That’s what a tin-eared technically-precise reading of that term would mean. Reminds me of one of David Burge’s most famous tweets, about covering the stories. With a pillow until they stop moving.

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Burisma Revisited

27th May 2021

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Joe Biden is a classic corrupt politician. He has used his decades in public office to enrich himself and his family in a manner that we usually associate with graft-seeking politicians of the 19th Century. The Burisma story, from which the Democratic Party press studiously averted its eyes, is a perfect example.

Joe’s son Hunter was given a place on Burisma’s board of directors and paid a salary of $1 million per year, making him by far the highest-paid person associated with Burisma. No Burisma employee, and no one else on Burisma’s board, made anywhere near that much money. This despite the fact that Hunter did not speak Ukrainian, knew nothing about the natural gas industry, and was a drug-addled, barely employable neer-do-well. The money obviously was intended as a bribe for the benefit of then-Vice President Joe Biden, who was in charge of Ukraine policy for the Obama administration. No one is dumb enough to write a check to a politician so as to document a bribe. Rather, the check is written to a bag man. That was the role that Hunter played here.

All of this is a well-known story, to those who pay attention if not to readers who rely on the New York Times. Now an additional fact has come to light: Burisma cut Hunter’s income in half when Joe’s term as Vice President ended.

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Today in the Biden-Harris Slow-Motion Train Wreck

26th May 2021

Biden Flying Migrants Into Tennessee ‘in Dead of Night’

Psaki Says Biden Is So Incredibly Fit He Has Achieved Resting Heart Rate Of Zero  Babylon Bee.

Leaked Memo Shows US Embassies Were Encouraged To Fly BLM Flags On Anniversary Of George Floyd’s Death

Lumber Firms Applaud, Home Builders Angry As U.S. Moves To Double Canadian Lumber Tariffs

Every Nerf Gun Could Be Turned Into “80% Or Greater Receiver” Under New ATF Rule 

Why did Biden administration shut down Pompeo’s lab leak investigation?

Border Crisis Continues: Large Group Of Venezuelan Migrants Crosses Into Texas Illegally

Biden’s ATF Nominee Says He Wants To Ban AR-15s

 

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Today in Black Privilege

26th May 2021

On The One-Year Anniversary Of George Floyd’s Death, Minneapolis Continues To Struggle With Unprecedented Violent Crime Surge  Gee, I wonder why?

Senate Confirms DOJ Nominee Who Once Pushed Essay Comparing Cops To KKK

ABC Ignored 30 Gunshots in George Floyd Square

Portland police declare riot as marchers break windows on anniversary of George Floyd’s murder

Flight from White: Yet Another Leftist PoC Lady Grievance Study Professor Is Exposed as White

How Black Lives Matter Is Contributing to Rise in Antisemitism

The fight to whitewash US history: ‘A drop of poison is all you need’  The Guardian defends The Narrative.

Shootout at George Floyd Square

MSNBC Wails Over States Combating Radical Racial Propaganda in Schools

Dems Hosted Ex-Black Panther Implicated in Torture for Event Where Panelists Praised Cop Killers

“What Do You Like About Being White?”

FSU Settles Discrimination Suit With Student Senate President Ousted for Criticizing BLM

Little Caesars Attack Suspect Arrested On Assault And Kidnapping Charges  Black women appear to have very short fuses.

 

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

26th May 2021

‘Ignore The CDC’: Johns Hopkins Professor Says Half Of Americans Have ‘Natural Immunity’

India isn’t the only one. Covid cases are rising at record levels in these places too

Mysterious Agency Offers French “Influencers” Money To Denounce Pfizer Vaccine

What science says about lifting mask mandates  The Narrative trumps The Science every time.

The Church of Health

Johns Hopkins Prof: Half Of Americans Have Natural Immunity; Dismissing It Is “Biggest Failure Of Medical Leadership”

NY Times COVID-19 Reporter Doubles Down On Claim That Lab Leak Theory Has ‘Racist Roots’  When it doubt, race it out.

With Trump Out of the White House, Media Suddenly Finds the ‘Lab Leak Theory’ Plausible

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

26th May 2021

Humanity Survived Previous Warming Cycles

Renewable Energy Is Suddenly Startlingly Cheap  Massive taxpayer subsidies will do that.

Greenland’s Melting Glaciers Are Polluting Coasts With Shocking Amounts of Mercury

Turkey struck by ‘sea snot’ because of global heating (The Guardian)

Why Would Naomi Oreskes Be On Retainer With Any Law Firm?

Visualizing The Copper Intensity Of Renewable Energy

New NASA Earth System Observatory to Help Address, Mitigate Climate Change

Small California farming town becomes the fasting sinking area in United States

Shell ordered to cut CO2 emissions by 45% in landmark climate case  The handwavium is strong in this one.

Guardian: We Must Abandon “Speciesism”, Putting Humans First, to Stop Climate Change  The Guardian is run by insane people.

Saint Greta Speaks  And apparently has a potty mouth.

 

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Today in Witch-Hunt Culture

26th May 2021

The Rise of the Thielists  (The New Yorker)

New Grand Jury Seated for Next Stage of Trump Investigation

Morning Joe’s Theme: Blame Israel, Not Democrats for Anti-Semitic Attacks in the USA

Evelyn Yang breaks down in tears over ‘racist’ cartoon mocking husband Andrew

Press: Get orange jumpsuit ready: extra large (The Hill)

White House ousts four Trump-appointed members of prestigious arts commission

Victory for the Santorum Squashers

The un-cancelled  Sometimes the cancel works, and sometimes it does not.

Jewish Democrats Criticize Conservatives And Progressives For ‘Reckless’ Anti-Semitism In Letter To Biden  Except that it ain’t ‘conservatives’ doing it, just progressive.

15 States Threaten To Pull Assets From Big Banks That Cut Off Fossil Fuels

Joy Behar Scoffs, ‘Lucky Guess’ for Trump to Blame China Lab Leak for Pandemic

Ohio College Will Assign Diversity Scores to Faculty Applicants

The War Machine Gets Woke: Largest US Defense Contractor Reportedly Held ‘Privilege’ Training For White Men

 

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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

26th May 2021

Local Christian Parents Pay University $100,000 To Totally Destroy 18 Years Of Their Hard Work  Babylon Bee.

From Mickey Mouse to Tony the Tiger, Brands Improperly Target Kids for Pride Month

NPR Claims BLM Is NOT Marxist, When Founder Clearly Admits She Is!

Elite anti-Semitism at the Boston Globe

Democrats Dismiss Complaint Against Zoe Lofgren Without Investigation After GOP’s Claims She Broke House Rules

CNN Loses Nearly 70% Of Its Viewers Since Trump Left Office

It’s not just Arizona: Push to review 2020 ballots spreads

Being Fake ‘Hate-Crimed’ Makes POC Student ‘Chad’ Popular in TBS Comedy

World Bank: Russia Should Consider Minimum Income to Fight Poverty  They did that for seventy years, and it didn’t work.

NY Times Flips From ‘Xenophobia’ to ‘Grass-Roots Tradition’ on Ballot Initiatives

The Office Of The DNI Tweets A Photo Of OnlyFans Star Tiffany Poindexter

Army Introduces New Gender Reveal Grenades For Trans Soldiers  Babylon Bee.

Former Seattle police chief says media bias inside CHOP made protests appear less violent than they were

‘He Took A Guess’: Joy Behar Says Trump Scapegoated China, It’s Just A ‘Lucky Break’ That He Was Right

AOC Added To Iwo Jima Memorial For Surviving Capitol Riot  Babylon Bee.

Seattle Suburb Backs Down From Ban on Abortion Clinic Protesters

Censored: USA Today Retroactively Changes Op-Ed to Use Woke Trans Language

 

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Why Black Lives Matter Sides With Hamas Against Israel

26th May 2021

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The main BLM group, the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, supports a primary objective of Hamas: the annihilation of the Jewish state. On its official Twitter page, the group proclaimed:

Black Lives Matter stands in solidarity with Palestinians. We are a movement committed to ending settler colonialism in all forms and will continue to advocate for Palestinian liberation. (always have. And always will be). #freepalestine

The New York Post quickly reported on BLM’s support for the terrorists in the current conflict, pointing out there is nothing new in this. Virtually since its founding in July 2013, after the acquittal of George Zimmerman, the half-Peruvian man who shot Trayvon Martin, BLM has been anti-Israel.

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Sailer’s Law of Mass Shootings Bets

26th May 2021

Steve Sailer.

There’s been a horrible workplace shooting in a San Jose railyard. There appear to be eight dead, including the gunman killing himself. No word on wounded, but assuming it’s less than the dead, I will bet, in accord with Sailer’s Law of Mass Shootings that the shooter was nonblack. (Other tells besides more dead than wounded: workplace, daytime, shooter didn’t get away, and witnesses are talking to the cops.)

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Snopes Introduces New Rating: ‘False For Now’

26th May 2021

Babylon Bee.

World-renowned fact-checking website Snopes has unveiled a brand new fact check rating called “False For Now.” This will allow them to provide a rating for claims that are just conspiracy theories uttered by deranged far-right people until they later turn out to be true.

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When Can MSNBC Get Any Dumber? When Brian Williams and James Carville Plot Dem Strategy

26th May 2021

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Echo chamber? The discussion on MSNBC was an insult to echo chamber. Disgraced liar Brian Williams talked to Democrat James Carville about whether Democrats are being tough enough in fighting Republicans. You won’t be shocked to find out that the Democrat, the Democratic fan and ex-Republican Michael Steele were very concerned Democrats notch some victories.

Williams, who lost his NBC Nightly News job for numerous fabrications, worried to Carville that Democrats might be blowing their moment: “Are the Democrats right now being tough enough? Are they taking what they have out for a spin? Knowing as you do the numbers for them may not get this good again for a good long time.”

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Sex is Real

26th May 2021

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The human body is not a machine to be toyed with, and biological sex is not an accidental feature, like hair length or nail color, to be stripped away or altered at will. Our physical identity as male or female affects every aspect of our health and biological development. Therefore tampering with biological sex, as trans extremists regularly do, has devastatingly harmful consequences. These interventions are particularly frightful—and reprehensible—in the case of children.

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Signal Decay

26th May 2021

Severian indulges in a little sociology.

The white pill in all of this, comrades, is that thanks to social media, pretty much all prefab identities are starting to work like that… except one. It’s possible to fake being a member of pretty much every single behavioral subgroup out there, with almost-nonexistent actual risk. It’s more expensive to fake “biker” than “Mob guy,” and “Mob guy” is more expensive to fake than, say, “SJW,” but all of them amount to little more than clothes, tats, and lingo. Indeed, the signal for “SJW” is so far decayed that being #woke is nothing more than a Twitter purity spiral — “Titania McGrath” is a parody, I’m told, in the vein of “Godfrey Elfwick,” but really, who can say? The signal has been completely lost in the noise, and almost all behavioral subgroups are suffering the same fate in the social media age…

…except one. You can change your clothes, comrades. You can certainly change your “gender,” and you can even change your “sex.” But one thing you absolutely cannot change is your skin color. Real blacks, like real bikers or Mob guys, have known this for a long time, which is why guys like Obama and Colin Kaepernick are so obnoxious — they’re not really black, and they know it, because the real blacks themselves let them know, every minute of every day. So, too, soon enough with the other skin color.

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Social Reform

26th May 2021

ZMan visits the zoo.

The way to think of the media is not so much as a sentient organicism playing a complex game of politics, but as a mindless organism that responds to the stimuli applied by a small group of people. This is the part missing from this otherwise excellent post about CIA manipulation of the media. The CIA can influence the media narrative by simply turning a relatively small number of journalists. They do not control it in an absolute or direct sense. They just control some influencers.

The CIA is not the only part of the managerial state playing this game. The major Wall Street players use access journalism to promote their interests. The FBI sends dozens of retired people into media jobs every year. The corrupt agents involved in the seditious plot to overturn the 2016 election landed in the media. The cable channels alone have over one hundred retired FBI people employed. Then you have the revolving door between the media and presidential administrations.

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Judge Refuses CNN’s Motion to Dismiss Dershowitz Defamation Lawsuit

26th May 2021

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Dershowitz alleged CNN provided an edited version of his remarks and a misleading narrative about his views that damaged his reputation as a scholar. He’s seeking $300 million in damages, the Hollywood Reporter said Tuesday.

CNN had argued it was protected by the fair report privilege, which shields the media from reporting about government proceedings.

 

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Thought for the Day

26th May 2021

Unshelved comic strip for 5/22/2021

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Scientists Turn Cabbage Into Construction Material Stronger Than Concrete

26th May 2021

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SCIENCE! Is there anything it can’t do?

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Illinois Dem Offered Activist Taxpayer-Funded Job in Alleged Bid to Clear Primary Field, Court Docs Show

25th May 2021

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Democratic congresswoman Marie Newman (Ill.) promised a six-figure, taxpayer-funded job to a local activist that he says was a bribe to keep him out of a tight primary race—an apparent violation of federal law.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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UK Vaccine Passport

25th May 2021

1984, here we come….

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Today in the Biden-Harris Slow-Motion Train Wreck

25th May 2021

Biden Staffers Issue Open Letter Demanding “Accountability” For Israel As Blinken Heads To Region  What is it with Woke underlings these days Issuing Demands to their bosses?

Here’s How The PRO Act Forces Workers Into Joining Unions, Paying Dues

Psaki Dodges Question On Soaring Crime Rates, Blames ‘Guns Problem’

Biden fuels racial divisions with Blacks-only debt relief for farmers

Biden Brings in Islamic Activists to Investigate U.S. Military for ‘Extremism’

Swing-District Dems Break From Biden on Increased Unemployment

Biden’s Jobs Plan: How Some Jobs Destroy Wealth  Not every job is worth creating.

 

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Today in Black Privilege

25th May 2021

Chaos Breaks Out in Prosecution of Cop Who Shot Daunte Wright (Daily Beast)

Black Lesbians in Netflix Series: Introduce Baby to Racism ‘Early,’ America ‘Ain’t’ Great

US Embassies to Honor George Floyd

Leaked State Department Memo Indicates Official Support For BLM Agenda

America Is Gearing Up for George Floyd Day with a Bang  Celebrate Black Thug Day! Cap somebody’s ass!

Media Tell Texas-Sized Lies About Critical Race Theory Bill

New York Times Editor: Trump Voters Lie That BLM Is a Violent Marxist Hate Group  Sure looks like a violent Marxist hate group to me.

Watch: News Crew ???????Records Moment Hail Of Gunfire Breaks Out At George Floyd Memorial  In the spirit of the day.

9 Easy Ways For Your Church To Be Less White  Babylon Bee.

Kristen Clarke Confirmed as Civil Rights Chief at Justice Department

‘Racial Division Will Never Go Away,’ Reports News Organization That Is Financially Dependent On Racial Division  Babylon Bee.

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

25th May 2021

The Union of Concerned Scientists tries to “cancel” Steve Koonin

CNBC: “War-Level Footing” Needed to Solve Climate Change

Nature Can Save Humanity From Climate Doom—but Not On Its Own (Wired ‘Science’) Five billion years is not enough to put Nature beyond the need for Enviro-Nazi assistance.

The De-Population Bomb

Biodiversity decline will require millions of years to recover  For sufficiently Politically Correct values of ‘recover’.

Claim: The Climate Crisis is Not About Overpopulation, the Problem is Affluence

 

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