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A hybrid workforce is typically described as having both in-house and remote talent. The assumption is that productivity and communication tools are the foundation of this new world of work, but connecting distributed teams and building collaborative thought requires a much deeper effort and understanding.

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I first saw this vehicle in THE PRESIDENT’S ANALYST, a great Coburn flick.

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Denmark must be doing something right, because both the United Nations and the European Union oppose its plan to move its asylum application facilities to the African continent.

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Democrats and much of the media are pushing to make permanent the extraordinary, pandemic-driven measures to relax voting rules during the 2020 elections—warning anew of racist voter “suppression” otherwise. Yet democracies in Europe and elsewhere tell a different story—of the benefits of stricter voter ID requirements after hard lessons learned.

A database on voting rules worldwide compiled by the Crime Prevention Research Center, which I run, shows that election integrity measures are widely accepted globally, and have often been adopted by countries after they’ve experienced fraud under looser voting regimes.

Of 47 nations surveyed in Europe—a place where, on other matters, American progressives often look to with envy—all but one country requires a government-issued photo voter ID to vote. The exception is the U.K., and even there voter IDs are mandatory in Northern Ireland for all elections and in parts of England for local elections. Moreover, Boris Johnson’s government recently introduced legislation to have the rest of the country follow suit.

Barbra Streisand: GOP Wants An ‘Authoritarian State’  In what plane of reality does Barbra Streisand have the slightest clue about what the GOP want?

Yes, democracy *really* is in danger (CNN)

American Democracy Isn’t Dead Yet, but It’s Getting There (The New Yorker) Because REPUBLICANS!

CNN’s Jim Acosta Condemns ‘Matt Gaetz and His Partner in Slime, Marjorie Taylor Greene’ Like being called ugly by a frog.

CNN Thinks You’re All Stupid, and Too Many of You Watch Fox News

As Major SCOTUS Rulings Loom, Sen. Blumenthal Warns Conservative Justices Of “Seismic” Changes If They Rule ‘The Wrong Way’

Univision Still Finds A Way To Make Stories All About Trump

Linkedin bans a post

Small Business Group Sues MLB Over All-Star Game, Alleges $100 Million In Damages To Atlanta Economy

‘Destabilizing For You’: Joe Scarborough Claims Some People Have ‘Forgotten What It’s Like To Be Americans’ Because Of Trump  Certainly Joe Scarborough has.

Democratic Congresswoman Calls For ‘Gender Equality’ In Crash Test Dummies  NOT the Babylon Bee.

Luc Montagnier: “It’s Vaccination Insanity”

There’s no excuse for dismissals of GOP claims about covid’s origin

Washington Post Becomes Latest Media Outlet To Walk Back “Debunked Conspiracy Theory” Wuhan Lab Leak Coverage

I’m Not Scared to Reenter Society. I’m Just Not Sure I Want To  I know the feeling.

Zero UK COVID Daily Deaths Fuel Demands to End Lockdown

Fauci Cashing In With Book On ‘Truth’ To Be Published In November  My, what a surprise….

US Researcher With Ties To Wuhan Lab Personally Thanked Fauci In April 2020 For Dispelling Lab Leak Theory ‘Myths’

10th Walgreens to close since 2019 in San Francisco  SF risks becoming a ‘drug store desert’ due to rampant shoplifting and government inaction.

NY Times Memorial Day Editorial: Social Gatherings Unpatriotic (Except Protests?)

Silly David Brooks on PBS: ‘I’m No Progressive,’ But I Endorse Biden’s $6 Trillion Budget  He’ll do until a ‘real’ progressive comes along.

Murder Has Quintupled in Portland  Time to leave.

Time Magazine Takes Chinese Cash To Promote Controversial Drone Business

Retired Police Officer Goes After Jeff Bezos Over ‘Blue Lives Murder’ Products On Amazon

Showtime Character Throws Drink at Crucifix, Yells “F**k You God!”

Crybullies

Trump Telling Allies He Expects To Be ‘Reinstated’ By August, NYT Reporter Claims  Gee, that sure sounds like a lie to me.

Antifa Vandalizes GOP Congresswoman’s Home

Disney Channel Classic ‘The Proud Family’ Getting Woke Reboot Featuring Interracial Gay Dads

Apple launches new Pride music page celebrating LGBTQ+ artists

Belarus has temporarily banned most of its citizens from leaving  The very fingerprint of a totalitarian state.

Columbia Journalism Review Sets New Standards For Biased Reporting

In The Wake Of Anti-Semitic Assaults, Democrats Call Out Islamophobia  The problem isn’t Islamophobia but Islamophilia.

Our Garbage Media Strikes Again

Amid Recall Effort, Paramount Pictures Shells Out $40,000 To Help Gavin Newsom Remain Governor

Democrat Pilot And Republican Co-Pilot Argue Over How Fast They Should Fly Plane Into Ground  Babylon Bee.

Mothers Say Black Lives Matter Profiting Off Their Dead Sons

Pregnant woman caught in crossfire, shot while leaving church, Dallas police say

Time to challenge Argentina’s white European self-image, black history experts say (The Guardian) Can’t have that, can we?

More on Carjacking Murderer Who Walked Free

‘You Must Burn’: Grieving Father Of Miami Mass Shooting Victim Interrupts News Conference

Man Who Allegedly Punched Asian Woman In The Face Unprompted Facing Hate Crime Charges

Compromise: Mayor Lightfoot Agrees To Half-Interview With Half-Black Journalist  Babylon Bee.

On Centennial Of Tulsa Race Massacre, Biden Admin Announces Moves To Address Wealth Gap For Black Communities  How is this the business of the Federal government? What about the ‘wealth gap’ in white communities? If you’re passing out Jeff Bezos’ money, I’d like a share.

REPORT: DaBaby Detained After Alleged Involvement In Miami South Beach Shooting

One Dead, Four Injured In Memorial Day Block Party Shooting  By Sailer’s Law, the perp was probably a POX.

‘Why Are We So Unpopular?’ Says BLM Protester While Chucking Brick At Pedestrian  Babylon Bee.

Mothers Of Tamir Rice, Breonna Taylor Criticize Black Lives Matter: “Benefitting Off The Blood Of Our Loved Ones”  C’mon, that’s what being a race pimp is all about.

Google Diversity Head Said Jews Have ‘Insatiable Appetite for War’

Arizona Sheriff Describes How the Border Has Changed Under Biden

President Biden Lays Out His Plan To Celebrate ‘Pride Month’

‘Border Czar’ Kamala Harris Slammed For ‘Extreme Avoidance Of Human Crisis’ As Apprehensions Hit Two-Decade High  Biden pulled a sneaky by sticking Harris with a no-win situation.

Harris’ Team Reportedly Panicked After Biden Gave Her Immigration Assignment “Shit! You mean we actually have to DO something?!”

Liberal Media Shills Promote Awful ‘Kamalanomics’

‘Not Too Soft’: Def Sec Austin Responds To Criticism That Diversity Policies Turn Military Into ‘Pansies’

Biden Admin Urges Congress To Clear The Way For 11 Million Illegal Immigrants To Obtain Legal Status  How about they go through the existing process?

US Embassy To The Holy See Flies Pride Flag In Rome Our pro-pervert government. (Do they fly a swastika on Rosh Hashanah?)

Biden Buries Bad News of a Bloated, Reckless Budget and Hopes You Won’t Notice

Biden to Suspend Oil Leases in Alaska’s Arctic Refuge

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House, and in effect the country. It’s still not out of the question, but it’s beginning to look more like Chief of Staff Ron Klain, unelected and not confirmed by the Senate, is the real president. This should make all Americans uncomfortable.

Klain, who was the vice president’s chief of staff when Biden held that office, has been called “the man executing Biden’s mission” (which seems to be carrying out the Cloward-Piven model that advocates manufacturing a political and economic crisis so that politicians can accrue more power in order to fix it, and use that power to kill off capitalism). He’s also been called Biden’s “co-pilot and fixer.”

Yes, those descriptions could be used to define the chief of staff for any president of any party. There are times, however, and this appears to be one of them, when a chief of staff wields too much authority.

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A nonbinding, off-season ballot initiative in rural Oregon isn’t normally the most viscerally exciting of events, couched as they generally are in terms agonizing over whether to ‘note’ or ‘reaffirm’ a past proposal, or to ‘endorse’ or ‘refer’ a more recent one for further consideration. But just the other day, out of the tepid depths of yet more interminable debate on local timber-harvest regulations, or supplemental sport-fishing laws, something of genuine significance happened. The voters of five Oregon counties let it be known that they would like to secede from their state and join Idaho instead.

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Electrical engineers at the University of California San Diego developed a technology that improves the resolution of an ordinary light microscope so that it can be used to directly observe finer structures and details in living cells.

The technology turns a conventional light microscope into what’s called a super-resolution microscope. It involves a specially engineered material that shortens the wavelength of light as it illuminates the sample—this shrunken light is what essentially enables the microscope to image in higher resolution.

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Following a two-week-long war with Israel this month in which Hamas and other terror groups bombarded the Jewish state with missiles funded and provided by Iran, Hamas is moving to restock is weapons cache.

“With the end of the Israeli regime’s latest aggression, the Palestinian resistance has resumed the process of rocket production,” Fathi Hamad, a member of Hamas’s politburo, was quoted as saying over the Memorial Day weekend by Iran’s state-run Fars News Agency. “Our factories and workshops have restarted producing thousands of rockets to stop [Israeli prime minister Benjamin] Netanyahu’s intransigence in Al-Quds [Jerusalem] and Tel Aviv.”

Hamas leaders also said that despite the current calm between the sides, “This war will last forever.”

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For one thing, they keep recycling photos of the same ‘killed’ child.

You’d think that Israel started it by randomly firing rockets at Gaza, rather than Hamas randomly firing rockets at Israel.

ZMan sings you the truth.

A fetish of the modern Right in America has been complaining about and denouncing partisanship in Washington. In fairness, the Left will indulge in this on the rare occasions when the Republicans do something for their voters. Mostly it is a conservative fetish, as it is the Left that drives the debate. The Right needs to maintain the fantasy that republican virtue still matters, so they regularly complain about the Left acting in their narrow interests, rather than in the interests of the country.

In theory, the conservatives are correct. Partisanship is the great bane of a republic, as it subverts the very basis of a republic. What is necessary to maintain a republic is what Montesquieu called republican virtue, the willingness to put the interests of the system ahead of personal or factional interests. For example, you must respect the office, even if you have no respect for the man holding the office. This shows up in our military culture where you do not salute the person, you salute the rank.

The trouble with the conservative approach is we have not lived in a republic for a very long time, so they are playing make believe. We live in a liberal democracy that is decreasing liberal with each turn of the wheel. In democratic systems, the ends justify the means, so partisanship dominates. It replaces republican virtue in favor of subjective moral certainty. This is one of the reasons that conservatism is worthless in a democracy of any sort. It prohibits victory as defined by the rules.