Ford, Mellon, Rockefeller Made Their Fortunes Thanks to Capitalism. Now, Their Foundations Seek to Undermine It.

Biden’s Biggest Danger Is Democrats Afraid to Tax the Rich (New York Magazine) Jonathan Chait pushes the Narrative.

Is it time to limit personal wealth? (Washington Post) Maybe it’s time to limit envy and fascism instead.

The Delusions of the Radical Centrist (New York Magazine) The never-ending slog of pushing the Narrative.

Child Worker’s Spirits Really Lifted By All The Pride Merch He’s Making For Major Corporations

Vast Majority Of Democrats Support Employers Forcing Workers To Get COVID Jab, New Poll Finds

Biden Administration Uses Term ‘Birthing Person’ Instead of ‘Mother’

Why The New Yorker’s Stars Didn’t Join Its Union

PolitiFact Isn’t Partisan? Pants On Fire

2 Republican Lawmakers Sue Over House Metal Detector Fines

Fleeing Venezuela

Feinstein Accepts Lifetime Achievement Award From Bush Scion’s CCP-Backed Group

Fairfax Board Member Rails Against The Dangers Of “Excessive Individualism”

Report: 40 Percent of Teachers Say Civics Education Should Focus On Critical Race Theory

How Zuckerberg Millions Paid for Progressives to Work With 2020 Election Officials Nationwide

Man, 25, Dies After Austin Shooting, 1 Suspect at Large

Batty ‘Batwoman:’ Black People ‘Shot For No Reason’ By Police  The guns and drugs had absolutely nothing to do with it.

BLM Inserted into ’80s Showtime Comedy: ‘Insane How Many Cops Are White Supremacists’

UK Charity Teaches Staff ‘White Women Reporting Rape By Black Men Support White Supremacy’

Looting for Winston Smith or someone like him (4)

‘Black & Brown Storm Chasers?’ Helen Hunt Tried to Make Super Woke ‘Twister’ Reboot

Gun Violence on Track to Exceed 2020, Deadliest Year in Decades

CNN Could Have Promoted a Person of Color To Replace White Masturbator Jeffrey Toobin. The Network Refused. Why?  The Crust take care of their own.

Ronald Kessler: The Myth of Humans Causing Global Warming Is Shattered

Poll: Most Americans Do Not Think Climate Change ‘Greatest’ Security Threat

Sea Level Rise Fastest in 2000 Years (Or Not!)

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Earlier this month I posted about the presumed honor killing of a Pakistani girl in Italy by members of her extended family. The body of Saman Abbas has yet to be found, but her parents have decamped to Pakistan without her, and her little brother has told the authorities that she was killed for refusing an arranged marriage with a cousin.

“A dead enemy is the next best thing to a friend.”

— M.A.R. Barker, Prince of Skulls

Glenn Greenwald.

On the fifth anniversary of the PULSE nightclub massacre in Orlando, numerous senators, politicians and activist groups commemorated that tragic event by propagating an absolute falsehood: namely, that the shooter, Omar Mateen, was motivated by anti-LGBT animus. The evidence is definitive and conclusive that this is false — Mateen, like so many others who committed similar acts of violence, was motivated by rage over President Obama’s bombing campaigns in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, and chose PULSE at random without even knowing it was a gay club — yet this media-consecrated lie continues to fester.

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Does it catch fraud or manipulations of data? No, patently not: peer reviewers are not omniscient, so they cannot divine made-up data, nor can they check all the outputs of a lab to see when they’ve simply copy-and-pasted data between papers. If they were, we wouldn’t have the website PubPeer stuffed to the gills with people flagging potentially serious misdemeanors in published papers, nor Retraction Watch’s endless reporting of papers so dodgy they’re expunged from the literature.

ZMan waxes philosophical.

One of the underappreciated aspects of liberal democracy is that it always pits morality versus objective facts, always creating a false choice. Every public debate is between one camp that demand we do “the right thing” and another camp that insist on doing “the correct thing”. The right thing is defined as the moral thing while the correct thing is the factually accurate or effective thing. The choice is failure while on the moral high ground or succeed and be seen and inhumane or indifferent.

We see this in the perennial proglodyte push for ‘soak the rich’. The premise (never stated, always just assumed) is that income/wealth inequality is somehow immoral, so we are morally obliged to rob productive people of their property, however gotten, in order to ensure a Right Moral Order. (If that means that you can distribute the swag among your Underclass followers and thereby ensure your own power, well, that’s an added bonus – who deserves it more than the Paragons of Virtue?)

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Differing from the normal ‘explosion’ in some way, I suppose.

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When a mass shooting erupted early Saturday morning in downtown Austin, the local media refused to quote a police description of the suspects for fear of “perpetuating stereotypes.”

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Police haven’t issued descriptions of the suspects in any of these mass shootings, but at risk of “perpetuating stereotypes,” I’m going to take a wild guess and say none of the shooters were Trump voters.

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Until the U.S. Supreme Court decided the Janus case in 2018, citizens of a number of states, including Minnesota, were essentially taxed to support local teachers’ unions. In those states, no one could legally teach in a public school without paying the union out of his or her salary–which, of course, came entirely from taxpayers. That this situation was allowed to persist for decades should have been a scandal.

Teachers’ unions, like all public sector unions, have always been pro-government and therefore liberal. But I suspect most people do not understand how partisan, and how radical, the teachers’ unions are.

Virtually all hospitalized Covid patients have one thing in common: They’re unvaccinated (NBC News) This is news? What’s surprising is the implication that there are some hospitalized Covid patients who have been vaccinated – which suggests that ‘vaccination’ isn’t what we all think it is.

Doctor Who Wants Indefinite UK Lockdown Says “Sadly, It Can’t Be Forever”

Federal Judge Dismisses Hospital Employee Lawsuit Over Vaccination Mandate

Biden-Connected Lobbying Outfit Teams Up with Leading Chinese Law Firm

“No Question” Cartel Activity Is Spilling Across US-Mexico Border: FBI Director

As Biden Swipes At Trump, G-7 Leaders Hail US President As “Part Of The Club” Again  ‘Get out the wheels – POTUS can be rolled again!’

Border Town of Del Rio Blames Biden for Flood of Illegal Immigrants

Petition calls for NJ school board members to resign after holidays removed from calendar: ‘Cancel culture’

ABC Gives Boost to Demings’ Campaign Against Rubio, Before Dem Primary

Forget Going Back to the Office–People Are Just Quitting Instead

“YouTube is shutting down dissenting Biology PhDs and MDs”

Election Assessment In Pennsylvania County Uncovers Five “Issues Of Note”

What the Rich Don’t Want to Admit About the Poor (New York Times) Pushin’ that Narrative into the ground. I’d like to see What the New York Times Doesn’t Want to Admit About the Rich.

Everyone Hates Wind Turbines

Western US Drought Implications

The Swiss reject key climate change measures  ‘We’ve got plenty of cows, we don’t need your bullshit.’

Dems Angry After Garland Sides With Trump

One possible cause of the 2020 murder increase: More guns (Vox.com) Another: Demonizing police.

MyPillow Guy’s MAGA Rally Rouses ‘Stop the Steal’ Truthers With Corn Dogs and Hate for Fox News (Daily Beast) Time for the Two-Minute Hate.

Tom Hanks Is A Non-Racist. It’s Time For Him To Be Anti-Racist (NPR)

How liberals turned on JD Vance, working-class author of ‘Hillbilly Elegy’

Clamour for wealth tax grows after revelations about super-rich’s affairs (The Guardian) All it takes is one piece of slanted demagoguery to set the mob in action.

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A major pandemic that killed more than 600,000 Americans is finally winding down. Taxes are raised on individuals and corporations. The nation has experienced the most progressive presidency in American history. White supremacy is a major threat, as race riots hit some cities. Systemic racism is everywhere. Soldiers are coming home after a long war. A reportedly debilitated President is largely protected by his spouse. Major movements are afoot to improve the human condition.

An apt description of today? Try 1920, (more specifically, 1913-1921) some 100 years ago.

Woodrow Wilson is arguably the most evil person ever elected President of the United States.

John C. Dvorak.

Over time national elections in the USA have evolved into serving two distinct functions. The first is obvious, it’s to re-elect representatives. The other, less obvious, is to finance mass media with infusions of advertising dollars. The second, less apparent function, is why campaign finance reform will never get very far. And it’s why the Electoral College will be eliminated in the years ahead.

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HR is not your friend. HR is there to support the company. If you are not the company, they are not going to be there to support you.

HR boils down to paid witnesses in some cases. It changes it from a “you said, the boss said” thing to two-on-one (or worse). They just pay attention and maybe give a sworn statement down the road if things turn truly nasty.

Who else operates like that? Mall cops and security guards. They don’t have guns. They have phones and notepads. So, it’s really mall cops, security guards… and HR.

Want to make an HR person wet his/her pants? Ask: “Who is the company’s agent for service of process?”

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The Covid war is over, but Minnesota Governor Tim Walz carries on the fight. Tomorrow he will continue his one-man rule of the state by declaring another “emergency” tomorrow. He will accordingly extend his emergency powers for another 30 days. Doing the arithmetic, Alpha News reports that this makes it the fifteenth month in a row that Governor Walz has ruled with emergency powers.

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Note-taking is fast, uses the original author’s language, and generally feels easier. The issue is the content is often poorly assimilated and easily forgotten. In contrast, note-making is slower, more involved, and uses our own language. As a result, the content is easier to understand and remember.

The generation effect is the underlying process which supports note-making. It’s the phenomenon where information is better remembered if it is actively created from your own mind rather than simply read in a passive way. By taking the time and making the effort to rephrase the content you are consuming, you are more likely to commit the information to your long-term memory.

Useful advice.

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“Before our magnificent reservoir projects were built, California never had a steady and reliable supply of water. Now water is being managed as if those reserves don’t exist, by emptying the collected water from storage to the sea, rather than saving it for our routinely dry years,” Diener says. “Our water projects were designed to be managed for the long term providing a minimum five year supply, but California has now put us on track to have a man made drought crisis every time we don’t have a wet season.”

We’re from the government, and we’re here to make good things bad and bad things worse.

Severian is delightfully dyspeptic today.

Hollywood doesn’t care what you want. I doubt if Hollywood has ever cared what you want, but if they ever did, that time probably ended in tandem with Clara Bow’s career. Hollywood wants what they want, and so will you, because whaddaya gonna do, not watch it? The reason they made all those “classic literature” films in the 1990s, then, wasn’t because they thought we wanted (or needed) some cultural uplift.

Indeed they don’t.

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To raise money for the party, parents reached out to local businesses for donations. The Washington Nationals generously responded with a baseball signed by pitcher Patrick Corbin, one the heroes of the Nats’ triumphant post-season in 2019, to be raffled off. One of the parent-organizers posted a picture of the ball on the 2021 Yorktown Senior Class Parents public Facebook page and thanked the Nationals for their generosity.

To any normal person this is a feel-good story. But two parents didn’t see it this way. They objected to accepting the baseball because, they claimed, Corbin is a racist.

What evidence was presented to support this accusation against the pitcher? The fact that he, along with four teammates, once played golf with then-president Donald Trump and posted a picture from the outing on Instagram.

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In the last few years, law enforcement has begun to cash in on modern genetic technology in a new and more powerful way, one that works on perps that have been careful enough to avoid being genotyped.

The perp’s DNA sample is matched against a large database of genome sequences, and if a moderately long subsequence is identical-by-descent, it’s clear that the perp and the matching person in the database share fairly recent common ancestry. The degree of sharing shows, approximately, how recent that common ancestry is.

It doesn’t matter whether you’ve gotten your genes sequenced — if any of your relatives have, you’re under the spotlight.

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Not really a surprise, but a useful reminder.

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There was a little kerfuffle in downtown Austin early this morning, resulting in several people being rushed to the hospital:

Authorities zero in on 2 suspects involved in downtown Austin shooting that left 14 injured

This is just one more incident in the parade of atrocities occurring in Demoncrat-run cities throughout the country, and will be quickly forgotten. Heck, this wouldn’t even make the news in Baltimore or Chicago. This sort of thing used to be pretty rare here, but that appears to be changing. I’m sure the city council cutting the police budget has nothing to do with it. Why, The UT Football News never even mentions that in the story linked above.

UPDATE: Mass Shooting on Austin’s 6th Street: 14 Wounded, Zero Dead, by Steve Sailer

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We wrote here and here about Ilhan Omar’s latest outrage: tweeting that the United States, Israel, Afghanistan, Hamas and the Taliban have all been guilty of “unthinkable atrocities.” All on a par, apparently.

Hamas, though, didn’t like being lumped with you, me and Israel.

There’s no pleasing some people.

Biden to Name Pulse Nightclub a National Memorial

300-Meter Nuclear Megayacht Project Aims to Save the Earth

May Snaps Long-standing Streak for Strong Tornadoes in US

Syria’s Addition to WHO Board Despite Hospital Attacks Draws Outcry

No Vax, No Phone – Pakistan Province Blocks Sim Cards Of The Unvaccinated

Brazil President Bolsonaro Fined for Not Wearing Mask

Dunkin’ Donuts? No, Stabbin’ Donuts!

Plano police searching for three suspects accused of armed robbery, burglary, credit card abuse

What Do Conservatives Fear About Critical Race Theory? (The New Yorker) That it’s racist?

Black Lives Matter infighting reaches a boiling point as members demand ‘accountability’

NYT Midwit Mara Gay—Affirmative Action Face of America’s Anti-White Cultural Revolution

Woke Public School Hangs Up Inspirational ‘You Can’t Do It!’ Poster For Black Students  Babylon Bee.

Austin Mass Shooting: Media Won’t Describe Suspect Because ‘Stereotypes’

1 Arrested, 1 at Large After 14 Wounded in Austin, Texas, Shooting

‘Day Off’: NJ School District Ditches Holiday Names on Calendar

People Who Ruined World’s Economies Gather To Discuss How To Fix World’s Economies  Babylon Bee.

CNN Tees Up Dem Mayor to Push Plan to Tax You Gun Owners

Texas Governor Signs Executive Order Donating City Of Austin To California  Babylon Bee.

YouTube Suspends Sen. Johnson for Touting Non-Traditional COVID Treatment

Elitist MSNBC Host Dismisses Inflation Concerns, Deceptively Edits Fox Segment

Jayapal’s wealth tax seeks to tap America’s vast riches for the common good (Seattle Times) And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

For Pride Month, Taco Bell To Continue Giving Explosive Diarrhea To All Genders And Orientations  Babylon Bee.

Baltimore City Responds After Dozens Of Businesses Threaten Not To Pay Taxes

Burying the Shocking N-Word Claims Against Hunter Biden  The Crust takes care of its children.

Caitlyn Jenner Slams Kimmel for Calling Her ‘Donald Trump With a Wig’

YouTube Suspends Ron Johnson Over Hydroxychloroquine Claims

Teen Awarded Honorary Pulitzer for George Floyd Footage

Virginia School District Appealing Court Decision to Reinstate Teacher

“Wholly-Owned Subsidiary Of The Gun Lobby”: Newsom Attacks Federal Judge Who Ruled In Favor Of Gun Rights

‘View’ Lefties Rage at Manchin, McConnell as Divisive Racists Keeping America Down

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says she doesn’t believe in evolution (The Hill) Really?

AOC’s aunt says Trump is NOT to blame for lack of aid to the struggling island (Daily Mail)

Author of ‘White Fragility’ continues racial con job with new book (New York Post)

NY Times Condemns Wisconsin Town for Stubbornly Denying ‘Systemic Racism’

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Researchers claim to have invented an experimental breath mint that may renew tooth enamel and strengthen teeth, and it’s already headed into human trials.

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Gary Fouse has translated a Dutch article about a case that is representative of the ongoing Islamization of the Netherlands.

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I have a simple job. My patients pay me money to prevent them from becoming dead. I then put that money in a bank account, and use it to pay for groceries and electricity and bourbon and other necessities. Despite my simplistic finances, I hire an accountant to prepare my tax returns. Which are over 100 pages long. He gives me an envelope with over 100 pages of God-knows-what in it, and he says, “Be sure to read through that before you send it in.” As if I could decipher even the first page. I’m a really good doctor, but I don’t understand tax law. So I hire my accountant named “Chris.” Who recommends somebody who recommends “Chip.” Who calls somebody who recommends “Chad,” who recommends working with companies who advertise during golf tournaments, so that I can save some of my own money. And I don’t understand what any of these people do. And this is my money. And, technically, my country. And my government. Pretty much, I thought. After a fashion. Which is passing laws I don’t understand which require me to hire people I don’t know who work for companies I don’t understand to do something that makes no sense. All so that I can save some of my own money.

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After a decade of searching, the UC San Francisco scientists who identified the only human gene known to promote “natural short sleep” – lifelong, nightly sleep that lasts just four to six hours yet leaves individuals feeling fully rested – have discovered a second.

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Although fires can happen anywhere, they become critical and dangerous when e-vehicles are involved. An affected battery acts as a powerful fire accelerant due to a chain reaction and must also burn out completely, which can take as long as two days. In February, Kulmbach in Bavaria became the first German city to close underground garages to e-cars as a result.

Jonah Goldberg.

ProPublica obtained the tax returns of the richest Americans and discovered what every informed person already knew: They don’t pay as much in income taxes as some people would like them to. This is being called a great scandal by many Democrats and liberal journalists.

Meanwhile, that these returns were almost surely leaked by someone at the IRS seems not to bother a lot of the same people. There’s no way ProPublica got this information from dozens of high-priced accountants and attorneys. Barring the possibility that this was a computer hack — which itself would be a monumental scandal — this is outrageous. Weaponizing the IRS for political purposes is not just a crime; it is a long-term political disaster.

Republicans Are Furious Fast-Food Workers Are Getting a Raise (New York Magazine) More SJW mine-reading. Amazing how they do it.

Why Republicans have taken a sudden interest in burrito prices (CNN) More SJW mind-reading. Amazing how they do it.

NYC psychoanalyst calls whiteness incurable ‘parasitic like condition’ It would be different if you could, like, change your skin color, but nobody can do that.

Serbia volleyball player banned over racist eye gesture (BBC News) I’ll bet you didn’t know that eye gestures could be racist.

When America’s richest men pay $0 in income tax, this is wealth supremacy (The Guardian) How dare they not have taxable income! (How many ‘supremacies’ can you count?)

Trump’s ‘Racist’ Rhetoric Blamed for Anti-Asian Hate

Unvaccinated Students At High School Marked And Tracked At Prom

CNN Forced To Reset ‘Days Since Trump Was Proven Right’ Counter To Zero Again  Babylon Bee.

Histrionic Jennifer Lawrence: ‘Radical’ GOP ‘Dismantling Americans’ Rights to Vote’

More Than 450 Journalists Sign Letter Promising To Change Coverage To Reflect Israel’s ‘Crimes Against Humanity’  The masks come off.

A Member of the Anti-Defamation League’s Diversity Council is Embroiled in an Anti-Semitism Scandal. The Anti-Semitism Watchdog Has Nothing to Say About It.

Virginia county official backs school board on Critical Race Theory, calls opposition ‘racism evolved’

The State of Black America

‘White Supremacy’ Doesn’t Explain Minorities Attacking Asian Americans

Chauvin Trial Cost Minneapolis $2.9M in Police Overtime  All of those White Supremacists, you understand.

Profs Scoff at Nikole Hannah-Jones Tenure Suit

Democrat Regime “Whitesplains” to Blacks in Harlem

Judge Halts Debt Relief Program For Farmers Of Color After White Farmers Sue  Explicitly racist program.

NYC Law School Makes ‘Systemic Racism’ Courses a Graduation Requirement

ABC, CBS Censor Soaring Border Arrests in May, NBC Downplays Percent Increase

‘Insulting’: Leo Terrell Says He Left Democratic Party When ‘Imperial Wizard’ Joe Biden Said Black People Had To Vote For Him

Lisa Kennedy Says Kamala Harris In Charge Of The Border Is ‘The Gift That Keeps On Giving’ — To Republicans

‘I’ll Have To Keep You Posted’: Kamala Harris Refuses To Specify When She Will Go To Border … Again

Hunter Biden Was Middleman Between Ukrainians And Democratic Lobbyists Currently Under Investigation

‘Catastrophic Debut In Foreign Affairs’: Geraldo Rivera Says Kamala Harris Looks ‘As Inept As The Governments’ In Central America

US Closes Trump-Era Office for Victims of Immigrant Crime

The Kamala Konundrum

Kristoff: Feminism Demands That Doctors Treat People Like Dogs,

ABC, CBS Ignore Rep. Omar Comparing U.S., Israel to Terrorist Groups

Law Enforcement Struggles to Recruit Since Killing of Floyd  More accurately, ‘since demonization of Chauvin’.

Paul Krugman’s 10-Year History of Being Wrong

Oregon Lawmakers Unanimously Oust Colleague After He Helped Rioters Breach The State Capitol

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Fire Fauci Act Doubles its Co-Sponsors After Email Dump (Newsweek)

Rep. Donalds Spars With CNN Anchor: ‘As a Black Man … I’m Allowed to Have My Own Thoughts’

CDC To Hold “Emergency Meeting” After 100s Suffer Heart Inflammation Following COVID Vaccines

Germany Rolls Out First Digital EU “Vaccine Passport” ‘Ihre papieren, bitte’

Half of the pandemic’s unemployment money may have been stolen

Joint Chiefs Chairman Clarifies Biden Remark That Global Warming Is ‘Greatest Physical Threat’ To America

Memory Holes Are Greatly Improved

The rocky road to accurate sea-level predictions

The U.S. Military Emits More CO2 Than Many Industrialized Nations The swine.

Babylon Bee.

Here at The Babylon Bee, we always make sure to impose our modern woke narrative on authors who lived decades or even centuries ago. It’s the only way to truly figure out what a text really means.