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.

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Hey, a dog’s gotta do what a dog’s gotta do.

The great thing about dogs is, when given the opportunity, they do Dog Stuff. No existential angst, no attempt to find The Real Inner Dog; they just Do it.

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The accusation that America is deeply, irredeemably stained by systemic racism is not up for debate. No white person can be innocent. Your individual conscience is irrelevant. Each one of us is a white supremacist benefitting from a white supremacist structure. We must confess our “white privilege.”

So if we’re so overwhelmingly dominant, why can’t we disagree?

If ‘white supremacy’ means anything, it means that white people don’t need to put up with racist bullshit from non-white people. And that’s not the case. So ‘white supremacy’ is just Yet More Racist Bullshit.

Severian has a few.

Contrast this to the Current Year, where, much like breakfast food, what seems to be a bewildering variety of lunacy can be boiled down to just a few basic types. “Wokeness” is a madlib with just two variables: ____ is either racist or sexist, pick one. (I suppose you can combine them, but you’ll notice that doesn’t happen nearly as often as you’d predict, because the blacks hate the gays and the feminists hate everyone, so going full retard ends up getting you in a lot of trouble with your coreligionists).

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If you still think you can design a historical system, well, have you ever met a shrink’s kid? How about a minister’s daughter, or the son of a preacher man? Those folks think they know exactlyhow to raise kids, get it?

Prey: Immigration, Islam and the Erosion of Women’s Rights

Austria’s ‘Islam map’ is dangerous

Louis Vuitton Under Fire For “Absolutely Disgusting” Palestinian Headscarf Knockoff

Honor Killing in Novellara

The Muslim Brotherhood in Sweden, Part Nine

The problem with the New York Times’ Gaza coverage

Mila’s Tormentors Get Their Day in Court

Afghan Troops Suffer ‘Shockingly High’ Casualties as Violence Mounts

Hizballah’s German Presence Grows Despite Terrorist Designation

Palestinian Government Pays $42,000 to Family of Terrorist Who Killed Israelis  Good job, guys, keep it up.

Culture-Enricher Beats Up German Police Officer

UK Border Force “Little More Than Taxi Service For Illegal Migrants”: Lawmaker

Pro-Palestine Model Bella Hadid Faces Backlash For Posting Photos Of 1939 ‘Palestine’ Team That’s Actually Jews

Hamas Worked On System To Disrupt Israel’s Iron Dome In Destroyed AP Office Building, IDF Says

Denmark Cracks Down On Mass Migration

Yemen: Mutinies For Everyone

Houellebecq on the fall of France?

Enricher vs. Enricher Brawl in Valencia

Palestinian NGO Funded By US Reportedly Introduced Children To Convicted Terrorists, According To Israeli Watchdog

Israel Defense Forces Strike Syria, As Netanyahu Struggles To Remain

IRAN: The Myths And Magic Fade

Hamas Awards Al Jazeera for ‘Great’ Coverage of Latest War With Israel

Pelosi Asks Omar To Clarify Ambiguous Statement That We Should ‘Kill The Jews’ Babylon Bee.

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In a major scientific leap, University of Queensland researchers have created a quantum microscope that can reveal biological structures that would otherwise be impossible to see.

This paves the way for applications in biotechnology, and could extend far beyond this into areas ranging from navigation to medical imaging.

The microscope is powered by the science of quantum entanglement, an effect Einstein described as “spooky interactions at a distance.”

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Like most metro areas, even in Red states like Texas, Dallas is a deep Blue Democrat machine city. As such, it follows the classic Democrat playbook of making law-abiding citizens pay the costs of harebrained social engineering schemes.

Time to leave.

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We have the technology … presumably.

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Hint: Yes.

When FBI agents asked for permission to rip hundreds of safe deposit boxes from the walls of a Beverly Hills business and haul them away, U.S. Magistrate Steve Kim set some strict limits on the raid.

The business, U.S. Private Vaults, had been charged in a sealed indictment with conspiring to sell drugs and launder money. Its customers had not.

So the FBI could seize the boxes themselves, Kim decided, but had to return what was inside to the owners.

“This warrant does not authorize a criminal search or seizure of the contents of the safety deposit boxes,” Kim’s March 17 seizure warrant declared.

Yet the FBI is now trying to confiscate $86 million in cash and millions of dollars more in jewelry and other valuables that agents found in 369 of the boxes.

Prosecutors claim the forfeiture is justified because the unnamed box holders were engaged in criminal activity. They have disclosed no evidence to support the allegation.

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students, took Tyler Dixon by surprise.

Along with wearing masks and social distancing, students living on campus would be expected to wear a coin-size “BioButton” attached to their chests with medical adhesive. It would continuously measure their temperature, respiratory rate, and heart rate, and tell them whether they’d been in close contact with a button wearer who’d tested positive for Covid-19. In conjunction with a series of daily screening questions, the button would let them know if they were cleared for class.

We have the technology.

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Rapid City, South Dakota held elections for its school board this week. The result? Two incumbents, including the school board president, went down to defeat. Insurgent candidates won all four contested seats

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Every few months for the past several years, there’s an “incident” in Iran. A top nuclear scientist disappears. A centrifuge facility catches fire. A ship doesn’t make it to its destination. And the Israelis offer no comment.