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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?

ZMan’s weekly podcast. Highly recommended.

Maybe it is just the summer doldrums setting in early, but life seems boring of late. Part of it is the media is busy making the Vegetable-in-Chief sound like a statesman, which is far less exciting than it sounds. The novelty of having a dementia patient in the White House has worn off and we are left with the reality.

That reality is that there was never any reason for Biden to be president, other than he was the only option they had to replace Trump. Once he scrawled what he thinks is his name on the executive orders they put in front of him, there was nothing left on the agenda. The long temper tantrum no longer has a reason, so the stasis of late empire decline is back, which means nothing happens.

The only potential for something interesting to happen is if they snuff out the vegetable and install Harris. She is revealing herself to be dumber and shallower than anyone imagined. She is fumbling the softest of questions from the most obsequious of reporters. It seems impossible, but she may have less cognitive function than her boss and he is close to brain dead.

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.

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After all, he’s doing such a great job.

Teachers Union In Scotland Promotes Upcoming Play Presenting Jesus As Transgender Time to leave.

“We’re On Fire”: Amidst NYC Exodus, Demand For Commercial Office Space In Palm Beach Is Off The Charts  I’d move there myself if I could afford it.

Parents Praise Teacher Suspended for Saying He Won’t Use Transgender Pronouns

Amid Hiring Shortages, Ilhan Omar Says Her Next Step Is ‘Implementing’ Universal Basic Income ‘Nationwide’

Telemundo HIDES Kamala´s Border Lies

‘All We’ve Gotten Is The Cold Shoulder’: Republican Rep. Reportedly Being Blocked From Joining Congressional Black Caucus  Obviously, if you’re not a Democrat, you’re not really black.

LA Sheriff Attributes Crime Surge To Soros-Backed DA Gascón, Supports Recall

Elizabeth Warren Says Cryptocurrencies Are An ‘Environmental Disaster,’ Calls For Regulation

Flag to Dems = Garlic to Vampire

Liberal Group Funded by Swiss Billionaire Spends Big to Attack ‘Billionaires Buying Our Elections’  What’s the use of having power if you can’t abuse it?

Death spiral of American academia

Daily Beast Columnist: Bribe Joe Manchin to Ditch Filibuster Hey – he’s a Democrat; it might work.

California Latino Caucus Rips Both Harris And Trump, Calls For ‘All Asylum Seekers’ To Be Let In

Atlanta Suburbanites Push For Separate Police Force Over Crime Surge

China has created a ‘dystopian hellscape’ in Xinjiang, Amnesty report says

Public School Teacher Warns Parents: Be Afraid of Kids ‘Rooting for Socialism’ by Middle School

‘Wild Attack’: Braun Questions Why DNI Identified ‘Abortion-Related Violent Extremists’ As Principal Threat, But Not BLM And Antifa

AP Snubbed as Al Jazeera Wins Hamas Prize for Gaza Coverage

House Dems Vote to Categorize Art as Infrastructure  Surely brassieres qualify as infrastructure?

From Spank Bank To Food Bank: Toobin Post-Masturbation Redemption Tour Kicks Off

New York Times Relocates Offices To Beijing So Reporters Won’t Have To See So Many ‘Disturbing’ American Flags  Babylon Bee.

“A Dangerous Precedent” – 3rd FDA Advisor Quits After Controversial Alzheimer’s Drug Approval

California Recall Could Cost Taxpayers Over $215 Million  Fixing mistakes can be expensive. It’s usually cheaper to avoid the mistake in the first place.

Joy Reid Rants: Governor Abbott Will Make Students Dumber  Although not as dumb as Joy Reid.

Deadspin Cries Race Over Black Athlete Held to Naval Commitment Before Pro Football  If you want to blame anybody, blame Roger Staubach, the first guy to allow the American taxpayer to pay for his college football career.

Chicago

Teen Dead After Homeless Man Reportedly Stabbed Her Over 20 Times And Choked Her In Random Attack

‘I Think They Were Evenly Matched’: Geraldo Rivera Says Trump A Better Choice Than Biden To Take On Putin

The Coming Biden/Putin Train-Wreck Summit

Biden cancels Trump’s bans on TikTok, WeChat, other Chinese apps

Bail Fund Backed By Kamala Harris Is Now Being Used To Support Pipeline Protesters

Biden Launches Plan To Close Gitmo “Quietly” After Obama Tried & Failed

Illegal Border Crossings Keep Climbing; 180,000 In May

Husband Of Woman Killed In Capitol Riot Sues For Name Of Cop Who Shot Her  That seems reasonable.

Hunter Biden and the “N” word

Biden Admin Lifts Sanctions on Iranian Officials and Businesses

Media Matters Retracts After Falsely Claiming Republican Politician Went On ‘White Nationalist, Pro-Hitler Outlet’

NBC Censors IG Report Busting Fake News About Trump, Lafayette Park

CNN Dedicates Entire Segment To Mocking Trump Rally Playlist.

Joe And Mika Were Absolutely Dismayed This Morning To Find Out One Of Their Favorite Trump Conspiracy Theories Is False

Mark Cuban Says Banning Trump Was ‘Just The Right Thing To Do’  No reason – just Orange Man Bad.

Rashida Tlaib Says She Doesn’t Have Freedom of Speech In Tweet To Her 1.4 Million Followers  She’s so oppressed.

Eight Anti-Trump Narratives The Media Finally Had To Admit Were False All Along

Hypocrite Colbert Lies, Says Only GOP Goes to Border for Photo-Op (Forgets AOC)

Hydroxychloroquine & Azithromycin Boosted Survival Of Ventilated COVID-19 Patients By 200%: New Study Confirms

COVID-19 Vaccine Prices: Comparing The US & EU

England’s Lockdown Could Continue Despite Deaths Being Below 5 Year Average  Once given a taste of power, politicians are really reluctant to give it up.

Over 11 Million Americans Are Still On Pandemic Jobless Benefits (Despite 9 Million Job Openings)

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

Heart inflammation cases in young men higher than expected after mRNA vaccines

Judicial Watch sues DNI, State for coronavirus origin documents

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One graph says it all.

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Who’s going to tell him he can’t?

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Researchers have created a plant-based, sustainable, scalable material that could replace single-use plastics in many consumer products.

The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, created a polymer film by mimicking the properties of spider silk, one of the strongest materials in nature. The new material is as strong as many common plastics in use today and could replace plastic in many common household products.

They had to put ‘vegan’ in the headline just so that the Right People would notice.

ZMan peers behind the curtain.

Way back in the golden times, when Barack Obama was president, it became obvious that Team Obama had no affirmative reason for his administration. Everything they did was tied to some past grievance. It was like they were working form a long list of boo-boos the Left had suffered going back to Reagan. Every initiative seemed to be linked in some way to what the Left perceived to be a failure. It was as if they had a secret list of grudges that they were determined to avenge.

Netflix nation.

Steve Sailer.

Many elderly East Asian immigrants live in urban Chinatowns, which has made them vulnerable to random attacks from black madmen and street thugs rendered exuberant by the media-declared Racial Reckoning. In contrast, South Asians try to live in American suburbs far from urban underclass blacks. But that’s not going to stop South Asian academics from claiming to be the Real Victims here.

The Register (UK).

Thus, they created a programme called Mobile Force Protection. This includes a handy Humvee-mounted box that launches friendly drones and guides them toward the enemy buzzbot with “a newly-developed X band radar that automatically senses and identifies unmanned aerial system threats.”

Then, when it gets close enough: “The primary drone negation mechanism shoots strong, stringy streamers from reusable interceptors that foul propellers causing loss of propulsion.”

Or, in common parlance, it sneezes a big glob of pink silly-string snot all over it, which gunges up the rotors and causes the stunned enemy hobbycopter to tumble to the ground.

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Team Biden isn’t content with imposing critical race theory (CRT) on America’s students. It also is bent on indoctrinating federal workers in CRT’s grotesquely racist anti-American tenets.

That, at least, is the conclusion I draw from Biden’s selection of Kiran Ahuja to lead the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). If confirmed to that position, Ahuja would be able to oversee the curriculum for the “diversity, equity, and inclusion” training federal employees will receive.

Ahuja is a fan of CRT. She’s a supporter of Ibram X. Kendi, a Boston University professor who is probably the leading exponent of CRT. In fact, Kendi gave a lecture on “anti-racism” (i.e. racism against Whites) for the speaker series sponsored by a group Ahuja heads.

When Kendi wrote that the election of Donald Trump was an example of white supremacy, Ahuja linked to that article. In the same blog post, she spoke of the need to free Black, indigenous, gay, and transgender Americans from the “daily trials of White supremacy.”

Steve Sailer.

The good news: it’s not 1955 anymore, so few people accord psychoanalysts the credulous respect they got in the Freudian Age.

The bad news, psychoanalysts, like Aruna Khilanani, now have to work harder to promote their grifts by jumping on Woke bandwagons and pushing them to extremes. For example, here’s some psychoanalyst named Donald Moss publishing an academic article based on his for-pay seminars.

There’s gold in them thar lies….

‘You F**king Ch**k’: Police Officer Berated With Racial Slurs During NYC Protests

‘Forcing … Victimhood’: Teacher Quits, Blasts Prep School For ‘Damaging’ High School Students With Antiracist Ideology

Val Demings Announces Candidacy For Florida Senate Race Against Marco Rubio

‘Do-Nothing House Member’: Rubio Responds To Val Demings’ Senate Bid

‘Sick Of Westie Whites’: Two Public School Officials Resign Over Texts Disparaging White People

Half-Black Man Ordered To Pay Himself Reparations  I guess Obama will have to take his wallet out of one pants pocket and put it into the other.

How Democrats Created a Carjacking Outbreak

Who Loses When The China-Bat-Cave Narrative Implodes?

Companies Are Selling Fake COVID Vaccine Cards. Using One Can Land You In Jail For Years

CBS Late Night: Knuckle Sandwiches to the Unvaccinated!

The Pandemic Panopticon

Scientists Discover Exactly How COVID-19 Wreaks Havoc on Human Lungs

Norwegian Health Chief Scolded For Saying COVID-19 Pandemic “Nearly Over”

Fauci Pal Daszak Admits “Chinese Colleagues” Developing “Killer” Coronaviruses  Fauci has been a government bureaucrat for over 40 years. When was the last time he saw a patient?

Officials Walk Out Of Board Meeting Because Some Audience Members Weren’t Masking

Watchdog Sues HHS for CDC-NY Docs on COVID Death Counts

Contagious Lies: CDC Claims Hospitalization Rising Among Unvaccinated Teens… Contrary To Its Own Data

‘You Have To Be Asleep Not To See That’: Fauci Claims Attacks On Him Are Really ‘Attacks On Science’  If Fauci is Science then we’re all in trouble.

‘I Don’t Study Science, I AM The Science,’ Growls Grizzled, Bald Dr. Fauci To Reporters  Babylon Bee.

The Importance of Understanding the Nonspecific Effects of Vaccines

Does The Science Really Prove COVID Is Man Made? Depends On Who You Ask

Delta COVID-19 Variant Possibly ‘More Dangerous’ Than the Original  Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’ … keep that panic rollin’…

Sen. Manchin Earns Wrath of Fellow Dems for Not Supporting ‘For the People Act’

Are Democrats Superheroes Now? CNN Wants Them to Save Democracy

ProPublica’s Bombshell, Bullshit Tax Story  (Will Biden Prosecute This Leak?)

Hamas Worked On System To Disrupt Israel’s Iron Dome In Destroyed AP Office Building, IDF Says  Well, normal for New York, anyway.

College Athlete Sues Over Critical Race Theory, Woke Culture

Why A Judge Has Georgia Vote Fraud On His Mind: “Pristine” Biden Ballots That Looked Xerox’d

Soros-Backed Group Plans ‘Third Reconstruction’ Push

Soros Paid No Income Tax for 3 Years Before Signing ‘Wealth Tax’ Letter

Twitter Takes No Action Against ProPublica Story On ‘Illegal’ Tax Leaks Despite Censoring Hunter Biden Coverage

Democrats Choose White Man to Succeed Blackface Governor

Trump Republican Unseats 7-Term Legislator in Virginia

How the 1 percent’s savings buried the middle class in debt

‘I Feel Threatened’: Sunny Hostin Says She’s ‘Scared’ By Trump Flags — And American Flags ‘When It’s Not July 4’

High Court Hears Case Alleging Clinic Lied, Encouraged Abortion Of Healthy Baby

‘1 Month Isn’t Enough’: Canada Boasts ‘Pride Season’ For ‘LGBTQ2’ Until September  Remind me never to go to Canada.

Wealthy CBS Host Sounds Socialist Ranting About Rich Leaving ‘Us’ With ‘Crumbs’

Parent Jumps On Stage After School Board Member Calls Him ‘A**hole’

Antigun Advocacy Group Tries To Rewrite Current History Of Gun Buyers

Christian Magazine Editor Says He Won’t Hire Ivy League Graduates

Chipman Will Be Biden’s Tool To Dismantle The Gun Industry  He reminds me of the asshole boss — Biff? — in Back to the Future.

Business owners to Baltimore: No police protection, no tax payments

“We’ve Reached Our Breaking Point” – Dozens Of Baltimore Businesses Threaten Not To Pay Taxes

Would You Rather Date Trump Or A COVID-19 Patient?

Judge Rules Teacher Placed On Leave After Refusing To Use Trans Students’ Pronouns Must Be Reinstated

Republican Reps Demand To Know How Journalists Can Be Protected From Antifa Rioters

LGBTQ Community Really Bummed They Have To Eat At Burger King Now  Babylon Bee.

Are Activists Protecting Asians from Hate—or Protecting Their Narrative of White Supremacy from Criticism?

The New York Times Defends Mara Gay’s Comments About American Flag And White Trump Supporters

‘We turned so far right we went crazy:’ How Fox News was radicalized by its own viewers (CNN)

First Thing: ‘Teflon Don no more’ as legal threats mount against Trump (The Guardian)

Amazon Defends Sale of Anti-Cop Merchandise

Conservatives Pounce! Transgender Laverne Cox Claims Right Is ‘Weaponizing Cultural Wars’

NYT Reporter, Psaki Mock GOP ‘Going Crazy’ Over Kamala Not Visiting the Border

ACTUAL NY Times Headline: Denying ‘Systemic Racism’ in Medicine Is Itself a ‘Racist Incident’

Yet Another Media Tale — Trump Tear-Gassed Protesters For a Church Photo Op — Collapses

‘View’ Libs Cheer, Defend NYT Writer Calling American Flag Racist, Triggering

Psychoanalytic Medical Journal Publishes Article That ‘Whiteness’ Is A ‘Malignant, Parasitic-Like’ Condition

Built solar assets are ‘chronically underperforming’ and modules degrading faster than expected, research finds

Claim: Climate change is making ocean waves more powerful, threatening to erode many coastlines

The Drought In The Western U.S. Is Getting Bad. Climate Change Is Making It Worse (NPR) Climate Change! Is there anything it can’t do?

Guatemalan President Blames Biden Administration For Border Crisis – Again

A Comprehensive Guide to All the Problems Kamala Harris Is Solving With Her Extensive Leadership Skills

Border Crisis Solved: Immigrants Flee In Terror After Hearing Kamala Harris Cackle  Babylon Bee.

UPDATE: Kamala Harris Still Laughing Her Way Through Border Crisis

Rep. Lauren Boebert Brings Cardboard Cutout Of Kamala Harris To U.S.-Mexico Border

Biden throws his clueless vice president under the bus

Kamala Harris slammed for ‘cringe’ response to border questions: ‘Not a joke to laugh at’

Hunter Biden Facilitated Deal for Democratic Consultants Now Under Federal Investigation

Workers Are Quitting Hotel And Restaurant Jobs at the Highest Rate on Record

“I Voted For You!” – Mysterious “Journalist” Fawns Over Kamala Harris At Mexico Press Briefing

‘The Biden Family Is The Klan Family … And Joe Is The Imperial Wizard’: Leo Terrell Rips Bidens Over Hunter’s Alleged Use Of N-Word

Experts Completely Baffled As To Where Joe Biden’s Son Could Have Learned All That Racist Language  Babylon Bee.

Establishment Media Largely Silent About Hunter Biden’s Alleged Use Of The N-Word  Nothing to see here! Move along! Move along!

Smugglers Transporting Illegal Migrants Becoming More Violent, Sophisticated, Texas Sheriffs Say

OMB Director Defends Controversial ‘Birthing People’ Reference in Biden’s Budget  ‘I’m a Negro and therefore cannot be questioned!’

Family of Capitol Rioter Sues for Name of Police Officer Who Fatally Shot Her

VP Harris Didn’t Discuss Mexico’s Refusal to Take Back Migrants With Pres. Lopez Obrador

CNN And MSNBC Still Mention Trump More Than Biden  Trump is entertaining. Biden is boring.

As Unfilled Jobs Reach High, Economists Point Toward Unemployment Benefits  Gee, I wonder why?

UK tech tabloid The Register.

Actually, they pay hundreds of times the tax that you pay, it’s just a lower percentage of what they make/own/whatever.

According to the leaked documents the non-profit saw, in 2007 and 2011, Jeff Bezos, today the world’s richest person, didn’t pay a thing in federal income tax – indeed in 2011, the Amazon multi-billionaire claimed and received a $4,000 tax credit for his children. In 2018, Tesla and SpaceX supremo Elon Musk, the second richest person, did not pay a bean in federal income tax, either.

And all of this is perfectly legal, using ‘loopholes’ deliberately placed in the tax code by your elected representatives, may of them (shock!) Democrats. The IRC has one line telling you what you owe tax on, and 2,652 pages of exceptions. You can look it up.

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Arizona entered the union as the 48th state on Valentine’s Day, 1912, which completed the American jigsaw puzzle that spans the continent. Almost 50 years later, in 1959, Congress admitted Alaska and Hawaii as the final two states. And as when the Apostle John wrote the Book of Revelation from the Isle of Patmos, the canon was closed. The union was complete.

Now Democrats are champing at the bit to replay the 1850s and have a fight over admitting two more states to the union. Democrats wrap themselves in the lofty-sounding rhetoric of liberalism when talking about statehood for the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, but they are motivated by the same destructive political calculus of the antebellum era: admit the territories as states that will give you control of the senate so that you can dominate your political enemies. It’s a high-stakes gambit that didn’t end well last time.

The proper thing to do with D.C. is to give it back to Maryland, as the Virginia portion was back in the day. This would answer all of the legitimate grievances of D.C. residents. But that’s not what Democrats want. (I think the capital ought to be moved back to Philadelphia.)

The proper thing to do with Puerto Rico is independence, whether they want it or not. They have never been American in any meaningful sense of the word. (Or maybe give them to Mexico. Or even Cuba.)

One of the most frustrating aspects of the Democrat push to create new states is that it’s backwards looking. They have no ideas for how to make America better—they just want to play the greatest hit from a bygone era, to get the last squeeze out of the lemon. That’s evidence of political and cultural decay.

Yup. If you want new real states, cut California, Oregon, and Washington in half north-to-south. Or New York horizontally right above Duchess County.

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Former Boston School Committee member Lorna Rivera said she was “sick of Westie whites” in a text message she sent to fellow former board member Alexandra Oliver-Davila during a committee meeting on admissions policies, the Boston Globe reported on Monday. “Whatever. They’re delusional,” Oliver-Davila said, in reference to parents from Boston’s West Roxbury neighborhood. “Wait until the white racists start yelling at us,” Rivera said in another text.

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Sure, let’s turn the clock back a hundred years or so….

Although I’m not sure many people think of ‘working’ and ‘French’ at the same time.

Michael Anton at The American Mind.

To recap briefly (but read the whole thing!), the book explains how every prominent and powerful American institution, including the federal government, has been taken over by a hostile elite who use their vast powers to attack, despoil, and insult about half the nation. In the sixth chapter (excerpted here), I outline what I think America will look like if the present ruling class refuses to moderate, cannot be forced to share power, and has the wherewithal to keep its regime going. In the seventh chapter, I sketch several possibilities—from secession to Caesarism to collapse—that might result if it turns out that our overlords are a lot less competent than they think. And in the final chapter (excerpted here), I offer policy and other ideas that might enable America to avoid those fates….

Just think of it as ‘self-gerrymandering’.

UPDATE: Meet Greater Idaho

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Propublica, a leftist media organ, has just published an article on the wealthiest Americans, based on what they acknowledge to be illegal disclosure of taxpayers’ information. They will almost certainly not be prosecuted by the leftist DOJ careerists, once again backed by leftist political appointees. The leftist White House media mouthpieces are good with the felonies and already framing this as the rich not paying their fair share.

The Crust takes care of its own.

Nobody gets fired.

Nobody goes to jai.

Rinse. Repeat.

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At their recent “United Facts of America Festival,” PolitiFact interviewed Sen. Mark Warner (D.-Va). Their executive director Aaron Sharockman began with some light humor, telling Warner he was one of the more accurate members of Congress. Sharockman complimented Warner for having zero “Pants on Fire” rated claims.

Warner joked “That feels like it should be a low bar. Unfortunately, I don’t think it is.”

It’s not exactly a tough bar. In fact, my review of all PolitiFact pages for current U.S. Senate Democrats finds that almost every Democratic Senator has zero “Pants on Fire” ratings.

Tanner Greer of THE SCHOLAR’S STAGE continues his observations. Recommended.

Let me restate my central thesis sans these ideologically charged terms: The New Right vision of politics is unapologetically elitist, hierarchical, and communitarian. The right-wing base, in contrast, is rebellious, egalitarian, and individualist. The New Right and the right base are united in their hatred for the meritocratic striver culture of America’s bicoastal elites. But their attitudes towards elite politics are fundamentally different.

The New Right wants to replace America’s failed leadership class with something better (e.g. themselves). The right base does not want a new elite, but less elite. New Right intellectuals deeply care about what is being taught at Yale; the right-wing base wants to live in a world where they never have to care about what is being taught at Yale. The New Right wants to restore or revitalize an “American way of life;” the Trumpy base wants to ban all outsiders from telling them how to live their lives. The New Right smiles on phrases like “we live in a society” and “politics of the common good.” The right-wing base is attracted to slogans like “don’t tread on me” and “I will not be masked, tracked, or tested.”

ZMan peeks at modern mythology.

The term “standing head” is a newspaper term that goes back to the days when the papers were printed by typesetters. It means regular or recurring content, such as the headline for a feature like “Box Scores” in the sports section or “aspiring rapper” in the crime blotter. The term is used to so often that the old typesetters would have it as a block ready to use when needed. It also came to be known as a trope, stereotype, or a euphemism that was commonly used in the news.

In the modern age, the word “hacked” has become a standing head, in that it is something like a catchall answer for all sorts of things. If a celebrity gets drunk and posts N-bombs on Twitter, she claims she was hacked. If a company loses customer information, they claim it was hackers. Whenever someone does not want to take responsibility for their own mistakes, they fob it off on hackers. Hackers are the digital version of Loki the trickster.

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But as with other metals like uranium, land-based lithium reserves pale in comparison to what’s out there in the sea. According to researchers at Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), there’s about 5,000 times as much lithium in the oceans as there is in land deposits, and a newly developed technology could start extracting it cheaply enough to make the big time – while producing hydrogen gas, chlorine gas and desalinated water as a bonus.

The process relies on an electrochemical cell containing a ceramic membrane made from lithium lanthanum titanium oxide (LLTO), with pores just wide enough to let lithium ions through while blocking larger metal ions. “LLTO membranes have never been used to extract and concentrate lithium ions before,” says post-doctorate researcher Zhen Li, who developed the cell.

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This is really clever.

Richard Epstein.

… large governments are often hard-pressed to fund their ambitious spending programs. And so the Biden administration proposes to increase the capital-gains top rate from 23.8 percent to 43.4 percent to pay for its $6 trillion American Families Plan, which includes about $1.8 trillion for child care, education, and paid employee leave. But as its Treasury Report makes clear, it fears that the steep capital-gains rate increase will induce massive selling before the effective date of the statute in 2022. It, therefore, proposes an unprecedented step of imposing the higher capital-gains rate on any transaction that took place after late April, when that tax hike was first proposed.

But Treasury misfires badly. Sales of capital assets are good for the economy because they allow individuals to shift from weaker to stronger investments. The inefficiency comes from forcing premature transfers. Yet the massive rate increase proves that high rates, even when applied on a prospective basis, will distort the allocation of capital, depress overall share prices, and ensure that the new tax will fall short of its revenue goals, which are better achieved through durable tax cuts. But the Biden administration plainly ignores these drawbacks for long-term wealth creation in its relentless request for revenue today.

Climate models fail in key test region

The Tiger Mom and the Hornet’s Nest (New York Magazine)

Joe Manchin’s Incoherent Case for Letting Republicans Destroy Democracy (New York Magazine)

Trump Successfully Wore Pants Correctly at Rally: Report (New York Magazine) Pretty juvenile.

Critics hit Twitter for suspending conservative after mocking Brian Stelter: ‘Don’t you dare insult CNN!’

Actually, Trump Was NOT Wearing His Pants Backward At A Weekend Rally (NPR) Guess that’s the most important thing they have to talk about.

Yale backs away from psychiatrist who said she fantasized about shooting White people

California Amazon Driver told woman to check ‘White privilege’ before alleged assault: report

Mara Gay Says It’s ‘Disturbing’ To See American Flags In America, Blames White Trump Supporters  Anyone who thinks that the American flag is racist really needs to leave.

Cannabis Addiction Draws Drugmakers in Search for a Treatment  But I thought weed wasn’t supposed to be addictive? Did they lie to us?

Could Brain Training Help Address Police Brutality?  (Wired ‘Science’) How about criminal brutality?

US Senators Fly To Taiwan, Chinese Media Loses Its Mind

NYT’s Mara Gay: Seeing American Flags on D-Day Anniversary Was ‘Disturbing’

Were Your Ancestors Oppressed, Possibly Entitling You To Reparations? Take The Quiz! Babylon Bee.

Apple’s Chinese wind power partner linked to Uyghur forced labor programs