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Third Virginia Sheriff Quits Dems, Switches to Republican Party

7th June 2021

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A sheriff in Smyth County, Va., who has twice been elected as a Democrat, has quit the party due to its “relentless attacks on law enforcement,” becoming the third sheriff in the state to do so, reports WJHL-TV.

“I am changing to the Republican Party because of the relentless attack on law enforcement by Democrats in Richmond and Washington,” Chip Shuler said in a release.

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The Lethal Wages of Trump Derangement Madness

7th June 2021

Victor Davis Hanson.

Under the reductionist malady of Trump Derangement Syndrome, facts and logic did not matter. Instead, anything not said or done in opposition to Trump empowered the supposed existential Trump threat. Ironically, some of the most deductive and reductionist Trump haters were supposedly professionals, the highly educated, and the self-proclaimed devotees of the Enlightenment. And yet in their uncontrolled aversion and detestation, they suspended all the rules of empiricism, logic, and rationality—and people died as a result.

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Whatever Happened to Umbrella Man?

7th June 2021

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Nearly a year later, Umbrella Man has not been arrested. Charges have not been brought against him. Umbrella Man remains at large. Libor did not identify him in his July 28 story because he has not been charged.

Officer Christensen’s account of events was taken at face value in the numerous news accounts that immediately followed the Star Tribune story, but it is ludicrous. Spectator USA’s pseudonymous Cockburn conducted a reality check in “The curious Umbrella Man myth.” Subhead: “Cockburn hasn’t seen this many people excited about an umbrella since Mary Poppins hit theaters in 1964.” Cockburn drily noted in July 2020: “Cockburn would have thought that the carnage of the past month would render one man’s window smashing a historical footnote. But instead, the opposite has happened, for the usual 2020 reason: it is politically useful.”

I thought Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey was responsible for the key event that led to the destruction wrought throughout the Twin Cities following the death of George Floyd. The key event was the abandonment of the Third Precinct headquarters on May 28.

Mayor Frey too remains at large. His dereliction was not illegal.

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A New Way to Shape Metal Nanoparticles—With a Magnetic Field

7th June 2021

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In a new study published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters in April, scientists at UC Riverside took advantage of this phenomenon by immersing a metal vapor in a magnetic field, and then watched it assemble molten metal droplets into predictably shaped nanoparticles. Their work could make it easier to build the exact particles engineers want, for uses in just about anything.

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The Panic Culture

7th June 2021

ZMan follows the scent.

Now that the Covid panic is finally winding down, it is a good time to look at how it quickly became a religion for many people. It is fair to assume that most people looked at Covid as a blend of public health and public policy. They do not know much about either topic, so they trusted what they were told. Others, however, embraced Covid and the rules around it like a new religion. The rituals and statistics quickly became the central point around which they organized their lives.

One of the first signs of this happening were the personal testimonials. By the late spring of last year, the Covidian had stories to tell. “I know of four people who have died from Covid this month” was a popular one. Despite the statistical improbability, millions were telling us about their personal war with Covid. The victims became younger as the age realty became apparent. Finally at the end, we are getting stories about the unvaccinated dying despite being healthy.

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It is not an accident that the same people who tote grimy canvas sacks to the grocery store were the first to embrace the rituals of Covid. All civic religions in the modern age come with these piety symbols, usually with a corporate logo. Public television stations made millions giving members tote bags with the logo on them. Note that American sports teams quickly rushed out branded face masks. In a world of strangers, displaying your corporate overlord is important.

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Who Foresaw a Woke Corporate Dystopia?

7th June 2021

Steve Sailer.

Perhaps the 1993 sci-fi satire film Demolition Man with Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock, and Rob Schneider?

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Thought for the Day

7th June 2021

Unshelved comic strip for 6/4/2021

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Truth or Fantasy?

7th June 2021

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In a story about Dr. Aruna Khilanani, we learn that no matter how many degrees a person has, he or she can become a purveyor of mental illness and hatred. Dr. Khilanani provided a lecture for Yale University, and her sickness was on display for everyone to hear. Bari Weiss received access to the doctor’s talk and you can hear the whole lecture here. Essentially the doctor shared with her audience her unscientific, racist, and hateful attitudes towards white people in general. She felt no need to defend her positions, but instead criticized Bari Weiss, who received access to the taped lecture before the doctor did. Judging from the quality of the recording, it’s possible that it was recorded by someone who attended the event.

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Today in Witch-Hunt Culture

6th June 2021

Is America heading to a place where it can no longer call itself a democracy? (The Guardian)

Keeping Up Election Lie, Trump Returns To Political Arena (NPR)

Spanish politician suspended by Twitter for saying ‘a man cannot get pregnant’

“Malicious Communications”: Scottish Feminist Criminally Charged For Tweets Opposing Gender Self-Identification

Julian Assange’s Family Begins US Tour To Demand His Freedom  Presumably tickets will be available on Ticketmaster.

‘Wastin’ Away Again In Mar-A-Lago-Ville’: Jim Acosta Says Trump’s Grip On GOP Is A ‘Slow-Motion Coup’

 

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Today in the Biden-Harris Slow-Motion Train Wreck

6th June 2021

Smugglers Openly Advertise Illegal Border Crossings On Facebook

 

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Fire & Explosion Hit Iran Steel Factory in Third Major Incident in 5 Days

6th June 2021

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A large fire broke out Saturday night at a steel factory in the southeast city of Zarand in Iran. It’s the latest in a mysterious string of blasts and ‘accidental’ blazes at sensitive sites to beset the Islamic Republic, raising questions of possible Israel sabotage akin to what happened a year ago in the summer of 2020.

You mess with the bull, you get the horns every time.

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A Backlash Against Gender Ideology Is Starting In Universities

6th June 2021

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HOURS BEFORE Jo Phoenix, a professor of criminology at Britain’s Open University, was due to give a talk at Essex University about placing transgender women in women’s prisons, students threatened to barricade the hall. They complained that Ms Phoenix was a “transphobe” likely to engage in “hate speech”. A flyer with an image of a gun and text reading “shut the fuck up, TERF” (trans-exclusionary radical feminist, a slur) was circulating. The university told Ms Phoenix it was postponing the event. Then the sociology department asked her for a copy of her talk. Days later it told her it had voted to rescind its invitation, and would issue no more. Ms Phoenix says she was “absolutely furious and deeply upset” about both the damage to her reputation and to academic freedom.

The inmates are running the asylum.

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Scientists Develop ‘Cheap and Easy’ Method to Extract Lithium From Seawater

6th June 2021

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Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology developed what they believe is an economically viable system to extract high-purity lithium from seawater.

Suck on it, China.

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Ultra-High-Density Hard Drives Made With Graphene Store Ten Times More Data

6th June 2021

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The study, published in Nature Communications, was carried out in collaboration with teams at the University of Exeter, India, Switzerland, Singapore, and the US.

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Currently, carbon-based overcoats (COCs) – layers used to protect platters from mechanical damages and corrosion – occupy a significant part of this spacing. The data density of HDDs has quadrupled since 1990, and the COC thickness has reduced from 12.5nm to around 3nm, which corresponds to one terabyte per square inch. Now, graphene has enabled researchers to multiply this by ten.

The Cambridge researchers have replaced commercial COCs with one to four layers of graphene, and tested friction, wear, corrosion, thermal stability, and lubricant compatibility. Beyond its unbeatable thinness, graphene fulfills all the ideal properties of an HDD overcoat in terms of corrosion protection, low friction, wear resistance, hardness, lubricant compatibility, and surface smoothness.

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“Hands-Free” Smart Farm Will Replace Laborers With Robots

6th June 2021

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Doing work Americans won’t do.

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D-Day

6th June 2021

Some of us remember.

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Aruna Khilanani: Black Rage and Pakistani Peevishness

6th June 2021

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Everybody is talking about some lady psychoanalyst of Pakistani descent who gave a speech at Yale Law School on “The Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind” that sounds like some 1980s Eddie Murphy routine about “Kill My Landlord” or “Kill the White People.”

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Today in Black Privilege

5th June 2021

Looting for Winston Smith or someone like him (2) (Unrest Erupts In Minneapolis Amid Protests Over Police-Involved Shooting)

FLASHBACK: MSNBC Proclaims Obama Is ‘Sort of God’

“Unloading A Revolver Into The Head Of Any White Person”: Yale Features Violent, Racist Diatribe By Psychiatrist

 

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Today in Witch Hunt Culture

5th June 2021

White Spanish Teacher Cancels Herself for Being White  i guess white people don’t speak Spanish. Sorry, King Felipe.

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

5th June 2021

Heat related deaths since 1991 propaganda study just alarmist climate science incompetence

Coastal Arctic Sea Ice Is Thinning Faster Than Previously Thought  Claims ‘Scientific’ American.

 

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Today in the Biden-Harris Slow-Motion Train Wreck

5th June 2021

Joe Biden’s long road to recovery

CBP: Criminal Illegal Immigrant Arrests Up 900-1,000 Percent in Laredo, Texas Sector

G-7 Deal Would Give Biden His Global Mininum Tax  Biden: ‘Hey, kids, why don’t we squeeze more money out of the people we rule?’  Eurocrats: ‘Yeah, that sounds like a GREAT idea!’ “The Group of Seven advanced economies agreed the outline of a global deal on taxation that could give governments greater rights to tax U.S. tech giants and set a floor for corporate rates around the world.”  Soon to be the Group of Seven Less-Advanced Economies.

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

5th June 2021

8 Things to Know About Whether COVID-19 Leaked From Chinese Lab

Gavin Newsom Tries To Woo Californians Back By Disguising State As Texas  Babylon Bee.

COVID-19 Has Forever Destroyed Americans’ Trust In Ruling Class ‘Experts’

Scientific Model Shows State Fairs Can Occur at Full Capacity With No COVID Risk

German Study Finds Lockdown “Had No Effect” In Stopping Spread Of COVID  My, what a surprise.

Covid scientist targeted by a far-right sniper  Of course, we only have the Belgian governments word that he’s ‘far-right’.

Sen. Rand Paul Receives Death Threats Amid Fauci Clash  No mention of whether the ‘far-left’ is involved,  of course, since that’s not part of The Narrative.

The Media’s Wuhan Lab Scandal Looks Worse and Worse

COVID, Learned Helplessness, And Control

 

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AOC’s Family Refuses $100K Raised by Conservative to Help Grandma in Puerto Rico

5th June 2021

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A conservative columnist raised $104,153 on GoFundMe for the grandmother of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., in Puerto Rico, but the family is refusing the help after AOC called out former President Donald Trump not doing enough to help.

After the Squad member posted on Twitter, lamenting the condition of her grandmother’s home in Puerto Rico following 2017’s Hurricane Maria, conservative Daily Wire columnist Matt Walsh set up a GoFundMe page that raised $104,153, only to be told the family is refusing the donation.

So this is all just a  political stunt. I thought AOC was n aberrations but apparently it’s genetic.

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Engineers Create a Programmable Fiber

5th June 2021

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In a first, the digital fiber contains memory, temperature sensors, and a trained neural network program for inferring physical activity.

Coming soon to a celebrity boob near you….

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Federal Judge Overturns California’s Ban on ‘Assault-Style’ Weapons

5th June 2021

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A federal judge overturned California’s 32-year-old ban on so-called assault-style weapons on Friday, describing it as a “failed experiment” and prompting scathing criticism from the state’s governor and attorney general.

California has prohibited the sale of the weapons since 1989. The ban was challenged in a 2019 lawsuit against California’s attorney general by plaintiffs including James Miller, a state resident, and the San Diego County Gun Owners, a political action committee.

“This case is about what should be a muscular constitutional right and whether a state can force a gun policy choice that impinges on that right with a 30-year-old failed experiment,” judge Roger Benitez of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California wrote in the court order filed late on Friday.

“Government is not free to impose its own new policy choices on American citizens where Constitutional rights are concerned,” the order added.

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Crazy People Are Dangerous

5th June 2021

The Other McCain provides an example.

Say hello to Everton Brown, a man from Baltimore, Maryland, seen here in a YouTube video from 2010, protesting at the White House, claiming that he was being targeted for harassment by the FBI.
Brown was not targeted by the FBI. He was crazy.

And what do we know about crazy people, boys and girls? We can leave it to professionals to provide a clinical diagnosis — paranoid schizophrenia, most likely — but when someone organizes their entire life around the delusional belief that they are a victim of persecution, nothing prevents citizens from concluding this person is crazy….

In case you don’t recognize the name, he died in a gun battle with police on May 8 of this year, after killing three of his neighbors.

See how this works? The law apparently does nothing to protect you from crazy people, but “the confidentiality of health records” does prevent you from finding out how many times this kook got turned loose.
Would you be surprised to learn that the Maryland legislature this year rejected a bill that would have established clear guidelines for determining if a crazy person is actually dangerous?

If it does, you need to get out more. (Oh, and stay away from Blue states like Maryland.)

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Thought for the Day

5th June 2021

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The European Union Officially Bans Its Airspace to Belarusian Companies

5th June 2021

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The European Union decided on Friday to ban Belarusian airlines from accessing its airspace and finalise new economic sanctions against the regime of President Alexander Lukashenko, several diplomatic sources in Brussels told AFP.

 

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Richard Hanania on How the 1964 Civil Rights Act Led to Wokeness

5th June 2021

John Derbyshire.

Earlier this year I read Christopher Caldwell’s very striking book The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties. Caldwell argued that the reforms of the 1960s, which seemed necessary and humane at the time to correct obvious injustices, had serious negative consequences, leading eventually to many of the issues that so divide and anger us today. A powerful and brilliant essay by political scientist Richard Hanania has just followed up on this insight.

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Senate Senility

5th June 2021

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The Washington Post reports that the current U.S. Senate is the oldest in American history. Dianne Feinstein turns 88 this month. Charles Grassley turns 88 in September.

Richard Shelby is 87. James Inhofe is 86. Patrick Leahy is 81. Twenty-three senators are in their 70s. The average age of senators at the beginning of this year was 64.3 years.

It may be that being 88 now is like being, say, 78 a few decades ago. So despite being the oldest, this might not be the most age-impaired Senate in our history. Robert Caro’s book about the Lyndon Johnson-dominated Senate makes it clear that more than a few solons of the 1950s were rendered largely useless by age and/or drink.

Dianne Feinstein and some of the other Senators cited in the Post’s article insist they are still as sharp as a tack. But there must be a few who are losing it. A local pharmacist said in 2017 that he routinely sends Alzheimer’s medication to Capitol Hill.

In reality, it’s likely that most, if not all, of the Senators in their 80s and late 70s aren’t nearly as sharp as they used to be. To me, the interesting question is whether they realize this.

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Today in Black Privilege

5th June 2021

NYC shrink tells Yale audience she fantasizes about shooting white people in head She sounds like a psychopath to me.

 

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Libs: Emily Wilder and Nikole Hannah-Jones Were Victims of Conservative ‘Disinformation Campaign’

4th June 2021

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Liberal journalists keep falling victim to conservative “disinformation campaigns,” liberal journalists have declared.

The libs are particularly aggrieved over the Associated Press’s decision to rescind its job offer to Emily Wilder, an anti-Israel activist. They are equally perturbed by the University of North Carolina’s decision to award New York Times opinion writer Nikole Hannah-Jones a five-year contract worth $900,000, as opposed to a tenured position worth even more.

By most standards, neither the Associated Press nor the University of North Carolina is a particularly “conservative” institution. But that hasn’t stopped critics from suggesting their decisions were influenced by conservative “disinformation.”

And if you dig deep enough you’re sure to find out that it’s Trump’s Fault.

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Today in Witch-Hunt Culture

4th June 2021

California middle schoolers get ‘uncomfortable’ assignment of Huffington Post op-ed, ‘Why I’m a Racist’

Make Way For The Snitch State: The All-Seeing Fourth Branch Of Government

MSNBC Guest: Racist GOP Must Be Racist Because… Voting Law

Slimy CNN Spews Hate: GOP Must Suppress Non-Whites in Order to Win

Minneapolis Protester Can’t Even Remember Name Of The Guy Everyone’s Rioting Over

Facebook Suspends Trump’s Account for 2 Years

‘View’ Hosts Outraged by GOP’s ‘Witch Hunt’ Against Anthony Fauci  Welcome to our world.

English fans boo kneeling English footballers

Jimmy Kimmel Calls Florida ‘America’s North Korea’

 

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Today in Black Privilege

4th June 2021

Gang Members Chased Down 14-Year-Old Girl Then Shot Her In The Head

Systemic Racism Is the New Bad Juju

REPORT: Former NFL Player Antonio Andrews Arrested For Allegedly Biting A Woman And Stealing Her Stuff During A Date

San Francisco Police Department Seeks Help To Solve Crime But Blurs Face Of Suspect  Guess why.

ESPN’s Smith Loses His Mind Over Celtics Promoting a White Coach

Psychiatrist Said She Fantasized About Shooting White People At Yale University Lecture

The Death of Winston Boogie Smith: “If You Want a Vision of the Future, Imagine Undocumented Shopping Breaking Out Following an Aspiring Rapper Losing a Shootout with the Cops — Forever.”

 

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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

4th June 2021

The US has a problem with guns. Here’s what to know. (CNN)

The once-beautiful streets San Francisco ruined

Next mayor wants NYC to be even more of a ‘sanctuary’ for illegal immigrants

DOE assigns top Manhattan students to troubled schools — and now parents want out

Facebook to Bar Politicians From Posting Content Deemed ‘Deceptive’: Report  That would eliminate nearly all Democrats.

China’s Belt And Road Being Built With Forced Labor

California Teachers’ Union Activist Has History of Anti-Semitic Posts  My, what a surprise.

Hong Kong cracks down on Tiananmen commemorations, arrests vigil organiser

ABC Reporter Shocked Pro-Abortion Teen Isn’t Getting More Hate From Right  Unlike the Left, the Right aren’t mostly haters. Any girl with a last name for a first name is trying (or her parents are tryingO to be upper class, and the upper class is Woke — no surprises here.

The Media Proclaim Themselves ‘Infrastructure’

Crushing The “Struggling Women Can’t Work Due To Childcare Crisis” Narrative Once And For All

‘It’s Just Reprehensible’: Connecticut Representative Rejects Bill Declaring Racism A Public Health Crisis in State

Here’s How Wealthy Some Of America’s Most Prominent Socialists Are  Being an obnoxious socialist actually pays pretty well.

Black Lives Matter Leader Resigns but Organization’s Radical, Marxist Agenda Continues

CBS in ‘Awe’ of Abortion Activist’s Fight Against ‘So-Called’ Heartbeat Bill  And I’m sure the girl TOTALLY didn’t expect or want this to happen. Stand by for the Ivy League colleges lining up to offer her scholarships.

Cornell University To Proceed With Controversial China Partnership

Nigeria Suspends Twitter After Twitter Suspends Its President

 

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

4th June 2021

Liberating Yourself From Faucism

Wuhab Lab in 2015: we generated a chimeric SARS virus that attach to human ACE2

Scientist At Center Of Lab-Leak Controversy Put In Charge Of The Lancet’s Task Force To Investigate COVID Origin

The Wuhan Lab Leak Hypothesis Is a Conspiracy Theory, Not Science  FORBES is now fully Woke.

Ivermectin

The flailing Fauci fandom

Realtor Groups Bring Eviction Moratorium Case To Supreme Court, Argue Against CDC’s ‘Staggering’ Power

The lab-leak origin claim for Covid-19 is in the news, but it’s still fact-free  L.A. Times, Voice of the Crust.

California Requiring Workers To Wear Masks Unless Everyone In The Room Is Vaccinated  Grasping at the few remaining straws of power.

What Happens When Doctors Can’t Tell The Truth?

NBC Fears Fauci ‘Under Fire From Conservatives’ After ‘Out of Context’ Emails

Workers aren’t coming back

 

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Today in the Biden-Harris Slow-Motion Train Wreck

4th June 2021

Biden Admin Chooses Six Humanitarian Groups To Decide Which Migrants Will Be Allowed Into The US  Not the Babylon Bee.

The ‘Can’t Do’ Narrative Continues

State Department Shuns Term ‘Abraham Accords’  Nothing that Trump ever did was any good at all. That’s the Narrative.

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

4th June 2021

Climate tipping points could topple like dominoes, warn scientists (The Guardian)

Are wind farms slowing each other down?

Mathematical Proof of the Greenhouse Effect

Oil To $300?

California May Be Crazy In Its “Climate” Initiatives, But New York Wants To Be Even Crazier  I think they can do it.

Which way does the solar wind blow?

 

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‘Bernie Sanders and Those Left-Wing Creeps’: Jewish Leaders Diagnose Causes of Anti-Semitic Attacks

4th June 2021

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Amid the Israel-Gaza war, Jewish communities across the U.S. were targeted in a flurry of anti-Semitic attacks. The Daily Caller spoke with Jewish leaders and found that many of them believed leading progressives in Congress and elsewhere were, at least in part, responsible for the recent uptick.

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Matt Walsh’s Campaign to Save AOC’s Abuela’s Ancestral Home Raises More Than $10,000 in One Hour

4th June 2021

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You would think that somebody who could afford a Tesla could spare a few bucks for her grandmother.

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Thoughts About Academia

4th June 2021

Severian is delightfully dyspeptic today.

As y’all undoubtedly know, mental illness is something of a badge of honor in the ivory tower. Screw HIPAA; most people in academia are willing, indeed eager, to tell you all about their mental problems. The students mostly do it to get out of classwork, of course — the minute you get the letter from Student Services, you can go ahead and start filing the “incomplete” paperwork with the registrar — but grad students and professors collect DSM diagnoses and SSRI prescriptions like the Japanese collect Pokemon and used panties.

Given that, and given how lunatic professors’ actual beliefs are, there’s pretty much nothing you can’t get away with saying in the ivory tower if you play your cards right. In much the same way Jon Stewart rode his “clown nose on / clown nose off” act to adulation from the smart set, you can say whatever you want if you keep it ambiguously crazy. (You know how it goes — if you agree with Stewart, he’s doing straight political commentary; but if you disagree with him to the point where he might lose sponsors, c’mon man, he’s just a tv comedian).

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San Francisco Shows Leftist Policies Can’t Solve Homelessness

4th June 2021

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San Francisco is coming undone. In recent years, the city has manifested a series of visible and persistent inequalities, with a spoils-to-the-victor world for its technological elite and a chaotic, brutalized world for its dispossessed.

In the city’s Tenderloin district, men openly hawk drugs on the street corners, desperate addicts are crumpled across the sidewalks, and first responders dart through the chaos to revive overdose victims.

The city has become a web of contradictions. There are thousands of new millionaires and, by the latest estimates, 18,000 people in and out of homelessness.

The headquarters of Uber, Twitter, and Square are blocks away from the open-air drug markets of the Tenderloin, Mid-Market, and SoMa. Wealthy families attending an art opening at the Civic Center have to cross through the tent encampments that line the sidewalks.

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Looting for Winston Smith or Someone Like Him

4th June 2021

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Winston Smith is the protagonist of Orwell’s 1984. He is not to be confused with Winston Boogie Smith. According to CrimeWatchMpls, Winston Boogie Smith is the reported decedent in the police involved shooting at the top of the parking ramp adjacent to Calhoun Square in the heart of Minneapolis’s Uptown neighborhood.

Smith (if it was Smith) was the target of an arrest operation that went down in the heart of Minneapolis yesterday afternoon.

Cue the usual riots.

UPDATE: More Riots In Minneapolis After Armed Suspect Fatally Shot By US Marshal

 

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Thought for the Day

4th June 2021

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The Muddled Thinking of ‘Antiracism’

4th June 2021

Ben Shapiro.

This week, a clip of America’s most prominent racial grifter, Ibram X. Kendi, began making the rounds on Twitter. Kendi, the author of “How to Be an Antiracist,” has undoubtedly made a fortune by indicting those who disagree with him as complicit in American racism — and by providing partial absolution to those who repeat his cultish ideas. In one particular clip from a recent interview, however, Kendi was asked to do one very simple thing: to define racism itself. Kendi failed signally in that task. “I would define it as a collection of racist policies that lead to racial inequity that are substantiated by racist ideas,” Kendi stated.

The audience laughed out loud.

Kendi then reiterated his definition and added: “And antiracism is pretty simple using the same terms. Antiracism is a collection of antiracist policies leading to racial … equity that are substantiated by antiracist ideas.”

This, of course, is utterly nonsensical. No term can be defined by simple reference to the term itself.

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Today in the Biden-Harris Slow-Motion Train Wreck

3rd June 2021

Former ICE Director: Biden’s Border Policies ‘The Most Inhumane That I’ve Seen’ In 35 Years

Pentagon Expresses ‘Full Confidence’ In Counter-Extremism Official Who Once Equated Support Of Trump To Extremism

Arizona AG Urges Hotel Owners Not To Let ICE Convert The Property To House 1,200 Migrants

How Biden’s Favored Unions Could Get Jammed in His Infrastructure Traffic

Hagerty: Biden Admin Awarding Hamas with U.S. Taxpayer Dollars

Joe Biden’s day off

 

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

3rd June 2021

‘Waiting to happen’: the California region where masks are taboo – and cases are rising (The Guardian)

This Isn’t About COVID Anymore (Or Ever)

Nets CENSOR Scandalous Fauci E-Mails Showing What He Really Knew

Complete protection by a single dose skin patch delivered SARS-CoV-2 spike vaccine

Hybrid working? Buckle in, there’s no turning back as survey takers insist: You can’t make us go back

California to Pay $2M Church Legal Fees Over COVID Closures

Former MI6 Head Warns China Will Have Had Lab Leak Evidence “Destroyed Or Made To Disappear”

Ex-CDC Chief Got Death Threats From Scientists for Lab Leak Theory

MSNBC Holds Fauci’s Hand Through First Damage Control Interview Since ‘Email-Gate’

Soros-Funded Fact-Checkers: ‘No Evidence’ COVID Came from Chinese Lab

The FBI’s Strange Anthrax Investigation Sheds Light on COVID Lab-Leak Theory and Fauci’s Emails

 

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Today in Witch-Hunt Culture

3rd June 2021

Ex-Navy SEAL quits ‘un-American’ Hollywood, slams industry for cancel culture

Yes, The Office’s Ellie Kemper Was Beauty Queen of a Racist Ball (Daily Beast) Except that it wasn’t.

O’Donnell: Republicans Don’t Think Black Americans Are ‘Created Equal’

Twitter Working on New Censorship Shtick: ‘Misinformation’ Warning Labels

CNN’s ‘Reality Check’ Guy Agrees Voting-Integrity Bills Are Like the Tulsa Massacre

Snopes Labels Attack on Rep. Nancy Mace’s Home as a ‘Rumor’  This is the first time I’ve ever seen pictures of a ‘rumor‘.

Stanford law student who made fun of the federalist able to graduate after all  You can defame conservatives all you like. Imagine what would have happened if he’d done something this to BLM.

Don Lemon Complains That Networks Cover Trump Too Much

 

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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

3rd June 2021

The GOP Can Win Without Waging War on Democracy (New York Magazine) But the Democrats can’t, given their apparent commitment to vote fraud.

American democracy is about to show if it can save itself (CNN)

RI mom says she could face lawsuit after demanding answers on CRT curriculum in elementary school

Historian Uncovers The Racist Roots Of The 2nd Amendment (NPR)

‘Time To Lay Off The Potatoes’: Glenn Greenwald Blasts Brian Stelter Over CNN’s Low Ratings

Drivers Of The New UFO Narrative Keep Absurdly Saying They Could Be Dangerous ETs

MSNBC to Audience: Shut Up, We’ll Tell You What to Think on Transgender Athletes

Nets Ignore Home of GOP Rep. Mace Getting Vandalized By Leftists

Ocasio-Cortez — The Socialist Who Owns A Tesla — Gets Roasted On Social Media For Not Helping Grandma In Puerto Rico

Fulton County Election Officials Sure Are Acting Like They Have Something To Hide

Pennsylvania Republicans Say They Want a 2020 Ballot Audit

Media Hype Leftist Doomsday ‘Scholars’ Predicting End of Democracy

‘Weirdly Optimistic’ Chuck Todd Cheers for Dems in Redistricting Battle

Celebs Show Their Overwhelming Support for High School Graduation Speech on Killing Babies

Ocasio-Cortez Says Building Less Jails Will Reduce The Number Of People Who Go To Jail  And I suppose making more people poor will reduce income inequality….

Volunteer Snitches? Twitter Launches Birdwatch to Fact-Check Tweets

CNN Host Says Valedictorian’s Speech That Went After Texas Abortion Bill ‘Didn’t Feel Political’  So biased he can’t even see straight.

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

3rd June 2021

You’ve Almost Certainly Never Heard of the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Biggest Methane Polluter (Gizmodo) Gizmodo is allegedly a tech blog, but it spends as much time looking for Heretics and Sinners as any of the rest of the Narrative Media.

Where Has All the Global Warming Gone?

Saudi And Russian Oil Producers Benefit From “Climate Activism” Lobbed At Western Producers  My, what a surprise.

Wyoming powers ahead with Bill Gates-backed sodium-cooled nuclear generation plant

The burden of heat-related mortality attributable to poor modeling

Oreskes and the climate gang penned a smear in Scientific American @sciam refuses to print response by Koonin

Bill Gates And Warren Buffett Team Up To Build Advanced Nuclear Plant In Wyoming 

Environmental Extremists Don’t Believe Their Own Predictions

 

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