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Pretty impressive.

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Using the alias Marcella Flores, the Iranians patiently built up a relationship with their targets “over years” to convince them to open malware-laden emails on useful devices – even sending a video of “herself” to sucker in her unwitting targets.

“Once the malware, which is an updated version of Liderc that Proofpoint has dubbed LEMPO, establishes persistence, it can perform reconnaissance on the infected machine, save the reconnaissance details to the host, exfiltrate sensitive information to an actor-controlled email account via SMTPS, and then cover its tracks by deleting that day’s host artifacts,” said the infosec outfit in a blog post published today.

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According to Real Clear Politics, a “perfect storm” is brewing in California that could dramatically turn liberal Governor Gavin Newsom out of office in a recall election. But on the networks, you wouldn’t know that the polls have tightened yet again. ABC, CBS and NBC on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning ignored a brand new Los Angeles Times/UC Berkeley poll showing the “yes to recall” sentiment has risen to its highest level.

Fox News on Wednesday covered the big news as host Bill Hemmer explained, “It is getting very interesting in California. New poll shows the radio host Larry Elder emerging as the Republican frontrunner in a race to recall the Democratic governor Gavin Newsom and strong support for ousting the Democrat. Here are the numbers: Forty seven percent of likely voters back the effort. Fifty percent are against it.”

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As the Biden administration secretly redistributes illegal aliens carrying the Covid virus around the United States, the CDC has issued a new set of “interim public health recommendations for fully vaccinated people.” The CDC has promulgated the recommendations in response to the big nothing of the Delta variant applicable to all those in K-12 schools and counties with high or substantial levels of viral transmission — regardless of vaccination status, as it says in the heading of the recommendations.

Let’s just have Dr. Fauci wear an animal head-dress and shake a rattle and be done with it.

Separated at birth?

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So the utterly useless CDC wants us to go back to wearing masks. I don’t think it will happen, but in the meantime, the question to which there is no answer is, why? Yesterday Peter Doocy asked Jen Psaki why, if vaccines work, the vaccinated should go back to wearing masks. Her answer? Because we said so….

If we all clap hard enough, Tinker Bell will be saved; and if we all wear masks, the evil demon COVID will be frightened away.

If you ever wonder why wiccans, ‘pagans’, and astrologers are all Democrats, here’s a clue.

Severian explains the basics.

Back when we were allowed to acknowledge basic biology, feminists used to howl about the “double standard” in attractiveness: Women get judged almost entirely on their looks, while men get judged almost entirely on their accomplishments. Note that this entails feminism has always been about denial of basic biological reality, right from jump street, but that’s not important right now. In a very limited way, they had a point: That situation is grossly “unfair,” in that there’s very little you can do to improve your looks, but a lot you can do to improve your accomplishments. But see “denial of basic biological reality,” above — such “unfairness” is how homo sap. came to dominate the planet. You really want your critters to take the great leap forward — discover fire or the wheel or whatnot — tell the males of the species there’s some punani in it.

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is pushing to extend a subway from San Francisco, not far from her congressional district, to Silicon Valley, with funding in the Senate’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill.

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‘Can We Drop a Dog Walker for Her Political Opinions?’ asks a letter-writer to this week’s edition of the New York Times’s ethicist column. The writer laments that they have hired a ‘reliable, responsible, and kind’ person to walk the family dog. The problem? Beneath the visage of humanity, the dog walker is actually a monstrous Trump voter.

Rather than stop and ponder the implications of a Trump voter being, in fact, a rather decent human being, the writer gets right to the meat of the matter: Should they fire the dog walker immediately?

Sure you can. You’d be an asshole, but you can do it.

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In a new study in pigs, a close model for human hearts, the therapy led to new cell growth and enhanced cardiac function after a heart attack.

Well, if I’m ever a pig, I’ll keep that in mind.

ZMan lays out some inconvenient truth.

One of the more challenging things for dissidents to grasp about politics within a liberal democracy is emergent behavior. This is behavior of a group that does not depend on properties of individuals, but on the relationships within the group. Right-wing people tend to reject this in favor of reductionism. Individuals act out of material self-interest, so the actions of a group must be out of self-interest. This means the actions of all groups can be reduced down to individual motivations.

The fact that this form of analysis has never been useful in combating radicalism and irrationalism never seems to matter. There is something about the mind of right-wing people that prevents them from questioning this analysis. Perhaps it is simply the product of the rational mind. People who seek to live orderly lives naturally assume order is the default state of mind. To accept the existence of the hive mind is to question a fundamental understanding of existence.

Regardless, emergent behavior is a real thing and accepting it is key to understanding and predicting the behavior of the forces of darkness. The best example is a flock of birds darting among trees at dusk. There is no lead bird calling out commands to the rest of the birds. Instead, every bird is both a leader and follower, responding to the actions of the birds around it. When a bird on the edge of the group moves toward a bit of food, the rest respond in a cascade of corresponding action.

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Able to leap small buildings in a single bound….

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The Dalton School hosts an annual conference for New York City private schools on diversity, equity, and inclusion. This May, it was Rodney Glasgow’s turn to deliver the keynote address. Glasgow, a longtime school administrator who has founded multiple DEI consultancies, used his speech to address the elephant in the room: the parental pushback to “antiracism” at Dalton and other elite private schools, which made national headlines after Dalton headmaster Jim Best resigned amid the uproar.

Steve Sailer.

If racism is the only thing that could possibly account for the problems of blacks in 2021, shouldn’t their troubles be declining steadily? After all, the effects of redlining (outlawed in 1968) and the other usual suspects should logically be steadily vanishing into the mists of time. But instead, nothing much seems to change as the decades roll by.

A landmark new study titled “Task-Based Discrimination” looks into exactly why the white-black wage gap among men declined dramatically from 1960 to 1980, but today it is just as wide as it was at the end of the Carter administration (and has been worsening in this century). It turns out it has to do more with fundamental changes in technology than it does white evilness.

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We Republicans may have our faults, but if we were actually going to stage an insurrection, at least one of us would remember to bring a firearm.

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If the committee wants to investigate violent riots in Washington, D.C., it is barking up the wrong tree. There was a real riot on the day when Donald Trump was inaugurated in 2017, with businesses looted, buildings and vehicles burned, and innocent passers-by assaulted. Likewise, in July 2016 there was another real riot, in which (going from memory) around 60 D.C. police officers were wounded, and much property was destroyed. Do you suppose the Democrats are interested in investigating those riots?

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Every so often you realise you’ve missed a trick! I was chatting to another church warden and she commented that she cannot wait for somebody to demand her church be decolonised. She’d point out that the parish isn’t worthy and she could gift the church building to those protesting. Then the church itself could meet in the local community centre where it’s warm, the chairs are comfortable, and she doesn’t have to worry about the maintenance. Let somebody else go slowly bankrupt trying to look after the building and at the same time face the opprobrium of the community who neither attend nor contribute, but are furious that you’ve not maintained it to the high standards their grandfather thinks he remembers.

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A slump in stock price and reports about Proterra’s costly electric buses underperforming across the country have sent the Biden administration’s favorite electric battery company into damage-control mode, retaining a top-flight defamation lawyer and inveighing against “partisan blogs” like the Washington Free Beacon and the taxpayer-funded NPR.

Proterra, the electric bus company linked to several Biden administration officials and top Democrats, has retained the services of high-profile attorney Erik Connolly, the company said. A Proterra spokesman said Connolly was hired to “address some recent false and defamatory publications about the company.” Proterra also published a statement Monday night that sought to set the “record straight about mischaracterizations about our Company in recent partisan news blogs that are opposed to the widespread adoption of zero-emission vehicles.”

Biden slams ‘pain in the neck’ reporter for off-topic question on breaking news

Biden Taps U.S. Attorney Opposed to Prosecution of Drug Dealers and Thieves

‘Signs of Senility’: Brit Hume Calls Out Biden’s Slipping Mental State

Biden Forbids Immigration Judges From Using the Term ‘Alien’  ‘Immigration judges’ aren’t really judges, just ‘administrative law judges’, i.e. bureaucrat referees.

Over 40,000 Mostly-Unvaccinated Migrants Released By Biden Skip Out On ICE Appointments  My, what a surprise.

Police Reform Passed in Washington State

The Post-Dirtbag Left (The New Yorker)

San Francisco considering congestion tax on high-earning drivers

UK Labour Councillor Ridiculed For Bragging About Wearing A Mask On An Empty Train  If you virtue-signal and there’s nobody there to see it, did it really happen?

First Pro-Democracy Protester Convicted Under Hong Kong National Security Law

Arizona Senate Subpoenas Maricopa County Routers

Progressive Christian Offers New, More Open, Less Judgmental Christianity — No, Wait, It’s Just Satan Again Babylon Bee. Any resemblance to Pete ButtPlug is purely coincidental, I’m sure.

Arrest Warrant Signed for Texas Dem Who Fled State

China Building Massive Nuclear Missile Base, Satellite Images Reveal

American Women’s Soccer Team Defeated After Opponents Play U.S. National Anthem During Game Forcing Them To Kneel The Whole Time  Babylon Bee.

GOP Lawmakers Join Pro-Cuban Marchers at DC Rally of Support

What Sarah Sanders gets wrong about the Covid-19 vaccine (CNN) She gives some credit to Trump, which is obviously, obviously impossible.

Will reality ever sink in for riot-deniers? January 6 hearing will be a test (CNN) This from the network who whitewashed the Antifa/BLM riots as ‘mostly peaceful’.

Progressive group launches $2M ad campaign to call for tax hikes on the rich (The Hill) How many poor people could that $2 million have helped?

Calm GOP Congressman Battles RAGING Cuomo on Right to Vax

No, the rich aren’t like the rest of us: Michael Mechanic on the secret worlds of wealth (Salon) Hating on ‘the rich’ is a profitable gig in the Narrative Media.

Colbert Imagines Facebook ‘Hunting Down’ ‘Misinformation’ With Bow and Arrow

CNN’s Chris Cillizza Gets Irked by Sarah Sanders Referring to ‘Trump Vaccine’

Krugman: Aiding Parents Really About ‘Need for More White Christians’

Ana Navarro Loses It After Even Don Lemon Defends Tucker Carlson From Harassment

Target: Trumpists

Big Brother Strikes: Big Tech Unites to Track ‘White’ & ‘Far-Right’ Terrorism

CBS on Hearing: Dems ‘Minimize Partisan Warfare’ vs. GOP ‘Food Fight’

Demonstrators Shut Down GOP Lawmakers News Conference On Jan. 6 ‘Political Prisoners’

Dallas Whites pressured to pledge they won’t send their children to top schools

Gunman in deadly Fort Worth shooting stoned to death by angry mob Sounds as if people are getting tired of this shit.

Group calls on white people not to send kids to Ivy League schools so black students can get a spot (Daily Mail) If racial preferences keep increasing, white people will eventually abandon Ivy League schools the way they abandoned black-invaded neighborhoods.

Dem Ex-Sen. Barbara Boxer, 80, Assaulted, Robbed in Oakland

Spray Tans Are ‘Blackface:’ Camila Cabello Becomes Target of Woke Mob (Again)

Black Fragility  Apparently black genes are so dominant that even one black ancestor, however remote, can qualify for a government handout.

I’ll ‘ABSOLUTELY DO IT AGAIN’: Mayor Lightfoot Vows To Discriminate Against White Journos  BRAAAAAAINS!

Here’s Why the New COVID Relief Program Will Turn The Working Class Into Serfs

The latest COVID-19 surge in Texas: How to stay safe (Texas Tribune) Lefty rag pushes Narrative.

What history tells us about the delta variant — and the variants that will follow (Washington Post) Mostly it tells us that the government spokespeople will lie and that they Narrative Media will push the Panic Narrative.

Staff at a Florida hospital say they are hearing panic, fear and regret from unvaccinated Covid-19 patients (CNN)

The Original Election Fraud Grifter Is Back to Claim His Kraken Crown—and His Money (Daily Beast)

Donald Trump rallies the troops in Phoenix: Unfortunately, that’s not a metaphor

Majority Of Hospitalized Covid Patients In UK Only Tested Positive After Admission: Leaked NHS Data

Unvaccinated Students Will Not Be Able To Attend Lectures Under UK Government Plans  They say that like it was a bad thing.

The Farrago of International Travel Restrictions  You will notice that all of the pandemic-related travel restrictions don’t include building a wall on the southern border to keep out the hordes of unvaccinated proles flooding over the line.

CDC Reverses Guidance, Will Mandate Wearing Of Masks Indoors  ‘Follow the Science!’ ‘ Okay – what is it this week?’

New York Times Hypes ‘New Surge’ of COVID, Blames ‘Top Conservatives’ for Shot Hesitancy

Watch: Fauci, CNN, White House, Newsom, & Cuomo All Ratchet Up Attacks On Unvaccinated Americans

A ‘Surge’ of Media-Hyped Fear

MSNBC Lets Newsom Blame Recall Effort for His COVID Failures

Biden DOJ Will Not Investigate COVID Deaths in Blue State Nursing Homes

Claim: 1972 Club of Rome End of World Prediction Still on Track, Thanks to Climate Change

Record Coral Cover Of Great Barrier Reef Shames Climate Alarmists, Media

A Solar Company Is Suing to Stop the U.S.’s First Big Offshore Wind Project  My, what a surprise.

Oh Good, Now There’s an Outbreak of Wildfire Thunderclouds (Wired ‘Science’) Apparently we’re ALL GONNA DIE from Climate Change because the government of California is too stupid to return to rational forest management practices, so OF COURSE we need to spend trillions of dollars and return to a pre-industrial society.

Old-school data suggests hurricanes in the Atlantic are not more frequent than in the past

Eliminate the Coal Industry? No Big Deal! CBS Is Panicking Over ‘CLIMATE CATASTROPHE’

A soil-science revolution upends plans to fight climate change

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The truth is that there is some incredible technology out there, helping farmers do more with less. Most farmers would happily explain this, but they’re too busy working to tweet about crop data tools. That, however, doesn’t mean the rest of us can’t educate ourselves a bit.

 

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“Treating healthy people like biohazards over an illness that has killed two dozen personnel in a force of millions is insane. Those preventative policies have consequences, too; the surge in depression and suicide among the young is real. . . .”

I am healthy, but our governor in California regards me as a biohazard because I am not vaccinated. He supports, “My body. My choice.” Except when he doesn’t.

Maybe if you were going to kill one of his children ….

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Well, if sea levels are rising as fast as the Narrative Media would have us believe, it’s a reasonable thing.

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In my decade-plus of social-policy reporting, I have mostly understood these stories as facts of life. Government programs exist. People have to navigate those programs. That is how it goes. But at some point, I started thinking about these kinds of administrative burdens as the “time tax”—a levy of paperwork, aggravation, and mental effort imposed on citizens in exchange for benefits that putatively exist to help them. This time tax is a public-policy cancer, mediating every American’s relationship with the government and wasting countless precious hours of people’s time.

The issue is not that modern life comes with paperwork hassles. The issue is that American benefit programs are, as a whole, difficult and sometimes impossible for everyday citizens to use. Our public policy is crafted from red tape, entangling millions of people who are struggling to find a job, failing to feed their kids, sliding into poverty, or managing a disabling health condition.

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The chief of staff of the Israeli military, Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi, often describes the armed Islamist organizations situated on Israel’s borders as “terror armies.” They target civilians indiscriminately just like other terrorist entities do, yet unlike other terror groups, they also control territory, and have developed into organized, hierarchical, structured fighting forces. Hizballah, Hamas, and Iranian-backed Shi’ite militias in Syria and Iraq all have weapons arsenals and their own combat doctrines, much like the armies of states.

A core part of their combat doctrines involves embedding their forces and rocket launchers deep in crowded civilian areas, using them as firing centers to rain down projectile fire on Israeli cities, and using the people who live there as human shields to limit the IDF’s counter-action options.

ZMan explains it all to you.

The Left-Right dynamic within radical politics is something that gets very little attention, because it does not serve ruling class interests. In 1920’s Russia, the Left side promoted radical reorganization of society, while the Right side wanted to take a gradualist approach. Critics of the conservative movement in America have relied on this comparison to chide them over their diffidence. The paleo criticism of Buckley conservatism was that it was just the slow version of Progressivism.

What this means is that the ruling dynamic of America since the middle of the last century has been a form of party rule. The communist had informal factions within a formal party structure, while the liberal democrats prefer formal factions within an informal party structure. The Democrats are the left-liberals while the Republicans are the right-liberals. They have the same goals, but disagree on the best approach for achieving those goals. They also serve the same interests.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

Think of it as evolution in action.

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The real monopoly problems in our economy are not the firms that push up some very particular concentration indices, rather they are the small, local monopolies, hospitals, and the public education system.

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Well. There it is.

Joe Biden’s approval rating simply hasn’t moved in six months (CNN)

Poll Shows Biden’s Gun Violence Approval Rating Falling to 37% Amid Rise in Shootings (Newsweek)

Biden Approval Drops, Hits New Low In Gallup Poll 

Cuban Protesters Converge on White House, Demand Stronger Biden Action

Biden Admin Cancels 2 Border Wall Contracts in South Texas

Biden’s Baleful Border Betrayal

How Black Women Exposed Celebrity Chef Darius Cooks (Daily Beast)

James Brown’s Heirs Reach Agreement Over Estate, Ending 15-Year Legal Battle They’re so oppressed.

Washington Post: Integration Bad, Segregation Good

New York Police Union: ‘Failed Laws’ Led to Brutal Sunday Morning Mugging

New York Woman Charged With Hate Crimes In 4 Anti-Asian Attacks  Note that these attacks all target old people who cannot defend themselves.

Michigan Dem Spends Campaign Funds at Strip Club  Dems just wanna have fun….

Large study finds COVID-19 is linked to a substantial drop in intelligence Certainly on the part of public officials.

Woman hauled off New Orleans-to-Dallas flight for mask refusal

Georgia restaurant to only serve fully vaxxed customers

Pastor Greg Locke Vows to Remove Anyone Wearing Mask in Church, Blasts ‘Godless Democrats’ (Newsweek)

Ivermectin: For COVID or for the Worms?

Vaccine Passports: Why?

French Parliament OKs Restaurant COVID Pass, Vaccine Rules

UK Taxpayers To Face COVID Bill For Decades To Come, MPs Warn

Rand Paul Slams Fauci For Not Answering Questions; It Was “Ad Hominem Attack With Him Simply Calling Names”

AstraZeneca and the EU probably ruined Africa’s best chance out of the pandemic

Time To Assume That Health Research Is Fraudulent Until Proven Otherwise?

NYC to Extend Vaccine Mandate to All City Employees

Top Medical Groups Call for Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccinations for Healthcare Workers

To Defeat Delta Variant, Experts Recommend Doing All The Things That Didn’t Work The First Time

Millions Of Renters Face ‘Unprecedented Spike’ In Evictions As Moratorium Expires

With Virus Surge, US to Keep Travel Restrictions for Now

Rand Paul Officially Sends Criminal Referral on Fauci to Justice Department

Compromise Reached: Everyone Still Afraid Of COVID Will Be Locked Down, Everyone Else Will Live Lives As Normal  Babylon Bee.

California City Orders Vaccinated Employees To Wear Stickers If They Want To Work Without Masks  Perhaps a pink triangle. It’s traditional.

Surgeon General Murthy Calls COVID-19 Misinfo an ‘Equity’ Issue

Carl Bernstein: Trump is a ‘war criminal’ (CNN)

Montana man confronts Tucker Carlson at fishing store, calling him ‘the worst human being ever’ (Daily Mail)

The Christian nationalist assault on democracy goes stealth — but the pushback is working (Salon)

Unhinged Cher Rages ‘Trump Will Kill [America] If We Don’t Vote in ‘22’

Disinformation for Hire, a Shadow Industry, Is Quietly Booming (New York Times) Pushing the Narrative as if it were a real thing.

CBS Roots for Team USA to Fail at Olympics: ‘Humble’ Arrogant Americans

Nightmare Scenario? Experts Suggest Contacting Employers for Offensive Posts: Report

Financial Blacklist Crisis: ADL Partners with Paypal to Ban ‘Hate’

Chicago-Area Teacher Sues After Being Fired For Criticism Of Protests After George Floyd Murder

Big Tech Forms ‘White Supremacist’ Counterterror Database; PayPal Works With ADL To ‘Fight Extremism And Hate’

Texas Democrat fears ‘rural cop’ retaliation for fleeing state Well, maybe if you’d do your job….

MSNBC Allows TX Dem to Float Unhinged Conspiracy Theory: ‘Rural Cops’ Are After Us!

Chicago Chamber Of Commerce Rages As Average Unemployed Illinoisan Parent Earns $35/Hour Sitting On The Couch

China Blasts US Seeing It As “Imaginary Enemy” Leading To “Stalemate”, Gives Biden A “To Do” List

Police Are Telling ShotSpotter to Alter Evidence from Gunshot-Detecting AI

Inside a Chinese Internment Camp

Yep, it’s bleak, says expert who tested 1970s end-of-the-world prediction (The Guardian)

FEAR FEST: Bill Nye and MSNBC Scare Viewers About Recent Extreme Weather

The Insect Apocalypse That Never Was

Record Coral Cover Of Great Barrier Reef Shames Climate Alarmists, Media

World’s Food Supplies In Jeopardy Amid Climate Disasters 

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We document appearance effects in the economics profession. Using unique data on PhD graduates from ten of the top economics departments in the United States we test whether more attractive individuals are more likely to succeed. We find robust evidence that appearance has predictive power for job outcomes and research productivity. Attractive individuals are more likely to study at higher ranked PhD institutions and are more likely to be placed at higher-ranking academic institutions not only for their first job, but also for jobs as many as 15 years after their graduation, even when we control for the ranking of PhD institution and first job. Appearance also predicts the success of research output: while it does not predict the number of papers an individual writes, it predicts the number of citations for a given number of papers, again even when we control for the ranking of the PhD institution and first job. All these effects are robust, statistically significant, and substantial in magnitude.

Name a field where looks don’t matter (but don’t hold your breath waiting to find one).

I guess this is another case of Tenure Doesn’t Grow On Trees You Know.

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That David French is no longer a conservative will come as a surprise to nobody. I say this not because of his anti-Trump writings (there are perfectly good reasons to dislike Trump — I voted for him, and I can recognize that), but because David French, like the jolly band at The Bulwark, has shown himself eager to accept the terminology, framing, and general worldview of the cultural left.

Anybody who writes something called ‘The Conservative Case for [proglodyte meme]’ can be safely considered not a conservative.

“Let’s be serious …Olympic athletes are literally chosen to be the best mating prospects on the planet Earth.”

— Scott Adams

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After over a quarter century mostly lived in the Golden State, my family left it all this year for Texas—and we haven’t looked back.

It turns out that when you have kids, you don’t want to be in Venezuela when it collapses. Old friends now ask us about the hot Texas summer. But, like so many others, I’m not at a stage in life where I give a damn about refined weather. As you may have noticed, we have some work to do to save America. And weather and geography do not matter when you are ruled by people who hate you and your family and everything you stand for—when the rule of law is routinely bent for one side and not the other.

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BLM thinks all successful Whites owe their success to racism. And BLM wants its pound of flesh not just from all successful Whites, but also from their children.

 

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Cue protests and lawsuits by eco-Nazis.

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For the first time, researchers appear to have effectively treated a genetic disorder by directly injecting a CRISPR therapy into patients’ bloodstreams — overcoming one of the biggest hurdles to curing diseases with the gene editing technology.

The therapy appears to be astonishingly effective, editing nearly every cell in the liver to stop a disease-causing mutation.

Buzzfeed.

Rich people aren’t half so annoying as non-rich people who spend their time complaining about rich people.

The New Yorker.

How a nascent movement against complementarianism is confronting Christian patriarchy from within

Oooooh! Confronting Christian patriarchy! I can hardly wait.

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The urgency to remember a dangerous experience requires the brain to make a series of potentially dangerous moves: Neurons and other brain cells snap open their DNA in numerous locations — more than previously realized, according to a new study — to provide quick access to genetic instructions for the mechanisms of memory storage.