Joel Kotkin.

Glenn Ellmers’s analysis of COVID and Trump represents a classic, and effective, account of the situation from the perspective of declining liberty and adherence to traditional values. But though it is important and necessary to hold onto our highest ideals, I would like to emphasize what is actually taking place on the ground and its likely long-term implication.

Statistics show that COVID accelerated economic, demographic, and geographic trends which were already existent, but rarely acknowledged. These trends include large-scale migration to the south, the west, and the suburbs. COVID also, as Ellmers suggests, sharpened the conflict between many Americans and the ruling “expert” class, who, unlike most Americans, actually flourished under COVID.

I am less sure that Trump was a force for good in all this, given his profound personal failings and mixed messaging during the pandemic. Yet he did stir up dissent against the overweening policies of some governors. In this sense the health crisis intensified an already existing political one. Looking forward, post-COVID reality has seen the emergence of powerful populist politics in both parties, and a marked drop in public esteem for the nation’s once-revered institutions.

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Before we even knew how the killer of 19 children and two adults at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, had obtained his guns, Sen. Chris Murphy was engaging in his customary performative emotionalism on the Senate floor, literally begging Republicans to “compromise.”

Compromise on what exactly? Murphy has never once offered a single proposal that would have deterred any of these mass shooters. Literally minutes after his routine, Murphy was asked about the obvious mental illness prevalent among most of these shooters. “Spare me the bulls— about mental illness,” the Connecticut senator responded, “ripping” the GOP. “We don’t have any more mental illness than any other country in the world.” That’s how serious he is about compromise.

Whether America is more prone to mental illness or not, these incidents are almost exclusively perpetrated by young men who have exhibited serious antisocial behavior. All of them break a slew of existing laws. All of them have either obtained guns illegally, or legally before having any criminal record. In many, if not most, cases, the shooter is already on the cops’ radar because he has threatened others or written insane, violent manifestos.

Claim: President Biden “Aiming to Destroy a … Climate Lawsuit”

Physicists predict Earth will become a chaotic world, with dire consequences (Livescience)

Earth Will Eventually Become A ‘Chaotic’ World Due To Human Activity: Scientists (IndiaTimes)

People in US and UK face huge financial hit if fossil fuels lose value, study shows (The Guardian)

Big Tech is pouring millions into the wrong climate solution at Davos (The Verge)

Microsoft, Salesforce Add $300 Million to Carbon Removal’s Growing Cash Pile (Financial Post)

UK hits oil and gas companies with $6 billion windfall tax (CNN)

UK Climate Activists Deflate Tyres of ‘Around 100’ SUVs in Edinburgh on Single Night

The World Bank’s Impractical Electric Car Claptrap

Meet Rashida Tlaib’s Favorite Anti-Israel Publisher

WashPost Misses Point of Study Showing Gmail’s Left-Biased Spam Filter

New York Calls Off US History Test, Says Content May Trigger ‘Trauma’ Related to Buffalo Shooting

San Francisco School District Drops ‘Chief’ From Job Titles, Cites Native American Concerns

Beto Interrupts Press Conference To Remind Everyone He’s A Giant Turd  Babylon Bee.

Wisconsin Voters Sue 5 Cities Over Unlawful Unmanned Ballot Drop Boxes in Elections

‘What Is Wrong With’ Us? CBS Pushes Sweeping Bans on All Handguns, Rifles

Biden’s ATF Pick, Senator Clash Over ‘Assault Weapon’ Definition During Judiciary Hearing

NYC Exodus To Florida Accelerates As People Fed Up With Violence And High Taxes 

SHUT IT DOWN: Radical Leftwing Group Draws Up Battle Plans To Blockade Supreme Court

Another Big Story the Press Missed

CBS Anti-NRA, ‘Assault Rifles’ Narrative Upended by Its Own Reporter

More Corporations Removed From ‘GenderCool’ Website Following State Farm Exit

CNBC Buries Elon Musk Quote Voicing Support for Gun Rights

Profile in Courage: Schumer Blocks School Safety Bill as Senate Adjourns for Holiday Weekend

Jewish Community Leads Fight Against NY’s Latest Push for Greater Private School Control

‘No to Gender Politics:’ Virginia Fairfax County Parents Protest Pro-Transgender Elementary School Push

Hundreds of Chinese Depositors Assaulted by Plainclothes for Protesting Their Frozen Accounts

S.F. population fell 6.3%, most in nation, to lowest level since 2010

59-Year-Old Falun Gong Practitioner Dies After 14 Hours in Detention

Career Prosecutor Defeats George Soros-backed Candidate in Arkansas Race

Court Hears Parents’ Challenge to School District’s Secretive Transgender Policy

Teen Vogue Defends Beto Standing On the Graves of Children

San Diego City Council Passes Resolution to Become First ‘Safe Haven’ for Abortion

Anti-Capitalist Coffee Shop Sells ‘People Over Profit’ Shirts for Profit

Virginia AG Sides With High School Teacher Fired for Rejecting Transgender Pronoun Demands

Are You A Racist? Take The Quiz!  (Babylon Bee)

Fact Checking the Fact Checkers: Yes, Stacey Abrams Supported an All-Star Game Boycott

GROSS: WashPost Exploits Buffalo Massacre to Wokescold Stefanik Donors

‘A Very Big and Successful Evening’: Trump Welcomes 100-6 Endorsement Record

What Greg Abbott gets *totally* wrong about the Uvalde shooting (CNN) Says Chris Cillizza, who has never been elected to anything.

Republicans are trying to dive for cover under the Second Amendment. Don’t let them. (NBC)

What I Saw at Fourth Protest Outside Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s Home

REID: GOP Only Wants Book Bans, Forced Births, Harassing LGBTQ People & Guns  Nothing else; only that.

CBS Reporter: Beto Press Conference Interruption Stunt ‘Very Clearly Staged’

No Tragedy Unexploited: Jezebel Uses Uvalde to Slander Conservatives

CNN Runs Misleading Pro-Gun Control Fact Check of Abbott

CDC identifies 9 monkeypox cases in 7 states (CNN) Time to PANIC!

Nine monkeypox cases identified in U.S.: What we know about each of them (NBC)

Understanding Long COVID: Study Finds Biological Difference In People With Prolonged Infection

A WHO pandemic pact would leave the world at China’s mercy  Matt Ridley.

Israel Rejects US Request To Transfer Missiles To Ukraine

UK Slaps Windfall Tax on Energy Firms; Russia Preps to Seize Exiting Western Firms

Terrifying TOS-1A Thermobaric Artillery Strike Recorded In Ukraine

What HIMARS Rocket Artillery Systems Can Actually Do For Ukraine

How China’s Push for AI Weapons Threatens the World

EU Suspends Russia’s Access To Vital Crime Data Sharing Program

LEADERSHIP: China Reconsiders Russian Military Reforms

US Seizes Russia-Flagged Tanker Full Of Iranian Oil Near Greece

Putin Assembles Eurasian Economic Union to Counter Western Sanctions

In Stunning Shift, WaPo Admits Catastrophic-Conditions, Collapsing-Morale Of Ukraine Front-Line Forces

Americans Are Increasingly Wary Of US Efforts To Harm Russia Causing Economic Damage In America  Nobody in the government, of course.

The Russo-Ukrainian War: A New Opportunity for Demagogues to Destroy Freedoms at Home

Iran Seizes 2 Greek Tankers In Gulf As Retaliation For US Taking Oil

Guangdong Province Shifting to ‘Wartime System’ Poses an Imminent Threat to Taiwan

FDA Approves First COVID Treatment for Young Children Despite Alarming Risks

Obamacare ‘Double Whammy’ to Hit Right Before Midterms

I remember 1995. I prefer it to today.

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The weakness of California’s Republican party is reflected in every metric that matters. Its representation in California’s congressional delegation is 10 out of 53, which at 19 percent does not even reflect voter registration totals. Similar underachievement plagues their showing in the state legislature: Republicans number 19 out of 80 seats in the assembly, and 9 out of 40 seats in the state senate. Of the eight higher state offices—governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, secretary of state, treasurer, controller, superintendent of public instruction, and insurance commissioner—not one is held by a Republican. Every one of these office holders are Democrats. For those Californians who recall that the state was cherry red through the election of George Bush in 1988, this leftward turn is cause for endless regret.

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Mmmmmm, could be.

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I suspect government regulations, but that’s me.

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To some, the whole notion of wireless power transmission evokes images of Nikola Tesla with high-voltage coils spewing miniature bolts of lightning. This wouldn’t be such a silly connection to make. Tesla had indeed pursued the idea of somehow using the ground and atmosphere as a conduit for long-distance power transmission, a plan that went nowhere. But his dream of sending electric power over great distances without wires has persisted.

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Can the same basic physics be harnessed to replace wires today? My colleagues and I at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, in Washington, D.C., think so, and here are some of the reasons why.

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A Los Angeles Times columnist expected the Texas elementary school shooter to be a “white supremacist” and was disappointed to learn he was a Latino.

“When I heard that a gunman had killed multiple schoolchildren in a predominantly Latino town in Texas, I immediately thought: white supremacist,” Gustavo Arellano wrote in a Wednesday column. “How could I not?”

Arellano said his “stomach dropped” when he learned the mass shooting was in fact carried out by an 18-year-old Latino named Salvador Rolando Ramos. In an attempt to explain why a “Latino-on-Latino mass school shooting” would take place, Arellano blamed the tragedy on Ramos’s assimilation into American culture.

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

The category of vile Democrats is a large one and the competition for most vile is stiff. As a Minnesotan, I would nominate Fifth District Rep. Ilhan Omar and Attorney General Keith Ellison for the honor.

I have been writing about them for about as long as they have been running for office — since 2016 in Omar’s case, since 2006 in Ellison’s case (running for Congress, Ellison was a state senator at the time I tuned in). I think I am something of an expert on both of them, but most of all I am an expert on what it feels like to beat your head against the wall for years at a time.

ZMan turns ’em over.

Wars often turn over rocks exposing truths about the age that have either been ignored or hidden from the world. Old tactics, in the case of the Great War, were exposed as obsolete by modern weapons. Sometimes it is in war that the hollowness of a great power is exposed. This was the case of the Soviets in Afghanistan. That war exposed the internal weakness of the regime. The war in Ukraine is similarly exposing problems in the collective West.

The first lesson of this war so far is that Western intelligence has been exposed as useless in understanding modern Russia. At every turn, the information provided to political leaders about what Russia is doing and planning to do has turned out to be more fantasy than reality. The West has been operating on assumptions that may have been true twenty-five years ago but are no longer true today. The result has been a total political failure in response to the invasion.

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From the world’s largest gathering of hypocrites at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, we have learned that a personal carbon footprint tracker is in the works. In the wrong hands, it would be the equivalent of the ankle monitors used to ensure that criminal offenders don’t escape their house arrest.

“We’re developing, through technology, an ability for consumers to measure their whole carbon footprint,” J. Michael Evans, president of Alibaba Group USA, said Tuesday while on a panel discussion on responsible consumption. “What does that mean? Where they are traveling. How they are traveling. What are they eating. What they are consuming on the platform.”

This will excite the virtue signalers who will be happy to post their carbon footprint scores on social media. But for the rest of us, those still wishing to live freely, who don’t want elites establishing the limits of “responsible consumption,” it’s deeply troubling.

George Will.

The Department of Homeland Security’s announced “pause” of its Disinformation Governance Board, 21 days after creating it as a “national security” measure, probably is itself disinformation. DHS realizes that its 10-thumbed debut of this boneheaded idea almost doomed it, so the “pause” feigns deliberation while the department plots the DGB’s resurrection.

Government pratfalls such as the DGB are doubly useful, as reminders of government’s embrace of even preposterous ideas if they will expand its power, and as occasions for progressives to demonstrate that there is no government expansion they will not embrace. Progressives noted approvingly that DHS was putting a disinformation “expert” — a “scholar” — in charge, so science would be applied, including the “science” of sorting disinformation from real information.

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There is nothing a strong government likes more than a weak people; and therefore, whether consciously or not, everything is done to render the people ever feebler. Not physically, of course, we are raising up giants of a size and strength never before seen, as can be seen on any sports field, but psychologically—which is why psychology is the handmaiden of soft authoritarianism, it teaches people their vulnerability.

The more vulnerable people can be induced to believe themselves to be, the more they need assistance to keep themselves going. Such assistance (which is self-justifying, though never sufficient, or indeed even partially effective) requires a vast legal and other infrastructure, put in place and regulated by the government. The government is the pastor, the people are the sheep.

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Two sisters from a Pakistani family in Catalonia were lured to Pakistan, where they were murdered by their male relatives in the presence of their mother for wanting to divorce the husbands they had been forced to marry.

The Religion of Peace is still out there and doing what it does. Don’t be distracted.

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A rash of thefts of semiconductor-loaded powertrain control modules from parked Freightliner and Western Star trucks is turning the tractors into oversize paperweights. Daimler Truck North America is going after the bad guys but has few leads.

The rip-offs of common powertrain control module 4 units relate to the ongoing shortage of microchips. Harvesting and reprogramming the modules allow them to work in other trucks, Daimler said.

Pfizer warns of ‘constant waves’ of Covid as complacency grows (Financial Times)

‘Everybody and their grandmother has COVID’ in the SF Bay Area (S.F. Gate)

With California hit by new coronavirus wave, time to start wearing masks? Limit gatherings? (L.A. Times)

The NHS Just Edited Their Monkeypox Page… To Make It Scarier

Sweden Recommends 5th Dose of COVID-19 Vaccine to Pregnant Women and Over-65s

Monkyepox-Mania

Is This the Worst Excuse for Vaccine Failure Yet?

California Poised to Adopt ‘Medical Misinformation Bill’ Targeting Alternative COVID-19 Protocols

Quebec to Start Monkeypox Vaccination of Contacts as Officials Confirm 25 Cases

The Rise and Fall of Serial Killers

Obama Is Sore That Latest School Shooting Is Distracting from 2nd Anniversary of the Death of George Floyd

Unhinged Joy Reid: GOP & NRA’s Tolerance for Slaughter Is Bottomless

NBA Star Jonathan Isaac Shares How Christ Inspired Him to Stand Tall Amid BLM Protests

How Biden’s Menthol Ban Endangers Black Bodies

They’re Replacing You, Black America

Raiders Reap Praise For Providing Workout Opportunity For Kaepernick  “What do I have to do?” “Just smile for the camera, son.”

Government Rests Its Case Against All-Black Militia Leader

Judge Tosses Racial Justice Activists’ Bid to End NYC Gifted & Talented Program

An Example to Young Girls

Report Shows FBI Spied On 3.3 Million Americans Without A Warrant

Is Biden’s Terror Exemption for Blind Sheikh’s Terror Group Prepping a Second Arab Spring?

US Economy Contracted Even More Than Expected In Q1, Raising Odds Of Recession

Biden’s Border Crisis Is Back on the Nets: More Coverage in April Than Past 5 Months Combined

Foreclosure-Wave Sweeping US Crests In Chicago

FBI Agent Under Investigation for Withholding Exculpatory Information in Trump-Russia Probe

Kyle Bass: Fed Will Start Cutting In 2023 After US Enters Recession Later This Year

Assassins and Terrorists ‘Seek to Exploit’ Southern Border: FBI Director

A Cabinency of Dunces

Buffalo vs. Waukesha: To Biden, Some Mass Killings Are Worse Than Others

Biden shooting blanks (again)

Biden Repeats False Claim About The Second Amendment

Climate Change Reveals Unique Artefacts in Melting Ice Patches

Seven White House climate staffers to watch (Washington Post)

‘Go after the money’: Goldman environmental prize winner honoured for urging banks to divest from coal (The Guardian) Parrot the Narrative! Win valuable prizes!

Here’s where Big Oil stands on climate plans – and it’s not good (Electrek)

Big Oil, flush with cash, is failing on climate pledges (CNN)

Consumers Face Summer Of Hell As Power Bill Costs Set To Jump 

The Green Agenda’s Role in Global Inflation

Eat the Bugs Peasant

UK Imposes Windfall Tax on Energy Firms to Fund £15 Billion Relief Package for Households

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Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have now demonstrated a low-cost gel film that can pull many liters of water per day out of even very dry air.

The gel is made up of two main ingredients that are cheap and common – cellulose, which comes from the cell walls of plants, and konjac gum, a widely used food additive. Those two components work together to make a gel film that can absorb water from the air and then release it on demand, without requiring much energy.

Freeberg discusses the elephants in the room.

Let is dispose, I say, of the following bits of sticky persistent nonsense. I can see here there’s work for me to do, because I’m seeing lots of people crying out for “new solutions that will work,” and then answering their own plaintive pleas with a lot of garbage that everyone’s heard lots of times before. Into the breach I bravely step.

Ben Shapiro.

Klaus Schwab is the head of the World Economic Forum; he founded the organization in 1971. Each year, the WEF hosts a massive conference in Davos, Switzerland, with thousands of world leaders, diplomats and experts on various topics gathering to trade ideas about how best to cooperatively run the world. Lest this characterization be seen as overstating the case, Schwab himself said as much this year in opening the conference: “The future is not just happening. The future is built by us, by a powerful community as you here in this room. We have the means to improve the state of the world. But two conditions are necessary. The first one is that we act all as stakeholders of larger communities, that we serve not only self-interest but we serve the community. That’s what we call stakeholder responsibility. And second, that we collaborate.”

This is the call to action for elitists the world over. They appoint themselves the representatives of global interests — without elections, without accountability — and then create mechanisms of national and international order to control citizens over whom they claim to preside. Schwab himself has decoded his favorite term, “stakeholder capitalism.” He wrote in Time magazine in October 2020, “Free markets, trade and competition create so much wealth that in theory they could make everyone better off if there was the will to do so.” To do so, however, would require taking hints from Greta Thunberg, #MeToo and Black Lives Matter; it would require “building … a virtuous economic system” in which companies abandon their core mission of serving customers and shareholders and instead embrace answering questions like “What is the gender pay gap in company X? How many people of diverse backgrounds were hired and promoted? What progress has the company made toward reducing its greenhouse-gas emissions?”

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The concept and governance of name, image, and likeness has always been highly politicized. But the deals themselves have largely stayed out of politics — until now.

Dresser Winn, a quarterback at the University of Tennessee at Martin, has signed a partnership to support the candidacy of Colin Johnson, who is running for District Attorney General for Tennessee’s 27th Judicial District.

The deal is considered to be the first to support a political candidate. It’s also an example of how athletes who may not have major followings or a Power 5 platform can ink partnerships in their community, as one of Winn’s agents, Dale Hutcherson, pointed out on Twitter.

They have always said that politics is show business for ugly people. It was inevitable that some sort of hustler would connect the dots and count up the zeroes.

ZMan turns over a rock.

Outside of the progressive hive, there has been a long running debate, going back to the 1980’s, about the awareness of the people in the hive. Left-wing people say things that are clearly not true, but they seem to believe what they are saying. They have some of the facts and seem to grasp certain concepts, but they come to conclusions that are obviously false. The question is whether the people in the hive really believe what they say or do they know the truth?

The default assumption, popular with mainstream conservatives, is that progressives are well-intentioned, but wrong on the facts. These are reasonable people who can come to the right answer if you slowly explain it to them. Conservatives have built their entire movement around the assumption that there is some way to explain things to the Left that will trigger a revelation. They will see their error, throw down their weapons and embrace the conservatives as brothers.

Along with conservatism, this view is fading from the scene. It is a generational thing as conservatism and most conservatives were formed in the post-war period. Most people have now concluded that the Left knows they are lying, but they are consumed with partisanship, so they are fine with lying. Far-left cranks will claim men can get pregnant because it advances their interests. The blank slate is central to their program, so they defend nutty ideas like the trans business.

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

As reporters ascertain what happened during the tragic school shooting in Uvalde, we have more to process. The Associated Press has reconstructed events outside the school during the shooting before and after the heroic Border Patrol agent entered the building. The AP story is “Onlookers urged police to charge into Texas school.”

UPDATE: Police Waited to Enter Texas School as Shooter Opened Fire: Witnesses

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Salvador Ramos’s evil rampage in Uvalde, Texas has had the inevitable consequence: it was politicized within minutes by Democrats calling for more gun control. Michael Moore, at least, was honest. He said the Second Amendment should be repealed. That, one suspects, is what many Democrats want, but most aren’t bold enough to say it. Instead, they beat around the bush, like Joe Biden who blamed the Uvalde murders on the “gun lobby” and fumed: “When in God’s name will we do what we all know in our gut needs to be done?” What, exactly, is that, Joe? He didn’t say.

The fundamental point to be made about mass school shootings is that they are extraordinarily rare.

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The “solutions” proposed by Democrats are laughable, obviously intended for political gain rather than practical benefit. Banning “assault rifles,” while likely unconstitutional, would do zero good. In close quarters, handguns are better than rifles, even short-barreled rifles like AR-15s. In the worst school shooting rampage so far, at Virginia Tech, the murderer used handguns. And when the ill-fated ban on “assault weapons” expired in 2004, the homicide rate went down, not up.

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Five years ago in 2017, when the US labor shortage was in its nascent stages and when the US was years away from a wage-price spiral, the Fed’s Beige Book surveys of economic activity across the country in April, May and July all noted the inability of employers to find workers able to pass drug screenings: “It’s not just a matter of labor participation; there is also a lot of collateral economic damage,” said Alan B. Krueger, a Princeton economist who wrote a widely discussed paper on the subject last year. In other words, too many people were high 24/7 to be gainfully employed.

Soma! A gramme is better than a damn!

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News accounts shows drug deaths have spiked everywhere. The year we lost my sister more than 65,000 people overdosed and died. That’s skyrocketed to more than 100,000 people during the 12-month period ending April 2021. That’s nearly 300 people each day.

We live in an age of data visualization, so the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers an?interactive dashboard?with provisional counts of drug overdose deaths. As jarring and important as the statistics are, it’s imperative we don’t forget that each one of these is a life lost, forever. Nearly 100,000 unique individuals—with inherent value, talents, dreams, desires—vanquished by a nearly invisible foe.

It takes only 2 milligrams to be lethal. That’s not even enough to cover the year on the front of the penny in your pocket.

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Democratic Texas gubernatorial candidate Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke disrupted Governor Greg Abbott’s press conference called to update the public on yesterday’s school shooting. O’Rourke is one of the breed of politicians — politicians without a conscience and with no thought other than themselves — that finds the moment of unspeakable tragedy fit to undertake histrionic displays and hysterical lectures promoting their favored causes. I can’t believe this is even good politics, but it is what it is, somewhere south of disgusting.

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During the Great Migration Crisis of 2015, throwing the doors wide to the “refugees” was sold to the German people as a way to make up for a shortage of highly skilled workers in the country’s economy. Seven years later, the official government statistics reveal the nature of the scam that was foisted on the public: more than half of the migrants are unemployed and/or unemployable, and most of the rest are employed in low-skilled menial jobs (which means they provide little or no tax revenue).

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The California economy may seem healthy on the surface, with home prices soaring, Silicon Valley booming and the state government posting big multi-year state budget surpluses thanks to a massive surge in capital gains tax revenues and income tax revenues from tech stocks.

But that good news masks a dangerous period ahead.

In fact, California’s heavy dependency on tax payments from the rich and on the continued strength of the tech economy makes the state highly vulnerable in the event of a significant slowdown — or, worse yet, a full-bore global recession. According to Jim Doti of the A. Gary Anderson Center for Economic Forecasting at Chapman University, the probability of a recession starting late this year or next is very high.

Aviation giant KLM to face legal action in first major challenge to airline industry ‘greenwashing’ (CNBC)

Climate worries galvanize a new pro-nuclear movement in the U.S. (Washington Post)

Climate worries galvanize a new pro-nuclear movement in the U.S. (Anchorage Daily News)

Do not work for ‘climate wreckers’, UN head tells graduates (The Guardian)

Tracking the Demise of a Giant Antarctic Iceberg (NASA)

Greenhouse gas pollution trapping almost 50 percent more heat than 30 years ago

Exxon must go to trial over alleged climate crimes, court rules (The Guardian)

The world, with or without us: Increasing gas and oil production is a disastrously bad idea (Salon)

Tree planting ‘must triple to hit environment aims’ (BBC)

Let’s Sue Big Polluters Under Oklahoma’s Wacko Abortion Law (Daily Beast)

The US has spent more than $2B on a plan to save salmon. The fish are vanishing anyway. (Oregon Public Broadcasting)

The Big 5 Natural Causes of Climate Change: part 4 Landscape Changes

One Billion People At Risk Of Power Blackouts As Global Grids Stretched 

Scientists Develop Method for Seasonal Prediction of Wildfires in the US West

CNN’s Jake Tapper cuts off White House adviser who blamed gas prices on Putin

Hawley demands DHS Secretary Mayorkas turn over docs on disinformation board

Hunter Biden Cronies Filed ‘Misleading’ Lobbying Disclosures, Senators Say

Letter From A US Supplier Of Industrial Chemicals: “I Have Never Seen Anything Like The Current Supply Problems”

60,000 Migrants Waiting In Mexico Across Border From El Paso, Texas

North Korea Launches 3 Ballistic Missiles Soon After Biden Departed Japan

Hunter Biden Probe Ramps Up Ahead Of Midterms

Gov. Greg Abbott: ‘Tidal Wave’ of Migrants Arrives at Texas-Mexico Border as Biden Administration Fights To Lift Title 42

CDC adds five new destinations to ‘high’ risk category for travel, including the Bahamas (CNN)

Meet the new subvariants, your summer bummers (Vox)

CDC: New Omicron Subvariant Takes Over as Dominant Coronavirus Strain

Everything CDC wants you to know about monkeypox and the current risk level (Ars Technica) God forbid you should wander outside of the official Narrative.

As reports of ‘Paxlovid rebound’ increase, Covid researchers scramble for answers

People who rebound with COVID-19 after Paxlovid may be highly contagious, new studies suggest

Moderna testing potential monkeypox vaccines

As monkeypox panic spreads, doctors in Africa see a double standard (Washington Post)

What COVID Hath Wrought

G.K. Chesterton and the pandemic

Moderna CEO Laments ‘Throwing 30 Million Doses In The Garbage Because Nobody Wants Them’ “The issue in many countries is that people don’t want vaccines.”  Nobody wants to spend money on something that demonstrably doesn’t work.

A New WHO COVID Report Once Again Proves Sweden Right

SFPD refused to help stop San Francisco Quickly car burglary ring, report alleges (S.F. Gate)

Would the World Be Better Off Without Philanthropists? (The New Yorker) All of these rich people spending their own money just as they please! What’s up with that?

New York Times’ Nikole Hannah-Jones tweets the North didn’t fight to end slavery in Civil War

Stay away from S.F. national parks, police union says. Here’s what’s behind the warning

Arizona Sends Kids as Young as 10 to Gender and Sexuality Chatrooms

Why Are Nominally Christian Politicians Supporting Abortion?

Oklahoma Dem: Neuter Adolescent Boys

National Teachers’ Guide Advises Against Use Of “Parent”, “Male”, “Female”, “Mother”, & “Father”

‘Recalibration’ of Free Speech: World Economic Forum Panel Calls for Transforming the Internet

Summer Flights Will Be Delayed, Thanks to Government

Indiana Lawmakers Override Governor’s Veto of Ban on Biological Males in Girls Sports

CNNer Demands Biden Suspend Immigration Enforcement in TX After School Shooting

Do Bulletproof Backpacks Work?

Clearview AI wants its facial-recognition tech in banks, schools, etc

UK Chancellor Plans To Levy Windfall Tax If Energy Firms Fail To Reinvest “Enormous Profits”; Report  And this is the soi-disant ‘Conservative’ party.

This Florida Dem Wants Taxpayers To Cover His $10K in Student Debt

ACLU Wars On Women’s Sports, Sues To Overturn Indiana Trans Ban

Foxconn factory fiasco could leave Wisconsinites on the hook for $300m

NPR Host, Jankowicz Cite Sexism For Demise of Disinformation Board

State Farm Ends Support for Supplying LGBTQ Books for Kids Amid Public Outcry 

Roe Referendum? Pro-Life Democrat Appears Poised To Defeat ‘Squad’-Backed Candidate in Texas Runoff

‘Get Ready to Give Them Up!’ The View Is Coming for Your Guns

“Sick Son Of A Bitch”: Beto O’Rourke Crashes School Shooting Press Conference  It’s all about him.

Firearm Stocks Soar Over Fears Of New Gun-Control Laws 

42 Dems Call On Google to Help Women Get Away with Illegal Abortions

Georgia candidate’s ‘Jesus Guns Babies’ tagline is a Christian nationalist parody — but it’s real (NBC)

Kandiss Taylor Warns ‘Death by Firing Squad’ to Corrupt Officials at Rally (Newsweek)

Union Victory Images Emerge Amid Trump Call for New Civil War (Newsweek)s

Could Donald Trump’s Civil War Post Disqualify Him From Running in 2024? (Newsweek)

Internet company CEO was ‘extremely uncomfortable’ with Rodney Joffe’s task to research Trump and associates

Iraqi citizen living in Ohio arrested after allegedly plotting to assassinate former President George W. Bush (CNN)

The Supreme Court Just Said That Evidence of Innocence Is Not Enough (Daily Beast) No, they didn’t.

Homophobia is Mastriano’s driving force (Philadelphia Inquirer) There’s nobody more Woke than Will Bunch.

Tax Case Could Force Roger Stone to Cough Up Jan. 6 Records (Daily Beast)

Marjorie Taylor Greene Wins GOP Primary and Is More Popular Than Ever (Newsweek)

New York attorney general subpoenas Trump’s longtime assistant for testimony (CNN)

Longtime Trump Gatekeeper Rhona Graff Subpoenaed by New York AG in Trump Org Investigation (Daily Beast)

Video released of garage meeting of Proud Boys, Oath Keepers leaders (Washington Post) The Secret Protocols of the Elders of Trumpism.

MSNBC: ‘Disinformation’ for GOP to Say It Isn’t Suppressing the Vote

Gervais Trumps Chapelle As Most-Hated Comedian Among Trans Community…

Michael Moore: Americans Care More About Guns Than Children  Certainly Michael Moore cares more about guns than children.

CNN’s Sick Satisfaction With ‘Destroyed’ ‘Little Bodies’ at Shooting, GOP Is ‘Evil’

Top FBI Brass Were “Fired Up” About Destroying Trump

Why Democrats’ Domestic Terrorism Bill Actually Goes After Political Opponents

Lefty Crypto-Billionaire May Throw $1 Billion at Defeating Trump in 2024

Anarchists Take Credit for Vandalizing Four Pro-Life Churches in Washington State

Calling Us Terrorists Wasn’t Enough: NSBA Wanted Military to Crack Down on Concerned Parents

The Other McCain is on the case.

November is probably going to be one of the worst beatings the Democrats have ever experienced, and O’Rourke — who couldn’t win a statewide race in Texas even in the high-tide year of 2018 — is going to get smashed flatter than an armadillo trying to cross I-10 in rush hour.

ZMan peeks behind the curtain.

An informal metric for measuring the stability of a society is the distance between reality and the official truth of the ruling regime. The more lies the regime tells, the less stable it and the society over which it rules. Official lies are a good proxy for the degree of authoritarianism within the regime. The degree of authoritarianism is a good proxy for the level of official insecurity. The more thuggish the regime the less support it enjoys, thus the more it needs to lie to the people.

At the extreme end of this metric is a place like North Korea. The regime is deeply paranoid about everything. The Kim family does not trust anyone in the ruling class and no one in the ruling class trusts anyone, especially Kim. The one thing everyone agrees upon is they cannot trust the people. This is why they get images of the tubby Kim in heroic poses or stories of him making ten holes in one playing golf. The regime feels it needs to present him as a god to intimidate the people.

On the other end of the spectrum, you get a place like Switzerland that barely has a government relative to the rest of Europe. Many Swiss residents do not know who is currently holding the position of president. It is a rotating position currently held by someone calling herself Simonetta Sommaruga. The Swiss government has no need to turn her into a rock star or make while claims about her. The official truth of Switzerland is easy for everyone to see, so they have no need to lie.

Read it.

Australia uses this method in its elections. It is often referred to at the ‘automatic run-off’ method.

The Antiplanner.

At a time when almost everyone in the nation is affected by supply-chain problems but almost no one is riding Amtrak, the Federal Railroad Administration is frantic about how Amtrak trains are being delayed by freight trains.

After all, we can’t delay the Bidens in getting home.

Steve Sailer.

On this, the second anniversary of the death of George Floyd, the evidence is now overwhelming: American elites have blood on their hands for their hysterical response to a local police blotter incident that has since brought about many thousands of incremental dead bodies on the pavement. The Floyd fiasco has been the domestic policy equivalent of the Iraq invasion: a massive, self-inflicted national wound.

The proof is in the simultaneous eruption, once the great and the good turned sharply against the police during the mostly peaceful protests, in not just black-on-black shootings, but also in black traffic fatalities. It turns out that cops being made afraid to pull over black reckless drivers and jaywalkers leads more blacks to drive badly and/or pack a pistol.