Supreme Court agrees with Cruz, strikes campaign contribution limit (Washington Post)

What abortion rights advocates are planning if Roe falls (Politico)

Abortion rights in Maine could be at risk if Republicans reclaim the state government (NPR)

RINO Alert: GOP senator apologizes after boos for ‘two sexes’ remarks (The Hill)

George Monbiot’s farming fantasies  George Monbiot is the Thomas Friedman of the UK.

CBS Repeats Lie About Number of Mass Shootings, Pushes Gun Control

Judge: California’s women on boards law is unconstitutional

For the Left, Children Are Either Obstacles or Tools  Ben Shapiro.

CBS Presses United CEO: ‘Obligation’ to Help Employees Get Abortions?

Clinton Campaign Lawyer Wanted To Create ‘October Surprise’ With Trump-Russia Claims: Prosecutors

Free Speech Advocates Respond to ‘Commie as F*ck’ Veritas Leak

The Sham of ‘White Supremacy’

Orange County fire magnifies a stunning truth about climate change (CNN)

Cutting air pollution from fossil fuels would save 50,000 lives a year, study says (Washington Post)

Curbing energy-related air pollutants could save 50,000 US lives, $600B each year: study (The Hill)

Bipartisan group pushes Senate to confirm environmental prosecutor to key EPA post (NPR)

Where homes will face the most wildfire risk in next 30 years (Axios)

Is your house at risk of a wildfire? This online tool could tell you (NPR)

China and Russia Rejoice at America’s Quest to Go Green

“Silence The Voices Of Hatred”: NY Governor Hochul Uses Buffalo Massacre To Renew Calls For Censorship Of Social Media

Life Is ‘Russian Roulette’; CBS Insists Buffalo Proves ‘Racism Is Mainstream’ in America

The Big Naomi Oreskes Hole in PBS Frontline’s Part 3 “The Power of Big Oil” Train Wreck

The Shape-Shifting DC Dark Money Group Disguising Liberal Campaigns Across the Country

The Post-Roe Battleground for Abortion Pills Will Be Your Mailbox

Billboard Music Awards Push Roe, but Rapper Mentions ‘Unborn Child’

Conflict Of Interest? Obama-Appointed Russiagate Judge Married To Lisa Page’s Lawyer, Knew Sussmann

Guaranteed Income Idiocy Easily Scales To Infinity, Actual Free Money Doesn’t

Chicago Mayor Imposes Weekend Curfew for Teens After Downtown Shootings  BRAAAAAAAINS!

Nancy Pelosi, Unhinged

Biden Push To Turn ‘Ultra MAGA’ Into Disparaging Epithet Came From 6-Month Study, Was Not ‘Organic’

Who’s Paying Protesters to Harass Justices and Churches?

Ultra MAGA: The rejected slurs

Behar Threatens Rep. Stefanik/Staff: ‘Quit Now! We’re Warning You’

ABC Blames Guns, Trump for ‘Epidemic of Violence and Hate’ in U.S.

Disgusting NY Times Conflates All GOP With Buffalo Supermarket Murderer on Page One  As they do.

Using ‘Wrong’ Pronouns Could Lead to School Suspensions in Virginia Public Schools  Virginia is getting bluer by the day.

Lott: Guess How Many Violent Crimes Actually Involve Guns?

US fracking boom could tip world to edge of climate disaster (The Guardian)

Supply chain issues are getting worse — and climate change is a main culprit (Salon)

Greening Conundrum: You’re planting trees to fight climate change but are you doing it the right way? (Economic Times)

Plastic Recycling “Does Not Work, It Never Will Work,” Says Report

Climate Change May Be Giving the World’s Oceans Amnesia (Gizmodo)

Guardian: Climate Change Killed off Ancient Rome’s Herbal Viagra

La Nina is Not Going Away. What Does This Mean for This Summer’s Weather?

Ukraine can win this war, NATO chief says; Finland and Sweden move to join military alliance (CNBC)

Ukraine: The Pfizer and Moderna Open-Air Testing Laboratory

Russian Lawmaker Says Poland Next In Line For ‘De-Nazification’

European Natural Gas Prices To Triple In “Perfect Storm” 

ARMOR: BMPs, M113s and MRAPs Abide

Ukraine: Donbas Battles Intensify

McDonald’s to Exit from Russia

At Least 20 European Gas Buyers Open ‘Rubles-For-Gas’ Account With Gazprombank

Putin’s Ukraine War Fail: The Ukrainian Military Is at the Russian Border

Europe Predicts Full-Blown Stagflationary Shock If Russian Gas Supplies Disrupted, Folds To Putin’s Payment Demands

Why Did Rand Paul Delay Washington’s $40 Billion Ukraine Giveaway?

Amid Ukraine crisis, Lockheed-Raytheon partnership gets $309M for Javelins  KA-CHING!

Putin Says Finland, Sweden Entering NATO Doesn’t Threaten Russia, But Will Likely ‘Trigger’ Response

Doug Watt: ‘If I Can Find You, I Can Target You’

Russian troops are proving that cell phones in war zones are a very bad idea  Duh.

The U.S. is in a fifth COVID wave, and for many, immunity is waning. Why aren’t second booster vaccines available to all Americans? (Fortune)

Booster shot slowdown leaves older Americans at risk (The Hill)

Doctors say COVID re-infections stem from waning immunity (KOMO News)

‘Failure of an American ideology’: why Covid has an outsized impact on the US (The Guardian)

China’s economic data disappoint in April as Covid controls weigh (CNBC)

3 ways to get COVID pills, if you’ve just tested positive (NPR)

Is Paxlovid, the COVID pill, reaching those who most need it? The government won’t say (Salon)

COVID-19 is surging again — with some new behaviors (NPR)

Booster Shots, Indoor Masking Encouraged Amid Rising COVID Risk Levels, Health Officials Say (NBC)

China Economy Crashes Worse Than Expected Amid Covid Lockdowns

NY Times Australia Reporter Damien Cave Defends Authoritarian COVID Response

Nike, Brooklyn Nets Sour On Unvaccinated Irving’s Long-term Future

1 Million Dead Americans

Can We Get Criticisms of Chloroquine for Covid that Don’t Commit Fallacies?

Oil Prices Surge Past $113 As Shanghai Signals End Of Lockdown

Did Fauci Just Convince Swing-Voters To Pull For Trump?

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The Stealth Tubeless Tag Holder is a protective three-part silicone and rubber tubeless mount for your AirTag. Its valve bases seal against your bicycle tire’s rim. The accessory’s stem protects both the rim and AirTag from impacts as it can compress and rebound under extreme loads. It can also allow sealant and air to flow so it won’t rattle inside the tire rim.

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The product is a good idea – if someone’s going to steal your bike, it’d be pretty easy to spot an AirTag if it’s hanging by a keychain or something similar. However, this accessory seems like it could be a pain when you need to exchange or remove the AirTag. AirTag batteries only last about a year, so it’s likely you’ll need to exchange the battery multiple times within your bicycle’s lifetime.

I presume that living in a place where people are unlikely to steal your stuff is not an option.

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American Islamists continue exaggerating the depth of violence in Hindu-majority India and pushing alarmist rhetoric about an impending genocide of Muslims.

“Germany 1932 is here and now in India,” warns an editorial in the May-June issue of Islamic Horizons. “It won’t matter to the latter’s 212 million Muslims when, years later, some sages clumsily whisper ‘never again’ and then snicker. And yet the U.S. State Department refused to categorize India as a ‘country of concern’ on its religious freedom list.” The editorial describes India’s democratically elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a reincarnation of Adolf Hitler.

Except that Muslims loved Hitler. The Mufti of Jerusalem was an admirer, and there was at least one Muslim SS unit formed. (They were united by their hatred of Jews.)

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Famous, liberal Vox writer Ian Millhiser panicked Thursday after the Fifth Circuit upheld the controversial “censorship” law.

NetChoice, the plaintiff in the lawsuit to stay the law, sued Texas over the “censorship” law last year and argued that it violated the First Amendment. The injunction was overturned this week and the law went into effect.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Bernie Sanders wants to bring socialized medicine to the U.S. To be fair to Bernie, though, that is probably the position of nearly every Democrat. As a reminder of why socialized medicine (like socialism generally) is one of the worst ideas in world history, here are two stories that happen to be in the news in the U.K. today.

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Islamization in Germany’s education system has currently reached a level of progress that was not assumed, even in the boldest projections of 2015/2016, when the long-term social effects of a predominantly Arab-Maghreb Muslim mass immigration under the pressure of the wave of refugees were anxiously discussed. Not just where over 90 percent of non-German students at so-called “hotspot schools” dominate everyday school life, but also wherever Muslim students are — still — in the minority, a fatal attitude of submission and docility has become entrenched among school authorities and government officials, which, in cowardly and anticipatory obedience, places avoiding conflict at all costs above even a weary remnant of cultural self-assertion.

Sirota: Biden administration’s reported $10B deal with Amazon ‘shrouded in secrecy’ (The Hill)

Bezos: Disinformation board should investigate Biden tweet (The Hill)

Kudos to CNN: The ONLY Outlet Flagging Biden’s FAKE Vaccine Tweet

Bezos Blasts ‘Disinformation’-Spreading Biden Over Latest Inflation Blame “Misdirection”

Disinformation Becomes an Art Form, And – A Government Department. What Could Go Wrong?

Is This a Joke? Todd Turns to Sharpton for Comment on Racist Violence

Elon Musk can’t just walk away from his Twitter deal by paying a $1 billion breakup fee (CNBC)

NY Times Accuses ‘Xenophobic’ GOP of ‘Weaponizing’ Baby Formula Crisis

AP Laments GOP POUNCING on Biden Over Baby Formula Shortages

Stelter Guest: Tucker, Ingraham & Shapiro Parrot White Supremacists

This Is Where the Oil Price Would Be Without the War

Does Poland Have Designs on Western Ukraine?

ARTILLERY: Ukrainian Tech And NATO

Finland’s President Informs Putin Of Application To Join NATO

China May Be Retrofitting Nuclear Submarine With New Missile System

Sweden Declares NATO Membership Bid Hours After Neighboring Finland

Turkey Lays Out Demands Over Finland, Sweden’s “Outrageous” NATO Bids  I have an idea: Let’s kick Turkey out of NATO. It doesn’t border on the Atlantic, after all.

Pfizer’s Covid Vaccine Protection Against Omicron Fades Just Weeks After Second And Third Doses, Study Finds (Forbes)

Evanston raises COVID transmission level to ‘high’ as cases, hospitalizations climb

State Department of Health recommends Long Islanders wear masks indoors as COVID-19 transmission rate climbs

Bay Area health officers recommend masking indoors; region has highest infection rate in California

Covid-19 vaccine boosters are critical for older adults. Why aren’t more people getting them? (CNN) Maybe they don’t believe you.

Inflation Is Top Concern Among Americans As COVID Takes Last Place

NOAA Study Finds Cleaner Air Leads To More Atlantic Hurricanes

Wrong, CNN, AP, NYT, etc., Climate Change Did Not Cause South Africa’s Tragic Floods

‘Fun in the sun’ photos are a dangerous distraction from the reality of climate breakdown (The Guardian)

The dangerous business of dismantling America’s aging nuclear plants (Washington Post) Danger! Danger, Will Robinson!

Recycling Pledges From Coca-Cola and Nestlé Are a Joke (Gizmodo)

What’s behind the surprising growth of one Antarctic ice sheet?

Climate crisis: what lessons can we learn from the last great cooling-off period? (The Guardian) I think we can safely say that The Guardian won’t learn anything.

Global Warming Was Going to Destroy Skiing, Then the Snow Fell

6 Years Late And 250% Over Budget: Georgia’s Newest Nuclear Plant  Your tax dollars at work.

LinkedIn’s Climate “Script”

Florida Judge Orders Vandal To Write 25 Pages Of LGBT Fiction  I guess the judge thinks he’s the guy’s mom or something.

Biden administration issued subpoena for details of Guardian reporter’s phone (The Guardian)

A new bundle of tabletop RPGs is raising money for reproductive rights  I am not making this up.

Watch: Colorado School Board Cuts Off Mom For Reading Out Sex Scene From Book Available To Students

Glenn Greenwald.

If we were to create a framework in which prominent people were held responsible for any violence carried out in the name of an ideology they advocate, then nobody would be safe, given that all ideologies have their misfits, psychopaths, unhinged personality types, and extremists. And thus there was little to no attempt to hold Maddow or Sanders responsible for the violent acts of one of their most loyal adherents.

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If a blind man identifies as someone with 20-20 vision, must we give him a driver’s license?

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Part One: The Feds. A small group of regulators out West tests out a new theory of corporate enforcement, with disastrous consequences.

Matt Taibbi turns over a rock.

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that there was a Great Pacific Garbage Patch, did you? Obviously you haven’t been keeping up with the Narrative.

UK hits Putin’s rumored girlfriend in latest sanction sweep

Vladimir Putin’s rumored girlfriend Alina Kabaeva hit with sanctions from UK  Presumed innocent? Not if you’re Russian.

The Race To Break The Russia-China Alliance & The “Ukraine Of The Asia Pacific”

Russian toops are proving that cell phones in war zones are a bad idea  Duh.

The Frozen Russian Superyachts (And Those That Got Away)

US Army To Revamp Alaska Forces To Prepare For Arctic Conflicts  After all, Alaska once belonged to Russia, just like Ukraine.

Teacher Defies Parents of Trans Student on ABC Drama: ‘…In My Class, He Gets to Be Who He Is’

Deadly Consequences of Not Prosecuting Misdemeanors: Why ‘Data and Science’ Don’t Say What Rogue Prosecutors Claim

Netflix tells employees to quit if they’re offended by new culture memo

Los Angeles apartment maintenance workers found dead after exposure to fentanyl in complex

Newsom Promises to Expand Massive Funding for Abortion in California

Democrats Name Latino Outreach Program After Communist Slogan Popularized by Fidel Castro

Washington Post ‘News’ Article Prods Video Game Makers to Support Abortion

Today’s ‘Diversity’ Oaths Resemble 1950s ‘Loyalty’ Oaths

Why Success in Canada Means Moving to America

“Dangerous Nonsense”: Larry Summers Warns Democrats’ Price-Gouging Bill Could Backfire

MSNBC Condemns ‘Talk About The Constitution’ In SCOTUS Draft Opinion

16 Michigan counties now at high level of COVID-19 transmission. CDC says wear a mask. (Detroit Free Press)

Fact check: White House tweet falsely claims ‘there was no vaccine available’ when Biden took office (CNN)

Covid cases are surging again. Why hospitalizations might not. (NBC News)

A new Omicron variant, BA.2.12.1, has taken over in Massachusetts. Here’s what you need to know. (Boston Globe)

New Subvariant of Omicron Continues Spread in U.S., Midwest: CDC Estimates (NBC)

CDC Lists 6 CT Counties in High COVID-19 Level Category (NBC)

Experts perplexed over number of people getting long COVID (The Hill)

Growing Number Of COVID-19 Deaths Among Vaccinated People: Federal Data

Days After Federal Mask Mandate Lifted, In-Air Unruly Passenger Incidents Plunge

School Shutdowns Were a Catastrophe

CDC Admits It Can’t Back Claim That Vaccines Don’t Cause Variants

AG: Chicago man charged with hate crimes after threatening Foxx, Lightfoot (WGN)

NYC subway shooting suspect Frank James tells judge he’s ‘pretty good,’ pleads ‘not guilty’ to federal charges

J.D. Vance, migrant babies and the unhinged GOP enemy hunt (Washington Post) The First Rule of Progressivism is that they alway accuse you of doing what they want to do.

Fusion GPS Loses Its Fight Over “Privileged” Documents

‘Unrelenting Daily Confrontation’: After Roe Leak, Yale Law Students Call for Ostracizing Conservative Classmates and Tossing Out Constitution

NPR Smears Pro-Lifers As United in White ‘Male Supremacism’

Twitter allows White House to make ‘clearly false’ claim that COVID vaccine wasn’t available until Biden era

Good Riddance, Jen Psaki

The Number Of Rich Americans Buying Second Passports Has Skyrocketed 300% The Last 3 Years  What do they know that you don’t?

We need optimism – but Disneyfied climate predictions are just dangerous (The Guardian)

8 sustainable living tips to reduce your impact, according to a climate activist (CNN)

The Modern World Can’t Exist Without These Four Ingredients. They All Require Fossil Fuels (Time)

Exxon doubles down on ‘advanced recycling’ claims that yield few results (The Guardian)

Recycling plastic is a total bust, industry critics say (CBS)

States are leveraging nuclear energy for bipartisan climate progress (The Hill)

Report: ‘Carbon Bombs’ Are Poised to Screw Us Over Big Time (Gizmodo)

Growing evidence links air pollution exposure and covid-19 risks (Washington Post)

Six Years Late And 250% Over Budget: Georgia’s Newest Nuclear Plant Your tax dollars at work.

Analysis: Big Oil gets investor reprieve as energy worries trump climate concerns (Reuters)

‘The most dumb thing’: Elon Musk dismisses hydrogen as tool for energy storage (CNBC)

IT’S CLIMATE CATASTROPHE DU JOUR SEASON, AGAIN!

Wandering Polar Bears Are The New Starving Bears Falsely Blamed On Climate Change: Déjà Vu

What Paris Agreement? Worker Shortage Impeding Global Coal Production Surge

Is It Safe to Ship Thousands of Electric Cars on Big Ships?

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It’s just that simple. Really.

Taki says the quiet part out loud.

For the very few of you who have not heard of Klausie baby, he is the chairman of the World Economic Forum, or WEF, a grandiose title and well deserved to be sure, although it once published a think piece with its since-deleted slogan that said “You will own nothing, and you’ll be happy.” The WEF is where technocratic dreams make contact with business and political biggies high up in the Swiss Alps. Personally, I think it’s a networking scam, and the media has for a long time shielded the public from its goals. Except when Forbes magazine published a WEF think piece back in 2016 that urged people to “own nothing, have no privacy, and life will never be better.”

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George P. Bush is having trouble gaining traction in his race for Texas Attorney General (his stepping stone to the governorship and then the White House). He has tried really hard to shake off the family legacy of “compassionate (big government) conservatism” and “illegal immigration is an act of love,” He has tried desperately to brand himself as a MAGA Republican. But the voters aren’t buying it.

U.S. warns of discrimination in using artificial intelligence to screen job candidates (NPR) Not discrimination against white people, of course, that would be perfectly fine.

U.S. Civil Rights Enforcers Warn Employers About Using Biased AI (Huffington Post) ‘Biased’ means ‘insufficiently Woke’.

Delusions of Grandeur: Failing New York City Mayor Thinks He Should Already Be President

Bull Market: Barnette Appears To Have Fudged Wall Street Career

US oil refineries spewing cancer-causing benzene into communities, report finds (The Guardian)

CLAIM: ‘Covid & Climate Change Push Many Older Women into Prostitution’

Coronavirus ‘ghosts’ found lingering in the gut (Nature)

Deaths from COVID begin to rise again (Axios)

This is how many lives could have been saved with COVID vaccinations in each state (NPR) The ‘vaccines’ that don’t prevent you from getting the disease and don’t prevent you from spreading the disease? Those ‘vaccines’?

Lockdown Advocate Admits Negative Impacts Were Never Considered

New York City Parents Rise Up Against Toddler Mask Mandate

Biden White House Tells Blatant Lie About Vaccines

An inflation conspiracy theory is infecting the Democratic Party (Washington Post)

Vacation Canceled For Chicago PD After Nearly 1,000 Cops Quit Last Year

Doctor Reveals How Woke Health Care Providers Affect You

Partners in Crime: How Abortion Activists Are Plotting To Subvert State Laws

Ann Coulter defies Madam Minitrue

Musk Slams Jankowicz for ‘Disconcerting’ Demand to ‘Add Context’ to Users Tweets

Target Is Selling Chest Binders to Girls Who Want to Transition  I don’t shop at Target.

What Is and Isn’t News in the Washington Post

NPR’s Miss Extremist

‘This is what America Last looks like!’ GOP Rep. fumes at ‘pallets’ of baby formula being sent to border centers for illegal migrants while American babies go without amid nationwide shortage (Daily Mail)

GOP rep says illegal migrants sent ‘pallets’ of hard-to-find baby formula

Biden Maladministration Cancels Oil & Gas Lease Sales, While Demanding More Oil Production

White House Spokeswoman Says 2016 Election Was Stolen

FBI Investigated Concerned Parents

Rabo: Powell Is More Concerned With Repairing Past Mistakes Than The Consequences Of His Current Actions

Bigger Bonuses Pentagon’s Top Weapon to Combat Recruiting Crisis as Troops Head for the Exits

Biden Relieved To Hear There’s No Shortage Of Adult Diapers  (Babylon Bee)

Liberals Hail Psaki as ‘One of the Best Press Secretaries Ever’

Military Throwing Cash at Recruiting Crisis as Troops Head for the Exits

White House Press Corps Beginning To Suspect Psaki Isn’t Ever Going To Circle Back To Their Questions (Babylon Bee)

Curtains Down! Here’s Just a Few of the Top Moments From The Psaki Show

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The House of Representatives is set to announce it will provide taxpayer-funded monthly Peloton memberships to all of its staff, Fox Business reported on Friday. The contract comes just over one year after the fitness company set up a lobbying shop in Washington.

Sometimes it is good to work for the king.

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Last month, a student of mine here in Budapest had a surreal experience at an international debate he participated in. The western European moderator opened the event by inviting everyone to introduce themselves by sharing their “preferred pronouns.” The invitation was met with blank stares: in the Hungarian language, pronouns are not gendered.

This little episode is emblematic of woke doctrine’s amusing failure to translate into a central and eastern European context. Some conservatives stateside have started to notice that we here in East-Central Eruope are “based”—or at least, we’re remarkably resistant to wokeness. It’s worth reflecting on why that might be.

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More than two decades ago, the United Nations created a program to curb the trafficking of small arms. It’s done nothing but fire blanks. So now, the U.N. wants to control bullets.

In 2001, the United Nations started the Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat, and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects. Its next meeting will be held in New York from June 27 to July 1.

The Programme isn’t a treaty. It’s a political gathering that’s meant to encourage voluntary cooperation. It meets every other year to produce an outcome document that’s politically (but not legally) binding.

It’s supposed to work by unanimous consent.

The Programme has achieved very little, if anything. That’s not just my view. The U.N. secretary-general said so in 2008. New Zealand said so in 2012. Its supporters said it was “firing blanks” in 2014. In 2018, the Red Cross said that governments in the Programme talk a lot, but do nothing.