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The power of nuns!

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Feeding Our Future and a related nonprofit, Partners in Nutrition (d/b/a Partners in Quality Care), were both founded in Minnesota in 2016 to help local organizations gain access to two lucrative federal free-food programs, the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) and the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP). Both were created to supplement the better-known federal school lunch program by filling the gaps during those hours (and months) that school is out of session. In Minnesota, the programs are overseen by the state Department of Education (MDE). It was the department, suspecting fraud in the programs, that alerted the FBI who then started the year-long investigation.

The lead nonprofits, known as sponsors, were just middlemen. For a 10 percent fee, they stitched together networks of hundreds of sites, dozens of subsidiary nonprofits, and private food vendors to distribute meals to hungry children. Many of these sites are believed to be completely legitimate, while others have been placed under suspicion. It is the private food vendors who are believed by the FBI to be the culprits in the fraud, taking tens of millions of dollars from the program, without feeding children.

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Sweden’s failure to properly integrate large numbers of migrants has led to the creation of parallel societies and gang violence, according to left-wing Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson.

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In March of this year the biracial gay actor Jussie Smollett was sentenced to 150 days in county jail for planning a hoax attack against himself in Chicago in 2019 and making false police reports. His alleged attackers had worn ski masks, berated him with racial and homophobic slurs, told him he was in “MAGA country” — “Make America Great Again” — poured an unidentified liquid on him, and left a noose around his neck.

When a police investigation revealed a month later that he had paid two Nigerian brothers, who were his gym buddies, to perpetrate the attack, his credibility was shattered. The speculation was that sympathy for Smollett as the victim of a hate attack might have aided him in pay negotiations with his employers.

At the time, some commentators made passing reference to another hoax attack from the late 1980s, the Tawana Brawley case. If Smollett had read up on it, he might have thought twice — as should Smollett’s initial supporter, Al Sharpton, given his unrepented role in that scandal.

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Hearing loss caused by aging, noise, and some cancer therapy medications and antibiotics has been irreversible because scientists have not been able to reprogram existing cells to develop into the outer and inner ear sensory cells — essential for hearing — once they die.

But Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered a single master gene that programs ear hair cells into either outer or inner ones, overcoming a major hurdle that had previously prevented the development of these cells to restore hearing, according to new research published today (May 4, 2022) in the journal Nature.

New Yorker’s Famed Fact Checking Crew Apparently Unaware Of The 1st Amendment? (TechDirt)

Mika Brzezinski admonishes McConnell: Identity of SCOTUS leaker ‘not the story we care about’ (The Hill)

World leaders express alarm on possible Roe v. Wade overturn (Axios)

Sen. Josh Hawley introduces bill to dissolve Biden’s ‘unconstitutional’ DHS disinformation board

Pansexual Florida teacher canned for discussing orientation with students

After Roe leak, WHO’s Tedros says safe abortions ‘save lives’ (Al Jezeera)

Cops Attacked, Windows Smashed During ‘Roe V Wade’ Protest In LA

Government Propaganda, American Style

‘Taliban,’ ‘Handmaid’s Tale’; Here Is the Worst of Late Night on Abortion

Ghoulish: NBC’s Yamiche Alcindor Laments ‘Pregnancies’ That’ll ‘Turn into Children’

Hispanic Media Suppress Exoneration of Border Agents with “Whips”

Denver’s Paper of Record Takes Liberal Media Bias to a New Level

Striving for ‘Menstrual Equity,’ Oregon Puts Tampons in Men’s Bathrooms at Public Schools, Colleges

‘I Wanna Cry:’ Journalists Weep Bitter Tears Over Roe

Soros-Funded Orgs, Others Tied to Woke Causes Threaten Twitter Boycott Over Elon Musk

Dem Senator Loses Police Endorsements

Pelosi Defends What the Church Correctly Calls Murder

Leftists See Much More Than Abortion at Stake in Dobbs Decision

RINO Alert: The Bulwark (Once Again) Endorses a Democrat

‘Seismic Shift’: Nets Hope Abortion Will Save Dems in Midterms

CBS Badgers Bank of America CEO to Pay for Employees to Get Abortions

When The Government Plays God: The Slippery Slope From Abortions To Executions

CNN’s Lemon Asks: Why Is The 2nd Amendment Sacrosanct But Not Roe?

Anti-Cop State Spox Offers Herself Up as ‘View’ Cohost

Fauxcahontas is faux angry

RINO Alert: Former RNC Chair Goes Full Pro-Abort Lib on MSNBC

Again? NY Times SCOTUS Scribe Finds Abortion Opinion Leak ‘Blow to Court’s Legitimacy’

Progressive Dusts Off ‘My Body, My Choice’ Sign She Put In Storage At Beginning Of The Pandemic  Babylon Bee.

The Salton Sea could produce the world’s greenest lithium, if new extraction technologies work

EU officials being trained to meditate to help fight climate crisis (The Guardian)

The Quest to Save an Antarctic Kingdom Before It Falls Into Ruin (CNET)

Projected environmental benefits of replacing beef with microbial protein (Nature)

Swapping 20% of beef for microbial protein ‘could halve deforestation’ (The Guardian)

You Don’t Have to Quit Meat to Save the Planet—Just Eat Less

Climate sceptic thinktank received funding from fossil fuel interests (The Guardian) Does that surprise you?

Green or Greenwashing: Who Gets to Decide? (The Business of Fashion)

How the California forest that starred as Endor in ‘Star Wars’ was obliterated (S.F. Gate)

Planting trees rather than bioenergy crops sucks more CO2 from the air (New Scientist)

Climate simulations: recognize the ‘hot model’ problem (Nature)

Use of ‘too hot’ climate models exaggerates impacts of global warming (Science)

Brazil president lashes out at Leonardo DiCaprio after actor tweets about Amazon rainforest protection (CNN)

Indian Court Rules That Nature Has Legal Status on Par With Humans—and That Humans Are Required to Protect It  (Inside Climate News)

Colonial Jamestown, assailed by climate change, is facing disaster (Washington Post)

“Elephant in the room”: Clean energy’s need for unsustainable minerals (Ars Technica)

Pinker vs. the AAAS on the politicization of climate change

Stanford Gets $1.1B for New Climate School from John Doerr

The New Pause Grows by Another Month to 7 Years 7 Months

Rural America vs. Big Wind (Fulton Township, MI Says NO)

Journalists from multiple news outlets test positive after White House Correspondents Dinner weekend (CNN) Fine ‘vaccines’ ya got there, bubba.

Omicron as severe as previous COVID variants, large study finds (Reuters)

iPhone City goes into immediate lockdown after COVID-19 outbreak; recruitment suspended

Smug Holt Lectures: America’s ‘Free Will’ to Blame for COVID Deaths

Remote Learning Was Even More Harmful Than Previously Thought, Research Shows

China’s Politburo Doubles Down On Support For COVID Lockdowns

Majority of voters disapprove of Mayor Eric Adams’ handling of NYC crime

BLM Leaders: Slavery Root Cause of Black Comedian Ambush Wave

Failing Upward: ‘Squad’ Acolyte Teases Presidential Run After Second Straight Primary Loss

David Chappelle Accused of Transphobia After Being Assaulted Onstage at the Hollywood Bowl by a Black Man

Trans Jokes May Have Triggered Chappelle Attack, Brother of Thug Says

Diesel Prices Hit New Record On Wednesday

Dementia Joe does Roe

Watch: Tucker Carlson Reminds America That Its Current President Voted Against Roe Vs Wade

Biden Calls MAGA ‘Extreme’ Ideology  Yeah, God forbid American should be great again.

Where’s Biden on Growing Nuclear Threats?

The Disinformation Panic

Student Loan Bailout Is Handout to Ruling Elite

Homeland Security’s “Disinformation Board” is Even More Pernicious Than it Seems

Hysteria in the White House

Labor Market Starts To Crack: Jobless Claims Rise To 3 Month High

Biden Begins Buying Back Oil To Refill Strategic Reserve… Will Send Gas Prices Back To Record Highs

Biden’s Homeland Security Chief ‘Should Be Ashamed,’ Union Leader Says

Biden Lacks Authority To Cancel Student Debt, Obama Admin Lawyer Says

Janet Yellen Admits Biden’s Spending “Did Feed” Inflation

All The Biden Border Policies That Encourage Illegal Immigration

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Researchers discover that a spot of molecular glue and a timely twist help a bacterial enzyme convert carbon dioxide into carbon compounds 20 times faster than plant enzymes do during photosynthesis. The results stand to accelerate progress toward converting carbon dioxide into a variety of products.

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Democrats and Republicans might hate each other’s guts, but they can agree on at least one thing: The Lincoln Project sucks, and should stop meddling in the 2022 elections with its self-righteous “pro-democracy” nonsense.

“Pls no,” wrote Izzy Levy, communications director for Tim Ryan, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Ohio, upon learning the Lincoln Project had identified the Ohio Senate contest as one of “the most crucial races to the survival of democracy in the United States.” Luke Thompson, an adviser to Ryan’s GOP challenger, J.D. Vance, immediately concurred.

It is understandable why Ryan’s campaign would not want the Lincoln Project to get involved in the Ohio Senate race. The scandal-plagued super PAC has a proven track record of helping Republican candidates win elections in swing states. Last year, for example, the Lincoln Project played an instrumental role in Glenn Youngkin’s upset victory over Terry McAuliffe in the Virginia gubernatorial election by forcing a bunch of interns to dress up as neo-Nazis and harass Youngkin at a rain-soaked campaign event.

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Did you know that in some states, if you miss one tax payment, local politicians will take your home, sell it and keep all the profits?

Really.

Tawanda Hall was behind on her taxes. She was on a payment plan but had missed $900. She didn’t expect Southfield, Michigan, to take her entire house because of that. It was worth $286,000 more than what she owed.

“I’m still in shock,” says Tawanda Hall in my new video. “They took my whole house, my whole family’s livelihood.”

John Bursch, a lawyer for the county, says while this practice may sound unfair (yes, it sure does), “It’s also unfair to force those who pay their taxes to subsidize those who don’t.”

“I pay taxes!” Hall responds. She works as a nursing assistant. “I lift people. I bathe people. I work hard.”

When Hall found out she was going to lose her home, she tried to pay off the debt.

“I went to the mayor’s office, I went down to the city county building,” she says. “They didn’t want our money. They said no.”

They wanted her house.

Southfield is a suburb of Detroit; it’s mayor is a Democrat (and presumably the rest of the city government is likewise).

ZMan puts the boot in.

When it rains the worms come out and for the political class the steady rain is promising to become a deluge. The latest bit of bad news in the forecast is the leaked opinion from the Supreme Court regarding Roe. There have been a lot of hot takes on the implications of the ruling but lost in the media churn is the fact that this is another sign that things are getting ugly in Washington. A civilized political class run by sober-minded adults would never have allowed this to happen.

The fact is, Washington is in chaos. The Biden administration is a balkanized mess with Joe Biden as an embarrassing figurehead. His handlers are running out of patience or ability to keep him from having “senior moments” in public. In announcing some new justification for seizing Russian property, Biden slipped into confusion and struggled to say words that may or may not have been in the script. He looked like a man who should be at an assisted living facility, not the White House.

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In the not-too-distant future, it may be possible to come home, kick off your made-from-fungus sneakers, hang up your kelp yarn jacket, and plop down on a plush sofa upholstered in cell-grown leather.

Those are some of the fabric and materials advancements that, in varying degrees of market readiness, startups have been cooking up in the past few years. With venture funding to the space picking up this past year, many are getting closer to mass-market adoption.

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Milwaukee-based Advanced Ionics has launched a new water vapor electrolyzer that is designed to operate in conjunction with commonly available waste or process heat from industry. The Symbiotic Electrolyzes system runs at temperatures below 650 C, and is reportedly able to produce hydrogen for $0.85/kg or less.

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Margaret Atwood is sharpening her pencils.

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As attention turns to the future presidential election in 2024, it might be time for conservatives to think along radical lines if only to come to terms with the fact that, as things stand, it no longer matters who is president. By deliberate design, the presidency means nothing while the executive branch is everything. Should the candidate be a Trump, that candidate’s hands will be tied behind his back; if cut from the cloth of Biden, it is more sock-puppet imbecility. If the candidate is a combination of Reagan, Theodore Roosevelt, Eisenhower, James Madison, Russell Kirk, Churchill, and Edmund Burke fused into one philosopher-king, it still will not matter. The governance of our grand experiment has been reduced to a faceless shadow executive utterly without accountability; that body’s feckless annex and amen corner called “Congress”; and a medieval guild that makes up our Supreme Court, in whose pasty hands the liberty of an entire nation is subjected to degrees of benevolent-to-diabolical ideological whim.

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Fly the friendly skies to asylum in Austria!

There’s a new Balkan Route for culture-enrichers who long to wage Asylum Jihad in Europe. They simply buy an air ticket from North Africa to Istanbul, and then board a second flight to Belgrade, where people-smugglers take them across Hungary to asylum paradise in Austria

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1. Abortion kills the baby. Dying in violent and agonizing manners, somewhere between 1 million and 2 million innocent baby humans are killed each year. The baby’s experience of pain is widely agreed upon, which is one reason why pro-abortionists resort to socially neutral euphemisms such as “products of conception” and “termination of pregnancy.” As noted by the authors of “The America We Seek: A Statement of Pro-Life Principle and Concern”: “The unborn child in America today enjoys less legal protection than an endangered species of bird in a national forest.”
2. ^{Abortion abuses women. Our country’s legalization of abortion damages women by communicating to them that it is morally and legally acceptable to take the life of their baby. This legalization has catalyzed male irresponsibility and predatory sexual behavior, which, in turn, destabilizes romantic relationships and marriages.}
3. ^{Abortion hurts men. Abortion on demand means that many fathers must watch their children killed against their will. Some months, years, or even decades later, fathers find out that the child they would’ve wanted to nurture was killed without their input or consent.}
4. ^{Abortion harms marriages and families. Abortion hurts families in numerous ways, among which are destruction of a baby, fueling of male irresponsibility, marginalization of fatherhood, and the implicit message that members of a family may use lethal force to solve their problems.}
5. ^{Abortion undermines justice and equality. Abortion should not be a matter of “choice” any more than other situations that involve taking the life of an innocent person. When we allow our citizens to take the life of innocent persons, we undermine our nation’s claim to being a law-governed democracy. No longer does our nation really believe that we are all created equal; no longer do we seek justice for all.}
6. ^{Abortion undermines our nation’s system of checks and balances. In Roe v. Wade and subsequent decisions, a Supreme Court majority bypassed democratic debate and legislation by fabricating a constitutional right to abortion.}
7. ^{Abortion minimizes society’s mediating institutions. Abortion on demand assumes that an individual (the mother) has the right to take a life without the consent of the baby’s father or siblings. This sort of individual autonomy pushes America even further toward a cultural environment where the only actors of consequence are the ever-expanding state and the solitary individual.}

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Rioters in Los Angeles attacked police officers Tuesday night, injuring at least two, in the wake of Politico‘s report indicating the Supreme Court is on the verge of overturning Roe v. Wade.

Police attempted to disperse a group of pro-abortion protesters when they tried to occupy an intersection, LAPD chief Michel Moore said. At that point, some began to throw rocks and bottles at officers, two of whom were injured in the attack.

One officer was struck in the head, LAPD captain Steven Ruiz said, possibly by his own baton. That officer is “doing OK,” the captain said. The other injured officer’s condition is unknown, but an ambulance was dispatched to the scene.

UPDATE: Nets Ignore Violent Pro-Abortion Mobs Attacking Police

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In his 2016 bestselling autobiography “Hillbilly Elegy,” J.D. Vance thanks his grandparents – his “Mamaw and “Remember in 2019 when workers were doing well in this country, not struggling terribly. Thanks [to] the president for everything, for endorsing me.”

Tuesday night, as Vance stepped closer to his goal of joining the most exclusive club in the country – the U.S. Senate – he thanked his grandparents again, along with President Trump.

Georgia DA investigating Trump’s election interference will look into fake Electoral College certifications (CNN)

‘Trumpery’ damaged our democracy. Here are some ways to overcome it. (Washington Post)

Trump Organization Accused of Hiding Witness Michael Cohen, Who Knew if Donald Trump Lied (Daily Beast)

Ocasio-Cortez: Supreme Court ‘isn’t just coming for abortion’ (The Hill) Coming for!

Watchdog finds Trump DHS altered, delayed report on Russia’s election interference (The Hill)

Ranting couple claim they were kicked off JetBlue flight for supporting Trump

Chris Rufo attacks MSNBC segment labeling him a ‘far-right mastermind’  There is no right but the far-right.

Repairman who revealed Hunter Biden laptop sues Schiff, CNN, Politico and The Daily Beast

Taibbi: PayPal’s IndyMedia Wipeout

PolitiFact Omits Some of Hannity’s Words So They Can Tag Him ‘FALSE’ on Twitter Gains

Elie Mystal Freaks: Founders Were ‘Racist Misogynist Jerk Faces’!

Disney Dems Think Corporations Should Be Our Governments

Abortion statistics by state: Maps, trigger laws, and possible bans (Politico)

The Supreme Court might never recover from overturning Roe v. Wade (Washington Post)

Elon Musk calls out groups pressuring major brands to force Twitter to uphold content policies amid purchase

San Francisco shoplifting: Thieves caught on camera stuffing stolen goods in bags at Walgreens

Trio of thieves brazenly raid San Francisco Walgreens in broad daylight with two women looting BEHIND the counter while another clears the shelves

13 states have passed so-called ‘trigger laws,’ bans designed to go into effect if Roe v. Wade is overturned (CNN)

Liberal dark money group with Biden admin ties capitalizes on SCOTUS leak to push court-packing agenda

CBS Worries Overturning Roe Could Lead to Bans on Gay Marriage  A reasonable fear, since the same make-it-up-out-of-whole-cloth reasoning behind Roe informed the right-to-gay-marriage decision.

Newer, fitter descendants of Omicron variant begin to drive their own coronavirus waves (CNN)

BA.2.12.1 poised to become dominant in US, raising concern for future vaccines (Ars Technica)

CDC Reissues Mask Recommendation On Planes And Public Transportation Across America As Much Of The Northeast Moves Into “High Transmission” Category (Deadline)

Most Americans have now had Covid-19 — but experts are predicting the next surge (CNN)

Christiane Northrup, once a New Age health guru, now spreads covid disinformation (Washington Post) In the Narrative Media, ‘disinformation’ is anything that doesn’t follow the Narrative.

Time for a fourth Covid vaccine dose? Here’s why medical professionals are skeptical (CNBC)

‘What is going on in Shanghai’: Horror as elderly man taken to morgue in body bag — while still alive (CNN) “Bring out your dead!”

Pandemic Tracking and the Future of Data

Nets Ignore Report CDC Tracked ‘Millions’ of Phones to Ensure COVID-19 Lockdown Order Compliance

Stacey Abrams got special treatment in office and even got wealthy on the taxpayer dime

Apple plans to remove Portland store’s steel security fence

Climate scientists say South Asia’s heat wave (120F!) is a sign of what’s to come (NPR)

India’s Heatwaves Are Testing the Limits of Human Survival (Washington Post)

Losing a Long-Watched Glacier (NASA)

NASA Simulation Suggests Some Volcanoes Might Warm Climate, Destroy Ozone Layer (NASA) Now, if they can only pin that on Trump….

A big step forward for the National Environmental Policy Act (The Hill)

Hawaii Homeowners Must Tell Prospective Buyers If Sea Level Rise Threatens Their Property

‘Cognitive Dissonance’: New Mexico Wildfire Prompts Calls for Urgent Climate Action (Inside Climate News)

UN Report Says Humanity Has Altered 70 Percent of the Earth’s Land, Putting the Planet on a ‘Crisis Footing’ (Inside Climate News)

One Island Nation’s Controversial Plan To Take Climate Justice Into Its Own Hands (Time magazine) ‘Climate justice’ means ‘Give us your money!’

Here we go again: California coronavirus cases rising. Is a new wave coming soon? (L.A. Times)

Methane emissions from cows spotted from space for the first time (New Scientist) I am not making this up.

“Climate Aware” Therapists are Teaching “Internal Activism”  Just what we need….

Samantha Power and the Green New Famine

Biden’s already reducing wealth inequality — by killing the economy (The Hill)

The Biden administration proposed tax changes: Here we go again

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Neither the web publisher nor its employees innocently picked up the draft opinion from off the street. They knew that it was stolen. They knew that no Supreme Court opinion has ever, in the history of the United States of America, been released without the Court’s authorization, no matter how important or controversial its subject. They knew that, in the normal course of its activity, the Court would have published its decision within the next two months. They knew that the Justices often continue considering and refining opinions until shortly before they are announced. They knew that the Court’s effectiveness has for over two centuries depended crucially on trust among the Justices and their staff.

They knew and didn’t care. For the frisson of a “big story”, and almost certainly with the hope of assisting the Democratic Party, they peddled their ill-gotten goods and inflicted serious harm on our nation’s highest judicial body. Honorable men would have written a story beginning, “Today, a person connected to the Supreme Court attempted to give Politico confidential Court documents concerning an upcoming decision. Politico has returned the documents unread to the Court chambers and advised the Justices of the identity of the miscreant.”

Joel Kotkin.

We Americans like to think of ourselves as a thoroughly modern people — living proof of what, with enough toil and grit, the rest of the free world can one day hope to be. And yet for all our progressivism and idealism, America’s political culture finds itself unable to escape the past. We may be living in a 21st century democracy, but that “democracy” increasingly resembles something that could have been plucked out of feudal Europe or, perhaps more accurately, feudal Japan.

For much of its history, Japanese politics was characterised by conflicts among its ruling daimyo, and later between the great industrial zaibatsu who replaced them as dominant powers. Similarly, America’s politics is now being shaped by a civil war not between classes, but within the ruling capitalist elite.

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Georgia election officials last week issued subpoenas to obtain the identities of individuals and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) who may have engaged in the crime of ballot trafficking.

Which, as the Narrative Media never tires of claiming, doesn’t exist.

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Amid news reports about the leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion that would end abortion on demand, critics wailed in the media, in speeches, and on Twitter about the proposed ruling.

The high court confirmed the authenticity of the draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that was leaked to Politico, but asserted that it is not the final version.

If the Alito draft from February stands and enough justices sign on, it would overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that made abortion legal across the nation.

If the Supreme Court overturns Roe, it would not ban abortion but rather allow state legislatures to determine to what extent abortion is allowed in their states.

Babylon Bee.

It can be a head-scratcher.

A major threat to the next pandemic: Vaccine hesitancy (NBC News) And whose fault is that?

The next COVID surge may hit San Francisco’s wealthy neighborhoods the hardest. Here’s why (S.F. Chronicle)

Don’t panic about unvaccinated kids

A chronic case of mask fever

CDC tracked millions of phones to see if Americans followed lockdown orders

Ukraine Situation Report: Top Russian General Did Visit Ukraine, Pentagon Says

It’s not just Russia – China’s also contributing to higher inflation worldwide, report says (CNBC)

Germany will support an EU oil embargo on Russia (CNN)

Why Belarus matters: Like Ukraine, democracy is at stake (Washington Post) Is there anywhere that democracy isn’t at stake for the Washington Times? Mars, maybe?

The war in Ukraine boosts Belarusian opposition (Washington Post)

Oligarch Who Criticized Putin Says He’s Been Forced to ‘Sell Everything,’ Fears for His Life (Daily Beast) It’s all about the oligarchs.

Ukrainian children have learned to hate  But they’re hating Russians, so that’s all right.

Russian Generals Keep Getting Killed  Think of it as evolution in action.

US Informs Taiwan Of Howitzer Delivery Delay Due To “Crowded” Production Line

Ukraine Missile Attack Just Misses Secretive Visit By Russia’s Top General To Front Line

Optimism about the threat of nuclear war

“Ghost Of Kyiv” Fighter Ace Was Fake News, Ukraine Military Admits

EU Considers Exemptions As Hungary Threatens To Veto Russian Oil Ban

Credit Suisse Sued Over Doing Business With Russian Oligarchs  It’s all about the oligarchs.

LEADERSHIP: Ukraine As A NATO Partner

Pope Admits NATO Likely Provoked Putin’s Invasion: “Barking At The Gates Of Russia”

Putin Tells Macron In 2-Hour Call: ‘Moscow Still Open To Dialogue’

US army considers Israeli-made Firefly loitering mini-drone

Barrage Of Cruise Missiles Rock Western Ukraine, Plunging Lviv Into Darkness

Pelosi: Russia’s War Requires “Strongest Military Response”

Supreme Court says Boston violated First Amendment rights of group seeking to raise a Christian flag outside City Hall (CNN)

Democratic Senate candidates urge eliminating filibuster and passing bill protecting abortion rights (CNN)

Axios: Former Secretary of Defense Esper in new book says Trump wanted to shoot protesters (CNN)

Congress must act to prevent an election coup in 2024 (Washington Post) Unless there are tanks in the streets, it’s not a ‘coup’.

Pelosi’s daughter calls glitzy WHCA dinner a ‘bigger threat to our democracy’ than Elon Musk

More people are relocating to these Texas cities than Austin, moving company says (KXAN) You don’t move to Texas and them settle in Little California.

Read the Letter the Harvard Crimson Won’t Publish

Hayes & Maddow Melt Down When News Breaks SCOTUS Might Overturn Roe

Speed-Limiters Will Be Equipped In All-New EU Cars Beginning Next Month

UK antitrust body that thinks Apple has too much power is to be denied its own powers

Scientifically-Challenged Coates Compares Abortion To A Vasectomy

Morning Joe On Curbing Roe: ‘Illegitimate,’ ‘Nightmare Scenario,’ and ‘Wanna Cry’  The tears of your enemies are sweet.

Avlon: Overturning Roe ‘Isn’t Conservative,’ Will ‘Undercut’ Democracy

Liberals Cheer on Supreme Court Leaker Who Shattered Court Norms as ‘Hero’

Gay-braham Lincoln? New Discovery+ Show Claims Honest Abe was ‘Queer,’ Joan of Arc ‘Non-Binary’

NBC Panics Over ‘Bombshell’ Abortion News, Hypes Leftist Hysteria

Democrats Seize on Roe v. Wade Reports to Call for Court Packing, Federal Abortion Laws

LGBT Activists Invent Another ‘Gender-Neutral’ Term for Latinos

Warnock Cries Foul Over Potential Roe v. Wade Overturn

Women Line Up Outside SCOTUS To Receive Their New Handmaid’s Tale Outfits  Babylon Bee.

George Soros Spewed at Least $25,274,455 into Abortion Lobby 2016-2020

Too Woke! More TV Viewers Watched College Softball Than MLB

Florida Textbook Publishers Surrender to DeSantis, Scrub Woke Content

CNN Grumpycats: Gay Marriage, ‘Many Rights’ People ‘Enjoy’ Are in Danger

Journalists, News Outlets Cheer Biden Censorship Board

O’Donnell Rants at ‘Minority Government’ Supreme Court Ruling, Illegitimate Alito

Democrats Admit It’s Women Who Get Abortions After All

CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin Worried SCOTUS Could Take Away His Right To Bribe Mistress To Get Abortion

China’s Ongoing Persecution of Christians and the Case of Pastor Wang Yi

Bill Gates Claims Repealing Roe v. Wade Would ‘Set Us Back 50 Years’  Almost exactly. As a Famous Person once said, if you’re going down the wrong road, you have to back up before you can go down the right road.

The Clinton Campaign Is About To Lose Its Privilege Fight

John Oliver on environmental racism: ‘It’s clear we have a massive problem’ (The Guardian) Yeah, sticking ‘racism’ on any idea that progressives don’t like.

Whoopi Goldberg suggests White House have ‘giant meeting’ to stop staff ‘microaggressions’ against VP Harris  She’s so oppressed.

Sen. Scott: Left-Wing Groups Using Race, Lawsuits To Carry Out Election Fraud

MSNBC Guest: Overturning Roe Like Banning Interracial Marriage

Whoopi RAGES at SCOTUS Draft, Claims the ‘Child’ Choses Abortion Too

Georgia official texted Mark Meadows as Trump badgered secretary of state to ‘find’ votes (CNN)

Accuser Drops Don Lemon Assault Suit, Recants Claims (Daily Beast)

Dems grimace at Manchin’s bipartisan energy detour (Politico)

How real is the chance of criminally prosecuting Donald Trump? (CNN)

DeSantis rips Trevor Noah for ‘lying’ about his presence at correspondents’ dinner

Trump Lawyers Tried to Hide His Bizarre, Fruity Testimony (Daily Beast) Bizarre!

Kevin McCarthy is a shining symbol of democratic decay (Washington Post)

Conservatives don’t want true democracy, and ‘nice’ Republicans are no exception (The Guardian) In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

A growing threat to democracy: Trumpist gubernatorial candidates (Washington Post)

The right’s gender wars are an assault on democracy (The Hill)

Hasan Slimes Musk: Will Hand Twitter to ‘Neo-Nazi’ GOP, Musk Fires Back

Wall Street Journal Claims “Shadow Crew” Of Billionaires Urged Elon Musk To Buy Twitter

ABC: ‘Shockwaves’ as Alito Heaps ‘Scorn’ and Prepares to ‘Upend’ ‘Lives of Women’  Yeah, Abortion Barbie is going to be in deep doo-doo.

DC Will Channel Money From Trump Hotel Settlement to Woke Nonprofits

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Most automakers are dying to sell you—and the world—an electric car. But they’re up against the challenge of our global-warming time: dauntingly tight supplies of both batteries and the ethically sourced raw materials required to make them.

Tesla and Volkswagen are among the automakers who see manganese—element No. 25 on the periodic table, situated between chromium and iron—as the latest, alluringly plentiful metal that may make both batteries and EVs affordable enough for mainstream buyers.

That’s despite the dispiriting history of the first (and only) EV to use a high-manganese battery, the original Nissan Leaf, beginning in 2011. But with the industry needing all the batteries it can get, improved high-manganese batteries could carve out a niche, perhaps as a mid-priced option between lithium-iron phosphate chemistry, and primo nickel-rich batteries in top luxury and performance models.

“We need tens, maybe hundreds of millions of tons, ultimately. So the materials used to produce these batteries need to be common materials, or you can’t scale.”
—Elon Musk

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A bit of foreshadowing, perhaps? Big Tech behemoth Amazon reportedly announced it would dole out big money to reimburse employees who travel for treatments including abortions. The news dropped just one day before Politico shared a leaked U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion revealing SCOTUS is expected to overturn the notorious 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.

Reuters reported in a May 2 story that Amazon “will pay up to $4,000 in travel expenses annually for non-life threatening medical treatments including abortions.” To put that in perspective, the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute found that 23.7 percent of women in the United States — almost one in four — will have an abortion by age 45. Amazon data indicated that 46.9 percent of the company’s total workforce of 918,261 employees in 2020 were women.

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The result of his research is a simple wristband that uses your DNA to help you make healthy choices as you shop for groceries.

By analysing the part of your genetic code determining susceptibility to nutrition-related health conditions like diabetes, DNANudge tells you which foods are best for you, and which you should avoid.

The wristband scans shop barcodes and shows a green light if a product is OK and red if it may be harmful in the long run. The wristband’s linked smartphone app suggests healthier alternatives when the red light comes on.

We have the technology.

It still creeps me out.

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

I have a simple theory about why Donald Trump ended up running and governing as a conservative, after a lifetime of inconsistent views that much of the time aligned him with liberal Democrats. Startled by the vicious reaction of the media and the left after he said some mean things about Obama and illegal immigrants, he decided to throw in fully with conservatives, who were willing to be (mostly) more loyal.

I wonder if the same thing is happening to Elon Musk. His ideological and political history is similarly murky and unsound at many points in the past (and present), but as he sees the hysterical reaction of the media and the left to his proposed takeover of Twitter, like Trump he appears to have started recognizing who his friends are (or could be), and why the left and the media are his implacable foes. Connect the dots accordingly.

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Dan O’Dowd is hardly the first California tech titan to bankroll his own campaign for high political office. What makes him unusual is that he has no interest in winning the US Senate seat he is vying for, or even in challenging the other candidates competing in the 7 June primary.

O’Dowd, a software entrepreneur with a 40-year history of working on military, aerospace and other commercial contracts, is running, rather, out of frustration at his fellow tech entrepreneur, Elon Musk, whom he accuses of endangering road safety with a driver assistance software package he’s put in his Tesla electric cars.

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In a stunning breach of Supreme Court confidentiality and secrecy, Politico has obtained what it calls a draft of a majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito that would strike down Roe v. Wade.

The draft was circulated in early February, according to Politico. The final opinion has not been released and votes and language can change before opinions are formally released. The opinion in this case is not expected to be published until late June.

CNN has not independently confirmed the document’s authenticity. Politico says it has authenticated the draft. A Supreme Court spokesperson declined to comment to CNN.

Until now, Supreme Court confidentiality could absolutely be relied upon. If this is legitimate, it marks another step down in the ongoing degeneration of our culture.

The reason Politico published it, of course, is an attempt to bring political pressure to bear on the Justices in hopes of altering the decision and maybe boost Democrat chances in the midterm elections.

UPDATE: Read Justice Alito’s initial draft abortion opinion which would overturn Roe v. Wade

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Texas Gov. Threatens To Declare ‘Invasion’ As Illegal Immigration Expected To Skyrocket

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Evidence mounts of GOP involvement in Trump election schemes (Associated Press) Trump! Schemes!

Mark Meadows claims US Capitol attack panel leaked texts to ‘vilify’ him (The Guardian)

Tucker Carlson and Charlie Kirk Wimp Out on Their Twitter Chest-Thumping (Daily Beast)

One by one, Republican midterm candidates are falling into line with Trump (The Guardian) What do they know that Robert Reich doesn’t know. (Quite a bit, I suspect.)

NY Times Goes to War on Tucker Carlson: ‘Most Racist Show in History of Cable News’

Tucker Carlson vows he won’t read N.Y. Times series about him (Axios)

Ministry Of Truth Announces Target Of Today’s Two Minutes Hate Is Tucker Carlson  Babylon Bee.

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MyPillow Guy Mike Lindell Returns to Twitter, Gets Re-Banned (Daily Beast)

“All’s Well That’s Orwell” – Musk Tosses Tactical Nukes At ‘Ministry Of Truth’ And Trust-Fund Journo

CBS Fawns Over Book From NYT Reporters, Skirts Dirt on Democrats

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Birx says US must prepare for summer COVID surge as immunity wanes (The Hill)

New South African Covid Variants, Omicron BA.4 And BA.5, Found In U.S. For First Time; May Be More Transmissible Than BA.2 (Deadline)

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These longstanding Bay Area restaurants just closed permanently (S.F. Gate)

Biden Gives Up on Mandatory Vaccines for Migrants

Fauci Ditches White House Event Over COVID Risk… Then Gets Cozy With Maskless Don Lemon

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