0Sanctioned Russian oligarch’s megayacht found in UAE creek  It’s all about the oligarchs.

Saudi Arabia ready to pump more oil if Russian output sinks under ban (Financial Times)

Here’s a way to make Russia pay for Putin’s ruthless war in Ukraine (CNN)

Kremlin TV Names the Country Putin Will Invade Next (Daily Beast) Well, not really.

Putin’s state TV propagandist Olga Skabeyeva says ‘World War III has already begun’

More Seek Gun Training in Taiwan as Ukraine War Drives Home China Threat

EU Slowly Weaning Off Russian Crude Gives Moscow Time To Divert Flows To Asia 

Milley Says Using Military To Open Ukrainian Ports Would Be “High Risk”

Saab’s anti-tank systems could find new life thanks to Ukraine conflict, updated capabilities

Russia Uses Chinese Ships And Indian Refiners To Stay Ahead of Oil Sanctions  What’s ‘Nyah nyah!’ in Russian?

Ukrainians Who’ve Fled to Canada Can Now Apply for Government Income Support

Communist China’s Global Plan Emerges

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First: bans on imports. There’s plenty of formula on supermarket shelves in Mexico and Europe. Normally, American companies would just buy that and ship it here.

But they can’t, because of several destructive government policies.

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Another reason for the shortage is government limits on competition.

America’s food stamp-like program, WIC, grants exclusive licenses in each state to just one company. Like all welfare programs, WIC (it stands for women, infants and children) has grown. It now buys half of all baby formula in America.

Abbott Nutrition grabbed most of that market by offering government the lowest price. Good for them. But after Abbott’s recall, there were few alternatives for parents to turn to.

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Tragedies like those recently suffered in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, cause many Americans to voice an understandable—if misguided—urge for politicians to “just do something.”

Many of the laws for which they reflexively call—such as universal background checks and bans on so-called “assault weapons”—suffer from a host of constitutional and practical defects.

They wouldn’t have the impact on gun violence that advocates claim and aren’t likely to have stopped or hindered a single mass public shooting in the past two decades.

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A report on alleged systemic racism released Wednesday and greenlit by California Gov. Gavin Newsom is calling for the planting of trees statewide “to create shade equity” and reduce “heat islands in black neighborhoods.”

The 500-page report was released after Newsom, a Democrat, signed legislation in 2020 forming a nine-member task force to “inform Californians about slavery and explore ways the state might provide reparations.” It describes tree demolishing in black neighborhoods for highway construction and says climate change makes these areas hotter.

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After Washington state passed a law to constrain police officers, state drivers are refusing to pull over when asked by cops.

Northwest News Network recorded nearly 1,000 failure-to-yield incidents in 2022. Patrol officers have described a sharp rise in motorists fleeing traffic stops, speeding away sometimes in stolen cars, according to one county police chief. Washington House Bill 1054, which Governor Jay Inslee (D.) signed into law last year, has banned police from pursuing traffic violators in their cruisers, unless the officer is granted permission by a supervisor or the perpetrator is suspected of being under the influence or having committed a violent offense, is causing imminent danger, or must be identified.

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The question is not “whether” but “when”.  Eventually we will have the technology to do it and at that point it will happen.

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The rising Hindu nationalist movement that has spread from India through the diaspora has arrived inside Google, according to employees.

In April, Thenmozhi Soundararajan, the founder and executive director of Equality Labs — a nonprofit that advocates for Dalits, or members of the lowest-ranked caste — was scheduled to give a talk to Google News employees for Dalit History Month. But Google employees began spreading disinformation, calling her “Hindu-phobic” and “anti-Hindu” in emails to the company’s leaders, documents posted on Google’s intranet and mailing lists with thousands of employees, according to copies of the documents as well as interviews with Soundararajan and current Google employees who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of concerns about retaliation.

Soundararajan appealed directly to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who comes from an upper-caste family in India, to allow her presentation to go forward. But the talk was canceled, leading some employees to conclude that Google was willfully ignoring caste bias. Tanuja Gupta, a senior manager at Google News who invited Soundararajan to speak, resigned over the incident, according to a copy of her goodbye email posted internally Wednesday and viewed by The Washington Post.

This is why Muslim terrorists are the pets of the Wokery. Hating America trumps hating gays and oppressing women.

Hey, if it was easy, anybody could do it.

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There are millions of habitable planets in our milky way. Approximately four of them have hostile alien civilizations that could attack Earth, suggests new research by Alberto Caballero — a doctoral student in conflict resolution at the University of Vigo in Spain.

In his paper, Caballero asked: What are the odds that humans could one day contact a hostile alien civilization capable of invading our planet?

This is the basically ‘thinking past the sale’, like the people who just assume that sea levels are rising and put all their effort into figuring out what the results will be.

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A Democrat running for Congress in California says student loan debt is “one of the biggest crises faced by our country” as tuition costs “skyrocket.” He would know—as president of a local college’s board, he voted to hike tuition three times.

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Michael Shellenberger is an unusual political candidate. He’s also arguably the only person with a chance of stopping Gavin Newsom from spending four more years as governor of California.

HHS announces new office of environmental justice (The Hill) “The purpose of government is to hire and pay government workers.” — Jerry Pournelle

NYC Mayor Adams too busy ‘trying to keep up with the Kardashians’ to care about rampant crime: Curtis Sliwa

Snap, Crackle, and PoC

3 Shot, 1 Dead at High School Graduation Ceremony at Xavier University: Officials

Chicago ‘Mass Shootings’? 52 Shot, 10 Killed Over Memorial Day Weekend

Shooting Kills 1, Wounds 2 After HS Graduation at University

The Guns of July

Reid Agrees: Uvalde Police Would’ve Saved Kids If They Were White

Cat-Kicking Footballer Given Community Service Sentence By UK Magistrates

UK Government Sets Date of First Deportation Flight to Rwanda

10-Year-Old Florida Girl Shoots and Kills Woman After Social Media Post  ‘Lashun’? ‘Lakrisha’?

Why Texas Authorities Can’t Be Trusted to Investigate Themselves (Daily Beast) Well, Texas! And Ultra-MAGA Trump Cooties!

‘Don’ of a new era: the rise of Peter Thiel as a US rightwing power player (The Guardian)

Watchdogs Tackle the Murky World of Greenwash (Inside Climate News)

Liz Cheney’s ‘uphill’ path to re-election runs through Trump (NBC News)

Woman Sneaks Into Donald Trump’s NRA Speech To Show How Lax Security Is (Newsweek)

Marjorie Taylor Greene Predicts Straight People Will Soon Be Extinct (Newsweek) Well, actually, no.

Morning MSNBC: GOP Just Evil ‘Second Amendment Fundamentalists’

Nasty Kimmel Rants at ‘Demon,’ ‘Dumbass’ Cruz For School Safety Plan

Army Reservist Found Guilty of Jan. 6 Capitol Breach Facing 23 Years in Prison

NYT Gets Thrill Up Leg Over Connecticut Creating State-Based Election Disinfo Board

An early warning system for emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants (Nature)

Pride parades should go on despite monkeypox concerns: WHO (The Hill) A rather bald confession that the whole thing is a put-up job.

With monkeypox, the world must heed the lessons of HIV/AIDS (Al Jezeera) And PANIC!

DC defends its authority to issue transportation mask mandate in brief arguing for reversal of ruling that blocked it (CNN)

Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection during Omicron BA.2/BA.2.12.1 surge in New York (NewsMedical.net)

More than 550 monkeypox cases have been reported in 30 countries, WHO official says (CNN) So I guess we’d better PANIC!

“Battle Of Omicron” Being Won By New BA.4 And BA.5 Variants As Overlapping Covid Waves Hit U.S. (Deadline)

Why Omicron Is About To Make Americans Act Immorally, Inappropriately (Forbes)

Mass Vaccination Triggers Spike in Cases, Deaths

CDC Director Issues Alert on Pfizer’s COVID-19 Pill: ‘You Might Get Symptoms Again’

Shanghai Is Finally Lifting Its COVID Lockdown

‘Significant’ Cases of Neurological Disorder Associated with the AstraZeneca Vaccine

Parents Distressed Due to Mandatory Child Vaccination in California Schools  Don’t send your kid to a government school.

Chinese Media And Influencers Blame US For Spread Of Monkeypox

Parents, Students Protest High School’s Ban on Unvaccinated Students at Graduation

Western Australia Phases out More COVID-19 Restrictions

Climate Change to Blame for Monkeypox Outbreak, Says Professor

Union Sues NYC to Stop Unvaccinated NYPD Detectives From Being Terminated

COVID-19: Assessing the Madness in Year 3

Microplastics From Masks Found Deep in Lungs of the Living

9 in Air Force Sue Pentagon for Religious Discrimination Over Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination

Obese Stroke Survivor John Fetterman Thinks He Knows What’s Best for Your Health  And you know he’s cool because he has tattoos and shaves his head and has a chinbeard.

CDC Director Issues Alert On Pfizer’s COVID-19 Pill

Biden sees exodus of Black staffers and some frustration among those who remain (Politico) Nobody wants to play for a losing team.

Biden’s About to Make a Big Mistake on Student Loans (Politico)

Biden can still avoid offering wasteful student debt forgiveness

Biden doesn’t support ban on all handgun sales, White House press secretary says  Who ya gonna believe, me or your lyin’ ears?

State Department Unable to Follow Court Order Amid Growing Afghan Visa Backlog

Refusing to Prosecute Those Protesting at Supreme Court Justices’ Homes Is Inexcusable

Damage Control: Harvey Weinstein Adviser in Line To Become White House Chief of Staff

Biden Throws Powell Under The Bus For Soaring Inflation  I suspect he deserves a tire-track or two….

Biden Administration’s Biofuel Initiative May be Worse for Environment than Gasoline

3 Laws That Biden’s Voter Registration Order Could Break

Stories to tell  The Naval Academy wouldn’t have let a dim bulb like Biden on campus.

It’s Not Just Hunter: Networks Bury Sketchy Financial Dealings of James Biden  The Bidens, like the Clintons, are a turd-world political family.

Biden Embassy to Vatican: Pride Month Is Our Holy Time

Ruhle Downplays Inflation, Hypes ‘We Are in an Economic Recovery’

Jean-Pierre Stumbles Through Basic Questions on Gas, Guns, and Lyin’ Biden

‘I Think I Was Wrong’ and ‘Didn’t Fully Understand’ Inflation: Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen

Crackhead MILF And Incest Porn: Hunter Biden Search History Revealed; Texted Pornhub Link To ‘Dad’

Fact Check: Biden Repeats Claim People Couldn’t Own Cannons When 2nd Amendment Was Passed  Of course they could. Nobody cared.

No Free Lunch: Biden Admin Will Pull Meal Funding for Schools That Don’t Comply With Its LGBT Agenda

Energy experts sound alarm about US electric grid: ‘Not designed to withstand the impacts of climate change’ (CNN)

Spiking temperatures could cause more blackouts this summer. They won’t be the last. (Politico)

US summer fuel shortages could be worse than 1970s oil crisis: IEA chief

Historic site in Virginia threatened by rising sea levels (CBS)

Climate activists frustrated as another deadline passes without spending deal (The Hill)

Five things to watch for in next year’s ‘climate’ Farm Bill (The Hill)

Can Africa grow without fossil fuels? (Financial Times) Nobody in the Davos crowd cares.

The Changing Seas of the Florida Keys (NASA) NASA pushes the Narrative.

Japan’s giant deep ocean turbine trial offers hope of endless green power (Business Standard)

Tobacco industry causing huge environmental damage, WHO warns (Al Jezeera)

We cannot adapt our way out of climate crisis, warns leading scientist (The Guardian) Leading where?

How extreme weather could cause the US power grid to buckle (CNN)

Garland’s mushy speech to Harvard grads does not inspire confidence (Washington Post) Even Jennifer Rubin isn’t buying it.

I’m San Francisco’s newest supervisor. Why I’m voting to recall Chesa Boudin. (S.F. Gate)

Group bankrolled by Netflix CEO’s wife pours six figures into efforts to save far-left San Fran DA from recall

The young, rich, anti-capitalist capitalists (Vox)

Progressives take a leaf out of the conservative playbook to target school boards (NPR)

How the Second Amendment was reinterpreted to protect individual rights (Washington Post)

Fact check: Debunking false viral tweets about Abbott and Cruz after Texas mass shooting (CNN)

Sussmann Jury Nullification Marks the End of American Justice as We Knew It

Despite Hormone Therapy, Transgender Athletes Have Unfair Advantage Over Biological Women: Doctors

San Francisco Homeless Center Drops ‘Linkage’ From Name After Few Linked to Services

LGBT Activists Disrupt British Education Secretary at University Talk

US Military Base Cancels ‘Drag Queen Story Hour’ for Kids After Pressure from Senator

China Propaganda Outlet Uses UN Human Rights Chief as Tool To Whitewash Beijing’s Genocide

CNN Trolls Audience With Faux Gun Control ‘Debate’

The doctors profiting from trans surgery

YouTube CEO Reassures Davos Elites That They Will Continue To Control The Narrative

After Ignoring Trial, Nets Gloat Over Michael Sussmann’s Acquittal

California Bans Shadowy Group Behind Anti-Elon Musk Twitter Boycott

One Man’s Case Shows Why the Looting Isn’t Going To Stop Any Time Soon

A Tale of 2 States: Georgia, Pennsylvania, and the Case for Election Integrity Laws

City Run by Democrats for 60 Straight Years Ranked Worst Place To Raise Family

‘We Are the Arbiters’: Soros Prosecutor Says He Won’t Enforce Abortion Laws If Roe Is Overturned

MSNBC Blames ‘Toxic Culture Wars,’ Fear of Communism For Surge of GOP-Voting Latinos

Women’s Olympic Legend Tells Thomas He Can’t Out-run Biology

Inconvenient Truth: CNN Admits Majority Doesn’t Want More Gun Control!

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I guess their current $97B surplus just isn’t enough to keep them in the style to which they have become accustomed.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

In the wake of the risible Sussman verdict, it has emerged that for the last ten years, the FBI has maintained a “secure work environment” within the offices of Perkins Coie, the Democratic Party’s law firm. Marc Elias, the DNC’s top lawyer, was until recently a partner in Perkins Coie. It was Perkins Coie that laundered the money the DNC and the Hillary Clinton campaign paid Fusion GPS for what became the fraudulent Steele “dossier.”

One hand washes the other.

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The Congressional Budget Office’s May 2022 forecast shows that the government now expects to bring in more tax revenue in the decade following the 2017 “Trump tax cuts” than it had projected prior to the December 2017 passage of tax reform.

It doesn’t look like the tax cuts—which government scorekeepers said at the time would cost $1.5 trillion over 10 years—have been anything like the fiscal nightmare that some on the left would lead us to believe.

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Arizona Law requires that, to be considered valid, ballots must be received by the county no later than 7 p.m. on Election Day.

But newly uncovered records documenting the Maricopa County 2020 general election show that while more than 20,000 ballots were transported from the U.S. Postal Service after Election Day, Maricopa County only rejected 934 late ballots in its “Early Voting Rejections Summary” document.

This means more than 19,000 late, invalid ballots should have been rejected. That is significant because it is enough to potentially sway the results of Arizona’s presidential election, which rested with a final tally of Joe Biden winning the state with 10,457 more votes than Donald Trump.

It is impossible to know if the results would be different if the late ballots had not been counted in Maricopa County.

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In this administration, it’s always someone else’s fault. Inflation is now the No. 1 concern of voters, so the White House first blamed COVID. Then Donald Trump’s tax cuts. Then Vladimir Putin. Then meatpackers and the poultry industry, Big Oil and pharmaceutical companies.

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The Alaska Republican Party no longer wants Lisa Murkowski. That’s just fine by her.

In a traditional one-person-one-vote system, Murkowski would be sweating bullets right about now. The Alaskan Republican Party has censured her and endorsed Kelly Tshibaka, the former commissioner of the state’s Department of Administration. President Trump has also thrown his weight behind Tshibaka. Murkowski has repeatedly voted against the Republican Party and Alaskan interests on key issues. In any other situation, she would be losing her seat — and for good reason.

Fortunately for Murkowski, this year will be the test of Alaska’s ranked-choice voting (RCV) system. The ballot measure, which passed narrowly in 2020, established a nonpartisan top-four primary and RCV for the general election. Although Maine and many locales use RCV, Alaska is unique in its top-four primary. The special election to fill the remainder of the late congressman Don Young’s House term will test the system, but the unusual and chaotic conditions of the special election will prevent it from being a great predictor of the Senate race in November.

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Ever hear of it? I hadn’t heard of this case until today when commenter “j e” wrote a comment about the verdict in the second degree murder case, which was an acquittal.

The facts of the case are both disturbing and of the type that one would think would mean that the case would get very widespread sensationalist coverage in the media. The fact that – at least as far as I know – it’s gotten mostly local coverage is interesting. And yet it’s got racial angles and sexual angles, and the story slightly resembles the plot of the movie “The Crying Game” gone even more horribly, horrifically wrong.

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Officials at the Supreme Court have moved to require clerks to hand over cell phone records and sign affidavits as part of the Court’s efforts to identify the leaker of the draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade, CNN reported Tuesday.

Three sources with knowledge of the Court’s investigation told CNN some clerks are considering hiring outside counsel in response to the move.

When elite lawyers collide….