Pfizer/BioNTech say Omicron-based COVID shots improve response vs that variant (Reuters)

Monkeypox outbreak in U.S. is bigger than the CDC reports. Testing is ‘abysmal’ (NPR) We need another PANIC!

CDC Eyes Monkeypox Vaccine for Kids as Outbreak Spreads (TIME)

Monkeypox outbreak in Los Angeles soars to 22 cases after Pride events as health officials warn disease is spreading among gay community (Daily Mail)

Biden administration halts limits on ICE arrests following court ruling (CBS)

$8.1B in student loan relief has been approved under revamped program: Do you qualify? (The Hill)

Biden’s Radical, Anti-Fossil Fuel Energy Policy Costs Americans Dearly

Juuls Are Back: Court Blocks Biden’s Vape Ban

Important Questions the White House Press Corps Will Never Ask Joe Biden

Biden Drains US Strategic Oil Reserve To Lowest Since 1986; UAE Warns Not To Expect Any Help From OPEC

Russia To Give Belarus Nuclear-Capable Iskander-M Missiles

Russia in historic foreign debt default, reports suggest (BBC)

US to announce purchase of medium- to long-range surface-to-air missile defense system for Ukraine (CNN)

John Mearsheimer’s Ukraine Crystal Ball

Russia Defaults on Foreign Debt for First Time Since 1918

Russia ‘Defaults On Foreign Debt’ For First Time Since Bolshevik Revolution Amid Western Sanctions

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A transgender activist who creates widely distributed educational resources for nonbinary students called for a “Supreme Court assassination challenge” on the same day Roe v. Wade was overturned.

Eli Erlick, a founder of Trans Student Educational Resources (TSER) and creator of a popular “Gender Unicorn” graphic for “gender fluidity,” tweeted and later deleted the remark on Friday, when the High Court delivered its ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Since 2011, Erlick and the “youth-led” organization have helped implement transgender policies in dozens of school districts, including Wisconsin, New York, and Texas. The group backs sweeping “structural change” as opposed to “equality,” which according to its website, “reinforces systems of white supremacy, transphobia, and injustice.”

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Governments love inflation. It is a hidden tax on everyone and a transfer of wealth from bank deposits and real wages to indebted governments that collect more receipts via higher indirect taxes and devalue their debts. That is why we cannot expect governments to take decisive action on inflation.

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More than a million voters across 43 states have left the Democratic Party and registered as Republicans in the last year, according to an analysis of voting data by the Associated Press.

Of the 1.7 million voters who have changed parties in the last year, around two-thirds registered Republican, AP found. The voting data showed the phenomenon is almost universal throughout the country.

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A significant amount of what the Federal government spends each year is waste and abuse.

These guys have the details.

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This week, a project to build an underground freight tunnel network stretching from Geneva to St Gallen, was given a start date of 1 August 2022 by the Federal Council, reported RTS.

The Cargo sous terrain (CST) project will connect Switzerland’s key hubs starting in 2031. CST aims to take the strain off the road and railway networks, reduce the environmental impact of transport and improve the delivery of goods across the country.

Joel Kotkin.

Out in the rolling country just east of Columbus, Ohio, a new—and potentially brighter—American future is emerging. New factories are springing up, and, amid a severe labor shortage, companies are recruiting in the inner city and among communities of new immigrants and high schoolers to keep their plants running. Two new Intel plants, costing $20 billion, will employ 3,000 workers, generate thousands of jobs, and help make the Midwest an integral part of the high-tech economy.

The technology may be new, but what’s drawing these manufacturers to Ohio is something more traditional: its central location, business-friendly atmosphere, and long-standing industrial culture. “We are still at the edge of the farming areas, and people have a strong work ethic,” suggests Jay McCloy, who runs a plant for Mount Vernon, Ohio–based Ariel Corporation, a maker of natural-gas compressors that employs 1,400. “People here think building stuff is better than selling insurance. On a decent salary, you can live a good life in central Ohio.”

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After 15 years of research, scientists at Cancer Center Amsterdam have developed a new cancer vaccine for dogs — one which they believe may potentially pave the way for similar human therapies, too.

The vaccine targets a tumor protein called vimentin, creating an immune response in dogs with bladder cancer that both fought cancer growth and helped mitigate tumors’ ability to evade the immune system.

‘Every time it rains’: Floods from climate change plague a Camden neighborhood

The right way to fix the energy crisis (The Economist)

Electricity use would surge under California’s new climate plan (CalMatters)

The World Is Failing In Both Energy Affordability And Climate Goals

Claim: Climate Damage Caused by Growing Space Tourism Needs Urgent Mitigation

What Polar Bear Genomes May Reveal About Life in a Low-Ice Arctic

Former landfills are becoming “brightfields”

Relax, KOMO News, Tomatoes and Ketchup Supplies Are Secure Amid Climate Change

German Vice-Chancellor “Drastically Reduces” Time In Shower To Cope With Energy Crisis 

Germany Green Energy Crisis: Warning of “Lehman Like” Contagion

Thomas calls for overturning precedents on contraceptives, LGBTQ rights (The Hill) Well, not exactly.

Former Trump DOJ official Jeffrey Clark to Tucker Carlson: FBI raid on home was ‘Stasi-like’ (The Hill)

Trump told Jan. 6 filmmaker he was scared after getting COVID (The Hill) This is news?

Keith Olbermann Calls For The Supreme Court To Be Dissolved

‘Night of Age’: Grannies Storm Kavanaugh’s Home

Male Democrats Under 50 Are Now More Anti-Feminist Than Older Republican Men

NBC’s Todd Cues Up AOC to Impeach Gorsuch & Kavanaugh Over Abortion Decision

Twitter Just Fine With Assassination Threats Against Justice Clarence Thomas  After all, it’s not as if he were Really Black.

Stelter Denounces Balanced Media Coverage of Roe Overturn

The Illinois Political Establishment’s Shameful Response To The Departure Of Ken Griffin And Citadel

Samuel L. Jackson rips ‘Uncle Clarence’ Thomas in racial attack on Supreme Court justice

Brookings: Are Africa’s Children Our Last Hope to Save Us from Demographic Decline?

The New Normal: Homicide Deaths Through 11/2021

BLM Supporter Sentenced To 10 Years Prison For Violence During Portland Riots

Why are gas prices so high? Biden misses the point, scapegoats oil companies instead (Arizona Republic)

Why gas prices are so high, according to history (and no, it’s not Biden’s fault) (Salon)

Airlines Say Understaffed FAA “Crippling” East Coast Traffic

Liberal ‘Fact-Checkers’ Swept In to Clear Up Satire Around Biden’s Bike Fall

Pfizer says tweaked COVID-19 shots boost omicron protection (Associated Press)

WHO says monkeypox is not an international public health emergency, but it should continue to be monitored (CNN)

New Monkeypox Study Holds Possible Clue To Fast Spread Of Virus

CDC Investigating “Large, Ongoing” Outbreak Of Rare Disease In Florida

CDC Confirmed Post-Vaxx Death From Blood-Clotting Two Weeks Before Alerting Public: Emails

The Inconvenient Truth About COVID-19 Relief Scandals

Five things to know now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade (CBS News)

Roe v Wade: senators say Trump supreme court nominees misled them (The Guardian)

The ‘But Gorsuch’ voters beat the ‘Never Trumpers’ — for now (Politico)

Stephen Colbert on the latest January 6 hearing: ‘A chilling and criminally insane portrait’ (The Guardian)

Florida emerges as key battleground in state-by-state abortion fight (Washington Post)

Why we must nationalize Big Oil (The Hill) ‘Nationalize’ is government-speak for ‘steal’.

As Expected, the Abortion Death Cult Demonstrates in the Seattle Area

Social justice for the bald man

“It’s Infuriating”: DC Democrats In Chaos, Demand Biden Act On Abortion

The Extreme Far Left’s Hypocrisy When It Comes to the Supreme Court

Meta bans staff from open discussion of Roe vs. Wade

Blue states double down on abortion  Abortion may prove to be the Great Demographic Sorting Hat as people migrate among states to fit their political proclivities.

Horrors! NPR’s Nina Totenberg Warns High Court’s the Most Conservative in 75 Years

‘Women Will Die’ Raddatz & Moran Rage Over Abortion Decision  The only women who will die are those who want to kill their child. Think of it as evolution in action.

Does Tiffany Cross Think 17 Million ‘Hungry’ Children Would Be Better Off Aborted?  I’ll bet she does.

International Fact-Checking Network Launches Legal Fund

New Yorker Uses ‘Latinx’ 21 Times to Hype Liberal Spanish Language Radio Network

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A woman tells the cop who stopped her in a carpool lane she’s allowed to drive there because her pronouns are “they” and “them.”

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

Buzz Lightyear (voiced by the great Tim Allen, one of the few right-leaning stars in Hollywood) became an iconic character in the Toy Story series of films, but the new standalone Buzz Lightyear movie, with Buzz voiced by Chris Pratt instead of Allen, has bombed at the box office, perhaps because it decided to go fully woke by prominently featuring a lesbian relationship. As Kyle Smith puts it, “today Hollywood’s message is, ‘Let us entertain you! But first, a brief lecture on what’s wrong with you, the audience . . .’”

The three largest grossing movies of the last 20 years are The Passion of the Christ, American Sniper, and, by the time it is done with its theatrical run, Top Gun: Maverick. Notice something in common with these films? The first celebrates straight-up Christian piety, and not some tormented clergyman or a revisionist gay Palestinian Jesus. The latter two depict Americans as unabashed heroes, fighting for a just cause.

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“This session, let’s expand school choice any way we can,” declared Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey in his State of the State address on Jan. 10, “Let’s think big and find more ways to get kids into the school of their parents’ choice. Send me the bills, and I’ll sign them.”

The Arizona Legislature on Friday night answered Ducey’s call, passing a bill to expand eligibility for the state’s Empowerment Scholarship Accounts (also known as education savings accounts or ESAs) to all K-12 students.

Arizona cements its position as a destination in The Great Demographic Sorting Hat process.

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

I’ve followed the government’s investigation of James O’Keefe and Ashley Biden’s diary since the New York Times broke the story with a little help from its friends in the national security establishment. What did O’Keefe do wrong? What makes it a federal case? This much is clear to me: the Biden Justice Department is out to get James O’Keefe.

Pending before the court that signed off on the search warrants executed on O’Keefe et al. is a motion to unseal the “search warrant materials” (i.e., “the search warrant application, supporting affidavit, return, and any other related judicial documents filed in connection with the Search Warrant” that was “executed at the residence of James E. O’Keefe, III, the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Project Veritas, in connection with an ongoing federal grand jury investigation”).

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The war in Ukraine has upset the global food market, and the surprising reason is not that Ukrainian wheat isn’t being harvested, but rather that it can’t leave the country. With Russia blockading sea ports, the only way out for Ukrainian grain is by train. And this exposes the long-hidden patchwork of railway tracks and train standards: trains can’t simply cross the border from Ukraine to Poland on their way to a sea port because the tracks don’t match.

Even beyond the obvious issues of connecting differently sized physical railway tracks — the track gauge — there are different signaling systems, different voltages for electrical trains, different loading and structural gauges, and so on. In Europe today, the political history of the past few hundred years can still be traced back using its railroads, with some parts of the European Union still on 1,520 mm Soviet-standard gauge, rather than the 1,435 mm Standard Gauge, which is also known as Stephenson Gauge, European Gauge, etc.

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uneteenth 2022 saw a relatively low mortality rate (double digits, a regular 1914 Christmas Truce level of peacefulness when grading on a black curve). There’s no immediate explanation for why there were fewer shootings this year, but one guess is that with Juneteenth falling on Father’s Day, many black men avoided the festivities, for fear of running into support-seeking baby mamas.

Tyler Cowen.

“Once-and-for-allism” occurs when people decide that they wish to stop worrying about an issue at the margin. They might either dismiss the issue, or they might blow up its importance but regard the issue as hopeless and undeserving of further consideration. Either way, they seek to avoid the hovering sense of “I’ve still got to devote time and energy to figuring this out.” They prefer “I am now done with this issue, once and for all!” Thus the name of the syndrome.

I see once-and-for-allism with so many issues, but one recent example would be the forthcoming path of Covid and Long Covid. Most people just don’t want to think about it any more, and so they settle on something (“it’s just a cold!” or “it will bankrupt the nation!”) rather than having to do lots of intellectual revisions based on the stream of new data.

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The secret is out. Progressive organizations—nonprofits and advocacy groups—which form a vital part of the Democrats’ supportive ecosystem have become massively dysfunctional due to internal meltdowns, mission creep and maximalist goal-setting. For those close to this world, this has been apparent for some time though there has been reluctance to call it out for fear of helping the right (the Fox News Fallacy) and/or being ostracized by their own side. But with the publication of Ryan Grim’s exposé on The Intercept and Zack Colman’s Politico piece focusing on green organizations, the rot is out there for all to see.

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An Iranian-Norwegian named Zaniar Matapour went on a shooting rampage today at a gay bar in Oslo, killing two people and wounding at least twenty others. The incident is being investigated as a terror attack, and the alleged perpetrator is said to be — what else? — mentally ill.

But apparently Muslims still have more Intersectionality Pokemon Points that homosexuals, so that’s alright.

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EU functionaries, especially diplomats, are a privileged caste that already enjoys substantial perks at the expense of the lumpenproletariat they supposedly represent. Now those pampered apparatchiks are going to be equipped to face the rigors of their time in Manhattan from a cozy little pied-à-terre on the Upper East Side.

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The researchers, who published their findings in Nature Food, used a two-step electrocatalytic process to convert carbon dioxide, electricity, and water into acetate, which is the main component in vinegar.

They then applied the acetate to food-producing organisms in the dark, causing these organisms to grow. Their method could provide a much-needed food growth alternative in the face of a catastrophic climate crisis.

Absent fusion or some other source of cheap electricity, one of the more serious constraints on ‘vertical farming’ is the cost of power needed to light the plants. This could be a revolutionary way around that.

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Last year, the Canadian tritium fueled an experiment at JET showing fusion research is approaching an important threshold: producing more energy than goes into the reactions. By getting to one-third of this breakeven point, JET offered reassurance that ITER, a similar reactor twice the size of JET under construction in France, will bust past breakeven when it begins deuterium and tritium (D-T) burns sometime next decade. “What we found matches predictions,” says Fernanda Rimini, JET’s plasma operations expert.

But that achievement could be a Pyrrhic victory, fusion scientists are realizing. ITER is expected to consume most of the world’s tritium, leaving little for reactors that come after.

NC Apple Festival executive director resigns following Juneteenth comment (ABC)

There Is a Major Rift Dividing the White Working Class — And Democrats Are Clueless (Politico)

Ricky Jones: Is a commercialized Juneteenth as good as it gets for most Black people? (Courier-Journal)

Court rules purported descendant of enslaved man can sue Harvard (Washington Post)

Reid Freaks at SCOTUS Abortion Decision, Want to Repeal 20th Century

Mostly Peaceful Protests Return to the Jewelry Stores of So Cal

Vile Guest on MSNBC: Roe Decision a ‘Vestige of Slavery’  Don’t tell that to Planned Parenthood, the heirs of Margaret Sanger.

During Roe Reaction, Ugly NBC Hypes This Poster: ‘Thomas Is a Treasonous Turd’

Maxine Waters: “To Hell With The Supreme Court! We Will Defy Them!”  Sounds like an insurrection.

Factual climate change reporting can influence Americans positively, but not for long (NPR) For sufficiently Woke values of ‘factual’.

Study finds climate change reporting can momentarily change minds (The Hill)

East Africa must reject its colonial model of conserving wildlife (The Guardian)

How climate change is making fires worse (The Hill)

The planet’s alarm clock is blaring but Pa. politicians hit the snooze button (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Trump’s EPA allowed Big Agriculture to poison Americans; a court just told them to stop (Salon)

The unique ways Filipinos are protecting their homes against floods (Washington Post)

Gov. Newsom’s plan to prevent power outages has a big downside: fossil fuels (L.A. Times)

Inside California’s climate change paradox (CalMatters)

Ocean viruses might help reduce climate change, study says (The Hill)

Claim: Australia’s Supercomputer Gadi will Solve the Climate Crisis

Is Lake Mead Shrinking Because of Climate?

Whatever happened to the bee apocalypse?

CNN Ghouls: Kids in Foster Care, Disabled Relatives Should’ve Been Aborted

Liz Cheney, fighting for political survival, seeks crossover support from Wyoming Democrats (CNN) The RINO comes home to roost.

This bank wants to track suspect credit card sales of guns and ammo. Why can’t it? (CBS) How dare those pesky privacy laws get in the way of our totalitarianism!

Sunak urges banks to keep funding oil and gas firms after windfall tax (The Guardian)

UK oil and gas producers warn Sunak over windfall tax (Financial Times)

Woke LA DA George Gascon says his policies ‘WORK’ despite career criminal on probation killing two cops (Daily Mail)

Fulton DA won’t use ‘precious tax dollars’ prosecuting abortion cases (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

The US supreme court voted in favour of … people getting shot (The Guardian)

Vancouver Apologizes To Homeless For Trauma Caused By Street Cleanings

Democrats Call for Expanding Supreme Court After String of Losses

Reporters Insist: We Don’t Have Bias or Double Standards  And if you believe that one,  they’ll tell you another one.

Lemon, Toobin Flunk Civics, Decry Lack of Pro-Abortion Republicans

MSNBC Historian Declares Court Threw ‘Scalding Acid Into The Face’  Another Wokerato loses his shit.

Self-Styled Catholic MSNBC Host Accuses Court of Imposing Catholicism

Biden falsely says abortion ruling makes US ‘outlier among developed nations’

AG Garland: States can’t ban FDA-approved abortion pills on safety grounds (Axios)

Hundreds of illegal immigrants stroll along Texas highway: video

Fact-Checking 5 Biden Claims on Dobbs Ruling

UK Covid cases surge following Queen’s Jubilee celebrations, new variants become dominant (CNBC)

1.7m people had Covid last week as levels continue to rise in UK (The Guardian)

World Health Network Declares Monkeypox Outbreak a Pandemic  So it’s officially time to PANIC!

Are COVID Symptoms Changing With New Variants? Chicago’s Top Doc Explains (NBC)

Is a faint line on a COVID-19 test actually positive? Yes, experts say (TODAY)

The Monkeypox Virus May Be Exhibiting ‘Accelerated Evolution’ (Daily Beast)

What Omicron’s BA.4 and BA.5 variants mean for the pandemic (Nature)

The LGBTQ+ monkeypox failure

Reactivation Of Chickenpox Virus Following COVID-19 Injections On The Rise

EU Renews Digital COVID Pass Despite 99% Negative Public Feedback  This is why we don’t want to ‘be more like Europe’.

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Allopathic psychiatry is worse than a harmless cargo cult, because palliative prescriptions worsen the ‘mental deterioration’ the doctors think they’re preventing.

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According to Norwegian security service PST chief Roger Berg, the series of shootings were an “extreme Islamist terror act,” adding that the gunman, a Norwegian citizen of Iranian origin, was previously known to police and had a “long history of violence and threats.”

Just a little reminder that, yes, there are still Muslim terrorists out there, and, yes, they still love killing innocent people

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Eighteen African migrants are dead and 76 injured after a mass storming of the Spanish exclave of Melilla in North Africa.

A Spanish government spokesperson said about 2,000 migrants attempted to cross, and 133 managed to breach the border of the Spanish territory, according to Associated Press. Those who made it through proceeded to a local migrant center where Spanish authorities are evaluating their cases.

They do it because it works. If they manage to get through, it puts them into the system, and eventually they work their way into Europe. If the Spanish just threw them back over the border, this would soon cease to happen.

In what Al Jazeera characterized as a “violent, two-hour skirmish,” 49 members of the Spanish Civil Guard police were also injured. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said “human trafficking militias” had orchestrated “a well-organized, violent assault.”

And it will continue to happen so long as it continues to work.

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Hours after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade and returned the issue of abortion to the states, abortion activists immediately went into a frenzy and took to the streets across the country in protest. As the night went on, the protests became larger and more out of control.

One of the cities that saw mass protests was New York City, where the abortion-loving mobs began marching down the streets of midtown Manhattan. During Fox News at Night’s coverage, anchor Shannon Bream who hosts from the Fox News bureau in Washington D.C., went to correspondent Ashley Strohmier who was sitting in the studios in New York City.

Freeberg has a contribution to make.

We’re surrounded on all sides by people who are working awfully hard to maintain a fantasy that the two sides, conservative and liberal, maintain similarities with each other. That they both have goals, and some maintain that the goals are similar although the methods are different. That each unseemly thought held by one about the other, is neatly reciprocated, with equal justification. A tat for every tit and an equal and opposite reaction for every action.

They must have scrambled around like mad, that weekend when Sen. Ted Kennedy sunk that poor woman in his car, for a Republican senator who did exactly the same thing.

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Just in case you were wondering.

Steve Sailer.

Schoolteachers at an Oregon elementary school claim that eye-rolling directed at the principal is a form of aggression ‘rooted in white supremacy.’

Twitter slams Gov. Hochul’s anger over SCOTUS gun ruling: ‘Sorry the Constitution happened to you’

How journalists can spot the signs of autocracy — and help ward it off (Washington Post)

Encore: Keystone XL Pipeline gets renewed interest, but the company has moved on (NPR)

Caterpillar, Boeing, Raytheon revive high-tax state exodus

Senate passes first major federal gun safety legislation in decades (CNN)

Supreme Court ignored the Constitution in ruling in favor of religious schools, says Boston Globe columnist

Supreme Court’s religious school ruling signals ‘dangerous road’ for LGBTQ rights, advocates say (NBC)

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp calls on Stacey Abrams to resign from radical ‘defund the police’ foundation

Whoopi Goldberg calls for lower taxes on ‘The View’: ‘We need to change these tax laws’ Sounds very Republican.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot says Chicago cops have ‘incredible amount’ of time off, disputes criticism they’re overworked (Chicago Tribune) BRAAAAAAAINS!

Not Safe For School: NY District Defends X-Rated Sex Ed

Ignorant CNN Tells Conservative NYT Columnist, Film Critic: ‘Stop Writing About Movies’

Beware Arrogance on the ‘Democracy Beat’

NewsGuard Leaves USA Today’s Perfect Score Unchanged — Even After Source Fabrication Scandal

New York Times Worries That Big Tech Won’t Censor Hard Enough During Midterm Elections

NBC MELTDOWN: ‘Devastating’ End of Roe Means Supreme Court Is ‘Rigged’

Milano & Reiner & Midler, Oh My! Leftists Spontaneously Combust Following Overturning of Roe v. Wade

‘Dissolve the Supreme Court’: Liberals Go Ballistic Over High Court Upholding Gun Rights

Emotional Chuck Todd Connects End of Roe to ‘Shattering’ of Democracy, ‘Tinder Box’

Crying for Roe: CNN Claims Women Will Be Barred from Tracking Their Cycle

Media Meltdown Compilation: Roe Overturned, Journalist Hardest Hit

SHOCKER: The People Behind China’s One-Child Policy Love Abortion

Soros-Funded Groups Lose Their Minds Over Abortion Defeat

Dems Pause January 6 Hearings To Call For Insurrection (Babylon Bee)

How liberal policies have killed black communities: Clarence Thomas

‘Squad’ Members Call on Biden To Declare Public Health Emergency in Wake of Roe Ruling  Protect our democracy! Act like a fascist!

Caught Red-handed: Critical Race Theory Is Being Taught at West Point

The Ocean Is Climate Change’s First Victim and Last Resort (Time)

The last nuclear plant in California – and the unexpected quest to save it (The Guardian)

Fossil fuel divestment bill dies in California Legislature — and a Democrat killed it (S.F. Chronicle)

Mass biodiversity loss would slash global credit ratings, report warns (Reuters)

Forest Service didn’t consider climate change when it accidentally caused historic New Mexico fire (CNBC)

MIT Space Bubbles Would Fully Reverse Global Warming (NextBigFuture)

Abu Dhabi Fossil Dunes: A beautiful frozen landscape created by climate change (CNN) Climate change! Is there anything it can’t do?

A garage-sized reactor could provide limitless energy with magnet-free technology (Interesting Engineering)

There’s a simple way to unite everyone behind climate justice – and it’s within our power (The Guardian) George Monbiot is Britain’s Robert Reich.

Epstein’s ‘Fossil Future’

Sri Lanka Food Shortages Due to Fertilizer Ban, (Not Putin)

Tense Trump meeting with DOJ leaders to take center stage at Jan. 6 hearing (NBC)

5 takeaways from the fifth day of January 6 hearingss (CNN)

Suspicious powder found in envelopes at ‘Recall Gascón’ office in West LA (KABC)

Is It Last Call for Lauren Boebert’s Gun Restaurant? (Daily Beast)

Federal authorities searched former Justice official Jeff Clark’s home (NPR)

Amid high-profile hearings, some January 6 committee members beef up security (CNN)

New documentary footage reveals Pence reacting on the night House pushed for him to invoke 25th Amendment (CNN)

The Jan. 6 hearings and the spectacle of competence (Washington Post)

Book bombs: Trump aide tell-alls fail to sell (Politico)

Patriot Front members could face overlapping federal, state prosecution (KTVB)

The Jan. 6th Committee is More Dangerous to Democracy Than Jan. 6th (Newsweek)

The subtle stagecraft behind the Jan. 6 hearings (Washington Post) Lavrenti Beria would certainly be pleased.

GOP Lawmaker Can Run for Re-Election Despite Oath Keepers Membership (Daily Beast)

Firm splits with lawyers who won gun rights case at Supreme Court (Politico)

FBI Seizes Nevada GOP Chairman’s Phone in Fake-Elector Investigation: Report (Daily Beast)

The Federal Bureau Of Tweets: Twitter Is Hiring An Alarming Number Of FBI Agents

‘It Is Their Fault’! MSNBC’s Mystal Blames Supreme Court for Mass Shootings

Inside the Investigation of Axed Princeton Prof Joshua Katz

New coronavirus subvariants escape antibodies from vaccination and prior Omicron infection, studies suggest (CNN)

How COVID has deepened inequality — in six stark graphics (Nature)

Where’s the next generation of COVID-19 shots? (The Verge)

Florida meningococcal outbreak among gay and bisexual men is one of worst in US history: CDC

Mistake To Recommend COVID-19 Vaccines For All Children: Top Danish Health Official

Biden approval rating slips for fourth straight week: poll (The Hill)

Biden’s job approval rating slips to lowest level in months

The mainstream media’s lies on secret migrant flights

Oil CEOs call for ‘tone shift’ from White House on finger-pointing over gas prices (CNN)

Biden administration canceling $6 billion in student loan debt for 200,000 borrowers

Kamala Harris’ office posts video of VP sinking basketball shot, leaves out her first 5 misses

‘It’s almost unbelievable’: People are having their job offers rescinded days before they start (CNBC)

‘YOU take YOUR seat’: Very specific cheat sheet reminds Biden how to act

Poll: Trust in Biden slips in allied countries (Axios)

‘The View’ Grills White House Spox on Biden Admin’s ‘Botched’ Handling of Brittney Griner Phone Call (Daily Beast)

Missouri AG Files Temporary Injunction On Censorship Law

Senate Republicans’ Report Condemns ‘Biden’s Border Crisis’

Nine Former Border Patrol Heads Oppose Punishment Of Agents Cleared Of ‘Whipping’ Migrants