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Hardly anyone was shocked to learn that President Joe Biden is so cognitively impaired that members of his staff are printing out official note cards with detailed instructions to help him carry out his daily tasks.

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Should it be the norm for a 6-year-old to spend eight hours away from his or her mother? Should the norm be for parents to have no idea what their children are being taught? Should the norm be considering a child smart based on how they compare with their peers? The 14 featured families are driven to challenge these norms and more through their homeschooling lifestyles.

The parents addressed common concerns brought up by non-homeschoolers, such as whether homeschooled children would be socialized or whether the parents themselves are qualified to teach their own children.

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A hipster take. I wouldn’t want to live next door to this guy, but hey, it takes all kinds.

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After a SWAT team wrecked an innocent woman’s house, the city of McKinney, Texas essentially told her “tough luck” and refused to compensate her. In a case that could have nationwide property rights implications, a federal jury on Wednesday awarded her $59,656.59 in damages—and more may be coming.

The jury award follows an April 29 ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Amos Mazzant III that the city’s “intentional and foreseeable” destruction of Vicki Baker’s house constituted a government “taking” that compelled the city to pay just compensation.

Man gets life sentence for 2017 Plano murder

2 insurance companies end relationship with Maine agency after racist Juneteenth sign (NPR) No mention of the plain fact that the ‘holiday’ itself is racist.

Maine business deals with outrage over another company’s racist sign (Bangor Daily News)

NYC thieves escape in stolen Rolls-Royce after nabbing keys from Staten Island home but owner outsmarts them

“How Far Does It Have to Go?”

He Called America Racist, Now He’s in Charge of Our Nukes

House-Passed ‘Woke Mandate’ Would Force Federal Reserve To Prioritize Racial Equity

Dems Kill Bill To Stop Military From Teaching Critical Race Theory

Boston City Councilor Goes On Anti-Semitic Rant After BDS Loses in Court  Another black woman who feels the need to straighten her hair so that she won’t, you know, look so much like a black woman.

When Being Transgender Isn’t Enough, There’s Always Being a Transgender Mermaid Not just a transgender mermaid, but a black transgender mermaid.

Moderna says bivalent vaccine appears to work against omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 (NBC)

Women are more likely than men to develop long COVID, study finds (ABC7 Los Angeles)

Nearly 1 in 5 adults who had COVID have lingering symptoms – U.S. study (Reuters)

Forget About Testing the Vax — Just Trust the Science!

How Covid Tracking Apps Are Pivoting for Commercial Profit  The Panic will be monetized.

Chicago cops barred from chasing people on foot who run away

Chicago police will no longer be allowed to chase people on foot (NPR)

Democrats are losing ground with the fastest-growing political bloc: Asian Americans (CNN) Well, they can’t hate black people any more, so they’re hating Asians instead.

Networks Ignore Former DeSantis Opponent Indicted on Federal Fraud Charges

This Ohio Dem Loves Taking Big Oil’s Money. Now She Needs a High Gas Price Scapegoat.

Politico’s Sam Stein Hypes January 6 Poll While Admitting Inflation Dominates

Corrupt Networks Refuse to Say the Name of Radical Pro-Abortion Terrorists ‘Jane’s Revenge’

In Historic Win For Gun Rights, SCOTUS Rules NY Draconian Restrictions Are Unconstitutional

DMCA can’t be used to sidestep First Amendment, court rules

Ken Griffin Is Moving Citadel To Miami, Leaving Chicago Crime Cesspool Forever Behind  (Here’s How Much Tax Revenue Illinois Will Lose From Citadel’s Decision To Cut Bait)

Not in Kansas Anymore: Dem Rep Skips Votes To Attend Ritzy Fundraisers

MSNBC Warns of More Shootings, Dead Children After SCOTUS Ruling  Oddly enough, though, most of such shootings and dead children occur in Democrat-governed areas with strict gun control, like L.A., S.F., N.Y., D.C., etc.

House-Passed ‘Woke Mandate’ Would Force Federal Reserve To Prioritize Racial Equity

Dems Kill Bill To Stop Military From Teaching Critical Race Theory

No wonder Christian nationalists wanted these justices on the Supreme Court (Washington Post) As opposed to non-Christian nationalists? Christian internationalists?

Justice Department Goes After Trump’s Fake Electors With Subpoenas (Daily Beast)

First on CNN: Top investigator leaving January 6 committee early (CNN)

CNN picks worst time to bail on ‘the Big Lie’ (Will Bunch Newsletter)

South Dakota Town’s Civil War Festival Is a Big WTF (Daily Beast)

DOJ wants to know if Sidney Powell is funding Oath Keepers’ defense (Washington Post)

Trump says ‘go to the reporter’ to find source of SCOTUS leak (The Hill)  Seems pretty obvious.

Raffensperger says he wishes Fox News carried every Jan. 6 hearing (Axios) I’m sure he does.

When it comes to January 6, Republicans are entirely divorced from reality (The Guardian) Robert Reich does a little projection.

The secret of why evangelicals love Herschel Walker (and Donald Trump) (CNN) As if Chris Cillizza knew anything about it.

Former West Virginia lawmaker sentenced for role in January 6 riot (CNN)

‘The system held, but barely’: Jan. 6 hearings highlight a handful of close calls (Politico)

Trump’s Pardon Abuses Expose the Myth of Unlimited Presidential Power (Politico) Mar Rich could not be reached for comment.

Why Is the Justice Department Fighting With the Jan. 6 Committee? (Politico) Perhaps they don’t like being involved in a political show trial.

Jan. 6 Committee Chairman Says They Won’t Refer Trump to the DOJ for Criminal Charges (Daily Beast) Because there are no charges to be had.

Some Republicans felt ‘duped’ by Team Trump’s fake electors plot (MSNBC)

Trump revived the lynch mob in Atlanta against election workers (MSNBC)

Student Kicked Out Of UK College For Supporting Deportation Of Illegal Immigrants

I Got Thrown Off Etsy and PayPal for Expressing My Belief in Biological Reality

Facebook Oversight Board Received Over 1 Million Appeals on Company’s ‘Content Moderation’

MRC CensorTrack Tallies 156 Times Big Tech Censored Users Who Affirm Science on Gender

European Official Urges US to Censor More, Claims It’s About ‘Freedom of Speech’

The View Loses Their Minds Over SCOTUS Gun Carry Ruling

What if there was no global warming? (KPRC Houston)

Young people go to European court to stop treaty that aids fossil fuel investors (The Guardian)

NY Times Flatters Young, Disruptive Enviro-Nuts Getting in Face of World Leaders

Claim: Climate Friendly GM Rice can Trap More CO2  Cue ‘Frankenfood’ meltdown by Eco-Nazis.

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This “odd wheel” looks simple: just six small motors linked together by plastic arms and rubber bands to form a ring about 6 inches in diameter. When the motors are powered on, it starts writhing, executing complicated squashing and stretching motions and occasionally flinging itself into the air, all the while slowly making its way up a bumpy foam ramp.

Presumably distinguishable from Miley Cyrus.

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How many of the Usual Suspects can we find?

Barbra ‘Streisand Effect’? Check.

George Takei? Check.

Ana Navarro-Cárdenas from The View? Check.

Ron ‘Hellboy’ Perlman? Check.

Kathy ‘D-List’ Griffin? Check.

Get out the popcorn….

The Gothenburg Post has published an exposé of the extent to which criminal gangs — typically composed of third-world immigrants — have taken control of certain neighborhoods in Gothenburg, and now exert a covert form of political power in those regions. The report below is an introduction; the full exposé is behind a paywall.

Pennsylvania Democrat Senate candidate John Fetterman. (Think Uncle Fester, only taller, with a chin beard and tattoos.) Seems like a prime subject for a Red Flag Law intervention.

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With Democratic control of the White House and Congress for most of the last 14 years, I am surprised that there has not been more of an overt push to legalize the 12 million illegal aliens. A conservative Supreme Court majority remains our most important first line of defense against what I have long expected—some federal judge concocting a ruling that it is imperative that illegals be given full citizenship.

Many assumed we were headed that way as a result of the 1975 decision in Plyer v. Doe (5-4 majority opinion by Brennan) holding that Texas had to admit children of illegals to public schools under the Fourteenth Amendment because equal access applies to “people” not “citizens.” Because the feds were clearly not enforcing the immigration laws, the court decided to make policy concerning children in the country illegally through no fault of their own. The justices openly opined that if we are not going to kick them out, there is no benefit in keeping them uneducated (even if it is patently unfair to dump the additional cost of federal failures on a state budget).

From that decision, we soon got the universal policy of not being allowed to ask about citizenship status by any federal, state, or local government agency. A foreigner can crash the border and thus say “screw you” to American law and policy and immediately demand and receive social welfare benefits for an indefinite period of time.

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North Carolina lawmakers have the power to protect the state’s voter identification requirement, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.

The 8-1 decision allows two Republican state legislators to defend in court a law that requires in-person and absentee voters to present at least 1 of 10 different options of photo ID. Lower courts said that only North Carolina’s Democratic attorney general could defend the law. The NAACP challenged the law, Senate Bill 824, in court, saying it burdens minority voters, though 69 percent of black Americans support voter ID requirements.

The idea of a Democrat official ‘defending’ a voter identification requirement law is Straight Outa Comedy Central.

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During a non-election year, Washington Democratic senator Patty Murray called a federal gas tax holiday a “bad idea” that may not lower prices at the pump. Now that she’s up for reelection, she’s on board with the plan.

Murray—who is expected to face Republican triage nurse Tiffany Smiley in November—quietly signed on to Senate Democrats’ gas tax suspension bill in late April, more than two months after it was introduced. But in 2008, when Murray was not embroiled in a reelection fight, the Democrat called the policy a “bad idea” that would “deteriorate highway funding.”

Amazing how that works.

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In French, the word for potato is pomme de terre. This literally translates to apple of the earth. By this logic, potatoes are the lowest-hanging fruit of all.

More seriously: We keep getting more and more interested in the all-potato diet. This is a diet where you eat nothing but potatoes (and sometimes a bit of seasoning) for a few weeks to a few months. It sounds like a dumb gimmick that could never work, but there are a surprising number of people out there saying that they tried it, it worked for them, and they kept the weight off for months or even years after.

Two million (dead) Irishmen can’t be wrong. (Just kidding….)

Dead cow and spuds are the basis of all true civilization. I believe that.

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“There is an official narrative, and the official narrative is they’ve got to stop inflation… Let’s look very simply at what happened. They voted on the direct reset. Then they injected $5 trillion into the economy that went to the insiders. Then they used Covid to shut down the economy run by the outsiders. Now, the outsiders want to open another business, and they are going to radically raise the cost of capital to the outsiders. What’s going to happen is that $5 trillion is going to buy more assets more cheaply. To me, this is part of centralizing the control of the economy. They are asserting very significant central control. This is not a turndown–this is a takedown.”

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We now know that the door to a fourth grade classroom invaded by the shooter wasn’t barricaded and may not even have been locked. Instead of two underequipped and wounded officers facing a huge obstacle, it was four officers with a ballistic shield, at least two of them armed with rifles, standing outside an unlocked classroom door.

One teacher with a gun and proper training is all it would have taken. This is Texas; that ought to have been a no-brainer.

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With U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and Fairfax County, Virginia, Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano refusing to enforce federal and state laws against the pro-abortion protesters who are intimidating and threatening Supreme Court justices and their families who live in Virginia, it’s time for Gov. Glenn Youngkin and state Attorney General Jason Miyares to step in and use their statutory power to arrest, prosecute, and seek the maximum penalty for every day the protesters are violating the law.

The lack of action by Garland and Descano is encouraging the “summer of rage,” leading not only to the arrest of an individual who wanted to assassinate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, but also attacks on pro-life charities and pregnancy resource centers.

The law on such misbehavior at the homes of justices is quite clear. Under 18 U.S.C. § 1507, it is a criminal violation of federal law to picket or parade “near a building or residence occupied or used by [a federal] judge, juror, witness, or court officer” with the “intent of interfering with, obstructing, or impeding the administration of justice, or with the intent of influencing any judge, juror, witness, or court officer, in the discharge of his duty.”

Don’t hold your breath. All the laws in the world are of no value if those supposedly enforcing those laws sit on their hands — as black people living in the South appreciate more than most.

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“Why not?”

Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank asked that simple question last week after the normally publicity-mad Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) told him it had nothing to say about a BDS chapter’s promotion of a “mapping project” condemned as antisemitic and a possible incitement to violence.

BDS is the campaign to isolate Israel through economic, academic, and social boycotts. The interactive map posted online earlier this month showed the world addresses for dozens of Jewish organizations and others who support Israel’s existence.

The goal, the webpage says, is “to reveal the local entities and networks that enact devastation, so we can dismantle them. Every entity has an address, every network can be disrupted.”

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A totaled Tesla Model S burst into flames in a Sacramento junkyard earlier this month, causing a fire that took “a significant amount of time, water, and thinking outside the box to extinguish,” firefighters said.

The vehicle was involved in a comparably unexplosive accident that sent it to the junkyard three weeks ago – it’s unclear what caused the Tesla to explode nearly a month after being taken off the road. Like other electric vehicle fires, it was very difficult to extinguish.

The Other McCain is on the case.

Most people don’t pay attention to school board elections, but the teachers and administrators do. Employees of the school system constitute an organized special interest, who can usually succeed in electing their chosen slate of board members — and, perhaps more importantly, they can prevent the election of any school board candidate who might disrupt the system. Thus, by controlling the school board, teachers and administrators can evade any effort to make them accountable to the public. Any parent who has ever complained about the policies and curricula of public schools knows how this works. In fact, it is largely erroneous to call them “public schools,” since they do not really belong to the public, but are rather controlled by the administrative bureaucracy, operating for the benefit of the employees, without regard to what parents actually want.

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Respiratory viruses began to propagate more easily when hunting and gathering gave way to farming and as settlements grew larger. Humans may have then evolved to use coronaviruses as a natural vaccine against deadlier respiratory diseases, like tuberculosis and pneumonia.

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Iran’s defiance of the norms of international law and its subversion of the West continues with no relenting in its intensity and scope. Now, Iran once again sparks tension in the Persian Gulf by embarking on state-sponsored piracy, while its enrichment of uranium has reached the dangerous weapons-level grade.

On May 27, the notorious Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, in cooperation with the Iranian Navy, launched a helicopter raid to seize two Greek oil tankers in the Persian Gulf. The “Prudent Warrior” and “Delta Poseidon” were sailing in international waters, 22 nautical miles off the coast of Iran. The Greek Foreign Ministry condemned Iran’s actions as “tantamount to acts of piracy.”

This incident happened just days after Athens announced that it would abide by U.S. sanctions on Russia by handing over a reported 700,000 barrels of Iranian crude oil from the Russian-flagged tanker “Lana.” The ship is owned by Russia’s Promsvyazbank, a bank critical to Russia’s defense sector. The U.S. Treasury designated the bank on Feb. 22 – just two days before the Russian invasion of Ukraine – “for operating or having operated in the defense and related materiel and financial services sectors of the Russian Federation economy.”

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The U.S. oil and natural gas industry long fought for and in the last decade finally won release from federal restrictions that limited exports. The ostensible reason was that because of the so-called “shale revolution” in the country’s oil and gas fields, the United States would have plenty of oil and gas to spare for export.

The real reason behind the push was that the oil and gas industry wanted what almost every other industry in America already had: The right to sell their products to the highest bidders no matter where they lived on the globe.

This made it almost certain that as U.S. prices rose to match world prices, U.S. consumers would feel the pain. And, since energy prices affect everyone who votes, they are always politically consequential.

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has had enough of leftist unions’ mission to take down their agency, as they are now filing charges with the U.S. Department of Labor to break away from their parent union, the AFL-CIO, and the affiliated American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE).

The National ICE Council is also asking for a full financial audit of the two parent unions and protection from any attacks from the AFL-CIO and AFGE if and when they leave. If lefty unions are good at one thing, it’s keeping their tyrannical grasp over decent people and punishing those who don’t preach the woke gospel.

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U.S. Air Force leadership are now accused of serious misbehavior (criminally deceiving Congress) by deliberately lying to Congress about their plans for the A-10 ground attack aircraft. The recent leaks include briefings describing how air force leaders planned to continue undermining the A-10 but deliberately sabotaging promised upgrades and sustainment (money for maintenance and operations of A-10s). The leaked documents included mention of the importance of keeping all of this from going public. That’s where the air force crossed the line into criminal conduct.

It is no secret that the air force has spent several decades trying to get rid of the A-10, its most popular, affordable, and effective combat aircraft. Since 2019, the air force appears to have decided to stop trying to get rid of its popular, at least with pilots and infantry, A-10 attack aircraft. Nicknamed “Warthog” or just “hog”, the A-10 never got much respect from air force leaders. The A-10 did gain enough popular and political clout to keep this aircraft flying. The current (2020) plan reduces the A-10 force by 44 aircraft, to 237. These will equip seven squadrons. Three are active duty and four operated by part-time National Guard and reserve personnel. The reserve units would be available within 30 days for deployment to a combat zone. The reserve pilots are largely retired fighter pilots and tend to have more experience in the A-10 than the younger active-duty pilots. The reservists fly regularly and their aircraft are kept in shape for regular operations.

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Membranes made from metal–organic frameworks contain modular pores that can separate mixtures of gas. By changing the shape of these pores to improve molecular separation, we produced a membrane that could remove nitrogen and carbon dioxide from natural gas in an energy-efficient and cost-effective way.

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A U.S. Court of Appeals recently ruled that North Carolina charter day schools cannot have dress codes based on a child’s gender because, as a “state actor,” such codes violate laws on equal protection. Under the ruling, girls can no longer be required to wear dresses.

Some parents have believed charter schools are an alternative to public schools that impose woke ideology. If this court ruling stands, notes a New York Post editorial, ” … it could mean, in effect, the end of charters as they exist. It provides a legal rationale for them to be brought under the thumb of the state and city educrats nationwide, who are eager to handcuff charters for daring to bring educational options to students failed by traditional public schools.”

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By now most people are aware of the awful persecution faced by minority Christian communities across the world. For Christians living in countries that are hostile to their faith, there is a high and growing likelihood of becoming homeless or destitute.

According to a new Open Doors report, “The Church on the Run: IDP and Refugee Report 2022”, Christian minorities are being deliberately driven from their homes and communities to erase the presence of Christianity from their regions.

Christians are more likely to be forced out of their homes or countries, and more likely to experience psychological and physical violence once displaced on account of their religious identity and activity.

Astonishingly, the biggest perpetrators of this are the victim’s family.

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Covid cases are rising again. In the UK, they have broken through the 200,000 infections-a-day threshold for the first time since April. In America, the sixth wave is well under way. In countries that kept the disease at bay for years, such as Taiwan and New Zealand, numbers are shooting up, driven by milder but highly infectious versions of the Omicron variant. The virus has not gone away, even if its death toll is much lower. But what has disappeared is any real or urgent interest from the media and the scientific establishment in finding out how it started.

Juneteenth: Bill Nye ‘Science Guy’ schooled after posting about America’s founding and slavery

On Juneteenth, Bullets Fly From Obama Boulevard to John Lewis Way

How to Predict Who Gets Shot in Chicago

MSNBC Guest Tells Inflation-Anxious Americans: “Stop Complaining… Calm Down”

7 takeaways from the fourth day of the January 6 hearings (CNN) *Yawn*

Georgia on our mind: Why Brad Raffensperger’s testimony on Trump matters mightily now (N.Y. Daily News) *Yawn*

Emotional Jan. 6 hearing shows election workers were the real heroes (Washington Post) Yup, without them, the election couldn’t have been stolen.

The Georgia election workers Trump slandered are the foundation of American democracy (CNN) In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

Ginni Thomas’s close ties with husband’s law clerks highlighted in new book (The Hill) Ginni Thomas is, of course, of no importance other than as a stick with which to beat her husband, Justice Clarence Thomas. They got nothin’, so they have to make shit up.

MSNBC’s Johnson Melts Down: GOP Commits Violence Against Black People Regularly

Trump team orchestrated ‘fake electors’ to try to overturn election, Jan. 6 committee details (NBC)

MSNBC’s Joy Reid complains ‘media does not want to be at war’ with Republicans

Youngkin appointee disparaged people online, made sexual reference about vice president (Richmond Times-Dispatch)

Texas Seceding From U.S. ‘Would Mean War,’ Law Expert Says (Newsweek)

The SEC did a sensible thing on climate change. A right-wing campaign is trying to kill it. (Vox) Right-wing!

GOP takes dark turn with violent images, ‘enemy within’ rhetoric (NBC News) Dark turn!

A British filmmaker gave Congress unreleased footage of Trump and his family (NPR)

How Kind! CNN: GOP ‘Endorses Violence and Lies,’ Now Called ‘Party of Putin?’

New Schumer Attack Ad Trots Out Liberal Activist as ‘Former Republican’

Tone-Deaf ‘Morning Joe’ Says That Mussolini ‘Would Be Proud’ of GOP

‘Jane’ Strikes Again: Michigan Pregnancy Center Latest to be Attacked

CDC lowers the Covid-19 travel risk for 2 nations in Europe (CNN) Very white of them.

Broadway mask mandate in NYC to end in July

If you still have not had COVID after the latest surge, what are the odds you never will? (S.F. Chronicle)

Covid isn’t over. Let’s prepare now for a safer fall semester. (Daily Princetonian)

The COVID Ratchet Shows Up

Climate change could make Texas more like the Sonoran Desert (KOMONews)

Corn-Based Ethanol Is Actually Worse For The Environment Than Gasoline, Study Finds  Will anything change? No.

‘Warming stripes’ show how climate change is influencing temperatures around the world (KCRA Sacramento)

German minister rejects EU plan to ban new fossil-fuel cars from 2035

Montreal to host delayed Cop15 summit to halt ‘alarming’ global biodiversity loss (The Guardian)

Canada is banning single-use plastics, including grocery bags and straws (CNBC) Ah, back to the Good Old Days of paper bags and paper straws.

Aussie Climate & Energy Minister: Nuclear Advocates are “Dangerously Ignorant”

Assessing The Environmental Impact of Nuclear Power Generation

CNN SINKS to Smallest Weekday Audience Among Key 25-to-54 Demo in 22 Years

Election workers describe ‘hateful’ threats after Trump’s false claims (Washington Post)

Supreme Court says Maine cannot deny tuition aid to religious schools (Washington Post)

School vouchers would be bad for Texas, no matter what the Supreme Court just said (Houston Chronicle)

Sotomayor accuses supreme court conservatives of dismantling church-state separation (The Guardian)

Harris Teeter, Kroger face backlash for pulling pro-America items after complaints: ‘Get woke, go broke’

Supreme Court sides with Minneapolis residents suing over depleted police force, minimum 731 officers required

NBC Bemoans ‘Another Brick Out of The Wall Separating Church & State’ Over SCOTUS Case

US Investors Continue To Fund The Chinese Military

AP Warns of Violence Against Abortion Providers, Buries Violence Against Pro-Lifers

Republicans Ask Capitol Police For Materials On Arrest Of Colbert Show Staffers

Here Is What Biden Actually Could Do To Lower Gas Prices… But Is Blocked By Environmentalists

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My trauma research team quickly trained health professionals to evaluate and, if needed, treat the women. We monitored them through their pregnancies and beyond. When the babies were born, they were smaller than usual—the first sign that the trauma of the World Trade Center attack had reached the womb. Nine months later we examined 38 women and their infants when they came in for a wellness visit. Psychological evaluations revealed that many of the mothers had developed PTSD. And those with PTSD had unusually low levels of the stress-related hormone cortisol, a feature that researchers were coming to associate with the disorder.

Surprisingly and disturbingly, the saliva of the nine-month-old babies of the women with PTSD also showed low cortisol. The effect was most prominent in babies whose mothers had been in their third trimester on that fateful day. Just a year earlier a team I led had reported low cortisol levels in adult children of Holocaust survivors, but we’d assumed that it had something to do with being raised by parents who were suffering from the long-term emotional consequences of severe trauma. Now it looked like trauma leaves a trace in offspring even before they are born.

When I was young, a common schoolyard threat was ‘I’m going to beat you so bad your grandchildren will have bruises’. So maybe that actually might happen.

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On CNN’s Reliable Sources on June 19, host Brian Stelter touted the growing new trend in the “objective” media of creating a “democracy beat,” because Donald Trump and his devotees are a constant threat. Stelter compared it to a contractor fighting rot and mold in the house.

There’s something obvious and desirable about journalists focusing intently on elections and voter rights and election integrity battles. But there’s always this gelatinous layer of pomposity on top: that the media need to take sides and not allow “two sides” on democracy.

In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ typically means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

The Antiplanner jerks back the curtain.

A recent survey found that 93 percent of planning students oppose highway expansion because they believe that it won’t relieve congestion due to induced demand. However, the survey found, only 24 percent of the general public agrees. Similarly, 83 percent of planning students believe the government should try to reduce the amount of driving Americans do, but only 31 percent of the general public agrees.

It never occurs to planners that results like these might indicate that they are wrong. After all, they are the experts and the general public is not, so the public should let them do what they want.

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Most infuriating is the whole induced-demand argument, which (according to Governing magazine) has planners actively wondering why they can’t sell this idea to the public. The answer, of course, is that it is stupid. Economically it is stupid because there is no conceivable product that will generate more demand simply by making more of it: building a road in a desert will not induce more driving. Politically it is stupid because it argues that more roads generate more economic activity, and most urban politicians say they want more economic activity in their cities.

Steve Sailer.

When you point out these recurrent patterns, many respond that The Science teaches us that Zoey Tur always felt like a girl on the inside; and all the evidence to the contrary must have been just her elaborate, seamless lifelong hoax mounted from earliest girlhood to cover up her innate femininity by acting 24/7 for 40-plus years like a giant macho prick. After all, they reason, you couldn’t possibly doubt the word of a woman who claims to have deceived the whole world for decades, could you?

Yet few on either the left or the right have noticed this pattern that many of the most influential men to declare themselves women have virtually no feminine traits whatsoever.

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The current surge of migration into Italy has brought with it an alarming increase in criminality. The following article discusses the disproportionate amount of crime committed by immigrants in Italy, and its effect on the native Italian population.

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The revolving door between Wall Street and financial regulatory agencies remains an ever-present problem. Presidents Joe Biden and Donald Trump both used executive fiats to raise or maintain import tariffs on items like solar panels and goods from China. The Jones Act, in place since 1920, continues to protect American shipping interests. Ethanol subsidies support the American corn industry but hurt the poor in developing countries. Even as the internet has started to democratize the public-comment process?—?which is the primary way the public can engage with proposed rules?—?it remains dominated by special-interest groups. As debates have grown ever more technical and arcane, the average man on the street has little chance of influencing regulatory policy.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

In Minnesota, a new rule relating to certification of teachers is in process. As I understand it, the rule has proceeded without legislative action and ultimately will come before an administrative law judge who will (I assume) approve it, absent enormous public outcry. The rule provides that you can’t be licensed as a teacher in Minnesota unless you subscribe to neo-Marxist theories of race, gender and so on.

You have to read it to believe it.

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Faked heart studies by a once-obscure scientist duped the U.S. government and medical establishment for years. Washington is still paying for it.

Americans Are Biased in Favor of Black Authors

The predictability of Chicago shooting victims

Four enduring myths about Juneteenth are not based on facts (NPR)

‘The View’s’ Joy Behar says voting rights are being ‘systematically taken away’ from Black Americans  Uh, where, exactly?

Black teacher who objected to ‘white privilege’ training wins $525K settlement