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.

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“I thank God for this place.” It might seem a weird thing to say, unapologetically earnest and deeply uncool, but, in Florida, it’s very common to overhear someone saying exactly this. On the beach. By a pool. In a restaurant. At the checkout line at Publix.

Some other phrases you hear a lot: “I wish we had made the move sooner.” “I feel like I’ve added years to my life.” “Living the dream.” “Another day in paradise.”

It is a unique moment in Florida’s history. The feeling of gratitude is very real. Millions of people seem to have woken up one day and decided they had to become Floridians right away. I am among them.

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Florida has internalized the lesson of Texas. You can’t build something worthwhile and then surrender it to people who, although they are escaping a place that has begun to collapse, show no evidence of understanding why that collapse is happening. People move for all kinds of reasons, like weather or taxes. Not all of them realize the role they, and their votes, may have played in creating the chaos in their rearview mirrors. So far, the influx of people to Florida is indeed “voting right.” For the first time ever, registered Republicans outnumber registered Democrats in Florida, by over 100,000.

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.

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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

A New Cringe Achievement Level for Harris

Betsy DeVos: Biden Plans to Radically Change Title IX to Let Biological Men Play Women’s Sports

Oil refineries are making a windfall. Why do they keep closing? (Washington Post) Why do you think?

VP Harris botches Juneteenth history lesson about ‘400 years of slavery’

MSNBC’s Joy Reid complains Kamala Harris treated unfairly by ‘White, male’ media: People just don’t ‘know her’

Hell Freezes Over: AP Challenges Biden’s ‘Dissonance’ with Americans on Economic Crisis

Military Readiness Takes Back Seat to Wokeness at the Pentagon

Biden USAID Nominee Lavished Praise on Saudi Arabia—Until It Stopped Funding Her Think Tank

Vatican Promises Next Pope Will Be A Woman Of Color  (Babylon Bee) Devout Catholic Joe Biden couldn’t be reached for comment, since it’s his nap time.

Kamala Harris: Killing Babies IS In Line With Christianity

Report: Kamala Harris Is So Unpopular That Democrats Don’t Want a Photo With Her  I know I wouldn’t.

Frustrated Capitol Gift Shop Lady Finally Puts Up Sign Saying ‘NO WE DO NOT SELL BUFFALO HAT SOUVENIRS’  (Babylon Bee)

Biden Ahead of Schedule in Destroying US Offshore Oil Production

As water crisis worsens on Colorado River, an urgent call for states to ‘act’

Extinction Rebellion, handmaiden of technocracy

Claim: Quantum Computing Magic can Solve the Climate Crisis

Don’t endanger aquatic ecosystems in the name of solving climate change (Boston Globe)

Climate impact of food miles three times greater than previously believed, study finds (The Guardian)

High fossil fuel prices are good for the planet—here’s how to keep it that way (Ars Technica)

To stop climate change, regulate carbon as a toxic substance (Washington Post)

CNN Analyst Suggests Inflation Is Needed To Achieve Green Agenda

DISCLOSING THE REAL “CLIMATE RISK”: CASE STUDY: UK “ESG” Billionaire Behind U.S. Climate Regulatory, Litigation Campaigns

Republicans Seek to Force House Vote on Whether Life Begins at Conception 

ABC Decries Compromise Swimming Rule Banning Certain Trans Athletes

The Impact Of Soros-Funded District Attorneys

Some Democrats want to tax Big Oil’s windfall. This economist says it could backfire

British man turned away from giving blood after refusing to answer if he was pregnant: report

This California City Removes Literal Tons of Garbage and Feces From Homeless Camps Each Month

Amazingly, Buzzfeed Readers Don’t Realize They Did This to Themselves

Colbert Spins Staff Arrests by Capitol Police as ‘First-Degree Puppetry,’ Blames ‘Putin’s Puppet’

A record number of LGBTQ candidates are running for Congress  And why not? Indoor work, no heavy lifting….

PBS: Critical Race Theory Needed For ‘A More Racially Just Society’

US Navy Releases Bizarre Training Video Urging Recruits To Create Pronoun “Safe Space”  My pronouns are ‘aye/aye’.

Five Major US Cities On Track To Surpass 2021 Homicide Totals

CNN Finds Activist and ‘Devastated Oklahoma Mom’ to Tout the Pro-Abortion Angle

This Florida Dem Sells Pride Merch. Just Not on His Spanish-Language Website. Crist is a former Governor and a former Republican.

For Pride Month, GMA Spins One Couple’s Divorce as a Win for Love

We must know the truth about the Colbert insurrection

Reid & Guest Angry ‘Autocratic’ GOP Are Treated Fairly By Media

Dissing DeSantis

Police Report Proves Plainclothes Electronic Surveillance Unit Members Were Embedded Among Jan. 6 Protesters

Speaker at meeting of Ginni Thomas group called Biden’s win illegitimate long after Jan. 6, video shows (Washington Post) Ginni Thomas is only of any significance because she’s Justice Thomas’s wife, and therefore potentially a stick to beat him with.

Watergate prosecutor: Georgia case could ‘send Donald Trump to prison’ (The Hill) Betcha it won’t.

What a Roberts compromise on abortion could look like (Politico) It would look like a win for the baby-killers.

Far right groups shift focus to LBGTQ events. Their hateful aim hasn’t changed (NPR)

Anti-LGBTQ+ attacks by US extremist groups surge as right spews vitriol (The Guardian)

Peter Thiel helped build big tech. Now he wants to tear it all down. (Washington Post)

Kavanaugh threat: New York Times skips indictment of suspect as media continues shrugging at story

Texas Could Vote to Secede From U.S. in 2023 as GOP Pushes for Referendum (Newsweek) And who could blame them?

DOJ Has ‘Strong Foundation’ for Going After Trump: Former U.S. Attorney (Newsweek) But they won’t.

Elise Stefanik’s defense of Trump around Jan. 6 clouds her pro-democracy work abroad (NPR)

The Real Reason ‘Cancel Culture’ Is Destroying the American Workplace (Daily Beast)

US Supreme Court: The woman who could end Roe v Wade (BBC)

John Oliver Reveals How the GOP Is Planning to Hijack the 2024 Presidential Election (Daily Beast)

“Night Of Rage” Flyers Spotted In DC Ahead Of Roe v. Wade Decision

Ex-Republican On CNN: Most Republicans Want Their Political Opponents ‘Destroyed or Killed’

The View Denies Leftist Political Violence Exists, ‘Mainstream’ in GOP  How about getting some of those Day of Rage signs and use a staple gun to attach them to some foreheads?  On camera, so everybody can enjoy it.

‘Digital Brownshirts’ at It Again! Dems Cite Group Pressuring Google to Censor Pro-Life Orgs

WHO’s Tedros Privately Admits Lab Leak ‘Most Likely Explanation’ For COVID-19

US opens COVID vaccine to little kids; shots begin this week (Associated Press)

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The Biden administration claims it formed the recently unveiled “parents council” to better reflect families’ views in public schools—but its members include Al Sharpton’s community organizing group; activists who lobby to teach “comprehensive sex education,” including gender identity theory, in school; and open borders groups.

Surely dysfunctional parents have a right to be represented?

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Iran is renewing threats to assassinate former secretary of state Mike Pompeo, prompting a fresh warning from the State Department that any attempt to take the life of a current or former U.S. official will prompt “severe consequences.”

Why wait? Why not do it now?

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“Take your pick of the many self-induced Biden disasters, among them hyperinflation, unaffordable gasoline, out-of-control crime, and foreign-policy humiliations. But one reason why voters are furious is rarely expressed. Americans feel that ordinary citizens like themselves who follow the rules are treated more harshly by their own government than are both non-citizens and our own progressive elites. And they are right, and they are angry, and we will hear from them very soon.”
–Victor Davis Hanson

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Cockburn spent his long weekend the same way most Americans did: reading the Functional Government Initiative’s recent report. It found that “on any given day from March-December 2020, between 20-30 percent of HHS employees did not appear to be working.”

Government inefficiency is nothing new, but in this case teleworking is exacerbating the problem. And that isn’t about to improve — at least not under this administration. Biden continues to push for more teleworking options, even as the pandemic finally begins to fade.

Considering what government employees do when they are actually doing something, I suspect that this is a feature, rather than a bug.

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Recently, several prominent writers have left jobs at national newspapers and magazines to go it alone on Substack or other email subscription services. In 2020, Matt Yglesias left Vox and Glenn Greenwald left the Intercept — both for Substack. That same year, Andrew Sullivan brought the Dish out of retirement and to Substack. Bari Weiss and Charlie Warzel left the New York Times and started a Substack in 2021. Ruth Reichl, the former editor of Gourmet, started a newsletter in 2021. Others who have written for a variety of publications — Matt Taibbi, Glenn Lourey, Jesse Singal, Erick Erickson, Freddie DeBoer, Roxanne Gay — have all made Substack their home. And the list goes on.

ZMan lays out some inconvenient truth.

For the longest time, the debate over immigration has been about how both sides can agree on open borders while appearing to disagree. The Left made the spurious claim that America was the result of immigration. If immigration declines, then the country will decline. The Right made the claim that immigrants were natural conservatives and the only way for the Right to compete in the future was to load up on those super-duper conservative immigrants via open borders.

Outside of this immigration two-step, race realist would point out that immigrants tend to support the government party for practical reasons. In the West, the government party is always a few clicks to the left of the people and several giant leaps to the left of its heritage population. In America it means seventy percent of immigrants will vote for the Democrats, regardless of their policies. The cultural inclinations of the immigrants will have no impact on their political activity.

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Minneapolis has fallen into a deep, deep hole with an undermanned and demoralized police department, an empowered criminal class, and an ineffectual judicial system. Over the past two years, the Minneapolis Police Department has lost almost 300 officers. Any sentient fool can see why, although the local press does not pass that test. Kyle’s story quotes Sergeant Andrew Schroeder, the officer with whom he rode. “There’s days where north Minneapolis [high crime precinct] has four cops,” he said, explaining how this “staffing crisis” has caused specialized units to be cut.

There is nothing like reading about the experiences of people who do ‘ride-alongs’ with police to appreciate the sort of total scum that they have to deal with on a daily basis.

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I had to fly to Boston this weekend to help my sister fix up her new house. I almost didn’t make it back to work on Monday, because my flight was canceled at the last minute, and I had to buy another ticket on another airline, which was canceled, and so on. I made it home eventually, and was less than amused to hear Pete Buttigieg’s statement about the rash of flight cancellations. He said that if the airlines couldn’t fix this problem quickly, then government would be forced to step in.

Ok, so let’s see here. So the government said that a pilot would not be allowed to work unless he had the COVID vaccine. Many pilots chose not to do so, and were fired. Which was fine, as long as nobody was traveling. But once people started to travel again, the airlines couldn’t handle the passenger load because they had fewer pilots available. Because they had fired them last year. Because the government told them to. And now, the government blames the airlines.

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German cruise-industry magazine An Bord reports the 9,000-passenger Global Dream II is about 80% finished. Its shipbuilder MV Werften filed for bankruptcy in January 2022, and bankruptcy administrators can’t find a buyer.

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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced that American heat pump manufacturer Lennox International became the first partner in the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Residential Cold Climate Heat Pump Technology Challenge to develop a next-generation electric heat pump that can more effectively heat homes in northern climates relative to today’s models. Cold climate heat pumps (CCHPs) can provide high-efficiency heating in freezing temperatures without producing greenhouse gas emissions and can save families as much as $500 a year on their utility bills. This achievement is a massive step toward providing reliable clean heating and cooling for millions of American families through domestically produced CCHPS, which is crucial to reducing energy costs and achieving President Biden’s goal of a net-zero carbon economy by 2050.

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“Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.”
? Sam Ewing

It’s getting harder to gauge your Covid risk levels—tracking these 4 metrics can help (CNBC)

94 Percent of Medication Not Supported by High-Quality Evidence, Harms Underreported: Study

Fauci Refuses To ‘Stop Funding Chinese’ Research With US Tax Dollars

The Latest Tragedy: Sudden Adult Death Syndrome

Costs of COVID-19 Lockdowns in Australia Outweighed the Benefits Multiple Times: Expert

COVID Exposed The Medical-Pharmaceutical-Government Complex

LAPD form skirmish line after officers pummeled with fireworks, bottles during ‘street takeover’

Behind the Associated Press’ decision to appoint a democracy editor: ‘This is a very crucial beat’ (CNN)

Lawmakers Urged Google To ‘Fix’ Abortion Searches

The Criminal Order Beneath The ‘Chaos’ Of San Francisco’s Tenderloin

CCP Kills Off Liberal Studies to Prevent Student Movements; Students Must Support Government Policies Blindly

EMBARRASSED: CBS Buries Arrest of Colbert Staffers By Capitol Police

Redfin Economist says land value tax will fix the economy

Tens of Thousands Flee San Francisco As Liberal Leaders Struggle With Crime and Homelessness 

The View: Juneteenth ‘More Authentic’ ‘Celebration’ of ‘American Freedom’ than July 4

Merriam-Webster Replaces Definition Of ‘Woman’ With Shrug Emoji (Babylon Bee)

Energy Sec Sputters a Weak Defense of Biden-MBS Meeting (Daily Beast)

White House says Biden’s meeting with Saudi officials next month will ‘include’ crown prince (CNN)

Buttigieg says feds have power to force airlines to hire more workers amid travel delays

Biden admin explores bussing migrants to US towns hours beyond border  Helping them disappear into the general population at taxpayer expense.

CNN reporter defends Biden’s mental strength, says the ‘gears of his mind are working’

PRIDE MONTH: Here’s How the Navy Is Training Sailors on Proper Gender Pronouns

Saudi Arabia Bans Rainbow Toys, Clothing With ‘Homosexual Colors’ Weeks Before Biden Visit

Biden State Department Racial Equity Rep Says White Diplomats Like America Too Much  We’re paying these people.

Tropical Trees Are Dying Twice As Fast Due to Climate Change (SciTechDaily)

Justice or overreach?: As crucial test looms, Big Greens are under fire (Politico)

Western Europeans wilt in early summer heatwave, compounding climate change fears (CNN)

Only a tiny minority of rural Britons are farmers – so why do they hold such sway? (The Guardian) After all, it’s not as if they’re artists or writers or somebody important.

‘How doomed are we?’ and more questions for a climate expert (Tech Crunch)

The race to produce green steel (Ars Technica) Have they tried adding food coloring?

Vanuatu calls on Australia to back its UN bid to recognise climate change harm (The Guardian)

Australian Police Crack Down on Climate Protest Group Blockade Australia

The Court Ruling which could Outlaw Climate Skepticism

German Vice Chancellor Announces a Return to Coal  It’s not as if they have much choice, having shut down their nuclear plants.

This Kansas Dem Wants To Ban Congress From Owning Stocks. She Owns Shares of Green Energy Firms That Want Congressional Subsidies.

NYT to Farmers on Fertilizer Shortage: Hooray for Pee, It’s More Eco-Friendly Anyway

Green Aussie PM Caves, Offers Subsidies for Coal and Gas

Levin rips the Jan. 6 committee: ‘We live in a post-constitutional America’

At Texas GOP convention, loyalists embrace far right, anti-gay rhetoric (Washington Post) Headline you’ll never see: At Californian Dem convention, activists embrace far-left, anti-white rhetoric.

Jan. 6 committee will show evidence of Trump’s involvement in fake elector plot, Schiff says (NBC) The show trials continue. Lavrenti Beria could not be reached for comment.

There is no question: Merrick Garland must put Trump on trial (Boston Globe) Betcha he doesn’t.

Ex-Trump aide says Trump admitted privately that he lost the election (CNN)

Jan. 6 committee setting its sights on Pence, Ginni Thomas (Associated Press)

Why We’re Still Obsessed With Watergate (Politico) ‘We’ here meaning the Narrative Media.

If Trump Committed ‘Insurrection,’ Indict Him Already  Larry Elder.

NBC Sad to Find Jan. 6 Committee Is Badly Failing, Voters Headed in the ‘Opposite Direction’

Republican Negotiator For Red Flag Laws Booed By Texas Crowd At GOP Convention  John Cornyn is not quite a RINO, but has definite tendencies in that direction.

MSNBC Analyst: If You Think Gas Expensive Now, Wait Till Fascist Republicans Take Over!

Pro-Abortion Group Protests With Fake Blood and Baby Dolls at Supreme Court Justice’s Home

Police Report Proves Plainclothes Electronic Surveillance Unit Members Were Embedded Among Jan. 6 Protesters

Democrats Seek To Suppress Pro-Life Google Search Results

Putin’s War in Ukraine Will Lead to His ‘Demise’: Exiled Oligarch (Newsweek)

‘The world was not ready for a fight of this scale,’ Ukraine’s top negotiator says (CNBC)

Did Europe’s Latest (& Little Noticed) Anti-Russia Move Just Push The World Closer To WW3?

New Hong Kong Government Includes 4 Officials Sanctioned by US

Ukraine War Hits Grim Milestone As Civilian Deaths Surpass 10,000: UN

Ukraine Parliament Votes in Favor of Restricting Russian Music, Books

Germany Rations Gas Amid Russian Cuts, Mandates Return To Coal For Electricity Production  How soon we regret turning off our nuclear power plants….

Russians Advance, Zelenskyy Expects Escalation as EU Set to Welcome Ukraine

China May Oil Imports From Russia Soar to a Record, Surpass Top Supplier Saudi

Nuke Deal Breakthrough? Iran Drops Demand That IRGC Be Removed From Terror List

Ukrainian Refugee Influx Could Ease Eurozone Labor Shortage: ECB

Israel announces regional air defense network with Middle East partners, US

Peter the Great’s Bookend

Zelensky Says Russian Attacks To Intensify During EU Summit As Moscow Claims Kalibr Strike Killed ’50 Officers & Generals’

Does the Tank Have a Future?

Russian Central Bank: Bitcoin Payments For International Settlements Is “Possible”

China, US Escalate Over Legal Status Of Taiwan Strait After Beijing Rejects It As “International Waters”

Teen killed, D.C. officer shot after concert linked to Juneteenth celebration (Washington Post)

Juneteenth is at risk of losing its meaning (Axios) What meaning? Black illiteracy?

After Juneteenth, many Black people in Texas remained enslaved (Washington Post) Just in case you missed the Narrative.

White Lives Matter Group Protests Juneteenth Celebration in Tennessee (Newsweek) The swine!

On Juneteenth weekend, Black activists march for abortion rights (NPR) Black people demand the right to kill their children. Margaret Sanger could not be reached for comment.

CBS’s Kendi: Gun-Rights Advocates Are Like People Who Fought for Slavery

Critical Race Theory Wasn’t Always Like This

Environmental Organizations Are Being Looted by Their Diversity Hires

Police: 1 Dead, 8 Wounded in Shooting at Gathering in Harlem  Must be all those White Supremacists in Harlem.

Morning Joe Warns Dems: ‘Soy Latte’ Liberals Driving Blacks & Latinos To GOP

Their Damned Lies, and Yours

Steve Sailer.

Since George Floyd’s death, I’ve read a 1000 op-eds about how sad and oppressed blacks feel, but video anecdotes and government homicide and traffic fatality data suggest instead that the USA is going through a Black Exuberance Explosion.

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Cleveland’s 2019 police officer of the year is under investigation for a series of anti-Semitic social media posts that include praise for Adolf Hitler and the Hamas terrorist organization.

Ismail Quran is under investigation by the Cleveland police internal affairs unit for posting “inappropriate social media content,” a department spokesman told the Washington Free Beacon on Monday.

Quran has posted several anti-Semitic messages on social media, including a “salute to Hitler the great” and messages threatening violence against Jewish people, according to tweets provided by Canary Mission, a watchdog group that tracks anti-Semitic activity online.

Does this come as a surprise?

Joel Kotkin.

America is suffering from a worker shortage, but a more persistent and perhaps even urgent problem is the profound lack of skills among younger Americans. American elite universities may still be still regarded as the world’s best, but for most young people, the educational system—from grade school to graduate school—is something of a failure, a critical engine of persistent inequality and diminished competition on the international stage.

This crisis in competence predates the pandemic. So does the very related labor shortage. The percentage of firms reporting shortages of labor more than doubled between 2015 and 2020, to 70 percent. Low birthrates among millennials has created what the forecasting firm EMSI describes as a “demographic drought,” as U.S. population growth between 16 and 64 has dropped from 20 percent in the eighties to less than 5 percent last decade. By 2028, Korn Ferry projects there will be a deficit of at least six million workers.

But the bigger problem is not just numbers; consider that our competitors, notably China, face even more challenging demographics. The big issue is the lack of skills throughout the workforce. From grade to graduate schools, our education is deteriorating.

It used to be that this country was composed mainly of Doers, with a thin layer of Talkers on top.

‘Liberal Arts’ colleges are geared toward producing more and more Talkers; as a result, there is a glut of Talkers and not enough Doers.

Our education system, with its hyper-focus on four-year colleges, has failed its students. This about one staggering statistic: Over the past 20 years, we have created twice as many bachelor’s degrees as jobs to employ those who have earned them. Over 40 percent of recent graduates are underemployed, meaning that they’re working in jobs that don’t require their degree. Many graduate programs produce fancy degrees that never return the investment for an estimated 40 percent of master’s students, particularly those earning degrees outside the sciences, business, medicine and education

Politician: Talker. Lawyer: Talker. Journalist: Talker. Professor: Talker. Author: Talker. Poet: Talker. Grievance Studies Major: Talker. Art History Major: Talker. Investment Banker: Talker. Teacher: Talker.

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The EV, shaped something like the head of a golf club, aims to combine the agility, convenience, and lower price of a scooter or motorcycle with more of the safety and security people find in a car. Its US “auto-cycle” classification is “the best of both worlds,” Nimbus founder Lihang Nong told TechCrunch.

Operating on three wheels, the Nimbus One is small enough to slip easily into parking spaces, including those made for motorcycles, and tilts like a scooter or bike.

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Now we know why the Eastern Conference champion Boston Celtics lost to Golden State in the NBA Finals! Celtics star forward Jayson Tatum simply isn’t black enough, according to former pro Nick “Swaggy” Young.

Tatum averaged 21.5 points per game in the six-game series won by the Warriors, four games to two. However, he shot a pitiful 31.5 percent from the field and made a boatload of turnovers. He set a dubious NBA record with 100 turnovers during the playoffs, too.

Golden State’s Andrew Wiggins held Tatum to just 13 points in the sixth and final game Thursday.

Tatum was “a shell of himself against the Golden State Warriors, completely vanishing when his team needed him the most,” wrote Orlando Silva of the Fadeaway World blog.

Young, who was a mediocre journeyman who played for six NBA teams in his career, got on his high horse to tweet that Tatum just isn’t black enough.

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After giving up on the border crisis and Ukraine, Kamala Harris seems to have found an issue much more her speed: online name-calling.

Last week, Harris announced the launch of the White House Task Force to Address Online Harassment and Abuse, which will be handled through President Biden’s Gender Policy Council. Exhausted yet?

Joel Kotkin.

Nothing so illustrates the mindset of green politics, particularly in California, as the word “natural,” which is taken to mean unspoiled, pure, and better than the workings of man. Yet few places are as fundamentally artificial, if measured by its dependency on human intervention, as California.

So why do California’s progressives, and so many others, yearn for what the historian Leo Marx dubbed the “pastoral ideal”?Much has to do with the state’s rapid population growth from 1.5 million in 1900 to nearly 40 million today, which resulted in a regime of environmental rapine that many still living experienced.

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Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House’s COVID-19 coordinator, said that “there have not been any serious side effects of these vaccines,” which is not true.

Severe allergic reactions, blood clotting, heart inflammation, and paralysis are among the serious side effects linked to the three COVID-19 vaccines available in the United States.

“There is a well-documented risk of myocarditis from the COVID vaccine, especially in young men and adolescent boys, and an elevated risk of clotting in young women with the Moderna vaccine,” Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of medicine at Stanford University, told The Epoch Times in an email.

Lord Black of Crossharbour discovers that Peggy Noonan lives in the Swamp, quite comfortably.

Peggy Noonan and I have recently confirmed that our political disagreements absolutely will not stand in the way of our long friendship. This is timely, as in her latest pronouncement upon the ever-shifting and more desperate perspective of civilized Trump-hate (defined here as making some effort at analysis, no matter how nonsensical, and not just primal scream therapy like most Trump-haters) in the Wall Street Journal on June 16, she presented the most delusional version of the Trump-cancellation argument that has yet been made by any otherwise serious person still capable of rational comment on the subject.

The five thin and vibrating tent poles holding up the porous canvas of Trump-denial now, according to Noonan, are: 2020 was a pristine election incapable of serious doubt; Trump was trying to overturn the election result by intimidation on Jan. 6; there’s no merit in the Trumpism without Trump argument—his administration was a complete failure in every policy area; his scores of millions of supporters don’t really support him and they’re deserting him; and all those who turned themselves inside-out and in some cases violated election and vote-counting statutes to bring Trump down have no responsibility whatsoever for the almost indescribable catastrophe of the present administration. The proportions of this failure need not be considered. Both parties will just take lots of emetics, allowing nature to take its course, and move on as if the Trump-Biden years never happened.

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A feminist group in Bristol, England, was threatened by a group of trans activists and anarchists on Sunday, with the group refuting claims made by Avon and Somerset Police that there was bad behaviour on “both sides.”

Trouble in the Workers’ Paradise.

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Nativity School in Worcester, Massachusetts, is no longer allowed to identify as a Catholic school, according to a decree issued by the bishop of the Diocese of Worcester. The school is also prohibited from hosting mass and sacraments on its campus or sponsoring these activities in any church building within the diocese.

“The flying of these flags in front of a Catholic school sends a mixed, confusing and scandalous message to the public about the Church’s stance on these important moral and social issues,” Robert McManus, the Bishop of the Diocese of Worcester, wrote in the order.

And about time, too.