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

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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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.

Check it out.

“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.

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

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.

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.

ZMan does history.

The terms Left and Right have been ubiquitous in Western public discourse for so long people just assume they are universal constants. The fact is though, they are neither universal nor constant. There is no African Right or Burmese Left. These cultures have not been shaped by the French Revolution. Similarly, what it means to be on the Right or Left has changed over time. Today’s left-wing American genuinely detests yesterday’s left wing American, who is probably on the Right today.

There is not much in the way of ideology on either side. There has not been an important thinker on either side in a long time. The last important radical thinker was probably Herbert Marcuse or perhaps John Rawls. On the Right, Paul Gottfried and Sam Francis are recent, but their influence is only on the fringe. The main driver of politics is the Left and they are wildly ignorant of the intellectual history that shapes left-wing politics today.

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The abstract is this: the Blue Church is a kind of narrative / ideology control structure that is a natural result of mass media. It is an evolved (rather than designed) function that has come over the past half-century to be deeply connected with the Democratic political “Establishment” and lightly connected with the “Deep State” to form an effective political and dominant cultural force in the United States.

We can trace its roots at least as far back as the beginning of the 20th Century where it emerged in response to the new capabilities of mass media for social control. By mid-century it began to play an increasingly meaningful role in forming and shaping American culture-producing institutions; became pervasive through the last half of the 20th and seems to have peaked in its influence somewhere in the first decade of the 21st Century.

It is now beginning to unravel.

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

It is very likely the case that the next major war has started. No—I don’t mean the Russia-Ukraine War, which could yet spread to the rest of Europe if we’re unlucky. I mean the Israel-Iran War.

It has been said that Israel and Iran have been at open war for some time now. (Actually, Iran and the U.S. have likewise been at war since 1979, though don’t tell John Kerry.) As is well known, Israel has carried out audacious raids on Iran over the last few years. It has assassinated key figures in Iran’s nuclear weapons program in the streets of Tehran, successfully extracted an intelligence cache on the nuclear program, and in recent months assassinated senior Iranian military figures beyond the nuclear arms circle. For their part, we know Iran is supplying Hezbollah in Lebanon, Syria, and elsewhere with enormous amounts of munitions to use against Israel.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

The fundamental problem with wind and solar power is that they don’t work. Both generate electricity less than half the time, and this isn’t a question of improving technology, it is inherent in obsolete systems that depend on the weather. As a result, the ballyhooed “green revolution” has fizzled. The Germans, formerly committed to a “green” makeover, are starting to face reality, even if their politicians aren’t quite there yet.

Mary Trump Says Pence Death Could’ve Been ‘Excuse’ Her Uncle Needed (Newsweek)

Marjorie Taylor Greene Tells Proud Boys To Dress Appropriately for Protests (Newsweek)

Post-Watergate reforms may frame DOJ decision over prosecuting Trump (The Hill)

The book that tore publishing apart: ‘Harm has been done, and now everyone’s afraid’ (The Guardian)

Seth Meyers: Ginni Thomas’ texts ‘make Mike Lindell sound like a levelheaded businessman’ (The Guardian) Which he is.

There were no heroes in the Trump administration on Jan. 6 (Washington Post)

Mike Pence couldn’t wait to get to heaven to meet ‘genius’ Founding Fathers (N.Y. Daily News)

“Without Any Doubt, Beyond A Reasonable Doubt, Beyond Any Doubt”: Tribe Declares Trump Committed Attempted Murder

NPR Skipped Attempted Murder of Kavanaugh, But Obsesses Over Tiny Boston Neo-Nazi Group

Harming the ‘outgroup’ linked to elevated activity in the brain reward circuitry

Friendly fungi help forests fight climate change (BBC)

California Considers ‘Carbon Farming’ As a Potential Climate Solution. Ardent Proponents, and Skeptics, Abound (Inside Climate News)

The farmers restoring Hawaii’s ancient food forests that once fed an island (The Guardian)

The climate crisis is hitting the planet’s working classes the hardest and they know it (The Guardian) And just in case they missed it the proglodyte voices at The Guardian will tell them all about it.

‘Historic’ weather: why a cocktail of natural disasters is battering the US (The Guardian)

Did climate change kill 2,000 Kansas cows? Farmers can’t afford to ignore science

Did climate change kill 2,000 Kansas cows? Farmers can’t afford to ignore science (Kansas City Star)

Why large numbers of reptile species face extinction and what that means for our ecosystem (PBS)

Hurricane hell and climate punishment (The Hill)

Wind power is (finally) having a moment (Salon)

Claim: Climate Change Causes Heart Failure

The Democrats’ Energy Disaster

Energy Transition Goals At Risk As EU May Label Lithium As Toxic

Germany to Increase Burning of Coal Amid Cut in Gas Supplies From Russia

Leaders pledge arms and EU path for Ukraine in Kyiv visit (Associated Press)

Chipmakers brace for more trouble as Russia limits exports of rare gases (CNN)

Ukraine shows when democracies unite, it’s a game-changer (The Hill)

When The Lies Come Home

Russian Missiles Destroy Fuel Depot in East Ukraine Town, Injure 11: Official

Russia Continues Attacks After EU Boost for Ukraine

Luongo: Russia’s New Rules

Taiwanese Military Expert Sheds Light on Why Japan Treats Taiwan Emergency as Its Own

Western Populations Must Do More For Ukraine Even If “Costs Of Food & Fuel Are High”: NATO Chief

Ukraine Says “Prepare For The Worst” In Donbas; Kharkiv Will Likely Be Next “Frontline City”

Israel’s IAI unveils newest Othello gunfire detection system to geo-locate threats

Russia Attacks US-Backed Fighters In Syria At American Outpost

The Other McCain is on the case.

Ah, high school graduation — a time to celebrate with random gunfire! While I have not fully investigated each of these shootings, and police have not yet made arrests in some of them, I will wager that none of the gunmen who opened fire at these graduation parties was a Trump voter.

Tell the truth: Most people are eminently forgettable.

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If Congress won’t ban AR-15s, Democratic Rep. Don Beyer (VA) wants to slap a 1,000% tax on them – which would of course mean only people with lots of money, such as drug dealers and rich people, could afford them, while punishing lower-income Americans.

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Tucker Carlson spent much of his episode Friday discussing Ashley Biden’s diary. About six months ago, he mentioned it in passing but I think he said no one was sure if it was authentic. And he never mentioned what it said other than to say that it was horrible if true.

Tonight he never even addressed that question, speaking matter of factly as if it was authentic and detailing the most disturbing allegations as true. His guest did too. This is the first time it’s been mentioned in this way in the MSM.

So now, either…

Ashley Biden comes to her dad’s defense and claims the diary is a fake, or…

Joe Biden throws his daughter under the bus, or…

Joe and the MSM attempt to ignore the story.

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New Fossil Fuel Fan: Obama Orders 2,500-Gallon Propane Storage For Vacation Home

For hydrogen power to be a climate solution, leaks must be curbed (The Guardian)

Perspective: Republicans are taking action on climate change. Why are Democrats ignoring them? (Deseret News)

How putting floating solar panels over reservoirs could help us fight climate change

There’s a nationwide Sriracha shortage, and climate change may be to blame (NPR) The horror!

Fossil fuel firms ‘have humanity by the throat’, says UN head in blistering attack (The Guardian)

Climate change: Green energy ‘stagnates’ as fossil fuels dominate (BBC)

The UK Is Prioritizing Energy Security Over Climate Pledges  Not being total morons.

Biden beefs with oil companies over record profits (MSNBC) Democrats hate when anybody other than themselves actually makes some money.

Biden gets testy, falsely claims inflation in ‘every other major industrialized country’ higher than US

Biden called out over warning to Big Oil as energy secretary exercises electric car stock options

The Engineered Stagflationary Collapse Has Arrived – Here’s What Happens Next

Joe Biden’s tampon shortage

Janet Yellen: The Lingering ‘Legacy’ Of A Decades-Old Monetary Policy Freak Show

Fentanyl Entering US Through Southern Border at ‘Unprecedented Levels’: Rep. Higgins

The Biden Administration’s Ignorant Energy Policies: Higher Gas Prices Are Only The Beginning

Newly-discovered SE Greenland Polar Bear Subpopulation: Another Assumption Proven False

Department of Justice Stymies Congressional Attempt to Get Information on Hunter Biden Probe

‘When I Was Your Age, Gas Was $2.00 A Gallon’ Says Guy To His Buddy Who’s 1 Year Younger Than Him  (Babylon Bee)

168 Cases of Monkeypox Confirmed in Canada, Including 141 in Quebec  “…all infections have been in men aged 20 to 69…”

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

BA.2.12.1, BA.4 and BA.5 escape antibodies elicited by Omicron infection (Nature)

LA County Moves Closer To Mask Mandate As Hospitalizations Increase (L.A. Times)

Bernie Sanders bristles when FDA commissioner says he was not aware of Moderna CEO ‘golden parachute’  Bristles!

Prior infection plus 3 vaccine doses proves best vs Omicron; neurological COVID symptoms can last months (Reuters)

‘I Was About to Black Out’: Aussie Woman Loses Job for Refusing 2nd Jab After COVID Shot’s ‘Stroke-Like’ Symptoms

Trumpists stitched a legal theory from whole cloth. The hearings tore it apart (The Guardian)

‘The View’ mocks ‘recovering’ Trump ‘addicts’ trying to reform themselves on liberal show

CNN stars continue using ‘Big Lie’ term about Trump, flouting new boss who prefers different phrase

First Thing: Trump a ‘clear and present danger to US democracy’ (The Guardian) Hey, he wasn’t the guy who stole the election.

House Democrat calls for Clarence Thomas to resign following report of wife’s email with Eastman (The Hill)

New Mexico secretary of state asks state attorney general to investigate county commission refusing to certify election results (CNN)

Bob Woodward recounts the Watergate story in an art museum (NPR)

Cancel Culture Comes for One of Australia’s Founding Fathers

YouTube Removes Jan. 6 Panel Video of Trump Claiming Election Fraud

Cowboys for Trump Founder Sentenced to Jail for Entering Capitol Grounds on Jan. 6

Shocking Video Shows Car Crashing Into Trump-Themed Store in Massachusetts

Katy Tur Suggests Trump Needs a Therapist, Like Her Transgender Dad

Carl Bernstein Claims Trump’s Actions On January 6 ‘Outdid Jefferson Davis’

Transgender Activists Manipulate Parents With Suicide Threats

Do we need a better understanding of ‘progress’? (BBC)

Youngkin’s 3-month gas tax holiday fails in Virginia Senate  Democrats want high gas prices.

The troubled paradox of U.S. democracy (Washington Post)

7 arrested in House office building linked to Colbert show (Associated Press)

Stephen Colbert Crew Let Into US Capitol by Adam Schiff Staffer: Rep. Davis

How Transgenderism Moved From Sideshow to the Main Stage

New Reuters Survey Finds That Trust In Mainstream News Is Rapidly Declining  Gee, I wonder why.

Maher Mocks Washington Post as an ‘Unlicensed Daycare Center’

For Father’s Day Weekend, MSNBC Urges Men to Support Abortion

How to Get Shot by the Cops

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A “Swedish” imam named Basem Mahmoud has gotten himself into a spot of bother by making less than charitable remarks about Jews and Christians. His defense is that he was only quoting from the Koran, and who could argue with that?

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Congratulations on finding your way to this dusty corner of the internet. The International Institute of Not Doing Much has a deep commitment to very little. Members are expected to take it easy and slowly ponder this and that, preferably on a sofa or in the bathtub. Our sophisticated organization is only open to a select few. You, of course, are welcome to join, and so are your friends, and their friends, and friends of their friends. But for anyone else, the Institute is restricted.

My kind of place.

Any resemblance to a character from Seinfeld is probably inevitable.

Federal Aviation Administration Touts New ‘Fuel Efficiency’ Rule, Contradicts Own Documents

These polar bears have found a way to survive without sea ice (Washington Post0 As they do.

Explainer: Can climate change and biodiversity loss be tackled together? (Carbon Brief)

We will soon find out if FERC is serious about climate and environmental justice (The Hill)

Greenhouse gases must be legally phased out, US scientists argue (The Guardian) Well, some of them.

In An Unusual Step, a Top Medical Journal Weighs in on Climate Change (Inside Climate News) ‘Unusual’? Compared to what?

The West just experienced an aspect of the climate crisis that scientists have warned of for years  (CNN)

Things NASA climate scientists say:

MSNBC Warns ‘Less Than a Decade’ To Save the Planet  Didn’t AlGore say that back in the 90s?

Florida Only State Not to Preorder COVID-19 Vaccines for Toddlers, Babies: White House  The pharma companies need to get their vaccines officially recommended for children so that they can qualify for immunity from prosecution and liability for side effects.

Pfizer says its COVID pill doesn’t work for healthier patients (L.A. Times)

Study Reveals How COVID-19 Changed Australia’s Seasonal Virus Genetic Landscape

Judge Overturns Disciplinary Action Against Student Who Questioned Vaccines, Public Health Orders

Pfizer Stops Enrollment In COVID-Pill Trial After Latest Lousy Results

‘Heartbreaking Stories’: Expert Panel to Hold Hearing of Canadians Adversely Impacted by COVID-19 Policies

Watchdog President Uncovers $350 Million in Secret Payments to Fauci, Collins, Others at NIH

Contagious Vaccines: A Warning

More Bad News for the Mask Cult

The COVID Healer

Ginni Thomas corresponded with John Eastman, sources in Jan. 6 House investigation say (Washington Post) Corresponded!

Jan. 6 panel sends request to Ginni Thomas after she says she looks ‘forward to talking’ (CNN) Talking!

Ron DeSantis’ joke about ‘African-American support’ from Elon Musk slammed by liberal media: ‘This is sick’ Indeed, proglodytes have no sense of humor.

Why some Americans want to destroy democracy in order to save it (Washington Post)

How This Trump-Endorsed Sheriff Went From ‘Vegas Strong’ to Just Wrong (Daily Beast)

Marjorie Taylor Greene Makes Transgender Jokes With Her Intern in Video (Newsweek) The horror!

Gavin Newsom joins Truth Social to call out ‘Republican lies,’ perceived ‘red state murder problem’

Reid Disparages ‘QAnon-Curious’ Flores Win; GOP Destroying Democracy

Parents Rally Over ‘Malicious Misgendering’ School Policy in Northern Virginia

NYC Councilwoman Says Her Office Was Threatened by ‘Leftist Hate Mob’

CNN ‘Republican’ Ana Navarro Accuses GOP of ‘Targeting’ and Inciting Hate Against Gays

‘Recovering Addicts’: Behar Lashes Out at her Former Trump Admin Co-Hosts

I’ll bet.

Steve Sailer turns over a rock.

It would be interesting to know if the Biden Administration has actually calculated whether creating a Middle Eastern & North African race would be good for the Democrats. Or are they doing this just because Middle Eastern & North Africans are less white than other official whites, so therefore they are Good and the Biden Administration likes doing good things for Good groups.

I’ve tried to think through the consequences. The most obvious one is that MENAs would be eligible for certain kinds of affirmative action, such as government contracting preferences and low interest SBA loans.