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Food worth fighting over.

Steve Sailer peeks behind the curtain.

Vincent Chin is the Asian Emmett Till.

Of course, being the Asian Emmett Till is a little like being the Asian LeBron James. In case you are wondering, going back through the last ten years, the Times has mentioned “Vincent Chin” 24 times but “Emmett Till” 433 times.

What about black-on-white racist hate crimes, such as the Zebra Murders in Northern California in the 1970s in which Nation of Islam offshoot Death Angels murdered at least 15 (and perhaps as many as 60 or more) random whites? Looking for Zebra Murder/s or Zebra Killing/s, I find two mentions in the New York Times over the last decade. Why would the Newspaper of Record want to mention a local police blotter triviality like that when there are always late-breaking Emmett Till newsflashes?

How months-long COVID infections could seed dangerous new variants (Nature)

What to do if you keep testing positive for Covid—even after your symptoms are gone (CNBC) Feel free to disbelieve the Narrative?

‘Natural Immunity Wins Again’: Study Demonstrates Infection-Derived Immunity Likely Superior to COVID Vaccines

D.C. Politicians On Edge As CDC Announces Arrival Of Lizardpox  (Babylon Bee)Rare Brain Disease Developed After COVID Vaccination Has a Surprisingly High Mortality Rate

Vaccine Response to COVID-19 Was Pre-Planned: Authors of New Book, ‘The Courage to Face COVID-19’

Biden Administration Plans to Extend COVID-19 Emergency, Official Suggests

Decoding Liz Cheney’s big hint about John Eastman — and Donald Trump (Washington Post)

The Guilfoyle email that illustrates Cheney’s pre-Jan. 6 assistance to Trump World (Politico) We will use her, but we will never trust her.

Mother of Patriot Front group member speaks out after son’s arrest at pride event (KOMO News)

Feds need to do more monitoring of white supremacist groups in light of Idaho arrests, experts say (NBC)

Nevada Republicans choose election denier as nominee to run state elections (L.A. Times) ‘Election denier’?

How aggressively should liberals attack the Supreme Court? (Washington Post) Bias? What bias?

Biden ally pushes Big Oil surtax to eliminate ‘perverse’ incentives to price gouge (CNN)

Schiff: House Select Committee Has Evidence That Trump “Engaged In Likely Multiple Criminal Acts”

Liz Cheney and Jan. 6 Committee Demonstrate How Hate Makes You Stupid

CBS Erroneously Links GOP Rep. to 1/6 Scouting Despite Clearing Probe

After an Assassination Attempt, Protesters Come to Kavanaugh’s Home

Wyden: ‘Conservative Extremists’ Threaten Roe AND Free Speech

NYT Editorial Board Member Freaks Over Donations to ‘Seditious’ GOPers Who Objected to 2020 Election

‘The Leash Is Off’: Abortion Activists Behind Attacks on Pro-Lifers Issue New Threats, Urge Others to ‘Burn’

Kavanaugh’s Neighbor Claims Pro-Abortion Protesters Are Threatening Homeowners; “F*ck You, F*ck Your Children”

Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier’ is hemorrhaging ice faster than in the past 5,500 years (Live Science)

Climate change: Rich nations accused of ‘betrayal’ at Bonn talks (BBC)

Why investors suddenly care about saving the environment (Vox)

Climate change: Rising sea levels threaten 200,000 England properties (BBC)

EPA warns toxic ‘forever chemicals’ more dangerous than once thought (Washington Post)

EPA warns that even tiny amounts of chemicals found in drinking water pose risks (NPR)

Africa being ‘punished’ by fossil fuel investment ban – Niger (Al Jezeera)

Emissions From New U.S. Natural Gas Projects Will Equal 18 Million Cars (Gizmodo)

Bank group accused of exploiting loopholes and ‘greenwashing’ in climate pledge (The Guardian)

Climate Propaganda Award Winners

Not Enough Renewables: Minister Blames Australian Electricity Shortage on Lack of Green Energy

Munich Professor: Role of Methane from Cows on Climate Exaggerated by A Factor Of 3 To 4!

Tension over role of racism in public health strains Va. agency under Youngkin (Washington Post)

Herschel Walker, who criticizes absentee fathers, acknowledges second son (Washington Post)

Rapper Nipsey Hussle’s Last Moments Detailed as Murder Trial Opens

Wired: In Physics, Black Hair Matters

British Police Officer Jailed for Sharing ‘Offensive’ George Floyd Memes on WhatsApp

For Ukrainian troops, a need arises: Javelin customer service (Washington Post)

Russia aims to boot former Soviet nations from NATO by relinquishing sovereign recognition: lawmaker

The Military Situation –Part I: Destined to Fail

Facts Matter (June 15): U.S. Spy Chief Admits ‘No Idea’ What Ukraine Is Doing With $40B Weapons; Europol Warns: Might Be Used By ‘Criminal Groups’

These Are The Ports Still Receiving The Most Russian Fossil-Fuel Shipments

Mariupol Deja Vu: Ukraine Fighters & Civilians Trapped In Besieged Severodonetsk Chemical Plant

INFORMATION WARFARE: Coping With The VPN Threat

Leaders Of France, Germany, Italy Make Highest Profile Visit To Kiev Since War Began

Turkey & Russia Say 3 Ukrainian Ports Can Now Be Accessed By Grain Ships

EU Leaders Visit Ukraine in Show of Support After Criticism

Germany is not really with the Western alliance

Russian Gas Flows to Europe Fall, Hindering Bid to Refill Stores

Freeberg nails it.

I can’t think of a worse political opinion to have, than one that has recently prevailed right before everything got worse, with demonstrable and definable lines of cause-and-effect between what you wanted done & what got worse. One should expect even the faintest desire to have a good opinion, would inspire serious introspection. If not “I can see my idea wasn’t good,” then at the very least, “I can see my idea was open to misinterpretation in ways I did not foresee.” There should be some kind of learning…

But in American politics, we often don’t get that. Instead, the constant shelter of the bad-idea-people, the architects of pain, is some running narrative about nuance and complexity. Oh no, just because I wanted to get rid of Trump, doesn’t mean I’m pro-Biden, Oh no, just because I’m pro-Biden doesn’t mean I hold him blameless for the high gas prices. Oh no, just because I hold Biden blameless for high gas prices, doesn’t mean I want them to be high. Oh no, just because I want gas prices to be high, doesn’t mean I want the economy to sputter. Oh no, just because I want the economy to be wrecked, doesn’t mean I hate people. Oh no…you misunderstand…

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The Boston Globe’s Jeff Jacoby has written a valuable and scrupulously detailed column exploring the handiwork of BDS Boston in “A roadmap for Jew-haters.” You may not have heard much about the roadmap. The news would have been blasted around the world and repeated for days on end if some American minority group other than Jews were the subject of the map. The derangement it manifests is familiar to Power Line readers and yet the baldness here is shocking.

ZMan turns over a rock.

If you were to go back in time to the 1980’s, scoop up a group of conservatives and show them this post from the National Conservatives, those retro-conservatives would be very confused. For starters. they would be puzzled as to why such a thing was even necessary in 2022. Surely by this late date everyone would know the general framework of the American Right. More important, it would be the general framework of the nation, given the trajectory of the conservative movement.

Once the present situation in America was explained to them, they would no doubt want to know what went wrong? Was there a horrible calamity that derailed conservatives and sent the nation reeling into authoritarian degeneracy? Did the Left stage a revolt and seize the country by force? Did we lose the Cold War? At this point, the room would fall silent as none of the signatories of that post could provide a coherent explanation for why things have gone so horribly wrong.

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Lindsey Kornick at Fox News reports that Joy Reid and others in the liberal media orbit found another reason to rage against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis: when South African-born billionaire Elon Musk suggested he could support DeSantis for president in 2024, DeSantis said while he’s primarily focused on the 2022 gubernatorial election, he welcomes “support from African-Americans.”

Scott Adams is fond of saying that DeSantis has ‘Trump-level’ genius in communicating.

“Is there a joke somewhere in here? I don’t get it,” CNN commentator and “The View” co-host Ana Navarro wrote.

That’s because you are a humor-impaired proglodyte drone, Ana.

MSNBC Equates Banning Kids From Drag Shows to Killing LGBTQ People

Dems Want to Ban Telling the Truth

‘Orange Man Bad!’ Trump Still Living Rent-Free in the Left’s Collective Head

The 22 wildest lines from Donald Trump’s 12(!)-page statement on the January 6 committee (CNN)

Trump Attacks Jan. 6 ‘Kangaroo Court’ Hearing, Speculates on Postponement (Newsweek)

House passes expanded security for Supreme Court justices’ families, 27 Democrats vote ‘no’ (The Hill)

Marjorie Taylor Greene Suggests Global Warming ‘Is Actually Healthy For Us’ (Newsweek) Cue laughter.

Trump’s inner circle testifies his claims were bogus (The Hill) For sufficiently tendentious definitions of ‘inner circle’ and ‘bogus’.

How prosecutors can sidestep the question of Trump’s intent (Washington Post) Certainly just being Trump is enough proof of his guilt.

The Supreme Court Could Foster a New Kind of Civil War (Politico)

Colbert Roasts Donald Trump Jr.’s Desperate Steak-Shilling Grift (Daily Beast) Like being called ugly by a frog.

Kavanaugh neighbor describes ‘horrific’ experience dealing with ‘aggressive’ pro-choice protesters

Scarborough: Critics Of MSM ‘Hate Democracy & Press Freedoms,’ Want Trump To Be ‘Dictator’  Projection?

CensorTrack with TR: Etsy, PayPal CANCEL Biologist for Defending Real Gender Science

New York Times Takes Gay Deplatformers’ Side Against ‘Abhorrent’ DeSantis Speech in NYC

Pro-Abortion Radicals Threaten More Attacks Against Pregnancy Centers, Pro-life Groups

DHS-Funded Professor Defends ‘Stochastic Terrorist’ Label for Tucker Carlson

New Data Absolutely Destroys Media Claims of ‘Climate Change is Causing More Wildfire’

Climate change: New fossil fuel funding is ‘delusional’ says UN chief (BBC)

Feeding Cows Seaweed Reduces Their Methane Emissions, but California Farms Are a Long Way From Scaling Up the Practice (Inside Climate News) C’mon, guys, let’s get with the program.

Ben & Jerry’s Is Putting Their Cows on a Low Methane Emissions Diet (EcoWatch) Just in the nick of time, too.

Sea level rise in England ‘will put 200,000 homes at risk by 2050’ (The Guardian) And when that prediction proves wrong, as all such predictions have, they’ll tell you another one.

The 1977 White House climate memo that should have changed the world (The Guardian)

Call for urgent action as Australia faces biodiversity crisis (Al Jezeera)

‘We beg God for water’: Chilean lake turns to desert, sounding climate change alarm (Reuters)

It’s Hard to Do Climate Research When Your Field Site Is Melting

‘Impossible to Continue Operating’: Australia’s National Energy Market Suspended

Germany’s Fridays for Future Spokesperson: “We’re Planning How To “Blow Up” African Oil Pipeline!

Satellite Detects Largest Release of Methane in the World (New York Times)

WashPost Whines U.S. Energy Crisis NOT ‘Spurring a Green Revolution’

Panel Warns of ‘Chinese Subversion’ of US Economy

Kyiv’s war for independence

177 Ukrainian Refugees Land in Newfoundland on Second Provincially-Chartered Flight

Pope Doubles Down On NATO-Ukraine Comments: Russian Invasion Was “Provoked”

Russians Control 80 Percent of Key Ukraine City, Cut Escape Routes: Ukrainian Official

Ukrainian Troops Have Nobody To Call To Troubleshoot Their Javelin Missiles  Scott Adams had a bit on his podcast yesterday about how Ukrainians can’t use their Javelin missiles because they require batteries that the Ukrainians don’t have and can’t get.

Ukraine Situation Report: More HIMARS On The Way Once Ukraine Shows It Can Use Them In Combat

Russia is ‘hemorrhaging’ millionaires (CNN)

More than 15,000 millionaires expected to leave Russia in 2022 (The Guardian)

Putin’s Former PM Warns: If Ukraine Falls, Baltics Are Next (Newsweek)

Russian Oligarchs’ Jets Flying Over Europe Despite Sanctions: Report (Newsweek)

WEAPONS: Sweden’s Most Wanted

Russia Bans 49 British Journalists, Defence Officials From Entering  As if they would ever want to. Russia? Ew!

Biden To Announce Nearly $1BN More In Arms For Ukraine, Including Anti-Ship Missiles  Apparently the U.S. Navy wants to get in on the live-fire training and stock replenishment action.

Ukraine Defies Russia’s Sievierodonetsk Ultimatum

NATO Should Better Coordinate Its Economic Power Against Russia and China  Don’t hold your breath.

Senior Military Officer Who Retired, Went to Ukraine, Now Charged With Sexual Assault

Why more Black people are looking for safety in gun ownership (NBC) Because most black people die at the hands of other black people.

Why The Racial Wealth Gap Is So Hard To Close (NPR)

WHO Will Rename Monkeypox To Combat Racism And Stigma

People who caught Covid in first wave get ‘no immune boost’ from Omicron (The Guardian)

Is monkeypox a world health emergency? The WHO will decide next week. (Politico) Well, it is for homosexual males. The Pox That Dare Not Speak Its Name?

Exclusion of Unvaccinated BC Health Staff Hurting Patient Care, Says Surgeon Who Filed Legal Petition

Two NY Federal Judges Consecutively Step Down From Vaccine Mandate Lawsuits Over Ownership of Pfizer Stock  It didn’t take a genius to figure out that pharma stocks were in for a big payday when the pandemic panic hit. I’m just surprised that they weren’t able to hide their conflicts of interest better than that.

The Emergence of Neo-Fascism in Public Health

FDA Set to Decide on Pfizer’s COVID Shots for Kids Under 5 Based on ‘Unethical’ Trial Data  Unless the vaccine-makers can get it officially recommended for kids, they won’t qualify for immunity from prosecution and suits for vaccine side effects.

FDA Advisory Panel Recommends Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccines for Babies, Toddlers Unless the vaccine-makers can get it officially recommended for kids, they won’t qualify for immunity from prosecution and suits for vaccine side effects.

Anthony Fauci Tests Positive for COVID-19  I’m a nice guy, so I’m not gonna say it.

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Walk down the aisle of any any woke supermarket whose patrons drive electric SUVs with Bernie stickers and you’ll find shortages of everything except “plant-based substitutes” for real food. Don’t bother looking for rotisserie chicken, there’s a shortage. Forget the eggs, they’re not only cage-free and going at the rate of three for a dollar, they’re also more absent than Biden.

Milk can be had in every possible variety except the kind that comes from a cow. The stock of ‘ersatz’ alternatives to milk testify to the green gold rush touched off by the urgent need to save the planet. Cows, despite roaming the plains for thousands of years before Al Gore, Greta Thunberg and Teslas, are bad for the earth. But so it turns out is absolutely everything else.

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There’s a flag for nearly everything left-wing nowadays, and now the newly Biden-mandated federal holiday “Juneteenth” has one of its own. Vox reports the flag has been around since the 1990s, but of course, no one cared until now, as the left pushes the faux holiday upon all Americans.

‘Juneteenth’ originated as a Texas black thing, but of course like all such it has metastasized.

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Empowering stupidity is always a bad idea.

ZMan does some anthropology.

Whether it is getting the gang symbols tattooed on your face, wearing an unofficial uniform or committing yourself to a way of life, every cause requires something from the members as a payment. This sacrifice is not only a signal to the other members, showing their shared commitment to the cause, it is also a form of advertising to potential members of the cause. More important, it adds a sense of value to membership in the cause. The members feel committed.

The people displaying their pronouns in their e-mail signature and social media profile are signaling their commitment by sacrificing some portion of their dignity. There is a noticeable discomfort in these people then they say “I go by they/them” because they know what they are doing is foolish. It is as ridiculous as wearing a flowerpot on their head, but that is the point of the ritual. They are making a fool of themselves in public as a way to show their commitment to this cause.

The same thing is at play when white people take to the stage and begin hectoring their fellow white people about racism. It is patently absurd for a white person to stand up and condemn their ancestors for being white or for the crime of having created a culture that is now called white supremacy. Some of what drives this is mental illness, for sure, and some is the “my fellow white people” act. Much of it, however, is the need for the adherent to show their faith by committing an act of lunacy.

Wokery As A Cult does make a certain degree of sense.

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Uh, no thanks.

Steve Sailer says the quiet part out loud.

The Great Awokening of the last decade has been, if effect, Loser Liberation. Take everybody that, say, Aristotle would have considered less admirable and center them. Not surprisingly, Loser Lib is wreaking havoc within leftist institutions by elevating losers to leadership and make their complaints the central subject of endless office politics.

Funny how that works.

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Told you so.

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I reported last night on the sexual abuse of Ukrainian children in Spain by a Pakistani migrant. The following article from Sweden details the abuse of Ukrainian children by Arabs, but this time it’s physical gang violence.

My, what a surprise.

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On Monday’s The Lead, host Jake Tapper was the first on CNN to admit that former Florida Health Department website operator Rebekah Jones was found to have fabricated her claims that state officials with ties to Republican Governor Ron DeSantis pressured her to manipulate COVID data, according to an investigation by the Health Department’s inspector general. But even with this revelation, Tapper failed to apologize for how he and the “facts first” network helped to elevate the lies and disinformation. “In our health lead now, ‘insufficient evidence,’ that’s what a new inspector general report says it found in response to Rebekah Jones’ accusations she was asked to falsify COVID data on Florida’s dashboard,” Tapper announced before handing the actual reporting to national correspondent Kristen Holmes; instead of going off on one of his infamous, self-righteous diatribes.

Progressive means never having to say you were wrong.

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New York’s Jewish House members have disappeared because there are no longer Jewish Democrat communities. Instead there are Republican Jewish communities who are being gerrymandered and people with Jewish last names who belong to no community, who are generally agnostic when it comes to religion, and whose only culture is pop culture.

Jewish Democrats helped destroy their own electorate. And are eliminating themselves.

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Democratic Senator Ron Wyden (OR) – who last year blocked a bill that would punish Chinese forced labor before receiving $60K from Nike execs – wants to punish US oil companies by slapping a 21% surtax on profits that exceed 10%.

If Ron Wyden could run an oil company, why isn’t he doing that (and making a lot of money) rather than peeing in the soup of those that do?

The program of the Democrat Party appears to be (a) find something that you don’t understand and (b) use the power of government to muck it up.

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With periods of extended dryness and water curtailments occurring more frequently due to climate change, growers in California’s Central Valley — one of the most productive agricultural regions on the planet — are increasingly looking to fallow fields or uproot orchards and vineyards for lack of irrigation. Once gathered into towering pyres, the vegetation is then set ablaze, sending lung- and heart-aggravating haze across the valley.

San Joaquin Valley air regulators have struggled for nearly 20 years to outlaw the practice of agricultural burning, encouraging farmers instead to grind up forsaken crops in wood chippers and spread them as mulch. But amid a third year of drought, some fear a resurgence in large-scale burning because it’s cheaper than grinding, and because so many acres are being abandoned due to drought.

Already, 395,000 acres of farmland have been fallowed across California because of the drought, according to UC Merced research. Industry groups estimate 60,000 acres of almond trees and 15,000 acres of vineyards will be removed statewide this year as well.

“If you’re not able to get water, then you’re gonna have a lot of dry stuff that’s potentially going to die. And then what’s gonna happen with that waste?” asked Catherine Garoupa White, executive director of the Central Valley Air Quality Coalition. “It’s easier to just strike a match and light it on fire.”

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Linguistic inflation is analogous to economic inflation, but it concerns a devaluation in meaning rather than price.

Inflation lies behind the popular use of such words as genius, epic, awesome, totally, and incredible. What they mean is often more modest than their traditional senses suggest: genius means clever, epic is impressive, incredible is surprising. Such is our need to imbue our words with force and significance, that we use hyperbole to entice people to pay attention – and the hyperbolic terms gradually normalise.

Say we’re sharing a link on the internet. Can we trust people to heed us if we say it’s “pretty good” or “rather interesting”? These intensifiers, which Orin examined last week, will seem mild in the midst of phrases like “insanely amazing” (which Google tells me has been applied to hair extensions and cheese dip recipes). So more people begin inflating their own lexical choices. Eventually the exaggerated forms become mundane.

The problem is the intersection of rampant narcissism and what might be called an evolving ‘attention society’. Status and remuneration flow toward those whose strident cries of ‘Look at me! Look at me!’ are most successful, therefore all the incentives are aligned toward ‘turning it up to eleven’.

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A refreshing dip into the warm  bath of progressive unreality.

This is the world that proglodytes inhabit every waking moment. Sucks to be them.

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The prototype “particle beam cannon” recently completed by Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Modern Physics may sound like science fiction, but it is a novel new technology that promises to recycle dangerous waste produced by a nuclear reactor. A product of China’s huge investment in advanced nuclear-energy systems, the breakthrough could move the country toward energy independence and further cement its global leadership in climate-friendly technology.

In a typical fission reactor, atoms of heavy isotopes such as uranium-235 are broken apart, releasing energy. The process also releases extra neutrons, which collide with other atoms and break them apart in a chain reaction. The broken atoms are spent fuel that is cooled for a few years and then carefully stored for a few centuries. But a proposed new type of reactor built with this “cannon”—formally, a proton accelerator—could recycle this spent fuel, making it cheaper and safer to generate electricity.

Kathleen Buhle, Hunter Biden’s ex, married a total sleazeball  A sleazeball named Hunter.

White House press secretary says Americans are ‘well positioned’ to face economic challenges (CNN)

U.S. judge blocks Biden administration policy narrowing immigration enforcement (Reuters)

Expert rips Biden’s ‘backwards’ energy policies: He’s ‘failing’ Americans

The Electric Car Is Biden’s ‘Golden Calf’

S&P 500 Plunges, Wipes Out All of Its Gains Since Biden Took Office

The Swamp vs. America: Biden Policies Are Making America Poorer

Biden Admin Stonewalls on Release of Thousands of Illegal Immigrants Into New York

Watch: Biden Advisor Says Social Media Should Silence Anyone Who Criticises Green Energy “Transition”

The death of Patrick Lyoya: does this story sound familiar?

NYC Mayor: Police Exodus ‘Great Opportunity To Diversity the Department’

Rapper Roddy Ricch Arrested on Gun Charges in New York

Who Should Actually Get Sued for Mass Shootings?

How Stacey Abrams Helped Funnel Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars to an Israel-Hating Terrorist Sympathizer

Police Identify Gunman in Texas Summer Camp Attack

The Jan. 6 committee exposed Trump’s lies — and indicted the GOP in the process (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin abandons any pretense of being a Republican.

Police say men linked to a White supremacist group planned to riot. Here’s what we know about Patriot Front, its young leader and how it’s different (CNN) No action against the Supreme Court protesters who also ‘plan to riot’, though.

The first Woodward and Bernstein story on the Watergate scandal (Washington Post) Reliving the old days of glory and hoping it will somehow rub off on Trump.

A plea to gun owners to save more Sierras (CNN) Even the ‘medical correspondent’ has to pile on.

Guns, insurrection and the persistence of Trumpism in Republican identity (The Hill)

Doug Mastriano hired former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis for his campaign for Pa. governor (Philadelphia Inquirer) Oh no! Trump cooties!

Sky News Australia is a global hub for climate misinformation, report says (The Guardian)

Probe Reveals Mysterious ‘Third Party’ Breached Michigan Voting Systems Amid Trumpworld’s Voter Fraud Frenzy (Daily Beast) Mysterious!

Government expands investigation into Trump’s social network deal (Axios)

SEC Expands Its Investigation Into Trump’s Shady Social Network Deal (Gizmodo) Shady!

A California lawmaker tweeted a joke about drag shows. His house was then searched for bombs. (S.F. Gate)

Death Threats Emailed to Sen. Wiener and Other Incidents, Raise Pride Safety Concerns (NBC)

Churches, Pro-Life Organizations Attacked 41 Times in Past 6 Weeks

MSNBC Hosts Compare Fox to Middle Eastern State Propaganda

What I Saw at ‘Blockade the Supreme Court’ Protest

California Dems Aim to Target Tax Exempt Status of Patriot Groups

Alito Protests Disrupt Police and Neighborhood

White House Advisor Calls for Big Tech to ‘Jump In,’ Censor So-Called Disinformation

Networks Quiet as New Wave of Pro-Abortion Terror Strikes U.S.

Ruhle Rants Against GOP ‘Using Inflation to Push People to the Polls’

The uses of the January 6th Congressional hearing: setting the scene for the criminal indictment of Trump?

Capitol Police Chief Debunks J6 Committee Conspiracy Theory

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What happens when the workforce no longer wants to work? We’re about to find out. As with all cultural sea changes, macro statistics don’t tell the full story. The sea change is better illuminated by anecdotal evidence: workers constantly quitting to take better jobs; zero loyalty to corporate employers; workers cutting hours from full-time to part-time; workers going out for lunch and never coming back; workers giving up on selling sugar-water for the rest of their lives (echoing Steve Jobs’ famous challenge to John Scully: “Do you want to sell sugared water for the rest of your life? Or do you want to come with me and change the world?”) and giving up on owning an insanely over-valued house.

Workers may sell sugar-water but their hearts are no longer in it. Some are interested in changing the world, and others are interested in changing their own lives as the means to change the world.

Reference.

Before Space X can launch its Starship in support of NASA, the Department of Defense, and the greater goal of bringing humanity to the stars, the FAA has required that SpaceX must (among other requirements):

• Prepar[e] a historical context report (i.e., historical narrative) of the historic events and activities of the Mexican War (1846–1848) and the Civil War (1861–1865) that took place in the geographic area associated with and including the Area of Potential Effects (APE).
• [P]rovide $5,000 annually to enhance the existing TPWD Tackle Loaner Program. This funding may be used to purchase fishing equipment (rods, reels, and tackle boxes with hooks, sinkers, and bobbers) for use at existing, heavily visited sites and/or allow the program to expand to new locations.
• Participate in wildlife photography introduction and instruction opportunities on?site.
• [M]ake an annual contribution of $5,000 to the Friends of Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge Adopt?an?Ocelot Program within 3 months of the issuance of the BO and by March 1 of each year thereafter for the duration of the BO. Funds donated to the program are intended to pay for…Special events to raise awareness about the ocelot.

It’s hard to take our civilization seriously on some days.

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Brown University researchers have developed a new material that they hope will one day swiftly deliver drugs to stop infections in wounds — but activate only when there are bacteria around to kill.

The new gel material will release its drugs only in the presence of a specific enzyme that bacteria release. Working only as-needed and with a guaranteed target may help improve patient safety, treatment efficacy, and prevent bacteria from evolving resistance.

David Cole.

You didn’t think you could just walk away from Covid hysteria, did you? You didn’t think it would just end, right? In fact, “Phase II” is about to begin. And I’m not talking about more masks ’n’ jabs. I’m talking about a new iteration, a mutation. Not a viral one, but a metamorphosis in terms of what Covid represents to the left.

A transition from disease to identity.

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Jihadist militants imprisoned in the United States are receiving cash and legal assistance from a website similar to Facebook that connects them with terrorist sympathizers and publicizes their location, including “GPS-coordinated satellite imagery of the facilities at which the inmates are held,” according to a watchdog group.

“At least two incarcerated ISIS operatives maintain registered profiles on the website, suggesting the accounts were generated by the operatives themselves,” according to a new investigation by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), a watchdog group that tracks jihadist behavior online. “Online ISIS supporters have raised awareness about ISIS operatives’ profiles on the website, raising potential security risks.” MEMRI is withholding the website’s direct address to avoid aiding in its recruitment.

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Pennsylvanians are moving to red states in search of smaller government, school choice, and lower taxes.

Starbucks May End Open-to-All Bathroom Policy Due to Safety Concerns, CEO says

Watergate happened 50 years ago. Its legacies are still with us. (Washington Post) Such as the Narrative Media.

Amazon is flying internet influencers to luxurious resorts in bid for social media clout (CNBC)

With gravitas and grace, Liz Cheney ‘anchored’ Jan. 6 Committee hearing (The Hill) Lining her up for her payday.

Alabama man convicted of littering after placing flowers on fiancee’s grave

I’m a New Yorker who moved to the South for 2 years. Here are 6 reasons I’m ready to leave. (Insider) I suspect it’s the ‘strict marijuana laws’ that really pinch.

How Christian home-schoolers laid the groundwork for ‘parental rights’ (Washington Post)

Communist Party Inserts Police Officers as School Vice Principals Across China

Microsoft’s Bing Censors Politically-Sensitive Chinese Names in US Searches: Report

West Virginia Notifies Six Banks They May Be Breaking State’s Fossil Fuel Anti-Boycott Law

Smithfield Foods, Citing “Escalating Costs,” To Shutter California Meat-Packing Plant

Beyond ‘Rage Giving’: AP Promotes the Need for ‘Abortion Funds’ to Pay for More Abortions

Green Energy Victim? Large California Meat Processing Plant to Close, Cites Utility Bills

The lucrative economics of expert witnesses

University Toxicity: America Should Stop Nursing the Viper

‘Old white guy’ can move forward with workplace bias suit against AT&T

Study Connects Jump in Youth Suicide With Transgender Treatments, Lack of Parental Consent

North Carolina Department of Public Instruction Lied About CRT Content Collaboration: Watchdog Group  Of course they did.

Liberty-Lovers Find Home In ‘Live Free or Die’ New Hampshire

Re-Imagine Actual Policing

Primary Underdogs: Nevada ‘Establishment RINOs’ Don’t Want Red Wave Newcomers in Their Tent

Virginia Judge Kicks Soros Prosecutor Off Case for Concealing Criminal Records

Left-wing Prosecutor Soft on Alien Drug Dealers So They Weren’t Deported

Ibram X. Kendi on the importance of being antiracist (CBS) Personally, I can’t think of anyone who’s more racist than Ibram X. Kendi.

Florida teen gets into every Ivy League college  (Diversity)

Rihanna Insulting Helena Bonham Carter’s Fashion Sense On “The Graham Norton Show,” And 24 Other Funny Pop Culture Moments (BuzzFeed)

For some adults who love Disney, it’s like a religion

Police: 2 Killed, 4 Wounded in Shooting at Indiana Nightclub

Raphael Warnock Blames Brother’s Drug Conviction on Systemic Racism. Court Records Tell a Different Story.

Teen Charged in Shooting That Injured 3 People at NC Mall

At Harvard, Descendants of American Slaves Are Outnumbered by Descendants of Slave-Sellers

‘Old white guy’ can move forward with workplace bias suit against AT&T

31 Shot, Six Dead in Chicago Shootings Over the Past Weekend: Police

Florida 10-Year-Old Accused of Fatally Shooting Woman Fighting With Her Mother

Tony Awards Slam White People, Hails ‘Big, Black, and Queer-Ass American Broadway’

3 Arrested in Connection to Fatal Beating of Teen at ‘I Promise School’ Basketball Court

The Root Defends The Systematic Slaughter of Blacks Through Abortion

New York City Subway Stabber Was Released From Jail Day Before Attack

The End Of Clouds? How Climate Change Could Alter The Sky (SyFy)

Antarctica And Greenland’s Ice Sheet Melting On Track With “Worst-Case Scenario” Forecasts (IFL Science) It’s all about the clicks.

The Collapse of an Atlantic Ocean Current Would Ripple Across The World, Says Study (Science Alert) As if.

How a conservation non-profit made climate change worse by not cutting down trees (Boing Boing) There’s no pleasing some people.

Study: In most cases entities behind Renewable Energy Certificates are not doing much for the climate (Tech Xplore)

New Yorkers might be able to compost their dead loved ones soon (The Hill) I can hardly wait.

This iconic California tree could go extinct. But some officials are wary of naming it ‘threatened’ (S.F. Chronicle)

Oregon utility powers up nation’s first large-scale wind, solar and battery facility

New York has a chance to generate all its electricity from clean energy by 2030 (The Guardian)

‘Silent Spring’ at 60  Count up the millions who have died of malaria because her book triggered a ban on DDT.

Climate change a bigger threat than war, Fiji tells security summit (BBC)

EU vote to ban all sales of combustion engine vehicles by 2035

Google and Facebook blocking wind farm because it will raise their electric bill

Nevada lithium mine pits Biden green agenda against radical environmentalists

Vox: Stop telling kids that climate change will destroy their world

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Can you have bread and circuses without the bread? A group of rabid lefties want to find out. James Martin, CEO of Martin’s, whose potato rolls are popular in both supermarkets and restaurants, supports a conservative candidate for Pennsylvania governor. So, according to The Washington Post on Sunday, Martin’s must be destroyed.

Apparently Martin, his wife, and his daughter donated money to GOP gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano. Mastriano is a Pennsylvania state senator, a retired army colonel, and a Trump supporter.

The most notable person to boycott was author and chef J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, known for not only having a large YouTube following and public presence but for banning MAGA hat-wearing customers from his restaurant, San Mateo Eatery, in 2019, saying the MAGA hat was “Same as if you come in wearing a swastika, white hood, or any other symbol of intolerance and hate.” (How does he feel about Che Guevara tee shirts?) Certainly, the type to get his panties in a bunch over some conservative bread rolls.

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This creeps me out.

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Although this is a British story, the U.S. is infected with the same disease.

the same: a minor politician, surrounded by half a dozen beaming activists, thrilled at spending 5 minutes in the company of the Junior Minister for Potholes and Verges. “Residents agreed it was time to get on with the job,” they tweet, in a giddy flurry — wisely skirting over the twenty doors slammed in their faces, and the woman who set her Dobermann on them. Can having the seat of your trousers sewn back on be claimed on expenses?

Regardless of party, the image is universal. The gauchely held placards, the rictus grins. One or two people looking very serious indeed: elect Fleur de Rozarieux, your Lib Dem candidate for Abbyvale Ward — stop Brexit now. (Fleur will make herself available to help residents at all times, in between completing her A-Levels.) Labour activists follow the same blueprint, but with more colourful hair. And the promise of far greater influence over the Gaza Strip.

It’s hard not to wonder, as the various machines splutter into campaign mode for yet another election, what possesses a subsection of our fellow citizens to devote so much time to pushing leaflets through letterboxes — in exchange for little more than a selfie with Oliver Dowden, or a brief, stolen glimpse of Angela Rayner uncrossing her legs.

Maybe AOC will make you a cup of coffee and demonstrate her qualifications for being in Congress.

The young people who fall into party politics are not joining something, therefore, but escaping. They are on the run: from school or university; from their home lives; from personal disappointment; from themselves. They insert themselves into an esoteric and largely hidden fraternity, where nutty proclamations and whacky behaviour are met not just with acceptance but prestige. I asked a friend, who spent much of their youth submersed in left-wing politics, what they thought motivated their young comrades. “Oh mental illness,” came the response.

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I was chatting with a horrified Swedish visitor who described a visit to Nevada.

“There was this grandmother, an elderly lady, and she took out a gun from her purse,” he told me, shaking his head.

We were having this conversation in a city which had racked up 77 shootings in just one month.

When seconds count, police respond in minutes … when they respond at all. “Well, we had to wait for protective gear, otherwise it would be too dangerous”.

As far as Sweden is concerned, Google ‘Malmo riots’ and see what lack of gun rights + a flood of Muslim immigrants gets you. I’ll bet there are a lot of Swedes who wish they could carry a gun right now.