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Seattle authorities have agreed to pay $500,000 to settle a lawsuit that pinned the 2020 shooting death of a man at the autonomous zone on city officials.

The case concerned Lorenzo Anderson, a 19-year-old who was shot near the edge of the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, also known as CHOP or CHAZ.

Authorities had allowed the zone to operate largely on its own, removing police officers from the area and refusing to send officers or firefighters in when disturbances were reported.

When Anderson was shot on June 20, 2020, it took 30 minutes for first responders to reach him, according to the suit. “By that time, it was too late,” it said.

Horace Anderson, Lorenzo’s father, filed the suit against the city, Mayor Jenny Durkan, a Democrat, and Councilwoman Kshama Sawant, a socialist.

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.

Senators Say Mayorkas Gave ‘Apparently Misleading’ Testimony About Biden Disinfo Board  In other words, he lied like a rug and has been caught out.

Oversight GOP Probes Hunter Biden’s ‘Troubling’ Connection With Big-Name Hollywood Lawyer

NBC Throws Cold Water on Biden’s Red Hot Inflation Lies

White House press secy laughs off question about Biden’s health: ‘Not a question we should be asking’

Bernie Sanders won’t run against Biden in 2024 primary (Axios)

Biden announces immigration policy changes as migrant caravan sets off for U.S. border (Deseret News)

In Biden Aid Nominee, Repressive Gulf Monarchy Found Enthusiastic Ally 

Biden Sends Threat-Letters To Big Oil: Help Ease “Putin Price Hike” Or Face Our Tools

The Loss Of US Refining Capacity Is Helping Drive Record Diesel Prices, And It Won’t Improve Anytime Soon

Biden Administration Sued Over Records on Withholding COVID-19 Treatment From Florida

Another 45 Million Barrels of Crude Oil to be Released From Strategic Petroleum Reserve: DOE

US Inflation Starts in Washington, Not Moscow

Biden’s New Policy Funds China’s Military, Supports Slavery, Achieves Nothing

Supreme Court Tosses Appeal Seeking to Revive Trump’s Immigrant Self-Sufficiency Rule  Unfortunately, immigration is completely in the hands of the executive branch, and when the executive branch is run by autistic children, we’re out of luck.

Go on Joe, nationalize the oil companies  We all know you want to. It’s what Truman would have done.

Major Recession Only Realistic Way for Gasoline Price to Drop: Experts

Pro-Life Facilities Are Under Attack. A Top DOJ Official Called Them ‘Fake Clinics.’ 

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

San Francisco Mayor Happily Reports Less Human Poop On City Streets Due To Food Shortages (Babylon Bee)

By the Numbers: How Many Men in California Prisons Identify as Women

LA County Offering Free Lunches to Kids at Libraries and Parks This Summer  This sort of thing is why California is descending into Turd World status. California appratchiks can’t afford to let children spend any time away from the government teat if they’re going to preserve the Dependency Underclass upon which their continued power depends.

Synagogue Lawsuit Claims Florida Abortion Ban Violates Religious Freedom  I wasn’t aware that abortion was part of the Jewish religion. I am dubious.

Australia Raises Minimum Wage Rate to Curb Inflation  That’s like bleeding people to improve their health.

Economic Effects of Foreign Companies Exiting China Can’t Be Ignored, Expert Says

As SCOTUS’ conservative majority weakens civil rights, Sonia Sotomayor begs to differ (Boston Globe)

Former FBI official had numerous unauthorized contacts with media during 2016 campaign, watchdog says (Politico) Prediction: Nobody gets fired, nobody goes to jail.

The Effects of Gay Pride and ‘Allyship’ on Journalism

Celebrity Drivel: Megan Thee Stallion Champions Abortion at Spanish Concert

New York State, City Paid $200,000 For Drag Queens Reading To Kids At Public Schools, Records Show  As Hunter Thompson liked to say, when the going gets weird the weird turn pro.

Pew Poll: Most Journalists Don’t Believe In ‘Equal Coverage’; 43% Admit Bias

Parents Find Critical Race Theory Training Material in Pennsylvania School That Denies Teaching CRT

Hispanics Just Voting For Whichever Candidate Isn’t Calling Them ‘Latinx’ (Babylon Bee)

Israel’s National Airline Moving Headquarters to Florida

CNN Panel Calls Pro-Trump Candidates a ‘Cancer’; Not ‘Sustainable for a Democracy’  Certainly not for a Narrative Democracy.

John Kerry: ‘We Absolutely Don’t’ Need to Drill for Oil Despite Soaring Gas Prices  Kerry continues his impeccable record of being wrong on every significant issue.

Michigan Middle School Hides Student’s Gender Transition From Parents

Stanford’s War on Social Life

South Africans Fighting Government to Keep Guns, as Violence Continues to Soar

Illinois Dem ‘Shocked’ After Another Manufacturer Leaves Democrat-Run State for Texas  Whyever would they do that?

House GOPer Says China Abuses Interpol Red Notices to Track, Detain Overseas Dissidents

PANIC: The View Denies ‘Red Wave,’ Ignores Historic GOP Win By Latina

Parent Speaks Out Against Legislation to Make California a Trans Sanctuary State

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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How do you write an article about tampons and for the most part avoid using the word “women” when talking about menstruation?

Orwell had a word for it: DoubleThink. “Doublethink is a process of indoctrination in which subjects are expected to simultaneously accept two conflicting beliefs as truth, often at odds with their own memory or sense of reality.” (Wikipedia)

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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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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”

Fuel crisis: slash demand in three sectors to protect economies and climate (Nature) Note that the recommendation is ‘slash demand’, not ‘increase supply’.

House Democrats probe PR industry’s role in advertising for Big Oil (The Hill)

QuantumScape promised a revolutionary EV battery. Here’s why investors are still waiting (CNBC) Apparently wishing won’t make it so. Who knew?

What Bitcoin’s nosedive means for the environment (The Verge)

‘Space bubbles’ between Earth, sun possibly could reverse destructive climate change, MIT researchers say (Oregon Live)

Universities face mounting pressure to stop taking fossil fuel funds (Boston Globe)

Rising beaches suggest Antarctic glaciers are melting faster than ever (New Atlas)

Is it Ethical to Purchase a Lithium Battery Powered EV?

Elon Musk’s Starship Must Take Over 75 Environmental Actions Before Its Granted Permission to Launch: FAA

BBC’s Institutional Alarmism

Sydney Grid Fail: Australia’s Greenest Voters Plunged into Darkness

Where does the plastic in our oceans come from?

Six Major Problems With “Green” Transition

Kavanaugh threat: New York Times, mainstream networks under fire for downplaying near-assassination

McConnell says House’s Supreme Court security bill can’t pass Senate (The Hill)

How the gay rights movement found such stunning success (Washington Post)

“Go Brandon” joke shows law enforcement extremism (L.A. Times)

Politico appears worried SCOTUS climate change ruling could weaken president’s power to oversee American life

Hollywood Heavyweights Take a Stand Against Guns on Film After Bill Maher Criticism (Daily Beast) None of whom I’ve ever heard of.

Washington DC Mayor Bowser adds 51st star to American flags displayed on Pennsylvania Ave ahead of Flag Day  They ought to give it back to Maryland, as was done with the Virginia part.

NPR mocked for tweet warning tampon shortage a problem for ‘people who menstruate’

Sports Illustrated hit for article claiming Supreme Court ruling on prayer could erode ‘American democracy’

Team Zuckerberg Masks the Heavily Pro-Democrat Tilt of 2020 Election ‘Zuck Bucks,’ Study Finds

‘Rainbow on the Creek’ Pride Event Hosts ‘Family-Friendly’ Drag Show, Says It’s Sponsored by Google

Study Shows Kids Who Are Homeschooled Could Miss Out On Opportunity To Be A Gay Communist (Babylon Bee)

Elite Los Angeles School Sued for ‘Racially Divisive,’ Antisemitic Curriculum

CNN Demands You Vote For Dems If Trump Is The 2024 Nominee

Hong Kong Schools Retold to Remove Books That ‘Endanger National Security’

‘Queer Ethics Professor’ Calls For Pedophilia To Be Destigmatised And Taught In Schools

Teaching Association Raises Alarm Bells as Top Educators, Students Continue to Flee Hong Kong

Biological Men Have Won 28 Women’s Sports Titles Since 2003

Will CNN Report? Dems Spending Big $$$ Promoting Trumpers in Primaries

New York Governor Turns State Into ‘Abortion Sanctuary’ Through New Legislation

Chinese International Students’ Interference of Free Speech on US Campuses Casts Spotlight on CCP Infiltration

Resistance group defends extreme methods to save a planet

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.

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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

Pfizer-BioNTech shot for children under 5 safe and effective, FDA staff says (Washington Post) And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

How Long Are You Contagious With COVID? Here’s What the CDC Says (NBC) All of this life and into the next.

Beijing warns of ‘explosive’ COVID outbreak, Shanghai conducts mass testing

Public Health Update: Monkeypox, Infant Formula, Excessive Heat (My Mother Lode)

US Seeks to Expand Monkeypox Testing as Cases Rise  Ramping up for the next PANIC!

Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Says Vaccination Status Will Block Him From Attending Debate  Lucky him.

Many Baby Formula Plants Weren’t Inspected Because of COVID-19 Pandemic  Your tax dollars at work.

Monkeypox Can Be Contained—but Time Is Running Out (Wired ‘Science’)

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

Biden executive order defunds the police by another name

Biden’s White House hosted several ‘defund the police’ activists over the past year, visitor logs show

Biden juggles principles, pragmatism in stance on autocrats (Associated Press)

Real Wages Fall in All Income Groups as Stimulus Plans Backfire

US Already Descending Into Recession: Economist

‘Exhausted’ Gas Funds Sees Michigan Sheriff’s Dept Reduced to Managing ‘Non-Life Threatening’ Calls by Phone

Hey CNN, Remember that ‘Below $3 a Gallon’ Gas ‘Soon’ Prediction You Regurgitated in December?

Obama Treasury Secretary Blames ‘Insurrection’-Deniers For Inflation, Warns US At “Risk Of Recession” In The Next Year

Trump Up Against ‘Strong Evidence’ in Georgia, Expert Predicts Prosecution (Newsweek) I predict no prosecution. Let’s see who’s the real expert.

Jan. 6 panelists say committee has enough evidence to indict Trump (Axios) If they had, they’d have done it already. They haven’t, because they’ve got nothing.

Raskin says Garland knows ‘what’s at stake’ on possible Justice Department indictment of Trump (CNN)

Does the Justice Department want to charge Trump? (NBC)

Gov. Youngkin, who ran on culture wars, takes cautious approach to Pride (Washington Post) Maybe he just doesn’t care as much as the Washington Post.

Youngkin hosts Virginia pride events angering some LGBT groups  There’s no pleasing some people.

Will Alito apply leaked draft abortion reasoning and vote to uphold New York’s concealed carry gun law? (The Hill) Ponder the assumption that anyone at The Hill has the slightest shred of understanding of Alito’s reasoning in any area.

Trump Knew He Lost Election—or Is Incapable of Being President: Kinzinger (Newsweek)

The January 6th Hearings Real Goal: Stop Trump 2024

Another ‘Big Lie’ About Trump: He ‘Mocked’ a Disabled Reporter

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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.