Chicago cop shot in broad daylight; third law enforcement officer in one week

‘Several active shooters’ in a popular Philadelphia area leave 3 people dead and 11 others wounded (CNN)

Chicago man charged with shooting US marshal, police dog

New York Attorneys Accused Of Firebombing Police Car Given Generous Plea Deal

Asylum Seekers Overwhelm Shelters In Portland, Maine

Wisconsin Man Charged With Killing 6 in Botched Drug Robbery

Chicago Police: 33 People Shot, 6 Dead Over Weekend

1 Killed, 7 Injured, Including 5 Minors, at South Carolina Graduation Party Shooting

Bill Gates responds to Musk, claiming he does much more to fight climate change

Bonn climate conference: Ukraine war no excuse for prolonging coal, Kerry warns (BBC)

Blockchain company buys $1M in carbon credits generated by Issaquah forest, the biggest such deal in U.S. history (Seattle Times)

How America’s Recycling Program Failed—and Scarred the Environment (Foundation for Economic Education)

Pakistan’s tourism industry rocked by climate change (Al-Jezeera)

Axios Climate Truths: Climate hits home

New York Times Op-Ed Applauds Inflation As Means To Enforce Green Diet

I Rented an Electric Car for 4 Days and Spent More Time Charging Than Sleeping

Bill Gates to Elon Musk: My Climate Virtue is Bigger than Your Climate Virtue?

Brevard County now a community of high COVID transmission; cases and hospitalizations are up (Florida Today)

CDC director spoke with several union leaders before tightening masking guidance, internal calendar reveals

DC Health confirms the District’s first Orthopox case; CDC tests to see if it’s monkeypox (ABC)

A more traditional coronavirus shot is on the way. Some people can’t wait. (Washington Post) Yeah, maybe this one will actually work.

Very critical: WHO lists 5 preventive measures to stop human-to-human monkeypox transmission

Regime Threatens Death Penalty for COVID-19 Infected Who Cross Into China

The War Against the Unvaxxed Will Not Be Forgotten

Doctors Suing Food and Drug Administration Over Ivermectin

‘I guess I’m not as liberal as I thought’: Recall effort forces deep reflection among San Francisco Democrats (Mercury News)

A liberal D.A. finds voters’ moods have changed even in San Francisco (Washington Post)

Senators say gun deal is within reach, but without Biden’s wish list (Washington Post)

Washington Post reporter claims the Second Amendment was ‘reinterpreted’ to include individual gun rights Where is the provision that was ‘reinterpreted’ to allow abortion? To allow ‘gay marriage’? I don’t see it anywhere.

Climate-friendly diets can make a huge difference – even if you don’t go all-out vegan (The Guardian)

Scoop: Jan. 6 committee’s private divide (Axios)

The Jan. 6 committee has a narrow but priceless opening (Washington Post) Never let a witch-hunt go to waste.

The rhetorical unraveling of democracy (The Hill)

Poll: Americans overwhelmingly prioritize gun control over ownership rights (Axios) At least, according to the Narrative.

House Bill for 1,000% Tax on Assault Weapons to Be Filibuster-Proof: Beyer (Newsweek) Gotta get that scary ‘assault weapon’ tag in there.

Democrats are squandering their hard-won gains with Asian Americans (S.F. Chronicle) And how are they doing that? (Only 3% of reported attacks on Asian Americans led to hate crime convictions, new report says)

Pizza Hut Faces Backlash After Promoting Drag Queen Book For Kids

Census Bureau Sued Over ‘Intrusive’ Annual Survey Questions

Oregon Bungles New Addiction Recovery Program Tied To Decriminalization

Wisconsin Court Says Big Tech Funding For 2020 Election Was Lawful

Liberal Prosecutors Say They Won’t Enforce Abortion Bans

Washington Faith-Based Pregnancy Center Vandalized

Overdoses Skyrocketing as Officials Admit Failure of Oregon’s Drug Legalization Experiment  Think of it as evolution in action.

Several Rays Pitchers Choose Not To Wear LGBT Insignia On Pride Night

Pride Month as an Exercise of Raw Political Power

Nets Pump Inflated Stat on Shootings to Push Gun Control, Absolve Far-Left Cities of Blame

Teachers Explain How They Push ‘Gender Lessons’ on Young Children

Seattle Implodes After Defunding Police

Survivors of Communism Warn of Leftwing Threats to American Education

The UN Fails Again on Human Rights in China

Minnesota Taxpayers Subsidize LGBTQ Pride Event With Drag Queen-Porn Actor as Host

TIME Laments Potential End to Roe, Heralds Activist Push to Greenlight Abortion Pills Online

‘Voice of a Nation’: USA Today Takes Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars From CCP Mouthpiece 

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I find it difficult to find anyone who uses more than Excel and eighth grade level mathematics (=arithmetic, and a little bit of algebra, statistics and programming). In the summer of 2007 I taught an advanced geometry course and had two students in the class who had been engineers and one who had been an actuary. They claimed never to have used anything beyond Excel and eighth grade level mathematics; never a trig function or even a log or exponential function! There is in fact a deskilling going on in our economy, where even the ability to make change is about to disappear as an important skill.

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Latinx is the word that just won’t die.

The word reentered the national consciousness Monday when New York Democrat Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attempted to boost the word, and accused people of starting drama over it.

In a video posted on her Instagram, Ocasio-Cortez said “”I want to have a note on gender inclusivity in Spanish language. People sometimes like to make a lot of drama over the term Latinx.”

“Gender is fluid, language is fluid,” she said before concluding, “Don’t have to make drama.”

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Ocasio-Cortez is not just wildly out of step with the American people, but Latinos as well.

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Jews, like Chinese, breed for intelligence.

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source of a marine compound that had long shown promise as an anti-cancer drug — but wasn’t able to be found in enough quantities in nature or synthesized in a lab.

The source of the compound, called eleutherobin, has been vexing drug discoverers for a quarter century, until it was found in common soft corals off the Florida coast — a mile from the researcher’s brother’s apartment.

The researchers were able to take the first steps towards recreating how the soft corals produce eleutherobin, opening the door to potentially synthesizing the compound in large amounts in the future, once they figure out the rest of the “recipe.”

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Many parts of the U.S. government, including its leading scientific agencies, are being blamed for the country’s chaotic and disorganized response to COVID-19. The CDC’s muddled and mistaken messaging about masks, testing, and the mechanism of viral spread sowed public confusion. The FDA’s extreme caution about approving boosters may have slowed the deployment of those vital measures. But a nation’s ability to weather a pandemic also depends upon its underlying ability to make major scientific discoveries, even—or especially—during moments of crisis. Success is not just a matter of luck; historically, the United States has made a series of strategic decisions that put researchers in a position to make timely breakthroughs. Yet amid the biggest health crisis in 100 years, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the $42-billion-a-year engine of our nation’s biomedical-research infrastructure, has been strangely quiet.

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BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo—Suspected ISIS terrorist affiliates killed at least 18 people in a village raid in eastern Congo on Sunday night, local sources said, while fighting resumed with the M23 rebel group in a neighbouring province.

Terrorists believed to be from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) killed residents and burned down houses in the village of Otomabere, in Irumu territory, Ituri Province, said a witness, a local chief and a local human rights group.

Congolese army spokesman Jules Ngongo confirmed the ADF attack without giving a death toll, and said Congolese forces were in pursuit of the assailants.

The ADF is an Ugandan ISIS affiliate that moved to eastern Congo in the 1990s.

Just a little reminder that Muslim terrorists are still out there and still killing innocent people.

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President Joe Biden has written an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal detailing his plan to fight inflation.

Well, perhaps the word “detailing” is too generous. The preponderance of the column features Biden taking credit for economic growth that can be attributed to the reopening of the economy that was shuttered by the governing class during COVID-19. Biden, of course, not only championed those closings but was critical of Republican governors who opened their states before he deemed it appropriate.

But with midterms approaching, there’s been a concerted effort underway to exonerate the president, and thus Democrats, of any culpability for rising prices. Biden sycophant “Morning Joe,” for example, contends that anyone who blames the president for more than a “passing impact” on inflation is a “lying hack or an ignorant rube.”

One wonders if that group includes former Obama adviser Steve Rattner, who argues that inflation has been driven by government putting “too much money in people’s pockets”? Or Obama’s onetime Director of the National Economic Council Larry Summers, who had been warning for more than a year that cash infusions would exacerbate inflation? Or Jeff Bezos, who correctly pointed out that the “administration tried hard to inject even more stimulus into an already over-heated, inflationary economy”?

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

You probably missed the New York Times column last week exploring the upside of inflation. Understanding what Democrats and their supporters need to hear right now, the Times delivered Annaliese Griffin’s op-ed column “You Want to Buy Meat? In This Economy?”

Like a bad cold contracted by a cigarette smoker, inflation presents a good opportunity to lose a bad habit. Griffin observes: “Meat, poultry, fish and eggs now cost 14.3 percent more than they did a year ago.”

What has gone wrong? Griffin does not want to know how we got here. Rather, Griffin presents the opportunity food inflation presents for you, the reader, to reform your diet in the interest of Gaia.

Save the planet! Eat bugs! Live in caves! Huddle in the dark!

ZMan.

Politics in a democracy not only devolve into theater, but they select for the sorts of people attracted to the theatrical. The reason for this is democracy is about winning the crowd, which rewards those best at winning the crowd. Inevitably, elite interests will invest in those who show the ability to stand in front the mobs and win them over without making too many promises. After all, if you need to bribe the crowd then why bother investing in a guy trying to win the crowd?

Of course, the best stage performers are the people who are extraordinarily high in extraversion and very low in agreeableness. This person loves being the center of attention and likes meeting new people. A good actor can light up a room full of strangers and come away energized by it. He will also be very low in empathy and see others as either competitors of victims to be exploited. Great performers tend to be horrible people when away from the stage.

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A cancer trial has reportedly become the first in the world to completely remove the disease in every patient, according to a study published Sunday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The study, titled “PD-1 Blockade in Mismatch Repair—Deficient, Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer” was conducted among 12 rectal cancer patients, all of which had a “clinical complete response,” according to the authors, led by Dr. Andrea Cercek of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York City.

Doctors have been unable to see any evidence of tumors among the patients when using magnetic resonance imaging, fludeoxyglucose F 18 injections, physical examinations, or via endoscopic evaluations, according to researchers.

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

Sometime in the next couple days I’m going to formalize a new regular feature, Power Line’s Political Lexicon, which we’ll update regularly (especially with reader help). For now, I’ll offer the newest entry:

Expert (noun): People who are wrong about everything. Usually collaborators in Groupthink, and employed by government agencies or a university.

Steve Sailer.

Despite each killing at least three, none of these mass shootings would make the Mother Jones magazine list of Real Mass Shootings. They leave out all felony-related massacres, all ones vaguely attributable to “gangs” (i.e., black lowlifes who are peeved at each other), and ones that haven’t been cleared by the cops.

Joel Kotkin.

For the past decade, America’s urban centres have been increasingly run by ‘progressive’ activists. Yet today, as US cities reel from collapsed economies, rising crime and pervasive corruption, there’s something of a revolt brewing, the success of which may well determine the role and trajectory of our great urban centres.

This emerging conflict is coming to a head next week in Los Angeles, the US’s second-largest city, in the Democratic primaries for LA mayor. Next week’s vote is likely to lead to a head-to-head between moderate billionaire developer Rick Caruso and progressive congressperson Karen Bass, once considered a potential vice-president for Joe Biden. On the same day, ultra-liberal San Francisco district attorney Chesa Boudin faces a potential recall amid rising crime rates.

The possible shift towards the centre reflects a move back to more traditional urban policies, particularly on crime and homelessness. It’s not Republicans leading the charge against ultra-progressive policies, either. It is African American, Democratic mayors like Houston’s Sylvester Turner and New York’s Eric Adams.

Elise Stefanik Really Doesn’t Need to Embrace Trumpism (New Yorker)

Why Republican politicians (almost) all go off the dial (N.Y. Daily News)

What studies reveal about gun ownership in the US (CNN) From the Nartative point of view, that is.

Jan. 6 committee set to make its case public with prime-time hearings (Washington Post) Just in time for the mid-term elections. What a coincidence.

Can televised hearings bring the truth about January 6 to the US public? (The Guardian) No,  but that’s not the point – the point is to bring the Narrative to the U.S. public.

Why Trump Isn’t to Blame for the Nation’s Toxic Political Tribalism (Politico)

‘Hateful’ anti-LGBTQ graduation speech at Ohio high school sparks outrage (NBC)

Trump’s latest Jan. 6 grift poses a hidden challenge to Democrats (Washington Post)

Ben Sasse wants an optimistic GOP. He’s going to be disappointed. (Washington Post)

Trump can’t blame Democratic crossover voters for his Georgia failures (Washington Post)

MSNBC guest: ‘White Men’ are the biggest ‘threat’ to women’s ‘liberty as citizens,’ ‘right to vote’

This is an absolutely savage new ad against Herschel Walker (CNN) If he were running as a Democrat, they’d call it racist.

Jan. 6 Committee Adviser: No ‘Smoking Gun’ Showing Trump Planned US Capitol Breach

How to force Big Oil to pay for carbon cleanup (S.F. Chronicle)

Kirk’s Insights on Climate Risk (EconLog)

San Francisco’s “managed retreat” from rising sea levels (Axios) Let me know when real estate prices in Malibu start dropping.

Endangered Anegada rock iguanas are being eaten like popcorn by cats (Washington Post)

COP26: Are nations on track to meet their climate goals? (BBC)

Climate is a local issue now (Axi0s)

California court rules a bumblebee is a fish under environmental law

Can floating cities help coastal communities threatened by rising sea levels? (EuroNews)

Hydrogen cars are not more eco-friendly than gas-powered cars. Here’s what to know (Interesting Engineering)

Eli Roth, Fran Drescher and More Urge Hollywood to Prioritize Environmental Issues at Hollywood Reporter/EMA Sustainability Event

Drought-stricken US warned of looming ‘dead pool’ (BBC)

Sorry, natural gas pipelines aren’t temporary: We must pivot decisively now to save the planet (N.Y. Daily News)

The net-zero Dark Ages: Democrats’ war on the poor (The Hill)

Claim: Climate Change is Making US Classrooms Too Hot

Climate change is harder on less educated people (The Economist)

Climate Nuttiness: IPCC Scientist Peter Kalmus Unglued (‘Scientist Rebellion’ a dud)

Anti-Green Blowback: ESG Funds Suffer Biggest Monthly Outflows On Record

CDC Confirms Case Of Monkeypox In Philadelphia, First In Pennsylvania (CBS)

COVID-19 was deadly to working-class Americans in 2020, researcher says (Seattle Times)

The CDC is sending monkeypox vaccines to people at high risk in a race to prevent the spread (CNBC)

There May Be 2 Distinct Strains Of Monkeypox Circulating In The U.S. (CNBC)

Special Olympics reverses vaccine requirement after Florida threatens $27.5M fine (Politico)

California County Reinstates Indoor COVID-19 Mask Mandate  Scott Adams bitched mightily about his county being the only one in the country to reinstate a mask mandate.

Dutch Airline Pilots Association blocks mandated vaccinations for new pilots

CDC Sending Vaccines to People Suspected of Monkeypox Exposure

Despite Setback, UN Push for More Power Marches On

Woke LA District Attorney George Gascon backtracks and admits County Sheriff DIDN’T agree to charges against driver, 17, who mowed down mom and baby – after the teen was sentenced to just five months in a juvenile probation camp (UK Daily Mail)

Fact-check: Has the Supreme Court ever taken away a constitutional right? (Austin American Statesman)

The [Redacted] Truth About the CIA’s [Redacted] Role in Watergate (Daily Beast)

Pray that San Francisco recalls DA Chesa Boudin

Avenatti’s Hundred-Plus Appearances on CNN Skipped in Report on His Sentencing

Smart Asian women are the new targets of CCP global online repression

MSNBC Devoted 15 Minutes of Promos to Abortion ‘Heroes’ Film on HBO

Red Flag Gun Laws Set The Stage For Selective Disarmament Of Conservatives

Enough is Enough: The Criminal Case Against Mark Zuckerberg

FBI Has ‘Secure’ Workspace in Law Firm That Represents Democrats: Document

Asylum Seekers Overwhelm Shelters in Portland, Maine

New York Times Uses Uvalde Massacre to Crank Up Its Beto-Mania in Texas Again

British Police Stand in Way of Tank Symbolising Tiananmen Square Protests

Voter Fraud Today, Voter Fraud Tomorrow, Voter Fraud Forever!

Naomi Wolf: We’re Now in the Last Stage of a Tyrannical Takeover

Albany to Adams: You can’t always get what you want (Politico)

How To Fight Racism on Turtle Island

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An apple a day may keep the doctor away, but – as a bonus – apples will greet good gut bacteria with open arms. And that’s because researchers recently uncovered evidence that apples build a community of healthy bacteria in the colon. This is due to their high content of non-digestible compounds, including fiber and polyphenols. While the health benefits of eating apples have been known for years, researchers recently began evaluating the various varieties for differences in the amount of non-digestible compounds they contained, hoping the result could bring new hope to obese individuals. As it turns out, Granny Smith apples are a cut above the rest.

Take whatever action you deem appropriate.

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Sailer’s Law of Mass Shootings indicates that the high ratio of wounded to dead suggest that the perp(s) were black.

Confirmation: Even though

Pace said one officer was “within 10 to 15 yards of the shooter, watching this person shoot into the crowd” when he returned fire. Two guns were recovered at the scene, and one had an extended magazine.

no description is provided.

In the provided doorbell video, the shots come very quickly, too quickly to have been aimed seriously. In the cellphone video, it’s obvious that most of the people wandering around are black.

‘No arrests have been made’ and ‘a citywide manhunt is underway’ and they don’t think it worthwhile to mention a description of the perp(s) in news reports? Now, let’s see, why would that be?

UPDATE: Mass Shooting in Philadelphia Leaves 3 Dead, 11 Injured Amid Weekend of Mayhem

… ‘several active shooters’…. They provide a police tip-line number but, again, no descriptions.

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For years, proponents have hailed indoor growing techniques like hydroponics (growing plants in nutrient-rich water rather than soil) and vertical farming (packing rows of plants beneath grow lamps inside of a warehouse, basement, or retrofitted shipping container) as ways to “democratize farming” for anyone who wants to give growing a go, regardless of whether they own any fertile land. And the indoor farming business is booming. In January, the commercial farming company Square Roots opened its fourth facility of shipping container farms in Wisconsin. The company says the collection of containers are capable of producing a couple million packages of plants—leafy greens like lettuce and herbs—per year. Walmart got in the indoor farming game in January when it invested in Plenty, another commercial vertical farming company. Some companies have even positioned themselves as one-stop shops for farm production, all packed into a single unit.

All they’ve managed so far is trendy low-rise crops like kale and lettuce, maybe some potatoes and strawberries. I’m waiting for them to do something significant with bulk row crops like wheat, oats, barley, rye, and maize, or pole crops like beans and tomatoes.

(And don’t get me started on tree fruits like apples, pears, lemons, oranges, peaches….)

The Guardian.

Let’s see:

• Reference to Ukraine? Check.
• Reference to ‘climate crisis’? Check.
• Buzz-phrase ‘wakeup call’? Check.
• Suggestion that one instance means a trend? Check.
• Start with a cozy story rather than getting to the point? Check.
• Buzz-phrase ‘sustainable’? Check.
• Creating a new hip-and-trendy term (‘regenerative’) for farming techniques that are centuries old? Check.
• Assumption that farming needs a government ‘scheme’? Check.
• Spouse has a professional outside job that no doubt brings in serious money? Check.
• Fruits and veg good, meat bad? Check.
• Buzz-phrase ‘climate-friendly’? Check.
• Buzz-phrase ‘carbon negative’? Check.

This is one criticism of regenerative farming, which O’Connell concedes: on farms where fields are left empty for perhaps one year in three, the yield is lower than those farmed in more industrial ways with crops fed by synthetic fertilisers. If all food was produced in this way, critics say, people could go hungry.

No shit, Sherlock. One-field-in-three-fallow is how they did it during the Middle Ages. Nothing new about it. The reason people adopted ‘more industrial ways’ was to grow more food and feed more people.

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Six teenage girls were treated to a culture-enriching experience when they attempted to take a train home from an amusement park in the Veneto region of northern Italy.

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The City of Minneapolis, that is. Not too many years ago, Minneapolis was known as a safe place. But that seems like another galaxy at this point. Last night, a gun battle broke out on Fraternity Row at the University of Minnesota. I don’t think the criminals were frat brothers. You can hear the gun battle in this surveillance video, from an alley that I take it is behind the fraternity buildings.

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Hey, it’s Free Government Money, right? Nobody ever pays that back!

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Studies on COVID-19 vaccines have suggested links between Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)—an incurable and fatal prion disease—and getting the COVID-19 vaccine.

A recent French pre-print on CJD and COVID-19 vaccination has suggested that the COVID-19 vaccine may have contributed to the emergence of a new type of sporadic CJD disease that is a lot more aggressive and rapid in disease progression as compared to the traditional CJD.

CJD is a rare disease caused by an abnormal protein in the brain called a prion.

Prions naturally occur in the brain and are usually harmless, but when they become diseased or misfolded, they will affect nearby prions to also become misshapen, leading to deterioration of brain tissue and death.

The disease is incurable as once one prion becomes infected, it will continue to propagate to other prions with no treatment capable of stopping its progress.

Veterans Affairs Denies Life-Saving Lung Transplant to Unvaccinated Veteran

Scott Alexander’s correction on ivermectin and its meaning for the rationalists

Peer-Reviewed Studies Confirm Vaccine/Mask Mandates Did Not Stop COVID Spread In Schools & Universities

Probable case of monkeypox found in San Francisco resident (S.F. Chronicle)

Welcome to the Great Reinfection (Wired)

COVID in California: Highly contagious omicron subvariants spreading fast in this Northern California county (S.F. Chronicle)

Here’s what each Bay Area county said about the possible return of mask mandates (S.F. Chronicle)

Over 550 Monkeypox Cases Reported as Virus Spreads Undetected (NewsMax)

Number of Mass. counties with high COVID levels has dropped to 5, per CDC (Boston Globe)

Pfizer’s Paxlovid reduces COVID risk in seniors regardless of vaccine status -study (Reuters)

More cases of monkeypox expected as CDC warns of community spread (Politico)

Tory MP Who Won’t Disclose Vaccine Status Asked to Leave House of Commons Precinct

Will FDA Allow Pfizer, Moderna to Skip Clinical Trials for Future COVID Vaccines?

Retired Lawyer Claims Rolled out COVID Jabs Differ From Those Trialed Before Authorization

Within 24 Hours of Reopening, Some Shanghai Neighborhoods Shut Down Due to New COVID Cases

Woman Shot by Kansas City Police Was Armed, Body Camera Reveals Amid Activists’ Outrage

The Horror, the Horror: “On Being Black At Cannes: How Microaggressions Marred My Festival Experience”

NYT in 2016: “F.B.I. Statistics Show That African-Americans, Who Constitute About 13 Percent of the Population, Make Up About Half of Both Gun Homicide Victims and Their Known or Suspected Attackers.”

Man murdered after girlfriend used AirTag to investigate cheating

Medical Schools Violating Federal Law With Scholarships Offered to Select Races: Complaints

Progressive VA Prosecutor Bankrolled By Soros Has a Disturbing History

Majority of Americans Say Allowing ‘Preferred Pronouns’ Confuse Children: Poll

CNN: Americans Need to Realize the Economy Is ‘Too Good’ Right Now

Sr Manager at Google Resigns After Dalit Activist Disallowed from Giving Lecture

China Will Partner With Russia To Promote ‘Real Democracy’: Wang

2020 Election: Arizona Woman Pleads Guilty to ‘Sophisticated’ Ballot Harvesting Scheme

Court Rejects Los Angeles DA Gascón’s Directives

I’m Pro-Second Amendment. But if the Libs Want to Get Rid of It, Here’s What They’d Have to Do. (Daily Beast)

Los Angeles DA George Gascon ‘overstates his authority,’ can’t ignore California law, court rules

NYC Mayor Adams vows to not be ‘heavy-handed’ on illicit weed sales: ‘Enjoy yourself, light up’  (N.Y. Daily News)

How we pronounce Uvalde says a lot about the power of language in mixed communities (NPR)

ADA Shakedown Lawsuits Are on the Rise

The Top 10 Creepiest & Most Dystopian Things Pushed By The World Economic Forum

Pennsylvanians Say State on Wrong Path, Many Consider Leaving: Poll

WashPost Caught Stealth Editing Lorenz Lies About Comment Requests

‘Tax the Rich’? North Carolina Dem Stashes More Than $1 Mil in Cayman Islands Fund

The Case Against Hate-Speech Laws: a Canadian Perspective

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Now that we are over the most serious televised issue of our day with the verdict going to Johnny Depp over Amber Heard, loosen your seat belt and relax. Coming soon are the televised hearings of the so-called January 6 Committee.

Vying on your screens, as dramatically presented by the behind-the-scenes media wizards for the role of the put-upon Johnny and the even more put-upon Amber will be, well, every member of the Committee. As you read this, you can be certain that the staffs of the Committee members have been toiling into the wee hours to decide the angle of questioning their bosses will follow if/when given time to question witnesses.

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The Chinese Communist Party is exporting its tyranny all over the world after the United States let it get away with murder 33 years ago during the Tiananmen Square Massacre, three Chinese activists say. It was a bloody night for pro-democracy student protestors on June 3, 1989. Tanks rolled in towards Tiananmen Square, the heart of China’s capital, crushing people and objects in their way. Tear gas and live ammunition inundated the square.

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Immigration has been a huge issue in Austria since the Great Migration Crisis of 2015. However, based on the latest surge of migrants across the country’s borders, the cultural enrichment of Austria has not yet reached its climax.

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Éric Zemmour is a popular French commentator who became a candidate in the recent presidential election as the leader of the Reconquête (Reconquest) party. He did not make it to the runoff, and is now running in the upcoming legislative elections.

Last weekend the League of Champions soccer final was held at the Stade de France in Paris, with Liverpool playing Real Madrid. North African “youths” staged violent riots for the occasion outside the Stade de France, and police had great difficulty controlling them.

To save face, the official French line was that Liverpool fans — you know, those English soccer hooligans — were behind the violence. But this was a canard: all those arrested for significant violence were culture-enrichers.

Global heating is turning white Alps green, study finds (The Guardian)

Los Angeles’ climate future hangs in the balance as city votes for new mayor (The Guardian)

‘This is our heritage’: Woman saves graves from rising sea levels (CNN)

Record Methane Spike Boosts Heat Trapped by Greenhouse Gases (‘Scientific’ American)

Greenhouse Gases Are Now Trapping Nearly 50% More Heat Than 30 Years Ago (The Weather Network)

Equilibrium/Sustainability — Climate change’s next victim: Pizza sauce (The Hill)

The energy in nuclear waste could power the U.S. for 100 years, but the technology was never commercialized (CNBC)

Toyota’s prototype ‘cartridge’ is a way to make hydrogen portable (Engadget)

The last hunt? Future in peril for ‘the unicorn of the sea’ (The Guardian)

As natural gas expands in Gulf, residents fear rising damage

Melting Glacier Exposes Ichthyosaur Fossils (NASA)

Climate change is harder on less educated people (The Economist)

White House prepares policy to fight Bitcoin mining environmental impact (Finbold) Statists have to have a policy for everything.

Outbreaks of diseases such as monkeypox becoming more frequent, warns WHO (Reuters) SO GIVE US MORE MONEY AND POWER.

Silent spread of monkeypox may be a wakeup call for the world (CNN) Silent?

Companies pull out of drilling leases at Arctic Wildlife Refuge (The Hill)

Once eager to drill, oil companies exit leases in Arctic refuge (Washington Post)

California Gears Up for a New Composting Law to Cut Methane Emissions and Enrich Soil (Inside Climate News)

Claim: Climate Change Driving Snow Cover Loss and Increased “Greening” in the European Alps

New Hampshire Residents File Suit Against Wind Farm Regulatory Agency

Postal Service sued for seizing Black Lives Matter masks during 2020 protests (NBC)

Postal Service sued over seizure of Black Lives Matter masks (The Hill)

Another Funeral Shooting  Say what you will about the Mafia, they didn’t shoot up funerals.

ESPN To Promote Black Business During NBA Finals

LA County DA Gascon says recall driven by race-based ‘fear-mongering’ about public safety

Mayor Breed, SFPD to march in 2022 Pride Parade after solution reached

The anti-democratic threat remains very much alive (Washington Post)

Gascón Recall Surpasses 500,000 Signatures, Raises $6.5 Million

House Judiciary Committee Votes to Advance Expansive Gun Control Bill

Ban on Gas Stoves is the end of Korean BBQ in L.A  Koreans are just another kind of white people, right?

BBC Changed Victim’s Statement So As Not To ‘Misgender’ Her Trans Rapist; Report

Kuwait Summons US Diplomat Over Gay Pride Month Tweet

MSNBC Gun-Control Ghouls: We ‘Desperately Need’ To Display Images of Dead Children 

Watch: Dem Rep. Yells “Spare Me The Bullshit About Constitutional Rights” During Gun Debate

Connecticut Offering $150K/Year for Someone to Head Up State’s Own ‘Ministry of Truth’

New York Times Makes the Case for More Inflation

New Discovery+ Show Labels Abe Lincoln ‘Queer as F**ck’

Blasphemy! LGBT Crowd Up in Arms Over Federal Govt. Honoring Nancy Reagan

‘Faith Through Difficult Times’: Falun Gong Practitioner Tells His Story to Raise Awareness of the Dangers of Communism

Susan Collins confronts a moment of truth (Washington Post)

Right-wing conspiracy outlet Infowars moves to exit bankruptcy (CNN)

Alex Jones’ InfoWars agrees to dismiss bankruptcy (Reuters)

Jan. 6 committee reveals details of first public hearing in Capitol riot probe (NBC)

Alito’s draft opinion insults Kennedy’s legacy — will Gorsuch and Kavanaugh sign on? (The Hill)

Abortion rights might soon be gone. Activists worry same-sex marriage is next (NPR) Well, they got that right, at least – both were invented by activist judges.

Emboldened Democrats eye Ron Johnson amid new controversies (The Hill)

Doug Mastriano’s unhinged ‘Nazi’ claim signals deeper danger ahead (Washington Post)

Trump Is Finally Boring (Politico)

Chicago Gal Pals Charged After Their Capitol Riot Photos Give Them Away (Daily Beast) Think of it as evolution in action.

‘Stop the Steal’ Group Fined Over Lack of Evidence in Voter Fraud Lawsuit (Newsweek)

Kimmel Exposes ‘Grifter’ Don Jr. for Lying About Making His Gear in America (Daily Beast)

Jimmy Kimmel Exposes Donald Trump Jr.’s Most ‘Shameless’ Hypocrisy Yet (Huffington Post)

Democrat Reps. Demand Amazon Comply With House Oversight Probe Into Labor Practices

Harwood: Biden ‘Kept the Heat’ on ‘Extremist Republican Party’

Law Professor Suspended for Criticizing Biden’s ‘Affirmative Action’ SCOTUS Pick Will Get Job Back

January 6th Committee Kicks Off Prime-Time Hearings Next Week  Trying some smearing before the mid-term elections. It’s not going to work.

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What started as a Chinese-style “social credit” financial system focused on protesting truckers four months ago has now expanded to guns, mainstream and social media, and religion.

Following the tragic massacre in Uvalde, Texas last week, Canada’s government, some 2,000 miles away, decided they needed to do something. There is no right to gun ownership in Canada. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, backed by masked and clapping seals from his Liberal Party caucus, announced that legislation would be forthcoming to ban (sorry, a “national freeze”) the sale and transfer of all handguns.

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Ross Wightman, who was diagnosed with Guillain-Barré syndrome shortly after receiving a dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, has become one of the first recipients of funds under Canada’s Vaccine Injury Support Program.

But the plight of others who have suffered vaccine injuries weighs heavily on the realtor and former pilot from B.C.’s Okanagan Valley.

Wrightman says he’s “feeling fired up” about the inaction of government and the medical system in recognizing those who have suffered vaccine injuries.

“The longer this goes on the more angry, and completely disheartened I get by the lack of recognition from government officials and doctors that these things are actually happening,” he wrote in a May 31 Facebook post.

“It’s not a coincidence. … There’s one common denominator.”

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In this week’s massive defamation award to actor Johnny Depp, his ex-wife Amber Heard was left holding a bill for $15,000,000. Even after a reduction for her own award and a statutory reduction of the punitive damage portion, Heard is still looking at $8,350,000 in damages. Many view that amount (which is $1.35 million more than her divorce settlement) to be justified in light of the damage caused to Depp’s reputation and career.

However, the stain of this verdict should be shared with others, even if they avoided the sting of actual damages. That includes many in the media (including the Washington Post staff) who rushed to paint Heard as a victim and Depp as an abuser. Yet, the greatest condemnation should be reserved for the organization that not only pushed that narrative but actually helped draft the defamatory column: the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

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She must be in a different room than everybody else. (I can believe it.)

Someone needs tell TBS’s Samantha Bee that simply making sexual references is not funny or edgy, because that is what the Full Frontal host did on Thursday as part of a bitter rant where she told believers in gun rights to “read the room, freaks” after the mass shooting in Uvalde.

Bee seemed confused by the fact that the NRA does not blame itself or inanimate objects for the shooting, “If you thought the unspeakable horror of last week might have convinced the NRA to cancel its annual circle jerk of a gun convention in [beep] Texas no less, you’d be wrong.”

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Watching President Biden rattle on last night — the White House has posted the transcript here — I thought it was time to get serious about gum control. Yes, it’s time for Biden to quit flapping his gums with the usual dynamics ranging from a whisper to a shout in the deranged old-man style to which we have become accustomed.

Biden himself appeared to have gum control in the back of his mind as he spoke: “For so many of you at home, I want to be very clear: This is not about taking away anyone’s guns. It’s about vili- — not about vilifying gum [sic] — gun owners.” That [sic] was inserted by the official White House Bracketologist, not by me.

Is there anyone among his minders in the daycare operation at the White House who believe he is an effective advocate of any public policy proposal? I think Biden’s statement requires translation. He’s saying: “This is about taking away your guns.”