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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.”

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A creative writing course at a British university has withdrawn graduation requirement that students should attempt a sonnet, not on the reasonable grounds that it is futile to try to turn people with cloth ears for language into sonneteers, but because the sonnet is a literary form that is white and Western.

I was writing sonnets in high school. Anybody who can’t write a sonnet doesn’t deserve a college diploma.

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One of the general characteristics of Western feminism is its preoccupation with rape. Accusations of rape, the insistence that men are predisposed towards rape, etc. Yet when culture-enrichers are the ones doing the raping, feminists look away. When it’s not a white European man doing the raping, they don’t want to know about it.

The following report documents the rape and violence against women perpetrated by culture-enrichers in Sweden. For many Swedish feminists, the issue of racism seems to trump any concern about rapes committed by third-world immigrants. Any frank discussion of migrant rapes risks accusations of hets mot folkgrupp — incitement against a group of people.

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Where I live, delivery food is typically in sealed bags, perhaps to prevent this very thing.

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Black Californians could enjoy child support forgiveness, free college, free health care, fewer police, and a long-term “truth and reconciliation commission” should Golden State lawmakers pass the proposals outlined this week by the state’s Reparations Task Force.

Following a 2020 law to study the subject, a panel of left-wing academics and policymakers on Wednesday released their findings on how California can remedy the harm against the state’s black residents caused by slavery and discrimination. All black Californians are eligible for the benefits of the program if they can prove they are “descendants of African Americans enslaved in the U.S. or of free Black people living in the country before the end of the 19th century.” A new state agency, called the California African American Freedmen Affairs Agency, would provide genealogical tests for residents.

UPDATE: California Reparations Task Force Recommends 10 New State Offices in Report

“The purpose of government is to hire and pay government workers.” — Jerry Pournelle

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Everythin’ goin’ be plastic bye ‘n’ bye….

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Corona is so 2021. Monkeypox is where it’s at!

‘Groundbreaking’: Feds tap Rachel Levine for new environmental justice office (KOMO News)

New report finds S.F.’s biggest development project ignores huge climate change risk: rising contamination (S.F. Chronicle)

Extinction obituary: how the Bramble Cay melomys became the first mammal lost to the climate crisis (The Guardian)

For 50 years, governments have failed to act on climate change. No more excuses (The Guardian)

Greenhouse gas removal ‘not a silver bullet to achieve net zero’ (The Guardian)

Biden’s Navy Secretary: The Existential Threat Is Climate Change

Claim: Skyrocketing Gasoline Price Inflation is Michael Mann’s Fault

Hard to Have Rational Debate Around Feasibility of Climate Change Action: Dutton

3 New Studies Show Atlantic Tipping Point Unrealistic…”Muted Response”…”Changes To Be Viewed With Caution”

California calls for ‘comprehensive reparations’ for Black Americans (Washington Post) My, what a surprise.

Despite funding concerns, Phil Scott approves environmental justice bill

Joy Reid Compares Concerns Over Gun Confiscation With The Klan

They’re Replacing You, Black America

Watch: Rand Paul’s Democrat Opponent Dons A Noose To Suggest Senator Supports Lynching

Court Shields Warnock From Scrutiny in Messy Custody Battle

State Department Dumps Anti-Cop Spox

Police Identify Tulsa Hospital Shooting Suspect, Say He Targeted Doctor Over Back Pain  Now that we know he’s black, it will sink from the news like a stone.

Cry me a River: Lil Nas X Seethes at BET for No Nomination

Elie Mystal: Second Amendment Was Created to Preserve White Supremacy  Tell that to the blacks who depended on it to get weapons to counter the KKK.

What Alito Should Have Written (Politico)

The US is heading for a civil war (Al Jezeera)

Abortion and guns may awaken a slumbering giant for Democrats (The Guardian) Robert Reich keeps hope alive.

New York on brink of major voting rights act (The Hill)

Why US gas prices are at a record, and why they’ll stay high for a long time (CNN) Anything But Biden.

Experts Not Too Sure About Mayor’s Plan to Install Gun Detectors at NYC Subway Stations (Daily Beast)

US Marines Mocked Over Pride Month Pageantry

Prosecutors Say California Policy Reforms Favor Criminal Suspects Over Victims

Soros-Funded Prosecutor in VA WON’T Enforce Abortion Laws ‘No Matter What the Law…Says’

Time for Another Dispatch from the Rapidly-deteriorating Seattle Area

CNN cutting back on over-hyping everything as “breaking news”

Teen Vogue Op-Ed: Uvalde is Reason to Defund Police  I guess they hire teenagers to run the magazine as well.

Austin, Texas To Turn a Blind Eye To State Abortion Violations

CNN: ‘Emmett Till Moment’ Needed on Kids Killed By ‘Automatic Weapons’  Ignorance on parade.

Inciting Violence? The View Demands ‘Get Rid of Republicans,’ AR-15s

Hapless Trumpist Mo Brooks gives away the GOP ‘vote fraud’ scam (Washington Post)

‘Outsider’ in Nevada’s GOP Senate primary surges, rattling Trump’s pick (NBC) Wherever you go, whatever you do, it’s All About Trump.

House Republicans to unveil conservative road map on climate, energy (Washington Post) I wish I could believe that.

MSNBC, Politico Flip Out Over Normal GOP Election Day Operations

MSNBC Blames Oklahoma For Shooting Despite Admitting Unknown Facts

Mental Gymnastics: The Root Somehow Brings Race into Depp-Heard Verdict

Sandmann Lawyer Joins Kyle Rittenhouse Team, Says Mark Zuckerberg a ‘Top’ Target

New variants are poised to keep Covid-19 circulating at high levels throughout the summer (CNN)

Mayor Adams’ administration sets strict return-to-office policy for NYC workers: ‘Hybrid schedules of any kind are not permitted’ (N.Y. Daily News)

Monkeypox continues to puzzle scientists as it spreads to more countries

Monkeypox is not Covid. Here’s why (CNN)

Omicron is outrunning the vaccines designed to fight it (Axios)

ERs reach record capacity as hospitals are inundated with patients (Boston Globe)

WHO describes what we know about Monkeypox virus transmission (CNN)

WHO says COVID in N.Korea likely ‘getting worse, not better’ (Reuters)

AstraZeneca + Pfizer Vaccines = Better Omicron Immunity (Washington Post)

How Long Do COVID Symptoms Last? Here’s What We Know So Far (NBC Chicago)

The Dying of the Young

Where Has Monkeypox Spread To?

Lawsuit Seeks Damages Over 100,000 COVID-19 Tests Imported From China

Pfizer Asks FDA to Authorize 3 COVID-19 Vaccine Doses for Children Under 5

Shanghai’s Local Authorities Hesitate to Lift Lockdowns as Ordered, Concerned Over Blame for Inevitable Next Outbreak

WHO Says Monkeypox May Have Been Spreading Undetected

Pfizer COVID-19 Pill Does Not Provide Significant Benefit in Patients Under 65: Study

New Institutes of Health Study Suggests ‘Long Covid’ May Not Exist

The Truth About Vaccine-induced Myocarditis: Part 2

Watch: Fauci Admits Biden Mask Mandate Is About Preserving “Authority”

0Sanctioned Russian oligarch’s megayacht found in UAE creek  It’s all about the oligarchs.

Saudi Arabia ready to pump more oil if Russian output sinks under ban (Financial Times)

Here’s a way to make Russia pay for Putin’s ruthless war in Ukraine (CNN)

Kremlin TV Names the Country Putin Will Invade Next (Daily Beast) Well, not really.

Putin’s state TV propagandist Olga Skabeyeva says ‘World War III has already begun’

More Seek Gun Training in Taiwan as Ukraine War Drives Home China Threat

EU Slowly Weaning Off Russian Crude Gives Moscow Time To Divert Flows To Asia 

Milley Says Using Military To Open Ukrainian Ports Would Be “High Risk”

Saab’s anti-tank systems could find new life thanks to Ukraine conflict, updated capabilities

Russia Uses Chinese Ships And Indian Refiners To Stay Ahead of Oil Sanctions  What’s ‘Nyah nyah!’ in Russian?

Ukrainians Who’ve Fled to Canada Can Now Apply for Government Income Support

Communist China’s Global Plan Emerges

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First: bans on imports. There’s plenty of formula on supermarket shelves in Mexico and Europe. Normally, American companies would just buy that and ship it here.

But they can’t, because of several destructive government policies.

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Another reason for the shortage is government limits on competition.

America’s food stamp-like program, WIC, grants exclusive licenses in each state to just one company. Like all welfare programs, WIC (it stands for women, infants and children) has grown. It now buys half of all baby formula in America.

Abbott Nutrition grabbed most of that market by offering government the lowest price. Good for them. But after Abbott’s recall, there were few alternatives for parents to turn to.

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Tragedies like those recently suffered in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, cause many Americans to voice an understandable—if misguided—urge for politicians to “just do something.”

Many of the laws for which they reflexively call—such as universal background checks and bans on so-called “assault weapons”—suffer from a host of constitutional and practical defects.

They wouldn’t have the impact on gun violence that advocates claim and aren’t likely to have stopped or hindered a single mass public shooting in the past two decades.

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A report on alleged systemic racism released Wednesday and greenlit by California Gov. Gavin Newsom is calling for the planting of trees statewide “to create shade equity” and reduce “heat islands in black neighborhoods.”

The 500-page report was released after Newsom, a Democrat, signed legislation in 2020 forming a nine-member task force to “inform Californians about slavery and explore ways the state might provide reparations.” It describes tree demolishing in black neighborhoods for highway construction and says climate change makes these areas hotter.

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After Washington state passed a law to constrain police officers, state drivers are refusing to pull over when asked by cops.

Northwest News Network recorded nearly 1,000 failure-to-yield incidents in 2022. Patrol officers have described a sharp rise in motorists fleeing traffic stops, speeding away sometimes in stolen cars, according to one county police chief. Washington House Bill 1054, which Governor Jay Inslee (D.) signed into law last year, has banned police from pursuing traffic violators in their cruisers, unless the officer is granted permission by a supervisor or the perpetrator is suspected of being under the influence or having committed a violent offense, is causing imminent danger, or must be identified.

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The question is not “whether” but “when”.  Eventually we will have the technology to do it and at that point it will happen.

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The rising Hindu nationalist movement that has spread from India through the diaspora has arrived inside Google, according to employees.

In April, Thenmozhi Soundararajan, the founder and executive director of Equality Labs — a nonprofit that advocates for Dalits, or members of the lowest-ranked caste — was scheduled to give a talk to Google News employees for Dalit History Month. But Google employees began spreading disinformation, calling her “Hindu-phobic” and “anti-Hindu” in emails to the company’s leaders, documents posted on Google’s intranet and mailing lists with thousands of employees, according to copies of the documents as well as interviews with Soundararajan and current Google employees who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of concerns about retaliation.

Soundararajan appealed directly to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who comes from an upper-caste family in India, to allow her presentation to go forward. But the talk was canceled, leading some employees to conclude that Google was willfully ignoring caste bias. Tanuja Gupta, a senior manager at Google News who invited Soundararajan to speak, resigned over the incident, according to a copy of her goodbye email posted internally Wednesday and viewed by The Washington Post.

This is why Muslim terrorists are the pets of the Wokery. Hating America trumps hating gays and oppressing women.

Hey, if it was easy, anybody could do it.

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There are millions of habitable planets in our milky way. Approximately four of them have hostile alien civilizations that could attack Earth, suggests new research by Alberto Caballero — a doctoral student in conflict resolution at the University of Vigo in Spain.

In his paper, Caballero asked: What are the odds that humans could one day contact a hostile alien civilization capable of invading our planet?

This is the basically ‘thinking past the sale’, like the people who just assume that sea levels are rising and put all their effort into figuring out what the results will be.

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A Democrat running for Congress in California says student loan debt is “one of the biggest crises faced by our country” as tuition costs “skyrocket.” He would know—as president of a local college’s board, he voted to hike tuition three times.

HHS announces new office of environmental justice (The Hill) “The purpose of government is to hire and pay government workers.” — Jerry Pournelle

NYC Mayor Adams too busy ‘trying to keep up with the Kardashians’ to care about rampant crime: Curtis Sliwa

Snap, Crackle, and PoC

3 Shot, 1 Dead at High School Graduation Ceremony at Xavier University: Officials

Chicago ‘Mass Shootings’? 52 Shot, 10 Killed Over Memorial Day Weekend

Shooting Kills 1, Wounds 2 After HS Graduation at University

The Guns of July

Reid Agrees: Uvalde Police Would’ve Saved Kids If They Were White

Cat-Kicking Footballer Given Community Service Sentence By UK Magistrates

UK Government Sets Date of First Deportation Flight to Rwanda

10-Year-Old Florida Girl Shoots and Kills Woman After Social Media Post  ‘Lashun’? ‘Lakrisha’?

Why Texas Authorities Can’t Be Trusted to Investigate Themselves (Daily Beast) Well, Texas! And Ultra-MAGA Trump Cooties!

‘Don’ of a new era: the rise of Peter Thiel as a US rightwing power player (The Guardian)

Watchdogs Tackle the Murky World of Greenwash (Inside Climate News)

Liz Cheney’s ‘uphill’ path to re-election runs through Trump (NBC News)

Woman Sneaks Into Donald Trump’s NRA Speech To Show How Lax Security Is (Newsweek)

Marjorie Taylor Greene Predicts Straight People Will Soon Be Extinct (Newsweek) Well, actually, no.

Morning MSNBC: GOP Just Evil ‘Second Amendment Fundamentalists’

Nasty Kimmel Rants at ‘Demon,’ ‘Dumbass’ Cruz For School Safety Plan

Army Reservist Found Guilty of Jan. 6 Capitol Breach Facing 23 Years in Prison

NYT Gets Thrill Up Leg Over Connecticut Creating State-Based Election Disinfo Board

Biden sees exodus of Black staffers and some frustration among those who remain (Politico) Nobody wants to play for a losing team.

Biden’s About to Make a Big Mistake on Student Loans (Politico)

Biden can still avoid offering wasteful student debt forgiveness

Biden doesn’t support ban on all handgun sales, White House press secretary says  Who ya gonna believe, me or your lyin’ ears?

State Department Unable to Follow Court Order Amid Growing Afghan Visa Backlog

Refusing to Prosecute Those Protesting at Supreme Court Justices’ Homes Is Inexcusable

Damage Control: Harvey Weinstein Adviser in Line To Become White House Chief of Staff

Biden Throws Powell Under The Bus For Soaring Inflation  I suspect he deserves a tire-track or two….

Biden Administration’s Biofuel Initiative May be Worse for Environment than Gasoline

3 Laws That Biden’s Voter Registration Order Could Break

Stories to tell  The Naval Academy wouldn’t have let a dim bulb like Biden on campus.

It’s Not Just Hunter: Networks Bury Sketchy Financial Dealings of James Biden  The Bidens, like the Clintons, are a turd-world political family.

Biden Embassy to Vatican: Pride Month Is Our Holy Time

Ruhle Downplays Inflation, Hypes ‘We Are in an Economic Recovery’

Jean-Pierre Stumbles Through Basic Questions on Gas, Guns, and Lyin’ Biden

‘I Think I Was Wrong’ and ‘Didn’t Fully Understand’ Inflation: Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen

Crackhead MILF And Incest Porn: Hunter Biden Search History Revealed; Texted Pornhub Link To ‘Dad’

Fact Check: Biden Repeats Claim People Couldn’t Own Cannons When 2nd Amendment Was Passed  Of course they could. Nobody cared.

No Free Lunch: Biden Admin Will Pull Meal Funding for Schools That Don’t Comply With Its LGBT Agenda

Energy experts sound alarm about US electric grid: ‘Not designed to withstand the impacts of climate change’ (CNN)

Spiking temperatures could cause more blackouts this summer. They won’t be the last. (Politico)

US summer fuel shortages could be worse than 1970s oil crisis: IEA chief

Historic site in Virginia threatened by rising sea levels (CBS)

Climate activists frustrated as another deadline passes without spending deal (The Hill)

Five things to watch for in next year’s ‘climate’ Farm Bill (The Hill)

Can Africa grow without fossil fuels? (Financial Times) Nobody in the Davos crowd cares.

The Changing Seas of the Florida Keys (NASA) NASA pushes the Narrative.

Japan’s giant deep ocean turbine trial offers hope of endless green power (Business Standard)

Tobacco industry causing huge environmental damage, WHO warns (Al Jezeera)

We cannot adapt our way out of climate crisis, warns leading scientist (The Guardian) Leading where?

How extreme weather could cause the US power grid to buckle (CNN)

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I guess their current $97B surplus just isn’t enough to keep them in the style to which they have become accustomed.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

In the wake of the risible Sussman verdict, it has emerged that for the last ten years, the FBI has maintained a “secure work environment” within the offices of Perkins Coie, the Democratic Party’s law firm. Marc Elias, the DNC’s top lawyer, was until recently a partner in Perkins Coie. It was Perkins Coie that laundered the money the DNC and the Hillary Clinton campaign paid Fusion GPS for what became the fraudulent Steele “dossier.”

One hand washes the other.

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The Congressional Budget Office’s May 2022 forecast shows that the government now expects to bring in more tax revenue in the decade following the 2017 “Trump tax cuts” than it had projected prior to the December 2017 passage of tax reform.

It doesn’t look like the tax cuts—which government scorekeepers said at the time would cost $1.5 trillion over 10 years—have been anything like the fiscal nightmare that some on the left would lead us to believe.

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Arizona Law requires that, to be considered valid, ballots must be received by the county no later than 7 p.m. on Election Day.

But newly uncovered records documenting the Maricopa County 2020 general election show that while more than 20,000 ballots were transported from the U.S. Postal Service after Election Day, Maricopa County only rejected 934 late ballots in its “Early Voting Rejections Summary” document.

This means more than 19,000 late, invalid ballots should have been rejected. That is significant because it is enough to potentially sway the results of Arizona’s presidential election, which rested with a final tally of Joe Biden winning the state with 10,457 more votes than Donald Trump.

It is impossible to know if the results would be different if the late ballots had not been counted in Maricopa County.

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In this administration, it’s always someone else’s fault. Inflation is now the No. 1 concern of voters, so the White House first blamed COVID. Then Donald Trump’s tax cuts. Then Vladimir Putin. Then meatpackers and the poultry industry, Big Oil and pharmaceutical companies.

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Officials at the Supreme Court have moved to require clerks to hand over cell phone records and sign affidavits as part of the Court’s efforts to identify the leaker of the draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade, CNN reported Tuesday.

Three sources with knowledge of the Court’s investigation told CNN some clerks are considering hiring outside counsel in response to the move.

When elite lawyers collide….