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I have no answer, but a question: What will happen when the Democrats lose control of the Progressive monster they have created?

The monster has several heads, including the pod-people infesting education, Obama’s army in the streets, the union of Party and media, the co-option of Big Tech by Big Government, and now the supremacy of a government-within-a-government, the “intel community.”

We see now the pinnacle of this development — a supine, ridiculous administration feebly figure-headed by a doddering fool, subject to zero ridicule by the state-controlled media, defended by Big Tech censorship (nope, no government censorship here, that’s all private sector, Bub!) — all in the service of a literal cabal, literally behind the scenes, literally insulated from Republic-style representation, accountability, or even identification. The left has won — they are unassailable and, but for the widespread armament of millions of Americans, they would be omnipotent in this human sphere. They control the horizontal and the vertical.

Which famous tragedy is this? At the moment of supreme triumph, the winner’s own nature destroys him. In a Greek tragedy, we might survive. In a Shakespearean tragedy, I suppose we all die, which sounds about right. It is not as though the failure of the Republican will leave the Republicans standing.

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We are just 15 weeks away from election day in what is already shaping up to be a contentious 2022 midterm season. If the press follows their typical campaign play book, journalists will pick out certain conservative candidates who commit gaffes or make odd comments and try and make them the face of the GOP.

One thing they won’t do is single out the radical, extreme nature of some of the Democratic Party’s most well known congressional members: The Squad.

Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as well as far-left representatives like Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley, have been gaffe machines in the last few months. Most recently, some of them pretended to be restrained by police officers using invisible handcuffs while protesting for abortion at the Supreme Court.

But there’s also been far more serious moments. Congresswoman Tlaib, it was revealed in July, had campaign events in 2018 organized by alleged terrorist financiers. Also, the Somali-born politician introduced a resolution in May that recognized the “catastrophe” of the creation of Israel.

But you wouldn’t know about any of these because the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts haven’t covered them. Here’s the four Squad scandals the press should have been covering.

ZMan is apparently waiting for the rapture.

Many commenters have noted that American political discourse is much coarser and nastier today than it was a generation ago. The change can be dated to the arrival of the Clintons on the national stage in the 1990’s. They brought with them a crudeness that has become the norm in national politics. The great interregnum that lasted from the 1980’s into the 1990’s was replaced with an ugly and vulgar brand of politics that eventually led to the nasty and censorious present.

The question that never gets asked is why has public discourse become so nasty and unforgiving over the last three decades? The time for intolerance was the Cold War when mistakes could mean nuclear war with Russia. Instead, it was a time of relative tolerance compared to the present. Technological and material advances have made the margin for error extremely broad, yet the people seeking to shape public discourse carry on like one misused pronoun will end the world.

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The funny thing is, the Left should be riding high, given that they control all of the high ground of American society. If the new fad on the Left is for “birthing people” to wear flowerpots on their heads, every news anchor will either have the flowerpot on her head or state in advance that they are not a person of uterus so they are respecting the culture of the birthing people. The Left has never had more power in American society, yet they have never been angrier.

 

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Remember when abortion supporters said they wanted it to be “safe, legal, and rare“? Gone, gone, gone.

They lied. They want it safe, legal, common, and paid for by taxpayers.

Record number of COVID-hit Australians in hospital as Omicron surges (Reuters)

‘It’s something we haven’t seen in a while’: New BA.5 omicron subvariant carries a symptom from the delta variant wave (WFAA)

We’ve all got Covid-19 fatigue, but BA.5 shows it’s not over (VOX)

Monkeypox has ‘variety of mechanisms for spread’: Expert  Purely a coincidence that almost all of the victims are homosexual men.

Monkeypox explained: How to protect yourself and what to watch out for (NPR) Well, stay away from homosexuals, to start with.

Biden administration considering public health emergency in response to monkeypox outbreak (CNBC)

NY Times’ COVID Criteria: No Blame for Biden vs. Trump’s ‘Ruinous Verdict’

“Nobody is Listening to What I’m Saying”

White House says a second consecutive quarter of negative GDP ‘unlikely’ to be indicative of recession  Yeah, I’m sure they do.

Supreme Court’s climate change ruling complicates the push for sweeping student debt cancellation (CNN)

Biden could declare climate emergency – Kerry (BBC)

Yellen predicts Fed’s anti-inflation policies will be ‘successful,’ after wrongly calling it ‘transitory’

AG Merrick Garland’s kid gloves vs. Hunter Biden

The White House has been lying to the country for a year and half: Sean Duffy

Biden Appoints Pro-Crime Appellate Judge

Hunter Biden ‘Almost Certainly’ Broke FARA Laws: Report

Republicans Cheer As Beto O’Rourke Digs Giant Sinkhole For Democrats To Pour Their Money In (Babylon Bee‚

An ‘imposter Christianity’ is threatening American democracy (CNN) As if anybody at CNN knew squat about Christianity.

A West Coast port worker union is fighting robots. The stakes for the supply chain are high (CNBC)

WaPo’s Jennifer Rubin calls for a ‘conscience’ exemption for abortion in states with bans  More accurately, a ‘lack of conscience’ exemption.

Bye bye, San Francisco: The top 7 U.S. cities homebuyers are seeking to leave (CNBC)

Cheney: ‘No question’ it’s worth losing my job to tell the truth about Jan. 6 (CNN)

Nearly one in three Americans say it may soon be necessary to take up arms against the government (The Hill)

Movement to boycott Walgreens grows online as more customers report being denied birth control and other contraceptives (Insider)

Google: Whatever Happened to ‘Don’t Be Evil’?

Feds Pay LGBT Magazine $77K To Advertise for Minnesota National Guard

Swine and Sleaze: Democrat Conspired To Hike Pork Prices, Lawsuits Say

AP Rejects Facts, Insists the Media Genuflect to Trans Activist Terminology

Jan. 6 editorials suggest Murdoch has tired of Trump (NPR)

Melting ‘snowflakes’? How climate change became a new front in the right’s culture war (The Guardian)

Buttigieg rips Rubio for having ‘time to fight against Disney’ but not for protecting same-sex marriage  Does Buttplug Pete think that Rubio feels under some obligation to defend gay privilege?

Kinzinger: ‘Trump is becoming irrelevant’ (The Hill) Not half as irrelevant as Kinzinger.

Hogan blames ‘collusion’ between Trump and Democrats for Dan Cox winning GOP primary (The Hill)

Trump’s credibility shredded; Secret Service purge imperative (The Hill)

Conservative Media Turns on Donald Trump Amid January 6 Hearings Fallout (Newsweek) Pushing the Narrative.

Democrats Prepare To Unleash Hell On Fed Chair Powell For The Coming Recession

The Four Stages of Republican Misinformation (Daily Beast)

Left-Wing Activists Tried To Cancel This Pro-Life Doctor. They Failed.

These soaring temperatures have given Britain a taste of the dystopia to come (The Guardian)

Climate change: The global Jenga game (The Hill)

Farmers Fear ‘Crisis’ on Horizon as Heat Wave Threatens Crops, Animals (Newsweek)

Tyre dust: the ‘stealth pollutant’ that’s becoming a huge threat to ocean life (The Guardian)

Mideast nations wake up to damage from climate change (Associated Press)

Plastic in the depths: how pollution took over our oceans (The Guardian)

Here Come the Power Failures, and You Can Thank the ‘Green Energy’ Agenda (CBN)

The EU’s Green Experiment

Congo to Auction Land to Oil Companies: ‘Our Priority Is Not to Save the Planet’ (N.Y. Times)

ABC’s Jonathan Karl Pokes Al Gore From the Left on Climate Change

Race Towards Net Zero Will Break Energy Market, Drive Up Energy Price: Analyst

Reuters:  How to Lie with Facts

Flashy NYC bishop robbed in $400K jewelry heist during live-streamed service  “Leaders of Tomorrow International Ministries” has bishops?

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I reported yesterday on the damage that Ukrainian gypsies are doing by exploiting the asylum system in Germany. According to the following report, not only gypsies, but Ukrainian migrants in general, are methodically siphoning off large amounts of German taxpayers’ money.

Freeberg nails it.

Something weird is going on with Democrats and ice cream.

I’m guessing someone has made a discovery somewhere, that if you want to convince the hoi polloi that you’re one of them, you should make it known you like ice cream because of course all the riff raff like ice cream. Someone forgot to include in their little research project or whatever, that the humble classes like ice cream because everybody likes ice cream — it doesn’t distinguish you in any way. It doesn’t make you look like a normal when you go around bragging about how much you like ice cream.

Outrage as Russian missiles strike Odesa port one day after grain export deal agreed (CNN)

‘He simply cannot be trusted:’ World leaders slam Putin’s attack on Odesa following sea corridor deal (CNBC)

The Desperate Lives Inside Ukraine’s “Dead Cities” (New Yorker)

Biden Approves 16th Weapons Transfer To Ukraine – Total Security Aid Now Over $8BN

LEADERSHIP: Updating Army Officer Training

Russia Boasts It’s Already Taken Out 4 US-Supplied Long Range Rocket Systems

Amusing Tales Of A Coal Bottleneck In Germany & The Failure To Plan

Russia Belatedly Admits Strike On Odessa Port – Says Warship With US Missiles “Destroyed”

Ex-CIA Ray McGovern: Media Miss Major Moves On Russia-Ukraine

Meltdowns Have Brought Progressive Advocacy Groups to a Standstill at a Critical Moment in World History (The Intercept)

Inside the Woke Meltdown at One Domestic Violence Organization (Washington Free Beacon)

Bill Nye reveals which TV shows get science right (Entertainment Weekly) If only we could depend on Bill Nye to get science right.

The education of Adam Kinzinger (Washington Post) Don’t think of it as selling out; think of it as buying in.

Nancy and Paul Pelosi are trading large — with a wealth of hypocrisy

‘It looks terrible’: Dems prep a tax cut for business as broader agenda stalls (Politico)

Growing Concerns About Festival Safety After Shots Ring Out at Chicago’s Shakespeare in the Parks (NBC)

Is Democracy Constitutional? (The Atlantic)

Leftist Verizon Shuts Off Conservative One America News

How Central Planners Sow Seeds Of Economic Ruin

Abortion, Slavery – Who’s Claiming Ownership Over Human Bodies?

Democrats’ contraception bill would force taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood (Washington Examiner)

NY Times Splashes Liberal Hysterics on Front Page: Interracial Marriage Under Threat?

‘US democracy will not survive for long’: how January 6 hearings plot a roadmap to autocracy (The Guardian) He’s right, although not the way he means it.

Trump’s criminal intent is now clear. Merrick Garland’s intentions aren’t. (MSNBC)

Swedish Rent Control Exposes The Problem With Government Price Controls

After Recent Turmoil, the Race for Texas Governor Is Tightening (N.Y. Times) More wishful thinking.

Liz Cheney: Protecting U.S. democracy is bigger than keeping House seat (Axios) Not to mention getting a well-paid job in the Ruling Class and (inevitably) a lucrative book deal (wait for it….).

Todd Lets Gore Compare ‘Climate Deniers’ to Police Officers in Uvalde

Woke Activision Employees Walk Out In Pro-Abortion Protest  The rise of Tantrum Politics.

NEW: Twitter Bans ‘Groomer’ Insult  Down the Memory Hole!

VERIFY: Monkeypox is not a sexually transmitted disease and doesn’t only affect gay, bisexual men (KHOU)

Monkeypox declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization (Salon)

San Diego Area COVID Hospitalizations Reach 465 – the Highest Since February (Times of San Diego)

News Wrap: WHO calls monkeypox virus a global emergency (PBS)

Monkeypox cases are ‘skyrocketing’ in Georgia and across the country, public health experts say (GPB News)

Oklahoma experts weigh in after monkeypox declared public health emergency (KOCO)

WHO’s Tedros Overrules Own Committee To Declare Monkeypox “Global Emergency”

Fauci Now Claims To Have ‘Open Mind’ About COVID Lab-Leak Theory

Birx Admits She Knew COVID-19 Vaccines Were Never “Going To Protect Against Infection”

Soros Minion Comes Down with Monkeypox Celebrating Pride Month; You Are to Blame

How well do the Covid vaccines work? (and why has this been so confusing?)  It’s confusing because the Cloud People keep insisting on calling treatments that don’t prevent you from getting the disease or passing it on ‘vaccines’, which is not what most people mean by the term.

The Day Fauci Reversed Course: February 27, 2020

Jill Biden heckled at Connecticut ice cream shop: ‘Your husband is the worst’

Jill Biden raises money for Democrats amid gaffes and popularity drop (Washington Post)

Nearly 30% Of Gen Z Living Permanently With Parents Amid Inflation Squeeze

Biden Wants the War in Ukraine. Convince Me Otherwise.

WashPost: Biden Getting COVID an ‘Opportunity to Show ‘Success of His Leadership’

Quit, Joe, Quit! Biden could save the midterms with a one-term pledge. (Washington Post) I doubt that it would be that easy.

Cheney, Kinzinger Confident They Nailed MSNBC Audition  (Babylon Bee)

3 men arrested after white supremacists protest outside drag queen story hour reading (CBS Boston)

Md. gubernatorial candidate Wes Moore calls GOP rival ‘dangerous’ (WTOP)

Why is S.F.’s drug crisis so out of control? Stop blaming Chesa and look at Walgreens (S.F. Chronicle)

Murdoch’s New York Post dumps Trump, calling him “unworthy to be chief executive again” (CNN)

Inside the GOP Freakout Over J.D. Vance’s Senate Campaign (Daily Beast) What GOP freakout?

Do Police Officers View Themselves Differently As Public Perception of Them Changes? (NPR)

‘Daily Beast’ reporter says NYPD wrongly arrested him at NYC store because press office didn’t like his George Floyd protests coverage (N.Y. Daily News) Don’t they know who I am?

Tucker Carlson: Bannon found guilty of a crime Democrats are never convicted of  People like Eric Holder.

Liz Cheney sent a very clear warning to Donald Trump on Thursday night (CNN) I’m sure he’s worried.

Retired admiral accuses Trump of dereliction of duty (CNN)

Al Gore compares climate deniers to Uvalde law enforcement officers: ‘Nobody stepped forward’ (NBC News)

Josh Hawley outran the January 6 mob, but can he outrun his karma? (Slack Tide)

Barr’s election ‘integrity’ group has an obviously sinister goal (MSNBC) Joy Reid loses her shit.

In Jan. 6 Hearings, Gender Divide Has Been Strong Undercurrent (N.Y. Times) Whose turn is it to be the victim?

On the Docket: Atlanta v. Trumpworld (N.Y. Times)

Opinion: Have the January 6 hearings damaged Trump’s political prospects? Don’t count on it (CNN) As Scott Adams has said, the Jan. 6 hearings make him want to take Trump and shove him straight up their ass.

Academic Stasi Protecting Students From White Supremacist Menace of (Checks Notes) 18th-Century Scottish Philosopher

MSN Headline: ‘Homophobic Telescope Reveals First Hi-Res Images of Deep Space’

Rep. Matt Gaetz: Women Who Support Abortion Rights Are Too Ugly to Need Them (Jezebel)

WashPost ‘Fact Checkers’ Now Fighting with ‘RNC Research’ Twitter

On the campaign trail, many Republicans talk of violence (Washington Post) Gee, I wonder why? Perhaps because they are being hunted?

Crimes over Jan. 6 go ‘all the way up to Donald Trump,’ Adam Kinzinger says (ABC News)

January 6 committee could subpoena Ginni Thomas (CNN) Pure harassment.

Josh Hawley, senator who ran from Capitol mob, mocked by home paper  (The Guardian) By that they attempt to disguise the fact that ‘home paper’ is just as much a Voice of the Crust as The Guardian.

Charge Trump for crimes against the United States (L.A. Times) Like … what? Specifically? NEVER MIND THAT! ORANGE MAN BAD!

Break up the Secret Service and send its people to jail for the Jan. 6 cover-up (Philadelphia Inquirer) Will Bunch (Voice of the Crust) loses his shit.

We Can’t Afford Not to Prosecute Trump (New York Times) “We”, of course, meaning the Deep State.

Climate change: How to talk to a denier (BBC)

What to do if extreme weather is causing you emotional stress (WTOP)

Heat especially harms people with mental and behavioral health conditions, experts say. Here’s what you need to know. (Green Bay Press Gazette)

As more bird species go extinct those that are left may be more alike (New Scientist)

President Biden can (still) diffuse the climate bomb in America’s Arctic (The Hill)

State Department ‘bureaucrat’: ‘I prefer high gas prices’ because of less emissions

State Dept. official slammed for saying he prefers high gas prices

Al Gore: America must address ‘democracy crisis’ to solve climate crisis (The Hill)

Our Green Future? Energy Impoverished Aussies Risking Carbon Monoxide Poisoning to Stay Warm

New Paper Polar Bears Attracted to Garbage Dumps Blames Lack of Sea Ice Without Any Evidence

Feeding insects to cattle could make meat and milk production more sustainable

More Evidence of the Pointlessness of Wind and Solar

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I’m looking forward to it.

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While shopping for groceries in 2020, Sarra L. left her son and his friend to play at a nearby, safe park. But someone called the police, who charged Sarra with contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Because the kids were never in any danger, the county prosecutors dropped the charges after Sarra agreed to attend a life-skills class. But the Arizona Department of Child Safety opened its own investigation and decided that Sarra should be placed on the state’s central registry of neglectful and abusive parents for 25 years. There was no jury, no due process, and virtually no protections for Sarra at all.

This is outrageous.

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Last Wednesday, hundreds of truckers protested at the Los Angeles-Long Beach port, some trucks slowed down traffic on the 110 while others took part by refusing to take on loads.

Their message was timed not just for Los Angeles County voters who backed the leftists threatening to put them out of work, but for retired general Stephen Lyons.

The former general who had served as the Commander of the U.S. Transportation Command had been picked by the Biden administration as its Port and Supply Chain Envoy and was there to see the ports through which much of the country’s international cargoes flow.

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When Stuart Reges, a University of Washington computer science professor, was directed to place a land acknowledgment in his syllabus, he wrote one of his own. That land acknowledgment may very well get him fired.

For the fall 2021 semester, the university’s computer science department recommended that professors place a land acknowledgment in their syllabi. On a list of syllabus “best practices,” administrators gave the following language as a template: “The University of Washington acknowledges the Coast Salish peoples of this land, the land which touches the shared waters of all tribes and bands within the Suquamish, Tulalip and Muckleshoot nations.”

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Seeing an opportunity, Reges wrote his own land acknowledgment. He wrote, “I acknowledge that by the labor theory of property the Coast Salish people can claim historical ownership of almost none of the land currently occupied by the University of Washington.”

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I’ve reported previously about cultural enrichment at the railway stations and on the trains in the Italian city of Peschiera del Garda (see the links to earlier stories at the bottom of this post). Local residents are fed up with the violent lawlessness of migrants who ride the trains, and have taken to social media to share their documentation of the most egregious examples.

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Three young “Swedes” have been sentenced for taking part in the Koran riots that erupted in Sweden during the Easter holiday in April (for more background on last spring’s riots in Sweden, see the Rasmus Paludan archives).

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Roma clans “from Ukraine”: Germany’s asylum capacities are exhausted.

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Hunter Biden’s indictments may be “delayed.” As Gomer would say: Gollee!

Remember Gomer Pyle? I recalled one of his most famous expressions when I read an article today about possible plans of the Department of [In]Justice to “delay” moving forward with charges against Hunter Biden because of “election year sensitivities.”

Surprise, surprise, surprise!

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Let’s just Follow The Science. What could go wrong?

US Fighter Jets Now Under Consideration For Ukraine: Air Force Chief

Biden administration preps Taiwan for Chinese attack after Ukraine invasion

Escalation is Inevitable

Russian missiles strike Odessa port day after grain deal, Ukraine says

Biden judicial nominee on board of prison ‘abolitionist’ group

Meet the Americans Facing Years in Prison for Committing the Same Apparent Gun Crimes as Hunter Biden

Republican states’ lawsuits derail Biden’s major immigration policy changes

CDC reports the first two monkeypox cases in children in the US (CNN)

Monkeypox virus could become entrenched as new STD in the US (Associated Press)

Silicon Valley water agency faces backlash over vaccine policy

House Agriculture Committee member wants Bill Gates to testify over massive farm purchases  Cue sinister music.

FLASHBACK: Media Called Trump COVID Diagnosis ‘Most Dangerous Moment’ in US History

Monkeypox is being driven overwhelmingly by sex between men, major study finds (NBC News) Which makes their finding cases in children disturbing.

Teen charged in 11-year-old Kyhara Tay’s death had previous gun-related arrests: source  So far as I am aware, no black guy (and it’s almost always a guy) has ever committed a crime with a gun that was legally owned.

Families Brawl At Disney World As The Company Brand Decays

Kamala’s 13/62 Meme

Putin Takes the Lead in the Global Struggle Against White Supremacy

NPR Politics Special: What We Learned From The Jan. 6 Hearings (NPR)

A documentary featuring Doug Mastriano was screened in a church. Now people are filing IRS complaints. (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Ex-Prosecutor: Manhattan DA Thought Indicting Trump Was Too Risky (Daily Beast)

Do the justices regret blowing up the Supreme Court’s reputation yet? (Washington Post)  Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

Stephen Colbert on Trump: ‘A stain on our history – and that stain is ketchup’ (The Guardian)

Four reasons the Jan. 6 hearings have conquered the news cycle (Washington Post)

Finally, the dam is breaking against Trump (Washington Post) E. J. Dionne joins the lynch mob.

The Criminal Case Against Trump Is Getting Stronger (The Atlantic) You can almost see pseudo-conservative David French salivating.

New YouTube Policy to STEAMROLL ‘False Claims’ about Abortion

Pittsburgh Jewish, Black leaders call out Doug Mastriano for ties to Gab social platform Ties! Obvious guilt!

Michigan House Dems call for federal investigation into GOP colleagues (NPR) What’s the point of having power if you can’t abuse it?

One month in, abortion bans are hell on Earth (Washington Post)

SFPD warns you might want to leave your expensive watch at home (KRON)

What Will Democrats Say If Their MAGA Candidates Win? (Daily Beast)

Newsom signs California gun bill modeled after Texas abortion law (CNN)

Bill to prevent lawmakers and their spouses from stock trading at standstill as Pelosi faces backlash

LA DA Gascon losing a second top adviser amid recall effort and public fury over crime

The Guardian view on European democracy: central bankers are villains and heroes (The Guardian)

NC town’s entire police force quits in protest over progressive town manager

DC’s Solution to Illegal Immigrants Bused From Texas: ‘Put Them on Train to Miami’ 

“Offer Large Sums Of Public Money”: Law Professor Calls For Congress To “Buyout” Conservative Justices

Missouri Sheriff Refuses To Hand Over Gun Owners’ Info To FBI: ‘I Will Go Down With The Ship’

Immigration Amendment Doesn’t Belong in National Defense Authorization Act

‘Your Problem Now’: Illinois Gov J.B. Pritzker Celebrates GOP Billionaires Fleeing His State for Florida

Pennsylvania Prohibits ‘Zuck Bucks’ Ahead Of 2022 Midterms

Republican Mayra Flores Accuses Democrat Opponent Of Paying Blogger For Racist Posts

HUNTING REPUBLICANS: Evening Nets Minimize Zeldin Assassination Attempt: ‘Sharp’ Keychain Weapon

CNN Hypes Newsome ‘Trolling’ Texas, Supreme Court on Guns  Proglodytes spend a lot of time breathing their own exhaust.

Trudeau pushes ahead on fertilizer reduction as provinces and farmers cry foul

Criticism Dogs Merriam-Webster Dictionary’s Redefinition of ‘Female,’ ‘Male’ to Include Gender Identity 

Unless we act soon, this heatwave is just a taste of things to come (The Guardian)

City of Houston’s response to illegal dumping to be subject of feds’ environmental justice probe (Click2Houston)

Big Oil V the World review – how can these climate crisis deniers sleep at night? (The Guardian)

Why the Dust Bowl was hotter than this heat wave, despite global warming (Washington Post)

Southern states brace for ‘whiplash’ of extreme weather (The Hill)

Carbon Credits Should Be One of Our Best Tools to Fight Climate Change—If We Use Them Right (TIME)

NY’s fossil fuel use soared after Indian Point plant closure. Officials sound the alarm

The audacious PR plot that seeded doubt about climate change (BBC)

Polar Bears That Persist

How to shrink AI’s ballooning carbon footprint (Nature)

NY Times Page One: ‘Delay Is the New Denial’ Latest GOP Tactic to Block Climate Action

About that Northwestern European Heat Wave

California went big on rooftop solar. Now that’s a problem for landfills

Wrong, Legacy Media, Climate Change Is Not Causing Summer Heatwaves in the U.S. and Europe

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We have the technology.

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German Foreign Minister Annalena “Airhead” Baerbock is concerned that there may be a popular uprising if Germany does not regain its access to Russian natural gas before the coming winter. Evidently the deployment of the Bundeswehr to suppress public dissent is not expected to be enough to quell the anger of German citizens when they face freezing to death.

Biden Has No Right to Declare a National Climate Emergency

There’s no “It’s Summer” clause in the Constitution empowering the president to ignore the will of Congress and unilaterally govern when it gets hot. The rejection of the president’s “agenda” by the lawmaking branch of government isn’t a justification for executive action; it’s the opposite. The Senate has unambiguously declined to implement Biden’s climate plan.

Though you have to marvel at the utter shamelessness of Democrats, incessantly warning that “democracy” is on the precipice of extinction, now urging the president to act like a petty dictator.

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You can tell a bit about someone based on their preconceptions about Peter Thiel. Whether the reflexive response to the name is “malign far-Right plutocrat”, “philanthropic saviour of all that is good” or “who?” is a reasonably reliable guide to where that person otherwise sits in the great online psychodrama we now call “the culture wars”.

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

“Lucretia” joins in the fun of my absence with a dunk on the latest instance of soi-disant conservatives pining for the “strange new respect” award from liberals for abandoning a conservative position. My biography of M. Stanton Evans recounts that Stan disliked George Will starting back in the 1970s because “George is always coming up with ‘conservative’ reasons to do some liberal thing.” As usual, Stan was ahead of his time. In recent years this defect has become a pandemic on the right. And it doesn’t even bother to mask itself any more! My train ride from London to Edinburgh today prompts me to propose an American conservative variation of the “no true Scotsman” fallacy, which in this case comes out as the “no true French-man” (as in David French-man) fallacy, which manifests itself in the seemingly endless series of “The Conservative Case for” some kind of conservative defeat.

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While big cities across the country struggle to fully recover from the pandemic, San Francisco is on another level, as tech companies exit leases and residents bolt for more affordable locations. San Francisco Mayor London Breed’s office estimates that one-third of San Francisco’s workforce is now remote and outside of the city. Last year, that resulted in a whopping $400 million hit to tax revenue, according to the Office of the Controller.

Former Chinese state media editor suggests Nancy Pelosi be ‘restrained,’ ‘punished’ by CCP for visiting Taiwan

Russia’s Ukraine war effort running ‘out of steam’ as Putin’s ability to spy in Europe cut in half, MI6 chief says (CNN)

British intelligence retools to meet the growing challenge of China

AP Highlights ‘Ukraine’s History Of Rampant Corruption’ After US Lawmaker Slams Zelensky

Vladimir Putin’s fascist fetish

IEA Chief: Europe Must Cut Gas Usage 20% To Survive Winter  Take that, nose!

Still Cute? Dystopian Robot Dogs Now Sporting Guns And Russian Insignia

German Government Bails Out Uniper From Energy Crisis

French Nuclear Outages Risk Making Europe’s Gas Crisis Worse

4 questions the US and NATO need to ask, and answer, about their Ukraine strategy

Russia and Ukraine agree to release blockaded grain exports

Russia tests U.S. air defenses in midst of Ukraine war

Colbert and Chris Hayes Love New ‘Standard’ for Congressional Hearings: 100% One-Sided

Cruel Irony: Minneapolis Neighborhood Pays Extra for Cops After Department Defunding

Indoctrination: 50 Schools Given $10k To Promote LGBT Ideology

Court Overrules School District That Banned Father Who Exposed Obscene Library Books

HUNTING REPUBLICANS: CBS, MSNBC BURY Attempted Stabbing of Conservative GOP Congressman

NASCAR Driver Mugged At Gunpoint During Pitstop At Chicago Cup Series Race (Babylon Bee)

DOJ Sabotaged Trump Release Of Russiagate Docs

NewsGuard Failing Fox News Because of ‘Journalistic Standards’ Is a Pathetic Joke

Women’s March: ‘Abortion Is Safer Than Giving Birth’  Except for the child.

PBS, Planned Parenthood Team Up To Spread Lies About Pro-Life Laws  Of course they do.

San Francisco criminal justice system rocked by ‘earthquake’ under new DA, activist says

Crime-Obsessed San Francisco Flirts With ‘Police State’ Crackdown (Daily Beast)

Tammy Baldwin, who is gay, confronted Marco Rubio about calling same-sex marriage vote a ‘stupid waste of time’ (CNN)

Justice Jackson dissents in first vote as Supreme Court won’t reinstate Biden immigration policies (CNN)

Sailboat off Florida coast intercepted with more than 150 migrants on board

Pelosi says her husband never made stock purchases based on info she gave him Of course not, Perish the thought.

Schumer’s legal weed bill is finally here (Politico)

California alleged drug traffickers in massive fentanyl bust no shows in court after release on cashless bail

What Harvard means by ‘diversity’ (Boston Globe)

‘Silent majority’ of Disney employees oppose woke ‘godmother’ name change, cast member says

Former U.N. ‘relief chief’ shares his secret for coping with crises: a ‘sunny gene’ (NPR)

Teachers’ union survey backfires, turns into ‘epic self-own’ for Democrats, says education policy expert

Democrats Cede ‘Party of Education’ Label to GOP: Poll (U.S. News)

Pennsylvania Lawmaker Issues Report Detailing ‘Myriad Of Election Issues’

Antifa Summer Camp In Portland Teaches Anarchy To Children

Inside the Woke Meltdown at One Domestic Violence Organization

Carrier location data usage again under investigation, after promises broken

YouTube To Remove Abortion Videos Spreading ‘False Claims’

Twitter Operating Loss $344 Million In Q2, Blames ‘Musk Deal’

Should you get your booster now or wait until the fall? An expert weighs in (CNN)

Study shows Omicron BA.4/5 infection triggers highly cross-reactive neutralizing antibodies (News-Medical)

New clues help explain why the SARS-CoV-2 omicron variant is so transmissible (Medical XPress)

‘We want to stop the virus’: Monkeypox shots still limited as Bay Area cases grow (Mercury-News)

BA.5 variant will keep Massachusetts at a COVID-19 plateau through the summer, experts predict (Boston Globe)

Dr. Birx Admits She And Fauci Made Up ‘The Science’ On Lockdowns, Social Distancing

Polio Detected In New York, First US Case Since 2013

COVID’s Greatest Victim: Hong Kong

Bacterial and fungal isolation from face masks under the Covid-19 pandemic

Fauci, Other US Officials Served In Lawsuit Over Alleged Collusion To Suppress Free Speech

Biden Gets COVID, Exposing Huge Double Standard

CNN Uses Biden Catching COVID to Trash Trump, Demand Nationwide Masking

First Doses First for Monkeypox

Fauci’s Retirement Pension Will Exceed President Biden’s Salary  Sometimes it is good to spend 40 years as a bureaucrat.

Jan. 6 Hearing Finale Reveals Shocking Truth That Jan. 6 Hearings Were Still Happening (Babylon Bee)

Trump instigated his supporters’ attack on Congress and threats against Pence, Jan. 6 committee says (CNBC) My, how unexpected.

DHS inspector general tells Secret Service to stop investigating potentially missing texts due to ‘ongoing criminal investigation’ (CNN)

Far-Right Channel One America News Officially Dropped by Last Major TV Carrier (Daily Beast) There is no Right but the Far-Right.

OAN officially dropped by Verizon, its last major carrier (The Hill)

The rightwing supreme court has another target: Native American rights (The Guardian)

YouTube says it will crack down on abortion misinformation and remove videos with false claims (CNBC)

Trump Indictment in Georgia Expected Before DOJ Charges: Legal Expert (Newsweek)

GOP Support Among Seniors, a Key Trump Base, Drops Dramatically: Poll (Newsweek)

Destruction of nature as threatening as climate crisis, EU deputy warns (The Guardian)

Washington Post: Kavanaugh neighbors say protesters are targeting residents, calling them ‘Karens,’ fascists

The Jan. 6 committee’s season finale (Politico)

S.E. Cupp LOSES IT Because Trump Hasn’t Been Indicted

Twitter says it bans using ‘groomer’ as an anti-LGTBQ slur—but its enforcement is lacking

A radical plan for Trump’s second term (Axios) More fiction from the mind-reading Left.

Carbon removal is moving full steam ahead. So is climate change. (Washington Post)

Global lessons from Australia’s disintegrating environment (The Hill)

Australia’s environment is ‘poor and deteriorating’ says damning new report (CNN)

Report: Brazil authorities pay no mind to deforestation (Associated Press)

In a paradox, cleaner air is now adding to global warming (Science)

Revealed: oil sector’s ‘staggering’ $3bn-a-day profits for last 50 years (The Guardian)

Threat of global extinction may be greater than previously thought, study finds (The Hill)

Amazon To Deploy Rivian Electric Vans For Prime Deliveries In These Cities  All cities run by Democrats.

Elevated CO2 Reduces Temperature Stress in Plants

Europe’s heatwave is forcing nuclear power plants to shut down

How the Climate Elite Spread Misery

Hunter Biden investigation developments ‘don’t add up’, former federal prosecutor says

Buttigieg highlights declining gas prices after suggesting their rise was good for transitioning to EVs

Migrants sent to NYC amid homeless shelter crisis have no local ties, were directed here by Biden admin

TSA chief says ‘under 1,000’ illegal immigrants have been allowed to board planes with warrants as ID

Biden administration showing ‘contempt’ for ‘law-abiding citizens’ with its TSA policy: Sen. Josh Hawley

Many borrowers took out student loans anticipating debt forgiveness, survey says

Why you shouldn’t underestimate Kamala Harris in all the speculation about a post-Biden 2024 (L.A. Times)

Univision Goes Full NoKo in Propaganda Piece On Biden’s Health

“Republicans Are Just Going After Him”: Media Starts The Spin On Possible Hunter Biden Charges

After Getting COVID, NBC Highlights ‘Growing Focus’ on Biden’s Age

Border Crisis Contributed To Botched Response To Uvalde School Massacre: Report

The More Unpopular He Gets, the More Radical Biden Becomes

Joe Biden Calls Obama To Wish Him A Speedy Recovery After Hearing The President Has COVID (Babylon Bee)

Rough Day? Karine Jean-Pierre Flubs Basic Questions About Biden’s COVID Diagnosis  Affirmative-action hire.

For Second Straight Month, Biden Least Popular President in History