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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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 

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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.

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

Massive brawl among families breaks out at Disney World, hospitalizing 1

Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones can’t apply to work at UNC-Chapel until 2028, settlement says

Fair Park First Might Prompt 21st Century Urban Renewal, Wiping Out Neighborhoods

Crazy People Are Dangerous, and Yes, Black Hammer Is a Dangerous Cult

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The “experts” didn’t expect it to turn out this way. An experiment conducted by Harvard University and University of Exeter social scientists found no-strings-attached handouts harmed low-income recipients rather than help them.

Funded by an anonymous nonprofit, the study centered on an experiment in which 2,073 low-income people were randomly selected to receive a single, unconditional cash transfer of either $500 or $2,000. Another 3,170 low-income study subjects received no money from the study.

The experiment was conducted from July 2020 to May 2021. On average, the subjects were earning roughly $950 a month while receiving another $530 in food stamps and other government benefits. A little over half were unemployed and 80% had children.

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Last night Congressman and Republican candidate for Governor of New York Lee Zeldin was on stage, giving a speech at a campaign stop in upstate New York, when a man climbed onto the stage and attacked Zeldin with some kind of bladed weapon. Zeldin defended himself and bystanders wrestled the attacker to the ground. Zeldin was unhurt and later resumed his speech.

The assailant was identified as 43-year-old David Jakubonis. Not much is known about Jakubonis at this point. He has been described as an Iraq war veteran, but that may be only because of the hat he was wearing. It seems reasonable to assume that he is a Democrat, although he might just be a nut, and some observers said he looked as though he could be intoxicated.

UPDATE: Why New York Police Released the Man Who Tried To Stab Jewish Republican

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Something I did not cover in the show is the fate of the most popular president in human history, who has come down with Covid. This is interesting for all sorts of reasons, not the least of which is that Biden used to angrily lecture us that only unvaccinated people could get Covid. It seems like a long time ago, but he was the leader of the “pandemic of the unvaccinated” chorus.

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Putting that aside, you see the problem we have by the near total silence from the Republican party on this issue. They could be using this to hammer Biden, but they were onboard with the vaccine mandates too. The same is true of the conservatives, who forgot all about their principles during the panic. All of these people believe the same things, they just disagree over the presentation.

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Senior Shia cleric and political leader Muqtada al Sadr is demanding that former prime minister Nouri al-Maliki be prosecuted because of audio recordings of his political views that demonstrate him making deals with anyone, including Iran, to defeat Sadr and his many supporters. If convicted, Maliki faces life in prison or even execution. Sadr has been unrelenting in his anti-corruption campaign, Evidence of corrupt Maliki decisions since he became the first prime minister of post-Saddam Iraq in 2003 led to his being banned from running for prime minister again. Sadr wanted Maliki banned from politics altogether, but court rulings allowed Maliki to remain active and his party alliance was key in blocking the selection of a new prime minister after anti-corruption parties obtained a majority in the 2021 elections. Iraqi courts are less corrupt than many other institutions but can still be influenced by cash or convincing death threats.

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As we’ve discussed, ever since Christianity we’ve conceived moral good to be valorization of the victim. We’ve since shed the theological roots of Christianity, but kept the same superstructure that redistributes status to the less well-off. When you see ambitious philanthropic projects started and funded by our ruling class, you can’t help but think much of it has good intentions. (What’s the Road to Hell paved with again?)

Another theory holds that promoting egalitarianism is just another way elites compete amongst each other. That it’s just another status game.

We recently discussed Rob Henderson’s Luxury Beliefs, the idea being that if people buy expensive luxury goods to showcase how well-off they are, people also hold “expensive” beliefs for the same reason.

This idea is not new: Jared Diamond has suggested one reason people engage in displays such as drinking, smoking, drug use, and other costly behaviors is because they serve as fitness indicators. The message is: “I’m so healthy I can afford to poison my body and continue to function.”

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Scott Adams predicted, back when Trump was elected, that eventually Republicans would be hunted.

Have you ever heard of an attack on a Democrat?

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Socialized medicine has long been a chief goal of the Democratic Party, but it is hard to understand why anyone would voluntarily entrust his family’s health care to the tender mercies of any government, even the most benign. We have tracked the United Kingdom’s experience with socialized medicine in our “Annals of Government Medicine” series, and I wrote here about the current crisis in British dentistry: nine out of ten National Health Service dentists’ offices won’t take any new patients. And British dentistry, like European dentistry in general, was nothing to write home about in the first place.

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Cry me a river. Democrats never whine more loudly than when they are forced to cope with the same asinine policies that they inflict on other people.

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What is it with people who inherit large amounts of money thinking that is a Sign From God that they belong in politics?

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Here is a simple proposal: Every dime of potential budgetary savings in the Medicare program should first be plowed back into the Medicare program to help ensure its solvency or secondarily be earmarked for debt reduction.

Under no circumstances should Medicare be milked as a cash cow for other government programs, whether bulking up Obamacare subsidies, funding “climate change” initiatives, promoting taxpayer funding of abortion, or whatever narrow ideological obsession happens to be captivating congressional “progressives” at the moment.

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The Mississippi Board of Education voted today to remove a policy that barred individuals with enhanced concealed carry permits from carrying guns in the state’s elementary and secondary public schools, revising a 1990 policy that previously prohibited anyone other than “duly authorized law enforcement officials” from doing so. The board made the change as part of an ongoing review of its policies to bring them into compliance with state law.

The board said the 1990 policy prohibiting “the possession of pistols, firearms, or weapons in any form by any person other than duly authorized law enforcement officials on school premises or at school functions” is at odds with the state’s 2011 enhanced-carry law.

England Too White

In the Sundberg shooting, MPD bodycam

Why Are Blacks Still on Board With Biden?

New ‘Game of Thrones’ Spinoff Blackwashed to Avoid ‘Another Bunch of White People on the Screen’ 

Marshmallow Habits

Biden announces new climate change programs, but no emergency declaration (CNBC)

Biden announces executive actions on ‘climate crisis,’ focuses on extreme heat and boosting offshore wind

The amount of Greenland ice that melted last weekend could cover West Virginia in a foot of water (CNN)

Energy & Environment — Newsom positions himself as climate leader (The Hill)

Tomorrow’s Trains Will Suck Carbon Out of the Sky (Daily Beast) And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

Offshore fish farms: a new wave of food production … or the ‘wild west’ of ocean pollution? (The Guardian)

Is organic farming to blame for Sri Lanka’s crisis? (Politico) No, but banning artificial fertilizer is.

Impact of Supreme Court’s climate ruling spreads (Politico)

‘It’s already happening’: MSU researcher says climate change will trigger unprecedented droughts

Global Coal-Fired Electricity Generation Surges To Record High

English Forests are Growing

Climate Alarmists Respond to the Global Warming Pause

Corporate Carbon Offset Company Accidentally Starts Devastating Wildfire

Reducing Patient Access to New Medications Is the Left’s Latest Medicare Price Fixing Scheme

Why Democrats are begging Trump to start 2024 right now (Politico)

The vanishing center of American democracy (The Hill)

American democracy is not just about majorities (Knox News)

Lemon Denies Economics, Claims More Oil Supply Won’t Help

Nets Hide MAJOR News Feds Ready to Indict Hunter Biden

Portland Parents Encouraged To Send Their Kids To “Social Justice Summer Camp”

New York Times Demands Colleges Raise ‘Standard of Care,’ Provide Abortion to Students

How Democracy Dies in the 21st Century (The Atlantic) By not conforming to the Narrative, of course.

This is what it looks like when women become second-class citizens (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin loses her shit. (Jen, the first words of the Hippocratic Oath are PRIMUM NON NOCERE ‘First not to harm’. That leaves abortion out.)

‘I Was Wrong’: Paul Krugman Kicks Himself For His Awful Inflation Takes

Giving A-10 Warthogs To Ukraine Isn’t Off The Table

Nord Stream 1 resumes gas flows from Russia to Europe after fears of complete cutoff (CNBC)

US officials recovered possible Fabergé egg from Russian oligarch’s seized yacht (CNN) Ooooo, what else can we steal?

US Destroyer Enters China-Claimed Waters For 3rd Time In A Week Ahead Of Pelosi Taiwan Trip

William Burns, CIA chief, says China plans Taiwan takeover in next few years

‘A New World Order Is Coming’ – Putin Blasts “Globalist” Ideology As “Totalitarian”

Pelosi to Blinken: Label Russia as terrorist state, or else Congress will (Politico)

Russia Plans ‘Annexation Votes’ For Captured Ukraine Territories By Mid-September: Report

US warns losing access to Taiwanese chips could break the economy

US “Started” The Ukraine Crisis, China Says, In Fiercest Official Criticism Yet  Once Russia ceased being Communist, NATO ought to have been dissolved.

British intelligence retools for spying on China

The war for warmth