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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

“The safest place in America is next to an armed Republican.” — Scott Adams

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In order to better understand how people will interact with mobile robots in the wild, we need to take them out of the lab and deploy them in the real world. But this isn’t easy to do.

Roboticists tend to develop robots under the assumption that they’ll know exactly where their robots are at any given time—clearly that’s an important capability if the robot’s job is to usefully move between specific locations. But that ability to localize generally requires the robot to have powerful sensors and a map of its environment. There are ways to wriggle out of some of these requirements: If you don’t have a map, there are methods that build a map and localize at the same time, and if you don’t have a good range sensor, visual navigation methods use just a regular RGB camera, which most robots would have anyway. Unfortunately, these alternatives to traditional localization-based navigation are either computationally expensive, not very robust, or both.

The problem with engineers is that they think that the world is full of people like them, i.e. intelligent and honest.

The first thing that will happen when they ‘deploy their robot in the real world’ is that some crook from the ‘hood will throw it in the back of a van and you’ll never see it–or its contents–again (except as small parts sold out of the back of a bodega).

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The Palestinian government is complicit in “rampant, wide-spread, and systematic torture of Palestinian nationals” and Israelis, according to a landmark legal complaint filed this week with the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Whoda thunkit?

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In 2020 The Times reported one publisher as saying it was “young white men” that were “really, really hard” to publish because “the culture doesn’t want to hear from them.” Earlier this year, Private Eye noted that white men were entirely absent not only from some major prize shortlists but also from the latest catalogues of several high-end literary fiction imprints.

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Ten Florida men with felony convictions have been charged with voter fraud because prosecutors say they registered and voted illegally. Critics say the punishments are unfair.

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The goals of the company are quite ambitious—clean, continuous energy for 1 cent per kilowatt-hour, and the ability to manufacture enough power plants to satisfy the current electrical demand of earth in a ten year period.

If both things happen, it will transform the world. Abundant, clean, and radically inexpensive energy will elevate the quality of life for all of us—think about how much the cost of energy factors into what we do and use. Also, electricity at this price will allow us to do things like efficiently capture carbon (so although we’ll still rely on gasoline for awhile, it’ll be ok).

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Researchers designed, built and tested a system that produces kerosene fuel for flight using little more than water, carbon dioxide and sunlight.

The technology to create jet fuel quite literally from thin air has been around for a few years now; the breakthrough here is scaling the process up from the laboratory to an industrial proof of concept.

“We are the first to demonstrate the entire thermochemical process chain from water and CO2 to kerosene in a fully-integrated solar tower system,” Aldo Steinfeld, a professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich), said in a statement.

A useful thing, if they can make it cost-effective.

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In 1941, Henry Ford built a car out of plastic from hemp and other plant material that ran on hemp fuel. Why aren’t we driving it today? asks Return to Now.

Ford’s 1941 bioplastic Model T was made of hemp, flax, wheat, and spruce pulp, which made the car lighter than fiberglass and ten times tougher than steel, wrote the New York Times on February 2, 1941. The car ran on ethanol made from hemp or other agricultural waste. Ford’s experimental model was deemed a step toward the realization of his dream to “grow automobiles from soil,” wrote Popular Mechanics in their December 1941 issue and reduce greenhouse gases—already known to occur by then.

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Professor Doctor Sucharit Bhakdi is a German virologist and professor of microbiology. He is an ethnic Thai who was born in the USA and educated at schools in Switzerland, Egypt, and Thailand. He studied medicine at the University of Bonn. Prior to his retirement, he was a professor at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and, from 1991 to 2012, director of the Medical Institute for Microbiology and Hygiene in Germany.

Dr. Bhakdi was interviewed recently in Sweden by Swebbtv. His remarks concerned the Wuhan Coronavirus, and especially the experimental mRNA treatment that is intended to mitigate the effects of infection with the disease. He was vehement about the evils of the “vaccine”, and criticized the Swedes and the Danes for failing to stand up against the pressure to have themselves and their children “vaccinated”.

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In March, Britain’s Daily Telegraph and GB News channel both reported that the National Museum of Wales would be relabelling a replica of the first steam-powered locomotive, unveiled by its Cornish inventor Richard Trevithick in 1804. Trevithick had no links to slavery, but the amendment has apparently been included anyway as part of the museum’s commitment to “decolonizing” its collection. In a statement defending what it described as the addition of “historical context,” the museum said: “Although there might not be direct links between the Trevithick locomotive and the slave trade, we acknowledge the reality that links to slavery are woven into the warp and weft of Welsh society.”

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John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Joe Biden opened a new front in the war on energy today when he claimed that he got cancer from living in a state that has oil refineries. The occasion was a speech on global warming.

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There are around 150 oil refineries in the U.S., of which one is located in Delaware. It appears to me that Delaware has had only that one refinery for many years. I don’t know whether Delaware has ever had the highest cancer rate in the country. It certainly hasn’t in modern times. Looking at the data, there is no apparent correlation between the presence of oil refineries, or the oil industry generally, in a state and the cancer fatality rate. In particular, I don’t know how oil refineries would give you skin cancer, which is the type Biden had, and I don’t believe that people in Delaware used windshield wipers to clear their windshields of oil slicks from refineries.

Daniel Greenfield.

The Obama administration pumped billions in taxpayer money into battery and electric car manufacturing, the majority of which failed, on the theory that enough government subsidies would lower battery costs. Not only was much of that money lost, but currently electric battery costs hover around the $160 kilowatt-hour mark. Green boosters cheer that’s far down from over $1,000 per kWh a decade ago, but that still adds up to the reality that an electric car capable of traveling for even short distances needs a battery that alone costs thousands.

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The Nissan Leaf was initially a hit, but car manufacturers quickly realized that anyone willing to overpay that much for substandard performance had money to burn. The electric car market is now thoroughly dominated by luxury vehicles subsidized by taxpayers. And the Leaf went from 90% market share to less than 10%. The EV market is now a taxpayer-funded status symbol.

The dirty truth about the “clean” car market is that it consists of traditional car companies and Tesla frantically trying to unload a limited share of luxury electric cars on wealthy customers to cash in on the emissions credits mandated by states like California. Tesla makes more money reselling these regulatory credits to actual car companies than it does selling cars. Taxpayers and working class car-owners pick up the bill for the entire luxury electric vehicle market.

The dire state of the environment report is a major challenge for Labor – and an opportunity (The Guardian)

Canadian researchers seek paths for animals to migrate in response to climate change (NPR)

Alarm as fastest growing US cities risk becoming unlivable from climate crisis (The Guardian)

It’s Torrid in Tulsa, and Should We Care?

‘It’s Us’: Networks Blame July Heat Wave on ‘Man Made Climate Change’

Victoria’s Green Zealots Banned Gas Fracking – Now Running Out of Gas

Europe Has Descended Into the Age of Fire  (Wired ‘Science’)

Biden to issue new policy on climate, vowing to act if Congress doesn’t (Washington Post) I guess Our Democracy doesn’t extend to our elected representatives.

Wind Power Fail: Texas Heatwave Triggers Record Fossil Fuel Demand

‘Water Cops’ Patrol Drought-Stricken Los Angeles, Searching For Violators

Biden Transport Secretary Again Says “Pain” Of High Gas Prices Is A Benefit  “My butt hurts so why shouldn’t yours?”

Big Three Ignore Report on Fake Eco Doom Prophet John Kerry’s HUGE Carbon Footprint

Aspiring Rapper Updates

How COVID-19 symptoms are changing: A sore throat and hoarse voice became top symptoms with newer variant (CBS News)

Latest COVID Strain Can Cause “Strange” New Symptom At Night, Says Professor (IFLScience) So you’d better PANIC!

US approaches 2,000 monkeypox cases (University of Minnesota)

San Diego school board president says students must wear mask or don’t bother returning to school  Your tax dollars at work.

WHO: COVID triples across Europe, hospitalizations double (Associated Press)

Omicron spike function and neutralizing activity elicited by a comprehensive panel of vaccines (Science)

Health leaders share what to look out for with Monkeypox virus (KEPR)

81-Year-Old Fauci Responds To Reports On Him Leaving, Says He’s “Not Going To Retire”

Monkeypox: The New AIDS

U.S. Messaging on Monkeypox Is Deeply Flawed (The Atlantic) It keeps ignoring the most important fact: Homosexuals Are The Victims! Spend some money! PANIC! (How would you like to have a name like Jerusalem Demsas?)

Covid cases are skyrocketing again. States have no new plans. (Politico) What, you mean the old plans (masks, vaccines, destroy the economy) didn’t work?!

Endemic Covid-19 Looks Pretty Brutal (N.Y.Times) So you’d better PANIC!

Meet the new GDP prototype that tracks inequality (NPR)

Immigrants bussed from Texas and Arizona welcome in nation’s capital, say residents

House Democrats tout bill to add four seats to Supreme Court (The Hill) Just enough to give them a liberal majority! What are the odds?

House votes to protect same-sex marriage in case the Supreme Court rescinds it (NBC News)

AOC fakes being handcuffed after arrest at abortion rights protest

As professionals flee antiabortion policies, red states face a brain drain (L.A. Times) Wokerati who are willing to kill children are ‘brains’ we can do without.

De Blasio Gave Up on Running for Congress — But He Can Use Money He Raised to Pay Off His Old Debts  How convenient! (Maybe that’s why Beto keeps running….)

EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, approved

The Secondhand Censorship Effect: The Real Impact of Big Tech’s Thought-Policing

Florida or California? Surely, You Jest.

Ruhle Falsely Claims Pro-Life States Make It Harder to Treat Miscarriages, Vote

Hollywood Reveals Plans to Strongly Push Pro-Abortion Agenda in Post-Roe America  My, what a surprise.

Miriam-Webster Alters Definition Of Female To Be More Inclusive

AOC Still Handcuffed As Capitol Police Misplaced The Invisible Key

RINO ALERT: Confessions of a Conservative Apostate (The Atlantic) This guy was never a ‘conservative’.

Half of Americans anticipate a U.S. civil war soon

Latino Media Mad That Sanctuary Cities Are Asked To Provide Sanctuary

Army Set To Cut Force-Size By 20,000 Amid “Unprecedented Challenges” In Recruitment

Pelosi Is Poised To Score Big From Semiconductor Bill  What’s the use of having power if you can’t abuse it?

China threatens ‘strong measures’ if Pelosi visits Taiwan (Associated Press)

New UK Hub To Develop Anti-Drone Laser Weapons As Ukraine War Fuels Demand

Intelligence Agencies Say Russia Election Threat Persists Amid Ukraine War (N.Y. Times) I can’t say that Putin’s choice for U.S. President wouldn’t be preferable to that of the New York Times.

E.U. urges gas rationing ahead of ‘likely’ cutoff by Russia  (Washington Post)

Putin Says Russia Will Honor Gas Commitment But Flows Will Drop As Much As 20% Of Capacity

Russia’s goals in Ukraine now include territory outside the Donbas, Lavrov says

China Spent 72% More On Russian Oil In June As Moscow Remains Top Chinese Supplier; Saudi Volumes Tumble

Ukraine shows need for NATO ‘magazine depth’: Raytheon exec

Tanker Companies Race To Ship Russian Oil Ahead Of New Sanctions

Trump-backed election denier Dan Cox wins Maryland’s GOP primary for governor (NBC News) Treump-backed! Election denier! WE DON’T KNOW WHICH IS WORSE!

Georgia prosecutors say all 16 fake Trump electors are targets in criminal probe (CNN)

Ex-Trump aide tied to ‘unhinged’ December 2020 White House meeting speaks with January 6 committee (CNN)

Top spokeswoman for Nevada Republican Senate nominee marched on Jan. 6 with Oath Keepers, including one charged with sedition (CNN) Marched with! Charged with! OBVIOUSLY GUILTY!

MSNBC’s O’Donnell: GOP Ensured America Has ‘Best-Equipped Mass Murderers in the World’  Actually, I think Al Quaeda is ahead.

Arizona Senate candidate embraces Trump’s extreme style (Washington Post) As opposed to, say, Elizabeth Warren’s extreme style. Or AOC’s extreme style. (Some styles are more extreme than others.)

Maryland GOP Throws It All Away (The Bulwark) Bill Kristol’s RINO platform continues to suck up to the ruling class.

Trump’s choices escalated tensions and set U.S. on path to Jan. 6, panel finds (Washington Post) At least that’s the Narrative, and we’re sticking to it.

Republicans Have Created a Pro-Life Dystopia (The American Prospect) As opposed to the Pro-Death Dystopia that the Democrats want to create. Not a difficult choice.

Michael Peroutka, Neo-Confederate Activist, Wins GOP Race For Maryland Attorney General (Huffington Post) And the video features a flaming swastika, just in case you didn’t get the message.

High as a Kite? Whoopi: Justice Thomas Poised to Abolish Interracial Marriage  Seriously delusional. About as delusional as calling Trump anti-semitic.

“He’s A Public Employee. Fire his A**”: Critics Call For Harbaugh To Be Canned For Coming Out As Pro-Life

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Criminal gangs in Sweden are managing to acquire some of the armor-piercing rounds just like those the Swedish government has been donating to Ukraine. The following story doesn’t mention the ethnicity of the “youths” who have obtained such advanced weaponry, but I seriously doubt there are any blond blue-eyed young men named Sven or Olaf among the members of these gangs.

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What the Ukrainians can expect from the progressives is an airlift of thoughts and prayers.

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The International Quidditch Association (IQA), which governs nearly 600 teams over the world, Avada Kedavra-ed the original name of the highly confusing game in order to distance themselves from Rowling’s “anti-trans positions.”

“This is an important moment in our sport’s history,” said Chris Lau, chair of the IQA board of trustees. “We are confident in this step and we look forward to all the new opportunities quadball will bring.”

Unbelievable.

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You first.

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How can it be that with so much cattle in America, we sometimes can’t buy meat?

At the beginning of the pandemic, Costco, Wegmans and Kroger limited purchases of beef. Hundreds of Wendy’s outlets ran out of hamburgers.

“How the hell can this be?” says Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., in my new video. “They (Wendy’s) were out of hamburger, yet you could see cattle from the drive-thru!”

It happens because of stupid government rules.

Massie owns a small farm in Kentucky. “I’d rather deal with cattle than congressmen,” he jokes. “At least (cattle) exhibit learned behavior.”

But politicians often don’t.

“You’re born with the right to eat what you want,” says Massie. “Why is the government getting in the middle and saying, ‘No, you can’t buy that’?”

“To keep you safe,” I push back.

“They’re not keeping you safe,” Massie responds. “They’re keeping you away from good, healthy food.”

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Especially since now they have more jobs for Fashionable Minorities than even the bus system gave them.

And we all know how much cheaper and more efficient government-provided services are.

ZMan reads the tea leaves.

This is what Elon Musk is going to face in the Delaware Court of Chancery Chancellor when his case against Twitter goes to trial. That assumes it ever gets to a trial, as there is a good chance his lawyers see the writing on the wall long before that point and there is some sort of settlement. The Twitter legal team features a former chief judge from the Delaware Court of Chancery Chancellor. No doubt there are others with connections to the small club that is the Delaware bench.

Like the Steve Martin character in that movie, Musk is about to learn that the laws and procedures do not matter. What matters is who decides. Every judge on the Delaware Court of Chancery Chancellor was put there by a politician. Those politicians were selected for their loyalty to a system that many deny exists. That system is the managerial system that governs America. You do not get into office with a chance to wield real power unless you are trusted by the system.

Fortunately for Musk, he can afford to get butt-fucked by the system, unlike many of the Dirt People who receive that treatment regularly.

This is what stumps people about managerialism. There was no official pronouncement from the leader of the managers. The supreme leader of managerialism did not read out a fatwa against Elon Musk. There is not even an anonymous memo circulating that says Musk is now on the proscribed list. It is a thing that just happened. One day, people with power were showering Musk with your money. Then all of a sudden, they all agreed that Musk was a threat to our democracy.

Let’s hear it for Our Democracy.

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Denmark is to start demolishing parts of migrant ghettos and moving people elsewhere in a bid to put an end to ‘parallel societies’ that have led to high crime and social dislocation.

How About: Returning them to where they came from?

(Naw….)

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There’s a 2005 episode of Doctor Who in which David Tennant’s Doctor turns against Prime Minister Harriet Jones and undermines her with six words: “Don’t you think she looks tired?” Veiled as concern, it’s barely a criticism at all but it generates sufficient uncertainty about her health and leadership to inspire a vote of no confidence. Doubt is contagious. The tenor of the current grumbling about the state of the Marvel Cinematic Universe reminds me of that. Not terrible, not failing, but don’t you think it looks tired?

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When a Democrat occupies the White House, you can be reasonably sure that administrative agencies will start bending rules to get results that they can’t get through normal procedures.

Witness, for example, the rise of the agency “guidance” document. These are documents that express an agency’s view of what the law is. They are not, however, formal rules that have the force of law.

Still, any regulated entity would be foolish to ignore an agency guidance document because it knows the agency will enforce its new understanding of the law. The agency’s bureaucrats in charge of dishing out fines and other administrative penalties will treat the guidance as if it’s binding.

Think of guidance not as a command, but as an implied threat. Yes, it’s not technically a rule that you have to follow, but if you don’t go along willingly, we’ll break your kneecaps … bureaucratically.

A recent decision by U.S. District Judge Charles Atchley struck a blow against these shenanigans, and that’s a good thing.

This heatwave has eviscerated the idea that small changes can tackle extreme weather (The Guardian) More hand-wringing by George Monbiot.

The U.S. plan to avoid extreme climate change is running out of time (Washington Post)

Climate-crisis anxiety denial is everywhere. But this week it’s impossible to ignore our worries (The Guardian)

Florida family drives into electric car problem: a replacement battery costs more than vehicle itself “It was fine at first,” Siwinski said. “I loved it so much. It was small and quiet and cute. And all the sudden it stopped working.”

Australia’s environment in ‘shocking’ decline, report finds (BBC)

Kylie Jenner called ‘climate criminal’ after 17-minute private jet flight

Climate change extreme weather costs Germany billions annually (Reuters)

Let’s Not Be Sri Lanka

NBC Panics Over Climate Change, Blames Manchin for Blocking Biden

Climate Change Dictates Are Self Destructive – But Also Part Of A Bigger Agenda

The Heatwave Green Hysteria is Out of Control

Beware of bad science reporting: No, we haven’t killed 90% of all plankton

WashPost Goes Bananas Over So-Called Climate ‘Apocalypse’

FLASHBACK: One Year Ago Today, Biden Called Inflation ‘Temporary’ (It’s a long way to temporary)

Biden’s economic approval rating falls to new low on fear about inflation, CNBC survey finds

CNN Poll: Most Americans are discontented with Biden, the economy and the state of the country

Harris says rights under assault from ‘extremist so-called leaders’ (The Hill) From an extremist so-called VP.

75% of middle-class households say their income is falling behind the cost of living (CNBC)

Nets Ignore Biden Mandating Abortions at Catholic Hospitals in Red States

Biden Poised To Give Iran More Than $100 Billion, Haley Warns

Biden could declare climate emergency as soon as this week, sources say (Washington Post) Trying to make the U.S. like Sri Lanka.

America Just Bailed Out A Bunch Of Pensions At The Taxpayers’ Expense

The Real Policy Error Is Expanding Debt And Calling It “Growth”

Texas Sues Biden Over Emergency Abortions

CNN Helps Biden Take Credit for Falling Gas Prices He Couldn’t Control Before

North Dakota Assassinates, Dismembers Journalist So Biden Will Let Them Drill For Oil  (Babylon Bee)

Homeland Security records show ‘shocking’ use of phone data, ACLU says (Politico)

DHS spent millions on cellphone data to track Americans and foreigners inside and outside U.S., ACLU report says (NBC News)

America’s wealth inequality is a domestic IED, ready to ignite (The Hill) Weaponizing envy.

Federal agencies lay the groundwork to ignore the Supreme Court (The Hill)

Social justice summer camp started by anarchists to be held in Oregon (ABC)

Let’s rebuild the US microchip industry – not give it a $50bn-plus check (The Guardian) Bernie Sanders seems to think you can rebuild an industry for free. Maybe you can, on his planet.

Congress moves to protect marriage equality after Roe decision (Axios)

Dem Staffers Unionize, Citing Poor Pay and Pervasive Sexual Harassment

How the Left Hopes to Seize Control of Local Election Offices

San Francisco’s New DA Goes On Firing Spree After Voters Recall Soros-Backed Predecessor

US Retailers Boost Security Personnel To Combat Soaring Thefts And Violent Crime

Nets Ignore Paul Pelosi Buying Millions in Chip Stocks Prior to House Vote

Worksheet At Boston High School Suggests Assassinations As Legitimate Form Of Resisting ‘Oppression’

Hundreds Of California Truckers Block Oakland Terminal Access To Protest AB5

ABC Loves ‘Lifelong Activism’ of Hanoi Jane Fonda: ‘Legend,’ ‘Royalty’  “Treason doth never prosper; what’s the reason? If it do prosper, none dare call it treason.”

NPR Clarifies Disinformation Team’s Job Will Be To Spread More Disinformation  (Babylon Bee)

“Morally And Intellectually Corrupt”: UCLA Prof Resigns In Protest Over ‘Viewpoint Intolerance’

Amazon Sues Facebook Administrators Over More Than 10,000 Groups Used To Coordinate Fake Product Reviews

Less Than Half of San Francisco Students Are High-School Ready. More Than a Fourth Are Chronically Absent.

With a sniff or a swallow, new vaccines aim to put the brakes on Covid-19 spread (CNN)

Conservative blocs unleash wave of litigation to curb public health powers (NPR)

Anthony Fauci wants to put Covid’s politicization behind him (Politico) I can’t help seeing him in a black shirt.

Walensky pushes back on Gottlieb’s criticism of CDC monkeypox response (CNN)

Gay men deserve the unvarnished truth about monkeypox (Washington Post) Unvarnished truth: ODF.

People are getting COVID again and again… and again. Is this the new normal? (S.F. Chronicle)

Moderna’s new variant-busting COVID vaccine starting trial in Israel (Times of Israel)

Jailed crooks told to cough up $600k for COVID fraud

The Vax Death Lottery

San Diego Unified President Dr. Sharon Whitehurst-Payne defends indoor mask mandate

Germany To Re-Impose Mask Mandate In September Despite COVID Wave Already “Losing Momentum”

Hey, Team Biden: Enough with the COVID emergency declarations!

Retiring Dr. Fauci To Be Honored With 21-Booster Shot Salute (Babylon Bee0 In the butt, I hope.

Kathy Hochul’s New York Sent $600 Million in No-Bid COVID Contracts to Dem Megadonor’s Company

No Mask, No School: San Diego Reinstates Mandate for Students

UNC Chapel Hill Pays Nikole Hannah-Jones Not to Sue

Vice President Kamala Harris compares Supreme Court abortion ruling to slavery: ‘Claiming ownership over human bodies’ (CNBC)

Man who made terrifying rooftop leap to flee cops in NYC says he did it to avoid Rikers Island

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce fixes wig mid-race but still qualifies in worlds 200m (The Guardian)

Family of Gunman Say Police Didn’t Try to Deescalate. Police Say That’s a Lie.

The Not So Great Reset Comes for the Foreign Service Officers Test

C.I.A. Director Issues Warning After Possible Noose Is Found Near Facility (N.Y. Times)

Democrats Navigate Nuanced Views on Abortion Among Black Voters (N.Y. Times)

Cancel Culture Comes to Ancient Egypt

CIA Convulsed by Possibly Fake Noose

Crazy People Are Dangerous

Arsenal Goes Full-On Woke With New Kit Design, Honors BLM  I guess, with rampant immigration, there are now a lot of black people in Britain.

Did AOC Pretend To Be Handcuffed While Police Escorted Her From Supreme Court?  Of course she did. Remember the time she posed weeping at a fence that had nothing to do with the southern border? (AOC Sits In Invisible Police Car Awaiting Transport To Invisible Jail – Babylon Bee)

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GoFundMe has allowed a fundraiser for the family of a now-deceased Minneapolis shooting suspect to reach $20,000 – despite the donation platform removing similar campaigns for Kyle Rittenhouse and Jose Alba – both of whom acted in self-defense.

The victim in question:

A new wave of culture-enrichers is attempting to reach Austria and Germany by taking the Balkan Route overland to Hungary and/or Slovenia. What distinguishes this group from previous waves is that it seems to be notably well-armed — or maybe the soldiers of Allah just happened to get caught this time.

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According to the Office of Student Enrollment, the city is projecting that 28,100 fewer students will enroll in public schools in the fall. During the 2020-21 school year, the city lost roughly 43,000 students, and an additional net 21,000 students departed during the 2021-22 school year. And that accounts for over half of the 120,000 net students who had left the city’s public school system over the last five years.

New York is increasingly unliveable for families. Former Mayor Bill de Blasio focused more on punishing charter schools (and, by extension, the parents who wanted their children to attend them) than on improving public schools in the city. And just as in California, COVID-19 has accelerated the decline of public schools in the Big Apple, and it isn’t hard to see why.

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Jim Sciutto spread some disinformation on the Tuesday edition of CNN Newsroom on pro-life laws, but not only did he do that, he blamed the laws themselves and not his own lack of basic reading skills for the real world consequences of that disinformation.

Addressing NYU School of Medicine bioethicist Arthur Caplan, Sciutto claimed, “a consequence of how these laws are written, is that even someone with unviable pregnancies, whether it be miscarriages or ectopic pregnancies, they’re struggling to receive treatment in some states, the doctors fearing prosecution, right? Even those though fetuses cannot live, they will not live.”

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Houston Methodist Hospital System is in the middle of a staffing emergency. They have over 400 fully-vaccinated employees out sick with Covid-19. They fired 153 people last year who refused the hospital system’s vaccine mandate. This is a statement from a hospital system spokeswoman:

“We have 400 employees out sick with COVID. They are out sick without severe illness. We stand by the effectiveness of the vaccine,” Asin responded.

Those two sentences contradict each other. The spokeswoman has no idea. No mind, it appears.

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On Monday’s edition of Amanpour and Company, the PBS and CNN International show found time to cover a topic that virtually nobody cares about: the sex lives of African women. The segment not only found way to shoehorn anti-Dobbs comments, but also embrace polygamy as a perfectly valid type of relationship.

Guest host Sara Sidner introduced the segment, “The rollback of women’s reproductive rights in America has dominated headlines after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. But a new taboo-busting book is focusing our attention on the rights and freedoms of women across the continent of Africa.”

ZMan stares into the abyss.

There is a growing sense that there is a crisis in science, with science being broadly defined to include the soft sciences. The reproducibility crisis, as pointed out by the statistician W. M. Briggs, is close to universal. Across the academy, there is a plague of faulty and fraudulent studies being produced. Worse yet, the systems for controlling fraud seem to be encouraging it. Peer review now means nothing more than politically acceptable in the soft science fields.

Briggs offers one reason for what is happening. He notes that engineering is not having this problem. The reason is the bridge has to actually work as predicted or the engineers suffer a heavy price. Engineering is not science, but it relies upon the sciences to produce practical things. Those practical things must hold up to reality, which controls what comes out of engineering as accepted theory. In other words, everything in engineering gets tested against reality.

The academy, on the other hand, never has to face reality this way. Even in the hard sciences, reality avoidance is common. Theoretical physics has entered a world that is beyond the ability to test. Math is still math, but much of what is done is purely speculative or requires unproven assumptions. In the soft sciences, the rules have collapsed entirely and most of what comes out is narrative framing. The “science” is limited to providing cover for current fads.

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Officers of the Minneapolis Police Department killed Tekle Sundberg after he shot up Cassandra Yarbrough’s apartment and resisted police in a six-hour standoff. John summarized the events here. The odious Ben Crump is on the case. It has turned into a national story. The Star Tribune updates it here this morning.

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

If self-love could kill you, the fallacious Dr. Fauci would be a goner. As it is, he contemplates continuing to hold office leading the NIAID and advising President Biden until the end of “the Biden administration term,” as he put it in an interview with Politico reported yesterday. The good news is that he will be leaving. The bad news is that his leaving is long overdue. The funny news is that he’s giving himself room to stick around in case Biden leaves office early. “Fauci says he’s leaving by the end of President Joe Biden’s term,” as Politico puts it.

I can’t help but see him in a black shirt.