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Good luck with that.

The purpose of an HOV lane is to prevent two (or more) people from driving multiple cars by encouraging the sharing of a vehicle. There is no way an unborn baby could be driving its own car, and therefore it doesn’t come within the ambit of the scheme.

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Planned Parenthood is the greatest branding triumph in the modern world. When I was growing up as a pro-choice, proto-feminist teen, I would argue with my conservative, pro-life mother about Planned Parenthood. Based on its name alone, I considered it a force for good in the world. “What’s wrong with planning parenthood, Mom? They’re just trying to help people plan. Isn’t planning a good thing?”

The original plan for Planned Parenthood was Margaret Sanger’s, and her plan was to have fewer black babies born. That plan certainly worked, after a fashion.

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“This is a moment, the moment, a moment to restore the rights that have been taken away from us and the moment to protect our nation from an extremist agenda,” Biden said, repeating himself as he spoke to the nation from the White House.

The president’s executive order, called “Protecting Access to Reproductive Healthcare Services,” states that abortion is a private decision and “should not be subject to government interference.”

His order says that the federal government “is taking action to protect healthcare service delivery and promote access to critical reproductive healthcare services, including abortion.”

I love how killing your child is now ‘reproductive healthcare services’. Next thing you know, murder will be reclassified as healthcare.

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The Biden administration keeps trying to give Vice President Kamala Harris something to do, but she keeps balking at the opportunity. She complains about being “sidelined” by the White House and complains when they give her a job she doesn’t want to do, such as handling the border crisis. It’s as if the only thing she is really passionate about is using the power of her office to destroy the careers of her political rivals.

Harris was not enthusiastic about being tapped to lead the administration’s response to the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. The Washington Post reported Thursday that the vice president “had initial reservations about becoming the face of the administration’s response, worried she could be pigeonholed on the issue because of her gender, according to people familiar with the discussions who spoke on the condition of anonymity to disclose a sensitive dynamic.”

She’s a talker, not a doer.

Wastewater sequencing reveals early cryptic SARS-CoV-2 variant transmission (Nature)

First COVID Symptoms: How to Recognize the Onset of the Virus (NBC Chicago)

New Covid subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 are the most contagious yet – and driving Australia’s third Omicron wave (The Guardian)

We’re heading for a messy, and expensive, breakup with natural gas (Engadget)

Dunces to the core, the teachers union wants to do more COVID harm to kids

What’s the risk of getting COVID outside? Here’s why new variants may have changed the answer (San Francisco Chronicle)

COVID in California: New variants more resistant to three-shot vaccine dose (S.F. Chronicle)

Vax Skeptics in Uruguay

CBS Declares ‘At Least Another Year or Two’ of COVID Hysteria

CBS Smears Abe as ‘Polarizing, ‘Right-Wing Nationalist’ With ‘Controversial’ Views

The US supreme court poses a real threat to Americans’ democracy (The Guardian)

Why Democrats are not pursuing a constitutional amendment for abortion rights  They know it won’t pass.

Gun-Makers Go South

Governor Newsom announces California will make its own insulin

Dems propose raising taxes on couples making more than $500k

How Pro-Abortion District Attorneys Aim to Derail Pro-Life Laws

Big Tech Isn’t Woke… It’s Totalitarian

EU Gives €220,000 In Taxpayer Money To Fund Drag Queen Courses Aimed At Young People

Arizona passes law criminalizing recording of police (within 8 ft)

Violent Leftists: Four Catholic Churches Vandalized in Wisconsin over Roe Verdict

Poland Rapidly Finishes Its Border Wall Preventing Belarus’ Putin Pal Dictator from Flooding It with Third World Immigrants; Washington Post Is Disgusted

Debunking The Key Misconceptions About Oil And Gas Prices

Fear Mongering Salon Claims Abortion Waiting Periods Will Kill People

Manhattan’s Soros DA Throws the Book at Bodega Worker Attacked by Violent Criminal

ABC, NBC Chalk Up Abe Assassination to ‘Gun Violence’ in Country With ‘Stringent’ Gun Laws  Japan has possibly the most stringent anti-gun laws in any country outside of North Korea.

Wisconsin Supreme Court Outlaws Election Drop Boxes, Ballot Harvesting

Researchers can now explain how climate change is affecting your weather (NPR)

Most Americans have concerns about being displaced by extreme weather, poll says (The Hill)

EV incentives focused on urban centres leave rural Australians stranded with fossil fuels (The Guardian)

The flooding in Yellowstone reveals forecast flaws as climate warms (NPR)

Plant-based meat by far the best climate investment, report finds (The Guardian) ‘Plant based meat’ is not meat. It Just Isn’t.

Sri Lanka Begging Russia and India for Fuel: A Nation Wrecked by Green Agricultural Policies

Greta Fumes As EU Declares Nuclear & NatGas ‘Green’

Green Communism: “… eradicate the energy privilege of rich countries”

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At a time when states across the nation are passing and enacting pro-life legislature to help save babies, our “devout Catholic” president is taking a different stance. Joe Biden is expected to sign an “Executive Order Protecting Access to Reproductive Health Care Services” Friday to expand access to abortion, according to Politico.

Biden plans to direct his health department to “expand abortion pills, beef up enforcement of Obamacare’s birth control coverage mandate and organize a cadre of pro bono lawyers to help defend people criminally charged for seeking or providing the procedure.”

The administration is supposedly also looking into digital app privacy rights for abortion seekers so that women can have abortions without getting in trouble.

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A New York Times editorial board member does not seem to think the company’s policy against participating in protests applies to her.

In her July 2 column, Mara Gay wrote that she wants to see all the men she has had sexual relationships with who have since moved on to join her at the next pro-abortion protests. “They’re good men, and I’m happy for them,” Gay writes. “I’d also like to ask: Will I see you at the next protest? Join us.”

Taking Gay at her word means she just admitted to violating New York Times corporate policy, which forbids staff from attending any “march or rally in support of public causes or movements.” Neither the New York Times nor Gay responded to a request for comment.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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Get woke, go broke! After years of shoving leftist propaganda into children’s entertainment, Disney has learned a hard lesson in playing identity politics..

According to BoundingIntoComics, cry-baby “Lightyear” Director Angus MacLane is attacking critics after getting beat by “Minions: The Rise Of Gru.”

The woke film Lightyear opened to a dismal $51 million, which was way below expectations. According to The-Numbers, the film was never able to reach commercial success as it dropped 64% during its second week and then another 64% during its third week.

Compared that to Minions: The Rise Of Gru: The non-woke children’s movie matched Lightyear’s entire domestic run during opening weekend to $107 million. The film now sits at $140.6 million and $93.7 million internationally, totaling $234.3 million. The disparity between the two is telling, but this fact upset many Hollywood lefties.

Democrats: Party of Tax and Spend

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When Francis Collins departed as Director of the National Institutes for Health (NIH) in December 2021, his legacy included multiple-millions of dollars in secret royalty payments to himself, prominent colleagues like Dr. Anthony Fauci, and hundreds of other scientists, officials, and researchers working under him.

Today, Collins is the highest paid adviser to the president with the most expensive White House staff ever, according to data compiled by the Chicago-based non-profit government watchdog, Open The Books (OTB).

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Over the last week, we have been barraged with stories about a 10-year-old rape victim in Ohio who was unable to obtain an abortion in that state and had to cross the line into Indiana to terminate her pregnancy. If you Google “10 year old abortion Ohio,” you get 33,100,000 results. The story is everywhere, internationally.

But did it happen? It turns out that the story originated with an abortionist who is also a media figure, seemingly working full-time to promote abortion. And if a 9 or 10 year old was raped, it was a heinous crime. Where is the criminal prosecution of the rapist? There doesn’t seem to be any record of one, and in fact, no Ohio newspaper has endorsed the story.

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This is a story that would be getting a great deal of play if it advanced a liberal media narrative: two illegal aliens planned to “shoot up” an Independence Day parade in Richmond, Virginia, but were thwarted by an alert citizen.

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The surge in violent crime that began a few years ago continues. It will abate only when Americans demand and get action from local and national leaders.

The crime numbers we’ve seen already this year highlight the problem.

A serious upswing in violent crime often follows significant anti-police protests and less aggressive policing. Researchers call this the Ferguson Effect or the Minneapolis Effect.

The events of the summer of 2020 created a perfect storm.

Climate change could shorten bear hibernation periods, lead to more human interactions (KCRA Sacramento)

What could delaying the shutdown of California’s last nuclear power plant mean for energy bills? (Santa Rosa Press Democrat)

The Southwest is bone dry. Now, a key water source is at risk. (Politico)

Climate change: Extreme weather events slam globe from Italy to Australia (Axios)

7 recommendations for reducing the environmental impact of your diet (Axios)

Environmentalists sue Dutch airline KLM for ‘greenwashing’ (BBC)

Australia flood, boosted by climate change, making history in Sydney (Washington Post)

Republican-led states are winning in economic recovery from COVID: report

Italy has declared a state of emergency because of drought: ‘There is no doubt that climate change is having an effect,’ the prime minister said (CNBC)

Heat domes spike in Europe as climate change helps shift weather patterns (Axios)

Aussie PM: NSW Climate Change Floods are the Rest of the World’s Fault

Dutch Police Shoot Live Ammo At Anti-Climate Rule Protestors

Climate Claim: Somali Pirates and Warlords Need More Access to Financial Services

On Five-Year Anniversary of Shooting, Leftists Again Threaten Congressional Baseball Game  Party of Fear–Party of Hate–Party of Death.

Greenwald: Congressional Dems ‘Escalated’ Censorship Online

CNN’s Coates Stokes Fears of Going Out in Public Because of Guns  Yeah, because the People With Guns aren’t watching CNN.

Bombshell Jan. 6 Testimony Could Hurt a Justice Department Prosecution (Politico)

Jan. 6 Panel Building ‘Multi-Prong Criminal Case’ Against Trump: Experts (Newsweek)

Fmr. disinfo czar Nina Jankowicz accuses Pelosi of spreading ‘disinfo’ in ‘blatantly’ wrong fundraising emails

The GOP Knows It’s ‘Hanging On by a Thread’ in a Post-Roe v. Wade World (Daily Beast)

Real estate giant held in contempt in Trump Organization investigation (The Hill)

The Georgia investigation remains Trump’s biggest problem yet (Washington Post)

Republicans plot vengeance on Jan. 6 committee (Axios)

Despite rebukes, Trump’s legal brigade is thriving (Politico)

The Patriot Front march in Boston is a wake-up call to America (Boston Globe) Really? In that case, we can go back to sleep.

Please, pundits, stop trying to predict the future. You’re bad at it. (Washington Post)

Former DHS official: Right ‘recognizes’ disinformation ‘as a way to whip up people’ (The Hill)

Attorneys Claim Government Manufacturing Evidence To Charge, Incarcerate Jan. 6 Prisoners

MSNBC Blames Other States for Gun Crime in Anti-Gun Illinois

“Why I’m Giving Up Tenure at UCLA”

Chair of Congressional Black Caucus Snubs Biden

MSNBC’s Joy Reid has smallest quarterly audience since ‘The ReidOut’ launched  Perhaps she ought not to have straightened and bleached her hair.

Enlisting in the Army Is Better for Blacks Than for Whites

Washington Post Editorial Board: Police Kill Another Black Man — and the Same Old Questions Arise

Whitlock Crushes Establishment Media for American Racism Narrative on Griner

WNBA Player Pleads Guilty To Drug Charges In Russian Court

WashPost: Hey, Lots of People Are Shot in Chicago and No One Seems to Care!

Another Democrat Sent to Prison for Child Sex Crimes

This Rhode Island Dem Says She Focuses on ‘Real Issues’—Like Twerking

Will you catch Monkeypox?

Omicron BA.5: One Variant To Rule Them All…For Now (Deadline)

BA.5, now dominant U.S. variant, may pose the biggest threat to immune protection yet (NBC)

WHO to consider again whether monkeypox outbreak is public health emergency of international concern (CNN) C’mon, guys, we need another PANIC!

Judge strikes down paused LAUSD student vaccine mandate (L.A. Times)

Antibody evasion by SARS-CoV-2 Omicron subvariants BA.2.12.1, BA.4, & BA.5 (Nature)

Covid-19 reinfections may increase the likelihood of new health problems (CNN)

When will COVID-19 become endemic? Possibly in about two years, Yale researchers say (Connecticut Public)

FDA allows pharmacists to prescribe Paxlovid COVID treatment (Axios)

King County identifies local monkeypox transmission (KOMO News)

Xi’an shuts back down as China finds first cases of new Omicron subvariant (CNN)

WHO: More than 6,000 Monkeypox Cases Reported, Another Emergency Meeting Set

Nanoparticle Vaccine Protects Against C19-Causing Variants and Related Viruses

MSNBC Slimes Fox’s Coverage of Shootings, Ignores Red Flag Law Failures

SK hynix pitches tents at Chinese factory to house workers in case of lockdowns

Covid-19 Vaccine Doses, Once in High Demand, Now Thrown Away

Top Democrats, Staffers Fume Over White House’s Chaotic Impotence

Biden’s Green Agenda Is Causing US Power Grid To Be “Incredibly Vulnerable”

Karine Jean-Pierre won’t discuss Biden voicemail on Hunter’s laptop

US on ‘cusp’ of falling gas prices (The Hill)

Frustrated Democrats express alarm over Biden’s powerlessness (The Hill) How about his fecklessness?

Millions Of Barrels From US Emergency Oil Reserve Sent Abroad, Including To China

Biden’s Month of Malfeasance on Energy Production, Prices

Tens of Thousands of Soldiers Barred From Service Due to Biden Vaccine Mandate

Biden’s Twin Dumpster Fires: Raging Inflation and Open Borders

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In the fall of 2019, Facebook announced that it would be writing selected media outlets some very big checks. The launch of Facebook News was billed as a way to give consumers more access to information, but it was actually an attempt at appeasing big media companies.

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While Hillary wanted someone to blame for her failures, the media wanted leverage over the company that controlled its fate. The invention of a “fake news” or “misinformation” crisis, the term that the media pivoted to once President Trump made “fake news” his own, was used to persuade Big Tech companies to censor conservatives and promote media content.

 

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Maybe Turkey will be next after Ukraine for Russia.

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The Washington Post ran a front-page story on Thursday that lamented “There are no crowdsourced charity drives raising millions for victims’ families in Chicago, where the holiday weekend death toll reached at least 10 with 62 injured — numbers that exceed the toll in Monday’s mass shooting at a July 4th parade in nearby Highland Park, Ill. In that affluent lakeside suburb, the violence was an anomaly. Here, it is a grimly regular occurrence.”

But on her MSNBC show on Tuesday, Nicolle Wallace focused exclusively on the seven Highland Park shooting deaths. Not a word about the 10 shooting deaths in Chicago. Note that in 2021, there were  3,561 shooting incidents in Chicago, and 797 homicides.

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Many of us are passingly familiar with circadian rhythms as a way to refer to our sleep cycle. In 1972, scientists discovered that that cycle is mediated by an area in the brain’s hypothalamus called the suprachiasmatic nucleus. This structure coordinates the release of hormones — among them dopamine — that lower body temperature and blood pressure and make us feel sleepy; in the morning, cortisol and other hormones restore our alertness, make us warmer and increase blood pressure. The a.m. surge in blood pressure is believed to be one reason heart attacks occur more often then than in the p.m.

In the past two decades, however, researchers have discovered that the clock in the brain is by no means the only one in our body. It turns out that most of our cells contain a group of genes that might be thought of as gears in a mechanical watch, keeping time everywhere internally. These “clock genes” — there are at least six that are considered integral to the watch’s operation — work together the same way in each cell. And just as they cause the release of hormones in the brain, they dictate other processes in other parts of the body. In the early 2000s, advances in the ability to detect the activity of genes in various tissues revealed that the cell clocks are organized into separate organ-level clocks representing every physiological system: There’s a skin clock and a liver clock and an immune-system clock; there’s a clock for the kidney, heart, lungs, muscles and reproductive system. Each of those clocks syncs itself to the central clock in the brain like an orchestra section following its conductor. But those sections also adjust how and when they perform based on guidance they receive both from the environment and from one another, and their timing can provide feedback to the central clock and cause it to adjust the time it keeps too. The liver, for instance, determines when to rev up your metabolism based on when you eat; if you do that in the middle of the night, the liver will be receiving contradictory cues from the brain, which is telling it to rest. As a result, when the liver starts processing the midnight food, it will do so less efficiently than it would have done after a daytime meal — and it sends conflicting signals back to the brain and other organ systems.

Ann Coulter has some fun.

The Second Amendment does not refer to “muskets”; it refers to “the right of the people to keep and bear arms.” “Bear” means to carry, so any handheld firearm carried by the military can be carried by the people. Just as the musket was once carried by our military, the AR-15 is a handheld arm (technically, the less powerful version of the automatic M-16) carried by our military today. As soon as the U.S. military goes back to muskets, then muskets it is!

But I’m not here to refute idiotic arguments. These guys may as well claim that the First Amendment protects only speech delivered in pamphlets and sermons, but nothing communicated on television, the internet, or with poster boards and Magic Markers.

The Second Amendment is nearly the only prescriptive policy in a document that liberals have been trying to pump their nutty ideas into for 50 years. Unfortunately for them, there’s nothing in the Constitution about a right to dance naked in strip clubs, contraception, marriage or sticking a fork in a baby’s head.

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Sixteen mujahidettes, all of them mothers, have been returned to France from Syria. One of the returning jihadistes is Émilie König, whose three Syrian-born children were sent home ahead of her.

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Polar Night Energy’s system, based on its patented technology, has gone online on the site of a power plant operated by utility Vatajankoski.

The 4×7 metre steel container contains hundreds of tonnes of sand which can be heated to a temperature of 500-600 degrees Celsius. The sand is heated with renewable electricity and stored for use in the local district heating system.

It has a particularly strong use case in Finland which sees long and very cold winters, and was recently cut off from Russian gas supplies over a payments dispute. The storage system’s developers say it is cheap and easy to build.

Outdoor Tennis Could Be Sports’ First Big Climate Change Casualty (FiveThirtyEight.com)

Fires, heat and earthquakes: Alaska currently the epicenter of extreme weather

Scientists Find Ozone Hole in Tropics Much Bigger Than in Antarctica (Newsweek)

Explained: How engineered crops can fight climate change (World Economic Forum)

Democrats have a month to revive the climate deal our planet needs (The Guardian)

Climate protesters arrested after shutting down DC-area highway (The Hill) Don’t call it an insurrection!

Blanket bans on fossil fuels hurt women and lower-income countries (Nature)

See a Map of Bay Area Hazardous Sites at Risk From Rising Seas (KQED)

The Supreme Court versus the climate (The Hill)

Coal Emerges Victorious As Sanctions And Green Policies Backfire Spectacularly

Claim: “I led the US lawsuit against big tobacco … Big oil is next”

The Dutch Farmers’ Protest & The War On Food

Dumb As It Gets: Germany Heads into Winter Refusing to Let Badly Needed Power Plants Operate

Norway Heatwaves Are Perfectly Normal, Despite What Paul Krugman Says

Climate Change Protestors Lay Down On Formula 1 Racetrack

European Union Classifies Gas and Nuclear as ‘Green’ Amid Energy Price Surge

How Climate Propaganda Works

Experts: Keep a sharp eye out for COVID-19 symptoms now that Fourth gatherings have passed (Boston Globe)

San Diego Loses 22% Of Its Police Force Due To Vax Mandates

Pa. could become ‘red’ wasteland in ‘blue’ East (Philadelphia Inquirer)

I led the US lawsuit against big tobacco for its harmful lies. Big oil is next (The Guardian)

What ‘Unprecedented’ Trailer Reveals About Donald Trump’s Family (Newsweek)

New Jan. 6 Trump documentary footage revealed (Politico)

Election deniers are spreading misinformation nationwide. Here are 4 things to know (NPR)

This terrifying backslide on LGBTQ rights is a threat to women’s rights too (The Guardian)

Culture-War Red Meat Is All the GOP Serves the Working Class (Daily Beast)

Press: Time for media to stop promoting Donald Trump (The Hill)

Marjorie Taylor Greene Tweets Predictably Fact-Free Theory About Highland Park Massacre (Daily Beast)

NYPD sergeants union computer manager attended Jan. 6 insurrection at U.S. Capitol (N.Y. Daily News) Hunting down those heretics and sinners!

The GOP knew Trump was dangerous — why did they nominate him? (The Hill)

House Republicans quiz DOJ on oustings of Trump-era immigration judges

WATCH: Libs Spend Independence Day Hating on America

Happy July 4! WashPost Calls For “Independence From the Founding Fathers”

Reid Freaks At Conservative Culture War Wins, Claims GOP Own Women

New York Times Pays for Opposition Research Into Conservative Talk Radio

Roe’s Revenge: Elizabeth Warren to go After Crisis Pregnancy Centers in Massachusetts, and Nation

Trouble Brewing: Dallas Cowboys Get Flack For Partnering With Pro-America Coffee Company

Vice Deems Christian TikToks as Christian Fascist Propaganda

Oil from U.S. reserves sent overseas as gasoline prices stay high (Reuters)

DOJ sues Arizona over proof of citizenship voter law (The Hill)

White House ‘Disinformation’ Campaign Against Climate Policy Critics Sparks Litigation

‘We’re Being Invaded,’ Local Texas Leaders Say as Border Crisis Worsens

Luongo: Why Joe Biden Refuses To Back Off Ukraine

Biden Free Fall Continues

Biden Faces Major Decision In Khashoggi Fiancée’s Suit Vs Saudi Crown Prince

Veep thoughts with Kamala Harris  The hits just keep on comin’.

Mark Levin Was Right: Networks Quickly Drop Gruesome Migrant Deaths

Chicago Mayor Lightfoot denounces ‘toxicity in public discourse’ days after shouting ‘F— Clarence Thomas!’  BRAAAAAAAINS!

Can You Spot All The Signs Of Racism In This Patriotic Picture? (Babylon Bee)

How Biden’s Energy Policies Harm African Americans

Surviving the Happiness Explosion

Coldplay Dedicated Song to Notorious Anti-Semite, Analysis Finds

CNN Argued Recession Proclamations Are Racist

ESPN Race Baiter: July 4th Sucks Because of Dobbs, Paid Patriotism

Fact-Checking Clarence Thomas’ Fact-Checkers on Vaccines and Abortion

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The Mountain State’s Republican Attorney General, Patrick Morrisey, released a statement on June 29 detailing his continued commitment to saving the lives of babies by reinstating a 170-year-old law protecting them, according to Life Site News.

The law was crafted in 1849, but was left on the books when Roe v. Wade established a federally guaranteed “right” to abortion. But now that the recent Dobbs decision overturned that 1973 ruling, the law can be re-enacted.

“Enacted in 1849 and never repealed since,” anyone who administers or performs an abortion with the intent to destroy a child “commits a felony punishable by three to ten years in prison,” the rule states.

“The statute covers persons who perform abortions and, at least arguably, women who seek them,” Morrisey added.

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Gunshots. Knifings. Cars being set aflame. All in broad daylight, all on the streets of Molenbeek.

Molenbeek, Belgium, you may recall, was the Brussels neighborhood that was home to almost half of the jihadists responsible for the 2015 Paris attacks and several subsequent terror attacks in Belgium. The bomber of a train at Brussels Central Station in 2017, for instance, lived in Molenbeek. Mehdi Nemmouche, who shot and killed four people at Brussels’ Jewish Museum in 2014, had previously lived in Molenbeek. The mastermind of the Paris killings, Abdelhamid Abboud, grew up and still lived in Molenbeek.

Most of Molenbeek’s population is Moroccan, though immigrants from elsewhere in North Africa and from Eastern Europe have also settled there. It is an area of Brussels where, according to the Oasis Center, an Italian foundation that studies relations between Muslims and Christians, “a type of Islam has been propagated over the decades that, if not radical, has nevertheless prepared the ground in which the radicalism would then take root.”

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We’re used to getting the short end of the stick out here in Flyover Country, whether it’s from a lack of regular news-media attention or from our vastly inequitable share of investments by venture capitalists.

Now you can add the dismal science to the list of coastal biases against the heartland that are doing real harm not just to how we’re perceived, but also to how we live.

“They don’t see the economy that many of us see and that I see,” Ernie Goss, an economist at Creighton University in Omaha, told me. “We’re speaking to farmers and bankers, and what they see isn’t the same as what [economists] in New York or D. C. see. They have blinders on. They don’t even have a feel for the distances involved our here for EV chargers.”

What Scientists Just Discovered About Monkeypox Virus on Surfaces (SciTechDaily)

Ultra-contagious BA.4, BA.5 subvariants fuel coronavirus spread across much of California (L.A. Times)

Canada’s Health Minister: “You Will Never Be Fully-Vaxxed”

Midsummer Mask Madness

Abrams campaign has spent over $450K on private security, despite radical ‘defund the police’ group ties

Glenn Greenwald slams CNN’s Rex Chapman for ‘racist’ attack on Clarence Thomas

North Carolina thieves steal $7K in copper wire from Lowe’s: report

L.A.’s Black Spoilers

Shameless: Aussie Climate Council Now Claims Floods Caused by CO2

Climate Activist Hypocrisy Example Eleventy Gazillion

Spain and Portugal suffering driest climate for 1,200 years, research shows (The Guardian)

Parts of The World Now Have Drought Patterns That Haven’t Been Seen in 1,200 Years

Methane much more sensitive to global heating than previously thought – study (The Guardian)

Sydney is flooded, again, as climate crisis becomes new normal for Australia’s most populous state (CNN)

Bill Nye says the main thing you can do about climate change isn’t recycling—it’s voting (CNBC)

Don’t let SCOTUS undo decades of progress on climate change (The Hill)

War in Ukraine is driving demand for Africa’s natural gas. That’s controversial (NPR)

158 Tesla Mega-Batteries Will Boost Hawaii Green Energy By 10%, And Shut Down Coal-Fired Power Plant

UK Fuel Price Protests Cripple Motorways With “Go-Slow” Convoys

Claim:  Hidden in Caves: Mineral Overgrowths Reveal Unprecedented Modern Sea-Level Rise

Climate Change Breaks Plant Immune Systems. Can They Be Rebooted?

Megafires: Fixing 100 years of mistakes in 10 years

Another Energy Imbalance Paper.

Dutch farmers organise mass protests in face of farm closures

Dutch Farmers Block Food Distribution Centers; Undercover Cops Chased Away From Protest

Biden’s Job Approval Enters Marianas Trench

More Kamala Deep Thoughts

Hunter Biden joins dad for July 4th as federal investigation grinds on

Oil Billionaire Blasts Biden’s Gas-Price Blame-Game, Says Only One Thing Will Fix Inflation

You’ve Got To Be Kidding! Rapinoe Tapped For Presidential Medal of Freedom

Disgusting: Biden DoE Hire Defended Underage Gay Prostitution Website in Op-Ed

Open Borders Cost Lives. Biden Doesn’t Care.

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California startup Mojo Vision finally has a human being wearing its smart contact lens — bringing the future of AR, and superhuman sight, a major step closer.

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It would seem Kamala Harris isn’t the only senior person in the Biden Administration afflicted with a case of Severe Banality Syndrome (SBS). Behold our boy genius and Rhodes Scholar Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, who had this to say to CBS News about the large number of airline flight cancellations and delays over the weekend:

This is something that’s affecting all of us and it’s affecting the economy when that happens because so many people can’t get to where they need to be for work, so many people can’t get to loved ones. We sent a lot of taxpayer funding, specifically for purpose of keeping people employed at these airlines. And now, they need to have the people and they need to have the resources to get people where they need to go.”

Statements like that remind us that we are in the presence of no ordinary mind.

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In the past 20 years—and particularly the last 10 to 15—the average age of actors appearing toward the top of the bill in film and TV projects has risen significantly. Whereas the star, or the top two or three stars, of the typical movie or TV series released in the closing decades of the 20th century was typically in their late 30s—several years older than the median age of the United States population at the time—today’s average actor age has reached the mid-40s and is steadily climbing toward 50. Actors who became fixtures on big screens and small in previous decades haven’t given way to new blood as quickly as was once customary. As a result, Hollywood’s leading men and women of today bear a strong resemblance to the leading men and women from the ’80s, ’90s, and 2000s after a trip to the beach from Old—except, of course, for the fact that actors like Cruise (who’ll turn 60 next week) don’t always look their age. The graying of actors—the ones with their natural hair colors, at least—appears to be the product of a confluence of factors that reflect the fracturing of culture in the post-monoculture age, the industry’s gravitation toward franchises and sequels, shifts in audience demographics, efforts to promote more inclusive casting, and a growing range of options for maintaining a more youthful appearance.

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The man who opened fire in an Oslo gay bar on Pride Night last month has deep ties to an extremist leader dubbed “the most dangerous person in Norway.”

The Religion of Peace is still out there and Muslims are still killing people.

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European lawmakers have given the green light to antitrust law changes targeting self-preferencing by Apple and other big tech companies, but there are fears that it will be difficult to enforce the regulations.

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The phenomenon of the “panic masters” hasn’t died with the pandemic — if anything, the term is set to become a permanent addition to the student lexicon.

The charge of enrolling in one (also known as a “procrasta-masters”) is being levied at the latest crop of post-grads, generally by unsupportive parents or peers who signed away their twenties to American law firms. As graduation nears, they sneer that “snowflake” students are making last minute applications to MA programmes to keep putting off the day they have to venture out into the “real world”.

This year half a million students will be finishing their undergraduate degrees. But the paths post-pandemic graduates are choosing are markedly different to those of their predecessors. They are opting to stay in education, and they are doing so in droves. The latest data shows a ten per cent increase in postgraduate students, and there are no signs of this changing soon. The “panic masters” are here to stay. I should know, I am doing one.

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Three physicians are suing Twitter, alleging the company violated its own terms of service and community standards when it suspended their accounts for posting “truthful statements regarding COVID-19 policy, diagnosis and/or treatment.”

Drs. Robert Malone, Peter McCullough and Bryan Tyson on Monday filed the lawsuit in Superior Court in California, San Francisco County.