Podcast Conference Apologizes for ‘Harm’ Done by Ben Shapiro’s Visit

Justice Department releases unredacted Barr memo detailing decision not to charge Trump with obstructing Russia probe (CNN)

DOJ recommended against Trump prosecution on obstruction in Mueller probe: newly released 2019 memo reveals

Celebrities and Excessive Water Use: How Income Disparity Is Magnifying California’s Drought Crisis (Hollywood Reporter)

Kim Kardashian, Kevin Hart and Sylvester Stallone are accused of massive water waste (NPR)

The “Fantastic Giant Tortoise” – Believed To Be Extinct – Has Been Found Alive (SciTech Daily)

When It Comes to Eating Away at Democracy, Trump Is a Winner (N.Y. Times)

Conrad Black: The Regime Has Its Man – All It Needs Now Is The Crime

Eight Sources Say Feds Are Not Done With Matt Gaetz (Daily Beast) We won’t tell you who they are, but trust us, there are eight sources. Eight!

DHS Shuts Down Disinformation Board Months After ‘Pause’

Congressman-Elect Deems Trump ‘Essentially Traitorous,’ Says ‘If I Had Done What He Did, I Would’ve Been in Jail’ (Mediaite) What an odd thing for a Democrat Congressman to say … oh, wait….

Five Florida Men Arrested on Charges for Actions During Jan. 6 Capitol Breach  The witch-hunt continues.

An expert on the right urgently warns: Beware of another Oklahoma City (Washington Post)

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘swatted’ for second time in two days, police say (CNBC)

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s home swatted a second time in two days (The Hill)

Jewish Groups Rip CNN for ‘Whitewashing’ Left-Wing Antisemitism

YouTube Quietly Changes COVID-19 Censorship Policy on Masks, Social Distancing, Vaccines

Margaret Sullivan Writes Her Final Column Chock Full of TDS

Is Lowell segregated? Here’s how every S.F. school scores on a racial ‘divergence’ index (S.F.Chronicle)

New Study Identifies Most Segregated Neighborhoods in Bay Area (NBC)

Sanas, the buzzy Bay Area startup that wants to make the world sound whiter (S.F. Gate) “He talk like a white boy!”

‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ Host Lamorne Morris Trolls Herschel Walker With 1 Scathing Question (Huffington Post) Scathing!

Racism at the New York Times

Former Player Sues NFL: Galette Says He Was Blackballed Just Like Kaepernick

Progress! Whites Banned in Common Areas of Berkely Person of Color House

Homeland Security’s ‘Equity Action Plan’ Doubles Down on Discrimination

DC Mayor Says No Virtual Learning, Giving Unvaccinated Black Teens Zero Alternative Options 

Startup is selling tech to make call center workers sound like white Americans  There’s a hilarious YouTube video about this.

Apple launches second ‘Impact Accelerator’ to train minority-owned businesses

American Express Discriminated Against White Employees, Lawsuit Alleges

Suspect Charged for Hit-and-Run That Killed Three Outside Chicago Gay Bar

Report of an ancient methane release raises questions for our climate future (Washington Post)

It’s Happened Before: Paleoclimate Study Shows Warming Oceans Could Lead to a Spike in Seabed Methane Emissions (Inside Climate News)

Cheap, high capacity, and fast: New aluminum battery tech promises it all (Ars Technica)

Rechargeable aluminum: The cheap solution to seasonal energy storage? (New Atlas)

‘Charismatic’ dugong sea mammal declared functionally extinct in China (Washington Post)

In this societal city builder you’ll restore civilization after global climate change (PC Gamer)

The world’s first hydrogen-powered passenger trains are here (CNN)

Fleet of hydrogen passenger trains begins service in Germany (Associated Press)

The Big Bet on Natural Gas Is Blowing Up in the World’s Face (The American Prospect)

Five 1,000-year rain events have struck the U.S. in five weeks. Why? (Washington Post) Climate change, of course!

Deepwater Horizon spill linked to gene expression changes in dolphins (NBC)

Deepwater’s dolphin damage highlights toxicity of oil (The Hill)

Forests Are Being Destroyed and ‘Nature Lovers’ Are Helping (Daily Beast)

Harvard’s Endowment Suffers Through Woke Investing While The University Of Texas Drills Oil And Rakes In Cash (Daily Wire)

Appalachian, Indigenous pipeline foes say climate deal ‘left us to burn’ (Washington Post)

Weakening environmental safeguards won’t help renewable energy (The Hill)

Atlantic Tropics So Quiet It May Set A Record Soon (Just In Weather)

A near 100 per cent renewables grid is well within reach, and with little storage

Could Poor Coffee Harvests Send Prices Even Higher?

Early Investors In Texas Shale Are Now Reaping The Benefits Of Sticking With Their Bet

WEF: Teach Compulsory Climate Change Studies to Alleviate Youth Anxiety

‘There is No Climate Emergency’ (1,107 Signatories and Counting)

Tesla, Nio EV Charging Stations Go Dark As China Rations Power

How Eco-Fiction Became Realer Than Realism (The Nation) It uses the buzzword ‘interrogating’ so you know it’s Woke.

How Fracking Billionaires, Ben Shapiro, and PragerU Built a Climate Crisis–Denial Empire (Vice)

August On Verge Of Being Tropical-Storm-Free For Only Third Time In 60 Years

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America is ruled by an elite whose status and power depend on enforcing certain falsehoods. I don’t mean the commonplace lies which generate a forgettable scandal sprung on the public like a drive by shooting. I mean core, fundamental lies, on the basis of which the regime that currently rules America maintains itself: that we are still unambiguously a democracy, rather than an oligarchy which looks to be heading toward a tyranny; that the differences between males and females are societal fictions or that women can operate in the world with no reference to the facts of biology; that we are a nation of immigrants; and, of course, the endless lies about race.

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President Biden today announced a set of changes to student loans – including cancellation of up to $20,000 for some borrowers – that will cost between $440 billion and $600 billion over the next ten years, with a central estimate of roughly $500 billion. Combined with today’s announcement, the federal government’s actions on student loans since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic have cost roughly $800 billion. Of that amount, roughly $750 billion is due to executive action and regulatory changes made by the Biden Administration.

 

Byron York.

The story we’re all hearing is: This is huge, but we can’t tell you what it is, exactly.

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CNN’s Tom Foreman is an award winning fact checker, but on Thursday’s CNN Newsroom he spread some fake news about Texas’s new pro-life law, declaring that it is now a felony to provide an abortion in order save the life of the mother. In the next hour, host Poppy Harlow would contradict him while teeing up another pro-abortion segment.

Foreman’s official CNN biography states, “He leads the network’s fact checking initiative and in 2013 Foreman and the fact checking team were awarded the Walter Cronkite/Brooks Jackson Award.”

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Student debt forgiveness is personal for the Biden administration. About one in five of the White House aides required to file a financial disclosure, as Bloomberg News previously noted, reported owing student debt. Collectively, those 30 senior White House staffers owe as much as $4.7 million. Those personal finances are not unusual in the nation’s capital.

There is more outstanding student debt in Washington than in any other city in the country. The average debtor in D.C., according to a 2021 breakdown by the small business analyst, AdvisorSmith, owes $54,982 in unpaid student loans. This includes many political staffers at the Department of Education, senior advisors as well as junior aides who moved to that agency from the Biden campaign.

ZMan looks at patterns.

There are two strains of thought on this side of the great divide with regards to the behavior of the people in charge. One camp, the dominant camp, thinks there is an organized campaign run by a small group of people. The so-called deep state pulls the levers resulting in the things we see happening in the world. The other camp, the much smaller camp, subscribes to the emergent behavior doctrine. What we see is the result of the hive mind that dominates the managerial class.

By any reasonable standard, the deep state side has the easier claim. Spend a week following the main regime media organs and a pattern emerges. On a Monday, the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and other legacy operations will be running with the same theme. The next day, all of the next tier media operations are running with the Monday theme. By the end of the week, the media narrative has become conventional wisdom, maybe even holy writ.

As Auric Goldfinger said to James Bond, once is chance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action.

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In 2021, the U.S. government spent $6.8 trillion on various expenditures and government-aided programs. Where was this money spent, and how much was covered by taxpayers’ dollars?

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For years, the McConnell and Chao families have cultivated a relationship that enriches the couple and grants status to the Chaos’ shipping company.

Trump’s risk of indictment for his document snatch just skyrocketed (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

What Herschel Walker’s clueless campaign says about the GOP (Washington Post)

NBC Reporter’s Book Blames Voters For Bias Against Women Candidates

Georgia cops respond to ‘swatting’ call at home of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (CNBC)

Morning Joe Pushes Possibility ‘Nefarious’ Trump Sold ‘Ultra-Secret’ Documents

Piers Morgan’s Ratings Plummet Since Turning on Trump

Police Investigate ‘Swatting’ Directed at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

The State of Play in Ukraine 6 Months After Russia Invaded

Battle for Kyiv: Ukrainian valor, Russian blunders combined to save the capital

‘Weary’ Europeans Must ‘Bear Consequences’ Of Ukraine War As Putin Will Eventually Blink: EU’s Borrell

FORCES: Mutual MiG Misery

TURKEY: Playing All Sides And Losing

Belgian PM Warns “Next 5-10 Winters Will Be Difficult” As Energy Crisis Worsens

Finland Braces For Rolling Blackouts This Winter

Boris Johnson Arrives in Kiev For 3rd Time, This Time Bearing Gifts

Air Force sees ‘incredibly’ large missile buildup by China

Moderna seeks FDA authorization for updated Covid-19 booster (CNN)

FDA plans to authorize bivalent boosters by Labor Day, sources say (NBC)

A dog in France has monkeypox, worrying scientists that we won’t be able to eradicate the virus if it spreads to more animals (CNBC)

I’m a doctor. Here’s why my kids won’t wear masks this school year. (Washington Post)

Medical experts weigh in on continued COVID-19 school measures: ‘There is no place for universal mandates’

Anthony Fauci Fires Back Against Right-Wing Attacks on Fox News (Daily Beast)

Omicron subvariants BA.4.6 and BA.2.75 are here. How concerned should California be? (L.A. Times)

Omicron subvariants BA.4.6 and BA.2.75 are here. How concerned should U.S. be? (Seattle Times)

Americans are highly vaccinated against polio. Here’s why it could still spread (CNN)

Mass. health leaders call for stepped-up COVID plans for fall and winter (Boston Globe)

Anthony Fauci Was ‘a Total Disaster’: Leading Scientist Responds to Fauci’s Retirement

Rise and Fall of Fauci Illustrates Death of ‘Expertise’

Biden Administration Plans for New Booster Campaign Soon After Labor Day (N.Y. Times)

Federal Judge Protects The Religious Right Of Marines To Refuse COVID Vaccine

Boutique Bans Masks Due to Crime

Polio Is Back in the US and UK. Here’s How That Happened (Wired ‘Science’)

Moderna Seeks Authorization for Booster Targeting Omicron BA.4, BA.5

Bavarian Nordic to Boost Monkeypox Vaccine Supply to Combat Shortfall

Watch: CNN Tells Viewers Monkeypox Is Not Sexually-Transmitted

New Jersey’s Largest School District Implements Mask Mandate for Entire School Year

Poop complaints have swelled in all San Francisco neighborhoods — except this one (S.F. Chronicle)

‘Hamilton’ Donates Damages Paid by Texas Church for Unauthorized Production to Gay Rights Organization (Rolling Stone)

California county saw 70% of criminal suspects released on $0 bail commit new crimes: DA

Rubbish! San Francisco’s $20,000 designer trash can struggles to contain trash (The Guardian)

4 Pittsburgh City Council members want homelessness deemed a public health emergency (WFAE)

Chinese censors change ending of latest ‘Minions’ movie (CNN)

CNN Staff Fears Right-Wing Billionaire Will Turn It Into a Dumpster Fire (Daily Beast) More than it is already?

Philadelphia Sued for Illegally Funding Abortions

Video Report: Illegals Get Free Hotels, Healthcare, Phones in New York

“F**k Wirepoints” Says Chicago Teachers Union When Confronted With Facts From The School District Itself

ABC, CBS Finally Report on Paul Pelosi’s DUI Charges, NBC Ignores

“This Needs To Stop” – After Dip During Pandemic, UK Knife Crime Is Soaring  Boy, those strict gun control laws really work.

ECB Says Cash “Not Fit” For Digital Economy, Dismisses CBDC Privacy Concerns

Warnock Voted for COVID Bill That Sent $75K to Social Justice Group He Founded 

Judge in Texas Blocks Biden Administration Emergency Abortion Guidance

The Truly Scary Part of the $1.6 Billion Conservative Donation (Slate) It didn’t go to us!

Socialist left swamps Democratic centrist challengers in NY state Senate primaries

An Illegal Immigrant Tried To Kill His Ex While Out on Bail. This Soft-on-Crime Candidate Voted To Let It Happen Again.

AOC Admits to Defying Financial Disclosure Rules

Texas Gov. Abbott Blasts NYC Mayor Adams for Lying About Bused Migrants

Canada Is Euthanizing Its Sick and Poor. Welcome to World of Government Health Care.

NYC Reportedly Incurs Largest Single-Day Busloads of Texas Migrants

Democracy vs “Our Democracy”

Lori Lightfoot accuses conservative super PAC of darkening her skin tone in an ad boosting Illinois GOP governor candidate (NBC News) They didn’t make her look any less like a zombie. BRAAAAAAAINS!

Today we remember the tragedy of slavery, but the culture war that denies Britain’s past continues  (The Guardian)

Annie Leibovitz proves yet again: she can’t photograph Black women (The Guardian)

NYT Union Accuses Paper of Systemic Racism in Performance Reviews

Civil Rights Experts: Google Fellowship Is ‘Illegal’

Joe Biden Has Not Condemned This Atlanta ‘Hate Crime,’ For Some Reason

Only Racists Need Apply

‘Widen the Racial Wealth Gap’: Economist Breaks Down Effects of Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness

NAACP CEO: Biden’s reported plan to cancel student debt isn’t enough (CNN) Why are so many black women so ugly? It’s like they try for that effect.

SICKENING: Democrats Are Waging War on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Corporate Democrat: Stacey Abrams Received Thousands in Income From Shadowy Company, Report Finds

Chicago Public Schools’ Radical Agenda Gets Uglier: ‘Equity’ Video Promotes Looting & Burning

Joe Biden expected to announce $10,000 student loan forgiveness program Wednesday: report  Buying votes ahead of the mid-terms with YOUR money.

Thomas Kahn: Why canceling so many student loans is a mistake (Chicago Tribune)

Six reasons Biden should not cancel student debt (The Hill)

Biden Has Released 250,000 Unaccompanied Illegal Immigrant Children Into The US

Constitutional Lawyers Argue Mar-a-Lago Warrant Had No Legal Basis

The Numbers Don’t Lie; The Fed Won’t Win This Inflation Fight  Not while they keep printing money.

Growing Number Of Economists Anticipate Recession Will Hit By Middle Of Next Year: Survey

DeSantis: Florida Not Busing Because Biden Won’t Send Migrants

Watch: Biden Announces Student Loan Relief Which Will Mostly Benefit Top Earners

New FBI whistleblower claims bureau leadership slow-walked Hunter Biden investigation

Must Defend Big Brother: NYT, WashPost, Politico Whore Themselves Out to IRS

Highway Robbery: Biden Administration Uses Infrastructure Spending for Partisan Political Benefit  My, what a surprise.

Kelly D Johnston: Why Are Working-Class Americans Paying For Your Student Loan “Forgiveness?”

ZMan jerks back the curtain.

The Biden administration is gearing up to offer some sort of college debt jubilee as their answer to the student debt crisis. The details of the scheme are being leaked to generate interest in the forthcoming announcement. The idea is to use printed money to buy votes from the millions holding student debt. Coincidentally, this comes just as the regime begins the fall campaign. Currently there is $1.6 trillion in outstanding college debt, most held by the Federal government.

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The madness of college financial aid is obvious when you look at the rise in tuition costs over the last thirty years. They have grown at multiples of the official inflation rate and that is excluding hidden fees. There was a time when a student could work his way through college. It was a struggle, but it was possible. Today, the cost of tuition alone dwarfs what a student can make working fulltime. In other words, in the effort to make college affordable, it was made increasingly unaffordable.

Can’t say that I blame him.

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The concept of “sanctuary cities” has long been implemented within predominantly leftist states in America. It’s not anything new. Any operations by DHS and ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) within blue states to arrest and deport illegal immigrants are often met with aggressive resistance by Democrat run city governments.

Keep in mind that foreign individuals have no right under the constitution to reside in the US without first gaining citizenship. Leftists say they don’t care and are happy to welcome millions of illegals into the country with open arms in direct violation of laws protecting our borders as well as the stability of our economy and society. They do this NOT because they are naively humanitarian; rather, they see it as a means to import a massive voting block that will give leftists whatever they want because they believe they will get citizenship in exchange.

If they didn’t want millions of illegal votes, then Democrats would not be constantly attempting to block voter ID laws.

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I‘m sure you’ve seen the pictures of lakes Mead and Powell, those great reservoirs on the Colorado River that supply water to the west. For years now, we’ve been allowed to believe that we are in a great drought that is causing these lakes to diminish to their current meager levels. The drought, we’re directed to assume, has been caused, or at least exacerbated, by climate change, which is in turn caused by our own arrogant use of fossil fuels, the bane of all existence, an existential threat as urgent, deadly, and certain as the great asteroid that hit the Yucatan and destroyed the dinosaurs. The bathtub ring of calcium salts that stains the rock at the edge of these reservoirs is yet more evidence that we are the problem and will cause our own demise, good riddance to us.

But for those who believe all this and demand massive response, look at this chart; it comes from the US Dept. of the Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation study completed in 2012. It shows the Colorado River Basin’s historical watershed and the actual and projected demand for water from this watershed.

This chart, to even the most ardent climate change activist, shows absolutely that the declines in lakes Mead and Powell have nothing at all to do with drought. It is demand that is draining the lakes; we’ve depleted the watershed faster than it can be replenished. Further, there is no evidence that the watershed is diminished at all. The entire issue is a fiction.

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In a Monday airing of “Vittert,” journalist Leland Vittert, the show’s host, announced that Mexican drug cartels are working with China to get fentanyl into the U.S. to poison Americans.

Vittert interviewed David Asher, a former State Department official, about the connection between the drug cartels and the Chinese.

“You got to understand that none of this could work without the Chinese government’s involvement. So we’re not just dealing with drug cartels and the Chinese Triad, which are the version of drug cartels in China,” Asher said.

”We’re dealing with the Chinese Ministry of State Security, the United Front part of the Communist Party; they are organizing the fentanyl shipments to Mexico. At some level, they are involved in manufacturing, and doing it with the goal of killing American kids … And then they’re having Chinese students in the U.S. pick up the [drug] money.”

64-year-old NYC man savagely beaten with rock in subway attack

Mexico City becomes ‘work from home’ haven for US expats, but locals are getting priced out (CNN)

Black farmers say Inflation Reduction Act reneges on promises for debt relief (CBS News) Are there any black farmers, to speak of? I grew up in farm country and I’ve never seen one.

African-American History Finally Gets Its Own AP Class (TIME)

Occam’s Dog Whistle

Accuser’s Mom: R. Kelly’s Threats Made Her Fear for Her Life

Google Partners With Top Universities For This Prestigious Fellowship. Lawyers Say the Racial and Gender Quotas It’s Imposing Are Illegal. 

RAF Head Resigned Over Belief Diversity Targets Were “Unlawful”

“Extremely proud,” but keep it quiet

NYT: Race, Class and Traffic Deaths

People of color at ‘New York Times’ get lower ratings in job reviews, union says (NPR)

Civil Rights Groups Silent as DC Blocks 40% of Black Kids From Going to School 

‘Reliable Sources’: Why defending the press is essential to defending democracy (CNN) I guess it’s time to trot out Carl “Worse Than Watergate” Bernstein again.

Philadelphia police face staffing crisis that’s projected to get even worse

Why Are So Many Cops Walking Away From the Force? (Newsweek)

Teachers Union Head Acknowledges Sharing False List of Banned Books

NYC could spend $300M annually to house migrants in hotels: analysis

At the American Academy of Pediatrics, ‘Affirmation’-Based Gender Dogma Is Finally Being Challenged

Sanctuary City Mayors Cry ‘Uncle’, No More Migrants!

‘If We Can Do It, They Can Too,’ Border Mayor Says of DC, NYC Absorbing Illegal Aliens

Pentagon again denies Bowser request for National Guard help for migrants (Washington Post)

CDC: New York State Led US Life Expectancy Drop in 2020

Yelp to Flag Crisis Pregnancy Centers to Point Out Clinics With Abortion Services

Progressive North Carolina Judges Threaten to Nullify Voters’ Wishes

Snopes Labels Viral DeSantis Book Banning Disinformation ‘Satire’  Keep that Narrative rollin’.

Whistleblower Exposes Twitter for ‘Lying’ About Spam Bots to Elon Musk

WATCH: Why Dr. Fauci Won’t Be Missed

New York State Ends COVID-era Guidelines in Schools

LA Public Health Department Faces Backlash After Offering COVID-19 Test To Animals, Including Seals  Your tax dollars at work.

Overlapping emergencies strain the nation’s public health workforce and threaten critical vaccination campaigns (CNN)

Home prices plunging in ‘pandemic boomtowns’ as market slumps

From dating to concerts, these activities are—and aren’t—safe for monkeypox risk, experts say

California School Principal Calls Police on Unmasked 4-Year-Old

Maddow Gushes Over Fauci: There’s Never Been Anyone Like Him!  Thank God.

British Scientists Behind Key COVID Trial to Test Monkeypox Treatment

Fauci’s long goodbye

CDC Director: ‘Dramatic’ Mistakes During Pandemic Mistakes Prompts Reset

Unvaccinated Yankee Great Restricted From Mingling With Team

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A new group called Climate Intelligence (Clintel for short) has been founded in the Netherlands with the express purpose of combatting the extremism of the climate change campaigners. One of their early efforts is a statement, signed by 1,100 scientists and policy experts from around the world, that argues “There Is No Climate Emergency.”

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Buffalo Bills reporters have a lot of exciting content to discuss this year. Whether it’s the positive impact their numerous offseason acquisitions will have, the elite status of quarterback Josh Allen, or the team’s realistic shot at winning its first Super Bowl in history, the amount of content is endless. But for Bills AP reporter John Wawrow, something far more important was deserving of his attention on Monday. He was more worried about the fact that songs by female artists aren’t on the soundtrack that frequently accompanies team practices. No, I’m not making that up.

ZMan does a deep dive.

One of the consequences of partisanship is that it insulates the partisan from the rest of the world to the extent that their reality is deranged. They only know what the others in their group know and that is limited to what is best for the group. Civic nationalists decry partisanship for this reason. It makes objective truth impossible. Radicals, of course, embrace partisanship because they reject objective truth. It is why modern radicals literally speak of their truth.

The funny thing about partisanship is both sides are correct. Politics is about friends and enemies, which leaves little room for objectivity. In politics you want to advance your interests or the interests of your side. That often means doing so at the expense of those viewed as enemies. If the facts say you should yield in deference to your opponent, then you have no choice but to reject the facts. Otherwise, you lose and that undermines the point of politics.

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We lost China. It is imperative that we not lose India.

By we, I mean the West and liberal democracy broadly speaking. Many of us thought that China would liberalize naturally as the Chinese people grew rich and demand followed Maslow’s hierarchy. Many other countries had followed this path. But China doesn’t have a liberal history, technology provided irresitible tools for social control, and democracy no longer looks to be as important for riches as it once did. With China lost and the United States in relative decline, the liberal world very much needs India as a large, multi-ethnic, and free democracy. Liberal democracy is also India’s best hope and bulwark against being ripped apart by internal divisions. But much remains in the balance.

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A two-tiered racially stratified de facto apartheid in which whites are disfavored is our inexorable future (technically, it’s already our present; all that remains is for mainstream leftists to take that small step from “it’s not happening” to “it’s happening and it’s good,” a step more and more take each month).

Like it or not, the new apartheid has become institutionalized. By that I don’t mean government-mandated (though to whatever extent Democrats can get away with mandating it governmentally—which is a lot—and to whatever extent Republicans let them get away with it—which is always—it is). I mean that antiwhiteness, the “decentering” of whites (to use the left’s favorite term), has become a machine that’s self-perpetuating beyond ideological belief.

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Wokeness, most observers would agree, can be defined as the progressive worldview that views all racial and sexual disparities as proof of discrimination, and rejects liberal procedural traditions in favor of a totalizing politics that seeks to dismantle those disparities and silence dissenters. But nobody seems to agree on where it came from. Is wokeness an intellectual, religious, psychological, economic, legal, or institutional phenomenon? Its emergence over the last decade or so has been attributed to everything from academic intellectual trends, declining religiosity, victimhood psychology, corporate self-interest, white-collar class interests, the civil rights laws of the 1960s, and the copycat tendencies of large organizations. These all seem to have some explanatory power, but none seems on its own to account for the phenomenon fully. Let’s consider each in turn.

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We’ve been reporting for more than ten years on the activities of the German Islam critic Michael Stürzenberger, who is most famous for his presentations on Islam staged on Saturdays in downtown Munich.

Mr. Stürzenberger has been prosecuted multiple times for his “hate speech”, and is no stranger to physical attacks at the hands of angry Muslims. In the past I’ve posted at least one video of him being beaned with a rock by an irate culture-enricher.

Last week Mr. Stürzenberger was beaned again, this time in Gladbeck, a town in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Below are excerpts from his own video footage recorded at the event.

Wherever you go,
Whatever you do,
A Muslim waits there
To try to kill you.

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An Afghan refugee charged in the slayings of two Muslim men is facing new charges in connection with the shooting death of another man in the parking lot of a refugee resettlement agency earlier this month.

A grand jury indicted Muhammad Syed in the three killings Monday. He’s also a suspect in the shooting death of a Muslim shop owner in November 2021, but he has yet to be charged in that case.

Wherever you go,
Whatever you do,
A Muslim waits there
To try to kill you.

There is no climate emergency  So say 1500 scientists.

Diet for a hotter climate: five plants that could help feed the world (The Guardian)

The century of climate migration: why we need to plan for the great upheaval (The Guardian)

Carbon dioxide removal is growing. So is the need for a code of conduct. (Protocol)

Want to see how climate change is stressing bees? Look at their wings. (Washington Post)

How livestock grazing is benefiting the planet (The Guardian) George Monbiot gets some pushback.

Boston mayor seeks to ban fossil fuels in new buildings (The Hill)

These Trees Are Spreading North in Alaska. That’s Not Good

Corruption of Climate Science Supported by Flawed Models

Top German Official Says Life Extensions For All Nuclear Power Plants Unlikely

How messed up was Germany’s energy policy?

Ocean Acidification Cut Down to Size

Texas sends migrants to New York. They get a warm welcome, but life there is tough (NPR)

140 migrants welcomed in NYC from Texas in largest single-day arrival Sunday, officials say (CNN)

Racial slurs, meth and cockroaches: A day in the life running a Tenderloin SRO

Silicon Valley is wrong about the future of transportation (VOX)

Seattle needs therapy to get past defund the police (Seattle Times)

Two new memoirs show the imbalance destabilizing American democracy (CNN)

L.A. is finally separating food waste from trash. Will residents embrace composting? (L.A. Times)

Meet the Nebraska Lawmaker Gunning To Make His State Income Tax One of the Most Punishing

There’s a bipartisan bill to codify Roe — and abortion rights groups can’t stand it (VOX)

Yes, Americans Are Better Off Under Biden (Washington Monthly) Really? And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one. (Gallup: Record Number of Americans Say They’re ‘Suffering’)

LA Cracking Down on Street Takeovers

Colorado GOP Sen. Kevin Priola switches party affiliation to Democrat, citing election conspiracies and climate denialism (Denver Post) Good riddance. All RINOs ought to be so honest. (Of course, this means that Joe Manchin’s power in the Senate no longer exists. But that’s the way it goes.)

Gooey WashPost Paean to Beto O’Rourke Skips One BIG Issue: The Border

Planned Parenthood’s Planned Politicking: $50 Million and Counting  Money talks.

World Economic Forum Claims ‘Solid, Rational Reasons’ for Microchipping Children

Progressive South Texas Candidate Admits to Misleading Voters About Radical Views  Democrats lie. Alway have. Always will.

Texas Builds 600 Miles Of Border Wall Using U-Haul Trucks From California (Babylon Bee)

US announces new military aid, drones for Ukraine (Associated Press)

When hell freezes over: Russia’s Arctic ambitions (The Hill)

Putin’s ‘Deluded’ Ukraine War Approach Shows Autocracies’ Weakness: Expert (Newsweek)

Lawrence Freedman: ‘Autocracies tend to make catastrophic decisions. That’s the case with Putin’ (The Guardian) Not to mention Biden.

Russian Missiles Rain on Ukraine as War Nears Half-Year Mark

Germany To Prioritize Coal Shipments Across Rail Network Over Passenger Trains Amid Worsening Energy Crisis

Biden Has Quietly Ramped Up Drone Strikes In Somalia, Killing At Least 20

US, South Korea Open Biggest Drills in Years Amid North Threats

INFANTRY: Ukraine Trains For The Offensive

MORALE: Managing Moscow Madness

Russia Fires Rockets at Areas Near Nuclear Plant, Kyiv Bans Independence Day Rallies

Should You Get a Polio Vaccine Booster? What Health Experts Are Saying (Good Housekeeping)

FDA asks Pfizer to test second Paxlovid course in patients with COVID rebound (Reuters)

Washington state’s King County declares monkeypox a public health emergency (CNN)

FDA authorizes Novavax Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use in ages 12-17 (CNN)

More than half of TN’s monkeypox cases reported in one county (WKRN)

Omicron-specific Covid booster shots are just weeks away. Here’s who will—and won’t—be eligible (CNBC)

Lawsuits Coming For Entities That Don’t Change COVID Mandates After CDC Update: Lawyer

US National Institutes Of Health Ending Subaward For Wuhan Lab

Pfizer Asks FDA to Authorize Omnicron Vaccine

Anthony Fauci Announces He’s Retiring in December

World In Panic As Science Announces Retirement (Babylon Bee)

The Walensky confession

New Study Shows An Alarming Link Between Being A Conspiracy Theorist And Not Having Myocarditis (Babylon Bee)

Ode to Joylessness: Mask Debate Cancels Edinburgh Beethoven Performance

Despite the Evidence, CNN Insists ‘Monkeypox Is NOT a Sexually-Transmitted Infection’

Ex-NFL Player’s Brother Charged With Fatal Shooting of Youth Football Coach

Teachers’ Union “Extremely Proud” of Racism

Mandela Barnes Talks Up Support for Israel on the Campaign Trail. He Doesn’t Mention His Membership in a Vocal Anti-Israel Group.

Census Bureau Admits Overcounting 7 Blue States, Just 1 Red State

Student loan announcement to come in ‘next week or so,’ Education secretary says ahead of deadline (CNN)

Energy secretary guardedly optimistic about gas prices (Politico)

Biden Energy secretary says US will be at ‘record’ oil production next year (The Hill)

Gas prices are down, but Biden’s problem at the pump isn’t going away (CNBC)

Biden Drops More Crucial Demands To Get Iran Deal

59% of Americans worry student loan forgiveness will make inflation worse

Lapid to Macron: Israel Not Bound by Iran Deal

Biden takes two-week break as vacation time outstrips Trump, Obama, Bush  Hey, it’s not as if anybody is going to miss him.

Biden Picks Major Recipient of Pfizer Research Dollars to Oversee Cancer Institute 

Schiff discusses what could be in affidavit used to search Trump’s home (CNN)

The barely hidden fascism of Ron DeSantis makes a Pa. pit stop on a race to ’24 (Philadelphia Inquirer) Will Bunch is the Inquirer’s pet rabid proglodyte.

‘We got rolled’: How the conservative grassroots lost the fight with Biden because it was focused on Trump (Politico) All Trump! All the time!

Christians are being persecuted in Pakistan

The left’s mask slips on brazen Trump bias

Double Standard: NYT Adores Beto While DeSantis Echoes ‘Conspiracy Theories’

Florida Christian School Head Won’t ‘Cower’ to Threats Amid Trans-Policy Backlash  Apparently it’s not allowed for a Christian School to be, you know, Christian if it’s contrary to the Narrative.

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“[T]he Islamic Jihad Movement … is able to crush the enemy,” Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei tweeted, praising Palestinian terrorists in his latest violent Twitter screed, which has stayed posted on the platform uncensored for 11 days. Meanwhile, the platform continues to ban former President Donald Trump.

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I have made the decision to move to Estonia. In this post I’m going to chart out my reasons.

Some background: I’m 27 years old, studied Electrical Engineering at KU Leuven and am currently living in Belgium. Since finishing my studies I have worked at Nokia and then 2 different startups (as an early employee).

I will split up my argument in two parts: why I decided to leave Belgium and why I chose Estonia.

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Smart TVs might have invaded almost every home on the promise of customized and seamless viewing experience, but, in essence, they are not much different from their bulkier and dumber predecessors. Right from the get-go TV vendors have been conditioning their smart brainchildren to collect user data to personalize ads and sometimes directly deliver them to viewers’ screens. To do so, TV manufacturers have been tracking user behavior through a variety of tools, chipping away at their privacy.

My “TV” is nothing more than a vehicle for showing movies from DVD. I quit watching “TV shows” over twenty years ago.

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Most of the money from President Joe Biden’s massive infrastructure bill is being handed out this summer and fall, nearly a year after passage, just in time for a campaign season he hopes will keep his fellow Democrats in power. But his team’s task is getting people to pay attention — and give them credit for what they did.

So it had more to do with buying votes for Democrats with taxpayer dollars than any of its stated purposes.

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Everybody needs a purpose in life. Liz Cheney’s appears to be persecuting Trump.

UPDATE: Liz Cheney Enters Second Stage Of Grief, Blames ‘Very Sick’ Republicans For Her Loss

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We provide new evidence that cash transfers following the birth of a first child can have large and long-lasting effects on that child’s outcomes. We take advantage of the January 1 birthdate cutoff for U.S. child-related tax benefits, which results in families of otherwise similar children receiving substantially different refunds during the first year of life. For the average low-income single-child family in our sample this difference amounts to roughly $1,300, or 10 percent of income. Using the universe of administrative federal tax data in selected years, we show that this transfer in infancy increases young adult earnings by at least 1 to 2 percent, with larger effects for males. These effects show up at earlier ages in terms of improved math and reading test scores and a higher likelihood of high school graduation. The observed effects on shorter-run parental outcomes suggest that additional liquidity during the critical window following the birth of a first child leads to persistent increases in family income that likely contribute to the downstream effects on children’s outcomes. The longer-term effects on child earnings alone are large enough that the transfer pays for itself through subsequent increases in federal income tax revenue.

Note that the ‘cash transfer’ in question is a refund, the government graciously giving back money that had been withheld from the parents’ income during the year.

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In just seven decades, America’s conventional (non-organic) farmers increased per-acre corn yields by an incredible 500% – while using steadily less water, fuel, fertilizer and pesticides – feeding millions more people. Among the many reasons for this miracle is their ability to control weeds that would otherwise steal moisture and nutrients from this vital food, animal feed and fuel (ethanol) crop.

Long-lasting herbicides don’t just control weeds. They also promote no-till farming, which helps farmers save costly tractor fuel and avoid breaking up soils – thereby reducing erosion, retaining soil moisture, safeguarding soil organisms, and locking carbon dioxide in the soil (reducing risks of “dangerous manmade climate change,” some say).

In the United States, the second most widely used herbicide after glyphosate (Roundup) is atrazine, which is critical to controlling invasive and hard-to-kill weeds impervious to other herbicides. Atrazine is used on 65 million acres of corn, sorghum and sugarcane. That’s equivalent to Colorado or Oregon, on croplands scattered across a dozen Midwestern states. It’s also used on millions of acres of golf courses, lawns and highway medians nationwide.

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has periodically reviewed atrazine science – which now comprises more than 7,000 studies over the past 60 years. It has found the herbicide is safe for people, animals and the environment.