After Wyoming defeat, Cheney prepares for the longer-term fight against Trump — and her own political future (CNN)

Liz Cheney was purged by the cult of Trumpism. Who is next?  (The Guardian)

Cheney chose America over herself. One American’s patriot is another’s pariah. (Houston Chronicle)

Does Mark Zuckerberg Not Understand How Bad His Metaverse Looks? (Forbes)

Mark Zuckerberg’s Soulless Metaverse Avatar Has Me Worried About Our Digital Future (Kotaku)

Vance, DeSantis rally puts ‘highly unusual’ restrictions on press (Washington Post) Gee, I wonder why?

It’s ‘Over’ for Trump Organization if Weisselberg Pleads Guilty: Expert (Newsweek) Walls are closing in, etc. etc.

Kinzinger: Some people ‘equate Donald Trump with the person of Jesus Christ’ (The Hill) But no names.

Who Hates Republican Voters Worse, Allahpundit or Liz Cheney?

After Loss, Cheney Begins Difficult Mission of Thwarting Trump (N. Y. Times)

Ex-CIA chief rates today’s Republicans as most ‘dangerous’ political force in history

Ruhle Smiles & Nods As Guest Compares Banning CRT Books to Nazi Germany

POLITICO Playbook: Donald Trump’s Senate field flounders (Politico)

Trump’s dominance in GOP comes into focus, worrying some in the party (Washington Post)

Steve Bannon: Mike Pence a ‘Mindless, Gutless Simp’  Like being called ugly by a frog.

Ex-CIA Chief Hayden: GOP More ‘Dangerous’ Than International Extremists

Ron DeSantis’s Florida Is Where Free Speech Goes to Die (New York Magazine) When Jonathan Chait doesn’t have anything bad on heretics and sinners, he just makes it up.

New York Times Finds Conservative Racism, McCarthyism, Nazism Afoot in 3 States

Trump Hates When Anyone Except Him Grifts Off the Trump Name The Daily Beast welcomes you to the Mean Girls’ Table in the cafeteria.

Students at SUNY Booted from Sexual Assault Support Group Due to Jewish Identity

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Talk is cheap, and Democrat talk is the cheapest of all.

Daily Mail.

America’s wealthiest, including Tom Brady, Khloe Kardashian, Reese Witherspoon, Kanye and Nancy Pelosi’s husband took millions in PPP loans – and nearly all have been forgiven.

Let’s see: I don’t know about Tom Brady, but I’m pretty Khloe Kardashian, Reese Witherspoon, Kanye, and Nancy Pelosi’s husband are Democrats….

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I guess we won’t have Brian Stelter to kick around anymore.

Pity.

ZMan turns over a rock.

One of the stranger things to come from the collection of sub-cults that make up the modern Left is the concept of stochastic terrorism. In the hands of the believers, it is not so much a concept as an incantation. They chant it online in response to anything that contradicts their beliefs. On Twitter, for example, they believe that if enough believers chant it in response to a tweet they do not like, the gods of on-line moderation will strike down the offending tweet and maybe the tweeter.

Taken literally, it is a meaningless expression. The first dictionary definition of stochastic is random and the second is “involving chance or probability.” The word comes from the Greek word “to guess” and has been used in various fields to describe a range of probabilities within a process. Terrorism, of course, is the use of violence and fear to achieve an ideological aim. Taken together, stochastic terrorism would literally mean random violence to achieve a political aim.

As is often the case, it has two meanings in the cult of the modern Left. One is the purely emotional definition, which is always the primary one. Stochastic terrorism is anything that upsets the user by disconfirming her beliefs. Someone posting crime statistics, for example, is accused of stochastic terrorism because crime statistics contradict left-wing beliefs about society. The phrase is simply a way to mark someone as a heretic or blasphemer.

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The same Florida magistrate who approved the raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home will decide on Thursday if we can see why he approved it. We’d like to check his work, you understand. Because it looks like the FBI is up to its old tricks again. Indeed, the FBI’s supposed “leaker” who complained about Trump’s document cache seems to have obliterated the excuses we’ve heard for the raid and laid bare the sole reason behind it: get Trump.

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Assaults on bus drivers have significantly increased in Albuquerque, as documented by the news story below. Not coincidentally, Albuquerque began offering free buses on January 1, 2022.

Free, convenient transit is a boon for criminals. What better way to flee the scene before the cops get there?

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A homeowner’s greatest property right is not how many uses a homeowner can use their home, but neighborhood protection from uses not beneficial to single-family homes.

The city of Dallas is losing homeowners while this critical population moves further away. The health of Dallas is at risk as the number of homeowners in the city is declining and city becoming, like many elsewhere, essentially one of renters.

People are leaving the city of Dallas not because they do not like the world-renowned museums, Nasher Sculpture Center, celebrated restaurants or the fabulous people that live here. People leave Dallas for cities, suburbs, and towns that have neighborhoods that are more stable, safer, greener and more homeowner friendly.

The Impact of Human CO2 On Atmospheric CO2 – Summary

Keeping the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant open is a dangerous waste of effort and money (L.A. Times)

Shadowy Oil and Gas Interests Are Deciding Texas’ Energy Fate (Gizmodo) Shadowy! Dunh-dunh-DUNHHH….

L.A. is right to phase out oil drilling, but communities can’t wait 20 years (L.A. Times) California has an amazing amount of untapped oil reserves, all locked away by blue-state environmentalism.

Bill Gates and the Secret Push to Save Biden’s Climate Bill (Bloomberg)

How safe are nuclear power plants?

Germany: Finally Facing Energy Reality

Climate Activist European Companies Rushing to Exploit African Oil

Green Fascists Are Destroying the World

COVID public health emergency appears to be headed for extension (Axios) Of course it is.

Zeldin, GOP accuse Hochul of abuse of power with latest COVID emergency extension

Blood abnormalities found in people with Long Covid (Science) So I guess it’s time to PANIC!

Is Covid Over?

Inside America’s monkeypox crisis — and the mistakes that made it worse (Washington Post)

CDC Announces Overhaul After Botching Pandemic

Sex between men, not skin contact, is fueling monkeypox, new research suggests

Chicago alderman fined for using city-issued email account to help Lightfoot

Report identifies Bay Area’s most segregated neighborhoods of white wealth (KRON)

Florida woman arrested for calling 911 over 12,000 times this year

Black and Asian Hate in San Francisco

Nets Bury School Board Proposing White Teachers Get Laid Off First

Pigment of Your Imagination

Soros DA’s Deputy Predicts Race War

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On Wednesday a large blast ripped through a centrally located mosque during evening prayers in the Afghan capital of Kabul, with a huge casualty count feared. One or more suicide bombers were reportedly behind the attack.

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

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Both Democrats, of course.

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I remember Norah O’Donnell from the First Gulf War. She was pretty hot back then.

She hasn’t aged well.

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Based on the Time Magazine opinion piece, “What Comes After the Coming Climate Anarchy?”, we may have reached a point where no facts have to be included in a climate fear porn editorial.  This is just a short introduction to the piece and the author.  I encourage you to read it yourself.

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It’s almost time for kids to go back to school! If you live in California however, you should consider homeschooling.

California’s Newport-Mesa school district is using a “Genderbread Identity” man in its curriculum this year to facilitate conversations about gender, sexuality and everything in-between (pun intended), Fox Digital reported Tuesday.

The Genderbread man is reportedly part of CA’s “Teen Talk,” which targets middle and high school students in California. It’s purpose is to talk to teenagers about sexual topics and brainwash them with the left’s woke, radical agenda.

Fox Digital shared images of the curriculum and lets just say, an eyeball bleach bath was necessary after viewing.

Time to leave.

The Other McCain speaks some inconvenient truth.

Who is attacking Asians in San Francisco and other major cities? Everybody knows the perpetrators of these atrocities are black, but almost nobody in the media wants to talk about it, because the media — as I have discussed elsewhere — are committed to a one-sided portrayal of black people as victims, rather than perpetrators, of “hate.”

ZMan turns over a rock.

A generation ago, most Americans associated political prisoners and the secret police with communism and third world dictatorships. A dictator ignored the needs of his people and threw political opponents into dungeons, while lining his pockets and those of his cronies. The communist societies used the secret police to spy on and intimidate the people. The free world had its faults, but it lacked this sort of compulsion, because it was a rules-based system of politics.

Those not around a generation ago are left to imagine what such a world was like, because present day America is nothing like a generation ago. The last three decades have seen a steady slide into the features we used to associate with police states and third world dictatorships. The regime is too busy stuffing its pockets to attend to the people’s business. They use the secret police to harass critics and a deeply corrupt legal system to jail dissidents.

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Diversity is our strength so it couldn’t have been too shocking that an Afghan Muslim refugee was responsible for America’s single worst Islamophobic killing spree. Much as another Afghan, Omar Mateen, brutally carried out the single largest massacre of gay people in America.

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

Project Veritas has an excellent story on Lisa Murkowski’s path to reelection. It follows from the ballot measure narrowly adopted by Alaska voters in 2020. The path combines an open “nonpartisan” primary with 19 candidates. The top four candidates in today’s open primary will proceed from the primary to the November election.

In the November election voters are then to rank their choices among the four candidates on the ballot. If no candidate receives 50 percent plus one of the first-choice votes, the election will be decided by the ranked-choice voting method. Ballotpedia explains the applicable ranked-choice scheme here.

Ranked-choice voting is sometimes called an ‘Australian ballot’. The key here is that if Democrats can’t get their candidate elected (and they can’t), RINO Murkowski will be their second choice.

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It appears that Oberlin has another major controversy on its hand. For the last couple years, Oberlin has been embroiled in a fight with a small family-owned grocery that it defamed over a shoplifting case involving black students. Oberlin lost $25 million in a record verdict but Oberlin President Carmen Twillie Ambar continued to refuse to apologize. In the meantime, the school seems intent on running the 137-year-old grocery into insolvency as it delays paying on the judgment. Now the school is under fire over a faculty member, Mohammad Jafar Mahallati, who supported the fatwa against Salman Rushdie. The author of Satanic Verses is recovering from a savage knife attack. Hadi Matar, 24, is accused of carrying out the stabbing attack and has expressed support for Iran in the past. The campaign to have Mahallati fired could present some difficult free speech and academic freedom questions.

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

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The Clintons perfected the 3-D communications strategy, Delay, Deny, Deceive. The Biden Administration has added a 4th D – Define. For example, look at how the Biden Administration has handled the Inflation issue.

1) Delay – for the first year, inflation was transitory and just the result of supply chain issues… Wait it out.

2) Deny – Its oil prices. The president doesn’t have a magic lever to control the price of oil; there’s not much he can do.

3) Deceive – Biden can no longer stand still and wait for the markets to reach price equilibrium on their own. So Joe Biden must appear to do something. So a fire sale of the strategic oil reserve and a quick trip to the Middle East where he pointlessly meets with pariah heads of state. All efforts in the appearance of reducing the price of oil (with little to no expectation that these ‘efforts’ would ever be successful.) To show how serious the Biden Administration is on lowering the price of oil, the Bureau of Land Management canceled all drilling and exploration leases in Wyoming.

4) Define – The economic contraction you’re experiencing as a result of the mismanagement of the Biden administration is NOT, in fact, a recession.

Matt Taibbi.

National news media and federal law enforcement are now as indistinguishable in America as in any autocratic country anywhere.

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U.S. Representative Liz Cheney, a fierce Republican critic of Donald Trump who has played a prominent role in the congressional probe of the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol, lost to a Trump-backed primary challenger in Wyoming on Tuesday.

Good.

But Senator Lisa Murkowski, another Republican who has defied the former president, cleared a hurdle in Alaska. She was set to face Trump-endorsed challenger Kelly Tshibaka in the Nov. 8 congressional election, as the two candidates advanced in that state’s nonpartisan primary.

Shucks. I’d rather we got rid of Murkowski than Cheney. Ah, well. One step at a time.

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Another culture-enriching brawl has broken out at the Ter Apel asylum center in the Netherlands. The “youths” in the overcrowded facility are unhappy with the makeshift accommodations that are on offer, so they’re refusing to eat. Which is fine by me…

Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Give a Muslim a fish, and he complains about the service.

Health care workers fired over vaccine mandate awarded $10 million in settlement

Labor Law: Hospital agrees to pay employees over $10 million In dispute over vaccine mandates (Richmond Times-Dispatch)

CDC updates monkeypox guidance after dog tests positive for virus (Axios)

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla tests positive for Covid (NBC News) Really fine ‘vaccines’ ya got there, bubba.

First Symptoms of COVID: Early Signs of an Infection You Should Watch For (NBC Chicago)

Monkeypox misinformation spreading faster than the virus, experts say (NBC News)

42% of Americans think monkeypox is at least as large a public health threat as COVID-19 now: poll (Insider)

John McEnroe Blasts Unvaccinated Ban Preventing Djokovic From Playing

Pentagon Chief Tests Positive for COVID-19, Has Mild Symptoms

Nurses Describe ‘Brutal’ COVID-19 Treatment Protocols

First Dog Infected With Monkeypox After “Sharing Bed” With Gay Couple  Looks like somebody screwed the pooch. (Sorry–couldn’t help it….)

Prosecutors Struggle to Catch Up to a Tidal Wave of Pandemic Fraud (N.Y. Times)

New Jersey Ending COVID-19 Tests for Unvaccinated Teachers, Child Care Workers

U.S. Justice Dept opposes revealing evidence supporting search of Trump’s home (Reuters)

DOJ opposes making public details in Mar-a-Lago search warrant’s probable cause affidavit (CNN)

Former Federal Prosecutor: A Damning Pattern of Facts Against Trump (Newsweek)

Even ‘mainstream’ Republicans are making idiotic defenses of Trump (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin loses her shit. (If she didn’t have Trump, she wouldn’t have a job.)

Kinzinger: Trump’s ‘evolving explanation’ on FBI search ‘just like Jan. 6? (The Hill)

Sen. Rand Paul wants to repeal the Espionage Act amid the Mar-a-Lago investigation (NPR)

Bolton: Trump’s defense of Mar-a-Lago materials “almost certainly a lie” (Axios)

Mitch McConnell greatly damaged US democracy with quiet, chess-like moves (The Guardian)

Josh Shapiro’s new ads cite Doug Mastriano’s ties to antisemitic content on Gab (Philadelphia Inquirer) Ties! That proves it!

Justice Department subpoenas Trump White House lawyer Eric Herschmann (Politico)

Youngkin’s toxic school ‘tip line’ is shrouded in secrecy (Washington Post) Toxic! Shrouded!

Anti-Trump GOP group spends big to shrink his base (Politico)

Blame Newt Gingrich for Today’s Lying MAGA Republicans (Daily Beast)

Longtime GOP insider Cheri Jacobus: America is “not going to recover from Donald Trump” (Salon) Not as long as Democrats keep witch-hunting him, certainly.

Trump’s latest eruption underscores the danger of a GOP House (Washington Post) Danger to the media-government complex, certainly.

CNN Ignores FBI Whistleblowers, Hypes Dubious ‘Right Wing’ Terror Stat

For never-Trump conservatives, it’s never-ending misery (Washington Post)

Turley: Why The Case Against Donald Trump Remains Incomplete

Why Donald Trump’s declassification claim might not be that outlandish (Politico)

Maddow’s Stand-In Alex Wagner Hopes to ‘Dismantle’ or ‘Undercut’ Right-Wing Lies

It’s Inevitable: Trump Will Be Indicted (American Greatness)

The New Era of Political Violence Is Here (The Atlantic)

Why Every New Trump Crime Just Makes Republicans Angrier at the FBI (New York Magazine) Jonathan Chait loses his shit.

On Jim Acosta’s Show, ‘Legend’ Sam Donaldson Compares Trump to Al Capone

A classic anti-Trump frenzy (Washington Examiner)

Trump’s Big Mouth Sets Up Top-Secret Case Against Him (Daily Beast)

NBC Now: Donald Trump Is Darth Vader! NBC in 2011: Dick Cheney Is Vader!

An “Extreme Heat Belt” will soon emerge in the U.S., study warns (Axios)

New climate deal spurs hopes of more carbon storage projects (Associated Press)

Energy & Environment — Colorado River talks stalled out ahead of deadline (The Hill)

California’s vital ocean current will soon see major disruption. Here’s what’s at stake (S.F. Chronicle)

Why scientists have pumped a potent greenhouse gas into streams on public lands (NPR)

Outnumbered: In Rural Ohio, Two Supporters of Solar Power Step Into a Roomful of Opposition (Inside Climate News)

Brazil’s other deforestation: has the savannah farming boom gone too far? (Financial Times)

Oil industry gears up to tap U.S. climate bill for carbon capture projects (Reuters) KA-CHING!

As Congress funds high-tech climate solutions, it also bets on a low-tech one: Nature (Washington Post) Not to mention the low-tech American taxpayers.

CDC: Gorgeous island nation in Asia now at ‘high’ travel risk for Covid (CNN)

Boston completes plans to strengthen all 47 miles of coastline against flooding (Boston Globe)

Vanuatu, one of the most climate-vulnerable countries, launches ambitious climate plan (The Guardian) Funded by Western tax money, of course.

‘Dangerous heat’ coming to parts of the SF Bay Area (S.F. Gate)

Triple-digit temperatures expected all week in the Sacramento region (KTXL)

China Demand: Respect the One China policy, to Restore Climate Talks

Why Is The UN Promoting A Kind Of Food Production Proven To Reduce Yields, Raise Prices, And Topple Governments?

Biden to Sign Law Cutting Most Current EV Credits

As Wildfires Get More Extreme, Observatories Are at Greater Risk  (Wired ‘Science’)

Australia’s Mangroves: BBC & ABC’s Disturbing Fearmongering with Scientific Dishonesty and Idiocy

Germany Denies WSJ Report Of Climate-Change Flip-Flop Over Nuclear Plants

Poll: Public Concern about Climate Change Warnings is Plummeting

How the Huge New US Climate Bill Will Save You Money (Wired ‘Science’)

BLM-aligned coalition demands release of convicted cop killers

Fulton County district attorney says gang sympathizers threatening witness in rapper Young Thug case (WSB Atlanta)

At the US-Africa Leaders Summit, launch ‘Process Africa’ (The Hill)

These Latinx and Indigenous TikTokers Are Teaching Sustainability and Fighting for Change (Gizmodo)

2 Ex-cops Charged in George Floyd Killing Reject Plea Deals

Academy Apologizes to Indigenous Star for Historic Oscars Abuse

DeVos Slams Teachers Unions for Pandemic Learning Loss

As DC Plans to Ban 40% of Black Teens From School, Mayor Rejects DC COVID-19 Vaccine Numbers

Vile MSNBC: Roe’s Overturn Serves White Supremacists’ Interests

Apple becomes first tech giant to explicitly ban caste discrimination

Three Killed in ‘Intentional’ Attack Outside Black Gay Bar in Chicago

What Do Average Americans Think Is the Ratio of the Black to White Murder Rates?

‘Squad’ Member Expanded Her Rental Property Portfolio as She Pushed For Taxpayer-Funded Landlord Relief

RAF ‘pauses job offers for white men’ to meet ‘impossible’ diversity targets

‘Defund the police’ advocate Ilhan Omar’s city experiences sharp increase in majority of crimes, data shows

California ultramarathon runner attacked by coyote near Golden Gate Bridge parking lot (S.F. Chronicle)

NYC moving migrants into famed luxury Times Square hotel

‘Hackers against conspiracies’: Cyber sleuths take aim at election disinformation (Politico)

The US economy didn’t get the recession memo  (CNN) Certainly not on whatever planet CNN inhabits.

How social media has undermined our constitutional architecture (Washington Post)

Ohio churches create taxpayer-funded school, outraging state’s ACLU chapter

Scarborough Has a Joe Biden Moment: ‘What Was That? All the Stuff!’

Surprise! Jezebel Writer Really, Really Hates America

Samantha Power Stonewalls Inspector General on Afghanistan on Terror Cash

Radical Los Angeles Prosecutor Narrowly Dodges Recall

That Single Payer Thing Isn’t Working Out for UK

Liz Cheney Draws Almost $1M From Texans, Including Bush and Rove

Don’t Bet On Pre-election NBA Activities To Be Non-partisan Efforts

Wealthy Americans are flocking to Florida at four times the rate of any other state (Fortune)

Twitter Finally Suspends Person Who Threatened JK Rowling “You’re Next” Following Rushdie Attack

Do you want free speech to thrive? Then it has to be regulated, now more than ever (The Guardian) And there is the bare voice of progressive totalitarianism.

Public School Teachers Told to Indoctrinate Kids as Young as Three in Radical LGBT Theory

Four House Democrats just violated a federal conflict-of-interest law with late financial disclosures (Business Insider)

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According to allegations in the indictment, when Cox was a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2018 election, he perpetrated a scheme to fund and reimburse family members and associates for donations to his campaign. Cox arranged for over $25,000 in illegal straw or conduit donations to his campaign in 2017.

Guess That Party!

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A test car with autonomous steering capability veered into oncoming traffic in Germany, killing one person and seriously injuring nine others, police said Tuesday.

A spokesman for police in the southwestern town of Reutlingen said the electric BMW iX with five people on board, including a young child, swerved out of its lane at a bend in the road, triggering a series of collisions involving four vehicles Monday afternoon.

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When Samir Azzuz was convicted of financing terrorism last month in the Netherlands, it was not the Dutch-Moroccan’s first terrorism rodeo: in 2006, as a member of the Dutch terror cell the Hofstadgroep, his detailed plans for terror attacks on the Dutch security agency AIVD and on various politicians landed him a 13-year sentence in a maximum security prison.

The Hofstadgroep is best known for a terror attack by another member, Mohammed Bouyeri, who in 2004 shot and stabbed controversial filmmaker and writer Theo van Gogh in broad daylight on a busy street in Amsterdam, killing him.

After his early release in September 2013, Azzuz wasted little time resuming jihadist activities – this time raising funds to help smuggle so-called ISIS brides and their children out of the detainee camps where they are currently being held in Syria. In all, Azzuz, who was arrested again in 2019 on charges of financing terrorism, is believed to have raised more than $107,000 from various sources. More than 15 ISIS brides have found their way back to the Netherlands. And though another Hofstadgroep member told Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad in 2020 that the cost to smuggle a woman out of the camps at that time was about $5000, it is not known how many of those Azzuz helped finance.

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

Read it.

The challenge: The cornea is a tough, transparent layer of tissue that covers the front of the eye. It helps focus light on the retina, and if it’s damaged by disease or injury, a person’s vision can suffer — worldwide, nearly 13 million people are blind due to problems with their corneas.

For people with keratoconus — a disease that causes the cornea to thin and bulge out — the only way to correct severely impaired vision is with a cornea transplant from a human donor.

David Cole fingers George Soros.

At 92 years old, George Soros is the last human experientially connected to the Holocaust who’s still actively taking lives. Sure, there are a few elderly ex-Nazis being dragged before German courts, but they’re insignificant (secretaries, bookkeepers) and their murderous exploits, if any, ended with the war.

Soros, a Jew who survived the Holocaust by posing as a gentile, kills people daily. How many? I think it’s safe to say that at least once every few days in cities ruled by Soros DAs an innocent person is murdered by a criminal who’s roaming the streets due to Soros’ machinations.

Soros himself has admitted that he bases his life’s work on his wartime experience. He’s the Nazis’ inadvertent posthumous revenge on America; the Jew the SS failed to catch likely conducts the equivalent of one Malmedy massacre per month.

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A new symbol has joined the pantheon of hate along with the “OK” hand sign and the thumbs up according to Atlantic magazine. The prayer beads of the rosary.

This discovery was made by Daniel Panneton in Sunday’s edition of the Atlanticwhose headline blared “How Extremist Gun Culture Is Trying to Co-Opt the Rosary.” The subheadline described the rosary as a “sacrament,” which is a ridiculous error, It is called a sacramental.

And now we join Panneton as he weaves his conspiratorial tale of how the rosary has somehow become a radical symbol of hate.

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Former Minnesota Senator Al Franken waited until the last minute to bestow his coveted endorsement on Rep. Liz Cheney via Twitter (below). Cheney is of course contending for the Republican nomination to stand for reelection to Wyoming’s single seat in the House. I’m sure Rep. Cheney appreciates Franken’s confidence as she seeks to persuade Wyoming conservatives that she is deserving of their continued support to represent them in Congress. It’s just what she needed. I hope the word gets out among all Wyoming Republicans voting tomorrow.

If anyone needed a reason to vote against Cheney, here it is.

The Demographics of Crime

Caste in California: Tech giants confront ancient Indian hierarchy  Like VP Harris, a Tamil of the Brahmin varna.

“Natural Selection May be Making Society More Unequal”

Whole Foods’ Battle Against Black Lives Matter Masks Has Much Higher Stakes (Bloomberg)

Tons of Anti-White Racism in Freeform’s ‘grown-ish’: Calls White College Staff ‘A Few Tiki Torches Shy of a Hate Crime’

Texas Accepting Donations to Fund Busing of Migrants

Colleges warn students about monkeypox risk as fall term approaches (Washington Post)

To prepare for possible monkeypox spread, colleges focus on educating students (CNN)

Do You Need a Polio Booster? What Vaccinated People Should Know (Health.com)

WHO renames two monkeypox variants to avoid geographic references (The Hill)

The C.D.C. Continues to Lead From Behind (N.Y. Times)

Cardiovascular Effects of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine in Adolescents

“Covid Is Here to Stay,” CDC Concedes After Two Years Of Orwellian Hysteria

Mar-a-Lago — and its owner — have long caused concerns for US intelligence (CNN)

FBI seizes privileged Trump records during raid; DOJ opposes request for independent review: sources

Some Capitol rioters try to profit from their Jan. 6 crimes (Associated Press)

The Republican party has reason to fear the midterms (The Guardian)

The ‘Gun Dude’ and a Supreme Court case that changed who can own firearms in the U.S. (NPR)

Princeton University course says that ‘far right activists’ are using ‘free speech’ to justify ‘hate speech’  There is no right but the ‘far-right’.

Jared Kushner Most Likely Mar-a-Lago Mole Behind FBI Raid: Mary Trump (Newsweek)

Vindman Calls Gabbard ‘Agent of Russian Disinformation’ After Fox Segment (Newsweek)

Donald Trump ‘Misjudged’ Merrick Garland Over FBI Raid: Legal Analyst (Newsweek)

Justice Department Accused of Taking Attorney-Client Material at Mar-a-Lago (Jonathan Turley)

Former FBI Agent Says Mar-a-Lago Raid Was Government’s Attempt To ‘Embarrass’ Trump  Guess it didn’t work.

Apply the Hillary Clinton Rule to Donald Trump (The Dispatch) David French, apparently now part of the Golberg Group, polishes his pretend-conservative street cred with a Never-Trumper rant. Contrary to his lies, if we applied the Hillary Clinton standard to Trump, Trump would skate with the AG washing his hands.

Former National Intelligence Director: Trump Has ‘Ultimate Declassification Authority’

Partisan NY Times Blames ‘Right-Wing Rhetoric’ for Violence

Rubio’s fake populism is no match for real history (Washington Post) History, that is, according to the Narrative.

Some Republicans Make a More Restrained Case for Defending Trump (N.Y. Times) “Yeah, Trump sucks but….”

The Arizona Republican Party’s Anti-Democracy Experiment (N.Y. Times)

NPR Hates DeSantis, Smears Old Flag as Symbol of ‘Dangerous Right-Wing Ideology’

GOP’s New Mexico bet (Axios)

Cheney’s next mission: Keeping her anti-Trump megaphone  (Politico) No problem. I’m sure she’s got a gig on MSNBC and a book deal anytime she wants one.

Election deniers march toward power in key 2024 battlegrounds (Washington Post) ‘Election deniers’ are the new niggers.

Liz Cheney’s political life is likely ending — and just beginning (Washington Post) The value of 30 pieces of silver (denarii) in modern dollars is about $85.

Leaving with nuclear secrets would be Trump’s dumbest, scariest stunt yet (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin loses her shit. (If she didn’t have Trump, she wouldn’t have a job.)

NBA Continues To Ostracize Non-Woke Athletes And Coaches

Trump’s Investigation Miscalculation (The Bullshit Bulwark) A minion of the Kristol Krew polishes the Narrative.

GOP Anti-Trump Group Buys $3M in Ads in Swing States

How Extremist Gun Culture Is Trying to Co-Opt the Rosary (The Atlantic) The Atlantic crew could use a little rosary time.

Why Did Trump Take Classified Documents in the First Place? (Bloomberg) Talking past the sale: We don’t know that he did; merely that the Biden goombahs say that he did.

Despite climate, war and Covid, is everything actually … getting better? (The Guardian)

California governor proposes $1.4 billion loan to keep nuclear plant open (Reuters)

Increase in monsoon flooding leads back to climate change and rise in heat (KOLD)

Leaders make fifth attempt to pass UN Oceans Treaty (BBC)

The Inflation Reduction Act may save the fossil fuel industries (The Hill)

Meet the teenager who helped push Florida toward cleaner energy (NPR) Apparently we are allowing teenagers to determine public policy these days.

‘What’s the alternative? To give up?’: Bella Lack, the new queen of green (The Guardian) Apparently we are allowing teenagers to determine public policy these days.

We built a fake metropolis to show how extreme heat could wreck cities (Washington Post)

Why Aren’t Solar Panels Covering Every Parking Lot? (CNET)

Will taxing ‘immoral’ fossil fuel profits ease the energy crisis? (Al Jezeera) Surely there’s a teenager somewhere whom we can ask about that?

U.S. renewables investors see Senate bill sparking gold rush (Reuters)

How Much Will the Climate Bill Reduce Emissions? It Depends (‘Scientific’ American)

One-third of the food we eat is at risk because the climate crisis is endangering butterflies and bees (CNN)

U.S. Utility Survey Suggests Industry Mulling Additions of 90 GW of New Nuclear

A New Atomic Age? Bipartisan Interest In Nuclear Energy Growing Amid Rising Energy Demand

Ten cities and towns are poised to ban fossil fuels from new buildings (Boston Globe)

Climate bill: Could coal communities shift to nuclear? (Associated Press)

‘A problem or an opportunity’: These 10 finance firms control half the world’s unburned fossil fuels (Euronews)

Heating Your Home Will Hurt This Winter As Natural Gas Prices Climb

Three papers highlight results of record yield nuclear fusion shot

Claim: Antarctica’s Ice Shelves Could be Melting Faster Than We thought

400 Square Foot Nantucket Cottages Are Selling For Millions  But what about those ‘rising sea levels’?

Claim: Democrats Stayed True to Climate Action Because They Resisted Offers of Money

The New Climate Bill Demands All-American EV Batteries (Wired ‘Science’)

AP-NORC Poll: Many in US Doubt Their Own Impact on Climate

‘Woke’ NYC Starbucks now a haven for junkies, drunks and homeless

Ex-CIA official: What I’m seeing now is similar to the run-up to January 6 (CNN)

Thomas Piketty Wants To Bring Back Communism In The Guise Of Democratic Socialism

Andrea Mitchell Argues With GOP Senator: We’re Not in a Recession Yet

MSNBC Anti-Trump Melodrama: ‘Vote As If Your Life Depends On It—Will We Survive?’

CNN: Republican States Are Forcing Women to Have Babies!

Scientific American: Decolonize the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

French Conservatives Slam Push By Macron’s Deputy To Legalize Voting For All Foreigners In Municipal Elections

Meet the GOP’s future king of Biden investigations (Politico)

CIA Director Employed Chinese Communist Party Members While Heading Elite Think Tank: Report

FBI and DHS warn of increased threats to law enforcement and government officials after Mar-a-Lago search  (CBS) Gee, I wonder why?

The KHive Retreats as Kamala Harris’ Popularity Vanishes (Daily Beast)

Joe Who? ABC Avoids Biden’s Name in Report on ‘Sad,’ ‘Hungry’ Afghanistan

Read it.

If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

(I wonder whether it would be possible for a YouTube video to go ‘bacterial’?)

Read it.

As China sourcing agents representing western businesses, it is not unusual for us at Sourcing Allies to find that the client’s product doesn’t fall within the acceptable range of specifications outlined in the technical drawings given to the Chinese factory, but the factory genuinely doesn’t think that is a problem.

If there is one expression that illustrates this difference in attitude towards quality standards, it is “Cha Bu Duo”, which can be translated as “not far off” or “close enough”.

The American equivalent is ‘good enough for government work’.

Read it.

Of course, that is a risky prediction, given that the Democrats’ Trump Derangement Syndrome seems to become more acute on a daily basis. But for now, this may represent a peak (or nadir). Former CIA Director Michael Hayden suggests–I don’t think there is any other plausible interpretation–that Donald Trump should be executed for giving nuclear secrets to the Russians, a claim for which there is, to say the least, zero evidence, and which is absurd on its face.

Wikipedia.

The Satanic Verses are words of “satanic suggestion” which the Islamic prophet Muhammad is alleged to have mistaken for divine revelation. The verses praise the three pagan Meccan goddesses: al-L?t, al-‘Uzzá, and Man?t and can be read in early prophetic biographies of Muhammad by al-W?qid?, Ibn Sa’d and the tafsir of al-Tabar?. The first use of the expression in English is attributed to Sir William Muir in 1858.

The incident is accepted as true by modern scholars of Islamic studies, under the criterion of embarrassment, citing the implausibility of early Muslim biographers fabricating a story so unflattering about their prophet.[3][4] It was accepted by religious authorities for the first two centuries of the Islamic era, but was later rejected by some religious scholars (Ulama) as incompatible with Muhammad’s perfection (‘isma), implying that Muhammad is infallible and therefore cannot be fooled by Satan.

UPDATE: Blinken: Iran State Media Recently Gloated About Attempt on Rushdie

UPDATE: Iran: Rushdie and Supporters to Blame for Attack