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A family dispute in the French city of Lyon took an unfortunate turn today when a young man decapitated his father in a parking lot. It was an “Allahu Akhbar” moment for the youngster, but French citizens were reassured by the police that the youth was not thought to have been radicalized.

They use the term ‘radicalized’ as if it were a disease you could catch, like COVID, or a process that was applied to you, like ‘simonized’. No–it’s a choice to do evil.

Wherever you go,
Whatever you do,
A Muslim is waiting
To try to kill you.

UPDATE: Iranian Hardliners and Media Praise the Attack on Salman Rushdie

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

The answer to that question is, sometimes. One would think this is clearly such an instance: Minneapolis teachers union contract calls for layoffs of white teachers first. That sounds like naked race discrimination by a government entity, but is it illegal?

Apparently not, in a Blue State.

Time to leave.

Nobody does it better.

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Wherever you go,
Whatever you do,
A Muslim is waiting
To try to kill you.

UPDATE: Gunman Wounds 8, Including 5 Americans, in Jerusalem Shooting

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s son is the second largest investor in a Chinese tech company whose senior executive was arrested in a fraud investigation, according to DailyMail.com, raising questions about his secretive visit to Taiwan with his mother.

You thought it was all about politics, didn’t you? Foolish mortal. Follow the money.

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That costly, boxy bin is among six trash cans hitting San Francisco’s streets this summer in the city’s long saga in search of the perfect can. Overflowing trash cans are a common sight in the Northern California city, along with piles of used clothes, shoes, furniture and other items strewn about on sometimes-impassable sidewalks.

City officials hired a Bay Area industrial firm to custom-design the pricey trash can along with two other prototypes that cost taxpayers $19,000 and $11,000 each. This summer, residents have the opportunity to evaluate them along with three off-the-shelf options added to the pilot program after officials faced criticism.

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Why people develop the autoimmune disorder has been a long-standing question. Studies have pointed to certain gene variations and environmental factors. For decades, a common virus called Epstein-Barr virus has also been high on the list of culprits.

Now recent studies paint a clearer picture that Epstein-Barr virus instigates MS when the central nervous system gets caught in the cross hairs of an immune response to the virus’s attack. This recognition opens new options for treatment, or even vaccines. Perhaps therapies that target Epstein-Barr itself — or remove the cells in the body where the virus camps out — could jettison the virus before damage is done.

In modern ‘journalism’, it is somehow mandatory to start off even a ‘news’ story with a bit of narrative, as if the old who-what-when-where-why isn’t enough; we have to have a ‘story’ to anchor it. Everything has to be a narrative. Feh.

MSNBC Guest Calls GOP Behavior ‘Treasonous,’ Forgets to Call Out Liberal Violence

Twitter is hiring an alarming number of FBI agents

Ex-Trump Aide Sics MAGA Lackeys on Alleged FBI Agents’ Families  (Daily Beast) “Mommeee! Johnny hit me back!”

Jury: Democratic PAC Defamed Roy Moore, Awards Him $8.2M

Flashback to When MSNBC Hated ‘Odious’ and ‘Toxic’ Liz Cheney

Joe Scarborough Now Decries ‘Fascism,’ Didn’t Mind Liberal Abuse of Power

‘It worried people all the time’: How Trump’s handling of secret documents led to the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago search (NBC News) Welcome to the Narrative !

Inside Trump’s chamber of secrets (Washington Post) The Narrative is built on a lot of mind-reading.

Top House lawmakers ask intel officials to review national security damage from Trump document handling (Politico) Running a picture of Congressman Schiff, one of the greatest liars in the history of the republic, is rather Freudian.

Trump’s secrets: How a records dispute led the FBI to search Mar-a-Lago (Washington Post) Hammering home the Narrative.

Police Investigating Threat Against J.K. Rowling

Yellen: IRS Will Not Use $80B in Inflation Reduction Act to Target Middle-Class  And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

The week that was: Trump screams. Biden governs. (Washington Post) E. J. Dionne, the old proglodyte warhorse, does his bit pushing the Narrative. In truth, Trump is rousted, and Biden babbles.

There Is No MAGA Movement Without Threats and Violence (The Atlantic) David French, National Review’s pretend-conservative, polishes his proglodyte tool cred by lending a hand to push the Narrative.

Armed Trump supporters outside Phoenix FBI office (CNN) Unlike AntiFa and BLM, they don’t have hoods over their faces and bricks in their hands.

MSNBC’s Tiffany Cross: ‘Traitor’ Trump ‘Trafficking’ Nuke Secrets To Putin

Chris Wallace, CNN Hate Talk of Federal ‘Gestapo’…Unless Dems Use It

Trump goes on Truth Social rampage, sharing over a dozen posts, including from accounts with QAnon references (Business Insider) Alia Shoaib is shocked, shocked I tell you….

Former flight attendant sues Delta Air Lines after it fired her for sharing anti-Trump editorial cartoon on social media (CNN) Because hating Trump is just normal, after all.

If Trump is charged, it should be for the worst of his crimes (Washington Post) Funny how all this investigation hasn’t turned up any actual probative evidence of such ‘crimes’.  Your tax dollars at work, I guess.

The reason why presidents can’t keep their White House records dates back to Nixon (NPR) The Narrative needs to include mentions of Nixon so that everybody is on the same page with their Two Minute Hate.

Espionage Isn’t the Strongest Case Against Trump. It’s Simpler Than That. (Politico) I should have so rich a fantasy life.

Judge Resumes Obama-era Coal Lease Halt on Public Lands

Green New Deal in Action! ‘Businesses in Spain have to keep summer air conditioning above 80 degrees F under new govt rules’

Animal melting pot created by climate change could lead to new disease outbreaks (Science)

Africa Needs Conventional Fuels, Not Windmills And Solar Panels

America’s Favorite Vehicle:  Priced Out of the Market

Electric vehicles are way more energy-efficient than internal combustion Yeah, and Betamax was technically superior to VHS. What’s your point?

Potato Shortage Emerges In Idaho As Prices Surge At Supermarkets

Apple to Carbon Offset Everyone’s iPhone Recharge Energy Bill

New York Times Applauds Violent Eco-Nut Tactics to ‘Avoid Planetary Catastrophe’  And yet Trump supporters are the ones ‘resorting to violence’.

Climate Bill: Could Coal Communities Shift to Nuclear?

Why Solar Power Is Failing Amid Record-Breaking Heat

All-Electric Forcing in the “Inflation Reduction Act” (up to $14,000 per home)

Missouri School Libraries Bracing for Crackdown on ‘Explicit’ Books

Ken Griffin Deploys More Than $1 Billion On Florida Real Estate After Leaving Chicago

School demands search of text messaging, outside of school

NJ Vows To Fight NYC Congestion Pricing Proposal

Sarasota Schools freezes library book donations, purchases (Sarasota Herald-Tribune) A great way to get Wokery into local libraries (and schools) is to find a proglodyte fellow-traveler on staff and ‘donate’ books, magazines, videos, and such that can be surreptitiously added to the collection without any proper paper trail or the scrutiny that spending money attracts.

Senior UN official loses her post after tweet condemning PIJ rocket fire at Israel (Times of Israel)

Why Abortion Has Become a Centerpiece of Democratic TV Ads in 2022 (New York Times)

White House Warns Of Dangers As Congress Members Take Unauthorized Trips To Ukraine  Gotta get that all-important photo-op.

Latvia Designates Russia As Terrorist State, Urges Europe To Follow

U.S. Missiles, Critical in Ukraine’s War

Russia Says It May Sever US Relations If Declared Terrorism Sponsor

Washington, DC Mayor Asks US Military For 90 Days Of Help With Illegal Immigrants

How Much Worse Are Black Homicide Rates Due to Living More in Big Cities?

Law Enforcement Investigating Car Crash, Gunshots, and Suicide on East Capitol Street  What does it say about a country when it’s capital city is a behavioral sink of crime and corruption?

sD.C. expands monkeypox vaccine eligibility to counter falling demand (Washington Post) People aren’t lining up like good little serfs to get monkeypoxed.

Under the Shadow of the Nuremberg Noose?

An End to Masking and the Mandatory Vax in Costa Rica

Vaxed and Damaged

A Giant Stride Toward Socialism

Wokepox: The WHO Is Asking For The Public’s Help In Re-Naming Monkeypox

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The victim has been under an Iranian fatwa since 1989, but state police in New York don’t want to rush to conclusions.

Apparently Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity require the New York State Police to hire people from the left side of the IQ bell curve in equal numbers to those who fall on the right side.  After all, as VP Jamablaya says, everybody has the same capacity.

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FARMERS AROUND THE world have turned to tractor hacking so they can bypass the digital locks that manufacturers impose on their vehicles. Like insulin pump “looping” and iPhone jailbreaking, this allows farmers to modify and repair the expensive equipment that’s vital to their work, the way they could with analog tractors. At the DefCon security conference in Las Vegas on Saturday, the hacker known as Sick Codes is presenting a new jailbreak for John Deere & Co. tractors that allows him to take control of multiple models through their touchscreens.

The only way to make money farming with the few people willing to work the land is by using very expensive computerized equipment (a combine will run you the price of a Range Rover), and that locks you into the eco-system of a single manufacturer (watch Apple turn green with envy). Farmers wouldn’t mind that so much if they could only get manufacturers to provide repair services in a timely manner – if there’s a crop to get in and a storm on the horizon, a two-week backlog of parts doesn’t really help a great deal.

“Farmers prefer the older equipment simply because they want reliability. They don’t want stuff to go wrong at the most important part of the year when they have to pull stuff out of the ground,” Sick Codes says. “So that’s what we should all want too. We want farmers to be able to repair their stuff for when things go wrong, and now that means being able to repair or make decisions about the software in their tractors.”

A perfectly reasonable position.

Facing mounting pressure, John Deere announced in March that it would make more of its repair software available to equipment owners. The company also said at the time that it will release an “enhanced customer solution” next year so customers and mechanics can download and apply official software updates for Deere equipment themselves, rather than having John Deere unilaterally apply the patches remotely or force farmers to bring products to authorized dealerships.

An illustration of what frustrated farmers have to put up with.

John Deere did not respond to WIRED’s request for comment about the research.

Gee, I wonder why?

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Our answer, Just Walk Out technology by Amazon, allows consumers to shop as they normally would but save time and effort by eliminating the checkout—meaning no lines, no scanning products, and no fuss.

San Francisco and Los Angeles already have that, without even bothering about the technology.

Yeah, I’d sure want him teaching my kids.

Time to leave.

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All told, there are now fewer compet­it­ive districts than at any point in the last 52 years. If the good news is that both parties emerged with reas­on­able oppor­tun­it­ies in coming years to win control of a closely divided House, the bad news is that they will fight that battle on the narrow­est of terrains under maps arti­fi­cially engin­eered to reduce compet­i­tion.

They say that like it was a bad thing. Competitive districts disfranchise the losers. Let me say that again. Competitive districts disfranchise the losers.

If you are interested in representative democracy at all, the ideal system is to put all of the voters from one side in the same districts, and all of the voters from the other in the same districts. That maximizes the number of people who are represented by the legislator that they agree with. (Oh, sure, politicians make a lot of mouth noise about ‘representing everybody in the district’, but only the simple-minded believe that rot.)

This is why courts are so fond of ruling that State X has to create another majority-minority district: They know that spreading out voters of a particular viewpoint so that they are the lesser number in a district means that they are effectively shut out. We’ve been fighting this fight since the Sixties.

The only people who profit from ‘competitive districts’ are the media outlets who get to report on elections as if they were horse races. “Can the dark-horse candidate come from behind and win? STAY TUNED TO FIND OUT!” That’s why you’ll never read an article in any newspaper or hear any opinion on TV regarding the undoubted virtues of gerrymandering.

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

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How Democrats’ insistence on ‘treating the cabinet as an identity-politics Rubik’s cube’ got us an incompetent-yet-unfireable HHS secretary.

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Despite the fact that no one asked, the World Economic Forum is now advocating for the merger of human and artificial intelligence systems to censor “hate speech” and “misinformation” online before it is even allowed to be posted.

A report published to the official WEF website ominously warns about the peril of “the dark world of online harms.”

But the globalist body, run by comic book Bond villain Klaus Schwab, has a solution.

Kansas district rejects strategic plan urging diversity (Houston Chronicle)

Idaho’s top court lets near-total abortion ban kick in (Washington Post) What, no hand-wringing about democracy?

I’m saying goodbye to Chicago. I won’t miss what the city has become. (Chicago Sun-Times)

Beto Male: Beto O’Rourke Calls Heckler “Motherf*cker”

IRS Hiring Spree Is Biggest Expansion of Police State in American History

Pennsylvania Dem John Fetterman Hires Activist That Wants Transgender Surgeries For Children

COVID in California: UCSF’s Wachter says relaxed CDC guidelines are ‘sensible’ (S.F. Chronicle)

New York is roaring back from the worst of the pandemic. Why isn’t San Francisco? (S.F. Chronicle)

If I take Paxlovid for COVID, how does that affect my future immunity? (S.F Chronicle)

Gov. Inslee issues directive outlining monkeypox virus response in Washington

D.C. expands monkeypox vaccine eligibility to counter falling demand (Washington Post)

A scientist in the public eye has taken her own life. This has to be a wake-up call (The Guardian)

CDC Admits It Gave False Information About COVID-19 Vaccine Surveillance

Carnival Drops Mandatory COVID-19 Testing for Vaccinated Passengers

sGOP’s risky proposition: Rebuffing a fossil fuel-friendly climate bill (Politico)

The new climate politics (Axios)

Antarctica’s ice shelves may be melting faster than anticipated: study (The Hill)

Fight climate change. End fossilflation. Here’s how. (Vox)

How a Massachusetts Power Plant Illustrates America’s Fraught Shift to Green Energy (Reason)

How to shop responsibly, according to a UN sustainable lifestyle expert  I’ll bet you didn’t know that the U.N. had a sustainable lifestyle expert.

Surging fossil-fuel emissions are ruining carbon dating (The Economist)

Why Trump has to sell a fantasy of collective persecution (Washington Post) Why the Narrative Media has to promote fantasies about Trump.

Washington Post op-ed condemns Trump supporters for buying into ‘fantasy’ of ‘persecution’  Being raided by the FBI is no fantasy.

Judge denies Trump Organization attempt to dismiss tax fraud case (Axios)

Kinzinger on Trump battle: “He won, in the short term at least” (Axios)

New York governor slammed for bashing DeSantis at Holocaust event: ‘She owes everyone an apology’

Ex-Trump Aide Sics MAGA Lackeys on Alleged FBI Agents’ Families (Daily Beast) Sauce for the goose….

He’s antigay and a race extremist. He’s running unopposed for a Bay Area school board seat (S.F. Chronicle)

Investigate Hunter Biden? Most Democrats say yes. Investigate Trump? Most Republicans say no. (Washington Post) So who’s getting investigated? Trump, yes; Hunter Biden, no.

Conservative push to alter Constitution focuses on primaries (Associated Press) Except for that inconvenient fact that primaries aren’t in the Constitution.

Hunter Biden spotted enjoying beach vacation with family amid questions over business dealings, taxes

Colbert says he loves Biden, waves at him to camera in fawning interview with Karine Jean-Pierre

Marjorie Taylor Greene files articles of impeachment against Attorney General Merrick Garland It’s about time somebody did.

Arizona won’t wait for feds, starts filling border wall gaps (Associated Press)

The madness of slow Joe, Iran edition

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week Vol. 6

Mar-A-Lago Search Warrant Claims Trump Had Acquired All Six Infinity Stones (Babylon Bee)

Does the Sambar come in a hybrid?

So far as I can determine, the Sambar is available only in Japan.

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A Congressional Budget Office report found that the Internal Revenue Service will collect billions of dollars from auditing low- and middle-income Americans under the White House-backed “Inflation Reduction Act,” contradicting Biden administration claims, according to Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee.

Fox News confirmed the report, finding the CBO informed congressional Republicans that, under the act, audits of taxpayers making under $400,000 will account for about $20 billion in additional revenue.

Jordan Klepper Crashes Trump Rally to Confront Brain-Wormed ‘MAGA-ites’ (Daily Beast) Who?

Why Wait? Here’s Liz Cheney’s Concession Speech in Advance (Politico)

Democrats Don’t Trust ‘the Police,’ but They Do Trust the FBI, Provided It Is Targeting Donald Trump

Weighing the pros and cons of Beto O’Rourke dropping an f-bomb on a heckler (NPR)

Morning Joe Hilarity: Back to ‘Are the Walls Closing In On Trump?’

Dana Milbank’s Uncivil War on GOP ‘Destructionists’

What Trump and Orbán want: It’s fascism — it’s not a metaphor or a joke (Salon) I guarantee you that nobody who writes for Salon has a clue as to what Trump wants. Their TDS stands in the way.

I’m a Conservative, and I Don’t Know What the GOP Stands For (Daily Beast) If you’re writing for The Daily Beast, you’re not a conservative. There’s more to ‘being a conservative’ that ‘identifying’ as one.

Mayer Declares GOP Legislators Passing Laws Is ‘Torching Democracy’

Court Removes Page For Judge Who Approved Raid Of Trump’s Home  What goes around,  comes around.

‘Morning Joe’ Hypocrites Accuse Right-Leaning Media of Whipping the Public ‘Into a Frenzy’

Trapped in Trump, Trump, Trump (The New Yorker)

ABC: New Conservative Dating App Is ‘Tinder for Bigots’

DC Mayor Bowser Asks Again for National Guard to Help With Migrants  They already told her No once….

Pocahontas: If I ‘Had a Penis’ I’d Be President

Google Realizes It Needs to Do More to Fight Misinformation in Searches

Zuckerberg-backed curriculum pushes far-left ideologies on reparations and defunding the police

Ex-NY Times Editor: Bosses Wouldn’t Run Sen. Tim Scott’s Op-Ed Without Schumer’s OK

CNN Host Coates Tries to Suggest That Republican Party May Be No More

Gender Differences in Peer Recognition by Economists

New York Scraps ‘Inmate’ in State Law Over Word’s Stigma

New York Gun Bans Alarm Residents of Upstate Bear Country

How Gov. Greg Abbott Texas-Sized a Crisis for NYC Mayor Eric Adams

Recruitment is now a real threat to a frail force facing formidable foes

At This Manhattan Middle School School, Sixth-Graders Are Asked To Surveil Friends and Family for ‘Microaggressions’

Boston Children’s Offers ‘Gender-Affirming’ Hysterectomies  And I would encourage them to do so. We really don’t want these genes in our gene pool.

The Arctic is heating up nearly four times faster than the whole planet, study finds (NPR)

The Arctic is warming four times faster than the rest of the planet, new research shows (CNN)

Swiss mountain pass will lose all glacier ice ‘in a few weeks’ for first time in centuries (The Guardian) Which means that it has lost it before.

The Inflation Reduction Act will gut fossil fuels. This is California’s last chance to divest (S.F. Chronicle) Those of us who own oil stocks are betting that it won’t.

Massachusetts just passed a massive climate and clean energy bill (Washington Post) Time to leave.

Ex-Cop Who Stormed the Capitol Gets More Than 7 Years Behind Bars (Daily Beast) As opposed to the nothing that AntiFa or BLM rioters got.

Hell Week: How Trump’s Problems All Converged at Once (Daily Beast) And will make him President again.

Researchers agree: the world can reach a 100% renewable energy system by or before 2050  And they’ve never been wrong before.

The cost of climate action (The Hill)

World’s largest ice sheet crumbling faster than previously thought, satellite imagery shows (CNN)

Britain Goes Into Shutdown Mode

Claim: A Total Victory for Socialism Could Save us From Climate Change

Arctic Warming Is Happening Faster Than Described, Analysis Shows (New York Times)

Friday Funny – Clownfish Climate Science

Europe Is Descending Into Climate Lockdowns. Will America Blindly Follow Suit?

Climate Change Weekly #443: Politically Connected Piggies at the Trough for ‘Inflation’ Bill

‘Silent’ spread of polio in New York drives CDC to consider additional vaccinations for some people (CNN)

Tim Kaine has long Covid. That’s not moving Congress to act. (Politico) And why would it? There’s no way to tell whether he actually has ‘long COVID’ or it’s just his own native incompetence.

Fauci vents about Americans’ opposition to forced masking: ‘It’s almost inexplicable’

It’s Over: CDC Says People Exposed To COVID No Longer Need To Quarantine

Djokovic Still Banned From U.S. Open Due To Vaccination Status

Babylon Bee.

Stephen King fans have long been perplexed as to how the man who wrote The Shining, the Dark Tower series, and Misery could possibly be the same guy who logs onto Twitter and tweets like a 7-year-old chimpanzee with anger issues.

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A virulently anti-Israel group with an active U.S. presence on Tuesday glorified a top Palestinian terrorist reported to be a commander of the U.S.-designated Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades.

“The Lion of Nablus, Ibrahim Nabulsi was beloved by all in the city, emerging from an early age as one of its foremost defenders and resistance fighters,” said a post on the Palestinian Youth Movement’s (PYM) Facebook page. “Nabulsi gave his life to protect and guard Nablus from zionist [sic] incursion,” the post added, describing him as “a prime example of the sacrifice routinely given by the youth of the city to ensure its continued freedom from the occupation.”

Just a little reminder that there are still Muslim terrorists out there and they are still eager to kill people.

UPDATE: ‘Satanic Verses’ Author Salman Rushdie Attacked at Event in Western New York

Rushdie’s book “The Satanic Verses” has been banned in Iran since 1988, as many Muslims consider it to be blasphemous. A year later, Iran’s late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, or edict, calling for Rushdie’s death.

A bounty of over $3 million has also been offered for anyone who kills Rushdie.

Iran’s government has long since distanced itself from Khomeini’s decree, but anti-Rushdie sentiment lingered. In 2012, a semi-official Iranian religious foundation raised the bounty for Rushdie from $2.8 million to $3.3 million.

UPDATE: Why the Iranians Want Salman Rushdie Dead

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After the recent annual Conservative Political Action Conference convention in Dallas, CNN published a video with the following headline: “Election deniers take over CPAC after primary victories.” In a recent appearance on CBS, Republican Rep. Paul Kinzinger, R-Ill., who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump and serves on the House Jan. 6 committee, said: “The only thing we need for democracy to survive is the knowledge that you can vote, that that vote counts, and we live with the winner and loser. If half the country believes that that wasn’t accurate, you can’t expect democracy to survive.”

Where was this concern about “election deniers” when Democrats have complained about “stolen” elections?

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Twitter continued to crackdown on dissenting political views this week with the permanent suspension of columnist and commentator Paul Sperry.  The suspension came down after Sperry allegedly tweeted about the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago. Sperry said that Twitter gave “No warning, no explanation, reason given.” That is a signature for the company, which has little transparency or ability to challenge such private censorship.

Twitter has a long and documented history of suspending those with dissenting political, social, or scientific views, particularly before major elections. Sperry says that he tweeted the following:

Funny, don’t remember the FBI raiding Chappaqua or Whitehaven to find the 33,000 potential classified documents Hillary Clinton deleted. And she was just a former secretary of state, not a former president.

DEVELOPING: Investigators reportedly met back in June w Trump & his lawyers in Mar-a-Lago storage rm to survey docs & things seemed copasetic but then FBI raids weeks later. Speculation on Hill FBI had PERSONAL stake & searching for classified docs related to its #Spygate scandal.

Sperry went on to note that “the current deputy general counsel at Twitter is also the former general counsel at FBI HQ under Comey. His name as you may know is James Baker, and he was the top attorney who reviewed the fraudulent anti-Trump FISA wiretap warrants for probable cause.”

Often even more.

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The Chinese Communist Party has purchased hundreds of thousands of acres of U.S. land since 2010. It acquired 352,140 acres of U.S. land through the end of 2020, a report by The Heritage Foundation said. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.)

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Recently, the Chinese company Fufeng Group purchased farmland just 12 miles from the Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota. Tuberville, who labeled China as the top adversary of the U.S., expressed concern over that purchase, as well as about the Chinese government “getting involved in financial institutions and some of our manufacturing, where we know that they steal as much intellectual property as they possibly can.”

Try purchasing land in Red China and see how far you get.

Steve Sailer.

Steve looks at the same NYT article I mentioned yesterday (‘Everybody Is Armed’: As Shootings Soar, Philadelphia Is Awash in Guns’).

Of course, it’s the 12th paragraph and metrics from the marketing department show that most NYT subscribers have long stopped reading by this point, at which the reporter can start to edge in to explaining what’s really going on.

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The whole point of gun control is to persecute rednecks buying rifles legally, not to discourage black criminals from carrying handguns illegally and shooting other blacks who peeve them.

Twitter To ‘Pre-Bunk’ Election Claims During 2022 Midterms

Historians privately warn Biden that America’s democracy is teetering (Washington Post) Gee, the Narrative Media have been trumpeting that for the past six years. I guess they don’t let Biden read or watch the ‘news’.

‘Soros-funded’ Virginia DA and Youngkin official duke it out over state’s historic crime wave

Book bans are threatening American democracy. Here’s how to fight back. (Washington Post)

Fargo school board votes to stop saying Pledge of Allegiance at meetings

Abbott’s campaign hits back after NYC Mayor Adams threatens to bus New Yorkers to Texas

Chicago won’t raise property taxes as much as it could under Mayor Lightfoot’s inflation-tied budget rule, but $42 million increase still planned (Chicago Tribune) BRAAAAAAAINS!

‘I’m just trying to make the world a little brighter’: how the culture wars hijacked Drag Queen Story Hour (The Guardian)

Fed up with repeated break-ins and crime, Bay Area laundromat owners move out of CA (ABC)

CBS Cries Over ‘Inhumane’ GOP ‘Stunt’ Sending Migrants to NYC

Payoffs to Community Organizers Double the Price of a D.C. Bridge

The Guardian of Propaganda

Girls School Near Nashville Opening Its Doors to Transgender Girls  Such a school would get no daughter of mine. I suspect that its clientele will change radically.

Woke Airline Policies Threaten Safety, Workers Say

Trans Rapist Illegally Distributes Hormone Pills. Media Silent.

Teachers Union Promotes Pronouns Cards for Students: ‘Hello, My Pronouns Are… ’

NFL, ESPN Censor God & Jesus Comments Of NFL Player’s Son

Illinois Public Schools Opt Out Of Left-Wing Sex Ed Standards

Counselor For Sex Offenders Defends “Minor-Attracted Persons”

North Dakota School Board Scraps Pledge of Allegiance Because It’s ‘Simply Not True’

Twitter Reintroduces Election Misinformation Rules Ahead of Midterms

Another Truth Ministry? Government-Funded BBC Establishes First ‘Disinformation’ Correspondent

New Hampshire Dem’s Ad Portrays Left-Wing Lawyer as Blue-Collar Mechanic

Will ‘Centaurus’ be the next global coronavirus variant? Indian cases offers clues (Nature)

Does washing clothes eliminate monkeypox? What to know about disinfecting for the virus (Ft. Worth Star-Telegram)

Can monkeypox virus spread on clothing or grocery items? An expert weighs in (KABC)

Everything you need to know about the monkeypox health emergency (Ars Technica)

Double mRNA COVID-19 vaccination found to increase SARS-CoV-2 variant recognition (News-Medical)

This antibody may protect against COVID-19 and all its variants – study (Jerusalem Post)

Why the WHO is renaming monkeypox (The Hill)

The features of the newly emerging SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.2.75 subvariant (News-Medical)

Omicron BA.4/BA.5 escape neutralizing immunity elicited by BA.1 infection (Nature)

What you need to know about the next generation of COVID vaccines (Boston Globe)

Newly identified Langya virus tracked after China reports dozens of cases (The Guardian)

Georgia health officials release guidelines to protect against monkeypox transmission (WXIA)

Top NYC Health Official Claims ‘Retaliation’ After Monkeypox Messaging Dispute

Former Megadonor Says COVID-19 Vax Misrepresentations Chased Him From Dem Party

CDC Drops COVID Quarantine, Screening Guidelines

Biden, trying to tout his policies, faces a familiar intruder: Trump (Washington Post)

IRS faces online uproar over special agent job posting requiring ability to use deadly force ‘if necessary’

Turley: ‘Colossal failure’ for AG Garland not to appoint Hunter Biden, January 6th special counsels

Homeland Security: ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy is over  Biden opens the border.

US Wholesale Inflation Moderates to 9.8 Percent

Jobless Claims Rise for 2nd Straight Week

Biden Booed on Vacation by Trump Supporters  What goes around, comes around.

Biden Administration Cherry Picks Data to Dodge Troubling Economic Numbers  My, what a surprise.

Twitter Birdwatch Smacks Biden Press Secretary for ‘Misleading’ Americans on Inflation

Biden Executive Order on Abortion Access Is Misleading and Full of Misinformation

Garland Says He ‘Personally Approved’ Trump Search Warrant  So Garland is The New Himmler.

More Trump raid fallout: is there anyone on earth naive enough to believe the DOJ on this?

Grocery Inflation Hits Highest Level In 43 Years Despite Biden’s “Zero” Inflation Messaging

Meet the Elite Historians Helping Joe Biden Save Democracy

Gamers Eagerly Await The Release Of ‘Call Of Duty: IRS Auditor’  (Babylon Bee)

Official video posted to Trump’s social media account appears to use QAnon song (Media Matters) And how does this guy at Media Matters know what a “QAnon song” is like. (Appears! That proves it!)

Some Justice Department officials chafe at silence on Mar-a-Lago search (CNN)

Fox boss Lachlan Murdoch privately levels harsh criticism against Trump, sources say (CNN)

The GOP’s crazed reaction to the search at Trump’s home shows its true colors (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

Trump targeted by Biden administration, and they can do it to you, too

Republicans’ response to the Mar-a-Lago search is disturbing and dangerous (Washington Post)

Walls Closing In AGAIN? CNN Legal Analyst Predicts Indictment of Trump Is ‘Imminent’

The GOP makes its choice: Trump, yes. Rule of law, no. (Washington Post)

VIDEO: Taking Cue From Dems, Media Abandon ‘Raid’ To Describe Trump FBI Raid

Media Stopped Describing Targeting Of Trump As “Raid” After Former FBI Agent Complained

PBS Helps ‘The Destructionists’ Author Tie Trump, Other Republicans To Terrorism

Poll: 83 Percent of GOP Voters Say FBI Raid on Trump Increases Desire to Vote

FBI To Begin Raiding Homes Of Those Who Criticize FBI Raid  (Babylon Bee)

Feds seized documents from Mar-a-Lago in June with grand jury subpoena (CNN)

Liz Cheney’s Kamikaze Campaign (The New Yorker)

Trump’s 2024 Primary Support Reaches New Heights After FBI Raid

Union Refuses To Aid Teacher Who Faced Termination for Criticism of Woke Training

AP Smears DeSantis, Conservatives as Fueling ‘Anti-LGBTQ Hate’ Online

Blood and soil: the Greens’ fascist roots (The Critic)

Global heating has caused ‘shocking’ changes in forests across the Americas, studies find (The Guardian)

NASA Studies Find Previously Unknown Loss of Antarctic Ice (NASA)

Deep-sea mining talks end with no agreement on environmental rules (The Guardian)

Can philanthropy rise to the challenge of combating climate change? (The Hill)

The e-bike tax credit is only mostly dead as supporters plot next steps (The Verge)

Antarctica’s ‘sleeping giant’ risks melting, threatens spike in sea levels (WashingtonPost)

Tracking 30 Years of Sea Level Rise (NASA) Still waiting for Martha’s Vinyard to be under water.

Satellite data finds landfills are methane ‘super emitters’ (Associated Press)

Four cities’ landfills emit as much methane as 2 million cars: study (The Hill)

‘The new normal’: how Europe is being hit by a climate-driven drought crisis (The Guardian)

Claim: Some People are Suffering Debilitating Eco-Anxiety – But their Fears are Justified

WSJ and Lomborg show just how useless the “Inflation Reduction Act” is at tackling climate

Biden falsely links Kentucky floods to ‘climate change’ – Reality Check: Floods ‘have not increased in frequency or intensity’ – White House ignores peer-reviewed studies & IPCC & data

Let Them Eat Bugs

Electric Vehicles May Present Major Problem During Natural Disaster Evacuations: Experts

Mexican Monster on Sesame Street Being Canceled in Latest Racism Mania

Staff allegedly took down an Escambia County teacher’s posters of Black heroes. He quit. (Pensacola News) He was, of course, white.

Monkeypox Has Become a Predominantly Black Disease in Atlanta

Kevin Gates Responds To Backlash Over ‘Black Lives Matter’ Comments (Hip Hop DX)

California sets precedent by breaking down Black employee data by lineage (Axios) Pretty soon California will have as extensive a hereditary caste system as India. (Google’s Caste-Bias Problem)

Under an Unusual Arrangement, Adams’s Confidant Gets City and Casino Salaries (New York Times)

‘Everybody Is Armed’: As Shootings Soar, Philadelphia Is Awash in Guns’ (New York Times) As they describe but don’t actually say, mostly it’s black people shooting black people.

Race Does Not Exist: the Book,  Saying of humans that race does not exist is like saying of dogs that breed does not exist.

Steve Sailer.

A concept I’ve tried (with little success) to popularise is that of blacks as Schrödinger’s race – i.e. blacks, uniquely among human populations, are permitted to exist in two opposite and mutually contradictory conditions at the same time, so long as the consequence of this logically impossible duality is getting money or resources from whites or anyone deemed “white adjacent”.

Read it.

A Scottsdale Community College professor did not violate his Muslim student’s rights when he taught about religious justification in Islamic terrorism, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a district judge’s 2020 ruling dismissing the lawsuit filed by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) on behalf of student Mohamed Sabra. In her 2020 order, District Judge Susan M. Brnovich found that Nicholas Damask’s World Politics coursework and quizzes did not violate Sabra’s First Amendment rights or require him to abandon his faith as a Muslim.

Read it.

Here’s the best possible spin on the staggering $369 billion in energy and climate handouts included in the Inflation “Reduction” Act: It’s not as bad as last year’s draft.

There’s nothing to reduce gasoline and electricity bills. Nothing to increase American energy production. Nothing to spur innovation. Instead, it will increase taxes on average Americans, exacerbate inflation, hike prescription drug prices, and swell federal debts.

Why? Here’s a sampling of what’s in that $369 billion.