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The press is going to elect Donald Trump again. They did it once, tried again four years later, and now they’re on the hunt a third time. They hate him, but they keep doing him favors, the latest being an attempt to kill off his biggest primary rival.

Not to mention all the Wokery that alienates a lot of people. Like activists lying down to block rush-hour traffic, their efforts to ‘raise consciousness’ merely raises the consciousness that they’re jerks and piss people off.

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Members of the Howeitat tribe are being expelled from their homes to build the megacity, with the conflict turning deadly in a shooting in northwestern al-Khuraybah.

You may remember Auda abu Tayi, of LAWRENCE OF ARABIA fame, who was a Howeitat.

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It was called the gold standard. Franklin Roosevelt killed it. We’ve been increasingly poor ever since.

When Roosevelt was elected President, a $20 gold piece contained an ounce of ‘coin gold’.

Google the price of gold and find out how far our money has been devalued.

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In Washington things are rarely what they seem. It’s why Congress labels bills with names they think will be more palatable to the public rather than a name that would accurately reflect the content of the legislation. Notice how many times over the years the word “civil rights” has appeared in legislation that often has had little or nothing to do with civil rights.

Now Democrats have junked the original title of President Biden’s “Build Back Better” massive spending plan and rebranded it “The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.” Clearly this was in reaction to poll numbers showing the public blames the president and Democrats for the rise in food and gas prices, increased mortgage rates and so much else.

It appears the name change and some behind-the-scenes bargaining was enough for Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) to end his opposition to the original bill, which he used to say would add significantly to the debt and not produce the results claimed by the administration.

That just ups his price.

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There is no Right but the Far-Right.

Democrats faced a backlash Wednesday — including from within their own ranks — after inserting themselves into a GOP primary in western Michigan, helping a far-right candidate who has embraced false claims about the 2020 election to topple a Republican who had voted to impeach Donald Trump.

Help the Dems by screwing your own party and they’ll … screw you right back.

Chicago 911 dispatcher resigns, blasts Mayor Lightfoot’s ‘lies and corruption’: ‘I don’t stand for that’  BRAAAAAAAINS!

VIDEO: Why Do Successful Black Conservatives Drive Liberals Crazy?

L.A. Times Columnist: White Americans Working from Home in Mexico Are Disgusting

How Does the Democrat Party Fall Apart? This Might Be How

Anti-Israel Dems Can’t Stop Blaming Their Primary Losses on the Jews

No evidence the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine is connected to the monkeypox outbreak (Austin American-Statesman)

Monkey business and monetizing Monkeypox (Villages-News)

Omicron better at invading young noses than other variants; smell loss may predict memory issues (Reuters)

Fact check: Can your childhood smallpox vaccine protect against monkeypox? (AOL)

Biden’s Covid relapse sparks talk of ‘Paxlovid rebounds’—what to know about the pill, and if it could happen to you (CNBC)

Discovery of Separate Monkeypox Strain Suggests Two Outbreaks Are Happening (Newsweek) Get ready for the next PANIC!

New, more contagious COVID-19 variant raising concerns in South Dakota So maybe we still need to PANIC!

COVID Vaccine Injuries Quietly Being Compensated Around The World

As Monkeypox Spreads, Mortality Remains Low

A cheap nasal spray cuts COVID-19 risk by 62%  We won’t know that it works until the FDA bans it.

Monkeypox Superspreader? San Fran Holds ‘Kink and Fetish’ Festival

Judge allows Capitol riot officer lawsuits against Trump to go forward (CNN)

Arizona GOP primary tests power of Trump’s election lies (Associated Press)

Trump loyalist wins GOP nod to oversee Arizona elections (Associated Press)

Kyrsten Sinema, Decisive Vote on Spending Bill, Targeted in New Arizona Ad (Newsweek)

There’s a good reason Jon Stewart is angry at Ted Cruz (CNN) And there’s a good reason Ted Cruz doesn’t care.

Colbert: ‘Some veterans would like to bump Ted Cruz with their fists’ (The Guardian) I doubt that Colbert knows any actual veterans … and some veterans (I’m among them) would like to bump Colbert with their fists (and feet).

Washington Post op-ed warns of ‘mini-Trumps’ threatening ‘democracy’

Fox News Anchor Loses It When Manchin Questions Her Patriotism (Daily Beast)

Rep. Greene Loved Vibe Of Golf Tourney Funded By The Regime Behind Journalist’s Murder (Huffington Post) Of course, the HuffPo can’t dream of why anybody would want to murder a journalist.

The oft-maligned tax increase on the verge of becoming law (Politico) The Democrat base are too stupid to realize that corporations don’t pay income tax, they merely collect it; it’s paid by their customers through higher prices. Call it a tax on left-wing stupidity.

It’s Time for the GOP to Let Trump Go (Newsweek) It’s time for the Narrative Media to let Trump go.

Guy Reffitt’s Daughter Calls for ‘Life in Prison’ for Donald Trump Over 1/6 (Newsweek)

The Republicans Who Want Election Laws to ‘Stay Broken’ (Daily Beast) Broken, that is, from a proglodyte viewpoint.

Trump tries to topple a powerful Wisconsin Republican in his futile quest to reverse his 2020 loss. (N.Y. Times)

Election-denier Mark Finchem wins Arizona GOP secretary of state primary, NBC News projects (NBC News)  In the Narrative Media, ‘denier’ refers to somebody who lives in the real world rather than in the proglodyte fantasy-land.

CNN ‘New Day’ Crew Parrots Dem Tropes: ‘Democracy on Ballot, Election Denier, Big Lie’

Facebook is fine when punishing others financially, but cries when others do it to them

Obama Aides Warn Colbert GOP Wants To ‘Make Life Worse and Shorter’

The Violent Fantasies of Blake Masters (N.Y. Times)

How the Claremont Institute Became a Nerve Center of the American Right (N.Y. Times) dunh-dunh-DUNHHHHHHH….

House’s Jan. 6 Committee Fails to Make Case Against Trump

CNN’s Tapper to Australian Leader: Please Tell Us How Stupid America Is on Guns, Climate

Mark Finchem is the latest in a wave of election deniers moving toward controlling elections (Arizona Mirror) ‘Election denier’ is their new slur, like ‘nigger lover’ was back in the sixties.

How election deniers are campaigning to control voting in four critical states (Georgia Recorder)

NPR Reporter Compares ‘Hardline’ Republicans on Immigration to El Paso Walmart Mass Shooter

Greenwashing is driving our descent into climate catastrophe. But we can stop it (The Guardian) Nobody has climate expertise like … an actress?

The climate crisis is so boring – but I also hate the idea of burning to death (The Guardian)

Two ultra-rare floods in a single week; a wildfire generating its own weather. Here’s how it’s connected (CNN)

Kentucky flooding: Gov. Andy Beshear wonders ‘why we keep getting hit.’ 4 experts explain (Courier-Journal)

Climate protestors block rush hour traffic in downtown Boston  A move carefully calculated to win converts to their cause.

Has Joe Manchin saved the planet?  Hard to believe.

America’s Green Transition Sparks Power Grid Instability

Taylor Swift Tops List Of Private Jet Polluters  Much the best thing I’ve ever heard about Taylor Swift.

Claim: Climate Change: Potential to End Humanity is ‘Dangerously Underexplored’ say Experts

Join Us for RE:WIRED Green (Wired ‘Science’) We’ve got all this Kool-Aid and we can’t drink it all ourselves.

The End of Snow Threatens to Upend 76M American Lives

Claim: “AI Can’t Fix Climate Change, But It’s Great for Preparation”

The US grid is ready for 100% renewables, says DoE  And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

White House adviser ‘fact-checks’ voters’ outrage over high gas prices, inflation

Biden’s climate agenda faces yet another obstacle: Kyrsten Sinema (The Guardian) The problem with Democrats is that they don’t stay bought.

Biden Justice Department sues Idaho over state’s abortion restrictions in first post-Dobbs lawsuit (CNN)

Stimulus Check Update: Millions to Get $750 TABOR Refunds in Mail (Newsweek)

‘Major Problems Down The Road’: Biden Drains Petroleum Reserves Of Crucial Type Of Crude

Yellen Says Manchin Bill Won’t Raise Taxes for Families Earning Less Than $400,000 a Year (Bloomberg) Which is a lie. (The Manchin-Schumer Taxes Would Hit Both Rich and Poor Americans)

Even Biden’s Favorite Economist Says Inflation Reduction Act Won’t Reduce Inflation

Two Top House Dems Decline to Say Biden Should Run in 2024

These Harm-Reduction Facilities Are Slated for Biden Administration Grants. They’re Also Distributing Crack Pipes.

“I Don’t Feel The Pain Of Inflation Anymore” Says Wealthy SF Fed Chair From Ivory Tower

Texas Democrat Gives Up on White House Talks to Solve Border Crisis

Why Biden Hasn’t Scrapped Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ Policy  He’s stupid but he’s not crazy.

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Democrats haven’t stopped trying to take over elections, they just have new tactics to do so under voters’ noses.

Employees throughout the federal government who are carrying out President Joe Biden’s executive order directing them to get involved in state elections are likely all violating the Anti-Deficiency Act, besides interfering in the election process and using federal resources in what seems to be a get-out-the-vote operation for the party in power in the White House.

And the administration is doing everything it can to hide its activities in violation of the federal open records law.

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Three of the 10 Republican lawmakers who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump were up for reelection in Tuesday’s primaries, with one losing his bid to a Trump-backed candidate and the other two appearing to hold leads in their races, which have not yet been called.

Typically such tricks are pulled by people who are almost Democrats and live in almost Democrat districts, and so are warded from retaliation. Few are as stupid as Lynne Chaney.

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That would be nice of them.

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The United States helped bring about the 9/11 attacks because it sees “itself as one above equals in international relations,” a history book assigned to high school seniors in Turkey says. It is among a series of disturbing lessons in Turkish school textbooks.

According to research by exiled Turkish journalist Abdullah Bozkurt published by the Middle East Forum, at least two books issued by Turkey’s education ministry contain disturbing references about jihad and other elements of Islamism.

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The hanging of 38 Sioux Indians at Mankato, Minnesota in 1862, following a brief military conflict, is often seen as the ultimate evidence of oppression of Native Americans by whites. Each year, a long horseback ride is conducted to honor those who were hanged; Minnesota’s left-wing governor participates annually in the ride.

But this conventional view is wrong. In reality, the Great Sioux Massacre of 1862 is the blackest moment in the history of the native peoples’ slaughters of white settlers. Along with hundreds of women and a smaller number of men, many of whom were off fighting the Civil War, the Sioux murdered 100 white children under the age of 10. Those who were hanged were guilty of murder or rape–gang rapes were plentiful–not fighting in battle. In truth, many more than 38 should have been hanged, but some massacres had no survivors left to testify, and in other cases survivors could not identify specific Indians responsible for the slaughter. Also, no doubt, some who should have been hanged were killed in battle.

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The entire global financial system is now essentially a technocommunist black ops money laundering crime scene.

Some people are addicted to cozy mysteries; I’m addicted to conspiracy theories.

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In a recent interview in New York Times Magazine, energy expert and polymath Vaclav Smil found himself being pressured by his interviewer to acknowledge that climate change was either a catastrophe or not a problem. The famously cantankerous Smil bristled at the framing: “I cannot tell you that we don’t have a problem because we do have a problem. But I cannot tell you it’s the end of the world by next Monday because it is not the end of the world by next Monday. What’s the point of you pressing me to belong to one of these groups?”

Because proglodytes are binary people. You are either with the program or a Denier; you are either good or bad.

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As the virus pandemic upended office life in big Northeast cities, people reconsidered working arrangements and where they lived. Many folks migrated from New York City to South Florida for relaxed health restrictions, a friendly business environment, low crime, and fantastic weather. The influx of new people presents challenges for South Florida, including new property development.

South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported skyscrapers as high as 500 feet could start popping up across Fort Lauderdale (not just in the downtown district) if a new proposal gets approved that raises the height cap on buildings that get special zoning.

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Those familiar with George Monbiot’s journalism – to use the word in its loosest and most absurd sense – will know of his strange, almost pathological obsession with farmers. He writes endlessly about abolishing livestock farming and rewilding agricultural land, but shows little care or consideration as to what should happen to the families and communities for whom farming is not just a livelihood but a way of life. His new book Regenesis continues in this misanthropic vein.

One must admire the clever way in which Monbiot has critic-proofed this book: the first chapter is so piercingly dull that no one other than manic greenies will bother reading it. A whole 26 pages are dedicated to a lump of soil that Monbiot unearthed from his allotment.

George Monbiot is one of The Guardian’s favorite eco-cranks, the British version of Robert Reich.

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This is truly silly. The purpose of allowing a deduction for children on taxes is that children require support, which involves extra expenditure and (like the corresponding tax credit) the government gives people a break. Certainly pregnancy involves a bit of extra expense but nothing like what a born child would cost.

On the other hand, I love seeing people able to deduct stuff from their taxable income and thereby reduce the amount the government is allowed to confiscate. And I suppose any economic incentive for women to carry their children to term rather than kill them is a good thing.

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The Michigan Republican Party said it canceled a Tuesday evening primary watch party in Lansing after a man came to the party’s headquarters and threatened to shoot up the building and burn it down.

I’m sure it would have been ‘mostly peaceful’, though.

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Andrew Yang, the failed Democratic presidential candidate (of which the country has no shortage) has launched a third political party called Forward! (and then backtracked a bit and described it as a “Political Action Committee) instead. The media are describing this new political party or PAC as a “centrist” alternative to the Democrat and Republican parties. Here are some of the centrist party’s centrist policies that are centrist.

• Universal Basic Income
• State-run (“universal”) health care
• Private financing of political campaigns replaced by government-allocated “democracy dollars”
• “Human-centered capitalism” and “alternative measures of economic growth”

Look kinda left-wing to me….

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Additive manufacturing is on the cusp of being adopted more widely by industry, as large corporates Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company and Boeing as well as small innovative start-ups prove it can work well at scale in manufacturing.

In May, Goodyear opened a $77 million plant in Luxembourg that centers on 3-D printing and can make tires four times faster in small batches than with conventional production. Goodyear also is testing its new 3-D printed airless tire technology on Tesla electric vehicles and Starship Technologies’ autonomous delivery robots. It has been working for the past several years on improved manufacturing techniques at an R&D center near Columbus, Ohio.

Kyrsten Sinema and bipartisan group of senators introduce bill to restore abortion rights (Arizona Republic)

Bipartisan senators introduce bill to codify abortion rights (The Hill) In the Narrative Media, ‘bipartisan’ means ‘we’ve gotten the Usual RINOs on board’.

Blue State Blues: GEICO closes all California offices, lays off workers: report

Cognitive decline linked to ultraprocessed food, study finds (CNN) Not just processed, but ULTRAprocessed!

Passenger fined $1,874 after two undeclared McMuffins found in luggage (CNN) “Australia’s Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry said a “range of undeclared risk products,” including the fast food items, were detected in the passenger’s rucksack by a biosecurity detector dog named Zinta.”

This summer may be one of the most consequential in US democracy (The Guardian)

Economist slams Facebook for ‘absolutely Orwellian’ fact-check upholding Biden’s recession denial

Where does Mitt Romney stand on proposed law to protect same-sex marriage? (Deseret News)

Manchin disputes data showing social spending bill would raise taxes on middle class during recession

In Mattapan, bike lanes divide the community: ‘They’re just trying to push us out’ (Boston Globe)

Blue State Blues: S.F. legacy restaurant says goodbye after 45 years, plus more recent closures

Counterfeit, Black Market Abortion Pills Flood Internet With Help of Corporate Media

Blue State Blues: NYC Store Locks Down Cans Of Spam Amid Crime Wave

Chetty: Charles Murray Was Right in “Coming Apart” But Let’s Obscure It

Democrats’ Approval of Supreme Court at Record-Low 13% (Gallup) I’m not surprised.

Pennsylvania Dems Are Switching to Republicans by the Thousands  I’m pretty sure it’s just Democrats trying to game the Republican primary. But still.

Atlanta Will Spend $300k To Dodge Pro-Life Laws, Citing Racism and Bidenflation

Twitter Still Allowing Communist Chinese to Post Threats as Pelosi Visits Taiwan

‘Absolutely Orwellian’: Facebook Censors Economist For Correctly Defining ‘Recession’

Private Equity Giant Taps Schumer’s Son-in-Law as Lobbyist

As Crime Soars, Democratic Voters Turn on Left-Wing Prosecutors

The Great Awokening Is as Just as Feverish in the UK as the US

Climate change: More studies needed on possibility of human extinction (BBC)

BBC: Scientists are Not Taking Climate Driven Human Extinction Seriously

African nations expected to make case for big rise in fossil fuel output (The Guardian)

This giant ‘water battery’ under the Alps could be a game-changer for renewable energy in Europe (CNN)

Hotter than Dubai: US cities at risk of Middle Eastern temperatures by 2100 (The Guardian)

Rising sea levels are forcing Fiji’s villagers to relocate (Reuters)

The Energy Transition Runs Into a Ditch in Rural Ohio (Inside Climate News)

Scientists Warn Of Devastating Mass Extinction Event Caused By Climate Change (Futurism)

‘Dirty ol’ coal’ is making a comeback and consumption is expected to return to 2013?s record levels (CNBC)

Manchin-Backed Spending Bill Would Tax Oil Companies $25 Billion And Spend $370 Billion On Climate Change

Oh No – The Guardian is too Climate Alarmist even for Michael Mann

Florida Power & Light operates an exclusive, invite-only lounge for lawmakers and lobbyists (Politico) Considering how much arbitrary, ideologically-driven power ‘lawmakers and lobbyists’ have over their operations, that ought not to surprise anybody.

Barbados Plays the Climate Card

Climate endgame: exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios

The New Pause lengthens to 7 years 11 months

Bragg’s bad choice: A prosecutor shines new light on his Trump decision (N.Y. Daily News)

Will Ivana help Donald Trump with tax breaks from beyond the grave? (The Guardian)

Juan Williams: GOP will stop at nothing if it wins midterms (The Hill) Proglodytes assume that Republicans will act the same as Democrats would.

What to expect from the DOJ’s investigation of Donald Trump (The Hill) A lot of hot air and innuendo, but no actual charges.

Trump Must Be Charged for ‘Crimes’ or They’ll Be Repeated: Glenn Kirschner (Newsweek) Except that they haven’t managed to come up with any, you know, actual crimes.

Retired DC cop who testified before January 6 committee says Trump ‘adamantly’ wanted to go to Capitol (CNN) Is that a good thing or a bad thing? What’s the Narrative this week?

Leftist TikToker: “Normalize Spitting Into The Drinks Of Trump Supporters”

The View: GOP Unwilling to Kill Terrorist Leaders Like Dems Are

CNN Deceptively Edits Audio to Pass Off Sunday Host as Hungary’s Orban

Biden covid case highlights confusing CDC guidance on ending isolation (Washington Post)

Biden remains positive for Covid and ‘continues to feel well,’ his doctor says (CNN)

The double toll of viruses and social injustice (Nature)

When you have covid, here’s how you know you are no longer contagious (Washington Post)

Pfizer, Moderna deals for revamped COVID shots won’t be enough without more funding, HHS says KA-CHING!

California declares a state of emergency over monkeypox outbreak, following New York and Illinois (CNBC) Don’t say gay!

CDC adds 3 places to its ‘high’ risk list for Covid-19 (CNN) Time to PANIC!

Gov. J.B. Pritzker declares monkeypox virus a statewide public health emergency (Chicago Tribune) Don’t say gay!

Apple lifts mask mandate for corporate employees  I guess the Panic is officially over.

Biden Names White House Coordinator for Monkeypox (N.Y. Times) Gotta get those gay votes! And we can do it by creating another no-show job for one of the Crust at taxpayer expense! What a win!

Watch: Fauci Complains That Americans Will Not “Adhere” To Authorities

Court Documents Reveal Canada’s Travel Ban Had No Scientific Basis

Biden EPA plans to tackle coal industry by enacting new limits on other pollutants

Nets Ignore Tax Increase in Budget Bill, Parrot WH Talking Points Instead

Caught Red-Handed: Doocy EXPOSES Biden WH Spin Over New Big Gov’t Boondoggle

The Mind-Blowing Stupidity Behind The $280 Billion ‘Chips For America Act’

Sen. Johnson Expects ‘Deal’ To Conceal Indictment Of Hunter Biden

Cash Bonanza: Iran Has Made $44.7 Billion in Illegal Oil Sales Since Biden Took Office

Biden Promised To Restore ‘Respected Leadership on the World Stage.’ Swing Voters Say He’s Done the Opposite.

Biden administration task force reunites 400 migrant families separated under Trump (NBC News) So now we have an additional 400 families of illegal immigrants in this country. What an accomplishment!

Recession Deniers: Networks Parrot White House Redefining the Tanking Economy

Black WashPost Columnist Panics Over White Doll in His House

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Now, the LA County Board of Supervisors has unanimously decided to allow illegal immigrants to take up positions in government without ever applying for citizenship. The rule was passed under a new “inclusive hiring” program and was introduced by supervisors Hilda L. Solis and Sheila Kuehl in June 2021.

Time to leave.

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July 20 marked a year and a half into the Biden administration, but you’d never know that from Garry Trudeau, the liberal hack political cartoonist behind the long-running, but highly overrated “Doonesbury” comic strip.

Though former President Donald Trump has been out of the White House now for more than 18 months, he apparently still lives rent-free in the head of Trudeau, who clearly suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Trudeau—whose Sunday-only “Doonesbury” cartoon strips not surprisingly still lead the color comics section of the Trump-hating Washington Post—continues to savage the 45th president regularly.

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In my experience, mass transit works best in densely-populated cities. There is a lot more actual demand for mass transit, and city systems can be full at least during rush hour. Unfortunately, the Leftists who run West Coast cities are enamored of mass transit, and totally ignore the fact that they simply lack the “mass” to make it work. Seattle is in love with “light rail,” and their mostly-leftist voters voted to increase taxes on everything (sales, property, cars) to pay for a light-rail system. That system is partly running now, from north Seattle to the airport, but it really isn’t drawing many riders.

Of course, they hadn’t counted on a pandemic of respiratory disease that shut down the system for months, then had few riders when it re-opened; they had successfully persuaded citizens that they should fear all their fellow citizens, which doesn’t contribute much to the demand for packed rail cars or buses. Of course, Sound Transit bemoans its funding shortfalls, which could have been expected in any case. Then, they let kids ride free, contributing even more to the funding shortfall. And their trains have become rolling homeless shelters, making legitimate riders very uncomfortable.

All of these people wished that they lived in New York City, or maybe Chicago, where buildings are piled higher and deeper, everybody works in the center and lives in the periphery (because they can’t afford to live in the center), and everybody’s ‘neighborhood’ is full of strangers who don’t speak English but are willing to sell you foreign food that you pretend to like because that’s Hip And Trendy.

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The Phillips neighborhood just south of downtown Minneapolis should not be the hellhole it has become. It has proved a popular area for homeless encampments that have plagued the neighborhood, but it wasn’t always like this and there is no good reason it should be this way now.

Liz Collin reports for Alpha News here and in the video below. My friend Howard Root writes that “the images of the homeless encampments and destruction are unlike anything I’ve ever seen in Minneapolis.” There seems to be no bottom to the crime and chaos and filth that the authorities in Minneapolis will tolerate or the Star Tribune paper over.

Quotable quote: “Alpha News also contacted Gov. Tim Walz for comment on the ongoing situation and did not receive a response.”

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The normally innocuous workplace comic strip is arguably trying to get itself cancelled after three decades in syndication. But why?

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Considering the prolonged the death spiral of the newspaper industry as a whole, you might suspect that now would be as good a time as any for Adams to fade into obscurity to enjoy a quiet retirement funded by his Dilbert-generated fortune. Instead, he’s been landing himself as the internet’s villain du jour at a shocking rate.

The Woke have awakened to the fact that Scott Adams is quite possibly not their friend.

Those of us who follow his daily podcast Coffee With Scott Adams already knew that, of course.

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Looking out the window of a plane flying over Boulder, Colorado, recently, I was reminded how much American universities stick out from their surroundings.

I’d never been to Boulder, or visited the University of Colorado’s flagship campus there, but even from 30,000 feet, I could tell exactly where it started and ended. The red-tile roofs and quadrangles of the campus formed a little self-contained world, totally distinct from the grid of single-family homes that surrounded it.

In urban universities, the dividing line between the campus and the community can be even starker. At the University of Southern California, for example, students must check in with security officers when entering the gates of the university at night. At Yale, castle-like architecture makes the campus feel like a fortified enclave.

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Bearing Arms reported several firearm-related companies had their corporate accounts canceled by UPS. Not only that, but some of these companies also have had packages damaged or lost while in transit to customers.

One ammunition distribution company called “The Gun Food” reported out of a recent 18,000 rounds of ammunition shipped with UPS, only 6,000 made it to the end destination.

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What goes around, comes around….

MSNBC guest says Herschel Walker is ‘what Republicans want from their Negroes’  Democrats have never been happy since Republicans freed their slaves.

Statement of President Joe Biden on the Passing of Nichelle Nichols

Pet Project: BLM Activist Shaun King Used Donor Funds To Buy $40k Thoroughbred Show Dog  He looks pretty white to me.

Sports Illustrated Drop-Kicks NFL For Going Easy On Deshaun Watson

Far-Left Commentator Slurs Black Republican Senate Candidate

Racist Mystal: Herschel Walker is ‘What GOP Wants From Their Negroes’

CNN Chief’s Republican Apology Tour

Manchin says Republicans in ‘normal times’ would be supporting energy, health care bill (CNN) That’s because ‘in normal times’ Republicans are just as much Big Spenders as Democrats. That’s how Trump got nominated and elected, because people don’t want ‘normal times’ any more.

Manchin admits ‘mistake’ saying past spending bill wouldn’t cause inflation, hopes he isn’t wrong again  The formula for success: If you make a mistake, why, repeat it!

Congress on “high alert” amid security threats (Axios)

US faces new era of political violence as threats against lawmakers rise (The Guardian) Perhaps because the ‘laws’ these ‘lawmakers’ make only make things worse.

ABC panel criticizes Democrats meddling in GOP primaries: ‘Embarrassingly hypocritical’

How the media is falling short covering the economic rollercoaster (CNN) Paul Krugman, who has never been right yet in his economic predictions, is CNN’s go-to guy. (Stelter Brings on Economic Dunce Krugman to Say US Not in Recession)

Sting warns during Warsaw concert of threats to democracy (Associated Press)

Overturning Roe v. Wade isn’t the end for abortion opponents (Associated Press)

Major legal fights loom over abortion pills, travel out of state (Washington Post)

Alabama Constitution of 2022 removes repealed laws, racist language

CNN panelist says legislative victories won’t be enough for Dems in the midterms: ‘Downtowns are still empty’

Corporate Media Have ‘Gosnelled’ The Ohio Child Rape Story

Who Is the Psychiatrist Behind the Antidepressant Study Taking Over Right-Wing Media? (Rolling Stone)

PolitiFact Lets Al Gore Smear Away, But Rushes to Defend AOC ‘Arrest’ Publicity Stunt

The creation of the trans child

Wikipedia has blocked editing ‘recession’ as people change definition

These Colorado Dems Say They’re Running To Help ‘Working Families.’ They Voted for New Taxes Amid Rising Inflation.  To proglodytes, any tax is a good tax.

States may revive abortion laws from a time when women couldn’t vote (Washington Post) dunh-dunh- DUNHH!  Or even from a time when nobody could vote! OH NOES!!!

TikTok Permanently Removes MRCTV Account Without Explanation  Ye shall know the truth … except on Tik-Tok, Twitter, and Facebook.

LA Landlords Call For End To Eviction Moratorium  Who would be so foolish as to be a landlord in a Blue state?

England RFU Bans Transgender Women From Playing Female Rugby

Episcopal Church Invites Drag Queen to Pride ‘Chapel’

The View: Drag Shows Are Fine for Kids, No One Killed By Them Like Guns

Lena Dunham Is Totally Triggered About Abortion Rights (Even Though She Had a Hysterectomy More Than Four Years Ago)

Manchin Reconciliation Package Includes Policy He Once Called ‘Ludicrous’  When all is said and done, Democrats never forget which side they’re on.

FBI, Director Christopher Wray are in for a rude wake-up call over Hunter Biden investigation

Conservative groups slam President Biden for attempting to ‘gaslight’ Americans on recession

Hunter Biden scandal may lead right back to Joe

Miranda Devine on ‘the Big Guy’ texts: ‘Overwhelming’ evidence Joe Biden knew of Hunter’s business deals

Biden’s success story (Axios)

FBI Let Off the Hook—Again

MSNBC Touts ‘Biden’s Success Story,’ Compares Him to REAGAN, Not Jimmy Carter

The Kamala Conundrum

Did Biden Just Boost U.S. Tech — or Fund a Bunch of Solyndras?

Will The Inflation Reduction Act Of 2022 Do Anything At All?  Yes, it will increase inflation. Democrat legislation always does the opposite of what it claims to do.

A clown-car administration

Econ Prof. WARNS Biden ‘Inflation Reduction’ Bill Will Make Inflation Worse  But you knew that.

This heatwave is a reminder that grass lawns are terrible for the environment (The Guardian)

Climate change, drought signal time to go against the green (Sentinel Colorado)

Facebook’s former CTO Mike Schroepfer explains why he’s turning his attention to climate change (CNBC)

California not counting methane leaks from idle wells

Australia sets sights on clean energy jobs created by ‘climate emergency’ (Reuters)

Labor’s climate bill is mostly symbolic – the big questions are about what comes next (The Guardian)

This nation is scorching in a heat wave and wildfires, yet it’s returning to planet-baking coal (CNN)

Global citizens: We may have to sue our way out of the climate crisis (The Hill)

Climate change and the Supreme Court’s version of police abolitionism (The Hill)

Are This Summer’s Heat Waves Extraordinary?

We’ve Got to Beat the Meat

Why the Sun, Not CO2, Heats the Oceans Revisiting the Debate: Does Greenhouse Back-radiation Warm the Oceans?

The Valley of Greta

Punish Companies Who Downplay Climate Risk!

“Give Up Your Yacht Before Lecturing”: Bolsonaro Sinks DiCaprio In Titanic Twitter Thread

WSJ: Why Pretend Green Pork Will Stop Climate Change?

Green Nightmare: Aussie Power Prices Rising Out of Control

First Ukraine grain ship since start of war leaves Odesa (Reuters)

Ukrainian grain tycoon killed in Mykolaiv shelling as Putin threatens ‘lightning speed’ response to interference (CNN) Well, at least he’s only a ‘tycoon’, not an ‘oligarch’.

Vladimir Putin targets US in new Russian navy doctrine, warns of using hypersonic weapons

Europe has lost the energy war

Iran says it will ‘build nuclear warheads’ and turn NY into ‘hellish ruins’ (Jerusalem Post) Too late….

Iran Threatens New York City?

China To Pelosi: You Will ‘Perish’ Over Taiwan  If only that were true….

Europe Hypnotized Into War Economy

UN Chief & Putin In Rare Moment Of Agreement: World Is “One Miscalculation Away” From Nuclear Annihilation

North Korea Preparing 1st Nuclear Test In 5 Years, Blinken Informs UN  Gee, this never happened under Trunp.

EU, UK Fold? Delay Cutting Off Russia From Oil Insurance Market

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The vessel in question is the Unmanned Influence Sweep System (UISS), a crucial piece of technology packaged as part of the Navy’s suite of systems designed for mine countermeasures. The ship, small enough to deployed from a Littoral Combat Ship, reached “initial operational capability,” or IOC, on July 22, the Navy said late last week.

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A Senate hearing on “diversity and equity” in American diplomacy proved to be a wasted opportunity to tackle a core question in our politics: Do we want equality or “equity?”

Instead, the hearing kicked off with mostly old white men bemoaning that the senior ranks of the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International development are dominated by old white men.

In essence, they complained that the agencies don’t do enough to discriminate against their own grandchildren in hiring.

Michael Shellengerger

Of course it will.

When Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) went on NBC’s “Meet the Press” yesterday he said that the $700 billion climate change, energy, and health care proposal he announced last week with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer would not raise taxes. “We should not increase taxes, and we did not increase taxes,” he told NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

But a new study by the U.S. Congress’s nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation has found that not only would the legislation increase taxes, it would increase taxes by $11 billion more on Americans earning below $200,000 per year than on Americans earning between $500,000 and $1 million, in 2023.

And the legislation would increase taxes by $3 billion more on Americans earning below $200,000 per year than on Americans earning between $200,000 and $500,000 per year.

I hope it doesn’t come as a surprise to him that Democrats lie.

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The man who authorities say planned to assassinate Justice Kavanaugh in a bid to impact the Roe v Wade decision identified as a transgender female called Sophie, according to court documents.

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The chief executive of the world’s largest industrial landlord was robbed outside his San Francisco mansion last month and called on the mayor to address the “absolutely unacceptable” rise in violent crime in the city.

Hamid Moghadam, CEO of San Francisco-based Prologis, told the San Francisco Business Times that several men robbed him at gunpoint outside his home on June 26, taking his Patek Philippe watch. The robbery happened in the Pacific Heights neighborhood where tech investor Peter Thiel, Oracle’s Larry Ellison, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have homes.

My heart breaks for him.