Al Franken May Have Found a Loophole in ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill (Daily Beast)

What to Know About the Gender-Affirming-Care Bans Spreading Across the Country (TIME) People are sick and tired of proglodyte bullshit, that’s what you need to know.

Gender-affirming care bans mount in states (The Hill)

America is poisoning itself. This is the antidote (CNN) More Narrative!

Not Enough? Dems Push Communist-Tied TikTok CEO to Censor Free Speech

Fetterman Expected to Return to Senate ‘Soon’

California Judge Stops Soros Prosecutor From Slashing Triple-Murderer’s Sentence

Defunded Austin Cops Take So Long To Respond To DUI That Driver Sobers Up, Walks Free

Tennessee’s Rejection of $8.8 Million in Federal Funding Alarms H.I.V. Prevention Groups (N.Y. Times)

Don’t Believe The Hype: Woke Is Real And It’s Dangerous

Winning the Pulitzer Prizes for Misinformation

The ESG “Cover Your Ass” Tour Begins As Managers Scramble To Remove References In Pitch Decks

Campus Terrorized (Steve Sailer) “Based on interviews with that person, law enforcement personnel were able to determine that the person was in possession of a curling iron that was mistaken for a weapon.” I could build a gun into a curling iron.

Hollywood Reporter (Purposely) Misses Point on Drag Queen Outrage

Insisting Law School Students Respect 1st Amendment Is Akin to ‘McCarthyism,’ Bloomberg Columnist Claims

‘This Is Just Like Nazi Germany!’ Cries Liberal As Parent Removes Porn From Elementary School  (Babylon Bee)

“I’m A Woman”: Left Wing Host Ana Kasparian Triggers Woke Mob Over “Trans-Exclusionary” Language

The Disinformation-Industrial Complex Vs Domestic Terror

Jan. 6 committee shows Congress can’t enforce subpoenas alone (Roll Call)

Republicans are looking for Senate candidates who are filthy rich (Politico) As opposed to Democrats, who are looking for candidates who are filthy crooked.

Ft. Hood to officially drop its Confederate name and become Ft. Cavazos (NBC) I know who Hood was. Who the fuck was Cavazos?

C-SPAN Anchor Calmly Shuts Down MAGA Rep’s False Jan. 6 Claim (Daily Beast)

Malinformation: Censors’ excuse to suppress ‘inconvenient truths’ (N.Y. Post)

Fight against ‘malinformation’ is censorship by government proxy (Chicago Sun-Times)

Ana Navarro says she’s miserable in Florida, ‘you’d be upset 24 hours a day, too’ (Fox)

No, Bill Maher, Student Debt Cancellation Is Not a “Giveaway” (The Nation)

“Fact-checking” is a feeble, inadequate way to respond to racist, antisemitic incitement (Press Watch)

YouTube Targets LifeSite’s Movie Analysis for ‘Hate Speech’

Ethical no man’s land: can the US supreme court be trusted to police itself? (The Guardian) Ed Pilkington pushes the Narrative.

Florida NAACP Seeks National Advisory Against Black Travel To Sunshine State

Marjorie Taylor Greene Leads Congressional Visit To Jan. 6 Rioters At D.C. Jail (Huffington Post) Something that no Democrat has ever done.

Austin Jailer Breaks Elderly Deaf Woman’s Arm After Misunderstanding at Airport

The right’s new viral video fixation (Semafor) Who are you going to believe, me or your lyin’ eyes?

Ray Epps Hires Lawyer With Ties To FBI-Linked Perkins Coie, Threatens Tucker Carlson

Marjorie Taylor Greene Calls Cops on Heckler With Whistle (Daily Beast)

What Anti-Abortion Advocates Really Think of Women’s Lives (Slate) It’s amazing how Slate can find ‘journalists’ that can read other people’s minds.

Capehart Declares ‘Parental Rights’ Is about ‘Targeting’ ‘Trans Kids’  As ‘trans kids’ is about targeting parental rights.

MSNBC Claims GOP Education Bills Are A Return To White Nationalism  Yeah, I can see education is being a white nationalist plot.

1,000 people have been charged for the Capitol riot. Here’s where their cases stand (NPR) Number of BLM/Antifa rioters who are in jail: Zero.

DA Alvin Bragg’s staffer hangs up on ‘bulls–t’ congressional phone call (N.Y. Post)

All Reporters Agree: DeSantis is Toast! (Talking Points Memo) This is from a feature called The Backchannel, which I assume indicates that the reporter is pulling it out of his ass.

Ron “Deep State Dion” DeSantis Just Committed Political Suicide

Why Optimism Can’t Fix Our Climate Politics (The New Republic)

Climate ‘doomism’ and why it hurts the climate (Tampa Bay Times)

Rising seas will cut off many properties before they’re flooded (Ars Technica)

Defence against the rising seas (Nature)

Risk of isolation increases the expected burden from sea-level rise (Nature)

Many Antarctic glaciers are never snow-free. See how remarkably different this year is. (Washington Post)

Top lawyers defy bar to declare they will not prosecute peaceful climate protesters (The Guardian)

Carbon markets need to get their groove back (Politico)

First-of-its-Kind Study Casts More Shade on Forest Carbon Offsets (EcoWatch)

Will buying carbon offsets really help to make your flight greener? (Channel News Asia)

Why Greens Don’t Worry About Their Own Pollution

Professor Peter Ridd – The World’s Coral Reefs are not Declining

“Last Chance Travel” (climate alarmism in a suitcase)

Check it out.

saw a job advertised in 2016 for a millennial governess: 6 days/week, 12 hrs/day. 100k + benefits + manhattan apt. duties: live-in tutor/nanny/part-time chef/maid/dogwalker & advisor to family ancestry project (???). ivy phd required. https://t.co/gLGQSnir3k

— Sarah Osment (@sm_osment) March 25, 2023

Steve Sailer.

Read it.

In Ukraine Russia has displayed a callous attitude towards killing civilians. Russia doesn’t publicize these deaths, but they do make the news when Russian-occupied territory in Ukraine is abandoned because of an Ukrainian offensive. Russia was known for its barbaric “kill them all” attitude in wartime, even when the endangered civilians were Russians. The Ukrainian policy is to get civilians out of the way in a combat zone and not attack them deliberately, even if they are Russians. This is the case in some Russian-occupied Ukrainian areas where Russian civilians have been brought in to cement control over the area. Not surprisingly, many of those Russians have fled back to Russia once the fighting got close to them.

It turned out that Russia has become more enthusiastic about killing civilians because of changes in their combat doctrine several years before the Ukraine invasion. We know this because Russian military leaders openly discussed the matter before the invasion and explained why this was the way to go.

Read it.

I’ll vote for whomever the Republicans nominate but I have to say, I have yet to find a single thing I disagree with Vivek Ramaswamy over. His mastery of the topics, his quick wit, his deep intellect, and his happy warrior style all suit me just fine.

So much energy! Watch him with Candace the other day. He will be the outsider who does what Trump could not.

I contributed to his campaign. And I urge you all to take a look.

Scott Adams is also a fan.

Top TikTok lobbyist previously advised tech equity firm with close ties to Hunter Biden (Fox)

U.S. starts flying migrants caught crossing Canadian border south to Texas (NBC)

Oil falls as U.S. holds off refilling strategic reserve (CNBC)

Pentagon official forced to read anti-White statements from its diversity chief in congressional hearing (Fox)

‘Woke’ DOD official Kelisa Wing reassigned after GOP highlights anti-white tweets (N.Y. Post)

Pentagon diversity chief receives no disciplinary action after probe into anti-White posts (Fox)

Report: US, Canada Strike Border Deal on Asylum Seekers

Nets Ignore Biden & Harris Approvals Cratering to Near Record Lows

Biden irked by Kamala Harris not ‘rising to occasion’ or taking ‘anything off his plate’ (N.Y. Post)

Biden moves to undo Trump’s political play on the Space Command (Washington Post)

US Firms No Longer Safe In Mexico? Army Commandeers US-Owned Marine Terminal

Biden Admin Greenlights Sanctions Waiver That Allows Iraq To Pay Iran Millions for Electricity

Veep thoughts with Kamala Harris

Democrats’ Boycotts of Texas, Arizona Field Hearings on Illegal Immigration Inexcusible

National Embarrassment: Saudi TV Mocks Biden In Skit  You’ll notice that, in the picture, the caption on the side of ‘Air Force One’ reads ‘United State of America’. I suspect some photoshopping….

Biden admin: OK, sure, we do want to ban your gas stoves

WATCH: GOP Senator Stumps Biden Judicial Nominees Again, and Again, and Again

Pro-Gun Tucker Carlson Pumps Brakes on Armed Transgender People (Daily Beast) That’s because nobody wants crazy people having guns.

Why Dominion is already the winner of the $1.6bn lawsuit against Fox News (The Guardian)

A Lawsuit Puts the Workplace Culture of Fox News on Trial (The Nation)

Stanford DEI Dean Escalates Battle against Law-School Dean

Defense Attorneys In Jan. 6 Case Allege FBI Informant Spied On Legal Team

Stanford Law has a Trigglypuff problem

The Republican Plan to Make Voting Irrelevant (Slate) Too late; Democrats beat ’em to it.

Meet ‘the five families’ that wield power in McCarthy’s House majority (Washington Post) The obious intent is to smear the Republicans as Mafia-like without actually coming out and saying it.

Red state Republicans are rolling back child labor laws (Public Notice)

MSNBC Laments GOP Likes DeSantis Because He ‘Tortured’ Gitmo Prisoners

Shop Owner’s Lawsuit Against Rep. Schiff Tossed

Teachers at US-Funded Palestinian Schools Promote Hate and Violence Against Jews on Social Media, Report Finds

Don’t Be Fooled. Ron DeSantis Is a Bush-Cheney Republican. (N.Y. Times) Than which there is obviously nothing more despicable.

‘No One Has Control Over Tucker’: How Fox News Let Its Biggest Star Go Rogue (MEDIAite)

Federal appeals court blocks Biden’s vaccine mandate for US government workers (N.Y. Post)

Raccoon Dog: More Than Just Latest Deflection From COVID-19 Lab Leak Theory?

How COVID Lockdowns Primed The Current Financial Crisis

Virginia’s Fort Lee to become Fort Gregg-Adams next month in push remove names of Confederate figures (Fox)

9 military bases removing Confederate links in process costing $62.5 million (NOLA.com)

Fort Bragg to Become ‘Fort Liberty’ June 2 (The Pilot)

Texas ‘preemption’ bills escalate war between liberal cities, conservative legislature (The Hill)

Citizen Activists ‘Weaponized’ Transparency, US Election Commissioner Testifies

NPR cancels 4 podcasts amid major layoffs (NPR)

Squatters Increasingly Taking Over Homes Across US With No End In Sight, Experts Warn

USA Today Again Picks Biological Man As ‘Woman Of The Year’

Multiple States Taking a Page From Florida’s Parental Rights Law

World Athletics Bans Transgender Women From Competitions

Define Wokeness Or how you shall know a word by the company it keeps

STUDY: Networks Obsess Over ‘Far Right,’ Oblivious to ‘Far Left’

How Working-Class White Voters Became the GOP’s Foundation (The Atlantic)

Trans Community Feeling Unsafe Knowing There’s A Hockey Player Somewhere Out There Not Wearing A Pride Jersey (Babylon Bee)

Why Xi and Putin pretend they run democracies (Washington Post)

NBC’s ‘Chicago Med’ Pushes ‘Dreamer’ Doctor Plot, Glorifies Illegal Immigration

The View Wants Americans to Live With ‘Less’ Like Prison ‘Monks’  Not themselves, of course, but you deplorables.

Trump hush money probe goes quiet after chaotic week (CNN)

Fumbling his Trump case, Alvin Bragg exposes his incompetence nationwide (N.Y. Post)

Lawrence: With attacks on NY DA, Trump shows terror is his tactic (MSNBC)

Donald Trump’s Waco Rally Faces Plot by Mary Trump to Sabotage Attendance (N.Y. Post)

What to know about the Waco siege anniversary as Trump prepares to host rally (Houston Chronicle)

Texas Newspaper Slams Trump Ahead of Waco Rally (Newsweek)

Explaining the Ties Between Alvin Bragg and George Soros (N.Y. Times)

Why Biden’s not talking about Trump’s potential indictment (NBC)

Before he represented Trump, defense attorney speculated Stormy Daniels saga was true and payment could be seen as an in-kind campaign contribution (CNN) So what? Attorney’s speculate. That’s what they’re paid to do.

Trump Inquiries Present a Stress Test for Justice in a Polarized Nation (N.Y. Times)

Trump is stoking the fires of Waco (Houston Chronicle) Fires that were lit by Janet Reno and her boss, Bill Clinton.

Court Action Underscores Peril for Trump in Documents Investigation (N.Y. Times)

Trump’s indictment over hush money to a porn star would be poetic justice (The Guardian)

The Moral Dilemma Over Working For Donald Trump (Huffington P0st) It’s only a ‘moral dilemma’ for people who will never be asked to work for Donald Trump.

Reagan-Hating/Carter-Loving PBS Pounces on Old ‘October Surprise’ Conspiracy Theory

Donald Trump Is on the Wrong Side of the Religious Right (The Atlantic) As if anybody writing for The Atlantic has a clue about either relgion or ‘the right’.

Trump Exploits Little-Known Legal Loophole Where You Avoid Indictment By Not Committing A Crime  (Babylon Bee)

Nothing to See Here! NYT, CNBC, WashPost Rush to Defend Soros-backed DA Bragg

Point of Sale Gun Control Is Good Because It Penalizes Whites, While Point of Use Gun Control Is Bad Because It’s Racist

These eight charts show why climate change matters right now (CNBC)

New IPCC Report Says 3.5°C Warming Imminent; Immediate Govt Intervention Crucial to Prevent Climate Disaster (The Weather Channel)

Climate change making Earth ‘uninhabitable’ Guterres warns (UN News)

GREG GUTFELD: So-called experts ‘keep moving the goalposts’ on climate change ‘catastrophe’ (Fox)

Scientists uncover startling concentrations of pure DDT along seafloor off L.A. coast (L.A. Times)

UN conference hears litany of water disasters linked to climate crisis (The Guardian)

New climate paper calls for charging big US oil firms with homicide (The Guardian) The silly is strong in this one.

A ‘greenwashing’ crackdown in Europe hasn’t gone down well. Here’s what you need to know (CNBC)

Companies making false ‘green’ claims in Europe face punishment under proposed new rule (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists)

EU says ‘not banning carbon offsets’ in greenwashing crackdown (Euractive)

Untangling the global water crisis (GZer0)

What’s to fear about warming oceans? Flesh-eating bacteria (NBC)

Rising temperatures in Florida contribute to spread of invasive mosquito species (NBC)

Challenging the NSTA’s Position Statement on Climate Change

In Montana, It’s Youth vs. the State in a Landmark Climate Case (N.Y. Times) I can’t see this going anywhere; the obvious problem is one of standing.

Harvard Law Accepts a Paper Advocating Homicide Charges for Big Oil Execs

Greta Thunberg:  Doctor of Theology

Why climate ‘doomers’ are replacing climate ‘deniers’ (Washington Post)

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A Democratic operative linked to the Clintons claims he was the catalyst for the Manhattan district attorney’s hush money probe into former president Donald Trump.

Lanny Davis, a lawyer for former Trump attorney Michael Cohen, told Politico that he sparked the investigation thanks in part to his political connections to Cyrus Vance Jr., the predecessor to Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg (D.). Davis said he was able to arrange interviews between Manhattan prosecutors and Cohen after Cohen was sent to prison on federal tax evasion charges. Davis, who said he knew Vance’s father from the Carter administration, also said that prosecutors visited Cohen three times at the federal penitentiary.

A reminder that the Biden Crime Family is a mere pale shadow of the Clinton Crime Family. “Goodness! Rose Law Firm billing records! How did they magically appear in the White House?”

‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ Review: Bloody, Beautiful, Bulletproof

Every character in Wick’s world thinks they’re a poet and they’re all mistaken, and yet their clumsy fortune cookie platitudes are a welcome break from the constant self-conscious, faux-witty banter of Marvel movies and Ryan Reynolds vehicles.

REVIEW: ‘John Wick: Chapter 4’

Wow. Just… wow.

If you haven’t seen the first John Wick movie, the ‘noise complaint’ scene is worth whatever you have to pay to get ahold of it. Assassin Perkins is also very easy on the eyes.

New York Times.

In November, Los Angeles voters backed Measure ULA, a transfer tax on big-ticket property sales that the city says will generate a new revenue stream for affordable housing projects and homelessness prevention. Known colloquially as the “mansion tax,” Measure ULA will impose a 4 percent tax on property sales above $5 million, and a 5.5 percent tax on properties above the $10 million mark.

The tax must be paid by the seller.

L.A. seems determined to drive away all of the people who pay the taxes they use for their proglodyte dreams.

Read it.

In a historic step, four Nordic countries announced the combining of their fighter jet fleets under one operational command on Friday, March 24th, creating Europe’s most formidable fighter fleet after Russia’s.

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

Has anything harmed the conditions and prospects of black America more than the white liberal reaction to George Floyd’s death in 2020?

New Atlas.

A monastic brewery near Munich says it’s created the first powdered beer. Just add water, and it’ll froth up, complete with a foamy head and full flavor. The result promises massive savings on transport, because it can be shipped at 10% of the weight.

The End Times are upon us.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

There are certain peoples that one has long thought of as solid and common-sensical. Like the Australians and the Scots. But those images have been tarnished badly in recent years. In Australia’s case, it was one of the world’s most maniacal (and futile) covid shutdowns. In Scotland, it is the weird gender virus.

Well, you know, they’ve got that whole kilt thing going for them.

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

You seldom look to The New Yorker for support for a conservative cause, but today the storied magazine published a devastating article by Harvard Law professor Jeannie Suk Gersen on the Harvard affirmative action case now pending at the Supreme Court. The article, “The Secret Joke at the Heart of the Harvard Affirmative-Action Case,” is devastating not only on the merits, but also for the conduct and rulings of District Court Judge Allison Burroughs (an Obama appointee) who ruled in favor of Harvard at the trial phase of this momentous case.

Everyone should read the entire article—The New Yorker gives everyone a couple free articles a month—because it is impossible to summarize the richness of telling detail Prof. Gersen includes in this admirably compact piece.

NY hush money grand jury will reconvene Thursday as Trump legal drama reaches fever pitch (CNN)

Trump supporters, opponents brace for decision on possible indictment (CBS)

Joe: Trump is horrified; he’s just talking big and the walls are closing in (MSNBC)

The peril of charging Donald Trump for bookkeeping fraud, but not election lies (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Republicans invoke Soros to steer narrative on Trump probe (Associated Press)

The House GOP’s Manhattan DA meddling is ugly, partisan and potentially unlawful (MSNBC)

Kevin McCarthy’s Republicans have a clear stance on Trump’s alleged crimes: They support them (L.A. Times)

The Return Of Michael Cohen: A Disbarred Attorney Takes Center Stage In Dubious Prosecution

How to Pay Off a Porn Star (If You Really Must)  (Daily Beast)

Eating Its Words: Politico Changes Headline Calling Soros-Tied DA ‘By-the-Book’

Trump grand jury will not hear ‘hush-money’ case for the rest of this week: source (Business Insider) Waiting for the heat to cool down?

Remember: Doj May Still Suspect Trump Is Hoarding Classified Documents

Arrest That Man (Donald Trump). Crime to Follow. (Larry Elder)

Manhattan DA’s office slams House GOP inquiry, says it was motivated by Trump creating ‘false expectation’ of imminent arrest (CNN)

Prosecutor in Trump Hush-Money Case Fires Back at House Republicans (N.Y. Times)

Trump has raised $1.5 million in MAGA donations since he warned he would be arrested: Campaign reveals cash windfall as he attacks Ron DeSantis for chatting with ‘ratings challenged’ Piers Morgan (UK Daily Mail) Are ‘MAGA donations’ different from other kinds of donations? Inquiring minds would like to know.

Trump’s kitchen-sink attack on DeSantis, parsed (Washington Post) By professional Trump-hater Philip Bump, on behalf of the Narrative.

Trump appointees interfered to weaken EPA assessment of toxic chemical (The Guardian) Trump cooties! They’re everywhere!

What’s up with the Trump grand jury?

Trump To Be Indicted For Removing Mattress Tag In 1997 (Babylon Bee)

Trump holding his first 2024 campaign rally in Waco on 30th anniversary of the Waco siege is about inciting more terrorism  Terrorism like Janet Reno’s “Kill them all and let God sort them out” approach to law enforcement?

Rand Paul slams Moderna CEO on failing to concede to studies on rare heart inflammation due to vaccine (Fox) People forget that Rand Paul is an actual doctor who, unlike Anthony Fauci, actually treats patients.

Moderna CEO brazenly defends 400% COVID shot price hike, downplays NIH’s role (Ars Technica)

Fauci filmed laughing off lab-leak theory and wishing he’d made US wear masks sooner (N.Y. Post)

China’s only now revealed crucial COVID-19 origins data. Earlier disclosure may have saved us 3 years of political argy-bargy (The Conversation)

Where Are We in Hunting for the Covid Coronavirus’s Origin? (Washington Post)

“Concerning”: Myocarditis Diagnoses Spiked In Military in 2021, New Data Show

How Fauci’s Wife Used NIH Position To Backstop Her Husband’s Pandemic Health Directives

EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Rand Paul, Rep. Chip Roy To Introduce Legislation To Eliminate Fauci’s NIAID (Daily Caller)

Is a Covid Personality Disorder Caused by Viral Damage to the Prefrontal Cortex?  What is ‘Covid personality disorder’? Attacking other people for not wearing masks?

Cops Investigate White Man’s Viral N-Word Rant in Supermarket Parking Lot (Daily Beast) Needless to say, a black guy’s racist rant against white people would receive no coverage at all.

A course meant to inspire more Black students to take AP classes sparked a culture war instead (NBC)

Liberals, Stop Trying to Keep Black Kids Down!

Beethoven Wasn’t Black After All

Ike Ekweremadu: Organ-trafficking plot politician and wife guilty (BBC)

Why Can Only 6 Of Every 100 Chicago Black Students Do Math At Grade Level? Chicago Mayoral Candidate Johnson Offers Some Clues  The city–and its schools–are run by Democrats. Duh.

Federal prosecutors reveal Proud Boys witness was informant (Associated Press) Not the sharpest knives in the drawer.

The Real Goal Behind the Frenzy Against ‘Wokeness’ (The American Prospect)

Whose free-speech rights will DeSantis stomp next? (Orlando Sentinel)

Florida GOP’s New Anti-Trans Bill Is so Extreme It Could Ban Treatment for Breast Cancer (The New Republic) No, it’s not.

GOP’s Idea of Youth: Little League? Proms? Try Working in a Slaughterhouse and Marrying at 10. (The New Republic)

ABC Whines Over DeSantis Banning LGBTQ Indoctrination in High School

Idaho GOP Channels Trump With Plan to Bring Back Firing Squad (Rolling Stone) Of course, there’s no evidence to suggest that Trump has any connection with firing squads, but the Narrative Media never lets reality intrude on a good smear.

Stanford’s DEI Dean “On Leave”; No Students Will Be Sanctioned

ABC Smears DeSantis as Obsessed With ‘Cultural Divisions,’ Harming Kids

A nightmare for women in Idaho could be coming to all of us soon (Civil Discourse)

Trump to return to Fox as they rekindle their mutually beneficial relationship (Media Matters for America)

Far-right extremist Riley Williams sentenced to 3 years in prison for storming Capitol on Jan. 6 (NBC) Number of BLM/Antifa rioters sentenced to prison: Zero.

Conspiracies and a Holocaust meme mark the dawn of Karamo’s Michigan Republican Party (MLive Michigan)

‘Not Ready for America!’ The View’s New LIES Targeting DeSantis

Woman Who Stormed Pelosi’s Office on Jan. 6 Is Sentenced to Three Years (N.Y. Times) Number of BLM/Antifa rioters sentenced to prison: Zero.

Hunter Biden used FBI mole named ‘One-Eye’ to tip him off to China probes: tipster (N.Y. Post)

Rep. Comer hammers media for silence on China payouts to Bidens: ‘Where are the fact-checkers?’ (Fox)

Hypocrite Biden blocks mineral mining his clean-energy goals require (N.Y. Post)

Facebook, Google, Amazon Share ‘Revolving Door’ With Justice Department

‘People Urinating in Our Field’: A Border Farmer’s Plight Under Biden Administration Policies

FBI Investigated Dozens of Parents Who Criticized School Boards, Found No Legitimate Threats

Science Journal Nature Admits Biden Endorsement Damaged Their Reputation

Federal Agency Contradicts Biden, Says Student Loan Cancellation Not in Effect

How the Biden Admin Helped a Public University Partner With a CCP-Controlled School

Jeff Zients discovers the thanklessness of the White House chief of staff gig (Politico)

Watch: Biden Judicial Nominee Stumped By Basic Legal Question

Watch: Amid Banking Collapse, White House Says “We See A Strong Economy”

Energy Secy: Could Take Years to Refill Oil Reserve  And cost a bundle.

IG Horowitz Seeks Authority to Investigate DOJ Lawyers

Illegal Immigrants Escape Border Patrol Bus, Not Found Yet

Biden’s original sin

Gas Stoves for Me But Not for Thee: Energy Sec Backs Gas Stove Restriction But Concedes She Has a Gas Stove

Biden’s Collapsing Sgt. Schultz Defense: New Evidence Shows The President Played Direct Role In Addressing Hunter’s Business Deals

Richard Dawkins declares there are only two sexes as matter of science: ‘That’s all there is to it’ (Fox)

‘Two sexes, and that’s all there is to it’: Biologist defends JK Rowling’s comments (Washington Examiner)

Poverty, By America by Matthew Desmond review – how the rich keep the poor down (The Guardian)

Matthew Desmond on ‘Poverty, by America’ (Washington Post) It is a constant trope by proglodytes that if there are people in poverty then that poverty is caused by deliberate oppression by Rich People, who need to be punished somehow.

Private opulence, public squalor: How the U.S. helps the rich and hurts the poor (NPR)

Disney World Defies Ron DeSantis by Hosting Gay Rights Summit in Florida (Newsweek) You bash the balrog and I’ll climb the tree.

Disney Defies DeSantis by Hosting Major LGBTQ+ Conference (Daily Beast)

Mayor Adams kills Medicare Advantage option that’d let NYC retirees stay on traditional coverage: ‘We do not intend to offer this’ (N.Y. Daily News)

Pentagon doctors claim 7-year-olds can make decisions to be injected with hormones, puberty suppressants (Fox)

San Francisco Lawmakers Move to Establish $50 Million Reparations Bureaucracy  Government exists to hire and pay government workers.

PBS Airs Misinformation While Cheering Michigan Dems on ‘Gun Safety’ Laws

Watch: MSNBC Panel Says That Criticising George Soros In Any Way Is “Dangerous”

VIDEO: Watch What Keeps Happening to Conservative Speakers at Elite Colleges

OB-GYN: Parents Magazine Deleted Anti-abortion Info

MLB ‘Remains Progressive’ Amid Censorship Reports

1% of Democrat Counties Make Up 42% of America’s Murders

Stanford Law Disruptions Were Orchestrated by the National Lawyers Guild

Follow the Money! TikTok Employees Donate 94% to Leftists, Dems

Surprise! Wash Post Survey Puts Happy Face on Gender Transitioning

‘Three Years Is Not Enough’: Liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court Candidate Ignored Victim’s Plea To Lock Up Serial Sex Offender

Google’s New Bard AI Is Riddled With Political Bias

World Governing Body Votes to Exclude Trans Women Athletes  Reality keeps intruding on proglodyte fantasy.

Philly’s “Pay-to-Riot” Gives $9 million to BLM Protesters

One Year Later: DC Mayor Stonewalls Probe Into Aborted Babies’ Bodies

Dems Push to Make Oregon a Safe Haven for Child Sex Changes

The Making of Star-Studded Climate Drama ‘Extrapolations’: “I Hope People Are Moved, Entertained and Perhaps a Little Bit Scared” (Hollywood Reporter) A must-miss.

Meet the ‘methane man’ with a mission: Using microbes to eat up the greenhouse gas (CNBC)

Climate Freeloaders Are Destroying the Planet (Wired)

‘A living pantry’: how an urban food forest in Arizona became a model for climate action (The Guardian)

Earth’s oceans are showing early and surprising record warming (Washington Post)

Weather tracker: sea surface temperatures hit record high (The Guardian)

The melting Arctic gets a U.S. ambassador and an influx of military cash (NPR) Another cushy well-paid government job for a Biden donor.

Cooking Oil Shortage Looms As Biofuel Demand Surges Due To ‘Climate Solution’  Let ’em eat bugs.

CBC: “Misinformation Can Have a Very Strong Impact” on Support for Cutting Emissions

Help Save the Planet:  Eat Lentils

Gas Station Bans Next on Climate Agenda: Colorado city BANS new gas stations due to ‘obligation’ to tackle ‘climate change’ – Follows California cities

Warmer Climate Spreading Flesh-Eating Bacteria

Deforesting To Save The Planet? Europe’s Forests Shrinking as Wood Used For “Green” Energy

California bill would require high schools to hand out free condoms

Read it.

The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project is suing the Justice Department for communications related to the department’s failure to apply federal law against far-left protests at the Supreme Court Justices’ homes.

The suit follows Attorney General Merrick Garland’s admission that it is a federal crime (under 18 U.S.C. § 1507) to protest outside a judge’s home with the intent of influencing that judge. Garland has not enforced that law, though both Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin and former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan requested that he do so, and in March, Garland claimed that the U.S. Marshals “on scene” make the decision “whether to make an arrest.”

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

If you look up “courtly southern gentleman” in a dictionary, you just might find a picture of Louisiana Senator John Kennedy (a former Democrat, by the way). He’s rapidly becoming my favorite senator in committee hearings, for his polite questions and unrancorous demeanor with Biden nominees that expose their ignorance or ideological bias. He’s bit like detective Columbo; he lets the nominees hang themselves with their own words.

This week he exposed the fact that a Biden judicial nominee for a federal district court judgeship, Kato Crews, doesn’t have the first clue about “Brady motions,” a key doctrine in criminal law. The nominee thinks it has something to do with gun control, confusing it with the Brady handgun law.

Read it.

TikTok’s CEO is gearing up for a grilling in Congress, but he’s got some new, powerful allies in his corner: a political consulting firm whose founder lavished praise on Mao Zedong and is now one of Biden’s top aides — and a socialist congressman who thinks banning the Chinese spyware is racist.

ZMan jerks back the curtain.

The German philosopher Carl Schmitt observed that politics is about the friend – enemy distinction, played out in public. Everyone has people they call friends and people they think of as adversaries or enemies. This only becomes political when others outside these relations are called upon to pick sides. Politics is about groups of people opposing one another in public and forcing others to pick sides. The winner is the one whose group dominates the others.

The thing is, it is never easy to know your friends in politics, but the only way to survive is to know your enemies. Those would be the groups whose very existence depends upon your demise. Friendships are transactional as they are situational. When your interests align with those of another faction, you are friends while you have some common interest. When conditions change, the friendship ends. Enemies are always enemies because who they are the negation of you.

This is why conservatism has never amounted to much in America. They insist that politics do not exist and instead public policy is decided by factual accuracy and the best ideas to solve problems. While the people we insist on calling the Left run around playing politics, the conservatives spend their days making impressive charts and graphs explaining why they are right. Occasionally they win an election, only to be outclassed by their opponents once in office.

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Something that did not happen during the ‘insurrection’ on Jan. 6.

A now-deceased transgender Antifa activist on Monday shot and critically wounded a police detective, Seattle police revealed this week.

The activist, 29-year-old Nathan Stolsig, shot detective David Easterly in the torso after three deputies served Stolsig an eviction notice, the Post Millennial reported. Stolsig, who identified as a transgender woman by the name “Eucytus,” belonged to the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), a group that actively encouraged the 2020 BLM-Antifa riots.

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If he would just skip across the border like the other riff-raff, he wouldn’t have to bother with all this paperwork.

The New Yorker.

A federal official wrote a parody of Harvard’s attitude toward Asian Americans and shared it with the dean of admissions. Why did a judge try to hide that from the public?

New York Post.

Think of it as evolution in action.

Seriously, that’s what this sort of thing is. People who are so self-indulgent that they engage in activities that eventually kill them are Natural Selection’s legitimate prey. Yeah, it’s sad, but this isn’t something that droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven; they did it to themselves.  I feel the same way about drug addicts. Your body, your choice, your death. Time to cull the herd.

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The narco submarine phenomenon is reaching new heights. 2019 yielded a bumper crop of narco-submarines, and it looks set to continue in 2020. These purpose-built vessels are one way Colombian cartels smuggle drugs. Routes take drugs up the Pacific towards Central America (and onwards to the United States), across the Caribbean and over the Atlantic to Europe and East Africa. Based on open source intelligence there were over 40 reported incidents in 2019. This compares to just two a decade earlier. But this is just the tip of the iceberg because most get through.

 

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Hollywood has always loved the children of famous people. In 2022, the internet reduced them to two little words.

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The renewable energy sector is facing a quandary: how Australia will dispose of 80 million solar panels in an environmentally friendly way when they reach the end of their life.

Paradoxically, one of the reasons people are installing solar photovoltaic (PV) panels in huge numbers is to help the environment, but the industry is now grappling with the anticipated waste generated by 100,000 metric tons of panels due to be dismantled in Australia from 2035.

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Google says it has suspended the app for the Chinese e-commerce giant Pinduoduo after malware was found in versions of the app. The move comes just weeks after Chinese security researchers published an analysis suggesting the popular e-commerce app sought to seize total control over affected devices by exploiting multiple security vulnerabilities in a variety of Android-based smartphones.

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A “treasure map” has led researchers to one of the largest meteorites ever found in Antarctica — and more than 300,000 other space rocks could be waiting to be discovered on the icy continent.

We have the technology.

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Police in Ecuador are investigating attacks on media organizations across the country after a journalist was injured by an exploding USB flash drive.

In a press conference on Tuesday, Xavier Chango Llerena, chief of criminal investigations for the National Police of Ecuador, said authorities had found envelopes containing presumed explosive devices at four media outlets, two in Guayaquil and two in Quito, and at a parcel delivery company.

It’s not clear to me that you could pack enough explosive into a thumb drive to do any good, although it would certainly scare the snot out of somebody–and maybe that’s good enough.

U.S. will speed transfer of Abrams tanks to Ukraine, Pentagon says (Washington Post)

US to send Patriot missile systems and tanks to Ukraine faster than originally planned (CNN)

Ukraine To Receive Abrams Tanks From U.S. As Soon As This Fall-Sources | Russia Ukraine War News (CNN)

US speeds up Abrams tank delivery to Ukraine war zone (Associated Press)

Kremlin Says These Countries Can’t Be Part of Ukraine Peace Talks (Newsweek)

How Russia’s Advanced T-90M Proryv Compares to the U.S. M1 Abrams Tank (Newsweek)

Deficit Hawk Hypocrites And Warmongers Unite, Apparently Hoping To Start WWIII

What War? Poland Still Doing €4.7 Billion In Business With Russia And Is Third-Biggest Exporter To Russia In Europe

SPACE: Roscosmos Dies In Ukraine

A Million Rounds: EU Defense Ministers Agree on Arms Supply Deal

Russian Drones Swarm Kyiv as Xi Leaves Moscow

Communications between Stormy Daniels and Trump attorney turned over to Manhattan DA (CNN)

The People vs. Trump (Politico) Since when is a fat black lawyer from Harvard ‘The People’?

GOP Rep. Says Trump Indictment Will ‘Blow Over’ Because He’ll Just No-Show (Daily Beast)

Court Makes ‘Extraordinary’ Late Night Demands in Trump Mar-a-Lago Case (Daily Beast)

Palm Beach Warns of Traffic as MAGA Fans Descend on Mar-a-Lago (Daily Beast)

Trump holding his next rally in Waco, Texas, sends a message to the far right, experts say (USA Today) Experts say! That proves it!

Tucker Carlson Desperately Tries to Walk Back Trump ‘Hate’ (Daily Beast)

Looks Like Trump Is Going Down As Special Counsel Nails Him With Evidence Of Classified Docs Crimes (PoliticusUSA)

Democrats see downside in Trump’s N.Y. case (Axios)

Waiting Game Over Potential Trump Indictment Grows More Intense Sucking all of the air out of the room….

Trump’s campaign 2024 campaign strategy revealed — and it’s even worse than his first 2 campaigns (Raw Story) Robert Reich has found a new place to bash Trump!

Justice Department convinces federal judge Trump used his attorney in furtherance of a crime in classified docs probe (CNN)

The Legal Intricacies That Could Make or Break the Case Against Trump (N.Y. Times)

Trump indictment: Grand jury vote expected Wednesday (NewsNation)

Will First Trump Indictment Trigger More?

Who Had It Worse, Trump or Jesus Christ? (Vice) They actually pay people to write this crap.

Prosecutor: Secret Service Won’t Allow Trump Handcuffing

Source: Trump Grand Jury Will Not Meet Wednesday

‘Still at Large’: The View Is Annoyed They Fell for Trump’s Arrest Claim

The sudden turn of events that could derail Trump’s indictment (Fox)

Former aide says Trump has ‘learned nothing’ from Jan. 6 (The Hill)

Trump paid off Stormy Daniels to subvert democracy (Public Notice)

Judge approves ‘crime fraud exception’ in special counsel probe of Trump classified documents (NBC)

J.K. Rowling Podcast Finally Lets a Trans Person Push Back (Daily Beast) In contrast to all of the trans outlets that have let Rowling speak. (Whose turn is it to be the victim?)

WITCH HUNT Harry Potter fans ‘asked to report JK Rowling supporters at wizard convention to stamp out transphobia’ (The Scottish Sun)

Harry Potter Forum Booted J.K. Rowling… For ‘Inadequate’ Knowledge of the Books (Startefacts)

Bill could remove Confederate images from Stone Mountain, but leave iconic carving alone (WSB-TV)

Six Additional Oath Keepers Members and Affiliates Found Guilty of Charges Related to Capitol Breach (DoJ) I guess that’s why they don’t have any time to go after BLM or Antifa.

After 81 years, a Virginia military base sheds its Confederate name (Washington Post)

Fort Bragg sets official date for name change ceremony (ABC)

Author of challenged book tells school board: Banning sexually explicit books is ‘illegal’ overreach (Fox)

Murdoch succeeded where Putin failed. Time for a Fox hunt (Sydney Morning Herald)

Indian state turns off internet for 27 million, for four days, to stymie one man

Squad Member Jamaal Bowman Says ‘Xenophobia’ Behind Republican Push to Ban TikTok He says that like it was a bad thing.

High School Christian Coach Wins $1.7M Settlement

North Carolina’s Lt. Governor Is A Facebook Brawler Whose Posts Railed Against Gays, Blacks, And Jews (Talking Points Mem0)

DeSantis to expand ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law to all grades (Associated Press)

Pennsylvania Dem Threatens To Withhold Funding From University of Pittsburgh Over Conservative Speakers

MSNBC Claims Idaho Pro-Lifers Are Making It More Difficult To Give Birth

Number of city dwellers lacking safe water to double by 2050 (The Guardian)

UN warns against ‘vampiric’ global water use (BBC)

1 in 4 people in the world do not have access to clean drinking water, the U.N. says (NPR)

Funding the World’s Water Funding Crisis: How Donors are Missing the Mark (ReliefWeb)

We need the right kind of climate optimism (Vox)

‘A wake-up call’: total weight of wild mammals less than 10% of humanity’s (The Guardian) You can’t make this stuff up.

Climate change: Can we really take CO2 back out the air? (BBC)

Sticker shock awaits New Yorkers’ utility bills to fund renewables (Politico)

Row erupts over deep-sea mining as world races to finalise vital regulations (The Guardian)

EU Already Caving On Their 2035 Combustion Engine Ban, Considering Allowing E-Fuel Vehicles

Don’t Worry, It Will Only Cost $131 Trillion To Address Climate Change

Claim: Climate Skeptics Have Long Intimidated Scientists from Full Disclosure

Dutch Government Reconsiders Green Agenda Following Farmer Victory

UN Accelerating Carbon ‘Net Zero’ Targets

World Energy Data Confirms Fossil Fuels Will Dominate Future Global Energy Use

Daily Show Laments Its Jokes Won’t End Fossil Fuels Usage

Too Hot to Handle: CNN Correspondent Bill Weir Claims ‘Time Bomb is Ticking’ on Global Warming’

The Disappearing Doomsday