The Antiplanner.

The city of Portland announced yesterday that it received a $2 million federal grant to get it to ban gasoline (and, presumably, Diesel) delivery vehicles in a sixteen-block area of downtown Portland. That means all supplies to offices in that area will have to be transferred from petroleum-powered vehicles to electric vehicles before they enter the zone, thus driving up costs.

Quillette.

A review of Indigenous Continent by Pekka Hämäläinen, 592 pages, Liveright (September 2022)

The Freudian concept known as “reaction formation” refers to a psychological defense mechanism against guilt. It occurs when an individual responds to a shame-inducing instinct with an overcorrection. Much of modern American history appears to be in the grip of reaction formation. Mortification at the developed West’s historical misdeeds has produced a utopian narrative of indigenous worlds typified by matriarchy, cooperation, pacifism, and gender fluidity. That no such world ever existed is beside the point; much of history is narrated to suit the proclivities of the audience, not to tell the truth about what actually happened.

This seems to be specifically true for our understanding of American Indian history. The violent migration of Europeans to the New World was very much like violent migrations throughout history and across cultures, most likely including successive waves of North American Indians (though the history there is murky). Yet instead of understanding these events in the context of larger historical patterns, the Indian Wars are cast as a morality tale in the manner of Howard Zinn, in which the actions of the European settlers are represented as uniquely reprehensible. This fantasy may be an inversion of past jingoistic and racist caricatures of American Indians as “savages,” but it is not more historically accurate.

I thought about this a lot as I read Pekka Hämäläinen’s fascinating and controversial new history of North American Indians, Indigenous Continent. Told largely from the perspective of the natives, Hämäläinen covers the centuries from the arrival of Europeans in North America through to the final subjugation of the last tribes in the late 19th century. It’s a gripping history, but watching the author attempt to come to terms with the history he is telling also makes for fascinating psychological analysis.

I have read this book, and it is well worth your time.

Florida Phoenix.

Dunh dunh DUNHHHHHH….

Read it.

Touchscreens are fine when you’re sitting at a desk pondering the nature of the universe, but when you’re driving and having to keep conscious of six things at once you want a button you can locate by hand and know when it’s been pushed.

Randi Weingarten, teacher’s union helped coordinate CDC’s 2021 school reopening guidance, records reveal (N.Y. Post)

Trudeau Slammed After Claiming He Never ‘Forced’ Anyone To Take COVID-19 Vaccine

Mother Of 7 Denied Kidney Transplant For Refusing COVID Shot In Georgia

Explosive New Study Finds Face Masks May Increase Stillbirths, Testicular Dysfunction, Cognitive Decline — In Kids

RFK Jr. Says Middle Class Was ‘Systematically’ Wiped Out By COVID-19 Lockdowns  A bit of an exaggeration, perhaps, but directionally correct.

Fauci Says He Never Locked Anything Down And Has Never Heard Of COVID (Babylon Bee)

Fauci Tries To Rewrite History in New York Times Interview

Whistleblower to tell House that US govt is ‘middleman’ in multibillion dollar migrant child trafficking op (Fox)

Voters say no to Biden, but Joe is intent on finishing the (awful) job (N.Y. Post)

Democrats Refuse to Deal as House Republicans Deliver a Pro-Growth Bill to Reduce Spending

Biden Admin Taps Ford’s Top Electric Vehicle Lobbyist as Energy Department Adviser

Inside Biden’s strategy to repair Harris’ image (Axios) Good luck with that.

Biden Admin Preps for Surge in Border Crossings as Restrictions Set To End

WTI Bounces Off OPEC+ Lows As Biden Admin Draws SPR Down For 4th Straight Week

Senate Dems Advance Nomination of Biden Labor Secretary Nominee Who Presided Over Mass Fraud in California

80-Year-Old Biden Once Criticized 63-Year-Old Opponent as Too Old for Office

Is Kamala Harris the ‘dumbest person’ ever to be elected Vice President in history?

Buttigieg Announces Closure Of Interstate System For 8-10 Days As Highways Undergo Racial Sensitivity Training  (Babylon Bee)

Biden Campaign Launch Celebrates Unpopular Kamala in Bid To Repair Her Image  Cacklin’ Rosie could sure use it.

‘Fossil Gas’: Climate Activists Press Biden To Stop Companies From Calling Gas ‘Natural’

Ethnic Studies Curricula Seek to Undermine and Erase American Culture

Duke Prof Calls For $14 Trillion In Reparations For Black Americans

These are the places most at risk from record-breaking heat waves as the planet warms (CNN)

Here’s where extreme heat could be devastating in coming years (NBC News)

Here are the places most at risk from record-shattering heat (Seattle Times)

These Countries Are Most Vulnerable to Dangerous Heat Waves This Century (Daily Beast) A Narrative weather report.

FTC takes a microscope to sustainability claims (Politico)

Attorney General Bonta Co-Leads Multistate Coalition Urging the FTC to Strengthen Environmental Marketing Standards (California Attorney General)

Fashion greenwashing glossary part two: what do ‘biodegradable’, ‘closed loop’ and ‘degrowth’ really mean? (The Guardian) Virtue-signaling in a Narrative way.

Celebrating Conscious Indian Labels Steering Clear From The Greenwashing Mandate (Elle India) Elle India? What’s next, Vogue India?

Retiring coal-fired power plants need a replacement. These Western states may have the answer (Deseret News) Go nuclear!

Manchin: I’ll Vote to Repeal Inflation Reduction Act to Stop Radical Climate Agenda

GM Kills Chevy Bolt, Paving Path for Electric Pickups

As Sea Levels Rise, the East Coast Is Also Sinking

Environmentalists Want to Make Their Religion Official

European Green Activists Winning on the Streets and in the Courts

The real reason for the Supreme Court’s corruption crisis (Vox) Anybody who could believe that Clarence Thomas was ‘corrupt’ is doing too much drugs. Besides, anything this guy says applies even more to the prog justices, who don’t even pretend to stick to the Constitution. That’s the corruption that counts.

How Bud Light made its true feelings about Dylan Mulvaney depressingly clear (MSNBC)

Tucker Carlson Fans Cancel Fox Nation Subscriptions

Carlson’s Willingness to Question Dominant Narratives Made Him an Enemy of Powerful Establishment

Researcher Ousted for ‘Dangerous’ Study Into Censorship of Feminists in Academia Who Don’t Buy Into Transgenderism

RFK Jr. Responds To DNC’s Plans To Skip Primary Debates: ‘The System Is Indeed Rigged’

The Memo: How long will Tucker Carlson’s influence linger? (The Hill)

The Internet That Tucker Carlson Built (Wired)

Fox Has a Secret ‘Oppo File’ to Keep Tucker Carlson in Check, Sources Say (Rolling Stone)

‘Good riddance’: Pentagon officials cheer Tucker Carlson’s ouster (Politico) As do all of the other Deep State apparatchiks.

Tucker Carlson had to go because he was having way too much fun at others’ expense (Arizona Republic)

Fox loses $500 million in value after announcing Tucker Carlson is leaving (CBS News)

Watchdog group requests criminal investigation of Tennessee Speaker Cameron Sexton (Popular Information) In the Narrative media, ‘watchdog group’ means ‘band of proglodyte busybodies’.

The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling Continue

“Good Riddance”: Military-Industrial Complex Celebrates Tucker Carlson’s Fox News Exit

A Far-Right Moms Group Is Terrorizing Schools in the Name of Protecting Kids (Vice) Far-Righ1! Terrorizing! (Hey, maybe they just don’t want their kids exposed to perverts and their literature.)

Daily Show, Buttigieg Team Up To Attack GOP ‘Culture Wars,’ Fox

The Wall Street Journal’s Double Standards (The Bulwark) Mona Charen outs herself as a CINO as the Kristol Krew continues to carry water for the Left.

Grown Adult Temper Tantrums Over Misgendering, Deadnaming & Male Periods

Hate crimes will spike around the 2024 presidential election, civil rights group warns (USA Today) Especially since their business model depends on it.

Library Group Blames Book Challenges on Anti-LGBT Prejudice, Ignores Porn Charges 

The Case for Tucker Carlson’s Show to Move to Twitter

New Ky. Poet Laureate Called Trump Supporters Bigots

CNN Claims Permit-Less Carry Only in Red States, But Their Map Shows Blue States

Photo of Bud Light Booth With No Line at Morgan Wallen Concert Goes Viral (Newsweek)

Bud Light fallout intensifies over trans partnership (NBC News)

Bud Light fumbles, but experts say inclusive ads will stay (Associated Press)

Students sue after Michigan school district forces them to remove ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ sweatshirts

Born With It? Dylan Mulvaney Partners With Maybelline, Prompting Calls For New Boycott

S.F. repeals its boycott of 30 states that passed conservative laws. Here’s why (S.F. Chronicle) Spin, spin, spin….

Ex-New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to join Harvard (Associated Press) The Crust take care of their own.

Why Bernie Sanders has no heir

Montana Transgender Lawmaker Faces Censure or Expulsion  Apparently progs have some sort of Constitutional right to create disturbances and insult their opponents on the floor of the state legislature. Who knew?

STUDY: On CBS, James Corden’s ‘Late Late Show’ Partisan Guests Were ALL Democrats

Police Release Activists Who Brought Berlin to “Standstill”  No consequences, so they’ll continue to disrupt life for ordinary people.

Brooklyn Public Library Offers Free ECards to Teens Nationwide Facing Book Bans

Bud Light Suffers “Staggering” Sales Decline As Boycott Intensifies

New Deck Chairs on Titanic: CNN to Launch Show for Charles Barkley, Obama Pal Gayle King

’60 Minutes’ Ray Epps Story ‘Raises More Questions Than Answers’ On His Riot Urging

Montana House votes to formally punish transgender lawmaker, Rep. Zooey Zephyr (NPR) Let’s see whether the Narrative media have more power than a state legislature.

Montana House Republicans ban Rep. Zooey Zephyr from House chamber for remainder of legislative session (CNN) Let’s see whether the Narrative media have more power than a state legislature.

Senators Pushing New SCOTUS ‘Code of Conduct’ Bill

King, Murkowski Introduce Bill Requiring Supreme Court to Create A Code of Conduct (Senator King) Although King is formally an independent, he flocks with the Democrats. Although Murkowski is formally a Republican, she more often than not flocks with the Democrats as well.

San Diego Moves To Purchase Hotels for Homeless at Cost of $400K Per Room Your tax dollars at work. (Hey, in California that’s cheap.) I wonder how much they’ll decrease in value once the homeless get a crack (no pun intended) at them.

I don’t love Biden, but I’m terrified of Trump (CNN) Good.

Decision On Trump Indictment To Be Annouced ‘In The Near Future’: Fulton County DA  As close to the election as possible.

Donald Trump needs protective order to prevent him from publicizing evidence, prosecutors say (ABC) What are they trying to hide?

Manhattan DA Moves To Stop Trump From Looking at Trial Documents Without Supervision

The Foundry.

The Supreme Court is activist, abortion is healthcare, pro-life laws are confusing, and abortion drugs are safe.

Those were the talking points from Democratic senators and their witnesses at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing held on April 26 titled “The Assault on Reproductive Rights in a Post-Dobbs America.”

Committee chairman Richard Durbin, D-Ill., opened by criticizing the Supreme Court’s “judicial activism” in overruling Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which invented and affirmed a constitutional right to abortion.

No one attempted, or even suggested, that Roe had properly interpreted the Constitution or explained how correcting such a grave error could be called “activist.”

Instead, it was clear that, to Durbin, an “activist” decision was simply one he didn’t like.

American Mind.

The poet Allen Ginsberg’s sexual proclivity for little boys is well known, not least of all his membership in NAMBLA, the North American Man/Boy Love Association. His most famous remark about children, however, was not in any sense erotic. “We’ll get you through your children!” he screamed at Norman Podhoretz in 1958, at the end of a heated argument that saw the two men part ways as friends for good. This wasn’t a specific threat to Podhoretz, neither of whose children had been born yet. Instead, Ginsberg was issuing a prophecy about the fate of American, indeed Western, society as a whole. The revolution may leave you—the squares and the sticks-in-the-mud—untouched, but it will touch your children and your grandchildren—and there’s not a damn thing you can do about it.

Just how fateful a prophecy this was was revealed in the past week, when one Klint Ludwig appeared on CNN with erstwhile host Don Lemon. Ludwig is the grandson of Andrew Lester, the 84-year-old man accused of the attempted murder of Ralph Yarl. Lester is alleged to have shot Yarl, an African-American teen, after Yarl rang his doorbell late at night. Despite his injuries, Yarl was able to escape on foot. He and his supporters maintain he had simply rung Lester’s doorbell “by mistake” when he was going to pick up his siblings.

American Mind.

After the founder of a large foundation dies, his heirs often transform it. Compare industrial tycoon Henry Ford to the Ford Foundation, which rejects “the model of capitalism we have today.” But it is uniquely odd that Charles Koch’s enterprises have moved so far left while the donor remains alive. Billions of dollars are at stake.

Many current and former donor partners, grantees, and staff agree: “Old Koch” was about economic freedom and the core values that sustain a free society, but “New Koch” downplays or hides those values in order to appeal to the contemporary Left. Old Koch focused on getting government out of the way so that civil society could flourish. New Koch has largely skipped that step and moved on to “social entrepreneurship.”

Those outside the ideological network in which Koch is a major player (known as the “liberty movement”) should understand a few things. First, “Koch” means not just the Charles Koch Foundation (CKF) but the large family of organizations and projects that are run by or strongly influenced by Stand Together, the umbrella Koch organization. These include core programs such as the Koch Associate Program (KAP), organizations launched by Koch with varying degrees of independence like Americans for Prosperity (AFP), and well-funded Koch-adjacent organizations like the Institute for Humane Studies. Koch Industries’ annual revenue easily tops $100 billion.

John Stossel.

Some schools are ditching traditional grading.

Instead, they use “labor-based grading,” an idea promoted by Arizona State University professor Asao Inoue.

Labor-based grading means basing grades more on effort than the quality of work.

In addition, Inoue lectured a conference of rhetoric professors “stop saying that we have to teach this dominant English. … If you use a single standard to grade your students’ languaging, you engage in racism!”

Really, you can’t make this shit up.

Reuters.

Police officers stand guard before a trial of Iranian diplomat Assadollah Assadi, charged in Belgium with planning to bomb a meeting of an exiled Iranian opposition group in France, at the entrance to the court building in Antwerp, Belgium.

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

Read it.

Kentucky’s Democratic governor wants a left-wing writer who believes Appalachia is “homophobic” and says a majority of his state’s voters are “bigots” to be his state’s “ambassador to the rest of the world.”

ZMan delivers the bad news.

The point of all this is that order depends upon rules, but it also requires an enforcer of those rules and that is always someone with the power to make exceptions. If that person or entity abuses that power, we slowly move out of the world of order and into the hellish domain of rule by tyrant. The tyrant flips the concept of the rule of law on its head so that the rules become dangerous. Today’s lawful action can be deemed unlawful tomorrow by the tyrant.

We see this in miniature on the social media platforms. YouTube creators must spend time self-policing their old content because even though they complied with the rules at the time, the rules change constantly. That old video about Rumble was within the rules two years ago, but all of a sudden, it is now a violation of the rules, so you can lose your channel as a result of it. This applies across all social media platforms. The “terms of service” is a license to unleash hell on the platform users.

The same people turning the rules of the internet into a jumble of exceptions administered by petty tyrants are doing the same to the law. It used to be that you could have an opinion about the powerful people. You could get a bunch of your friends to hold a rally in order to express that opinion. In theory you can still do these things, but it is impossible to know if it is legal. Years after the fact the state of Virginia is prosecuting Charlottesville protestors for carrying tiki torches.

The Foundry.

How should Christians respond when LGBT activists demand they compromise the truth of Scripture by endorsing same-sex marriage and transgender identity?

A global gathering of Anglicans just provided an excellent example.

In February, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, the head of the Church of England and the “first among equals” in the global Anglican Communion, the third-largest Christian denomination, defended blessings for same-sex couples while insisting that the move did not violate the church’s doctrine that marriage is between one man and one woman for life.

“For the first time, the Church of England will publicly, unreservedly and joyfully welcome same-sex couples in church,” Welby said in a joint statement with Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell at the time.

Leaders at the Global Anglican Futures Conference (GAFCON) wouldn’t stand for this. On Friday, they signed the Kigali Commitment, condemning Welby’s move as “blasphemy” and declaring that he and the Church of England had abdicated their leadership of the Anglican Communion.

“It grieves the Holy Spirit and us that the leadership of the Church of England is determined to bless sin,” GAFCON leaders wrote in the Kigali Commitment. “Since the Lord does not bless same-sex unions, it is pastorally deceptive and blasphemous to craft prayers that invoke blessing in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.”

Tyler Cowen.

I’m not sure the AGI concept is entirely well-defined, but let’s put aside the more dramatic scenarios and assume that AI can perform at least some of the following functions:

1. Evaluate many policies and regulations better than human analysts can.

2. Sometimes outperform and outguess asset price markets.

3. Formulate the most effective campaign strategies for politicians.

4. Understand and manage geopolitics better than humans can.

5. Write better Supreme Court opinions and, for a given ethical point of view, produce a better ruling.

You could add to that list, but you get the point.  These are a big stretch beyond current models, but not on the super-brain level.

One option, of course, is simply that everyone can use this service, like the current GPT-4, and then few questions arise about differential political access.  But what if the service is expensive, and/or access is restricted for reasons of law, regulation, and national security?  Exactly who or what in government allocates use of the service within government?

Steve Sailer.

Some crimes, like the wounding of 16-year-old black youth Ralph Yarl by elderly white man Andrew Lester in Kansas City, MO, are National News. Other crimes, like the intentional vehicular murder by 16-year-old black youth Israel Muyaya Madimba of 70-year-old white man Norbert Olmscheid in St. Cloud, MN, are local news.

College Board To Revise African American Studies Course Under Pressure From Critical Race Theorists (Washington Free Beacon)

DA to decide on Georgia election probe charges in summer (Asasociated Press) Another Soros-backed ‘DA of Color’ goes after Trump.

Atlanta Prosecutor Sets Timetable for Charging Decisions in Trump Investigation (N.Y. Times) As close to the election as possible, I have no doubt.

Trump Is Losing the E. Jean Carroll Rape Case Even Before It Starts (Daily Beast) He hopes, he hopes, he hopes….

Biden’s never-Trump campaign for ’24 (Axios)

Jurors in the Trump rape case were advised to use fake names with each other to preserve their anonymity (Insider)

Lawyers suggest a way around abortion pill restrictions but doctors may be afraid to try it (Politico)

Abortion pill ruling offers a breather, but new threats are already on the way (Boston Globe) New threats to unborn children are certainly ‘on the way’.

Bud Light suffers ‘staggering’ 17% sales plunge amid Dylan Mulvaney controversy (N.Y. Post)

Bud Light Sales Drop Leaves Conservatives Rejoicing: ‘Devastating Boycott’ (Newsweek) Apparently men-in-dresses aren’t actually their target demographic after all.

New Report Exposes Growing, Billion Dollar Budget Fiasco In Illinois’ Free Medicaid Program For Undocumented Immigrants

Office Buildings Are Emptying In Major U.S. Cities Like Houston, Dallas, New York And San Francisco  Who wants to work in a Democrat shit-hole city?

Transgender Teacher Spoke About Wanting To Shoot Students, Parents Accuse District Of ‘Cover-Up’

CBS Throws ‘Conservative’ Label At Fox, Refuses CNN ‘Liberal’ Label

Second Amendment Still About Armed Self-Defense, as These 11 Examples of Defensive Gun Use Show

HUH? MSNBC Guest Falsely Claims Abortion is Safer Than Pregnancy

A BBC Instruction Manual For Kids To Propagandize Their Parents

Kim Foxx Won’t Run For Reelection — And Fires Back At Those Blaming Her For Crime Spike

Maybelline Gets Burned by the Latest Round of Dylan Mulvaney Boycotts

Daily Show Defends Bud Light ‘Having A Vagina Does Not Make You A Woman’

Bloomberg LP Insanely Boasts About Its Latest Anti-American ESG Push on Companies

Boring is Good: The Moral Case for Joe Biden (Rolling Stone) There’s a difference between ‘boring’ and ‘drooling’.

Public School Critics’ New Book Details 40 Examples of Educational ‘Mediocrity’

Canadian Government Report Unveils Anti-Capitalist Agenda  My, what a surprise.

Soros Quietly Resumes Lobbying With $1.6 Million to Boost Biden Bills

Pfizer Quietly Financed Groups Lobbying For COVID Vaccine Mandates: Fang

A closer look at the U.S. pandemic response reached an unsettling conclusion (Washington Post)

“Arcturus Variant”: Russia revives Covid scam, right on cue

FDA: Vaccines Don’t Have To Prevent Infection Or Transmission  Did you think so? Foolish you!

Portland Has Given Millions to a Sketchy ‘Anti-Racist’ Group That Won’t Say What It Plans To Do With The Money

Homebuyers With Good Credit Could Pay To Boost Black Homeownership Under Biden Rule

Recent, rapid ocean warming ahead of El Niño alarms scientists (BBC)

Fashion greenwashing glossary part two: what do ‘biodegradable’, ‘closed loop’ and ‘degrowth’ really mean? (The Guardian)

Greenwashing in the Crosshairs: Regulators Around the Globe Take Aim (AdWeek)

How to Spot Greenwashing: When Companies Aren’t as Green as They Claim (Gold Coast Week)

China gears up for peak emissions season with record coal imports: Maguire (Reuters)

China approves coal power surge, risking “climate disasters,” Greenpeace says (CBS News)

Poland’s grid operator disconnects wind, solar facilities after oversupply of renewable energy (Fox)

Senators Question Feasibility Of EPA’s New Vehicle Emissions Standards

Massive iceberg discharges during the last ice age had no impact on nearby Greenland, raising new questions about climate dynamics

Biden’s corruption is enough to disqualify him from office now (N.Y. Post) Andy McCarthy.

Rep. James Comer flags six ‘concerning’ Biden moves in family probe (N.Y. Post)

At least a dozen Biden relatives will be exposed in foreign-money deals: James Comer (N.Y. Post)

Biden Goes After GOP for Book Bans  More lies; schools removing pro-pervert lit from their libraries doesn’t ‘ban’ the book in any meaningful sense.

‘Let’s Clear That Issue Up Right Now’: Arkansas Judge Orders Hunter Biden to Court To Answer Laptop Questions

Kamala Harris Claims Trump ‘Broke’ Border and Biden Is ‘Attempting to Fix It’

Biden, Harris Meet With ‘Tennessee 3’ to Push Gun Control

Majority Of US Voters Think ‘Cheating’ Affected Outcome Of 2022 Midterm Elections

Rep. Dan Bishop Sounds Off on Latest Hunter Biden Laptop Cover-Up Revelations

“The Purpose of Communist Propaganda Is to Humiliate”—Why the Biden Regime Lies About the Border  John Derbyshire.

Peter Reagan: The Secret Reason Governments Love Inflation

Biden Statistically Unlikely to Survive Second Term, Analysis Finds

3,000-Strong Migrant Caravan Begins Walking Toward US–Mexico Border  If Mexico does nothing to stop this, it is effectively an act of war.

Judge: Hunter Biden Must Attend Paternity Hearings

Late Night Responds To Carlson, Lemon With 16x As Many Carlson Jokes

Leftists Shut Down Montana House Session After Trans Lawmaker Is Censured  Sounds like an insurrection to me.

Democrat becomes first senator calling for Justice Thomas’ resignation (Washington Press)

OAN Founder Says He’d Pay Tucker Carlson $25 Million To Join Network

Meet the new debt limit plan, just like the old debt limit plan (Washington Post)

Biden Administration Stonewalls Probe Into Hundreds of Millions in Potentially Wasted Foreign Aid  Don’t forget: Ten percent for the Big Guy!

Fisking 4 Claims From Biden’s Reelection Announcement

What Are Illegal Chinese Communist Government Police Stations Doing in the US?

Biden’s 2024 announcement is begging for the return of Trump

‘The L Word’ cast appears at White House briefing to mark Lesbian Visibility Week (ABC News)

Joe Biden Is Old. Get Over It. (Daily Beast)

FLASHBACK: We Were All Told Biden Would Only Serve One Term

See Tucker Carlson fired: Fox News finally forced to ‘pay for it’ (MSNBC) Jackals, circling….

Tucker Carlson’s departure will change cable TV for the better (CNN) He’s hated because he was effective. Jackals, circling….

The Supreme Court’s slippery slope (The Hill)

Alito’s remarkable reasoning in his abortion-pill dissent (Washington Post)

Montana transgender lawmaker silenced again, backers protest (Associated Press) Another left-wing disruption gaslighted as ‘free speech’. (Montana Transgender Lawmaker Censured For ‘Hateful’ Comments)

Don’t Let the Door Hit You in the Ass, Tucker Carlson! (The Nation)  Jackals, circling….

Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts Offers Tucker Carlson a Job After Fox News Ouster

The GOP Is Trying to Steal Democracy in Ohio. That Has National Implications. (The Status Kuo) I wonder how much they could get for it from a fence.

Will Tucker Carlson Become Alex Jones? (The Atlantic) I predict further attempts to shove Tucker off onto the fringe in the public mind.

Tucker Carlson’s ouster is another sign that MAGA is shrinking (Washington Post) Greg Sargent hasn’t been paying attention–Tucker isn’t ‘MAGA’ in any meaningful sense. (Apparently MAGA Is The New Nigger.)

Tucker Carlson’s Firing Was Hilarious (The New Republic) Laugh while you can, monkey boy.

Finally, accountability for Tucker Carlson. But it’s only a start (L.A. Times) Jackals, circling….

Why Fox News Is Going to Get Worse—a Lot Worse (The New Republic) The Narrative witch-hunt continues.

Bill O’Reilly: Fox Feared Upcoming Lawsuits, Saw Tucker as Lighting Rod

New York Times Laments Fox News Won’t Be ‘Humbler or Gentler’ (Less Conservative)

George Conway On Tucker’s Departure: His Viewers ‘Don’t Want to Think for Themselves’

Tearing Down Art to Spare Republican Snowflakes’ Feelings? (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew continue to carry water for the Left.

Tucker Carlson was doing something different — and darker — than most Fox hosts (Vox) Jackals, circling….

Hysterical Putin Pals Claim the Deep State Took Out Tucker Carlson (Daily Beast) But of course only Republicans are conspiracy theorists.

AOC Cheers Carlson’s Firing: ‘Deplatforming Works’  Temporarily.

They’re Hunting Nazis. New England Is a Target-Rich Environment (Rolling Stone) Of course. I mean, all those Democrats….

The Republican Agenda Is One Bad Idea After Another (Vanity Fair)

Tucker Carlson’s Long Con (Mother Jones) Jackals, circling….

AOC fundraising off Tucker Carlson’s departure from Fox News (Washington Examiner)

Democratic Senator Calls for Clarence Thomas To Resign: “He Cannot Judge Right From Wrong” (The New Republic)

Republicans Did Something Most People Don’t Like, So They’re Changing the Rules (N.Y. Times)

Neil Gorsuch Has Joined the Supreme Court Ethics Scandal Party (Rolling Stone)

New York Times Tags Tucker Carlson as ‘Far Right,’ But Don Lemon Is Just ‘Fiery’

The Smuggest Man On Air (The American Prospect) Jackals, circling….

Gorsuch property sale renews calls for Supreme Court ethics reform (Washington Post)

WIRED.

The escalating risks of Russia’s war in Ukraine have led scientists to study the unthinkable and model the aftermath of nuclear detonation.

Gates of Vienna.

Yesterday in the province of Vicenza in northern Italy a mentally ill culture-enricher from Morocco, presumably traumatized by having to live among infidels, went on a rampage and shot a police officer while shouting “Allahu Akhbar”. I know readers will be saddened to learn that the youngster did not survive the incident. He was shot dead by an officer of the Carabinieri, who is probably a WAYCIST.

NewsMax.

Leaders of terrorist organizations in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria are reportedly worried that the Jewish state will return to its previous policy of assassinating the leadership of extremist organizations committed to Israel’s destruction.

Sounds like a plan. A perfectly reasonable plan.

In addition, terrorist heads are warning the Jewish state that such targeted killings would trigger a new wave of violence.

As opposed to the peaceful activities in which they normally engage?

Read it.

Some call them the Salafist police. Others say they are just ordinary extremists. Either way, they are terrorizing other Muslims in the Netherlands, radicalizing Muslim youth, and working to undermine the secular democratic system – not just in Holland, but in Belgium, France, and elsewhere across Europe.

Read it.

In some countries, the soldiers fight wars, in Israel, they fight to stop a genocide.

Wherever you go,
Whatever you do,
A Muslim waits there
To try to kill you.
Especially if 
You might be a Jew.

The Antiplanner.

Transit advocates cheered when, in 2018, a census of downtown Portland found that 42 percent of the 102,000 people who worked downtown took transit to work. What they didn’t want to hear is that less than 10 percent of workers in the Portland area worked downtown, and transit only carried 3.4 percent of non-downtown employees to work. As demographer Wendell Cox says, “transit is about downtown.”

…

The migration of jobs out of downtowns joins telecommuting as major existential threats to urban transit. The problem is that transit agencies get so much of their money from taxpayers that they have had no incentive to redesign their transit systems for modern cities. Instead, many bus routes today still follow streetcar lines from a hundred years ago. Rather than fix this, most big-city agencies focused on building expensive rail lines into downtowns that were declining in importance long before the pandemics. Downtown property owners lobbied hard for these policies, but the result was that transit service to anyone going anywhere but to or from downtowns was lousy.

Indeed it is. Public transit is most successful where (as in NYC) everybody lives outside of DownTown and needs to get there for work or cultural amenities or whatever.

Read it.

Diving deeper into the report, we find the ingredient costs to make a traditional English breakfast are up a whopping 23% in March from last year. This is the most significant increase since Bloomberg created the Breakfast Index, which tracks prices of sausage, bacon, eggs, bread, butter, tomatoes, mushrooms, milk, tea, and coffee last June.

Don’t worry about Tucker; Tucker will be fine.

The hills are alive with Narrative media talking heads attempting to dance on his grave; were they in a similar situation (such as Don Lemon), they would be hurting, because there are a limited number of slots for left-wing hatemongers, so they think he’ll have to go and live in a doghouse somehwere. But such celebrations are quite premature.

Scott Adams is fond of saying that he never really appreciated freedom of speech until he got ‘cancelled’. He is doing quite well with his subscription podcast Coffee with Scott Adams on the locals platform, now the sole vehicle for the Dilbert cartoons. (It’s dirt-cheap for what you get, and I highly recommend it.) Tucker is similarly liberated now, and has  a ton of options.

Almost immediately there was a public job offer from Heritage Foundation, and I’m sure he’s gotten calls from American Enterprise Institute, Manhattan Institute, Cato Institute, and other right-wing think-tanks. Sure, he won’t be making the money he was making at Fox, but such fellowship positions (which can pay up to $200,000) entail no actual duties other than to be active in speaking and writing and ‘spreading the word’, which he will be doing anyway.

I presume that his next major move will be a book, a best-selling tell-all exposé of life inside the Fox universe. Being fired gives Tucker carte blanche to grind Rupert Murdoch’s face into the dirt in print, and I (for one) wouldn’t be able to resist that temptation.

Plus he could go the podcast route, which is such a moneymaker for Joe Rogan and others. His audience at Fox is a built-in fanbase for such an endeavor, and he wouldn’t have to share the proceeds with a bunch of Crustian bureaucrats.

Or he could do radio. Dan Bongino has a daily show in Rush Limbaugh’s old time slot; Hugh Hewitt, Dennis Prager, Mark Levin, Sean Hannity, Mike Gallagher, and Mark Davis make a good living on the airwaves. He could start by guest-hosting in various places, and when one of the big names decides to retire he could just step into their shoes, as Hugh Hewitt did when Bill Bennett gave up his morning show.

And then there’s writing columns for places like the New York Post, Washington Examiner, Washington Free Beacon, NewsBusters, The Foundry, the Daily Wire (which Tucker helped to found), and even major newspapers that feel like stirring up the zoo. (I doubt that The Dispatch and The Bulwark would be interested, but they’re not the only game in town.)

And then there’s giving speeches. Speaking fees for people with Tucker’s public footprint can be very sweet. Bill Buckley used to make up the money that National Review annually lost by such means.

Don’t worry about Tucker; Tucker will be just fine.

UPDATE: All eyes on Tucker

UPDATE: Tucker Leaves the Sinking Ship: How Long Does Cable News Have Left Anyway?

UPDATE: Observations On Tucker  John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Russia ‘will not forgive’ US denial of journalist visas (Associated Press)

Russia ‘will not forget or forgive’ US refusal of journalist visas (The Hill)

EU’s Borrell Wants European Navies To Patrol & Protect Taiwan Strait

‘Addicted to Funding From China’: Stanford Rakes in Chinese Cash

A Secret Police Station Grows in Chinatown

INFORMATION WARFARE: Palestinians Praise and Promote Terrorists

AIR DEFENSE: Finland Prefers David’s Sling

The polity that is Russian markets in everything

Ukraine’s Long-Awaited Counteroffensive Begins, Troops Move Into Kherson

Ukraine: Russia Relocating Civilians in Kherson

Chinese Ambassador Suggests Ex-Soviet States Aren’t Real Countries, Sparking Fury In Europe

America’s Afghan Watchdog Says “You’re Gonna See Pilferage” Of Ukraine Aid  Not that anybody in government cares.

Navy failing to learn lessons from shipboard fires over the years: GAO

Possible links between Covid shots and tinnitus emerge (NBC News)

COVID vaccines could have links with causing tinnitus as new theories emerge (Sky News)

New theories of possible link between Covid vaccines and tinnitus are emerging (AOL)

CDC says tinnitus not linked to Covid vaccines (NBC News)

Study: Masks May Raise Stillbirths, Testicular Toxicity, Cognitive Decline  Beyond inconvenient.

Clarence Thomas didn’t learn anything from Watergate, apparently (MSNBC) And MSNBC is living in the past, apparently.

How rich are the US Supreme Court justices? (Seattle Times)

CT’s senators demand accountability over Clarence Thomas allegations, but can Congress even act? (CT Insider)

How Elon Musk Turned the Blue Checkmark Into a Scarlet Letter (Slate)

Disgraced ABC Journalist James Meek ‘knew’ the age of the 16-year-old girl he pressured for nude photos, docs reveal, before FBI raid on his home (UK Daily Mail)

Why Phil Jackson’s Anti-BLM Screed Is No Surprise (Daily Beast) the Daily Beast’s attempted witch-hunt is certainly no surprise.

AOC: ‘Better for country’ if Dominion had secured Fox News apology (The Guardian) They just wanted to take the money and run.

Ray Epps, a Jan. 6 protester now at the center of a far-right conspiracy, says he relives the Capitol riot every day (CBS News) Every trip to the bank.

‘Positively disgraceful’ John Roberts buried by ethics expert for refusal to talk about Clarence Thomas (Raw Story)  Doubt he’ll even notice.

Cry Me A River: On MSNBC, Dominion Lawyer Claims $788 Million Settlement ‘Bittersweet!’

Hunter Biden’s legal team wants Treasury to investigate ex-Trump aide and Congress to take action against MTG (NBC News)

A nation rocked by mass shootings goes on an extended gun-buying run (CNN) What do they expect? People want to defend themselves. Shooters know that ‘gun-free zones’, like schools, are a Happy Hunting Ground for those who are willing to disregard their petty notices. If even one of the teachers in the recent shootings had been packing, lives would have been saved.

Kevin McCarthy’s clown car is headed right into a debt ceiling crisis (MSNBC) Pushing Narrative FUD.

Fox News Fires The Only Reason People Watch Fox News (Babylon Bee)

The End of Trans America Comes Into Focus (The New Republic) “Republicans have made it clear that their number one legislative and cultural priority is the “eradication of transgenderism from public life,” as was stated by Daily Wire host Michael Knowles at the Conservative Political Action Conference this year.” Sorry, but Knowles doesn’t speak for all Republicans. Compared to issues like abortion and free speech, trans people are pretty small beer.

Fox News Staffers Celebrate Tucker Carlson’s Departure: ‘Pure Joy’ (Rolling Stone) I suspect they actually meant ‘Rolling Stone news staffers’.

Tucker Carlson, Fake Populist and Genuine Racist (New York Magazine) Tucker Carlson isn’t any kind of a racist; Jonathan Chait is a genuine smear-merchant.

Russian state outlet RT reaches out to Tucker Carlson (Raw Story) They’re just making this shit up.

Celebs Respond to ‘Horrid, Soulless’ Tucker Carlson Parting Ways with Fox News

WATCH: AOC Calls for Government Crackdown on Conservative Journalists

The 10 Most Fascist Things Tucker Carlson Said on Air (The New Republic) Now that Carlson is outside of the Murdoch herd, the jackals are circling. Needless to say, none of them have a clue what ‘fascist’ means, or have the self-awareness to realize when they’re doing it, too.

Dance on Tucker Carlson’s Fox Grave, but Fear His Zombie (Daily Beast) Jackals, circling….

Whoopi Goldberg Leads ‘The View’ Audience in Celebration of Tucker Carlson’s Ouster From Fox News  Jackals, circling….

‘The End of Fox News’: MAGA World Reacts to Tucker Carlson’s Departure (Rolling Stone) Jackals, circling….

China ramps up coal power despite carbon neutral pledges (The Guardian)

Greenpeace claims China approves significant increase in coal power despite emissions pledge (FirstPost)

Germany’s Green Energy Delusion Has An Enormous Environmental & Economic Price-Tag

Australia-wide assessment: climate change or instrument change?

Romania Refuses to Eat the Bugs

The Great Electrician Shortage (The New Yorker) Turns out that ‘going green’ will depend on having a lot of yucky, sweaty Dirt People electricians available.

Gov. Chris Sununu calls Trump ‘a loser’ who won’t get the GOP nomination for 2024 (Insider) And the Narrative media are there to publicize every smear.

Proud Boys saw themselves as ‘Trump’s army,’ U.S. says in trial closings (Washington Post) So what? They also saw the election has having been stolen.

Trump committed treason and will try again. He must be barred from running (The Guardian) Robert Reich is like Bernie’s moron younger brother.

Trump Book Hits Top Spot on Amazon

Biden’s false Hunter laptop letter interfered in election beyond ‘anything China or Russia’ could do: GOP pol (N.Y. Post)

NY Post scorches ‘fake’ intel letter used to sink laptop story: ‘Actual disinfo operation’ helped Biden (Fox)

Antony Blinken and the ‘made men’ of the Biden administration (The Hill)

2 GOP Leaders: Blinken Should Resign Over Laptop Letter

Sad Trombone: NYT Calls Out WH for Hiding Biden from the News Media

Rep. Chip Roy’s Prescription to Secure Border: Use Power of Purse to ‘Bring President to His Knees’  Never happen.

DOJ Appeared to Minimize Leftist Role in Violent Pro-Abortion Attacks Ahead of ‘Night of Rage’

Bad-Luck Biden? Former Phillies Star Tells 76ers Not To Invite Jill If Philly Reaches NBA Finals

Hunter Biden may be living at the White House to evade legal papers from his baby mama (N.Y. Post)

Biden Opens a New Back Door on Immigration (N.Y. Times)

WH’s Susan Rice Steps Down Amid Migrant Children Report

“Where Am I? Where Am I?”: Trump Mocks Biden For Always Getting Lost

While Under Felony Investigation, Crack Addict Influence Peddler Hunter Biden Demands Ethics Probe Into MTG

WATCH: Veep Thoughts with Kamala Harris (Africa Edition)

Hiding Hunter?

Biden’s Pick For Top Africa Job Twice Failed Foreign Service Officer Test, ‘Couldn’t Get Through the English Grammar Section’  He ought to fit right in, then. Biden has the same problem.

ALERT: Biden Taps Nepo Baby With Troubled Past To Manage Reelection Campaign

Biden’s Trillion Dollar Clean Energy Grab Bag In Pictures And Quotes

Biden Administration Evacuates Sudan Amid Unrest, Leaving 16,000 Americans Behind  Sorry about that, guys. Better luck next time.

Man Avoids IRS Audit By Labeling All His Venmo Transactions ‘Payments To Ukraine’  (Babylon Bee)

WH Press Stay Silent on KJP Rant About GOP Giving ‘Asthma to Kids,’ ‘Melt Bones’

‘Why Aren’t Black Celebrities Talking About That?’ – Bill Maher Asks Why Black People Are Killing Each Other In Cities Like Chicago

I can’t look away from the house where Ralph Yarl was shot (CNN) How about the house in Jasper, TX, where nine people were shot?

Watch: Ohio Senate Candidate Floats Reparations For White People Hey, black people can always to back to Africa if they think they’d be better off.

The Rontavious Factor

The New York Times Sure Loves Itself a Man-Bites-Dog, White-Shoots-Black Story

Former Anheuser-Busch Executive Reacts to Bud Light Controversy (Newsweek)

Fmr Anheuser-Busch exec on Bud Light marketing VP taking leave of absence: Who will it be accountable to? (Fox)

Bud Light Brewer Puts Another Top Executive on Leave (Newsweek)

UFT accused of hypocrisy after national union boss Randi Weingarten’s charter school gets NYC space (N.Y. Post)

Spy letter about Hunter Biden shows how Dems are undermining democracy (N.Y. Post)

AP ‘Fact Check’ Rushes to Defend Dems Stripping Parental Rights with Teens

Florida LGBT Group Cancels Pride Parade After City Says No Kids Allowed

Republicans Help Democrats Advance Biden’s Judicial Nominees Amid Feinstein’s Absence

Bush, Clinton And Obama NGO Teams Up With AmEx Global To Fly Migrants Into The US

The Garland, Blinken, And Morell Morass

The Most Dangerous International Treaty Ever Proposed

The UN’s global Californication

ABC’s ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Pushes for Gun Control, Keeps Up Abortion Propaganda

Will Democrats Fight for Trans People? (New York Magazine) That’s not the question. The question is: Will Democrats fight for normal people? The available evidence suggests not.

Hillary Clinton: Republicans Are Playing Into the Hands of Putin and Xi (N.Y. Times) Hillary has no room to talk about playing into the hands of the Russians and Chinese.

Don Lemon, CNN Star Anchor, to Leave the Network (N.Y. Times) Being the Magic Halfrican can only carry you so far.

CNN Host Don Lemon Says Network Fired Him

The View’s Faux Conservatives Want GOP to Abandon Pro-Life Stance

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As a contributing columnist for the Post, former CIA deputy director Michael Morell published numerous articles before the election attacking former president Donald Trump and pushing various claims about Russian disinformation. Morell called on Trump’s intelligence chief, John Ratcliffe, to resign in his final Post column on Oct. 12, 2020, a week before he concocted the Hunter letter. In an Oct. 11 piece, Morell said Trump’s financial debt raises national security concerns. In August 2020, Morell made the disputed claim that “the Russians infiltrated Trump’s 2016 campaign.”

Morell was carrying water for the Biden campaign behind the scenes, too. The former intel official admitted in a recent congressional interview that he was behind an Oct. 19, 2020, letter that cast the release of Hunter Biden’s laptop days earlier as a probable Russian disinformation campaign. Morell said he organized the letter, which was signed by 50 other former intelligence officials, after a conversation with Biden adviser Tony Blinken, now the secretary of state. Morell told lawmakers he undertook the initiative to help Biden “win the election.”

The Post has penalized columnists for campaign connections more tenuous than Morell’s. In 2011, conservative columnist George Will came under scrutiny after his wife began advising Rick Perry’s presidential campaign. The Post’s ombudsman found that Will did not use his column to improperly boost his wife’s client, but said the columnist should have disclosed his wife’s work. The ombudsman wrote that “readers need to be able to judge for themselves if any conflict of interest could bias a journalist, even an opinion columnist.”

“A cynic would say none of this is surprising,” Tim Graham, the Media Research Center’s director of media analysis, said of Morell and the Post. He noted that the Post describes Morell’s CIA service in the George W. Bush administration to make Morell look bipartisan. “It’s that ‘career official’ spin that helps them present people like Morell as less partisan.”

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

The long-time image of Republicans as the “party of the rich” and country club types is no longer true. Both charts demonstrate that Democrats have become the dominant party of upper-income households.

One of the many, many lies Democrats tell. Elon Musk is about the only one of the ten top billionaires in the U.S. who isn’t a card-carrying Democrat. Buffet, Gates, Bezos–all Dems.

Read it.

Elizabeth Warren’s baby has grown into a deformed mutant.

The recent security breach at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau shows the problems with the administrative state, but the threat that the CFPB and similar bureaucracies pose to consumers runs much deeper.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, created under President Barack Obama in 2010 to regulate consumer affairs, reported to lawmakers March 21 that a staffer had forwarded the confidential financial information of 256, 000 consumers to his personal email address.

This astounding data breach also implicated confidential supervisory information from 45 different financial institutions.

No government employee is to be trusted with your confidential information.