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The Democratic National Committee has cut ties with Marc Elias, the party’s scandal-plagued election lawyer who was behind the infamous Steele dossier that falsely accused Donald Trump’s campaign of colluding with Russia.

The DNC and Elias are parting ways over “strategic disagreements,” according to Punchbowl News. It is a surprising divorce for the DNC and Elias, considered one of the Democratic Party’s top elections lawyers. Elias has worked for the DNC since 2009 and made over $1.9 million from the DNC this cycle alone. Elias has suffered a number of high-profile legal setbacks in recent years, most notably when a federal judge dismissed one of Elias’s lawsuits as a “Hail Mary” pass meant to undermine free elections.

A spokesperson for the DNC said the committee was “appreciative” of Elias’s years of service. A spokesperson for Elias’s firm, Elias Law Group, said the firm was “proud of the work it has done for the DNC.”

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Americans are fleeing blue states, and especially blue cities, in historic numbers. Can things possibly get worse? They can, indeed they can.

Take San Francisco. Things are so bad there that Whole Foods, an iconic liberal company, has shut its flagship store in that city after just one year of operation, due to rampant crime and drug use that, the company said, made it impossible to assure the safety of its employees. But when it comes to commercial real estate, San Francisco, while very bad, is not the bottom of the barrel.

John Phelan reports on a series of corporate departures from downtown Minneapolis. The numbers are grim.

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The New York Times reported that the Biden administration will abuse EPA regulations to eliminate most real car sales by 2030. The plan is to force 67% of car sales to be electric by 2032. Most Americans won’t be able to afford them, but they’ll have no other options.

Even the cheapest electric cars, which are still far more expensive than their real car counterparts and are just one battery problem away from turning into mostly unusable junk, are out of the price range of the majority of Americans who need an income of $80,000 to make an EV auto loan work. That’s fine in Washington D.C. where the median income of $83,567 is the highest in the nation, but will entirely price much of the country out of the new car market.

Washington Free Beacon.

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5) The Jussie Smollett hate crime hoax

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6) The memories (of the 1968 riots)

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7) The Obamas

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8) The fatass billionaire who wants to be president (but never will)

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9) The health care facilities

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UPDATE: Democrats Choose to Advertise Failures of Single-Party Democratic Rule by Holding the 2024 DNC in Chicago (Reason)

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A small Texas county is weighing whether to shut down its public library system after a federal judge ruled the commissioners violated the constitution by banning a dozen mostly children’s books and ordered that they be put back in circulation.

No bleats about ‘threat to our democracy’ from the Narrative media here, you’ll notice.

The books that Llano County officials removed from the library shelves include Isabel Wilkerson’s “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents”; “They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group” by Susan Campbell Bartoletti; the graphic novel “Spinning” by Tillie Walden; and three books from Dawn McMillan’s “I Need a New Butt!” series.

Yeah, kids desperately need to have access to ‘I Need a New Butt’.

Also removed from the library were Maurice Sendak’s “In the Night Kitchen”; Robie H. Harris’ “It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health”; and four other children’s picture books with “silly themes and rhymes,” like “Larry the Farting Leprechaun,” “Gary the Goose and His Gas on the Loose”; “Freddie the Farting Snowman” and “Harvey the Heart Has Too Many Farts,” according to the complaint.

They’re not divided at all. The ‘rich’ are already tax at more than ‘their fair share’.

Washington Free Beacon.

A United Nations official tasked with overseeing an investigation into alleged Israeli war crimes publicly stated that the Jewish state does not have a right to defend itself against terrorism, leading to calls from international activists for the official to be fired.

Francesca Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur for the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, claimed over the weekend that Israel’s efforts to combat a deadly wave of Palestinian terror strikes are unjustified, writing on Twitter, “Israel has a right to defend itself, but can’t claim it when it comes to the people it oppresses/whose lands it colonizes.”

Her comments come amid a deadly spurt of Palestinian violence that has killed several Israeli civilians and put the nation on high alert. Albanese, who is overseeing the United Nations’ investigation into alleged Israeli war crimes, is under fire from pro-Israel activists who accuse her of pushing her “relentless, systematic, and unhinged bias against Israel,” according to a letter sent Tuesday by the International Legal Forum (ILF). The forum, a group of more than 4,000 lawyers, is calling on the United Nations to fire Albanese for her “anti-Semitism and virulent bias.”

The Guardian.

Harvard University will rename its graduate school of arts and sciences after billionaire hedge fund executive and Republican megadonor Kenneth Griffin, the institution announced on Tuesday, after a new $300m contribution brought Griffin’s total support of his alma mater to more than half a billion dollars.

sGriffin, 54, is the founder and chief executive of Citadel, a $59bn hedge fund, and Citadel Securities, which trades securities. He is the 35th richest person in the world, with a net worth of $34.9bn, according to the Bloomberg billionaires index.

Griffin will be just the fourth individual to have a school at Harvard named after him in exchange for a donation, according to the Harvard Crimson student newspaper. His name will carry controversy thanks to Griffin’s stature as a major political donor to rightwing politicians and his company’s investments in firearm and ammunition manufacturers.

Money talks. Even Harvard can be bought.

‘Arcturus,’ a highly transmissible COVID variant eyed by the WHO, appears to have a new symptom. Here’s what you need to know (Fortune)

Climate emergency is the biggest health crisis of our time – bigger than Covid (The Guardian)

Biden Quietly Signs Bill Ending National COVID Emergency

Los Angeles Replaces One State Of Emergency With Another

Study: Greenhouse gas ‘tipping points’ preceded major earlier warming events (The Hill)

The Ice in East Antarctica Has Melted Before (Maritime-Executive)

Extreme greens show Hochul who really sets NY’s climate agenda (N.Y. Post)

Cost of climate policies heat up beyond New York budget talks (Spectrum News)

Lawmakers question ‘rushed’ US-Japan EV minerals deal (Roll Call)

The Rising Chorus of Renewable Energy Skeptics (Relilience)

Climate emergency is the biggest health crisis of our time – bigger than Covid (The Guardian)

Ithaca’s Crazy Plan to Be Our First All-Electric City (Rolling Stone)

In Ohio, Regulators Are Letting The Polluter Guide A Toxic Cleanup (Huffington Post)

Climate deniers ejected from teachers conference for deceptive comic book (Washington P0st)

110,000 Deaths A Year in South Asia Due to Rising Temperatures, Claims WHO  Claims!

‘Climate Emergency’ is Fabricated Alarmism Holding Poor Back | Conversation with Judith Curry PhD

Media FAILS: Ignores Real-World Data When It Comes to Tornadoes and Climate Change

Heavy EVs Could Collapse Old Parking Garages: Report

Why Is Sea Level Rise Worse In Some Places?

Maine city reopens arena to hundreds of asylum seekers (Associated Press)

Portland once again opens Expo as temporary shelter as asylum seekers flow into city (Portland Press-Herald)

Democrats Push Pete Buttigieg To Address ‘Racist Traffic Enforcement’

FBI Hatched Plan To Surveil Catholics, Weaponization Committee Says

Basement Biden 2.0? White House Courts TikTok Influencers Despite National Security Risk

Three Hunter Biden Paintings On Display At SoHo Gallery For $85,000 Each  Thinly-disguised bribery.

Why Did Alex Soros Visit The Biden White House 14 Times?  Checking up on how his money is being spent?

America First Legal’s Investigation Reveals the Biden White House Was Involved With the Mar-a-Lago Raid and that NARA Misled Congress; AFL Launches Additional Investigation  My, what a surprise.

ICYMI: KJP Flails When Journos Point Out the WH Is Hiding Biden From Press Conferences

Hunter Biden Associates’ 80 White House Visits Evidence ‘Biden Family Enterprise Centered Around Joe Biden’

Local NAACP president calls expulsion of Tennessee lawmakers a ‘political lynching’ (NBC News)

Nashville council votes to reinstate ousted Tennessee legislator Justin Jones (NBC News) They don’t care that he broke the rules, they don’t care that he was disruptive, all they care about is the color of his skin–racism, straight up. “The three broke House rules and used a bullhorn when they were not recognized to speak.” That tells you everything you need to know.

CBS Declares Ousted Dems Living In ‘Mostly White’ GOP’s Nightmares

Tennessee Democrats push to bring second expelled lawmaker back to House (Reuters) Of course they do. After all, Democrats don’t have to obey the same rules as everybody else. Perish the thought.

Justins Like Jesus? MSNBC Hails Expelled Legislators as ‘Resurrected,’ an ‘Easter Miracle’

In Minnesota, Black Activists Are Being Paid to Rest

Who Hates Cops?  Black people do!

Anarchy in South Africa

What the Bud Light backlash has in common with today’s Republican Party (Washington P0st) Philip Bump is Jennifer Rubin’s understudy at the WaPo.

Senate panel will hold a hearing on the Supreme Court’s ethical standards (NPR) The Senate has no control over Supreme Court ethical standards, other than trying an impeachment, so this is an obvious attempt to continue the witch-hunt against Clarence Thomas.

Clarence Thomas makes a mockery of ethical standards (Philadelphia Inquirer) Although not as much of a mockery as the Inquirer makes of journalism standards. Still waiting for some mention of the Biden Crime Family.

Progressive journalist doubles down bashing ‘birthing person’ language after backlash: ‘I’ll never apologize’ (Fox)

Louisville Shooter Connor Sturgeon’s Pronouns Spark Outrage (Newsweek)

Congress Members Announce Hearing, Demand Chief Justice Investigate Clarence Thomas’ Trips (ProPublica) The witch-hunt against Clarence Thomas proceeds apace. (Still no mention in ProPublica of the Biden Crime Family.)

Taibbi Still An Establishment Outsider For The Crime Of Actual Journalism

Judge’s abortion pill decision embraces extreme language and ideology of anti-abortion movement, experts say (NBC News) What experts? ‘Several legal and medical experts’. No names given, of course.

VILE Reid: GOP Likes ‘Lynching Vibe’, Doesn’t Care About Gun Deaths

Shellenberger: Why Trans Activists Attack Women

Jane’s Revenge ‘Will Be Held Accountable’ for Attacks on Pro-Life Centers, Lawyer Says

54 Years Ago, a Supreme Court Justice Was Forced to Quit for Behavior Arguably Less Egregious Than Thomas’s (N.Y. Times) Anything is ‘arguable’. Scraaaaaaape that barrel….

The Effort to Suppress the Vote Is Spreading to the Republican Mainstream (Slate) Democrats’ effort to steal the vote has long been their mainstream.

Meet the young Democrats waging war on MAGA from behind enemy lines (Washington Post) Apparently Democrats have no interest in making America great again. No surprise.

PBS Uses Thomas Story to Push CNN Reporter’s Book Warning of Scary Right-Wing SCOTUS

Colbert Suggests Thomas Friend is a Nazi, Calls Tennessee GOP Racist  Of course he does.

‘People will die’: why is Ron DeSantis loosening gun laws that most Floridians support? (The Guardian)

Senate to vote on measure condemning Trump’s call to ‘defund’ DOJ, FBI (Washington Post)

Right-wing judges may cripple the GOP (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin loses her shit. (She must have been on vacation or something.)

False Events: ABC Misleads, LIES About Texas Man Shooting BLM ‘Protester’

‘Devastating’: GOP Texas gov. moves to pardon man convicted of murdering Black Lives Matter protester (Raw Story)

Wisconsin Is Finally Coming Out of Its Scott Walker Nightmare (The Nation)

CNN Condemns GOP For Focusing on Education, Abortion Instead Of Gun Control

Sorry Doubters, But Bragg Was Right to Indict Trump (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew continues to carry water for the progs.

David Harsanyi.

Lock Donald Trump up, or don’t lock him up, but don’t tell me that “no one is above the law.” It’s one of the most ludicrous fantasies peddled by the Left.

Plenty of people are “above the law.” James Clapper, who lied under oath to Congress about spying on the American people, is above the law. John Brennan, who lied about a domestic spying operation on Senate staffers, is above the law. Unlike Trump adviser Peter Navarro, Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder was never going to be handcuffed and thrown in prison for ignoring a congressional subpoena. He is above the law.

Trump’s 2016 opponent, Hillary Clinton, is also above the law. The then-secretary of state set up a private server in her home to circumvent transparency surrounding her slush fund foundation. She sent 110 emails containing marked classified information, and 36 of those emails contained secret information. Eight of the email chains contained “top secret” information. Every one of those instances was a potential felony punishable with up to 10 years in prison.

We learned all of this from James Comey, then FBI director, who noted that Clinton had been “extremely careless” in conducting her business. Comey didn’t recommend charges because, he claimed, the state couldn’t prove Clinton’s intent—even though “gross negligence,” not intent, was the only standard he needed. Gross negligence and extreme carelessness are synonyms. Comey concocted a new standard to protect Clinton because she is above the law.

CNN insiders baffled why network stands by Don Lemon as controversies mount: ‘One of the biggest mysteries’

ABC’s GMA Hypes Leftist Outrage Over Ousted Insurrectionist Dems

Ousted Tennessee Lawmakers Say GOP Speaker Is An ‘Autocrat’ (Huffington Post)

‘Our vote doesn’t matter’: Black Tennessee residents frustrated over expulsion of legislators (NBC News) Not when you vote for insurrectionists.

Expelled Tennessee Lawmakers Both Seeking Seats Again (Huffington Post) Of course they are.

Baltimore Mayor Calls for ‘Youth Curfew’ After 2 Teens Shot

The Racial Element of Trump’s Attacks on His Prosecutors (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew finally descends into race-hustling.

Nets Celebrate Dem Insurrection Leaders Likely Returning to TN Legislature

Tennessee House speaker admits he’s powerless to stop reinstatement of expelled Democrats (Raw Story) But they can expel them again … and again … and again … until one side gets tired.

1 killed, 1 injured in shooting outside JCTC building in downtown Louisville (Courier Journal) Multiple suspects suggest gang activity.

George Santos Breaks With Trump, GOP Colleagues Over China Stance (Newsweek) And so it starts: How can I keep power? I know–I’ll be a RINO!

Trump attorney spars with NBC’s Chuck Todd, says former president is receiving ‘differential treatment’ (The Hill)

Full Trump attorney: DOJ’s unprecedented ‘campaign of leaks’ doesn’t respect Trump ‘privilege’ (NBC News)

Trump attorney pushes back after NBC host asks if Trump is holding classified docs for payout: ‘Cheap shot’ (Fox)

Trump Lawyer Tries Desperately to Make Trump’s Docs Scandal All About Biden (Daily Beast)

Trump Attorney Spars With NBC: DOJ ‘Desperately’ Seeking Obstruction Charge

7 Things You Might Have Missed Last Week While the Media Were Stalking Trump

Politico Features Unhinged Professors Commenting on Bragg Indictment

Can Trump Get a Fair Trial in Manhattan?  Doubtful.

As Trump dominates the airwaves, ‘it feels like f–king 2016’ (Politico) They say that like it was a bad thing.

How Stormy Daniels Sees It Ending (New York Magazine) Unexplained: Why anybody would care.

House panel to examine ‘victims’ of Bragg policies as GOP casts doubt on NYC prosecutor who took on Trump (N.Y. Post)

Watch: UFC Crowd Erupts Into ‘USA’ Chant As Trump Arrives

UFC Fight Fans Rally For USA & Trump, Ridicule President Biden

Idaho Gov. Brad Little signs bill banning employers from requiring coronavirus vaccines (East Idaho News)

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #547

Five Times Faster by Simon Sharpe review – a radical but realistic path to net zero emissions (The Guardian)

Seas have drastically risen along southern U.S. coast in past decade (Washington Post) Call me when real estate prices drop in Malibu and Martha’s Vineyard.

Greenhouse gas emissions rose at ‘alarming’ rate last year, US data shows (The Guardian)

Utah is abandoning coal power because it doesn’t pencil, Editorial Board writes (Salt Lake Tribune) No, I don’t know what that means, either.

Underwater pendulums could calm waves and reduce coastal erosion (New Scientist)

Snow, floods and wildlife in peril: grueling winter leaves Yosemite scarred (The Guardian)

California will slash incentives for new rooftop solar arrays next week. Here’s what it means for the Bay Area (S.F. Chronicle)

Are Europe’s green summer forests a thing of the past? Hot, dry weather is turning trees brown (euronews.green)

The urgent global water crisis (GZERO)

Climate maniacs missing the forest for the trees (N.Y. Post)

In big climate move, EPA set to unveil tough limits on auto emissions

The Renewable Intermittency Challenge

‘Complete Transformation’: New Biden Rule Would Force Automakers to Ditch Gas, Sell Electric Vehicles

UCLA’s Daniel Swain and NPR’s David Romero Collude to Flood Our minds with a River of Climate Fear Mongering!

Report on Clarence Thomas’ travel habits is ‘politics plain and simple’: expert (Fox)

Clarence Thomas defends lavish vacations. Hear AOC’s response (CNN)

Donald Trump and Clarence Thomas were in the news for basically the same reason (MSNBC) Yeah,  they were targets of a prog witch-hunt.

Austin DA says it’s ‘deeply troubling’ that Texas Gov Abbott wants to pardon Army sergeant convicted of murder (Fox) No, it’s ‘deeply troubling’ that they railroaded this guy in an obvious case of self-defense.

Senator Mazie Hirono: ‘We are going to have hearings’ into paid trips taken by Justice Clarence Thomas (MSNBC) No mention of Hunter’s laptop, though.

Trump’s arraignment was messy. But signs of hope blossom across America. (MSNBC) Jen Psaki is still pushing the Narrative.

The history and future consequences of the Supreme Court’s conservative shift (PBS)

Nine Black Robes review: how Trump turned the supreme court right (The Guardian)

Transphobes share conspiracy theory about Daniel Radcliffe’s pregnant girlfriend (Pink News)

A national bullying of the poor: the trouble with America’s bootstrapping myth (The Guardian)

Marjorie Taylor Greene Ditches Bud Light, Internet Points Out Major Flaw (Newsweek)

Thousands of Christians Outraged at Tucker Carlson’s Transgender ‘Lies’ (Newsweek)

Are ‘Woke’ Companies Sponsoring Golf Pros That Fly Around In Private Jets?  Would that surprise you?

Class, MSNBC-Style: Michael Cohen Calls MTG Marjorie ‘Toilet’ Greene

Gov Greg Abbott pardons a murderer who killed a BLM protester to make Tucker Carlson happy (Dean Obeidallah) Another proglodyte mind-reader.

GOP embraces a new foreign policy: Bomb Mexico to stop fentanyl (Politico) Whatever it takes. Obviously Mexico can’t handle the problem by itself. Scott Adams has been pushing this for months.

If the Law Is Legitimate, Clarence Thomas Must Stand Trial (The American Prospect) The law is legitimate, the proglodyte distortion of it is not.

Is the GOP becoming the American fascist party? (Robert Reich) Too late, Democrats got there first.

Riley Gaines Threatens Lawsuit Against University After Alleged Assault by Trans Activists

American Politics Has Become Amplified Rage

Is it Time for the GOP to Panic? (The Bulwark) Charlie Sykes continues to carry water for the Left.

Republican efforts to be the parents’ party suffer a setback (Washington Post) Philip Bump is Jennifer Rubin’s understudy at the WaP0.

Republicans are a mess right now, and voters know it. Does the party? (The Guardian) Narrative! Getcher Narrative here! Ya can’t be Woke without a Narrative!

What to know as Gov. Abbott pushes to pardon a man who was just convicted of murder (NPR) What they won’t tell you is that he was railroaded by Democrat prosecutor in a Democrat city, in a clear case of self-defense.

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Amogy, a startup founded by four MIT grads, has unveiled an ammonia-powered semi truck that can be refueled in just eight minutes — giving it a significant advantage over battery-powered alternatives.

It’s developed a system that “cracks” the ammonia compound into nitrogen and hydrogen. The hydrogen is then run through a fuel cell to generate electricity, just like it would in a typical hydrogen vehicle.

Lifehacker.

This problem can easily arise when your bank gets bought by another bank. My wife and I had a bank that started as a credit union, then became a mutual savings bank, then was bought by another bank, which was in turn bought by another bank. The final bank in the series was shitty, so we found us another credit unions. In general credit unions are better then banks in almost every respect.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

American Experiment’s Bill Glahn has done a detailed analysis of campaign finance in Minnesota’s 2022 election cycle. He provided links to his findings here. In this Twitter thread, he sums up his thoughts about the structural advantages that Democrats enjoy in Minnesota, and, to one degree or another, across much of the United States. If you sometimes wonder how a party whose ideas are so awful can remain electorally competitive, this helps answer the question.

The 800-pound gorilla is, of course, the government-employee unions, starting with the teachers and working your way up.

The American Mind.

The battle for school choice in Texas has entered a pivotal stage. Last week, Senate Bill 8, which establishes education savings accounts, cleared the Committee on Education and awaits a floor vote. Teachers’ unions and education bureaucrats wailed predictably, terrified that empowered parents will upturn the government-school monopoly.

The case for school choice is strong. Milton Friedman, Nobel laureate and perhaps the most influential economist of the 20th century, first made it in the fifties. It took a while for the momentum to build, but eventually pilot programs became the source of important data about how school choice works. The results are in, and they show unambiguously that school choice helps students, taxpayers, and even existing government schools.

Opponents of school choice repeat a handful of superficially appealing but flawed arguments.

New York Times.

The Florida governor is pushing an aggressive proposal to penalize those who aid undocumented immigrants and to track costs for providing them with health care.

I wish Trump weren’t running so we could run this guy.

9to5Mac.

Over the past years, we’ve seen the problem of “juice jacking” grow at public charging stations for phones and other devices. Now the FBI considers the risk of juice jacking so high that it’s telling Americans to completely avoid using public chargers in airports, hotels, and malls.

As a refresher, juice jacking is when hackers install malicious code into public charging stations to read and steal data from mobile devices as well as track them. While it’s more likely to impact Android smartphones than iPhone and iPad, the latter are not invincible to such attacks.

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For years now, ‘cancel culture’ has been counted among the most potent weapons of the online battles between the Left and the Right. It was and remained the real power behind the social justice mob, the ace played when movements had to be supported and revolts explained. Fleeting and capricious, it planted the seeds of fear, creating the illusion of widespread discontent in the minds of politicians, top managers, and regular social media users.

Leftists generally claim that if there even is such a thing as cancel culture, it is a matter of accountability rather than a tool of oppression. Their position is usually as follows: people may have the right to speak, but they are not entitled to an audience, and others are well within their right to exercise their own free speech in order to de-platform the opinions they disagree with. They are not, after all, banning their opponents—they have no power to do so—but only suggesting that their ‘offensive and harmful’ ideas should not be condoned. Public speakers, in particular, are completely fine to target since they are responsible for spreading incorrect messages. “How can such-and-such be considered silenced?” leftists further ask. “We have only blocked his events, but he still has a published book and a YouTube channel.” Moreover, they are giving a voice to the marginalised communities (a terrible cliché phrase beloved by progressives), thus making another step towards the much-desired equality.

Gates of Vienna.

For many years it’s been obvious that the populace is being professionally scared. By that I mean that the government, major corporations, and the media deliberately contrive to frighten the general public. Agents of the state act in collusion with private interests to gin up fear among the citizenry in order to serve their own purposes. It’s a well-established principle of authoritarian and totalitarian governance that frightened citizens are easier to control and manipulate.

In recent years we’ve been subjected to a barrage of fear porn on various topics, beginning with the “pandemic” in early 2020. The scary stuff is delivered serially, with each new frightening topic emerging in the media just as the previous panic begins to wane. First COVID, then when that started to fade, monkeypox. Then came the danger of nuclear war. And through it all was woven the perennial favorite, “climate change”, the fear of which is supposed to make us give up the internal combustion engine, live in “smart cities”, and eat the bugs.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Lately, Democrats have tried to posture as free speech advocates by denouncing “bans” of various books. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz went on a tirade at a press conference, claiming that Florida–the Left’s bete noire these days–has “banned” various books like, for example, Of Mice and Men and Lord of the Flies. It turned out that Walz just made it up, as usual.

More broadly, the whole “book ban” controversy is stupid. No one is banning books. The issue, when it comes up, is which books, an infinitesimal number out of the millions that are available, should be selected for placement in school libraries, and thus recommended to our young people. And in fact, decisions made by public school librarians are often highly questionable.

As part of his attack on Florida, Governor Walz established a “lending library” in his office where people can drop off and borrow books. It was intended as a stunt, but Bill Walsh, Communications Director at Center of the American Experiment, took the governor’s offer seriously. He placed a number of books that are grossly inappropriate–featuring, for example, graphic depictions of gay sex–in the governor’s library. This short video is entertaining, but is also a sad reminder of the depravity to be found in many public schools.

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Yeah, Tesla’s always got ‘big plans’. Let’s see an actual product–that doesn’t blow up.

Fortune.

Like cancer vaccines, cancer blood panels aren’t some far-flung, futuristic goal. Multi-cancer early detection tests, known as MCEDs, are a thing—right now. Today. Google the phrase and you’ll find multiple products available for purchase. You can have one at your door in mere days.

It’s a concept that has promise, experts say. “The technology is advancing truly at a rapid pace,” Karen Knudsen, CEO of the American Cancer Society, tells Fortune. “I think all of us in the oncology world think that the next frontier is liquid biopsy”—another term for MCED.

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Europeans who are unhappy with the European Union find themselves at a disadvantage. The expression ‘Europe’ has a positive allure which Eurosceptics have not been able to puncture. This is why the EU’s supporters exploit it as a synonym for the organisation. Yet the confusion is decidedly unjust, not only because, as is well known, Europe is bigger and older than the EU but also for a more substantial and concrete reason. The process of European integration has historically not been a European project but rather an American one.

Justice Clarence Thomas’s megadonor friend collects Hitler memorabilia – report (The Guardian)  Scraaaaaaape that barrel….

Clarence Thomas’s ‘Ethical Lapses’ Are Likely Crimes, Kirschner Urges (Newsweek) Not even close.

Jordan Peterson’s Downfall Is How Boring He’s Become (Daily Beast) The swine just won’t stay cancelled.

A Silicon Valley Vs. Homeless-Industrial-Complex Power-Struggle Emerges In San Francisco

The worst federal judge in America now has a name (Washington Post) Ruth Marcus joins the Narrative witch-hunt.

Texas judge delivers on the hopes of his antiabortion world (Washington P0st) The WaPo is just full of mind-readers today.

Journos Blame Conservative ‘Selfish’ ‘Monsters’ for Nashville Shooting

NPR Hysteria: Kansas Bill Keeping Men Out of Ladies’ Room ‘Basically Erases’ Trans Folk

Fox News Host Whines About the ‘Violence’ of Lawmakers Demanding Gun Control (Daily Beast)

The Abortion Pill Ruling Is Bad Law, and the Biden Administration Should Fight It (N.Y. Times) Pushing the Narrative one piece at a time.

AOC Demands Justice Clarence Thomas’ Impeachment  Of course she does.

GOP wages an asymmetrical war on democracy because it can’t get the votes (Philadelphia Inquirer) Will Bunch holds the Jennifer Rubin chair at the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Why Do Mainstream Democrats Hate Matt Taibbi?

Chuck Todd Lashes Out at ‘Political Activist’ Abortion Pill Ruling

The Hideous Resurrection of the Comstock Act (N.Y. Times) Michelle Goldberg, like most Voices of the Crust, spends no time trying to understand why people might object to her and her running mates destroying their cultural and public morality. Totally clueless.

SFSU Responds To Alleged Assault On Riley Gaines… By Praising The Protesters

Becerra: Abortion Pill Ruling ‘Not America’  Somebody needs to point out that he doesn’t get to decide what is and isn’t America.

Newsom says DeSantis ‘scared to death’ (Politico) And proglodytes are mind-readers every age. Newsom is the one scared to death, because of his state’s tax base moving to Florida.

Mansplaining GOP Rep Thinks It’s Time to ‘Get Off’ the Abortion Issue (Daily Beast) Libsplaining prog ‘journalist’ thinks name-calling is preferable to discussing issues.

Lightfoot administration quietly re-upped ShotSpotter contract Johnson has vowed to cancel (Chicago Sun-Times) ShotSpotter is waaaaaaacist, you see.

A study confirms it: Tennessee’s democracy really is as bad as the expulsions made you think (Vox) Tennessee is now the new prog whipping-boy.

The Media Double Standard on Trump’s Manhattan Judge vs. Justice Clarence Thomas

Univision Accidentally Told The Truth About Tennessee Lawmaker Expulsions

Texas Governor Seeks Pardon of Man Convicted of Murder in Black Lives Matter Shooting

ABC’s Karl Drools Over Ousted Dem: ‘Took A Stand on Gun Violence’  No, he broke the rules in order to move a political agenda.

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Terminates Catholic Pastoral Care Contract During Holy Week

GOP: Biden Afghanistan Report ‘Spineless Piece of Fiction’

CNN Admits Less Than One Third Of Voters Want Another Joe Biden Term

Biden Seeks to Back Drugstores, Big Pharma in Promoting Abortion Pills Of course he does.

Biden Invites Expelled Tennessee Democrats To Visit White House  Promoting insurrrection! He ought to be impeached for that.

Health Secretary Says “Everything Is on the Table” to Protect Abortion Pill Access (Mother Jones) Killing unborn children is apparently very important to him.

White House plans support for drugstores, pharma in abortion pill battle (Reuters) Killing unborn children is apparently very important to them.

Companies That Get ‘Woke’ Aren’t Going Broke — They’re More Profitable Than Ever (Rolling Stone)

Washington state Senate passes bill banning production, sale, and importing of assault weapons (Fox)

Senate passes ban on assault weapons. Here’s what would be banned under the law (The Olympian)

Assault weapon ban passes Washington Senate (KING 5 Seattle)

Detransitioner slams clinics, media for politicizing ‘gender affirming care’: ‘They do everything for profit’ (N.Y. Post)

Iowa Stops Paying for Rape Victims’ Plan B, Abortions

Ex-ABC Senior Producer Who Rolling Stone Covered For Indicted On Child Porn Charges

Half Of America’s Top-Selling Beers Have Gone ‘Woke’

Led By “Fat Activists”, New York Considering Bill To Ban Weight Discrimination  There is no abnormality too ridiculous that proglodytes will not embrace it.

Trump is now Joe Biden’s favorite 2024 foe (N.Y. Post)

Vow of silence: why Biden is saying nothing about Trump’s indictment (The Guardian)

Besieged with Trump Questions, the Biden White House Won’t Take the Bait (Newsweek)

Trump returning to New York as E. Jean Carroll trial looms (MSNBC)

Oh, the hypocrisy (MSNBC) The hypocrites at MSNBC exhibit the Law of Liberal Projection.

How to Make Trump Go Away (N.Y. Times) Frank Luntz is Yet Another Anti-Trump Republican whose basic attitude seems to be How Did This Lower-Class Rube Get To Be President?

Carbon dioxide removal is not a current climate solution — we need to change the narrative (Nature)

The tricky plan to pull CO2 out of the air (Vox)

Why California’s floods may be ‘only a taste’ of what’s to come in a warmer world (NPR)

Lose the permafrost, lose the planet: A very chilling Doomsday scenario (WRAL)

Largest grid operator in West plans to give up coal for wind and solar in Wyoming (Buckrail)

Long-Term Outlook For Wyoming’s Largest Utility Creates Concern Over Grid Reliability, Electricity Rates (Cowboy State Daily)

PacifiCorp plans to accelerate shift from coal to renewable energy (Oil City News)

March was the second warmest on record, researchers say (The Hill)

Earth has second-warmest March even before arrival of planet-heating El Niño (Washington P0st)

March 2023 Was World’s Second Hottest on Record, Antarctica Sea Ice Reached Second-Lowest Extent: Report (The Weather Channel)

Global temperature in March 2023 was second highest for the month (Mint)

Germans Have Given Up On “Green” Energy

Abate CO2 emissions to cut global warming? Good luck with that!

History and Human Biology Argue for Warmth, Not Cold

Polish MP Proposes “Anti-Bug Law” To Require Labels On Insect-Containing Foods

The World Bank Is Getting a New Chief. Will He Pivot Toward Climate Action? (N.Y. Times) I think it’s a safe bet to say that he’ll certain talk a lot about it.

China health officials lash out at WHO, defend virus search (Associated Press)

China called out by World Health Organization over COVID origin data (Fox)

China lashes out at WHO over accusations it withheld COVID-19 information (EuroNews)

Covid may have originated from humans, Chinese scientist claims (CNN)

Did Switzerland Just Stop All COVID-19 Vaccinations?! (Techarp)

Switzerland Stops Recommending COVID-19 Vaccination (NTD)

Swiss government withdraws all recommendations for COVID vaccines (American Thinker)

Nasal COVID-19 vaccine outperforms mRNA shots in new study

CDC Partners With ‘Social And Behavior Change’ Initiative To Silence Vaccine Hesitancy  ‘Shut up!’ they explained.

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On a video podcast the other day, I made reference to the lockdown orders of March 2020. The host turned off the recording. He said it was fine to talk about this subject but from now on please refer to “the events of March 2020” with no specifics.

Otherwise, it will be taken down by YouTube and Facebook.

He needs those platforms for reach, and reach is necessary for his business model.

Free speech? What free speech?

I’d have got up and walked out. But that’s me.

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The first step has to be a recognition that neither philosophy is “in charge.” Enough people will simply not bow to a different philosophy to let that be so.

The second step is to accept that the philosophies are incompatible, that there is no “middle way” to maintain one society under some form of blended governance.

The third step is to be open to accommodation and trade. And the answer here was given to us with the “sanctuary movement” in Blue cities/states. Sanctuary places simply ignored the law applicable elsewhere. No discussion, no debate, no federal plebiscite. They simply directed their law enforcement personnel to not enforce certain laws, to not cooperate in the enforcement of others of those laws, penalized cooperation, and publicized their position. And the other side did not arrest politicians in those places as lawbreakers and conspirators. And those places continued to trade with the rest of the country and the economy outside of those places was not overly affected by local decisions.

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Over a million children left public schools in 2020, a migration that came on the heels of school lockdowns and masking requirements, and was hastened by increased parental dissatisfaction with K-12 education.

The Other McCain.

One of the things that liberals love to do is to discuss trends without examining the relevant context. Suppose we’re talking about childhood poverty, and the liberal wishes you to be concerned about an increase in this problem. Would it be helpful to know how the data are different between, say, single-parent households and married-parent households? Or how would the data look if we broke it down by race, or by immigration status of the parents? Isn’t it likely that some significant part of the trend in childhood poverty is caused by an enormous influx of impoverished Latin American immigrants, many of them here illegally? Yet even among immigrants, aren’t children less likely to grow up in poverty if they’re living in a two-parent married family household?

On this issue, as on so many other issues, you cannot understand what’s happening and why it’s happening if you do not disaggregate the data, breaking it down by demographic categories.

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Two Colorado child care workers will go on trial this June for presiding over a day care center where a 5-year-old pulled down a 3-year-old’s pants.

Amy Lovato and Roberta Rodriguez of The Schoolhouse day care center in Poncha Springs face criminal charges for not reporting this incident to the authorities quickly enough, and for putting the children in danger.

“Let this fact not be obscured: We are here because one preschooler pulled down another preschooler’s pants,” Jason Flores-Williams, Lovato’s attorney, told 11th Judicial District Judge Brian Green on Thursday, asking him to dismiss the charges.

Steve Sailer.

One of my anti-conspiracy theories is that remarkably little money is spent to influence American electoral politics relative to the stakes of controlling government power.

For example, billionaire George Soros has helped drive murder and traffic fatalities way up in the U.S. in recent years by investing a rather limited (for him) amount of money in electing soft-on-crime district attorneys in big cities.

These aren’t huge sums of money by 2023 standards that Soros gives, but who else makes campaign contributions to District Attorney races? Not all billionaires want to sow chaos in the big city — demographically similar Michael Bloomberg spent 12-years as a successful crime-fighting mayor of New York — but nobody else of comparable wealth seems terribly motivated to counter Soros’s insight that prosecutor races offer a cheap chokepoint.

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Soccer Moms are giving way to Single Woke Females – the new “SWFs” – as one of the most potent voting blocs in American politics. Unmarried women without children have been moving toward the Democratic Party for several years, but the 2022 midterms may have been their electoral coming-out party as they proved the chief break on the predicted Republican wave. While married men and women as well as unmarried men broke for the GOP, CNN exit polls found that 68% of unmarried women voted for Democrats. 

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A team of researchers in Greece and Ireland, led by Nikolaos Vakirlis at the Alexander Fleming Biomedical Sciences Research Center in Athens, argues that a key to understanding human evolution lies with short sequences of DNA named “open reading frames” (ORFs). These structures are small sections of the genome that encode tiny protein molecules — microproteins — which can perform a diverse range of crucial biological tasks, from regulating muscle performance to alerting cells to damaging stresses.

Due to their minuscule sizes, ORFs are notoriously difficult to study. Because of this, their full relevance has gone under the radar in mainstream genomics research until recently, and even today, they still aren’t considered to be proper genes in themselves. For Vakirlis’ team, this potential oversight masks the fact that the microproteins encoded by ORFs can develop their own de novo sequences over generations, which may eventually develop into new genes