9to5Mac.

Back in January, a top US Air Force general predicted that a Taiwan invasion would occur in 2025, while the US is distracted by the likely fallout from the 2024 presidential election. That scenario is gaining in credibility among companies in Apple’s supply chain – but they say there is no possible way to put in place the necessary contingency plans.

Production of iPhones would likely be rendered impossible given the company’s complete dependence on both Taiwan and China.

First Things.

The most important feature of the Longhouse, and why it makes such a resonant (and controversial) symbol of our current circumstances, is the ubiquitous rule of the Den Mother. More than anything, the Longhouse refers to the remarkable overcorrection of the last two generations toward social norms centering feminine needs and feminine methods for controlling, directing, and modeling behavior. Many from left, right, and center have made note of this shift. In 2010, Hanna Rosin announced “The End of Men.” Hillary Clinton made it a slogan of her 2016 campaign: “The future is female.” She was correct.

As of 2022, women held 52 percent of professional-managerial roles in the U.S. Women earn more than 57 percent of bachelor degrees, 61 percent of master’s degrees, and 54 percent of doctoral degrees. And because they are overrepresented in professions, such as human resource management (73 percent) and compliance officers (57 percent), that determine workplace behavioral norms, they have an outsized influence on professional culture, which itself has an outsized influence on American culture more generally.

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Jonathan Haidt explains that privileging female strategies does not eliminate conflict. Rather it yields “a different kind of conflict. There is a greater emphasis on what someone said which hurt someone else, even if unintentionally. There is a greater tendency to respond to an offense by mobilizing social resources to ostracize the alleged offender.”

Putin Admits Moscow’s Air Defenses “Need Work” After Multi-Drone Attack

Ukraine live briefing: Drone attacks on Moscow and Kyiv escalate tensions in warring capitals (Washington Post)

Drone strikes in capital bring Ukraine war to Russia (CNN)

Moscow drone attacks targeted civilians – Putin (BBC)

Drones hit Moscow, shocking Russian capital after new missile attack on Kyiv (Washington Post)

US says Chinese jet conducted ‘unnecessarily aggressive maneuver’ intercepting US spy plane over South China Sea (CNN)

Watch: Chinese Fighter In ‘Aggressive’ Intercept Of US Spy Plane Over South China Sea

US Flexes With Low B-1 Bomber Flyover As Balkan Tensions Boil

11 Signs That Global Conflict Could Soon Spiral Completely Out Of Control

Ukraine: Bleeding Out

PROCUREMENT: The Last MiG-21s in Europe

ISRAEL: Iran Increases Support for Palestinian Terrorists

Russia Claims Destruction of Ukraine’s ‘Last Warship’  What need does Ukraine have for warships?

Suspected Chinese spies, disguised as tourists, tried to infiltrate Alaskan military bases (USA Today)

Medvedev: UK Politicians a Legitimate Military Target

Next Phase Of The Ukraine War  ZMan.

US Sending Ukraine $300M More in Military Aid

The Daily Chart: The China Problem in Two Graphics

The New Yorker: Latinos can be white supremacists, too

Chick-fil-A’s DEI leader sparks calls for boycott (The Hill)

#Conservatives target #chikfila for boycott (MSNBC)

Chick-fil-A gets heat from Twitter users over DEI (Fox)

Chick-fil-A sparks anti-woke outrage for VP of diversity, equity, inclusion post (N.Y. Post)

Comedian/PBS Host Trashes Tim Scott’s ‘Fantasy About American Self-Reliance’

Horowitz: The shocking degree of political betrayal from Kevin McCarthy (The Blaze)

Republican candidate accused of lying about military record ends comeback bid (Politico)

Report: Senior Pro-Life Advocates Attacked at Baltimore Planned Parenthood

Scarborough Attacks Heritage Foundation, Ignores DOJ Weaponization

Ron DeSantis says he will ‘destroy leftism’ in US if elected president (The Guardian)

Ashli Babbitt’s Mother Arrested After Striking Woman at Pro-Jan. 6 Event (Daily Beast)

Twitter Fails to Remove Hate Speech By Blue-Check Users: Report (Daily Beast)

Conservatives Are Now Boycotting Chick-fil-A for Not Being Homophobic Enough (The New Republic)

Ken Paxton’s impeachment revealed how divided far-right and moderate Republicans in Texas have become, political scientist says (Business Insider)

Christian Professor Who Nearly Got Fired for ‘Wrong’ Thinking on LGBT Issues Now Leads Campus Ministry

Leaked Audio From a Ron DeSantis Donor Event Is Really Bad News for His Campaign (Daily Beast) They hope, they hope, they hope….

The Fringe Figure Who Says He’s Advising Republicans On Their Hunter Biden Probe (Huffington Post) The HuffPo, of course, believes that.

Media Hot on Threats Against Target, Until Alleged LGBT Bomb Threat

Reid Frets ‘Toy-Sized Mussolini’ DeSantis Will Turn U.S. into Iran, North Korea  Clue for Joy Reid (who gave her that name?): Neither Iran nor North Korea is run by Republicans. Iran is run by Islamofascists (Democrat pets) and North Korea is run by Communists (more Democrat pets.)

Trans activists disrupt Kathleen Stock speech at Oxford Union (The Guardian) Free speech is not a left-wing value.

Parliament To End Cooperation if Hungary Assumes Council Presidency

How legal immigration might solve two of America’s toughest problems (CNN)

House Dem Who Ran as ‘Anti-Corruption’ Crusader Makes Perfectly Timed Stock Trades

Work Requirements in Welfare Programs Take a Hit in Debt Ceiling Deal

Alabama expands ban on trans athletes to include college teams (NBC News)

The casualties of the debt limit deal (Politico)

Chick-fil-A’s Woke Turn Signals Larger Problem of DEI in Corporate America (The Foundry)

PetSmart Latest Company to Face Consumer Rage Over LGBTQ Merchandise (NewsMax)

Jennings Schools CNN ‘Historian’ Rewriting History of Debt Limit Talks (NewsBusters)

‘My name is Nick. I’m one of the fairy godmother’s apprentices’

Under Macron, France Brings Back ‘Preventive Censorship’ After More Than 140 Years

Stop Scaring Our Kids to Death

Bud Light Sales Down 30% as Boycott Grows  It may be embarrassing, but it’s not economically significant; Bud Light is only about 1% of the company’s overall sales.

AOC May Quit Twitter After Musk Promotes Bogus Account  Oh, please don’t throw us in that briar patch….

Teens arrested in connection to assault of U.S. Marines that was caught on camera (CBS News)

After teen’s killing, activists fear Metro violence becoming ‘normal’ (Washington Post) The most dangerous place you can live is a city run by Democrats.

Target Takes $12.7 Billion Hit After Pushing DEI

NYT: The Little Mermaid Lacks Enough ‘Kink’ and Proper Reparations

Liberal Media Predictably Fault Only GOP for Debt Limit Debacle

Transgender ‘Satanic’ Clothing Designer Slams Target for Cutting Ties

Grocery Chain Giant Adds New Security as Theft Has Increased ‘Tenfold’

More Dodgers Players Reprimand Team for Honoring Anti-Catholic Hate Group at Pride Night

Coca-Cola’s ‘Indigiqueer’ Pride workshops for kids

The CEO Behind Target’s Corporate Culture War

Pittsburgh Bishop Calls for ‘Pride Mass’ To Be Cancelled  I should hope so. It’s a sign of the times that we can’t depend on it.

Due To High Crime, Mafia Closes Its Chicago Office  (Babylon Bee)

South Australia passes law to ban “disruptive” protests

Chicago City Council to spend $51M of budget surplus on Texas immigrants (Washington Examiner) Sharing the pain with the ‘sanctuary’ cities.

Mar-a-Lago prosecutors eye July episode with Trump surveillance cameras (Washington Post)

Donald Trump’s Turnberry golf course blacklisted by Open Championship organisers

Donald Trump’s legal team and Manhattan prosecutors spar over where he will stand trial (Associated Press) They desperately need an anti-Trump jury to make up for the weakness of their case.

‘We want dictator Trump’: America First activist publicly calls for ‘Trumpian Reich’ (Raw Story) People on the left actually believe this stuff.

Political Analysts Confirm That Chris Christie Will Eat The Competition’s Lunch (Babylon Bee) From the looks of things, it’s a habit with him.

Doctors say this is the most important virus you’ve never heard of (CNN) Anything to get you to PANIC!

What is human metapneumovirus? (Washington Post) Something that only affects black people, judging by the picture.

Which virus is causing congestion, coughing in so many? Here’s a hint: It’s not COVID (WKBN)

‘Don’t Rule Out Lab Leak’: China’s Former CDC Director

Flattening the Curve Was a Lie

Brits Resist the WHO’s Coming Power Grab

Even Mild COVID Can Cause Long-Term Damage to Heart

House GOP to Hold FBI Director Wray in Contempt, Networks Ignore (NewsBusters) They could impeach him, but they won’t.

Biden Admin Wants Teachers to ‘Partner Directly With Parents’—But Only In Puerto Rico

Kamala-Backed Bail Fund Sees Revenues Plummet By 98 Percent

Biden Admin Unveils $1.5 Million Effort To ‘Empower’ Female Climate Activists in Northern Kenya

Russia Pulled Out of Its Nuclear Transparency Pact With the United States. The Biden Administration Still Shares Sensitive Data.

State Dept. Defends Grant to Conservative Blacklister

Congress threatens to block Space Command headquarters funding as abortion politics affects location decision (NBC News)

The Biden family is under the protection of the nation’s top lawmen (N.Y. Post)

RFK Jr. and the Populist Wave (The Free Press)

The Other Half of Our Immigration Crisis (City Journal)

DHS-Funded Anti-Terror Program Targeting Americans SCRUBS Website

Border Patrol Chief Retires as Reputation ‘Tarnished’ in False ‘Whipping’ Case, Mark Morgan Says

Foldi Blows the Lid Off of a Biden Corruption Scandal the Nets Won’t Touch

Twitter Community Notes Fact Checks Biden Admin Claim On Migrant Assistance

Allies Demand US Step Up as Iran Seizes Tankers

US govt sent $1.3 billion to China, Russia for gender equality, cat experiments and Wuhan lab research (Fox)

Chicago Sees Deadliest Memorial Day Weekend In 8 Years Despite Hundreds Of Yellow-Vested ‘Peacekeepers’ In Streets

Black people were three times more likely to receive Covid fines in England and Wales (The Guardian) Perhaps because they were three times as ready to break the law?

This class president is the model of a successful Texas teen. After a ban on trans health care, she can’t wait to leave the state. (Texas Tribune) For certain far-left definitions of ‘successful Texas teen’.

US urged not to use bomb-grade uranium in nuclear power experiment (Reuters)

Land around the U.S. is sinking. Here are some of the fastest areas. (Washington Post)

These Are All The Renewable Energy And Battery Installations In The US In 2023

The Global Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Watch is an Interesting Initiative but Let’s Not Repeat History

The story of polar bear evolution could not be told without discussing climate change

Climate Shocks Are Making Parts of America Uninsurable. It Just Got Worse. (N.Y. Times) Well, not really–the problem is not ‘climate shocks’, but stupid Democrat policies, as the article makes clear.

The South African Energy Crisis: A Battle between Power Needs and Environmentalists

Debunking Another Misleading Green Energy Study

Arctic Ice: A Cold Reality Check for Climate Alarmism

Freeberg nails it.

In a way, we’re outgrowing the ancient conflict between conservatism and liberalism. Throughout May, it’s bee more like: One school of thought says once you’ve given people the vote, and given them entitlements, you’ll never succeed in taking those things away again so you’d better just figure out how the republic can endure with criminals and other destructive individuals voting, spending out of control, interest on the debt out of control…find a way to make it work.

The other school of thought says it can’t work like that, so if you really want the republic to remain you’d better take the vote away from the criminals and the grifters, and withdraw the previous entitlements…find a way to make that work.

The first of those two is more popular. But there’s no way it can win. Math backs the other, and math won’t negotiate.

This doesn’t foretell happy times ahead.

The Antiplanner.

Perhaps the Antiplanner is naive, but I’ve always believed that government infrastructure exists to help us be more productive and live the lives we want. To the contrary, I’ve noticed that news reports take it for granted that we exist solely to support the infrastructure that government thinks we should have.

This is most obvious with urban transit which, since we aren’t riding it, “experts” argue we should pay more taxes to keep it running anyway. Lately, the same attitude is creeping into stories about downtowns.

Quilette.

Kathleen Stock tweeted recently that ‘Many philosophers have existed only in their own minds, but I think I may well be the first to exist only in other people’s.’ She was responding to the latest outbreak of leftist moral panic about gender-critical feminism, in this case a series of actions taken by student activists at the University of Oxford in protest against her being invited to participate in a debate hosted by the Oxford Union—which describes itself as ‘the world’s most prestigious debating society’. In commenting that she exists only in other people’s minds, Stock meant that the version of herself and her views being objected to by the student activists was unrecognizable to her.

The American Mind.

Middlebury College, the highly-ranked Vermont school which made national news when students blocked social scientist Charles Murray from speaking because of his heterodox views on racial issues, and physically assaulted the professor who had invited him, is now being sued by representatives of the estate of John Mead, a deceased former governor of the Green Mountain State. The estate claims that that the college breached its contract with Mead’s estate in 2021 when it removed his family name from the campus chapel, which was a precondition of the money originally being donated to build the chapel.

Mead (1841-1920) was a physician and businessman who served as governor from 1910 to 1912, having interrupted his studies at Middlebury in 1862-63 to serve in the Union Army. He made substantial donations to Middlebury, including the financing of its eponymous chapel, constructed in 1916. The reason given for removing his name from the chapel is the discovery that he had advocated the sterilization of “degenerates and defectives” over a century ago.

Responding to the suit, Middlebury’s lawyers not only deny that the gift of the chapel was predicated on preserving the original name, but also assert that the College has a duty to “grow” with the times, including in its choice of honorees. Elsewhere, as reported in the Wall Street Journal, in 2022 descendants of benefactors of at least two other schools made complaints similar to those of the Mead heirs—one against the state of California for changing the name of the Hastings College of Law (because Hastings had been “involved in the slayings of hundreds of Native Americans” in the nineteenth century, presumably in territorial battles) and another against the University of Richmond for renaming the T.C. Williams Law School (because Williams had owned slaves).

Tim Graham at NewsBusters.

Democrats and Republicans reached an agreement to lift the debt ceiling, and nothing is going to change in the disturbing pattern of America’s national debt climbing by leaps and bounds. The best reason for pessimism? Our Democrat-messaging media. They can’t be bothered to offer the most basic facts in budget coverage.

What is the budget for the current fiscal year? What was the last budget deficit? How large is the national debt? These are questions that are rarely answered by news anchors. What we get is a lot of horse-race jockeying and finger-pointing instead of facts. They must think the viewers are too stupid to juggle numbers.

Rich Noyes of the Media Research Center studied all 74 evening-news stories on the spending debate from January 1 through May 27, when agreement was struck. It’s not pretty.

The Foundry.

President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., announced a debt limit deal Saturday, with a vote expected Wednesday in the House of Representatives.

Heritage Foundation experts scrutinized the text of the 99-page bill, including provisions related to spending, pro-growth policies, student loan cancellation, and work requirements for welfare. The following is their latest analysis of the Fiscal Responsibility Act.

Rumor Control Central

Social Isolation is a Global Health Crisis

Chinese Scientist Won’t Rule Out COVID Lab Leak Theory

Over 300 COVID-19 Papers Withdrawn For Not Meeting Standards Of Scientific Soundness

Commission Hides New Vaccine Contract from Public

A Vaccine Settlement That Exposes Teachers Union Corruption

US COVID Hospitalizations Reach Record Low

New China COVID Wave Predicted to Infect 65M Weekly

Hard To Overstate How Bad Birx Was

Birx: we deceived you in order to get you to comply  Nanny knows best.

Lizzo is teaching us about body neutrality. Here is what it means and how to get there (CNN)

Kohl’s Baby Pride Merch Sparks Shopper Outrage

South Dakota Governor Tells Higher Education Board To Remove Mandates On Preferred Pronouns

Fox News Highlights Problems Caused by Illegal Immigrants in New York Hotels

Healthy Newborn Placed in Tennessee’s First ‘Baby Box’

Protest Anthem ‘Boycott Target’ Tops ITunes Hip Hop Chart

Philadelphia Crime Wave Of Burglary, Larceny And Auto Theft Spills Into Nearby Suburbs

There Are 99 Pages Of Details In The Debt-Ceiling Deal, And A Big Trap On Republicans

“Trans Rights” Means Trans Entitlements And The End Of Civil Society

Total Farce: Real Spending Under Debt Ceiling Deal Actually Goes Up Next Year

The Left’s Redefinition of Words Leads to Totalitarianism, Homeschooling Leader Warns

Target’s Deceptive Transgender Agenda

The rise and fall of an anti-capitalist café

Here come the new gender stereotypes, same as the old gender stereotypes

The Hammett and Chandler of Gay Detective Fiction

‘Numbers Nobody Has Ever Seen’: How the GOP Lost Wisconsin (Politico)

Germany: Left-Liberal Coalition Quietly Flies in 4,000 Migrants Per Month

Russia May Ban Surgery to Change Gender Under Draft BilAbout 1 Million Viewers Stopped Watching Fox News After Tucker Carlson’s Exit: Report

WATCH: Commencement Speaker at NY-Funded School Goes on Anti-Semitic Rant Against Israel

Outraged critics rip CUNY law grad’s ‘hate-filled’ commencement speech, demand billions in tax dollars be stripped (N.Y. Post)

LGBTQ+ activists call for new strategies to promote equality after Target backlash (Associated Press) New strategies = Being even more obnoxious?

LGBTQ Activists Warn Corporate America — ‘You Need to Be Our Ally’ (Breitbart) Or suffer the consequences.

Trump Releases Plan to Halt Chain Migration

Texas Lawmakers Pass Bill Allowing Removal Of ‘Rogue’ Prosecutors Who Fail To Enforce Laws

Chicago Sent ‘Peacekeepers’ To Stop Memorial Day Weekend Violence. It Didn’t Go Well.

Elderly Pro-Life Men ‘Viciously’ Assaulted Outside Planned Parenthood Clinic

‘Heartbreaking’: Furries and Drag Queens Upset After GOP Laws Force Them To Exclude Minors

Leftists Make Accusations Of ‘Economic Terrorism’ As Conservative Boycotts Succeed

Dramatic Video Shows Rogue Pack Of Teens Beating Up Marines In California

“We Have A Captive Audience”: Boston University To Require Students Take Social Justice Writing Courses

Target’s Marketing VP Also Works For Organization Pushing Transgender Agenda In Schools

Kohl’s Indoctrinates Babies Into LGBTQ Culture With ‘Happy Pride’ Onesies

AOC’s ‘assessing with [her] team how to handle’ AOC parody account that’s a little too good at its job

Old Navy Closes Flagship Store in San Francisco Amid Wave of Retail Theft

Groom And Doom: Target Shares Mark Longest Losing Streak In Almost 5 Years

Johns Hopkins Implements Pronoun Guide

Ohio Bill Would Roll Back DEI in State’s Public Colleges and Universities

Drone attacks hit Moscow, stirring fury at the Kremlin (Al Jezeera)

Russia’s war in Ukraine (CNN)

Russia strikes Kyiv in daylight after hitting Ukraine’s capital with series of nighttime barrages (WGN)

Russia hits base in Ukraine in new wave of strikes, Zelenskiy praises Patriot (Reuters)

Russian Media Chief Calls for Lindsey Graham’s Assassination  Can’t say that I blame him.

Rep. Waltz: China ‘On the March,’ Readying Military

SUPPORT: Chinese Military Tech Support

RUSSIA: Patriotic Zealots and Pariahs

Russia Expels German Teachers and Embassy Employees

Warsaw Seeks To Purge Russian Influence

Major Drone Attack On Moscow Damages Several Apartment Buildings

‘We Have No Plan’: United States and United Kingdom Struggle to Combat Chinese Influence, Officials Say

Alleged Russian ‘Spy’ Whale Reappears Off Sweden’s Coast

Russia Gets Taste of Own Medicine With Drone Attacks on Moscow

China, India Kick Out Nearly All of Each Other’s Journalists as Rivalry Escalates (Wall Street Journal)

US Says ‘the Time Is Now’ for Sweden to Join NATO and for Turkey to Get New F-16s

Republican tries to scuttle debt limit bill in House Rules Committee as pressure grows on key swing vote (CNN)

Rep. Josh Harder: ‘At some point, we are going to default if we continue in this pattern’ (MSNBC)

Texas’s use of ‘invasion’ clause against immigrants is racist and dangerous, rights groups say (The Guardian) I didn’t know that ‘illegal alien’ was a race.

U.S Tech Mogul Bankrolls Pro-Russia, Pro-China News Network (Daily Beast)

Orlando Sentinel Hits DeSantis ‘Hard Line Against LGBTQ,’ Transgenders, Minorities

Paxton Trial to Begin No Later Than Aug. 28

A British Reporter Had a Big #MeToo Scoop. Her Editor Killed It. (N.Y. Times) The Narrative isn’t as strong as it used to be.

On PBS, WashPost Columnist Laments Musk Ended Era of ‘Objective’ Journos on Twitter

Drones Hit Moscow, Kyiv as War Escalates

The revolt of the Christian home-schoolers (Washington Post)

HELP! Jane Fonda Wants Me In Jail Because White Men Cause Climate Change

CNN Declares GOP Primary To Be About ‘Outgrievancing’ Each Other

Far-right members, unhappy with debt deal, float threatening McCarthy’s speakership (NBC News) For NBC, there is no Right but the Far Right.

Bitter MSNBC Lefty Jolly: ‘Very Dark Figure’ ‘DeSantis Is Far More Dangerous Than…Trump’

The Rise of Latino White Supremacy (The New Yorker) Apparently Latinos are the new Hitlers.

Real DeSantis launch glitch was its fascism (Philadelpia Inquirer) Will Bunch trots out the same old shit.

STUDY: TV News Blamed GOP, Not Big-Spending Dems, for Debt-Ceiling Drama

Gavin Newsom blames DeSantis-signed bill for Florida shooting, gets fact-checked

Watch: Sunny Hostin Steps on a Shovel in Defense of Kamala Harris Over Low Approval Ratings

USA Today Columnist Attacks ESPN’s Sam Ponder for Opposing Men in Women’s Sports

Democrats gag congresswomen in kinky new billboards

CNN Suggests GOP Is Against the Public Good Citing IRS Spending Cuts

Pro-Life Protesters ‘Viciously Attacked’ Outside Baltimore Planned Parenthood

How Paul Gosar Became An Icon To Those In The Modern Fascist Movement (Talking Points Mem0) Fascists! In the closet! Under the bed! THEY’RE EVERYWHERE!

Ramaswamy consultants worked simultaneously for LIV golf (Politico) Dunh duhn DUNHHHHH… Apparentely ‘LIV golf’ is the new Hitler.

It Took Alito Barely a Month to Violate the Supreme Court’s New Ethics Rules (Slate) Let’s see–nope, no mention of Hunter’s laptop.

Trump lawyer said to have been waved off searching office for secret records (The Guardian) Would that they were this nit-picky about Hunter’s laptop.

Trump’s Lawyers Start to Wonder if One Could Be a Snitch (Daily Beast)

Exclusive: Trump Pledges Executive Order on ‘Day One’ of Presidency to End Birthright Citizenship for Illegal Aliens, ‘Birth Tourism’ (Breitbart)

Trump and the Abuse of the Pardon Power (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew let their hatred of Trump drag them further to the left. No mention, of course, of the weaponization of the law enforcement establishment to persecute the enemies of the Deep State.

Ugandan president signs one of the world’s harshest anti-LGBTQ bills into law (CNN)

AP-NORC Poll: 63% Say Limit, Don’t Ban Race in College Admissions

Three Years Later, No Justice for BLM Insurrection in D.C.

8 killed, 71 injured in mass shootings over long holiday weekend (The Hill)

Democrats hope the Senate could finally have more than one Black woman (Politico)

Liberal Ad Campaign Calls for Justice Thomas to Resign He’s just not black enough.

Racist Hostin BASHES White Women AGAIN: ‘Protect the Patriarchy’

For Black drivers, a police officer’s first 45 words are a portent of what’s to come (NPR)

Cop28 president’s team accused of Wikipedia ‘greenwashing’

Fighting Climate Change Requires All Hands On Deck (Washington Post)

Climate negotiator slams appointment of oil industry executive as COP28 president (ABC News)

Editorial: An oil executive’s going to host the U.N. climate summit. It shows who’s really in charge (L.A. Times)

Plastics Recycling Is Far Worse Than We Thought (Mother Jones)

Turning America Into a Third-World Country

Labour Will Block New North Sea Oil & Gas

Climate Alarmists FAIL to Garner Support in Melbourne

Plants cause global warming now (Hot Air)

Hanoi Jane Fonda Has a Novel Way to Solve the ‘Climate Crisis’ (PJ Media)

Biden’s Solar Push Is Destroying The Desert And Releasing Stored Carbon

Dem Congressman: We Must Stop Drilling for Oil ‘Completely’

Scientists warned about climate change in 1965. Nothing was done  Let’s see–how many times have we been warned that disaster is only 10 years away?

Bidens offer ‘safe harbor’ to Hunter as he flails over scandalous reports, new messages show (N.Y. Post)

The FBI as advanced persistent threat – and what to do about it

The stark numbers driving Democratic panic about a third-party 2024 bid

Biden’s underrated deal-making prowess strikes again (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin takes a break from her normal job of bashing Trump in order to prop up the Narrative that Biden is in charge at the White House.

US Spent $13 Billion Sponsoring Unaccompanied Minor Children At The Border Since 2012

Afghan Women Who Aided U.S. Military Wait for Asylum in America (N.Y. Times)

Biden won’t claim debt ceiling win, because he must play the owned lib (Washington Post) Laughing all the way to the bank–ruptcy….

WATCH: Veep Thoughts with Kamala Harris (Vol. 9)

Migrant Kids Throwing Ragers in NYC Hotels Turned Shelters  Pack ’em up, send ’em back.

Message to Hunter

McCarthy Threatens To Hold FBI Director In Contempt Over Stonewalled Biden Evidence

Biden Admin Tells Adults How to Discuss Sex With Teens Behind Parents’ Backs

Tara Reade, who accused Joe Biden of sexual assault, defects to Russia (The Guardian) I am not making this up.

Evidence of Joe Biden’s knowledge of and involvement with Hunter’s schemes

“Safe Harbor”: New Evidence Offers Insight Into Hunter Biden & His Collapsing World Of Corruption

Read it.

“The world today needs a Hitler,” CNN correspondent Adeel Raja tweeted. Tala Halawa, the BBC’s “Palestinian” specialist, had previously tweeted a rant that included #HitlerWasRight.

Researchers have found that the #HitlerWasRight hashtag was intertwined not just with the usual white supremacists, but with more “progressive” hashtags like #FreePalestine.

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

The American Mind.

There are many AI-related fears. It will send cars off cliffs. It will increase discrimination. It will lead to cultural insensitivity. The Japanese, for example, would prefer the trolley run over the child instead of the old person. Global corporations, NGOs, and administrative agencies are hijacking these fears in order to initiate regulatory capture and win a monopoly over Large Language Models like the one behind ChatGPT. They want to make you believe that they, and only they, can wrangle AGI before it turns us all into racist paperclips.

But perhaps the oldest and most persistent form of AI doomerism is “machines will take our jobs.” The current WGA strike, for example, is in-part aimed at the AI threat. Writers want studios to promise not to use ChatGPT for the bread-and-butter treatments, pitches, and drafts on which they make a living. They don’t want to be disrupted out of existence like the steel worker and the cab driver, and they’re right to worry. Studios are globalist corporations after all, of the same ilk that showed themselves happy to delete towns, cities, and even entire states under globalization. A certain species of Davos goon does not care at all about job loss when it’s happening to unpeople in the rube states. The Rust Belt looks like Syria for a reason.

However, where the previous labor nuke decimated the white working class in flyover states, this one will explode closer to the power center of Corporate America. Creative AIs like ChatGPT most threaten one of the Regime’s most powerful assets: the managerial class.

Read it.

“This breakthrough means that custom enzymes for almost any chemical reaction could, in principle, be designed.”

The Critic.

Welcome to the age of the TikTok thug and the home invasion influencer,

ZMan turns over a rock.

Americans have been conditioned to believe we live in a market economy where producers chase customers. The subtext to American politics for generations has been protecting the marketplace from the socialists. In reality, America is more of a command economy than a market economy. We do not think of it as a command economy because that phrase brings to mind commissars arguing about why the left shoe factory has a different quota than the right shoe factory.

While we have never had five-year plans or an official industrial policy, the people in charge have always had a tight grip on the economy. The primary lever since the 1980’s has been the money supply. The bank of all banks, the Federal Reserve, controls the flow of money in the system. While it does not decide how many shoes get made, it does decide the shoe maker’s cost of money. The Fed can create a recession to reduce demand and it can create plenty through cheap money.

This is not the only lever of our command economy. The regulatory state exerts an enormous amount of power on the economy. Right now, the EPA is plotting to kill off the gas stove market in order to please Gaia. The claim is gas stoves give people the cooties or something, but the real reason is the people in the EPA are primitives who follow a spirit religion. They can and often do change economic activity based on what their shaman has to say about Gaia.

Read it.

Spain will soon have a public reckoning with surrogacy.

The Spanish gossip magazine Lecturas announced that 68-year-old actress Ana Obregón will be returning to Spain from Florida on June 14th with her biological granddaughter.

The actress caused a stir when she announced the baby girl’s birth on March 20th. After being conceived with the semen of Obregón’s son, who died three years ago of cancer at the age of 27, the baby was reportedly born to a Cuban-born woman in Florida under a surrogacy arrangement.

The U.S. is one of the favourite destinations of Europeans for surrogacy as several states have laws that facilitate the practice and allow the contracting persons to appear as if they are the child’s parents by natural birth on the birth certificate, either through recognising surrogacy contracts or through pre-birth adoption arrangements.

But Obregón could face legal problems at home in Spain.

Read it.

In a nation long dominated by the Left, a new conservative political party, Nova Direita (Portuguese for ‘New Right’) is trying to seize the moment. The movement is led by Ossanda Liber, an Angolan-born lawyer who has become a rising star for the weakened and fractured Portuguese Right.

Liber, 46, is a fresh face in politics, although she is not without experience. Her first taste of front-of-the-line politicking was in 2021, when she ran for mayor of Lisbon. During the campaign, she made a name for herself in a much-discussed interview with state-owned broadcaster RTP, in which the journalist bluntly told her that he believed “Portugal to be a systemically racist country.” “Do you think so? I do not,” answered Liber, in what became a major moment for anti-‘woke’ politics in the country. Liber then proceeded in 2022 to run for parliament as part of Aliança, a small right-of-centre party. With the European parliamentary election drawing near, she is now launching her own force.

The Antiplanner.

This is Daquan Rogers. He is a 27-year-old Minneapolis light-rail rider who has a history of transit crimes including being arrested last month for brawling aboard a light-rail train. Following the arrest he was released pending his court case.

Gates of Vienna.

When I began covering European issues more than fifteen years ago, gang rapes were relatively rare in Northern and Western Europe. And when they did happen, the perpetrators were always culture-enrichers. It just wasn’t a pastime that white guys engaged in.

In recent years gang rapes have become epidemic in Western Europe. And it’s still a culture-enriching practice: the huge increase is due to the flood of migrants that has overwhelmed the continent since the Great Migration Crisis of 2015.

The following essay talks about the latest statistics from Germany.

The Spectator.

Political years are the opposite of dog years: they pass by in a blaze, with entire epochs elapsing in the course of a few news cycles. Ideas, even movements, fade abruptly, recalled only years later when you clean out your garage and stumble on that old tricorn hat from your Tea Party days.

If you want to know how jarring political change can be, consider that at this time in the 2016 election cycle — around the late spring of 2015 — the predicted frontrunner for the GOP nomination was Rand Paul. This was no coincidence. In those days, we were said to be in the middle of something called a libertarian moment. Voters were leery of Barack Obama’s deficit spending, Washington’s endless wars, the NSA surveillance that had been unveiled by Edward Snowden. And only Paul, a self-described “libertarian-ish” senator from Kentucky, had given eloquent voice to this skepticism of the state.

If you want to know how jarring political change can be, consider what happened next. Paul came under fierce fire during the GOP primary debates from a guy called Donald Trump, who took many of Paul’s libertarian issues — antiwar, anti-security state — and rolled them into a more visceral and smash-mouth populism. This populism was simultaneously comfortable with strong government on issues like entitlements and immigration. It was this formula, which we’d now call MAGA, that tapped the mood of the Republican base. Paul dropped out after the Iowa caucuses.

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In any case, the one thing nobody says is what I’m about to say, which is that income tax is absurd based on the government’s own preferred theories of economics. It’s so absurd as to be a parody of a rational taxation system and it sustains itself only through willful blindness to how absurd it really is.

Health officials delayed report linking fluoride to brain harm (Salon)

China Might Have 65 Million COVID Cases a Week by June. How Worried Should the World Be? (TIME)

China Unlikely To Impose Lockdown Despite COVID-19 Surge: Report (NDTV)

COVID is coming back in China. Lockdowns are not. (Japan Times)

Covid is coming back in China; lockdowns are not (Times of India)

Washington Doctor Facing Probe For Criticizing COVID Policies Wins Emergency Injunction

Zero Young Healthy Individuals Died Of COVID-19, Israeli Data Show

Apple sued by actor Brent Sexton over COVID vaccination mandate

The Debt ceiling deal was a big WIN for Biden—and a big LOSS for Trump and MAGA (The Dean’s Report) Even though Trump wasn’t involved, MAGA is the New Nigger.

Liz Cheney says Republicans “wanted me to lie” about Trump (Axios) So she lied about Trump anyway–for the other side.

Trump’s legal team is an epic disaster (MSNBC)

Debt ceiling deal includes surprise approval of natural gas pipeline championed by Manchin (Politico)

CNN Edits Fox to Bury Critique of Media Over Biden Family Scandal

Why the White House Correspondents’ Association Ripped Into Joe Biden This Weekend

Biden’s Free Fall Continues

Department of Education Investigates Schools for Not Sexualizing Kids

Inside Biden’s relentless soft-sell on the debt ceiling bill (Axios)

DOJ, Prosecutors Trying To Claw Back Donations Made To J6 Defendants

Why the climate crisis is making our insects run for the hills (The Guardian)

Lloyd’s Becomes Latest Firm To Exit UN’s Net-Zero Alliance

Climate Activists Arrested at UK Rugby Final

Wash Post complicit in climate protests!? ‘Staff reporters were initially subjected to a potential arrest’ due to advance alert of crime at Fed art gallery – Fmr NYT reporter suggests WaPo guilty of ‘crimes’

World’s First “Battery Tanker” Slated For 2026 Sea Trials

Jim Steele Corrects NPR: Setting the Record Straight on Climate Narratives

New Study Is Extremely Embarrassing for Lab-Grown Meat (Futurism)

Ukraine Situation Report: Suspense Builds As Counteroffensive Looms

Ukraine war live updates: Russia bolsters attack on Kyiv; Putin congratulates ‘dear friend’ Erdogan on reelection (CNBC)

Belarus official: West left us no choice but to deploy nuclear arms (Reuters)

Lukashenko offers nuclear weapons to nations willing ‘to join the Union State of Russia and Belarus’ (CNN)

‘Nuclear weapons for everyone’ who joins Belarus and Russia, Putin ally promises (NBC News)

Russia brushes off Biden’s criticism over staging nukes in Belarus (N.Y. Post)

Col. Douglas Macgregor: “Bakhmut Is A Catastrophe [For Ukraine]… F-16s Won’t Make A Difference”

Ukraine War Threatens Biden Megadonor

Russia Issues Arrest Warrant for Sen. Lindsey Graham

Kyiv Air Defenses Shoot Down All Russian Missiles Monday  And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

ELECTRONIC WEAPONS: Wiring the South China Sea

WARPLANES: Chinese Stealth Fighter Seeks Purpose

Graham Criticizes Defense Spending In Debt Ceiling Deal: “Biggest Winner Of Biden Defense Budget Is China”  If there is a stupid thing available to be said, Lindsay Graham will find it and say it.

China’s growing arsenal boosts risk of nuclear war, study says

Stinger Missiles Arrive in Taiwan as Part US Aid

Taiwan Says It’s In Talks On Being Brought Under US Nuclear Umbrella

White Couple on Juneteenth Banner Spurs Backlash

Lululemon Fires Two Store Employees For Calling Police On Masked Robbers

PBS’s Woodruff Talks Reparations, Chides Pushback Against Critical Race Theory

Standardized exams measure intrinsic ability, not racial/socioeconomic privilege

In one suburb, a backlash against homeowners renting out private pools (Washington Post) The war against freedom-of-association never sleeps.

Illinois To Become First State To Ban Book Bans (Book Riot) Which aren’t, of course, ‘book bans’.

Texas lawmakers find consensus on bill banning diversity, equity and inclusion offices in public universities (Texas Tribune)

Texas To Ban Diversity, Equity And Inclusion Efforts At Public Universities (Huffington Post)

With this debt limit deal, Congress has beclowned itself (Washington Post)

Texas Republicans pass voting bills targeting large Democratic county (Washington Post) If you want to prevent cheating, you go where the cheaters are.

Ugandan President Signs Anti-LGBTQ Bill With Death Penalty (Bloomberg)

Uganda Signs Anti-gay Law With Death Penalty for ‘Aggravated Homosexuality’

Experts warn of increased risk of US terror attacks by rightwing ‘lone wolf’ actors (The Guardian)

No Laughing Matter: John Cleese Holds Line Against Calls To Cancel Scene In ‘Life Of Brian’

What ESPN’s Sam Ponder calls ‘fairness’ is plain old bigotry (USA Today) No backsliding on the Narrative, or you will be cancelled.

Data analyst explains why Ron DeSantis is in trouble with voters already (Raw Story)

Graduates boo and turn their chairs away from former U.S Rep. Liz Cheney as she delivers commencement address at liberal Colorado College – despite her blasting Trump’s election-denying attorney (UK Daily Mail)

Sen. Dianne Feinstein confused by VP Kamala Harris’ participation in tie-breaking vote: report (Fox)

Children’s Hospital ‘Health Hero’ Award Given To Trans Democrat Pushing Child Sex Changes

Comedian Arrested In Beijing As Informants Become Norm Again In China, Eroding Mutual Trust

French Bill To End Woke Rewrites

Memorial Day: Ten WORST Anti-Military Smears from Lib Journalists

United Methodist Church Seeing Disaffiliations Over LGBTQ Issues

Old Navy To Shutter Downtown San Francisco Store Amid Retail Exodus

Antisemitic Speaker Addresses CUNY Law Graduates

Judge postpones showdown over 14th Amendment debt powers (Politico)

Liberal US Cities Top Global List For Highest Homelessness Problem

‘CUNY has become the home of hate’: Lawmakers including Ted Cruz slam NYC college for allowing ‘hateful graduation speech’ by law grad who called for attacks on ‘fascist’ NYPD and military – all while getting her education on the taxpayer’s dime (UK Daily Mail)

Biden world confident in a Trump rematch but preps for a surprise (Politico)

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The American Psychological Association (APA) does not yet consider it a pathology per se, although it is affecting more and more people; but it has already provided a definition: “Fear that can occur chronically from environmental cataclysm or from observing the seemingly irrevocable impact of climate change.” This is ‘eco-anxiety,’ a psychological condition related to the climate emergency.

Awareness of a hypothetical climate apocalypse is reportedly causing more and more individuals to fall into grief and despair, suffer panic attacks, and give up life projects, such as having children, because they see the planet’s overpopulation and a high quality of life as incompatible. And “if adults are extraordinarily worried, children are terrified,” warns Danish environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg.

To address this condition, in addition to recommending that politicians, media, and activists should stop incessantly trumpeting that we are on the brink of extinction, it would make sense to recommend cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to eco-anxious people, in order to re-establish the balance between their perceptions and reality. However, many experts seem to believe that the problem lies not with the eco-afflicted but with the indolence of those who are immune to climate terror.

The Other McCain.

Remember when President Obama got elected and America’s public schools suddenly became excellent? No, you don’t remember that, because it never happened. The guy Obama appointed as Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, is a Harvard-educated liberal who had previously been appointed by the Daley machine as Chief Executive Officer of Chicago Public Schools, where he worked no miracles, and neither did he do anything during his eight-year tenure as Secretary of Education that anyone remembers as praiseworthy.

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Chesa Boudin, named after cop-killer Joanne Chesimard, and son of Weather Underground terrorists Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, was elected district attorney of San Francisco in November 2020.

Criminals were happy with the outcome.

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Greenberg spearheaded a recall effort and in June 2022 voters booted Boudin by a 60 percent to 40 percent margin. Mayor London Breed then appointed University of Chicago law alum Brooke Jenkins, a prosecutor in the city’s homicide division.

Jenkins proceeded to fire 16 Boudin loyalists, part of “important changes to my management team and staff that will help advance my vision to restore a sense of safety in San Francisco by holding serious and repeat offenders accountable and implementing smart criminal justice reforms.”