Hunter Biden accused of ‘playing games’ in baby-mama child support case, lawyer rips claims he’s poor (N.Y. Post)

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week (Vol. 43)

President Biden looks confused, almost tumbles down stairs at G7 summit (N.Y. Post)

Even Politico Notes Biden’s New Hampshire ‘Catastrophe’

Joe Biden and the ‘Impossible’ Task of Refilling America’s Oil Reserves

Dementia Joe In Japan

Biden’s damage-limitation campaign

How Dems ended up where they swore they wouldn’t be: Negotiating on the debt limit (Politico)

Hunter Biden cried poverty but still flew to his child-support hearing on a private jet for at least $55K (N.Y. Post)

House Republicans Demand FBI Reopen Clinton Investigations

How Biden Turned ‘Sanctuary City’ Democrats Into Ruthless Border Hawks  Actually, I think Greg Abbot had more to do with it….

For Decades, Democrats Have Been Ignoring Evidence And Facts It’s what they do best.

Media’s Worst of the Week: Mayor Pete Solves Masculinity

The Beltway Media Is Spreading Debt Limit Misinformation (The New Republic)

FLASHBACK: David Letterman and the Liberal Politics of Late Night

‘Live laugh lesbian’: Target’s cheeky Pride collection strikes again (NBC News) Don’t shop at Target. Don’t give money to people who hate you.

NY university fires 2 employees over pronouns in email signatures: report (N.Y. Post)

New York state Christian university fires 2 employees over pronouns in work emails (Fox)

A university fired 2 employees for including their pronouns in emails (Seattle Times)

Christian College Workers Fired for Including Their Pronouns in Emails (Daily Beast)

Nebraska Passes Double-Whammy Bill Banning Abortion and Trans Kids’ Health Care (The New Republic)

This Was A Very Bad Week For Abortion Rights And Democracy (Huffington Post) In the Narrative media, ‘democracy’ means ‘following the Narrative’.

Protesters Slam Church for ‘Family-Friendly’ Drag Night

Gun and abortion laws have made Texas a woman’s nightmare (Washington Post) A proglodyte woman, of course–is there any other kind?

Illinois Prepares to Raise Gun Industry Liability  Those guns just shoot themselves!

Democrat Bill Would Pack Supreme Court To Lessen Conservative Influence

NBC Skips FBI Dissidents, Hypes Small-Town Right-Wingers

MSNBC Host Joy Reid Compares Pro-Life GOP to Taliban Tyrants: ‘Total Religious Control’

Air DeSantis: The Private Jets and Secret Donors Flying Him Around (N.Y. Times) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

The Supreme Court Is Hiding Important Decisions From You (Politico) No, it’s not.

MSNBC Previews DeSantis 2024 By Labeling Him ‘Pro-White Supremacy’

Many transgender health bills came from a handful of far-right interest groups, AP finds (Associated Press) If the right does it, it’s DEEP DARK CONSPIRACIES! If the left does it–it’s just ‘grass roots activism’.

ABC Claims GOP Waging ‘Unprecedented’ Attacks On Transgender Lives

Washinton Post.

The man stood in a red Make America Great Again baseball cap pointing his AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle toward the sidewalk.

An elementary school student ran home crying. Parents were terrified. Neighbors called the police. While he had not explicitly threatened people in this suburban neighborhood, just the sight of him walking near school bus stops was enough for the nearby elementary school in Anne Arundel County to delay bus drop off this week.

Ann Arundel County is in Maryland, a blue state. Further adventures in the pussification of blue-state America. In Texas, the kids would have been gathered around: “Hey, mister! Show us your gun!” And they would have been asking questions about it until the bus came.

OffGuardian.

There is so much going on we don’t know about. Like I’ve said before, we definitely have reached that critical point of being a “closed system.” The mainstream media are all in on it, so they control the flow of information. No one knows what is happening unless they literally see it or experience it.

It is fascinating how if you don’t receive reliable information about what’s going on, you really don’t know at all . . . even in your own neighbourhood. Remember the Soviets would come and carry people away in an apartment building and no one there would know, MAYBE one person, the person living next door, but that’s it. They would just disappear. And only the people who KNEW them would even know that.

There could be people all around us dying, being persecuted for this or that, and no one would know it. And then stuff happening in the next city, or in Europe…no one knows ANYTHING reliable now unless they see it with their own eyes. Once a free press is gone, we are totally blind. Very few people seem to know this or accept it if they know it.

Sarah Hoyt cuts to the chase.

We live longer healthy lives, and in fact my dad retired at 80, and husband has worked with 80 year olds who got bored in retirement.

What does this mean? Well, we choose our career absurdly early, and expect it to last life-long. That’s half of it. A lot of us come to not like/loathe what we loved as kids. Now, I’m not suggesting the training to be self sufficient should be later. Let the kids grow up. Just …. we probably shouldn’t going for graduate degrees before 32 or so. Because we will change. Or at least a significant subset will.

The problem of course is that our legacy educational system is still geared for people who live till sixty just about, and therefore if you don’t pursue your education early and hard and to the extreme you want to take it, people will look at you funny, which in the case of people who work for college admissions might mean you don’t get in.

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British defense secretary Ben Wallace has confirmed the worst-kept secret in Westminster: he’s the likely UK candidate for the secretary-general of NATO. Speaking in Berlin on Wednesday he told reporters: “I’ve always said it would be a good job. That’s a job I’d like.” It’s a position that falls vacant in October and Wallace has a good claim, having been in his role for nearly four years, one of the few to emerge with credit from the Kabul evacuation, and has won plaudits for fighting the Whitehall machine to equip Ukraine before Putin’s invasion last year.

Cockburn learns however that a surprising obstacle is standing in his way: the first lady of the United States. Jill Biden wants a woman in the role. And she thinks a senior female figure from one of the Baltic states, which believe that if Ukraine falls they will be at war next, would fit the bill.

The role of the first lady is something of an American oddity. But Cockburn can’t help wondering why Dr Biden — an intellectually underwhelming academic with a PhD in educational leadership — might think she has insight into western security, especially at a time when NATO is doing almost everything possible to stop Russia in Ukraine. But “woke is woke” and there’s never been a woman NATO secretary-general. For Team Biden, the enemy is the patriarchy as much as Putin.

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In 2002, Florida adopted a phonics based reading strategy due to Charlie Crist. Scores started to rise. Other southern states started to following suit, including Mississippi long deried as the worst in the nation.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Time was when a politician like Patrick Henry (“Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace–but there is no peace!”) or Abraham Lincoln (“A house divided against itself cannot stand”) could quote from the Bible and assume that pretty much everyone in his audience got the reference. Those days are gone, of course. But most Americans still have at least a nodding acquaintance with the Book. Not, however, those who write and edit articles for the New York Times.

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Border Patrol agents in San Diego have come under fire twice in a week at the U.S.-Mexico border, including as they were aiding an injured, abandoned four-year-old boy who had been dropped over the border wall.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said in a statement that agents near the San Ysidro port of entry on Monday aided an injured 4-year-old who had been dropped over the primary border barrier by an illegal immigrant.

“Agents reported hearing both the impact and ricochet of gunshots off of the secondary border barrier just north of their location,” the CBP statement said.

Eric Adams slams NYC Council for lack of support, ‘total disrespect’ on migrant crisis (N.Y. Post)

NYC continues to scramble to house migrants as crisis continues (Fox)

NYC backs off plan to place migrants in school gyms after protests: ‘The parents won’ (N.Y. Post)

In private call, Mayor Adams scolds NYC Council members for ‘disrespectful’ tone over migrant response (N.Y. Daily News)

Trans influencers find it harder to get deals after Bud Light’s Dylan Mulvaney fiasco (N.Y. Post)

Federal Judge Blocks Most of N.J. Concealed Carry Law

Tampa pride event cancelled after DeSantis signs ‘anti-drag’ bill (NBC News)

Virginia to Be Only Southern State With Full Abortion Access

Nevada Gov. Lombardo Vetoes Three Gun Control Bills

The Post-Liberal Authoritarians Want You To Forget That Private Companies Have Rights

Nets Ignore Hearing on FBI Retaliation Against Whistleblowers

Dodgers Remove Gay ‘Nun’ Group From Pride Night

Abbott confirms first bus of migrants has arrived in Colorado (The Hill)

Why Dianne Feinstein Shouldn’t Quit (TIME)

Who Is Better At Raising Your Child, You Or The State?

UC regents take groundbreaking step toward hiring immigrant students without legal status (L.A. Times)

The technocratic face of authoritarianism

The Russiagate Players Got Rich and Escaped Consequences

Dove Produces Ultra-Woke Ad To Change Beauty Standards In Video Games?

World watches in disbelief and horror as U.S. nears possible default (Washington Post) The world of the Narrative media–does any other world count?–at least. The rest of us couldn’t care less.

Season Finale of NBC’s ‘Law & Order’ Portrays Assassin of Pro-2A Senator as Victim

WATCH: Fetterman Struggles Through Press Conference

Millions flowed to Biden family members. Don’t pretend it doesn’t matter. (Washington Post)

House GOPs Claim Biden Family Received Millions From Foreign Contacts (CNN)

House Republicans’ findings about the Biden family’s foreign business practices, explained (PolitiFact) More whitewash from the Narrative media.

Biden Justice Department Declined To Prosecute Disgraced Soros-Backed U.S. Attorney  The Crust take care of their own.

Rep. Matt Gaetz: FBI Director Wray Lied Under Oath

Dems Scramble to Avoid Biden Gaffe in New Hampshire

Gaetz Demands DOJ Indict FBI Agents Following Durham Report

The Numbers Are In On How Biden-Era Funding Is Skewing Scientific Research Ever-Wokeward

FBI Concerned Jan. 6 Footage Would Expose Undercover Agents, Informants: Whistleblower

Biden’s State Department Is Putting Brazilian Trans Activists in English Classes

BofA Gave FBI Access To Jan. 6 Bank Records Without Customers’ Knowledge: Whistleblowers  My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

White House reporters stuck with $25,000 charges after Biden trip canceled (Washington Post) Does your heart not bleed for them? (Bleed, hearts, bleed….)

Dem Senators Demand Biden Simply Ignore Debt Ceiling Law  Why not? Biden just loves ignoring the law.

Report: Biden Appears Confused at G-7 Summit

Tuberville Blocking Promotion of Navy Captain Who Allowed Drag Shows Aboard USS Ronald Reagan  I like that idea.

John Brennan, Enemy of the People

Texas Gov. Abbott Begins Busing Migrants to Denver

State Department Offers Counseling To Misgendered Employees Triggered By Email Pronoun Debacle  Poor iddle snowflakes….

Most Migrants Are Still Released Into the Country After Apprehension

he US debt ceiling crisis is more proof of Republicans’ cynicism and bad faith (The Guardian)

Pro-Confederacy Teacher Complains About School District’s Probe (Daily Beast)

The Supreme Court may soon reverse a core legal tenet (The Hill)

Conspiracy theorists to address US House subcommittee, watchdog warns (The Guardian)

4 Big Moments as House Democrats Attack FBI Whistleblowers at ‘Weaponization’ Hearing

NBC Panics Over Conservative Takeover of Colorado School Board

FBI Whistleblowers Admit Taking Money From Ex-Trump Official (Daily Beast) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

The Four Freedoms, According to Republicans (N.Y. Times) Yet Another Affirmative Action Hire at the NYT peddles his racist fantasies as news.

Fox News’s ‘vitriolic lies’ present clear threat to US democracy, says woman suing rightwing network (The Guardian) Ed Pilkington will buy any fable if it smears the right.

Hayes: Party of ‘parents rights’ pushes child health care bans (MSNBC) Chris Hayes is one of those odd folks at MSNBC who thinks that killing an unborn child somehow constitutes ‘health care’.

Two GOP senators smear a witness to defend Clarence Thomas (Washington Post) Ruth Marcus accuses others of doing what she does on a regular basis, as here.

Bathrooms Are Where We Feel Most Vulnerable. No Wonder Republicans Are Obsessed. (N.Y. Times) The Law of Liberal Projection suggests that somebody at the NYT has a bathroom fetish … and it isn’t a Republican.

NY Times: New Charges Considered for Trump Associate  They can’t get to Trump, so they witch-hunt anybody working for Trump. “And your little dog, too!”

LA Dodgers Remove ‘Anti-Catholic Hate Group’ From ‘Pride Night’ After Public Backlash

Top NY Times Woke Reporter Issues Front Page Hit on Detransitioner Chloe Cole

‘Let the Teachers Teach, and Shut Up’: New Hampshire Dem Lashes Out at Voter Over Parental Rights Bill

WHO recommends new COVID shots should target only XBB variants (Reuters)

Statement on the antigen composition of COVID-19 vaccines (WHO)

Feds Start Enrolling Volunteers For mRNA Flu Vaccine Trial

FDA Panel Backs Pfizer’s Maternal RSV Vaccine  As they do.

This Just In: Electric Buses Weigh More

Fossil fuel firms owe climate reparations of $209bn a year, says study (The Guardian) A study! That proves it! BURN THE WITCH!

Going For Broke: Black Lives Matter Revenues Dropped 88 Percent in 2022

One of Those White Supremacist Terrorists Whom Joe Biden Is Always Warning Us About Has Been Caught

More media madness: fake racism edition (Hot Air)

Echoing Scarface, “First We Get The Money” Say Chicago Mayor Johnson’s Allies With $12 Billion Financial Plan

San Francisco Reparations Would Cost City $100 Billion  Which it does not have (and cannot get).

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s impeachment stunt wrecks a big MAGA myth (Washington Post) Greg Sargent believes that Narrative fantasies are in general circulation. (MAGA is the New Nigger.)

Hurricane Trump Is Coming — And Washington Hasn’t Bothered to Prepare (Politico) Except by turning the smear-machine up to 11 … and giving him extra ammunition.

Fulton County DA Signals August Charges in Trump Probe  Gotta time it right for the election.

The revenge of Chris Christie? How he could take it to Trump (Washington Post) SCRAAAPE that barrel….

ZMan’s weekly podcast. Highly recommended.

Yesterday, Bernie Sanders, Ed Markey and some other generic senators from the Democratic Party held a presser with John Fetterman at which they demanded Joe Biden use the Fourteenth Amendment to raise the debt ceiling. Fetterman is unable to form coherent sentences and he is unable to dress like an adult, so he stood around in ratty gym shorts and a hoodie.

The reason Fetterman was invited is he is a rock star in Washington. As the first severely brain damaged man to win a senate seat, he is a trail blazer according to the carny politics of this age. Because he is mentally incapable of doing anything but utter random words, he is a unique act on the political stage. His extended time in the lunatic asylum only added to his novelty.

Politics is nothing more than a carnival act now. The game is to find some novel way to stand out from the crowd but do so in such a way that you can plausibly claim to be part of a designated victim group. For a white guy, the options are limited, as you are assumed to be part of the oppressor class. Fetterman’s crazy act lets him be a victim and lecture the rest of as a white man.

UK Daily Mail.

The FBI had at least four criminal investigations into Hillary and Bill Clinton that were ultimately shut down months before the presidential election in 2016, a new Justice Department report reveals – and Republicans want to reopen those probes.

A long-awaited report by Special Counsel John Durham released on Monday shows the FBI began investigating claims in late 2014 from a ‘well-placed’ confidential source that two foreign governments were trying to make illegal donations to buy influence with Hillary during her presidential campaign.

Investigators were even offered documents of one alleged $2,700 illegal contribution that led to a ‘substantial’ further donation.

Steve Sailer.

A decade ago, I correctly called that the New York Times was promoting transgenderism as the Next Big Thing after gay marriage.

What’s next?

Pedophilia? Bestiality?

Recently, I came around to thinking polygamy (although no doubt under some more euphemistic term) would be next.

The Spectator.

After the media bigged up the expiration of America’s Covid-era Title 42, which enabled the US to block entries into the country, the anticipated stampede across the southern border doesn’t seem to have occurred. No worries, then? Behold the miracle of social adaptation. Before the handy illegal immigrant ejection seat was retired last week, illegal entries from Mexico had risen to 11,000 per day — if sustained, more than 4 million per year, and that’s after 2.3 million southern border apprehensions last year. The record-breaking influx had already become a stampede, and apparently people can get used to anything.

As for why the ever-escalating surge of visitors for life, obviously loads of rational people would rather live in the US — or the UK — than in less agreeable locations. A better question is why they are allowed to.

New evidence in special counsel probe may undercut Trump’s claim documents he took were automatically declassified (CNN)

There’s Evidence Trump Knew His Classified Docs Claims Were False: Report (Daily Beast)

New evidence could undercut Trump’s claims of documents being declassified (CNN) Push that Narrative!

There’s now even less reason to blame Clinton for the Russia probe (Washington Post) Translastion: There’s even more reason to blame Clinton. (Durham’s Damning Report Assails FBI Leadership, Media for Enabling Hillary Clinton’s Alleged Russia Hoax Plan)

Donald Trump set to address Georgia GOP convention (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Favre: America Was ‘in Better Shape’ Under President Trump  It certainly was.

2024 Trump Nomination Would Hurt Down-Ballot Republicans, Poll Finds (National Reviw)

Trump’s Dominance in the GOP Isn’t What It Seems (Politico) Whistling past the graveyard.

Desperate Washington Post Makes Last-Ditch Pitch For Russian Collusion (Jonathan Turley)

Biden declares ‘America will not default,’ says he’s confident of budget deal with GOP lawmakers (Associated Press) Republicans will cave, as usual.

Joe Biden ‘Confident’ U.S. Won’t Default (Newsweek)

Biden views the debt ceiling as a staring contest with Republicans, not his duty as president (Fox)

Federal judges grill Biden administration on abortion pill (Politico)

Blistering DOJ watchdog report reveals why Biden-nominated US Attorney Rollins is resigning (Fox) She ought to go to jail–but won’t.

Keller: Devastating Rollins report shows why she walked away from this fight (CBS Boston)

US attorney in Massachusetts leaked sensitive information to journalist to influence political campaign and lied under oath, federal reports say (CNN) She ought to go to jail–but won’t.

Rachael Rollins committed ‘an extraordinary abuse of her power,’ US Office of Special Counsel wrote to Biden (Boston Globe)

Student loan payment pause will end this year, education secretary confirms (CNN)

Hunter Biden’s Shady Business Partners Called To Testify in His Arkansas Child Support Case

FBI Audit Reveals 8,000 Unjustified Searches Of Americans’ Communications

Judge Slams WH for Releasing Migrants After Title 42

Marjorie Taylor Greene Introduces Articles Of Impeachment Against FBI Director Chris Wray

Marjorie Taylor Greene introduces impeachment articles against Merrick Garland

Inside Biden’s plan to win back Latino voters (Axios)

Joe Biden, Habitual Racialist Demagogue

Biden to Illegals: Stop, Or we’ll Give You More Money! (Ann Coulter)

Whistleblowers and agency intimidation: IRS and FBI

‘Interphobia’: Blinken Celebrates International Day Against Phobias Nobody’s Heard Of

The 10 Most Nauseating Lines From Wired’s Pete Buttigieg Profile

Rep. Greene Adds Biden to Articles of Impeachment List  She’s certainly been busy.

Jim Jordan’s FBI whistleblowers testify publicly before Congress as questions about their legitimacy remain (CNN) … in the Narrative media–and who else matters?

Biden State Department Slaps Pronouns on Emails and Misgenders Staff

Leaked Pentagon Report Forensically Dismantles Fauci-Led Natural Origin Study

Study Finds 2 Doses of Mpox Vaccine More Effective

In DeSantis’ fight against woke, Florida may instead go broke (MSNBC)

House votes to refer resolution to expel Santos to Ethics Committee (CNN)

Homeland Security Uses AI Tool to Analyze Social Media of U.S. Citizens and Refugees (Vice)

Soros-Backed Group Pushes Chicago Mayor To Slash Funding for ‘Racist’ Police Force

Ron DeSantis Just Took Two Big Steps to Make Trans Lives Illegal (Rolling Stone)

‘Squad’ members AOC and Bowman shout at Santos to resign as he speaks outside Capitol

Texas Legislature Bans Transgender Medical Care for Children (N.Y. Times) There are no ‘transgender children’.

Fox News Highlights Threats, Vandalism, and Arson Against Pro-Life Centers

MLB Team Drops Plan to Honor Anti-Catholic ‘Hate Group’

DeSantis is angling to run to the right of Trump on abortion, guns and more (CNN) As if CNN had any clue as to what DeSantis intends to do.

LinkedIn Bans Journalist For Mentioning Durham Report

Why the Supreme Court Is Blind to Its Own Corruption (N.Y. Times) They keep using that word. I don’t think it means what they seem to think it means.

New York Mag’s Kara Swisher Claimed Musk Has ‘God Complex’ for Criticizing … Soros?

GOP Rep. Nancy Mace Warns Republicans Will ‘Suffer’ For Strict Abortion Laws (Huffington Post) RINOs gotta RINO.

DeSantis attacks LGBTQ+ community with “slate of hate” laws (Axios) In the Narrative media, ‘hate’ means ‘disagreement with progressives’.

Republicans’ financing of white vigilantism (Boston Globe) In the Narrative media, ‘vigilantism’ means defending yourself or your fellow citizens from crime.

School librarians face a new penalty in the banned-book wars: Prison (Washington Post) Funny thing: That’s what happens when you insist on breaking the law.

Everyone Point and Laugh at How Much Lefty Journos Now Hate Working at CNN

Ginni Thomas Has Donated More Than $20,000 To Republicans (Forbes) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

Ron DeSantis’s big idea: Make Florida students ignorant (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin loses her shit–as she does so well.

CNN’s Jake Tapper Apoplectic Over Musk Calling Out George Soros

Amanpour Rips Her Own Network’s Trump Town Hall In Commencement Speech

Democratic Attorney General Targets School for Policy Notifying Parents If Their Child Tries to Change Their Gender

School Counselor Fired for Disagreeing With Transgender Policy Sues Indiana District

CBS Whines Security Guard ‘Misgendered’ a Violent Trans Shoplifter

America’s Leading Republican Pipsqueak Has a New Book on How to Fix Men.  It’s a Hoot.  (Slate)

How William F. Buckley Jr.’s Right-Wing College Crusade Paved the Way for Ron DeSantis (Vanity Fair) I guess that DeSantis is … the New Buckley?

Beshear Appointee Scrubs Tweets That Called Kentucky Voters Homophobic Bigots

‘Squad’ Rep. Bush Pushes for $14T Reparations Bill

Rep. Cori Bush introduces resolution on reparations for Black Americans (Washington Post)

NYC hospital ‘Karen’ paid for Citi Bike at center of viral fight with black man: lawyer (N.Y. Post)

The Movement to Stop Dollar Stores From Suffocating Black Communities  I’ll bet you didn’t know that dollar stores were ‘suffocating black communities’.

Greene says she feels ‘threatened’ by Bowman after Capitol steps encounter (The Hill)

The Man Who Called Breonna Taylor’s Killing “Justified” Could Be Kentucky’s Next Governor (The Nation) As indeed it was.

Senate Democrats ask Biden to ready 14th Amendment, bypass GOP on debt limit (Washington Post)

I’m a Professor. Florida Just Banned Everything I Teach. (Daily Beast) Good.

Why historians like me are taking on Ron DeSantis (CNN)

You can ditch Right to Shelter, Mr. Mayor, and end the migrant chaos (N.Y. Post)

New York Gov. Hochul: Officials trying to find ‘welcoming’ sites for migrants in NYC, situation ‘desperate’ (Fox)

Gov. Hochul considers SUNY campuses for temporary migrant housing (RochesterFirst)

Archie Comics to Reveal Trans Character

Two Democratic Senators Are Not Compos Mentis. The Press Is Only Paying Attention to One.

House Dems Prep Debt Limit Hail Mary Discharge Petition

Economists Hate Rent Control. Here’s Why They’re Wrong. (The American Prospect) Reporters, of course, know more about economics than economists, just as they know more about medicine than doctors and more about the Constitution than lawyers.

Chicago, RIP

House Republican Submits Resolution To Expel ‘Liar’ Adam Schiff From Congress

Where’s the beef? Eric Adams wants to force New Yorkers to be vegetarian like him

Conservatives Bully L.A. Dodgers Into Dropping Charity Drag Group From Pride Night (Rolling Stone)

Pelosi lieutenant who sponsored congressional stock ban bill just violated the STOCK Act (Raw Story)

Bud Light Sales Crash “Getting Much Worse” In Latest Week Since Dylan Mulvaney Fiasco

Democrats Unveil Plan For No-Cost, Over-The-Counter Birth Control (Huffington Post)

Florida Democrats think the unthinkable: We’re in play (Politico) Not outside of minority-heavy urban areas you’re not.

NPR’s ‘All Things Considered’ Pushes a Project for ‘Pride in the Pews,’ No Bible in Your News

New York Town Declares State Of Emergency Banning Hotels, Facilities From Housing Immigrants

Ex-Biden Nuclear Official Sam Brinton Arrested As ‘Fugitive From Justice’ (Daily Wire)

50 Shades of ‘Gay’: Twitter Community Notes Dings NBC for Pushing Fake News

San Francisco Office Values Collapse 75%

Liberal Celebrity Chef Exempt From Gas Stove Ban, California City Says Rules are for thee but not for me.

To help new students adapt, some colleges are eliminating grades (NPR)

Nashville Church Moves To Block Release of Transgender Shooter’s Manifesto

MSNBC Comes Out In Favor Of ‘Socially’ Transitioning 5-Year Olds

Disney Cancels Plans to Relocate 2,000 Jobs to Florida  The one thing Florida doesn’t need is 2,000 more Californians.

Ford’s “Redefining Tough” Commercial Features LGBT-Colored Truck

ABC Gawks at Shoplifting Surge, Shocked Stores Closing Down

As Crisis Grows, All of New York’s Migrant Plans Are Met With Outrage (N.Y. Times) It’s warm and fuzzy being a Sanctuary City–until the migrants arrive.

Essay: Why Even The Most Progressive Cities Are Failing Their Car-Free Residents

They tried and failed to repeal the debt ceiling. Now it may ruin the economy. (Washington Post)

Fetterman’s Staff Caught Doctoring His Words To Make Him Sound Coherent  Good luck with that.

Twelfth Oregon County Votes to be Part of Greater Idaho

NYC skyscrapers sit vacant, exposing risk city never predicted

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

John Durham’s detailed report on the Russia hoax should destroy the (positive) reputation of the FBI. It is devastating. One has to go beyond the four corners of the report to assess the impact it should have on the (positive) reputation of the establishment press, though its positive reputation has been crumbling for decades.

The press was of course an integral part of the Russia hoax all along the way. You’ve got your New York Times. You’ve got your Washington Post. They’ve got their Pulitzer Prize for peddling the Russia hoax to gullible readers.

I’ve got the New Yorker and Jane Mayer. They make a cameo appearance at page 93 of Durham’s report. On July 26, 2016, Glenn Simpson wrote Jane Mayer an email with the subject heading “Carter Page.” He understood that Mayer was interested in Page. Mayer responded two days later to advise Simpson that her editor, among others, “was interested in setting up an off the record meeting to discuss and learn more about your research.”

In March 2018 the New Yorker published Mayer’s fawning profile of Christopher Steele. I mocked it in a five-part series I called “Jane Mayer’s Dossiad” in tribute to Alexander’s Pope’s Dunciad

Washington Examiner.

election are damning enough. The FBI allowed itself to become a conduit for disinformation instigated by a partisan political campaign and possibly influenced by the very foreign actor it was allegedly investigating.

But when you take a step back and put the Durham report into the broader context of the CIA’s involvement in suppressing Hunter Biden’s laptop and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s involvement in suppressing the investigation into the origins of COVID, a disturbing pattern emerges: The Democratic Party, the liberal media, and highest levels of the federal government are routinely conspiring to spread disinformation for plainly partisan ends.

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The USA is confronted with three epic-size problems: (1) the need for production of energy on a scale that meets the current and future needs of the nation, (2) the need to confront the climate crisis head-on by only producing renewable, green energy, that is 100% emission-free, and (3) the need to forever forestall the eruption of the Yellowstone Supervolcano. This paper offers both a provable practical, novel solution, and a thought experiment, to simultaneously solve all of the above stated problems. Through a new copper-based engineering approach on an unprecedented scale, this paper proposes a safe means to draw up the mighty energy reserve of the Yellowstone Supervolcano from within the Earth, to superheat steam for spinning turbines at sufficient speed and on a sufficient scale, in order to power the entire USA. The proposed, single, multi-redundant facility utilizes the star topology in a grid array pattern to accomplish this. Over time, bleed-off of sufficient energy could potentially forestall this Supervolcano from ever erupting again. With obvious importance to our planet and the research community alike, COMSOL simulation demonstrates and proves the solution proposed herein, to bring vast amounts of green, emission-free energy to the planet’s surface for utilization. Well over 11 Quadrillion Watt hours of electrical energy generated over the course of one full year, to meet the current and future needs of the USA is shown to be practical. Going beyond other current and past research efforts, this methodology offers tremendous benefits, potentially on a planetary scale.

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When we buy cereal or bread, few pay attention to the fact that most grains are protected or even patented. Most farmers don’t own the seeds they sow on their fields. “They are renting them,” Kloppenburg, professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and co-founder of OSSI says with disgust. The problem with that? “A few global companies have the monopolies on global seed trade, and they breed cash crops like corn and soy, purely for money. They don’t care about biodiversity, world hunger or about the small farmer.” What sounds like a business problem impacts everybody, Kloppenburg insists. “These few gene giants on top of the food chain decide what ends up on our plates.”

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The agenda, perfectly expressed by author Michael Shellenberger in a Substack post last week, is to “manufacture a fake ‘hate’ crisis as [a] pretext for mass spying, blacklists, and censorship.” The hype, also exposed by Shellenberger in his recent article, is underscored by the fact that over the past 10 years, hate crime convictions, as opposed to “criminal complaints of hate crimes,” have not increased at all. In a state with 40 million people, hate crime convictions were a minuscule 109 in 2021, and a negligible increase from 107 in 2012.

The hate industry is a vast agglomeration of lucrative hustles, now institutionalized and expanded into multiple and overlapping sectors. There is the diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) sector; the equity, social, and governance (ESG) sector; the activist sector comprising countless groups, including Black Lives Matter and Antifa; the corporate, academic, and government sectors; the media sector; the politicians; and the pundits. All of these sectors have spawned scores of thousands of well-paying jobs.

If these institutions weren’t able to point to rising levels of hatred in America, then their specialty, the business of hate, would no longer be a growth industry. Where there is no hate, they must manufacture it. Where hatred has diminished, they must discover new forms of hate, often so subtle that we foolishly fail to recognize it without their assistance.

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Fast food chain Wendy’s is testing new technology to automate its stores. This is more bad news for human workers as automation and artificial intelligence invade the fast food industry.

Wendy’s announced a new partnership with Pipedream, a hyper logistics company, to pilot-test the first underground autonomous robot system that will allow food from the kitchen to be sent to designated parking spots via an underground network of pipes.

Remind me to avoid Wendy’s.

ACLU’s Lee Gelernt: Biden admin ‘replaced Title 42 with yet another Trump asylum ban’ (MSNBC) Oh no! Not another Trump ban!

Republicans Question Officials Who Cast Doubt on Hunter Biden Laptop Contents (N.Y. Times)

The Durham Coverup

Poll: 2 in 3 Floridians Want Trump Over DeSantis

The Return of Teflon Don: Trump Stans Say Scandals Help Him (Daily Beast) As indeed it does.

After Years of Political Hype, the Durham Inquiry Failed to Deliver (N.Y. Times) Come and git yer Narrative, right here.

“Damn, That’s Thin”, “I Know”, “It Sucks”: The Untold Story Of The Trump-Russia Investigation

The Durham investigation was a flop. But it’s a propaganda triumph. (Washington Post) Come and git yer Narrative, right here.

FBI Defenders Misrepresent 2019 Report in Attempt to Discredit Durham

The Worst Political Scandal in American History?

The truth about Russia, Trump and the 2016 election (Washington Post0 In the Narrative media, ‘the truth’ means ‘the Narrative’.

9 Ways Vivek Ramaswamy Can Beat Donald Trump, According to Andrew Yang

Clinton Collusion, Russian Spies, And More: Eight Surprises from the Durham Report

Turley: Durham Report Condemns FBI’s Russia Probe… But Don’t Expect It To Make A Difference

What Makes the Durham Report a Sinister Flop (The Atlantic) David Treyf Frum pushes the Narrative.

Exclusive: New evidence in special counsel probe may undercut Trump’s claim documents he took were automatically declassified (CNN) He was the President. If he says they were declassified, then they were declassified. CNN is not the judge of that.

A mind is a difficult thing to change: here’s the typical spin on the Durham Report from the left

Adam Schiff Still Insists Trump Conspired With Russia

CNN Buys Extra-Large Excavator To Help Bury Durham Report  (Babylon Bee)

Have all the beers gone woke? An investigation. (Vox)

Miller Lite’s ‘woke’ apology for bikini girl ads sparks new beer industry controversy: ‘Really odd’ (Fox)

See the ‘woke’ Miller Lite commercial that has critics calling for boycotts (CNN)

WHAT?! Microsoft CEO Preaches ‘Opportunity’ to ‘Retool’ People with AI

Texas passes bill stripping authority from cities (The Hill)

Florida Bill Would Crack Down on ‘Woke’ Finance Company Morningstar for Actions That Harm Israel

North Carolina Republicans Override Veto, Allowing 12-Week Abortion Ban To Become Law (Huffington P0st)

North Carolina bans abortion past 12 weeks, overriding governor veto (Washington Post)

Riley Gaines details ‘traumatic’ experience with Lia Thomas and SFSU assault (Washington Examiner)

White House faces pressure from the left to buck mainstream antisemitism definition (Jewish Insider)

Parents hit out at Waldorf school’s explicit sex ed curriculum featuring graphic pictures: ‘Nauseous’ (N.Y. Post)

University of Wyoming sorority sisters say they ‘live in fear’ of trans member (N.Y. Post)

NY Times Publisher: No Bias Here, Just a Sophisticated ‘Metropolitan Sensibility’

Will Abortion Kill The GOP?

The PBS ‘NewsHour’ Is a Democrat Spin Hour

‘We Sale Your Bank’: WaPo Reporter Rewrites Disastrous Fetterman Word Salad as a ‘Quote’ (PJ Media)

Marriage Counselors Are Getting Into BLM, DEI, and MeToo

Senate Democrats, Not Exactly Firing on All Cylinders

Labour Party Looking To Extend Voting Rights to EU Citizens

Bud Light Sales Keep Dropping as Summer Approaches

Fetterman’s Comments at Hearing Raise Eyebrows

WATCH: Fetterman Speaks Incoherently After Media Said He’s ‘Ready To Work’

Robust One-Nation Conservatism Is What Woke Globalist Elites Fear Most, Heritage Foundation President Tells London Conference

FBI Leadership Sabotaged Clinton Foundation Investigations: Durham Report

LGBTQ+ Activists Decry Policy That Won’t Let Them Fly ‘Pride’ Flags Outside Schools

Nets Pout Over Pro-Life NC Law as ABC Explains What It Means for a ‘Pregnant Person’

Teachers in This School District Use Planned Parenthood Guide to Sex Ed for Middle Schoolers

4 More Companies Go ‘Full Bud Light,’ Daring Consumers to Boycott  Tuborg. Heineken.

Negotiators see progress on debt ceiling, as Biden’s liberal allies worry (Washington Post) Apparently it is ‘liberal’ to spend money like a drunken sailor.

Fact-Checking Biden Admin’s Claim That Illegal Immigration Drops With End of Title 42

US X-Date Is Now June 5 As Treasury Burns $52BN Cash In One Day, Only $87BN Left

GOP Presidential Candidates React To Durham Report: ‘Shut Down The FBI’

Report Reveals ATF Misappropriated $20 Million To Pay Bureaucrat Salaries

Why Biden Can’t Use The 14th Amendment To Raise The Debt Ceiling

Hunter Biden Lobbied State Department in 2016 on Behalf of Corrupt Romanian National, Records Show

Papua New Guinea Declared National Holiday for Biden’s Visit. Then He Canceled.

DOJ Watchdog: US Attorney in Mass. Tried to Influence DA Election

Pete Buttigieg Takes Parental Leave Again After Adopting A Highway  (Babylon Bee)

Southern Europe braces for climate change-fuelled summer of drought (Reuters)

The Future is Dry: Why Spain is on the verge of becoming a desert (FirstPost)

Southern Europe Braces for Climate Change-Fuelled Summer of Drought (U.S. News and World Report)

Opinion: What a painting can tell us about the fight for environmental justice (CNN) ‘Environmental justice’?

Morgan Stanley Says $7 Trillion Needed To “Re-Wire” EV Battery Supply Chain In Multipolar World

John Kerry Would Love For Farmers To Stop Farming

“Inflection Point In The Conversation On Atomic Power” Begins 

French President Macron Sells Out Climate Activists, Calls for a “Pause” in New Regulations

The Green Movement Is a Jobs Killer. Are Unions Finally Figuring This Out?

UN Has Blueprint to Reduce Plastic Waste 80 Percent by 2040  All it takes is ‘major policy changes’ … who knew?

The UAW Demands A “Just Transition” To Electric Vehicles

Civil rights leader to deliver keynote at New College alternative graduation (Sarasota Herald-Tribune)

Trump-backed Cameron Wins Ky. GOP Primary for Governor

Can Reparations Bring Black Residents Back to San Francisco? (N.Y. Times)

UK: No-fault evictions to be banned in reform of rental sector Illustrated by a picture of a Woman of Colour just so you know who the Official Victim is. Wouldn’t want you to get that wrong.

Former NBA Star Says Suns are Racist for Firing Monty Williams as Coach

St. Louis Top Prosecutor Kim Gardner Resigns

CBS Elevates Shoplifter as Community Pillar ‘Helping Black Trans’ Kids

A White Woman and a Black Woman Teamed Up to Lucratively Exploit the Starbucks Racist Bathroom Incident for Years. But Then …

NAACP warns Congress against debt ceiling deal that would ‘harm’ Black communities (NBC News) In the Narrative media, ‘harm’ is ‘not giving us as much money as we want’.

The new COVID variant has symptoms that are similar to allergies. Here’s how to tell the difference (Salon)

FACT CHECK: Biden’s Education Secretary Insists He Didn’t Support Mandatory COVID Vaccines for Schoolchildren

COVID-19 Most Likely Emerged From Wuhan Lab, Rubio Report Says

Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine Becomes Unavailable In US

NIH Cuts US Taxpayer Funding for COVID-Linked Wuhan Institute

Conference on Propaganda and COVID-19

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Imagine if, after the Supreme Court’s racial integration decision Brown v. Board of Education, the segregationist advocacy groups and Southern senators had showed up outside the Supreme Court to announce legislation to change the number of justices. Or if, after the Supreme Court’s ruling in Bush v. Gore, the Democrats had tried to change the outcome by adding justices to the court in hope of achieving a different result.

There’d be justifiable outrage at interference with judicial independence, and with outcome-based disappointment driving process-based changes. And there’d be understandable skepticism about whether such court-packing would lead to a never-ending cycle of each new Congressional majority changing the rules to add justices who agreed with them to the high court, eviscerating the judiciary’s constitutional role as a check and balance to the other branches of government.

On Tuesday, Senators Markey and Warren of Massachusetts and Tina Smith of Minnesota, along with representatives Jerrold Nadler, Hank Johnson, Cori Bush, and Adam Schiff, Democrats all, introduced the Judiciary Act of 2023, which would add four justices to create a 13-member Supreme Court.

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The latest example was served up on Monday, as two families brawled just beyond Disney World’s entrance gates, in a fight that reportedly arose from a family’s desire to take a photo at the iconic location.

The Orange County Sheriff’s Office responded to emergency calls at 2:30pm. Reportedly, one family asked another family to move so they could take a group photo at a spot that has the Magic Kingdom train station as a backdrop, along with Mickey Mouse topiary and, this year, a sign calling out the 100th anniversary of the Walt Disney Company.

Tempers flared, and violent impulses prevailed as a member of one family reportedly punched a member of another in the face. Things then quickly devolved into the kind of messy, co-ed slugfest seen with increasing regularity as American society steadily unravels — and companies like Disney set out to destroy the values that once bound it.

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In Israel, Inga Avramyan, 80 years old, died under a collapsing ceiling. The elderly immigrant from Armenia heard the sirens warning of an Islamic terror strike, but did not reach the bomb shelter in time because she was trying to help her disabled husband make it along with her.

Sergei, Inga’s husband, had lost a leg in a car accident and needed a wheelchair to get around. The rocket smashed through the side of the building, the ceiling collapsed and Inga was killed.

Four days before the Islamic Jihad rocket killed Inga, Senator Bernie Sanders helped host an event promoting Islamic Jihad in the Senate building.

North Dakoka State University.

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Freethink.

UC Davis researchers have created part-natural, part-artificial “cyborg” cells that might one day be engineered to do everything from fight cancer to clean up the environment.

Synthetic bio 101: Mother Nature is an excellent engineer — the human body alone contains about 200 types of cells, each precisely designed to serve a specific function while also working in harmony with all the other types.

When you add in all the other cells found in the 1.2 million identified species on Earth, you end up with a lot of perfect little biological machines — and a goal of synthetic biology is to put those machines to work.

One way to do this is by genetically engineering cells to have new abilities — this could mean modifying the single-celled organism E. coli to convert plastic waste into useful vanillin, or engineering cancer patients’ immune cells to recognize tumors.

ZMan dispels the fog.

The overused cliché about the truth being the first casualty of war is an overused cliché because it is so obviously true. Wars are the result of rulers on both sides seeing advantage in the suffering of their people. That means producing a story to explain to the people why they must sacrifice for the ruler. The war in the Ukraine is no exception, but it may be the first war to be turbocharged by the narrative industrial complex through the internet.

For several months, the usual suspects have been promoting a narrative framework with regards to a Ukrainian counter-offensive. Tens of billions of Western arms have been shipped to Ukraine, along with plane loads of cash. This has been done to great political fanfare in every Western capital. Slowly, the story evolved into the great spring offensive in which a newly formed Ukrainian army using Western super-weapons would smash through the Russian lines and send them fleeing.

The explanation for how this would work or why it should be attempted was never provided, but a good story is worth skipping over the details. Russia has about half a million men in Ukraine at the moment. They have air superiority, and they have a growing advantage in firepower. How a seventy-thousand-man attack force could smash through their lines was left to the imagination. That is where people like Edward Luttwak filled the void with serious sounding plans for the attack.

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

Catching up with last week’s hard copy Wall Street Journal, I was struck by the numerous uses of “militants” in lieu of “terrorists” or “jihadists” to describe members of Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Take the headline of the May 9 story by Dov Lieber, Aaron Boxerman, and Anas Baba, for example: “Israeli Strikes Kill Senior Militants, Civilians in Gaza.”

Query what you have to do to become a “senior militant.” Does anyone read this stuff or pause to reflect how utterly inane it sounds? But I digress.

The story reported in the opening sentence: “Israeli airstrikes killed three Palestinian militant commanders and 12 others who were mostly civilians in a surprise attack in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the Israeli military and Palestinian officials said, threatening a new round of escalating violence.”

Going back to May 2, Lieber and Baba also reported the story “Gaza Militants Fire Rockets at Israel After Palestinian Hunger Striker Dies.” You have to be pretty “militant” to fire rockets at civilians.

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