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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….

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.

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.

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.

Read it. And watch the video.

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.

Window condensation and other moisture problems are likely in a weatherized home without air exchangers. This is a problem for both people and the home structure. Bringing in outside air and exhausting indoor air (ventilation) dilutes or removes the indoor pollutants and moisture. The question is: How do you remove the moisture and pollutants while retaining the heated or cooled air? An air-to-air heat exchanger will solve that problem. Air exchangers transfer the thermal energy of the indoor air to incoming fresh air, allowing the moisture and pollutants to be vented but retaining the heat. This publication describes reasons to use air-to-air heat exchangers, technology of exchangers, the cost advantages of installing them and some tips on choosing a heat exchanger that is right for your home.

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.

The Antiplanner.

Crime, on-line shopping, telecommuting and exorbitant rents are all contributing to the decline of downtowns, observes an article on CNN Business. But the real reason downtowns are declining, according to the article, is that people don’t live in dense enough neighborhoods.

“To reinvent downtown retail,” asserts the article without any room for debate or citation of evidence, cities need “denser neighborhoods with a broader mix of affordable housing, experiential retail, restaurants, entertainment, parks and other amenities.” Where have I heard that before?

How are denser neighborhoods going to solve crime and homeless problems? How are they going to fill office spaces when people are working at home? How will they get people to stop shopping on line? How will they make rents more affordable when higher densitis increase land values?

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

The global liberal movement is trying to destroy modern, scientific agriculture. Liberals want organic farming–no intensive nitrogen fertilization–along with an end to animal husbandry and banning of pretty much all effective herbicides and pesticides. All great ideas, if you don’t care about billions of people dying. Just ask anyone in Sri Lanka or the Netherlands.

Residents, business owners fleeing Dem-run cities in droves as homeless camps wreak havoc: ‘Absolute madness’ (Fox)

NYC faces ire of residents over plan to house migrants in Brooklyn elementary school gym (Fox)

Dave Chappelle Rips San Francisco: ‘What the F— Happened to This Place?’

Rashida Tlaib Asks Supporters To ‘Chip In’ So She Can Host More Anti-Semitic Events

Chicago Mercantile Exchange CME Threatens to Flee Chicago as Myr. Johnson Takes Office

America’s Powerful Intellectual Class Finds ‘Joy In Making Us Obey And Be Compliant,’ Warns Scholar

Court order that could end US health law’s preventative care mandate put on hold (Associated Press)

WATCH: MSNBC Takes Less Than Half Hour to Declare 300-Page Durham Report a Nothingburger

Report: Mexican President Mum on Cartels During Border City Visits

WHO Pushes “Early Childhood Masturbation” For Toddlers, Encourages Questions About Gender Identity For Kids Aged 4

Billy Joel to Florida

NY Parents In Uproar As City Houses Migrants In School Gyms

How a Few Stories of Regret Fuel the Push to Restrict Gender Transition Care (N.Y. Times)

Top OBGYN Organization: Abortion Is ‘Settled Science’

Soros-Backed Prosecutor Dropped Previous Assault Charges Against Man Arrested for Attacking Dem Staffers With a Bat  What goes around, comes around.

Media Admits They Lied About That Russia Collusion Thing But Are Totally Telling The Truth About Everything Else  (Babylon Bee)

Musk says George Soros ‘hates humanity,’ compares him to Jewish supervillain (Washington Post)

Disc Golf Org. Wins Appeal To Protect Women’s Division At Tournament

Newsom Warned Migrants Could ‘Break’ California. Now Dems Want To Give Illegals Unemployment.

Dem Legislators Reintroduce Bill to Expand Supreme Court

Study indicates that the Omicron wave and the rollout of vaccines led to almost 100% seropositivity and boosted anti-spike IgG titers in children and adolescents (News-Medical)

Fired Teachers Who Refused COVID Vaccine To Get Full Reinstatement And Back Pay

Clinical trial of mRNA universal influenza vaccine candidate begins

Greenwashing era is over, say ad agencies, as regulators get toug (The Guardian)

Newly-Launched Finnish Nuclear Plant Sees Electricity Prices Plunge By 75%

Ferrari Rejects Green Pressure to Phase Out Internal Combustion Engines

Extinction Rebellion Radicals Claim Responsibility for a Stage Invasion

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs a bill banning DEI initiatives in public colleges (NPR)

DeSantis curtails diversity, equity & inclusion programs at state colleges (CBS News)

DeSantis signs bill banning funding for college diversity programs (Sarasota Herald-Tribune)

DeSantis bans state funding for diversity, inclusion programs at Florida public universities (Fox)

CNN Dismayed DeSantis Would Defend NY Marine from Lefty D.A.

Rudy Giuliani made antisemitic remarks about Jews’ genitalia, mocked ‘freaking Passover’ observance, new lawsuit claims (The Forward) The Forward is an explicitly Marxist newspaper for Jewish Red Diaper babies.

Online Reviewers Are Being Absolutely Brutal About Josh Hawley’s ‘Manhood’ (Daily Beast) They mean left-wing reviewers of course–are there any other kind?–like the Daily Beast.

Woman sues Rudy Giuliani, saying he coerced her into sex, owes her $2 million in unpaid wages (Associated Press)

Haley’s financial disclosure report shows lucrative speaking engagements (CNN) Although not as lucrative as Hillary’s.

Paul Gosar’s Staffer Is a Neo-Nazi (The New Republic) Uh, not quite.

Protesting Homes of SC Justices: Free Speech or Intimidation?

‘Anti-Homophobia’ Event Disrupted by Muslim Students

Study: Taxpayer-Subsidized PBS Whacks GOP with 85% Negative News

DeSantis’s celebration of vigilantism is a new low in MAGA extremism (Washington Post) MAGA is the New Nigger. Greg Sargent feels Philip Bump encroaching on his turf.

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Media Malpractice: Russian Hoax Confirmed by the Durham Report

Inside Tucker Carlson’s Battle to Trade His $20 Million Fox News Salary for a Twitter Show (EXCLUSIVE) (Variety) Yeah, as if Variety has any clue as to what Tucker is doing. (In the Narrative media, EXCLUSIVE means they just made it up.)

After breaking itself, Congress tries to break the rest of government, too (Washington Post) By ‘Congress’ they mean House Republicans, and by ‘breaking the government’ they mean ‘trying to put the brakes on Democrat attempts to buy votes with taxpayer money’.

The Republican Embrace of Vigilantism Is No Accident (N.Y. Times) There is, of course, no ‘Republican embrace of vigilantism’, merely Republican defense of citizens who act in self-defense and defense of their fellow citizens; which is what all this hand-waving is attempting to obscure.

Who Is Leonard Leo’s Mysterious Dark Money King? (The New Republic) I’m guessing it isn’t George Soros, Mark Zuckerberg, or any of the billionaire Hollywood moguls and tech bros that fund Democrat PACs.

Conservative pundits are increasingly open about who they think should be killed (Media Matters for America) Proglodytes, by contrast, have never hidden their hit lists.

John Durham Owes the American People an Apology for Wasting Their Money (Daily Beast) Yeah, only Democrats are allowed to waste the American people’s money.

GOP Highlights Attacks on Pregnancy Centers, Pro-Lifers Under Biden Admin

House Democrat introduces resolution to expel Santos (CNN) I’m surprised it took this long.

How Garland’s release of Trump-Russia probe report differed from Barr’s (Washington Post)

Migrants to be housed in 6 more NYC school gyms — outraged parents say plan is ‘just insane’ (N.Y. Post)

NYC housing migrants in public school gyms (Fox)

Tony Blinken Could Become First Secretary of State Held in Contempt of Congress  Which doesn’t matter a damn, because they won’t do anything about it (like impeachment).

Biden administration may halt plans to move Space Command to Alabama over state’s abortion law, officials say (NBC News)

The Media Is Normalizing Debt-Ceiling Extortion (New York Magazine) Jonathan Chait pushes the Narrative. Funny how all of the Narrative media think that the other Narrative media are somehow right-wing.

House GOP Lawmaker Readies Contempt Charge for Blinken

IRS removes investigative team from Hunter Biden probe in move whistleblower claims is ‘clearly retaliatory’ (N.Y. Post)

IRS removes ‘entire investigative team’ in Hunter Biden probe, whistleblower claims retaliation: report (Fox)

Karine Jean-Pierre’s 10 Biggest Gaffes as Press Secretary

Yellen: US Default Would Cause ‘Worldwide Panic, Runs’  Well, I can certainly see why it would give Janet Yellen the runs….

Mayorkas impeachment pressure builds inside the House GOP (CNN)

EXCLUSIVE: 3,000 Military Veterans Reject Pentagon’s ‘Left-Wing Social Agenda,’ Support Tuberville’s Fight

25 Governors Petition Biden To Protect Women’s Sports

US Now Spends More Servicing Its Debt Than On National Defense

Biden, NYC Mayor Adams Break Caused by Migrants, Crime

MTG Introduces Impeachment Articles Against FBI’s Wray

Netflix’s ‘Cleopatra’ Is a Historical Revisionist Queen of Denial

Federal prosecutors seek to drop charges against Florida’s Gillum (Politico) The Crust takes care of its own.

He ‘can resume his life’: Federal prosecutors move to dismiss Andrew Gillum indictment (Talahassee Democrat)

16 Crucial Words That Went Missing From a Landmark Civil Rights Law (N.Y. Times)

Watch: Meleé Erupts At Minneapolis Dems’ Nominating Convention

Netflix Race-Swapped Cleopatra Show Receives Lowest Rating In Rotten Tomatoes History

Ignorant Ron DeSantis and Other Republicans Are Calling The Man Who Killed Jordan Neely ‘A Good Samaritan’ (The Root)

I, For One, Welcome Our New Anti-White Racist Asian Academic Overlords  (The Other McCain)

Affordable Housing Is a Black Hole

What Possibly Could Have Happened in Minneapolis in 2020 That Could Have Caused Traffic Fatalities to Skyrocket?

IRS Admits to Targeting Black Americans More Than Others Despite Biden’s ‘Racial Equity’ Pledge

13-Year-Olds Charged With Taxi Driver’s Murder (Daily Beast)

Bush, Tlaib vote against resolution honoring police: ‘Intended to advance Republicans’ false narrative’

‘Squad’ Dems vote against honoring police officers killed in line of duty

New research documents 1.6 million excess deaths among Black Americans in past 20 years (The Hill) Many at the hands of young black men with guns–although you won’t see any mention of that in any report.

Read it.

A California city may lose out on a new restaurant from world-famous chef José Andrés because of its ban on natural gas.

The owner of the mall where Andrés was set to open his Mediterranean restaurant Zaytinya is threatening to sue Palo Alto over the ban, which starting this year prevents new buildings from having natural gas connections.

The restaurant relies on “traditional cooking methods that require gas appliances to achieve its signature, complex flavors,” said Anna Shimko, a lawyer representing the group that owns the Stanford Shopping Center where Andrés leased space for the restaurant. Palo Alto city council members discussed the letter behind closed doors on May 8 but took no public action.

Shimko said the building’s plans were approved by the city in 2019, years before the gas ban was imposed. She added that some of the appliances the restaurant staff needs “do not have electrically powered equivalents.”

“Without a gas connection and appliances, Zaytinya would be forced to alter its signature five-star reputation,” Shimko said, adding that if the ban is enforced, “Zaytinya will likely choose not to locate within the city.”

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U.S. agencies under President Joe Biden have proposed restrictions on deli meats and are considering a ban on chocolate milk in school cafeterias.

The Department of Agriculture is “considering a ban on flavored milk—including chocolate, strawberry, and other varieties—in elementary and middle schools when it adopts new standards for school meals,” the Wall Street Journal reported Monday. While supporters say flavored milk contributes to childhood obesity, opponents say the ban “will lead to children drinking less milk.”

“We want to take a product that most kids like and that has nine essential nutrients in it and say, ‘You can’t drink this, you have to drink plain’?” asked Urban School Food Alliance executive director Katie Wilson.

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Eight states have enacted new education choice policies or have expanded existing ones so far this year, including Indiana, Montana, and South Carolina earlier this month alone.

Of the eight, four states—Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, and Utah—enacted school choice policies that will be available to all K-12 students, joining Arizona and West Virginia in making every child eligible for education savings accounts or ESA-like policies that allow families to choose the learning environments that align with their values and work best for their children.

Indiana came close by expanding eligibility for its voucher and tax-credit scholarship policies to about 97% of K-12 students statewide. South Carolina’s new ESA is limited to low- and middle-income families, while Montana’s new ESA will expand education options for students with special needs.

More states have adopted robust education choice policies this year than ever before—and several state legislatures are still in session. This week, three state legislatures are making progress toward adopting new education choice policies or significantly expanding existing ones.

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The head of the Satanic Temple in Austin, Texas, is set to give an invocation before Tuesday night’s city council meeting in San Marcos, Hays County.

No surprises here. San Marcos is one of the blue urban pustules on the otherwise rosy red cheeck of Texas.

The American Mind.

According to a recent report in the New York Post, many members of Gen Z (Zoomers) are lousy employees. A majority (65 percent) of employers say that they’ve had to fire them more often; one out of eight Zoomers were fired from their jobs in the first week; and three out of four employers “say Gen Z is hardest to work with.” Most of the challenges of working with Zoomers are attributed to their general lack of professionalism, excessive sense of entitlement, and most of all, their addiction to smartphones. Apparently, the Zoomers struggle more than the millennials (my generation), who are usually the subject of such generational criticisms: “even Millennials and prior generations understood that you come to work and you do what your employer asks of you.”

Who would’ve guessed that a culture that abhors character development, celebrates mediocrity, and encourages screen addiction from an early age would produce a generation of incompetent young adults who can’t function in the workplace? Who could believe that indoctrinating them with identity politics would make them overly sensitive and impossible to work with? How is it possible that so many people who grew up in broken homes, never had a father, lost their innocence at an early age, had poor mental health, and never practiced religion could be so moody, flaky, and inconsistent?

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A 12-year-old and a 20-year-old are both facing a murder charge after a restaurant employee was gunned down during an altercation with a customer Saturday night in Keene.

Flowers and a cross now stand outside the Sonic Drive-In on Old Betsy Road in Keene. It’s a growing memorial to Matthew Davis, a 32-year-old employee and father who was shot and killed while on the job Saturday night.

According to a statement from Keene Police, the shooting happened at about 9:40 p.m. Angel Gomez, 20, went to the Sonic with several passengers and was acting “disorderly” in the parking lot when Davis confronted him for urinating in the parking lot, Keene Police Chief James Kidd said.

The confrontation turned physical and a 12-year-old who was in Gomez’s car pulled out an assault rifle and fired six rounds at Davis, Kidd said.

Gomez? Obviously a Neo-Nazi white supremacist.

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I’ve been interested in comments made by various public health officials reflecting total amnesia about events during Covid. The canard, actively promoted by the officials and known to be fictitious, that the vaccines prevented transmission, was a dagger in the heart of an already fragile social cohesion. And now these officials are pretending to be mystified by the suggestion that they had anything to do with lockdowns, mandates, contact tracing, school closures, etc.

The people at Grabien have compiled a helpful retrospective to keep actual events and media perspectives from being memory-holed. Worth watching.

Read it.

Special counsel John Durham, in a widely anticipated report Monday, condemned the Justice Department and FBI for their conduct in the “Russian collusion” investigation of Donald Trump.

Durham’s investigation looked at the origins of Crossfire Hurricane, the name of the FBI probe of whether Trump or his 2016 presidential campaign colluded with Russians to win the election.

The investigation was taken over by special counsel Robert Mueller, a former FBI director, after Trump was elected president. Mueller’s team concluded there was no evidence of conspiracy or collusion between Trump or his campaign and Russia.

Judge Orders FDA To Speed Up Release Of COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Data From 23.5 Years To Just 2

A Colossal Failure Around The World

DeSantis Critic JB Pritzker Sent His Family to This $18M Florida Horse Farm During the Pandemic

Farewell Questions For Rochelle Walensky