Trump Iowa Rally Rescheduled Over Weather

The 2024 election isn’t about normal things. It’s about Trump. (Washington Post)

Chris Christie: Trump a ‘Puppet of Putin’ With Ukraine Remark

Sketchy funding for Trump’s Truth Social was hidden from SEC and investors: report (Raw Story)

DeSantis Impresses in Iowa, Showing Up an Absent Trump (N.Y. Times) The only time you’ll see the NYT say something even vaguely positive about DeSantis is when it means they can bash Trump.

CORROBORATION: More women come forward about Trump’s sexual predation during presidency (Washington Presss) Let’s see … nope, nothing about Biden’s practice of grabbing women ans sniffing their hair.

Biden previews 2024 election pitch to young Black voters in Howard University commencement speech (CNN)

Biden Warns of ‘Sinister Forces’ Trying to Reverse Racial Progress (N.Y. Times)

California Reparations Committee Calls for Ending Cash Bail

White Supremacy Is The ‘Most Dangerous Terrorist Threat,’ Biden Tells Howard Grads (Huffington Post)

Next Chairman of Joint Chiefs Wants White Male Officers to be a Minority

Biden calls white supremacy greatest terrorism threat as 2024 race heats up (Washington Post)O Count the number of people blown up by ‘white supremacists’ and by, say, Muslims.

Eric Adams Says He’s a Progressive. Democrats Beg to Differ. (N.Y. Times) Apparently he’s Not Black Enough.

NYC’s ‘lack of communication’ on migrant dump ‘unacceptable,’ Mayor Mike Spano says (N.Y. Post)

New York City plans to temporarily house migrants in hotels in other counties. Two counties are suing to stop it (CNN)

Migrants have arrived in the Hudson Valley. What happens next? (Times-Untion)

The real reasons stores such as Walmart and Starbucks are closing in big cities (CNN)

This is the REAL reason for the retail apocalypse! Chains such as Walmart, Nordstrom and Walgreens are shuttering due to crime, work from home, online shopping and rising rents, experts say (UK Daily Mail)

Interview with a gender clinic whistleblower

Oregon GOP Walkout Targets Bills On Abortions For Children, Gun Control

After-School Satan Clubs Are Hot, Hot, Hot!

Alarming Surge In Gun Shop Robberies As Democrats Fail To Enforce Law And Order 

Election Group With Ties To Soros, Zuckerberg Meets In Washington For Conference Closed To Public

PBS, NPR Act Like Democrat Team Members in Live Coverage AND Bias By Omission

Heap Big Trouble For Fauxcahontas?

Oxford Union To Set Up “Welfare Spaces” For Students To Cope With Gender Debate

NYC Hotel Kicking Wedding Parties to Curb to Take in Migrants

Sen. Feinstein’s Stock Trades Get Aaron Rodgers’ Attention

Wedding Parties, Homeless Vets Booted From NY Hotels To Make Room For Migrants

Never Forget: A Retrospective On The Media Lies Surrounding COVID

WashPost Writer Philip Bump Lets Cat Out of the Bag on Zuckerbucks for Democrat Turnout

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

The following question ought to be put publicly: If the person who died as the result of Daniel Penny’s brave act of self-defense had been white or Asian, would Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg have indicted Penny? Everyone knows the answer to this.

The left is clearly trying to re-run the George Floyd drill. In the aftermath of Floyd’s death, the nation’s ruling elite had a nervous breakdown. One good indicator of this is the database our friends at the Claremont Institute produced of contributions to Black Lives Matter and associated leftist race-related organizations in the aftermath of L’Affaire Floyd. The total comes to a staggering $97 billion (mostly from corporate sources indulging their liberal guilt and buying off their internal DEI faction lodged securely in their HR departments)—more than the GDP of 46 African countries. See more in Josh Hammer’s commentary in Newsweek.

Are we going to see a re-run of the Floyd/1619 Project riots again this summer, especially if—as I think possible—Daniel Penny’s indictment is dismissed at the first preliminary hearing? Will we see corporations rushing to open their checkbooks again to pay off the race-hustlers? Will there be shrines erected and public squares renamed in memory of Jordan Neely? I doubt it.

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

Minneapolis’s Ward 10 bisects Lake Bde Maka Spa, formerly known as Lake Calhoun. It includes the Uptown neighborhood running up to the lake as well as the Whittier neighborhood running from Lake Street to Franklin Avenue. It is, you might say in the current lingo, “diverse,” insofar as such diversity is understood to be consistent with one-party rule.

Minneapolis’s one party called a convention to endorse a candidate for the Ward 10 city council at Ella Baker Global Studies & Humanities Magnet School yesterday. Incumbent Aisha Chugtai (the council’s first Pakistani Muslim woman) is opposed by Nasri Warsame (a Somali Muslim man). As I say, it’s a “diverse” ward.

When Chugtai’s supporters took the stage for Chugtai’s speech, Warsame’s supporters advanced towards the stage and began pushing and shoving. It turned into a brawl and Chughtai was prevented from addressing the convention.

The problem with Normal Democrat Tactics is that their Subject Races think it applies to fellow Democrats.

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Newly published figures from the Research and Information Center on Antisemitism (RIAS) in Berlin have revealed that in Germany’s capital city, which percentage-wise hosts one of the largest Muslim populations of any major European capital, more than two antisemitic attacks per day were recorded in 2022.

In its report titled “Antisemitic Incidents in Berlin in 2022,” published on Wednesday, May 10th, RIAS Berlin, which kept track of all antisemitic incidents across all districts, social classes, and political orientations, recorded 848 anti-Jewish incidents of physical and verbal nature, a total which amounts to 2.3 incidents per day, the daily Berliner Zeitung reports.

One incident of extreme violence, 21 assaults, 31 targeted property damage, 24 threats, and 751 incidents of abusive behavior involving, among other things, 36 gatherings and 20 mass mailings were among the 848 antisemitic incidents that were recorded last year, the organization states in its report.

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

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Well, probably not all. But when did public school education become, on net, a force for evil? At some time after public sector unions were legalized in, as I recall, the 1960s. One of the worst mistakes in the history of our democracy. Now, the teachers’ unions have mobilized teachers as left-wing activists, and a great many of those who were not comfortable with that politicization have left the profession.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

The Democratic Party press has done its best to suppress the Joe Biden corruption story, beginning with the “Dirty 51” letter that successfully blocked the story during the 2020 presidential campaign, and continuing up to the present day. Moreover, when the issue has been discussed, it has far too often been framed as relating to Hunter Biden, as though Hunter, an unemployable and degenerate crackhead, had anything to sell to a foreign power. As I have written many times, no one has ever bribed Hunter Biden.

Gates of Vienna.

Saman Abbas was a young Pakistani woman living in Italy who was murdered in April of 2021, and is believed to have been honor-killed by her family. Saman’s father fled to Pakistan shortly after her death, and Italian prosecutors have been trying to extradite him for many months. The Pakistani government seems to be deliberately obstructing the process.

Wherever you go,
Whatever you do,
A Muslim waits there
To try to kill you.
And they don’t mind
If you’re Muslim too.

Washington Free Beacon.

Most feminists—heck, most people in general—like to see themselves as being on the side of progress. Not Mary Harrington, a self-described “reactionary feminist” and the author of Feminism Against Progress.

What does it mean to be “against progress” in the name of feminism? That turns out to be mostly a semantic matter: Harrington does not want to lose the right to vote, and while she takes some swipes at the “Progress Theology” of folks like Steven Pinker, she doesn’t deny, much less bemoan, that humans have become richer and live longer lives in recent centuries.

What Harrington dislikes are some major changes we have seen in the relations between the sexes in the past 60 years or so: The essence of her view is that not every change that free markets enable—or that societies enthusiastically embrace—is necessarily an improvement on what came before. Just as ubiquitous sugar is a poor fit for a species that evolved in an environment where calories were scarce, perhaps dating apps, “gender affirming” medical interventions, and even the Pill are a poor fit for humanity too, offering instant gratification but longer-term harm.

Powerful Cocktail of Modified Antibodies Supercharges the Immune System Against COVID-19 (SciTechDaily)

Study identifies extremely potent monoclonal antibodies that neutralized multiple sarbecoviruses (NewsMedical)

Chemists’ technique reveals whether antibodies neutralize SARS-CoV-2 (MIT News)

Why Was EcoHealth Alliance’s Grant Reinstated Despite Group’s Apparent Failure To Comply With NIH Conditions?

Non-Profit Hospitals Made Huge Profits During Pandemic While Receiving $23 Billion In Federal COVID-19 Aid: Report

NYT: Cleopatra Was Black Because It Makes Us Feel Good to Say She Was Black

Critical Race Theory Has a Scholarship Problem  I.e. it doesn’t have any.

Ukraine live briefing: Russian strikes reported in three cities; concerns over safety at nuclear plant (Washington Post)

US Military to Bolster Defensive Posture in Gulf After Iran Seizes Tankers

Why The Economic War Against Russia Has Failed

China Has ‘Supreme Access’ to TikTok, Former Exec Alleges

Russia Establishes Anti-Drone Police As Threat To Cities Grows

The Battle for Bakhmut

MARINES: U.S. Marine Corps Tomahawk Missile Batteries

Zelensky Uninvited to Eurovision Stage

Germany Announces Its Biggest Military Aid Package for Ukraine (N.Y. Times)

US Blocks China’s Attempt To Condemn Israeli Attacks On Gaza At UN

Bad To Worse For Russia: Multiple Aircraft Downed In 24 Hours – Ukraine Gains In Bakhmut

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DeSantis Allies: Nominating Trump Hands Biden Control Of Congress

Fake Nevada Trump electors won’t face state charges (Raw Story)

Trump’s awful threat to separate families should wake up Democrats (Washington Post) Awful!

The One Number That Explains CNN’s Humiliating Trump Town Hall

No Playing Ostrich With Trump (Maureen Dowd)

Pollsters worry Trump problem is ‘back with a vengeance’ (Politico)

Trump’s second term seems inevitable

Trump’s Lesson for the Media and Ron DeSantis (N.Y. Times) Ross Douthat explains it all to you.

Trust linked to porn-friendly bank could gain a stake in Trump’s Truth Social (Washington Post) Scraaaaape that barrel….

Brooks Blames ‘Arrogant’ Media For Trump’s Popularity

We’re Asking the Wrong Questions About the Trump Town Hall (N.Y. Times)

Kathy Hochul begs Biden for more aid to confront escalating NY migrant crisis (N.Y. Post)

The White House Says Immigration Officials Don’t Release Migrants. The Border Tells a Different Story.

Texas Gov. Abbott: Biden WH Pulling Patrol Agents Off Border

New York Times Mocks Comer’s Case: ‘GOP Finds No Evidence of Wrongdoing by Biden’

Migrants Reveal Plans To Sneak Into US Since Title 42 Has Expired

White House accuses fed Judge Kent Wetherell of ‘sabotage’ after blocking potential mass release of migrants (N.Y. Post)

Record-Setting 83,000 Migrants Illegally Crossed US Border This Week

Watch: Texas Governor Buses More Illegal Migrants To Kamala Harris’ House  Hey, she’s the Border Czar.

Mayor Adams booed after bringing up NYPD past at CUNY graduation as students turn their backs on him (N.Y. Post)

Anderson Cooper: ‘You Have Every Right Never To Watch CNN Again’ After Trump Town Hall

CUNY Law Grads Turn Backs on NYC Mayor Adams at Commencement

Ron DeSantis Bans Credit Card Companies From Helping Track Gun Criminals (The New Republic) In the Narrative media, ‘gun criminals’ are any people who own a gun.

Virginia joins list of GOP states leaving bipartisan effort to combat voter fraud amid conspiracies (NBC News)

Tucker Carlson Wanted to ‘Start Threatening’ Fox News Staffers After 2020 Election (Daily Beast) Sure, I believe that….

CUNY Law School Graduates Turn Their Backs to Mayor Adams (N.Y. Times)

Why Ron DeSantis Is Limping to the Starting Line (N.Y. Times)

The day free-market Republicans became Soviet economic planners (Washington Post) Dana Milbank not only lies, but does so stupidly.

Teacher sacked after refusing to use eight-year-old’s trans pronouns (UK Telegraph)

Charging Daniel Penny, the Subway Samaritan (WSJ)

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs bill legalizing anti-LGBTQ+ medical discrimination (LGBTQ+ Nation) In other words, they no longer get special privileges.

Suburban New York hotel is latest symbol of immigration divide (Politico)

New York City plans to temporarily house migrants in hotels in other counties. One county is suing to stop it (CNN)

Eat more beans. Please. (Vox)

Newsom announces California budget deficit much larger than previously expected (The Hill)

Gov. Newsom says state’s budget deficit has grown to nearly $32 billion (KTVU)

Takeaways from Gavin Newsom’s California budget proposal (KCRA)

Cops Win $40M Over Racial Discrimination in Massachusetts (Daily Beast)

‘It isn’t helpful’: how media and mass shootings may reinforce each other (The Guardian)

Punishing PBS (Reliable Sources)

California Budget Hole Even Deeper Than Predicted, Newsom Says

WaPo Accidentally Admits ‘Zuckbucks’ Were Used To Turn Out Likely-Democrat Voters In 2020 (The Federalist)

LAPD Detective Slams Unarmed Traffic Enforcement Proposal

The Voter Registration Machine Flipping The States Blue

California’s Deficit Deepens To $32 Billion (14-Year-High)… And That’s Before Reparations

Homeless vets are being booted from NY hotels to make room for migrants: advocates (N.Y. Post)

The Supreme Court Might Curb The ‘Deep State’ By Overruling The Chevron Case

‘Mommunes’: Mothers Are Living Single Together (N.Y. Times)

Judge Finds Federal Age-21 Rule For Handgun Purchases Unconstitutional

Net Migration Into Britain Could Top 1 Million This Year, Doubling Prior Record

The Supreme Court has an electoral ‘bomb’ on its hands. Will it defuse it before 2024? (Politico)

Mother’s Day Flashback: How the Media Use Moms to Push Liberal Agenda

Suburbs Are the Backbone of Western Civilization—Which Is Why Our Ruling Class Wants to Use the Biden Rush to Destroy Them  (John Derbyshire)

Feinstein’s Health Crisis Goes Back Farther than We Knew (Rolling Stone)

New York, San Francisco Office Buildings Are Absolute Ghost Towns

Non-Binary Character In New Transformer Cartoon Goes Viral As People Call For “Another Brand Boycott”

Cluelessly Snobbish CNN Employees Vs. America

How Title 42’s expiry will upend the immigration system

PBS Getting Heat for Pushing Transgender Activism on Children Via ‘Learning Toolkit’

Poll: Most Democrats In Favor Of Welcoming Immigrants Into Someone Else’s Neighborhood (Babylon Bee)

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OK, here’s my little result. I took a quick look at demographic variation in the frequency of the filled pauses conventionally written as “uh” and “um”. For technical reasons that I won’t go into here, I used the frequency of the definite article “the” as the basis for comparison. Thus I selected a group of speakers (e.g. men aged 60-69), counted how often they were transcribed as saying “uh”, and to normalize that count (since the number of people in each category was different) I divided by the number of times the same speakers were transcribed as saying “the”.

 

Victor Davis Hanson.

Almost everyone who originally had opposed the absolute monarchy, and, like the Americans, wished for a constitutional replacement, was eventually executed by revolutionaries who were then executed by more radical revolutionaries. The longer and more radical the revolution ran, the meaner, dumber, and more deadly the revolutionaries who emerged from the woodwork.

Finally, what could not go on, did not go on, as French society unraveled. Then the so-called Thermidors put an end to the madness of the Robespierre brothers and their sidekick, the 26-year-old Saint-Just, and did to them what they had done to thousands.

The final revolutionary correction saw a Directory, then a Consulate, and finally the dictator Napoleon—the self-described emperor who claimed he was the final absolutist manifestation of the “Revolution.”

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After years of campaigning from the Right, the European Parliament finally approved a resolution to call on the Commission to end funding for Islamist organizations and campaigns that glorify the hijab, the Swedish MEP Charlie Weimers (ECR) tweeted on Wednesday, May 10th.

“We have done our part and got the majority in the European Parliament,” Weimers wrote, adding that “it is time for the government to use the Swedish presidency to bring the issue to fruition,” referring to Swedish Justice Minister Gunnar Strömmer’s earlier promise to deliver “concrete results.”

The campaign for ending EU funds for Islamist organizations—originally at the initiative of the Sweden Democrats (SD)—has been ongoing since 2019. At first, the Commission was in complete denial of any such funds being disbursed, calling for the MEPs from the SD to prove their allegations.

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There is nothing wrong with admiring the bravery of Ukraine’s stand against Russia. In fact, I don’t think I’d felt that much ebullient pride, seeing the Ukrainians turn back the Russians from Kyiv, since the time I saw the once iconic but now forgotten ink-stained fingertips of Iraqi voters defying terrorist threats to go out and vote in 2005. In both cases, the West seemed to stand for the universal aspirations of all. In an age that oscillates between radical nihilism and a natural yearning for certainty and purpose, it was such a joy—and a relief—to see that Western values stood for something: something others wanted; something others would die for, when many of us can’t even muster the courage to speak up at the office watercooler to the woke ideologues who police pronouns and see ‘phobias’ more often than your average hypochondriac feels the onset of an illness.

Ukraine and the Ukranians, to some extent like the Iraqis of the millennial aughts, have unfortunately become the West’s—particularly America’s—panacea for our own civilizational fecklessness. Whether you call them ‘globalists’ or ‘neoliberals,’ or as in America the ‘uniparty’ of Democrats and Republicans, the West’s promoters of endless, contingency-free, lethal aid to Ukraine suffer a proximity infatuation of purposiveness—of trying to find one’s own meaning through somebody else’s existential struggle. At the same time, Ukraine’s struggle against Russian aggression serves what is arguably a much more delusional, if not dangerous, illusion for a certain kind of American and pro-Atlanticist conservative in Europe: the illusion that Ukraine’s patriots can fill the West’s spiritual and cultural void.

Steve Graham.

When I moved here, I got myself a little Pit Boss stainless portable gas grill. I paid around $100. It was great for what it was, but it didn’t burn hot enough. I replaced the pathetic gas regulator with one for a big turkey fryer, and now I get huge flames hot enough to produce acceptable burgers. It’s probably dangerous, but a man’s got to do what a man’s got to do.

 

The American Mind.

Norms. Remember those? If you do, you’re one of the few.

I used to be a normie. I come from a long line of normies stretching back through time to my first normie ancestors, who set foot on these shores, looked around, and thought, where should we put the TV, honey?

2023 is shaping up to be a bellwether year for normies and all their pesky norms. Are you still a normie? Do you ever lay awake at night wondering why it seems like everywhere you look, American society seems to be actively working against you? Like, despite your hard work, things aren’t improving. Things are really starting to suck, in fact. Bags of chips keep getting smaller but cost double. You had to tell your kids they can no longer watch Mr. Beast on YouTube (“Why, Mommy?” “Er, just because, okay?”).

You had to endure yet another humiliating DEI Zoom session at work, followed immediately by a Zoom call where your manager informs your team that ChatGPT will, in fact, put you out of work in three to five years.

Baltimore sues Hyundai, Kia over massive spike in car thefts (Baltimore Banner) I guess it’s their fault that Baltimore can’t stop their cars from being stolen.

CNN leadership under fire after ‘disastrous’ Trump town hall (Washington Post)

Open Revolt: Cooper Says People Would Be Right to Turn Off CNN Forever  Wouldn’t bother me.

Group Tied to Influential Conservative Activist Spent $183 Million in a Year (N.Y. Times) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH…. (I guess conservative activists aren’t allowed to spend money.)

Clarence Thomas Can’t Undermine the Legitimacy of the Supreme Court Fast Enough (N.Y. Times) Looks to me as if the Times is the one undermining the legitimacy of the Supreme Court.

The GOP Is the Party of ‘Fuck You’ (Daily Beast) Oh, if only that were true.

The GOP’s Failing Politics of Retribution (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew continue to carry water for the Left.

MSNBC Argues Crow Friendship Makes Thomas A Hypocrite On Affirmative Action

How the New York Young Republicans alienated the Big Apple—but took over the far-right youth movement (Daily Dot) There are so many fringe left-wing ‘news sites’ these days, they’re running out of cutesy names.

Harvard Governing Board Raises Free Speech Alarm

The Great Left-Wing Disinformation Operation Against the Supreme Court

Florida pro-life pregnancy center targeted with decapitated chicken, mutilated lamb in ‘ritualistic attack’ (Fox) Democrats: Party of uncivilized people.

Beheaded Chicken & Mutilated Lamb Left Outside Orlando Pro-Life Center

WATCH: CNN Host Understands If You ‘Never Watch CNN Again’

CNN Accuses Oklahoma Of Waging a ‘Bitter Culture War’ By Defunding PBS

Adams considers housing migrants in shuttered prison (Politico)

NYC Mayor Adams plan buses migrants past county with ‘immigrant protection’ law to Republican-led counties (Fox)

NYC mayor suspends right-to-shelter ahead migrant wave (PIX 11 News)

California reparations committee calls for ending cash bail, no longer prosecuting low-level crimes (Fox) Rules are for thee but not for me.

New NC Supreme Court Majority Overturns Prior Majority’s Unconstitutional Interference in Redistricting

Almost Nobody Feels Safe on San Francisco Area Public Transit, Government Survey Finds  Time to leave.

Zooey Zephyr Poses for Photo With ‘The Squad’

Two Youths Commit Suicide In Taxpayer-Funded Cross-Sex Hormone Study

“We Have Reached Our Limit”: NYC Suspends Shelter Rules Ahead Of Title 42 Expiration

Judge in Virginia Strikes Down Federal Limit on Age of Handgun Buyers (N.Y. Times)

Poland: Draft Bill Would Ban Sex-Change Surgery for Children

Criminal investigation into Sen. Bob Menendez expands with new subpoenas (NBC News)

NYC Council Passes Weight Discrimination Bill

11 Defensive Gun Uses Show How Lawful Gun Owners ‘Get It Right’

Ireland: 10,000 Jobs Lost After Asylum Influx Cripples Hotels

CNBC’s Kernen Takes Lefty Senator to School Over ‘Disingenuous’ Gaslighting on Debt Ceiling Blame

Time Magazine Celebrates Mother’s Day By Promoting Abortion

Progressives Want To Eliminate Wealthy Entrepreneurs But Need The Wealth They Create  Otherwise they soon run out of other people’s money.

University of Colorado: Assume Everyone Is Trans

Every State Is a Border State: How the Migrant Crisis Impacts Wisconsin, Alabama, Virginia

Pacific Northwest heat wave to break records, worsen Canada wildfires (Axios)

China’s record carbon emissions expected to peak due to clean energy push, report says (CNN)

He’s the Decider for $400 Billion in Climate Funding, and Time Is Short (N.Y. Times) Your tax dollars at work.

How much wind killing do we want?

Entire Global Food Supply at Risk From Disastrous Response to So-Called ‘Nitrogen Crisis’

Fed’s Waller Drops Bombshell: ‘Climate Change Risks Not Material To US’

The Checkup With Dr. Wen: Who should still be tested for the coronavirus? (Washington Post)

Ernst: Wuhan-Affiliated Group Broke Federal Law Moments After Biden Admin Resumed Federal Funding

US Failure To Recognize Natural Immunity Negatively Affected Pandemic Response: NIH Scientist

Witness to Jordan Neely subway chokehold death is ‘praying’ for ex-Marine Daniel Penny after charges (N.Y. Post)

Daniel Penny to be arrested on a manslaughter charge in Jordan Neely chokehold death (ABC 7 NY) Inconceivable.

Marine veteran to be charged by Manhattan DA in Jordan Neely subway chokehold death (Fox)

DA Bragg likely to punt fatal NYC subway chokehold case to grand jury: experts (N.Y. Post)

Eric Adams rips Ed Day as ‘racist’ and ‘anti-Semitic’ after blocking asylum seekers from Rockland (N.Y. Post)

A weird thing happened with Gavin Newsom and a new reparations proposal (S.F. Gate)

California reparations panel calls to amend state constitution to legalize racial discrimination (Fox) Time to leave.

Reparations in California are about political responsibility, not individual guilt (Sacramento Bee)

Daniel Penny Will Be Charged in Subway Chokehold Killing of Jordan Neely (N.Y. Times)

Republican front-runner for North Carolina governor attacked Civil Rights Movement: ‘So many freedoms were lost’ (CNN) Freedom of association being the big one.

Nets Hype Charges for Man Acting in Self Defense Against Violent Felon

Manhattan DA Bragg Strikes Again: Charges Marine Over Subway Chokehold Death

NY Mayor Adams Booted From Biden Surrogate Squad After Immigration Criticism

Those Systemically Racial Pulitzer Prizes

The Government’s War on Order and Self-Defense

“Burning Isn’t Solution”: Adidas To Sell Stockpile Of Yeezy Shoes

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

Alisa Flatow was murdered in 1995 by an Iranian sponsored suicide bomber who plowed his car into a public bus near the Israeli settlement of Kfar Darom in the Gaza Strip. Seven Israeli soldiers were killed along with Alisa. They were all under age 21. Fifty-two passengers were wounded in the attack.

Alisa was remembered by her friend Alan Mitrani in a moving letter posted here at Brandeis University’s memorial page for Alisa. Stephen Flatow was Alisa’s father. He seeks to keep her memory alive and to wage his own battle against the indulgence of what the AP and Fox News are now pleased to call “militants.” This past March Mr. Flatow drew attention to the teaching of a terrorist’s proud mother.

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

The American Mind.

As evidence piles up indicating that President Biden’s family is at the center of a massive international bribery scheme, the mainstream media has been obsessed with documenting the alleged personal corruption of the conservative members of the Supreme Court. Justice Clarence Thomas, whom the liberal media has been denigrating since his nomination three decades ago, has come in for particular scrutiny, but he is not alone. The New York Times recently devoted a lead story to its latest exposé: the fact that the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University had made itself a “friend” of the Supreme Court by lavishing “perks” on its members, such as offering guest teaching gigs in exotic locations like Iceland and Padua, Italy. As explained in a confidential memo issued by a Scalia administrator that the Times obtained, inviting Justice Neil Gorsuch to teach at the school shortly after his confirmation formed part of a strategy that aimed to make it “A Yale or Harvard of conservative legal scholarship and influence.” Other justices invited to teach included Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas.

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Last week I was at a writers’ party in Miami, a city at the cutting edge of tech, finance, the creator economy and nightlife. Naturally the writers were talking about themselves. I asked someone what he would do if he didn’t have to worry about pageviews or proprietors or the other pressing concerns of the modern media. “Think VICE, when it was good,” he replied.

To me, VICE when it was good is the girl’s bum on the fiction issue from 2008. It’s Michael Moynihan’s raspy voice reporting from South Korea. It’s the floppy hair of the one super-hot reporter I knew that smoked filterless roll-ups.

VICE was where the cool kids at the back of the bus would grow up to write, the place that you would daydream about working for as a young reporter. On May 1, when the New York Times reported that VICE was preparing to file for bankruptcy after culling what seemed like most of their workforce, the survivors voiced their dismay at the eulogies that followed. I get it: it’s like sitting in the living room when your parents are planning your old dog’s last day at the park. But while I’m sorry for their loss, the end of VICE is worthy of scrutiny. The publication had a wilder ride in the last two decades than any of its rivals ever will.

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The French university has long been under the strong influence of what one may call ‘Islamo-leftism,’ i.e., the complacency of a part of the academic elite towards militant Islam, preventing any critical distance and any analysis of the Muslim religion and world. A researcher has just paid the price, seeing her planned conference at the Sorbonne on the Muslim Brotherhood ‘suspended,’ supposedly for security reasons.

A conference by Florence Bergeaud-Blackler, a researcher at the prestigious Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), was scheduled for May 12th at the Sorbonne for her book on the Muslim Brotherhood, entitled Le frérisme et ses réseaux : l’enquête, (Muslim Brotherhood and its networks: an investigation) published in January by editor Odile Jacob. On May 9th, the researcher received a notice from the dean of the Sorbonne’s Faculty of Letters, informing her that the conference had to be ‘suspended’ for security reasons. The person in charge did not even bother to make a phone call to inform the speaker personally.

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It goes without saying that there should, for reasons of social justice, be full representation of all demographic groups in all human endeavors: for example, in scientific fraud. There is, apparently, a lamentable underrepresentation of women in biomedical research papers subsequently retracted because they are fraudulent in some way, such as in the manufacture of data or in the falsification of pictures.

Having a semiprofessional, semi-prurient interest in fraud and forgery, I follow—admittedly in somewhat desultory fashion—an excellent website called Retraction Watch. It is there that I read a paper that analyzed the proportion of what was once called the fair sex among the authors of retracted papers. Overall, women were only slightly underrepresented in the biomedical sphere, but slight injustice is still injustice.

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I expected to be traveling this week, so I planned the show in advance, but some unexpected misadventures changed my plans. I liked the show so rather than do something new I kept it. The only thing I regret is I was not able to talk about Trump destroying girl power on CNN this week. It was a masterful performance that was reminiscent of his 2016 campaign.

The crazy thing about it is the people at CNN seemed to think that girl power would be able to handle Trump. What were they thinking? Megyn Kelly was ten times better at being girl power and Trump wrecked her career in one show. Kaitlan Collins is supposed to be CNN’s new star and now everyone is laughing at her. Even the crazies have turned on her and CNN over this event.

The destruction of girl power was not the best part of the show. The audience was laughing right along with Trump. There was one shot of the crowd where older women were holding their hands over their mouths as Trump described his recent court case with the crazy woman. They were laughing so hard they were afraid their dentures would fly out, so they had their hands over their mouths.

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A police officer attacked a synagogue in Tunisia, shooting three people to death, including a policeman, and wounding ten others before being shot dead by police. Officials say the killer’s motive is not yet known.

It’s worth noting that the killer policeman obtained his weapons by killing one his colleagues. He then went to the synagogue to kill as many Jews as he could. But his reasons for doing so are still unknown. I suspect that we will eventually learn that he had a history of psychological problems.

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

The American Mind.

Up until a week ago, the 2024 presidential election campaign was by and large an uninteresting slog. The arrest of President Trump had shown some promise of injecting life into the race, but just a few short weeks later it is all but forgotten. Events that used to carry great significance which would be etched into the public memory for decades—like the investigation, prosecution, or impeachment of a president—have now been reduced to farcical shadow-play, gone in a moment. To generate lasting outrage or even attention, a story needs some element of surprise or departure from normalcy. But the new norm in politics is to destroy all norms. And since mainstream press catastrophizing has been dialed up to 11 since at least 2016, it rings hollower with every passing cycle. To anyone who has been paying attention, not even the most breathless histrionics on the part of professional observers makes a mark.

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Let me start with the positive. There is not a single day that has gone by that I have not felt truly honored to work with such an incredible group of people who spent every waking hour on behalf of victims. This opportunity has been a gift for which I have no words to explain the extent of my gratitude.

My partners, our Victim/Witness advocates, our Investigators, our support staff, the police officers and detectives, time after time I see each of you putting everything you have into helping people we encounter on the worst days of their lives. So often I see our personal lives, and indeed at times our own well-being, set aside just to do a little bit more on that last case for that last victim. It’s been nothing short of inspiring not as a lawyer, but as a person.

And yet, I’m leaving. Why could that be? The simple fact is that this State and County have set themselves on a course to disaster. And the worst part is that the agency for whom I work has backed literally every policy change that had the predictable, and predicted, outcome of more crime and more people getting hurt.

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Scientists have isolated an enzyme from soil bacteria that can convert air into electricity, which they say could be developed into a renewable power source for small devices.

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Revised award to EcoHealth Alliance will no longer involve studies of hybrid coronaviruses

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Retinal degeneration: When light enters the eye, it travels to the retina, where nerve cells called “photoreceptors” convert the light into electrical signals that are eventually sent to the brain.

Genetic diseases and other health issues can damage retinal cells. This condition, called “retinal degeneration,” is one of the most common causes of vision loss worldwide, and while some treatments can slow the damage to prevent further vision loss, there’s currently no way to reverse it.

But, in addition to photoreceptors, the retina is also home to Müller cells. These cells develop from the same parent cell lines as photoreceptors, but they aren’t nerve cells — instead, they provide support to photoreceptors and other neurons in the eye.

“What’s interesting is that these Müller cells are known to reactivate and regenerate retina in fish,” said Camille Boudreau-Pinsonneault, first author of a new study out of the University of Montreal. “But in mammals, including humans, they don’t normally do so, not after injury or disease. And we don’t yet fully understand why.”

Embattled US Rep George Santos hit with fraud, money laundering charges (Reuters) Too bad his name’s not Biden; he’d be home free.

George Santos pleads not guilty to federal indictment and says he won’t resign (Associated Press)

Former DHS disinformation expert sues Fox News for defamation (NBC News) Hey, it worked once already.

Disinformation researcher who led now-defunct DHS unit sues Fox News for defamation (CNN)

Former Biden admin disinformation chief sues Fox News for defamation (Axios)

Former White House Disinformation Czar Sues Fox News for Defamation: Report (The Daily Beast)

‘Error’? Facebook Backtracks After ‘Mistakenly’ Deleting EXPLOSIVE Report

New Defamation Suit Against Fox Signals Continued Legal Threat (N.Y. Times)

Va. Parents Allege Threats Made for Speaking Out to School Board

Did George Santos lie about everything? (Vox)

Nets Ignore New Hunter Biden Revelations, Hype Santos Charges

GOP senator says of white nationalists in the military, ‘I call them Americans’ (Washington Post) No, he didn’t–‘so-called white nationalists’.

How Troubling Are the Payments and Gifts to Ginni and Clarence Thomas? (The New Yorker) Depends on which side of the witch-hunt you’re on.

Trump Mocked E. Jean Carroll Live on CNN. The Audience Laughed. (Mother Jones) I would have too.

Homeless man charged with hate crimes for defecating on two LGBTQ+ Pride flags: NYPD (N.Y. Daily News)

Hakeem Jeffries Torches Trump Republicans By Naming Their 3 Basic Pillars (Huffington Post) As the Narrative media would like you to believe.

Soaking the Rich Fails in Los Angeles

The George Santos Indictment, Annotated (N.Y. Times)

Bowser to propose law making it easier to detain people before trial (Washington Post)

Tucker Carlson told us he’s running for president in 2024. Then he said he was joking. Then he said he’s ‘fundamentally a dick.’ (Insider) Sometimes they don’t even bother to pretend.

CNN’s Trump Town Hall: All Spectacle, No Sunlight (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew continues carrying water for the Left.

The ‘brain’ behind Ron DeSantis’ likely presidential campaign was involved in a major ‘ghost candidate’ scandal in Florida: ‘If it’s not illegal, it should be’ (Insider) Election coming up, gotta start up the Narrative FUD.

Are School Libraries Banning Thousands of Books? Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Trust the Left’s Narrative  School libraries can’t ‘ban’ books; the most they can do is remove them from their library. Only government can ‘ban’ books.

PBS Doc Reduces Tea Party Opposition To Obama To Racism, Bigotry

Elites Manufacture Fake “Hate” Crisis As Pretext For Mass Spying, Blacklists, And Censorship

CNN Labels Tucker Carlson ‘Right-Wing Extremist’  This is news?

Schumer and Senate Dems Give Rashida Tlaib Platform for Anti-Semitic Event Mourning Israel’s Creation After McCarthy Thwarts Plans

Check Out Leftist Twitter’s Hilarious Meltdown Over Tucker’s New Show

Behar Lashes Out at Pro-Trump Town Hall Audience, ‘Not American’

Concerned Virginia Parents Say They’re Being Targeted Online By ‘Woke’ Leftists

An mRNA vaccine that programs the body to fight pancreatic cancer shows early promise (CNN)

Teachers union president Randi Weingarten encourages educators to erase their social media history (Fox News)

Randi Weingarten fact-checked by Twitter after claiming she tried to reopen schools during COVID (N.Y. Post) Twitter is no longer a ‘safe space’ for the Crust.

Twitter fact-checks Randi Weingarten for seeming to rewrite history on COVID school closures (Fox News)

COVID Lab-Leak And The Attack On Common Sense

Never forget who the Covid heroes and villains are

Ron DeSantis can’t quit Covid (Politico)

What Will Change as COVID Health Emergency Ends

WHO Ends Mpox Public Health Emergency

The Receipts for Weingarten’s Lies

What Climate Zone Will You Be In By 2100? (The Weather Channel) This from people who can’t predict the weather a week in advance accurately.

‘Net Zero’ Grid Batteries Alone Would Bankrupt America

Biden’s Expensive, Unrealistic Push for Electric Vehicles

Pasta Lovers Beware: You Could Spend an Extra 23 Hours a Year Boiling Water Due to Biden’s Gas Stove Rules

The Next Scam: Climate Refugees

EPA: New pollution limits proposed for US coal, gas power plants reflect ‘urgency’ of climate crisis (Associated Press) Your tax dollars at work.

How Biden’s New Environmental Rule Could Force Coal and Gas Plants To Shut Down Entirely

Mayor Eric Adams signs executive order loosening NYC shelter requirements as migrant crisis ragess (N.Y. Post) Be careful what you wish for, Sanctuary City, you just might get it.

Rockland County battling Adams plan to bus asylum seekers (Fox 5 New York) God forbid Texas should send migrants to New York, but NYC is free to send them upstate.

New York Gov Hochul issues emergency order before Title 42 expires, as NYC begins busing migrants to suburbs (Fox News)

Local State of Emergency Declared in Chemung County as Title 42 set to expire (MyTwinTiers)

Marketing guru behind Budweiser’s iconic ‘Whassup!’ and ‘Talking Frogs’ commercials says Anheuser-Busch has ‘destroyed 20 years of work in one week’ with Dylan Mulvaney debacle (UK Daily Mail)

Chicago gay bars boycott Bud beers over Dylan Mulvaney flap (NBC News)

Chicago gay bars dropping Bud Light, Goose Island amid backlash for transgender ad campaign (Chicago Tribune)

Texas Republicans take ESG battle to insurers (The Hill)

Environmental, social, governance investing an ‘undemocratic tax’ on economy, Reyes says (KSL)

Up to 1,000 migrants arriving daily in NYC — and that number could skyrocket with Title 42 lift: city official (N.Y. Post)

Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney ‘can’t sleep’ over Bud Light backlash (N.Y. Post) Cryin’ all the way to the bank.

Colorado Teachers’ Union Passes Anti-Capitalist Resolution, Sparking Outcry From Republicans

Feinstein Finally Returns, Restoring Dems’ Full Majority And Leftist Judiciary Pipeline

Oakland Teachers Strike In 5th Day Over Higher Wages, Climate Justice, Homeless Housing, Reparations

Why Legacy Media Won’t Cover The CIA’s Alleged Attempt To Influence The 2020 Election

Elon Musk Is Wrong. Encouraging Voting Isn’t Nefarious. (New York Magazine) But ‘harvesting ballots’ is. Voting by dead people is. Voting by illegal immigrants is.

“Were You Expecting Us?”: ATF Agents Go ‘Door To Door’ To Confiscate FRT-15 Triggers

Trump’s Falsehoods and Bluster Overtake CNN Town Hall (N.Y. Times) Falsehoods! Bluster!

Adams Weakens Right-to-Shelter Rules, Anticipating Migrant Surge (N.Y. Times)

Did Tucker Carlson Just Kill Cable News?

Why Did Reformers First Love Then Loathe Lunatic Asylums?

Directly from the deep state to you: The report

Leading trans doctor insists non-verbal, autistic minors can consent to sex change, can ‘draw their feelings’

Spiraling in San Francisco’s Doom Loop

CNN Fact-Check Defense Of Hillary Gets Her Abortion Stance Wrong

San Francisco Target Robbed 10 Times a Day, Stores Flee

Is the debt ceiling constitutional? (Vox) Since when does Vox care about ‘constitutional’?

As NYC Tries To Bus Migrants Out, Texas Set to Bus More In

MSNBC Blames U.S. Sanctions On Communist Cuba For Border Crisis

Judge’s Order Halts NYC From Sending Migrants to Suburbs

18- to 20-year-olds can’t be barred from buying handguns, judge rules (Washington P0st)

Breaking down Republicans’ accusations against Biden family (CBS News) When Democrats do it, it’s ‘Congress’, but when Republicans do it, it’s ‘Republicans’.

FBI doesn’t share document GOP subpoenaed alleging ‘criminal scheme’ involving Biden (Fox) The fix is in.

The explosive new evidence of Biden family’s breathtaking corruption (Fox)

Comer releases Biden family probe update without showing link to president (Politico)

The Panic Over Biden’s Age Is Manufactured (N.Y. Times) Obvious incompetence notwithstanding.

Political Police? New Docs Show DHS Program To Target “Middle-Aged Pro Life Advocates” and “Budding Conspiracy Theorists” Under Guise Of “Deradicalization”

WATCH: Illegal Aliens Stream Over Border Ahead of Title 42’s End

What to Know About End of Title 42 and Biden’s New Asylum Rule

Republicans Finally Admit They Have No Incriminating Evidence on Joe Biden (The New Republic) No, they didn’t–they’re just getting started.

Border Patrol Will Release Migrants From Custody The Minute Title 42 Ends, Officials Say

House Republican Report Finds No Evidence of Wrongdoing by President Biden (N.Y. Times) More accurately, the Times finds no such evidence.

Hunter Biden is running out of time

Another look inside the Biden family business

Is There an Honest Government Agency?  Doesn’t look like it.

Unemployment Claims Highest Since 2021

I witnessed Biden officials helping people come into country illegally (N.Y. Post)

FDA updates blood donation policy to include gay, bisexual men (The Hill) Care for a social disease with your transfusion?

11 Brand New Biden Family Scandals the Networks Are CENSORING

Watch Live: Hearing On How DHS Enables The Silencing Of Dissent

‘Profoundly irresponsible’: Ocasio-Cortez rips ‘atrocious’ Trump town hall (MSNBC)

Why CNN’s Trump town hall was always doomed to fail (MSNBC) “Fail” from the Narrative media standpoint, that is–nobody from MSNBC can match Trump in front of an audience.

RFK Jr. Shoots Down Speculation About Joining Trump Ticket  You can’t make this shit up.

There Is Finally Legal Recourse for Donald Trump’s Lies (Slate) But none for Slate’s lies.

Trump just (essentially) won the 2024 GOP primary. Here’s why. (MSNBC)

The wider the House Oversight’s net, the more often they catch Trump (Washington Post) Philip Bump loses his shit.

CNN Town Hall: Trump Says He’ll Pardon Many Tied to 1/6

Trump dismisses his sex abuse verdict and gloats that it will help his 2024 bid (NBC News) Gloats!

Ocasio-Cortez on Trump town hall: ‘CNN should be ashamed of themselves’ (The Hill) Well, yeah, although not for the reason she means.

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins tries, and tries, to rebut Trump’s election lies (Washington Post)

‘F–king Disgrace’: CNN Gifts Trump Primetime Campaign Rally (Rolling Stone)

Trump’s Still Stuck In 2020, And Other Takeaways From His CNN Town Hall (Huffington Post)

Entirely Unrepentant (The Atlantic)

CNN Failed America With Its Train Wreck of a Trump Town Hall (Daily Beast)

Trump’s rivals let him off the hook  He was never on the hook, legitimately.

The chilling reality of Trump (CNN)

Key takeaways from Trump’s CNN town hall (Axios) Git yer Narrative, right here.

CNN town hall audience laughs at sexual assault as Trump reminds us how awful he is (USA Today)

Trump and the Town Hall (CNN)

The Moment That You Knew (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew continues carrying water for the Left.

Trump gave prosecutors new evidence for all three ongoing criminal cases: experts (Raw Story) Which ‘experts’? Why, their ‘experts’, of course.

CNN town hall shows the network still doesn’t know how to handle Donald Trump (CNBC) They need the money, and Trump is a draw.

The Lincoln Project Unloads On CNN For Malpractice In Normalizing Trump (PoliticusUSA)

Top Ten Moments From Trump’s CNN Town Hall; AOC And Jake Tapper Livid

Shame on CNN for That Naked, Cynical Play for Fox Viewers (The New Republic)

CNN’s Donald Trump Town Hall Was Essentially a Campaign Rally (Vanity Fair)

On CNN, lying Trump was a late-night comedian for an America I didn’t recognize (Philadelphia Inquirer) Will Bunch holds the Jennifer Rubin Chair at the Inquirer.

E. Jean Carroll May Sue Trump a Third Time After ‘Vile’ Comments on CNN (N.Y. Times)

History According to The View: No Negativity in The World Before Trump  Nope. Not a shred.

‘Terribly white’ Coronation balcony comment from Bridgerton star tops Ofcom complaints of the year (UK Telegraph)

Violence Against Women Update

Recognizing Risks of Opening a Pandora’s Box on Reparations

Newsom Spent 2 Years and $2.5M of Taxpayer Money on Reparations Plan Before Balking  What does he care? It’s not his money.

After Jordan Neely’s death, no one is going to do much to stop man wielding a cleaver on BART

Disgraced Soros Prosecutor Refuses To Charge Cinco de Mayo Shooting Suspect

Behold the Media’s Most Absurd Spin about ‘Beloved’ Jordan Neely

His Name Is Cristian Uvidia: Two Black Chicago Teens Steal Car, Crash It Killing Six-Month-Old White, Blue-Eyed Baby—And Are Charged With Misdemeanors