CNN: Special Counsel Still Probing Trump Docs Case

Koch Network Raises Over $70 Million to Beat Trump

Republican candidate Chris Christie: ‘Trump wants to be Putin in America’ (Financial Times) And Christie obviously wants to be a Democrat, since he’s talking like one.

Nonbinary Honor Student Forced From Sorority by National HQ

The View: Abolishing Affirmative Action Means ‘No Women in Colleges’

“Life In The UK Is Becoming Completely Unlivable” – Brexiteer Farage Is Being Systemically Un-Banked

Farage, Conservatives See UK Bank Accounts Frozen

BREAKING: Supreme Court Rules Colorado Cannot Force Graphic Designer to Create Art Violating Her Beliefs (The Foundry)

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Coalition of the Distrustful (N.Y. Times) Michelle Goldberg joins the witch-hunt.

RFK Jr.’s Inside Job How a conspiracy-spewing literal Kennedy posing as a populist outsider jolted the Democratic Party. (New York Magazine) The witch-hunt continues.

Michigan House passes bill that could make using wrong pronouns a felony, fineable up to $10,000 (Fox News)

Neil Gorsuch has a problem with telling the truth (Vox) But not as much of a problem as Vox.

Mayor Adams likens white woman to slave owner as he flips out over question on rising rent in NYC (N.Y. Times) Eric Adams turns out to be just another race hustler after all.

Florida bill allowing radioactive roads made of potentially cancer-causing mining waste signed by DeSantis (CBS News)

The Supreme Court’s ultimate ‘judicial activism’: striking down affirmative action in college admissions (L.A. Times)

Ron DeSantis the ‘Worst Candidate I’ve Ever Seen’—Former GOP Strategist (Newsweek) Worse than Jeb Bush? Hard to believe.

Ron DeSantis faces one setback after another in battle against LGBTQ rights (Miami Herald)

‘F— You’: Museum Hosting Moms for Liberty Vandalized  But of course only Republicans indulge in political violence.

After 44 years, Labour moves to expel me. And my MP and activist friends are asking: who will be next? (the Guardian) Witch-hunt: It’s not just for Democrats any more.

The Supreme Court’s lawless, completely partisan student loans decision, explained (Vox) Vox really has a problem telling the truth.

The Supreme Court’s Conservative Supermajority Continues Its Work Rolling Back The 20th Century (Huffington Post) Put your head between your knees and breathe slowly.

Just Imagine If College Administrators Followed the Law

YouTube Removes R.F. Kennedy Presidential Candidate Interview The witch-hunt continues.

Here Were the Worst Takes/Best Meltdowns of the Nets Reacting to Affirmative Action Case

There are two kinds of antiracism. Only one works, and it has nothing to do with ‘diversity training’ (The Guardian)

State affirmative action bans helped White, Asian students, hurt others (Washington Post) Women and minorities hardest hit….

Tim Scott calls on universities to end legacy admissions (The Hill)

I Had to Watch ‘White Teachers Are a Problem’ Video. Now I’m Suing My Employer.

High Court’s Ruling Against Racial Preferences Hailed by Asian Americans

Court Exempts Military Academies From Higher Ed Race Ruling

Newsom: Expect ‘Sharp Drop’ in Minority College Admissions  Oh, ya think? (Apparently Asians don’t count as ‘minorities’ for proglodyte purposes.)

Medical schools will be even less diverse after affirmative action ruling, experts say (NBC News) They say that like it was a bad thing. I don’t want doctors out there who got into med school on their skin color.

The Supreme Court’s Decision on Affirmative Action Must Not Be the Final Word (TIME)

Medical Officials Oppose Court Ruling on Race Admissions

In Affirmative Action Ruling, Black Justices Take Aim at Each Other

Awkward: Supreme Court Rules Against Affirmative Action With Affirmative Action Hire Sitting Right There (Babylon Bee)

Coates: Ditching Affirmative Action Will Harm Warfighting Abilities  Gotta get them black gang-bangers off the streets and into uniform.

Incendiary Sharpton Claims SCOTUS Is ‘Sticking a Dagger in Our Backs’  His back must be where he keeps his checkbook.

NYT SCOTUS Scribe Weeps Over Dobbs: Are Justices Sorry for ‘Chaos and Misery’?

You’ll be Surprised to Learn That Michelle Obama Is Taking the Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Decision Personally

Surprise! Former LARPer of Color Liz Warren Is Taking Personally That the Supreme Court Is Shutting Down Her Old Grift

Mayor Compares Housing Activist, Whose Family Fled Holocaust, to Plantation Owner (N.Y. Times)

The heat is making squirrels ‘sploot’ — a goofy act that signals something serious (NPR) Climate change! Is there anything it can’t do?

Pressure builds for FEMA to declare deadly heat events as disasters (Washington Post)

Heatwaves: European Capitals With The Highest Risk For The Elderly

Bjorn Lomborg: Actions That Would Do More Good Than Wasting Trillions on Climate Change

Flash: Americans Never Have Been Less Threatened by ‘Extreme Weather’

The Checkup With Dr. Wen: What’s the best timing for the next covid booster? (Washington Post)

American Medical Association Compromised by Radical Ideology

Top NIH Official Advised Covid Scientists That He Uses Personal Email to Evade FOIA (The Intercept)

Fauci adviser hid emails from FOIA requests by using personal account: records (N.Y. Post)

“Try Again”: Sens Hawley, Braun Demand Biden Admin Turn Over More COVID Origins Info After Evasive Response

Supreme Court, President Biden Take Aim at Legacy Admissions (Harvard Crimson)

More than 400 arrested as third night of violent protest sweeps France after 17-year-old shot dead by police (CNN) Unmentioned: The rioting is by non-French immigrants from Africa, mostly Muslims. Moroccans have a key role.

Key document may be fake in LGBTQ+ rights case before US supreme court (The Guardian)

New York Dems put abortion on the ballot in bid to retake the House (Politico)

‘As Bad as Dobbs’: Randi Weingarten Laments End of Affirmative Action

In Virginia, School Choice Triumphs in GOP Primary Races

Unanimous Supreme Court Upholds Employee’s Right to Religious Accommodation

To Unions, Organizing Time Is Fine When It’s On The Taxpayers’ Dime

Washington Post Promotes Two Confused/Depressed Trans Kids

Roasted: CT Dem Slammed After Saying Catholics Support Abortion

MSNBC MELTS DOWN After Affirmative Action Ruled Unconstitutional

Geraldo Rivera Says He’s Quitting Fox News Altogether After ‘The Five’ Ouster (Huffington Post)

‘Pride Month’ Has an Enemy: Giorgia Meloni

Silent Scrub: Google Quietly Alters Drag Show Plans After Christian Opposition Spreads

Asian Americans Celebrate Affirmative Action Ruling With 5-Minute Study Break (Babylon Bee)

Outrage As Planned Parenthood Declares Virginity “A Social Construct”

University Creates Language Guide That Erases ‘Man’ And ‘Mother’ From Existence

Supreme Court rules businesses can refuse service to LGBTQ+ customers (Axios) Well, no, they didn’t.

CNN Worries ‘The Wheels Are Coming Off’ For Borrowers After Student Loan Case

Hyperbolic MSNBC Predicting Return of Segregation

Democratic Strongholds Are Seeing Their Tax Revenue Plummet

The Tide Is Turning On Transgender Tolerance

Colleges, affirmative action, and the quest for cosmic justice (The New Neo)

He will be sorely missed.

The Foundry.

A teen mom opened up about her struggle to keep her son, now 1 year old, at the National Life Day Rally commemorating the one-year anniversary of the overturn of Roe v. Wade.

“This culture of death that we’ve created surrounding abortion has not only led people to want to kill their children, to kill their children, but has also pushed parents who want to keep their children, to [kill their children],” Kaylee Stockton, the teen mom, told The Daily Signal(emphasis original). She held her son in one arm and with the other held a sign reading, “This Teen Mom didn’t build her success off of murdering her child.”

Stockton, who gave birth to her son at 18 years old, attended the Life Day Rally, sponsored by Students for Life of America, at the base of the Lincoln Memorial steps this past Saturday. She told the Daily Signal that to continue to build a pro-life America, pro-lifers must continue to hold events like the rally.

ZMan’s weekly podcast. Highly recommended.

This week I thought it would be useful to talk about the Supreme Court case regarding affirmative action in college admissions. As I pointed out on Gab and Twitter, the ruling is a big nothing burger when you read it. Schools cannot come right out and say they are not taking Whites or Asians, but they can still discriminate to their heart’s desire as long as they frame as a character evaluation.

 

The Antiplanner.

Portland used to call itself “the city that works,” and I pointed out in a paper 16 years ago that, not only was it not working, it was especially ironic that it borrowed that claim from Chicago, another dysfunctional city. But if Portland wasn’t working in 2007, it is anti-working today, that is, actively working to alienate as many people and businesses as possible.

Gates of Vienna.

Collectif Némésis is an identitarian feminist organization based in Switzerland and France. Its principal focus is the danger posed by third-world migrants to native white women, which is why it has so often run afoul of mainstream feminist groups.

Steve Sailer.

Angela Davis Primary School in France is torched by black and brown rioters.

Is there a Judge Harold Haley School anywhere in the world? (Haley was the judge murdered on Aug. 7, 1970 with the shotgun Dr. Davis bought on Aug. 5, 1970.)

Politically Neutral School Policies Are Actually Racist, New Jersey Argues

There Were At Least 13 Campus Hate-Crime Hoaxes This School Year

WATCH: NYC Mayor Blows Up at Critic, Likens Her to Slave-Owner

Awkward: Supreme Court Rules Against Affirmative Action With Affirmative Action Hire Sitting Right There (Babylon Bee)

Overseas payments to Biden family could exceed $40M, Comer says: ‘This was organized crime’ (N.Y. Post)

Watch Live: President Biden Attempts To Explain ‘Bidenomics’  God save the Queen, man….

Gaetz, Greene Announce Move To Defund Director Of ATF

Biden’s New Freudian Slip For The Ages

Interest On The National Debt Poised To Rise At An Alarming Rate

Poor coke-addled Hunter, the Bidens’ shakedown man

CBP in Arizona Seizes 1.98M Fentanyl Pills in 2 Weeks

White House Janitors: Journalists Eager to Sanitize Biden’s Senior Moments

Biden Brings DC to Its Knees During Fundraising Trip to Super-Rich Suburb

Deep State of Denial: Ex-Spies and Biden Aides Silent on Hunter Biden Laptop Revelations

Thanks, Buttigieg: US Hit With More Mass Flight Cancellations Ahead of July 4th Weekend

Agendas Run Rampant Over Science In The Biden Administration

Fact Check: 5 Unusual, Unverifiable, or False Claims From President’s ‘Bidenomics’ Speech

Republicans Gut Biden’s Trans Extremism in Woke-Crushing Military Bill

Biden refers to Ukraine as ‘Iraq’ when asked about Putin (The Hill) Sharp as a dowel.

How U.S. Foreign Aid to Iraq Funds Terrorism Against Americans

In Show Of Solidarity With Ukraine, Biden Cancels 2024 U.S. Elections (Babylon Bee)

Biden Picks Up After Journalist Calls Secret Burner Phone Revealed In Hunter Scandal

Rachel Levine Says Bans on Child Sex Changes Are ‘Regressive’ It is no surprise that an abnormal person would advocate the encouragement of abnormality.

From Powerful Unions to Everyday Voters, Biden’s Gas-Powered Car Purge Prompts Backlash  Let me guess: The Powerful Unions will have more impact than Everyday Voters.

Gary Shapley does Fox News

Victor Davis Hanson: Biden Abroad – The Moral And Material Collapse Of US Foreign Policy

Dems Claim These Documents Show Joe Biden Didn’t Take Bribes. There’s Just One Problem.

The Hidden Underground Lake in the Center of the U.S. Threatening Farming (Newsweek)

California’s pension funds are wrecking the planet and losing billions. It’s quite a trick (L.A. Times) Likely! That proves it!

Rising Seas Are Likely to Sow Havoc Much Sooner Than Predicted (Mother Jones)

Study: Southern Indiana could among hardest hit as ‘100-year’ rains become more common (Evansville Courier & Press) Study! That proves it!

New study raises concerns over California’s flood risk (CBS Sacramento) Study! That proves it!

Study shows federal weather model underplays flooding, putting infrastructure spending at risk (Politico) Study says! That proves it!

Newsom One-Ups NYC By Requiring Pizza Be Baked Using Sun And Magnifying Glass (Babylon Bee)

Brutal heat wave makes Texas among the hottest places on Earth (MSNBC) It’s no hotter than it usually is this time of year. Really, people….

Rural electric provider in Utah warns of ‘impending U.S. energy crisis’ (Deseret News) “Things are bad here so they must be bad everywhere!”

July 4th Fireworks Canceled in LA Due to New Green Rules

Europe’s Crisis:  Blame Green Energy Policy

Government Climate Advisor: Britain is No Longer a Climate Leader

Huge Nebraska Solar Park Completely Smashed to Pieces by One Single Hailstorm!

The Food System Is Awful for the Climate. It Doesn’t Have to Be (Wired ‘Science’)

Save the Stoves: Majority of Americans Oppose Plans To Eradicate Natural Gas From Buildings, Poll Finds

New Nuclear: Three Projects, Three Problems

Renewable Energy Fail, as British Coal Generators Fired Up AGAIN to Cover Shortfalls

New York Governor Kathy Hochul Moves to Tax Drivers to Fight Climate Change  Every Democrat program comes down to thinking up new ways to spend YOUR money.

Clarence Thomas again — all alone — takes aim at pivotal defamation precedent

CNN’s Tapper Warns Of RFK Jr’s “Dangerous Misinformation”, Rebukes NewsNation For ‘Platforming’ Live Townhall Meeting

ADL and MSNBC Demand Online Censorship, Sob Over Elon’s Twitter

Bitter/Aggrieved Joy Reid Rails Against ‘Bitter’ and ‘Aggrieved’ Alito

RFK Jr.: ‘I’m proud that President Trump likes me’ (The Hill)

RFK Jr’s First Televised Town Hall Post-Mortem: ‘Our Country Will Start Healing When Govt Tells The Truth’

Ketanji Brown Jackson Dismantles SCOTUS Conservatives in Blistering Dissent (Daily Beast) No, she doesn’t–she just preaches the same old proglodyte clichés to the same old proglodyte crows. Justice Jackson is the living proof of why we need to abolish racial quotas.

Whoopi Goldberg Shreds Justice Clarence Thomas: ‘You’re Full of It’ (Daily Beast) Just the sort of intellectually rigorous argument we’ve come to expect from Whoopie. I guess she told him! (i wonder whether she’s tried tirzepedide….)

All clear given after suspicious package found on steps of Supreme Court (The Hill) But of course only Republicans indulge in political violence. Trump probably sent it.

FACT CHECK: ‘Extreme MAGA Republicans’ Took Back the House Through ‘Unlawful’ Gerrymandering

Trump’s prison nightmare: Giuliani now talking to DOJ about Jan 6 for first time (MSNBC)

I’ve ‘never seen anyone in government’ so dangerous to national security as Trump: Bob Woodward (Raw Story) Carl “Worse Than Watergate” Bernstein must be on vacation.

Prosecutors are prepared to hit Trump and his allies with new charges, sources say (The Independent) The overturn of racial quotas in admissions makes witch-hunting Trump even more important.

The Other McCain.

Most students at elite universities come from affluent backgrounds. Their parents are usually college-educated professionals, and the offspring of such families are expected to follow a similar career trajectory, to emulate and hopefully exceed their own parents’ success. Highly intelligent, they are recognized as top students at an early age, chosen for “gifted” classes in elementary school, put onto the academic fast-track of honors classes in high school, and steered toward highly selective universities — the Ivy League, Northwestern, Stanford, etc. — where merely being admitted to the freshman class is a prestigious honor.
These youth are repeatedly told by their parents and teachers, like the chorus in Greek tragedy, that there is no limit to their future achievements. Nothing is beyond their reach, they are assured, and their experience of scholastic achievement — valedictorian, admitted to a very selective university — gives them no reason to doubt this prophesy of success. Their ambition is boundless. They expect to win.
Well, the freshman class at Harvard is nearly 2,000 kids, and the freshman class at Yale is over 1,500, and there simply aren’t enough chairs at the table of Ivy League greatness to accommodate every clever freshman who wants a seat. It is proverbial that the hardest part of graduating from Harvard is getting admitted to Harvard — well over 95% of freshmen eventually get their diploma — but then what? Harvard, Yale, Duke, NYU — go on down the list of elite universities, total up their graduating classes, and you realize that the top 20 schools are cranking out something over 30,000 “elite” graduates every year. Some of them are trained in fields like engineering or banking where their degrees will automatically qualify them for lucrative employment, but what will become of the liberal arts majors? A degree in English literature from Yale is a more prestigious credential than a similar diploma from a second-tier state university, but it’s still not a coupon that can be automatically redeemed for a big house and a new car.

UPDATE: Why So Many Elites Feel Like Losers

The American Mind.

Why is the transgender issue so hot? Much of it has to do with the reality that sex and race are not merely very different things, but also they are different kinds of things. Sex is a biological reality; race is largely a cultural phenomenon. The trouble is that our civil rights laws—and the culture that follows from those laws—are uncomfortable with that reality. It is not that we never allow discrimination on the basis of sex—otherwise there never would be any single-sex bathrooms or colleges. But we have a strong bias against allowing sex to matter. Our fights over transgender athletes bring this reality into stark relief.

Freethink.

A research team at the USDA has developed new lines of cotton that are naturally flame-resistant — even putting themselves out when lit.

The ability could help cut back on the use of flame retardants, chemicals applied to a vast array of commercial products, like clothing, carpets, upholstery, and mattresses, to prevent cotton’s flammable fibers from burning people if there’s a fire — but which come with a variety of negative health and environmental impacts.

ZMan says the quiet part out loud.

The crisis of competence has been a popular topic in dissident circles but largely ignored by mainstream politics. Human intelligence is a dangerous subject in this increasingly primitive time because it points to immutable differences in human beings, which contradicts the new religion. If who we are is determined by our genes, then many of the popular social fads are invalid. This makes discussing the declining competency of Western societies difficult.

Even so, the reality of the situation is hard to ignore, and we are seeing more mainstream writers notice the topic. Here is a post in the Claremont Review of Books discussing one cause of the decline. While the article focuses on how civil rights theology has warped the law, this warping of the legal system is having a deleterious impact on society by reducing competence to happy accident. When vague notions of social justice are primary, competence is an afterthought.

The most recent Budweiser panic is a good example. The ethic inside the company was built around notions of representation and equitable outcomes. These magic phrases did not spring from nothing. They are rooted in the same civil rights theology as the legal mechanism that enforce diversity quotas. It is a straight line from expecting equal outcomes to thinking you need to market cheap beer to crossdressers in order to make sure everyone is represented in your marketing.

Charles C. W. Cooke.

Which “society” would that be, exactly? Who believes that “diversity” as achieved by affirmative action is a “fundamental American value”? What is this “face of an America whose cries for equality resound”? To read Sotomayor, you’d assume that racial discrimination in higher education was popular. But it’s not. It’s extremely unpopular.

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

The Supreme Court’s long expected ruling on the Harvard and University of North Carolina race-based admissions practices was just released. A 6-3 vote, along predictable lines, backs up Chief Justice John Roberts’s very strong opinion, which relies on the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. I’m still making my way through the concurrences (Thomas decided to write a long concurrence giving the originalist ground for the ruling, as well as a history of the 14th Amendment, sensibly thinking that a lot of people today—and perhaps the Democratic appointees to the Court, don’t really know it very well) and dissents. Stay tuned.

Sarah Hoyt

… the tendency for any human institution to perpetuate itself, no matter how stupid or harmful its purpose, because it is the job of the persons running it.

Suppose tomorrow there was a plague that rotted infants from the toes up, so that if you didn’t immediately cut an infants’ toes off, they would die sometime before five. An organization would be formed to cut infants’ toes off, and develop all sorts of branches and sub-organizations. Then twenty years later, someone discovered that a simple antibiotic stopped the death. Do you think the infant-toes-cutting-off bureaucracy would go away? Really? Why?

I bet you they would come up with a million reasons why cutting off day-olds’ toes was better for the baby, and stridently refuse to disband and/or change policy.

This is sort of how we got here.

Wisdom. Attend.

Read it.

Ouch!

A 40 minute presentation of propaganda and misinformation by President Biden was destroyed overnight with one unquestionable, government-data-driven, sentence by The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board:

“The Bureau of Labor Statistics says real average hourly earnings have fallen 3.16% during the Biden Presidency.”

As we noted yesterday ahead of Biden’s speech, real wages are down on a YoY basis for 26 straight months (i.e. since the president’s term began), but that never stopped the exaltation of so-called “Bidenomics” by The White House and its media lackeys…

Read it.

Social unrest exploded across France thThis week, forcing the government to deploy 40,000 police officers to quell the violence. The turmoil was sparked after police fatally shot a 17-year-old teenager of North African descent during a traffic stop.

This is what happens when you let boatloads of foreigners (pun intended) into your country and expect them to obey the same laws as everybody else.

I strongly suspect that if all black people in the U.S. went back to Africa, U.S. crime rates would plummet. God alone knows what would happen to Africa….

CNBC.

Taxpayers are losing more than $100 billion a year to Medicare and Medicaid fraud, according to estimates from the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association.

“That’s probably a conservative number,” Pérez Aybar said. “When we think about all lines of business in Medicare and Medicaid, that’s probably a drop in the bucket.”

The fraud runs the gamut: billing for unapproved Covid tests, phony billing for wheelchairs, braces and other medical equipment, genetic testing fraud, home health-care billing and a host of other schemes. Investigators say fraudsters have gotten more brazen in recent years — as Washington swiftly doled out trillions of dollars in Covid-19 relief funds and other aid in response to the pandemic.

FiveThirtyEight.

Three years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, remote and hybrid work are as popular as ever. Only 6 percent of employees able to do their jobs remotely want to return to the office full time, according to a Gallup survey published in August. The vast majority of “remote-capable” workers1 want to spend at least some of their workdays at home. When they’re forced to return to an office, they’re more likely to become burned out and to express intent to leave, according to Gallup.

But that’s not all. The pandemic, combined with a strong labor market where workers have persistent power to demand the kinds of work cultures they want, means even more changes could be coming. After years of advocacy, many U.S. states are moving towards mandatory, paid family and sick leave for all workers. Meanwhile, companies are flirting with a four-day workweek in pilot programs worldwide, including in the U.S.

Policies like these have conventionally been seen as good for workers’ personal lives but bad for business. But thanks to the massive, sudden changes brought on by the pandemic, we now have more data than ever, and it shows that assumption is mostly wrong. Overall, policies that are good for employees’ personal lives are, when enacted correctly, good for their work lives, too. In fact, they seem to be good for everyone. The only question is whether we’ll start to see more companies adopt them.

UPDATE: Bosses face losing ‘key’ workers after forcing a return to office

Freethink.

Scientists are still figuring out why tirzepatide causes weight loss. One theory is that they “accidentally” created a new hormone.

Good news for black women.

John C. Wright.

My Comment: this is not the half of it.

I can double this list, off the top of my head, of things denounced as conspiracy theories later admitted or proven true.

• CIA involvement in JFK assassination
• Manmade origin of COVID in Chinese lab
• Fauci funding thereof
• FBI false flags framing Trump supporters
• January 6th being a riot
• January 6th being an insurrection
• January 6th being an insurrection lead by Trump
• Operation MK Ultra
• Operation Mockingbird
• Atrazine turning the Frogs gay
• Antifas being real
• BLM being not real
• Replacement Theory
• Arizona Election Fraud
• 2000 Mules
• Chinese influence over Hollywood

These are just those either admitted or proved beyond reasonable doubt.

I will not list climate hoaxes, overpopulation hoaxes, or various Green New Deal scares, because despite the fact that the Ice Cap did not melt in AD 2000, nor did India starve to death in AD 1990, nor did human life end in AD 2015, the perpetrators of these hoaxes have not stopped, nor even slowed, their well-funded efforts.

The American Mind.

Amendment, saying that they’d need F-16 fighter jets to take on the U.S. government.

Put aside for a moment the deeply disturbing thought that an American president would have recurring thoughts of using the most deadly weaponry in the history of the world against his own citizens. Put aside the equally disturbing thought that the true spirit of the Second Amendment as framed by the founders is lost on an American president.

President Biden’s own recent history as Commander in Chief provides evidence that even if you accept his bizarre premise, he is still wrong.

Texas’s nighttime temperatures are a symptom of a new, more dangerous kind of heat wave (CNN) No, they’re the same temperatures we get every year.

Deforestation jumped 10% last year despite global pledges (Axios)

Climate change: Deforestation surges despite pledges (BBC)

World forests continue to shrink despite COP26 pledge, report says (Euronews)

The alarming decline of Earth’s forests, in 4 charts (Vox)

Coal prices plummet as green energy surges in China (Innovation Origins)

Sea levels: the worst-case scenario is already here! Taylor isn’t doing A SINGLE show at the Antarctica Walrusdome (The Guardian)

NOAA’s Dubious Associations: Unmasking the Disinformation Tactics in Climate Change Debate

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Move To Florida To Escape New York Pizza Oven Ban (Babylon Bee)

Female Comic Goes Record 6 Seconds Before Mentioning Her Vagina (Babylon Bee)

Push to tie Medicaid to work is making a comeback. Georgia is at forefront. (Washington Post)

Kentucky Governor Says Puberty Blockers and Hormone Therapy for Kids Are ‘Basic Medical Decisions’

Corporatism Has Replaced Liberalism

NBC Frets Race-Based College Admissions Headed for Dustbin of History

Why shouldn’t public funds go to religious schools? Where to begin … (N.Y. Times) Let’s begin with the proglodyte hatred of religion.

‘We’re Coming For Your Children’ chant at NYC Drag March elicits outrage, but activists say it’s taken out of context (NBC News) Seems pretty clear to me.

Software Engineer, Fiancee Sentenced To Prison For Developing Application To Break China’s Internet Censorship  A reminder that Red China remains Red.

Stanford Law School Promised Free Speech Training. It Delivered a Campus Joke.

The Supreme Court Rejected a Dangerous Elections Theory. But It’s Not All Good News. (N.Y. Times) Dangerous to Democrats, maybe. Certainly dangerous to Democrat vote fraud.

‘Exploitation of Vulnerable People’: Drag Troupe Accused of Sexualizing People With Down Syndrome

Anheuser-Busch CEO: Still Supporting LGBTQ Activism

Interfaith Coalition of Parents Protests Maryland School District’s LGBTQ Curriculum Opt-Out Policy

‘Good Guy With Gun’ Swept Under Rug by Las Vegas Police

Iran memo not among the 31 records underlying charges in Trump federal indictment (CBS News)

Sean Hannity’s desperate attempt to spin the new Trump tape (Washington Post)

Latest Trump audio shows an unstable man-child who belongs nowhere near power (St Louis Post-Dispatch) Republicans talk about issues, Democrats talk about personalities.

Trump ‘coup bomb’ goes off as Trump’s own secret service agents testify (MSNNBC)

US Judge Says Trump’s NY Case Likely Belongs in State Court

The Attention Was All on Mar-a-Lago. Some of the Action Was at Bedminster.

Why Trump’s weird reaction to a reported audio recording matters (MSNBC) Because everything Trump does matters. All Trump! All the time!

rump Expands His Attack On Special Counsel To Include His Family And Friends (Huffington Post) Playing catchup.

Trump Sues Carroll for Defamation Over Post-Trial Rape Claim (Bloomberg)

Trump explores messing with the first GOP debate (NBC News) Still unexplained: What possible reason Trump would have to participate in such debates.

‘He’s the cheapest S.O.B. I’ve ever met’: Christie rips Trump for diverting campaign money to PAC (Politico)

Playbook: Inside Trump world’s fury at McCarthy (Politico) “Trump world”?

Trump plots Twitter return (Axios)

Liz Cheney Says She Will Do Whatever It Takes To Stop Donald Trump (Huffington Post) Unfortunately, she doesn’t have many tools in her box, so to speak.

Judge signals he’ll let Trump hush money case stay in state court (The Hill)

House Republicans embark on a mission: Avenge Trump (NBC News) That, at least, would be a productive use of their time.

Trump Not Even Indicted on Purported Memo From Audio

U.S. is far more globally popular under Biden than it was in Trump era (Washington Post) Yeah, because Biden is easy to con.

Read it.

The multicultural Parisian suburb of Nanterre was the site of overnight clashes between youths and police following the shooting of a 17-year-old Arab teen by police in a traffic stop gone wrong.

The teenager, simply known as “Nael M,” was shot dead after failing to comply with an order to stop his vehicle Tuesday, June 27th, as footage of the incident shows one officer opening fire on the car as it attempts to drive away. The violence adds fuel to the flames of the French Republic’s simmering racial tensions that some critics say risk further destabilising the entire country.

The teenager, who was pronounced dead at the scene, first came to the attention of officers after committing multiple traffic violations. Officers claim that two police motorcyclists had been rammed by the car prior to the altercation. The officer who fired the fatal shots has already been detained on murder charges according to the Nanterre prosecutor’s office.

Since when is Arab a race?

NewsMax.

A sheriff in Florida blasted beachgoers for ignoring deadly rip-current warnings and harassing first responders after nearly a dozen people, including former NFL quarterback Ryan Mallett, drowned in the past two weeks.

Think of it as evolution in action.

Time to cull the herd,.

Read it.

In 2022 Norway’s third richest man, Kjell Inge Røkke, announced in an open letter to shareholders he was moving to Lugano, Switzerland.

“My capital will continue working in Norway,” wrote the fishing magnate turned industrialist who launched his empire four decades ago with a 69-foot trawler he bought while saving money working on ships off the coast of Alaska.

Røkke, who Forbes estimates has a fortune of $5.1 billion, will cost the Norwegian government an estimated 175,000,000 kroner annually (roughly $16 million) with his departure. That might not sound like a lot of money, but Røkke is not the only wealthy entrepreneur leaving Norway, The Guardian notes.

“More than 30 Norwegian billionaires and multimillionaires left Norway in 2022, according to research by the newspaper Dagens Naeringsliv,” reports wealth correspondent Rupert Neate. “This was more than the total number of super-rich people who left the country during the previous 13 years, [the paper] added.”

Did you catch that? More “super rich” Norwegians left Norway in 2022 than during the previous 13 years combined. The reason wealthy Norwegians are fleeing the country is not a secret.

The Foundry.

Las Vegas police are withholding details about what looks like a classic “good guy with a gun” scenario in which someone carrying a firearm prevents what could have turned into a mass shooting.

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department won’t identify anyone involved in an incident Friday in which a helmet-wearing man with what appeared to be a semiautomatic rifle shot out windows at a high-rise condominium before being shot himself.

Local media reports say that residents of the condo complex, Turnberry Towers, hailed a building employee, possibly a security guard or mailroom worker, as a hero for shooting and stopping the gunman before he fired on anyone.

A video circulating on social media does appear to depict a case of defensive gun use to protect others.

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I am not making this up.

Covid isn’t over, but even the most cautious Americans are moving on (Washington Post) Uh, no; COVID has been over for a year.

Dr. Anthony Fauci To Join Georgetown Faculty as Distinguished University Professor Failing upward.

Kansas attorney general sues to stop trans people from changing their birth certificates (NBC News) The war on reality proceeds apace.

‘Obscures More Than It Illuminates’: Lawmakers Slam Biden’s COVID Origins Report

Over 300 Canadian Soldiers Launch $500 Million Lawsuit Against Military For COVID Vaccine Mandates

Fauci’s Next Act: COVID Czar To Teach at Georgetown Wonder whether he’ll make them all wear masks.

The Great Grift: More than $200 billion in COVID-19 aid may have been stolen, federal watchdog says (Associated Press) Well, that’s what happens when the government throws YOUR money around like confetti.

RFK Jr. Hosts Convicted Sex Predator on His Podcast To Praise Putin

The Timing of Alito’s Private Jet Scandal Couldn’t Be More Damning (Slate) The timing of the alleged ‘scandal’ was entirely determined by the Narrative media witch-hunt.

Bill Maher Gives Anti-Vaxxer RFK Jr. Another Big Boost (Daily Beast) I’m surprised they don’t call him a “vax denier”.

Fox Fires Tucker’s Staff as Replacement Named

Every Supreme Court Justice Should Be Matched With a Billionaire Buddy (New York Times) So who would you match with Justice Brown? George Soros?

NPR’s Email Scream: ‘Queers, Queens, Dykes…Are Burning’ Just Like Dropped Flags

‘We’re electing idiots’: Liz Cheney pinpoints the biggest problem in American politics (Raw Story) No, “we’re” (what is this “we”, Trump denier?) electing weasels–like Liz Chaney.

Reid Smears DeSantis For Having ‘The Most Openly Fascist Campaign’  Examples, girl; surely you can provide us with some examples?

Democratic lawmakers seek Supreme Court investigation into Clarence Thomas (NBC News) Yeah, give it to the guy supposedly investigating Hunter Biden; he seems to have a lot of time on his hands.

America’s Family Secret (Reuters) Apparently Trump is the only American President–including Obama–who didn’t have a slave-owning ancestor.

Teens in England ‘Too Frightened’ to Say There are Only 2 Genders

The Con Artists Who Blame Ukraine Aid for America’s Social Problems (The New Republic)

Left-Wing Hackers Strike Texas City in Revenge Over Trans Laws  Forth Worth is the largest city not run by Democrats.

New York Times Attacks Gutfeld For Promoting ‘Nihilism,’ Fox For Threaning Democracy

No Labels’ signature-gathering firm has ties to Ron DeSantis (Politico)

Lightfoot’s Outgoing Executive Orders Defy Precedent; Court Conflicts with Council (Better Government Association) BRAAAAAAAINS!

House Republicans Unworried by Dems’ Focus on Abortion

‘My Kid Can’t Sleep’: Gun Violence Drives Denver to Return Armed Police to Schools (Wall Street Journal) More accurately, Blue State crime.

‘We’re Here, We’re Queer, We’re Coming for Your Children’: 6 Scenes From NYC Pride Events

Brzezinski, Hochul: Women ‘Die’ Without Abortion, Need Military Assets  Notice now they can never cite a single instance of a woman who ‘died’ because she couldn’t get an abortion. By contrast, every abortion is a child who dies.

SPLC Silent When Asked For Evidence the Lawyer Charged With Domestic Terrorism Didn’t Engage in Violence

After Affirmative Action Ends (The New Yorker)

The Left Can Have Islam or LGBTQA+. Not Both

Conditions at Guantánamo Are Cruel and Inhuman, U.N. Investigation Finds (N.Y. Times) As cruel and inhuman as what these Islamic terrorists do to innocent civilians?

Harvard Melts Down Over Threat to Affirmative Action

Two-Thirds of Californians Say They Are Considering Leaving the State

Penn State Equity Officer Praises Looting, Lawsuit Claims

“Gone, Gone”: Anheuser Busch Fires Pro-Trans Marketing Execs Who Destroyed Brand

The View Claims Education on Firearm/Self-Defense Laws Is Malicious

Scandal-Plagued Dem Senator Sold Up to $400K of Gold Amid Federal Investigation

Prigozhin Is Back On His Soapbox Two Days After Outright Mutiny (The War Zone)

Ukraine Situation Report: Breakthrough Across The Dnipro At Antonvosky Bridge (The War Zone)

Denmark Accelerating F-16 Retirement, Could Benefit Ukraine (The War Zone)

Vladimir Putin accuses Wagner Group leaders of betraying Russia (Financial Times)

Wagner Group leader speaks for first time since uprising (CBS News)

Putin vows to punish organizers of Wagner Group rebellion (CBS News)

Victory for Ukraine could be closer than we thought (CNN)

US keeps up weapons shipments to Ukraine with new $500 mln package (Reuters)

John Kerry Skewered By French TV Host After Condemning Putin Invasion: “Why Isn’t Bush Judged In The Same Way?”

ARMOR: Perspectives and Realities

Watch: Zelensky Claims Ukraine ‘Is All That Protects Europe’ From Russian Invasion

Heroic IRS whistleblower testimony ensnarls Hunter and Joe Biden in bribery scheme (N.Y. Post)

Biden announces how $40 billion for high-speed internet will be used, as he pitches ‘Bidenomics’ (ABC News)

Senate Republican moves to stop Buttigieg from using private jets: ‘Wasting taxpayer dollars’ (Fox) But wasting taxpayer dollars is what Democrats do.

Merrick Garland: criticize the DOJ and you’re attacking democracy  When’s he going to say ‘I am the democracy!’ the way Fauci said ‘I am the science!’?

WATCH: Biden’s Trans Health Official Says Sex Change Treatments are ‘Mental Health Care’

Biden Admin’s Greatest Foe? ‘It’s the Moms, Stupid’

Biden Administration Defends Controversial Move to Slash Israeli Research Funding

Pentagon’s “Woke” Agenda Dividing, Weakening The Military: Former Space Force Officer

Time To Get Rid Of Federal ‘Disinformation’ Bureaus

VP Harris Says Young Voters Have the Power to Fight “Extremist” Abortion Bans (Teen Vogue)

‘No!’: Biden Claims Ignorance of Hunter’s Foreign Business Dealings In Face of Mounting Evidence to the Contrary

The Media Have Always Carried Water for Hunter Biden. Don’t Expect It to Stop Now.

FBI Entrapment Schemes: Creating Criminals in Order to Arrest Them

What Would The Founding Fathers Say About Our National Debt?  They’d have a heart attack, and die.

Where Is the Biden-Bashing ‘Tell-All’ Book? (Tim Graham) Democrats, unlike Republicans, can’t trash their own side and depend on remuneration from the Establishment–they are the Establishment.

Patriot Front ‘White Supremacist’ Unmasked As Suspected Fed

Nets Spend 5 Minutes on Hunter’s Text Shaking Down Chinese Businessman, Then Quickly Drop It

Hunter Biden’s 7% Solution: Using Addiction To Excuse Corruption

White House Hires Anti-Israel Professor From University Engulfed in Anti-Semitism Controversy

Critics Slam Biden Admin for Calling Anti-Semitic Group a Partner in Fight To ‘Counter Anti-Semitism’

Kamala Harris Has The Worst Net Negative Rating Of Any Vice President In NBC Poll’s History

Current heatwave across US south made five times more likely by climate crisis (The Guardian)

Climate change: Deforestation surges despite pledges (BBC)

Solar Is Booming in the California Desert, if Water Issues Don’t Get in the Way (Inside Climate News)

Elon Musk calls NYC crackdown on coal, wood-fire ovens ‘utter bs’ (Fox)

Shipping emissions could be halved without damaging trade, research finds (The Guardian)

Deadly Texas heat is spreading, and it will only get hotter (CNN) It’s no hotter than we expect this time of year.

US Advances New York City Congestion Pricing Plan

ERCOT Power Demand Hits Record As Heat Dome Bakes Texas

Sweden Scraps 100% Renewable Energy Goal For More Reliable Nuclear Power

Media Mogul Michael Bloomberg Celebrates Crushing American Energy Industry

Wind Fails Texas Again   Build more nukes!

Aussie Government Admits the Green Energy Revolution will Require Lots of Coal

The Ever Growing Demands For Trillions Of Dollars Per Year To Fight Climate Change

Solar sprawl is tearing up the Mojave Desert. Is there a better way? (L.A. Times) “Solar sprawl”? Where do they come up with these phrases?

NYC Mandates All Pizza Must Be Cooked Under A Bathroom Hand Dryer (Babylon Bee)

Hear exclusive audio of Trump discussing classified documents in 2021 (CNN) Which has undoubtedly been Ruparred.

Hear audio of Trump discussing classified documents published by CNN (MSNBC)

Trump heard on tape discussing ‘highly confidential, secret’ documents (BBC)

Judge in Trump docs case denies special counsel’s request to keep list of 84 witnesses under wraps (NBC News)

‘External Pressures’ Force NFL Player’s Charity Event Cancelation at Trump Course

Recent Polls Have Trump Smooth Sailing On Top of Primary  “Our democracy” shines through.

Top Trump Adviser Pushed for Drone Strikes on Migrants, New Book Claims (Rolling Stone) “Stephen Miller denies the account, and a person present has “no recollection” of the alleged conversation, but ….” … the Rolling Stone is going to print it anyway, because it’s part of the witch-hunt.

The Supreme Court May Preemptively Ban a Federal Wealth Tax (The New Republic) Because it’s unconstitutional, just like the income tax prior to the 16th Amendment.

Court Throws Out New York’s Civil Case Against Ivanka Trump (N.Y. Times)

Donald Trump Is Least Racist Living President, Historical Analysis Finds

The leaked Trump audio recording

The AMA Labels BMI ‘Racist’  Another victory by fat ugly black women. (How come you never see a grossly obese Asian woman?)

VP Harris Signals Support for LGBTQ Americans During Stonewall Visit

CBS Hypes Book About ‘Whitelash’ To Obama, Progressivism