Scott Johnson at Power Line.

Tirien Steinbach is an attorney who has served as associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion at Stanford Law School. You may recall the role she played in the shoutdown of Fifth Circuit Judge Kyle Duncan at the law school. She took the lectern at the event to lecture Judge Duncan in support of the shoutdown. Steve Hayward and I covered the story in a series of posts that are accessible here. At least word this past March, Dean Jenny Martinez announced that Steinbach was “on leave.”

Steinbach now writes in a column posted at The Hill in defense of the continued use of racial preferences in higher education. Her column is headlined “Diversity, equity and inclusion: The new American battlefield.” Her introductory paragraph heads off in the direction of War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

What he said.

House Freedom Caucus weighs kicking out Marjorie Taylor Greene (Axios)

Pelosi: SCOTUS Justices Should Have ‘Term Limits’

PBS: ‘Conservative’ Brooks Blasts DeSantis on Woke Critique: ‘It’s Offensive’

‘People with Wombs’ Throw Tantrum Outside Amazon Studios One Year After Roe Decision

Group targeting conservative Supreme Court justices propped up by left-wing megadonors (Washington Examiner)

The Candidate Of The ‘Tucker-Rogan-Elon-Bannon-Combo-Platter Right Witch-hunting at The Atlantic.

The breathtaking hypocrisy of Alito (ProPublica) Let’s see … Nope, no mention of either Biden, or of Nancy Pelosi’s AMAZING ability to pick great stocks.

Here’s a Conspiracy Theory: RFK Jr. Is a Tool of Pro-Trump Agitators (The New Republic) Even the Sacred Kennedys aren’t safe from the witch-hunt.

Rhode Island Dem Arrested for Keying Car With ‘Biden Sucks’ Sticker

Russia’s defence minister visits troops after Wagner insurrection (Financial Times)

Putin Suppressed a Mutiny. But What’s Next for Him and Russia? (Politico)

Majority of Americans support increasing US military presence near Taiwan to combat China threat: poll (Fox)

BRICS Backlash: Huge Growth In China’s Aircraft Industry Is Flying Under The Radar

China Back’s Argentina’s Falklands Claim, Urges End To Hegemonism And “Colonial Thinking”

Officials question whether truce will hold in Kremlin, Wagner standoff (Washington Post)

Iran In America’s Backyard: Raisi’s Defiant Latin America Tour

Russian agents’ threat to family made Prigozhin call off Moscow advance (UK Telegraph) As predicted by Scott Adams.

INFORMATION WARFARE: The Greater Russia Doctrine

Europe seeks to punish Putin’s infowar pals with bans on Russian tech firms

Ex-CIA Analyst: Putin ‘Staged’ Prigozhin’s Coup Attempt

Hybrid immunity and vaccine Imprinting: Powerful defenses against Omicron reinfection (NewsMedical)

Long-term protection unveiled: hybrid immunity guards against Omicron reinfections (NewsMedical)

Unveiling the link: gut microbiome, diet, and SARS-CoV-2 infections (NewsMedical)

CDC Director Concerned About ‘Breakthrough’ Cases Weeks After COVID Vaccine Rollout: Email

Biden Admin Says Its COVID Spending for Schools Will Boost Test Scores. Districts Used the Funds for Staff Bonuses.

‘We’re not doing that’: A Black couple won’t crowdfund to pay medical debt (NPR)

How Review-Bombing Can Tank a Book Before It’s Published (N.Y. Times)

Supreme Court allows for Louisiana congressional map to be redrawn to add another majority-Black district (CNN)

Officials say they can’t win a murder case in shooting death of Florida mother who came to neighbor’s door (NBC News)

Shun Randi Weingarten as the monster she is (N.Y. Post)

This Period Of De-Globalization Is Temporary: ‘Global Money’ Is Coming

‘Disgusted’ New Zealand Surgeons Now Required To Consider Ethnicity Of Patients

New York City LGBT Activists Chant ‘We’re Coming For Your Kids’ (Daily Caller)

NYC Drag March Condemned for ‘Coming for Your Children’ Chant

San Francisco’s Homeless

Ban On Encouraging Illegal Immigration Not Unconstitutional: Supreme Court

How Crime Novel Became Reality for 8 Cities With Soros-Backed ‘Rogue Prosecutors’

Starbucks Workers Strike Over Pride Decor

Disney’s Downhill Slide

The grievance industry

Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss was an inside job (N.Y. Post)

Florida immigrants detail their exit following DeSantis immigration law: ‘I had to leave’ (NBC News)

For Workers, Unions and Public Pressure Get the Goods (The American Prospect) The ones that still have jobs.

The next president’s $4 trillion problem (Axios)

Chain Migration Fears After Bundestag Slashes Family Reunification Criteria

Pedophile Jailed For Flashing Kids At Playground Kicking Himself For Not Doing It At Pride Parade Instead (Babylon Bee)

Hochul Declares New York ‘Safe Haven’ for Trans Youth  Just waiting for the buses from Florida and Texas….

Democrats warn party: The threat of Trump winning in 2024 is ‘very real’ (NBC News)

Supreme Court Dismisses Clash Over Trump Hotel Docs

‘It’s absolutely guaranteed’: the best and worst case scenarios for sea level rise (The Guardian)

Mama Mia! NYC rules crack down on coal, wood-fired pizzerias — must cut carbon emissions up to 75% (N.Y. Post)

Renewables growth did not dent fossil fuel dominance in 2022, report says (Reuters)

Trump: EV Industry ‘Horrible’ for American Worker

Down the Line: Tracing the route — and risks — of Utah’s proposed Colorado-bound oil trains (Colorado Newsline)

Michigan’s Proposed ‘Green Energy’ Policy Threatens to Slam the Door on Manufacturing Renaissance

Offshore Follies

Sweden Deals Body Blow to EU Climate Change Agenda

Eco-Terrorists Crowdsource Harassment and Terror

The Green Movement and Energy Prices: The Theory Of “Effective Pain”

America aims for nuclear-power renaissance

Private Jets Keep Green Light as WEF Pushes to Remove 75% Of All Cars in Just 27 Years

Oregon Finally Legalizes Pumping Your Own Gas After 72 Years

Sweden just scrapped their “Renewable Energy Targets”. Here’s why.

Fuggedaboutit: New York City Considers Pizza Oven Ban

The Fantasy World and Hypocrisy of the Climatistas

ZMan says the quiet part out loud.

Corruption is a natural part of government, regardless of the type of government, because men are not angels. Government has the power to compel which means it will always attract the sorts of people who are comfortable using force to take the property of others. In this regard, government corruption is a measure of the tolerance of corruption in the system. Government corruption is a function of the culture that controls the actions of the people in government.

By way of example, think about cheating in sports. Baseball developed a steroid problem because the culture within the sport came to tolerate it. No player dared report another player as it would lower his status in the sport. Once the league instituted tough drug testing measures, the culture changed. Players caught cheating let down their teams and even cost teammates money. This lowered their status so the culture of tolerance flipped to a culture of intolerance.

Police departments have always struggled with the culture of corruption. In the last century, big city police departments would go from clean to dirty almost overnight due to the actions of a few crooked cops. The crooked cops would find ways to get other cops to take bribes or participate in shakedowns. This made all the cops guilty to some degree, even if they just remained silent. An otherwise honest precinct quickly became corrupt because the culture changed.

Sage Journals.

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Finland has started construction of a fence along its border with Russia, the Finnish Border Guard (RAJA), announced on February 28th.

Finland shares the longest border with Russia of any EU-member state, stretching approximately 1,300 kilometres on a mostly north-south axis.

Construction will begin “with forest clearance and will proceed in such a way that road construction and fence installation can be started in March,” RAJA said in a press release.

Can’t say that I blame them.

FreeThink.

3D-printing robots are being A major housing development, built using 3D-printer robots on-site, is taking shape in the US state of Texas. The 100-house project on the outskirts of Austin is the product of a partnership between US house-building giant Lennar, and 3D printing company ICON. to build a 100-home housing development in the US state of Texas.

Bad news for Latinos, who make up 90% of the workforce of construction companies, especially in Texas.  Every silver lining comes with a cloud.

Iowa meteorologist resigns after death threats over climate crisis coverage (The Guardian)

Get ready for another wet, hot American summer, thanks to fossil fuels (The Hill) According to the Narrative, that is.

Q&A: Heather McTeer Toney Reflects on the Ongoing Struggle for Environmental Justice in America (Inside Climate News) Racializing ‘climate change’. The grift is strong in this one….

As Fuel Taxes Plummet, States Weigh Charging by the Mile Instead of the Tank  After all, we can’t let anything interfere with the government taking money from people.

‘Global Warming Has Begun, Expert Tells Senate’ (1988 exaggerations vs. today)

Who’s Threatening Whom? Green Deal Shady Tactics

All EU Members are committed to achieving full climate neutrality by 2050

Sweden adopts new fossil-free target, making way for nuclear

Siemens Energy’s Troubles: A Case Study in the Misallocation of Resources

No, WaPo, a Texas Heat Wave has Nothing to Do with Global Climate Change

Why Hunter Biden angrily threatened his Chinese business associate (N.Y. Post)

On PBS, NPR Legal Reporter Claims Hunter Plea Deal ‘Somewhat Harsher’ Than Usual  I think Wesley Snipes might have something to say about that.

The Catastrophic Failures Of The Biden Administration Are Motivating More Americans Than Ever To Prepare For An Apocalypse

Days after Hunter Biden’s Threatening WhatsApp Message, $5 Million Rolled In

In re the Biden family business

Desperate San Fran Mayor Wants To Demolish Buildings To Revitalize Crime-Ridden Downtown Apparently taking a knee with head bowed is the virtue-signal for True Believer.

We Need to Talk About Overturning the Dobbs Decision (N.Y. Times) Hey, the Constitution is what we law professors say it is.

People ‘Assigned Female at Birth’ Are ‘Going to Be Dying,’ Pro-Abortion Activist Says One Year After Roe v. Wade Overturned

California Bill Would Expand College Financial Aid To Asylum Seekers  The best person to be in California is an illegal alien. Actual citizens and legal residents can fend for themselves.

Box Office Analyst: Disney Has Lost Nearly $900M Past Year  Get woke, go broke.

Nordic and Conservative: The Rising Shift to the Right in Sweden and Its Nordic Neighbors

Mont. State Lawmakers Get Letters With White Powder (NewsMax) But of course only Republicans indulge in political violence.

Texas governor signs bill rescinding water breaks as deadly heat grips state (The Guardian) Of course, nobody gets to take a water break unless it’s mandated by law.

NY Times Smears North Korea Defector on Front Page For Criticizing US Left

Newsmax Staffers Hit With Subpoenas in 2020 Election Defamation Suit (Rolling Stone)

It’s Not Too Late for the Republican Party (N.Y. Times) It can still climb back on board the UniParty.

J.K. Rowling’s Moment Of Truth

Fighting for trust: The painful journey of the Supreme Court after Dobbs (Politico)

Ron DeSantis is campaigning on his record. Judges keep saying it’s unconstitutional (CNN)

Sheldon Whitehouse was right all along: The Supreme Court is corrupt (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

‘SEVER EVERY TENTACLE’: Va. Senate Candidates Pledge to Probe SPLC’s Federal Ties Amid Attack on Moms for Liberty

Left-Wing Donors Behind ProPublica Funds Attacks On Conservative Supreme Court Justices

Black-owned radio station may lose license over FCC ‘character qualifications’ policy (NPR) Make black people follow the same rules as everybody else? That’s WAYYYYYYYCIST!

Obama Brings Back the Race Card

The Other McCain

The editor of Iowa’s Quad Cities Times has apologized for publishing the cartoon above, after being called out on Twitter by Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, who lamented the “shameful” cartoon and said: “It’s sad that this is how the MSM views Republicans. I’ve met with grassroots conservatives across America & never *once* experienced the kind of bigotry that I regularly see from the Left.”

Several commentators have described the cartoon as “racist,” but that’s not really the point. Rather, it is the libelous attribution of hateful bigotry to Republicans which is so offensive. What this illustrates is the assumption of liberals that they are morally and intellectually superior to the rest of us, especially in regard to racial issues, but really on every subject imaginable — economic policy, climate change, gay rights, you name it. “Hate” is now defined as disagreeing with liberals.

NewsMax.

When millionaire Steve Fossett’s plane went missing over the Nevada range in 2007, the swashbuckling adventurer had already been the subject of two prior emergency rescue operations thousands of miles apart.

And that prompted a prickly question: After a sweeping search for the wealthy risktaker ended, who should foot the bill?

In recent days, the massive hunt for a submersible vehicle lost during a north Atlantic descent to explore the wreckage of the Titanic has refocused attention on that conundrum. And with rescuers and the public fixated first on saving and then on mourning those aboard, it has again made for uneasy conversation.

“Five people have just lost their lives and to start talking about insurance, all the rescue efforts and the cost can seem pretty heartless — but the thing is, at the end of the day, there are costs,” said Arun Upneja, dean of Boston University’s School of Hospitality Administration and a researcher on tourism.

The Critic.

William Brown, Richmal Crompton’s “Just William”, faces a telling-off from a teacher for not paying attention. A hundred years ago, the 1920s teacher remarks, he might have been made to crawl up chimneys for a living instead of being educated, so he should consider himself jolly lucky to be in school. To which William replies that crawling up chimneys sounds pretty interesting, at least compared to having to sit behind a desk all day listening to said teacher banging on. Crompton, a feisty, disabled spinster, was a true subversive and she wasn’t going to let her fictional teacher get away with that crude application of the Whig theory of history.

From its inception the positive value of compulsory state education has been a nearly unchallenged orthodoxy. It wasn’t entirely unchallenged. The borough of Royal Leamington Spa, where I have lived for the great majority of my adult life, petitioned parliament to be excluded from the Education Act of 1870. The petition conceded that they could understand how it would be of benefit in the manufacturing districts if the working people could read and write and do arithmetic, but claimed that such training was an expensive irrelevance for the domestic servants of the Spa. They were given short shrift, of course. Then there was my grandfather’s village, Staithes, on the North Yorkshire coast. Nowadays it’s a famous tourist attraction, but in the 1870s it was a remote fishing village more easily accessed from the sea than the land. The first schoolteacher there reported that it was nigh on impossible to persuade the local children to turn up on time or sit behind desks all day. It worked in the end, and there is a rather staged photograph taken by the pioneering photographer Frank Meadow Sutcliffe in about 1880 of a small boy, explaining to several of my ancestors that they have misspelt the name on the prow of their boat.

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In her latest book, When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives, bestselling author Heather Mac Donald skewers the ideology of “disparate impact”—a “once obscure legal theory that is now transforming our world.”

According to Mac Donald, disparate impact—in which any negative or disproportionate outcome impacting black Americans is declared to be a “tool of white supremacy”—has been deliberately developed and leveraged as a cultural tool, targeting “the very fundamentals of a fair society.”

Today, she argues, meritocracy, fealty to the rule of law, and even respect for our civilizational inheritance stand in the way of achieving so-called racial justice.

Washington Post.

Deep in the urban sprawl of the Western Hemisphere’s largest city, nestled within a thicket of highways, there is a low-slung shopping mall that boasts an attraction not rivaled anywhere in the United States.
The giant Outback Steakhouse.
Named the world’s largest Outback in 2018 — and the world’s most lucrative before that — its dimensions and legend since then have only grown. The restaurant is now nearly twice the size of the biggest Outbacks in the United States, where the faux-Australian chain was founded.
But even then, it’s not big enough. Not for Brazil, and not on a recent Monday.
Hostess Kalany Nunes, 19, surveys the line for lunch, several dozens deep.
“This is Outback,” she explains. “It’s very chic.”

Americans can do fake foreign better than anybody else in the world. USA! USA!

(I hace to admit that their waitresses are much better looking than American ones.)

NYC’s migrant shelter population surges to nearly 100K, costing taxpayers $8M a day (N.Y. Post) Sanctuary City! Be careful what you wish for….

They tried and failed to get an abortion. Texas family grapples with what it’ll mean (NPR) It means you can’t kill an innocent child.

National Parks Sponsor Pride Marches, Create LGBTQ ‘Teaching’ Resources With Taxpayer Dollars

We Muslims Used to Be the Culture War Scapegoats. Why Are Some of Us Joining the L.G.B.T.Q. Pile-On? (N.Y. Times) Well, for one thing, it’s in the Koran. If you were actually a Muslim, you would know that.

DC School Board Approves Curriculum Centered on Critical Race Theory

Arizona Gov. Hobbs strips counties of abortion prosecution authority (Axios)

Democrats call for DACA health care expansion (The Hill)

4 in 10 California residents are considering packing up and leaving, new poll finds (L.A. Times)

Judge Blocks Florida Ban on Minors Attending Drag Shows

CNN Producer Sentenced To 19 Years In Prison For Pedophilia

San Francisco Ranked Worst-Run City In America

The Endless Lies Democrats Tell In Defense Of Their Failed Californian Utopia

Why Some Americans Buy Guns (N.Y. Times) Dirt People anthropology for Cloud People.

Attorneys General Take Pride

Flashback: Big Media’s Big Double-Standard on SCOTUS Blockbusters

New Study Finds Bizarre Connection Between Being Liberal And Having Giant, Googly Eyes (Babylon Bee) I’ve always wondered about that.

Almost A Third Of America’s Homeless Population Lives In California, Study Finds  And why not? Where else are you going to get a better deal?

Anglican Church Unveils Tuck Friendly Vestments (Babylon Bee)

Harvard Scholar Who Studies Honesty Is Accused of Fabricating Findings (N.Y. Times)

Carbon Credit Market Seizes On a New Opportunity: Plugging Oil and Gas Wells (Inside Climate News)

Carbon gamechanger with govt to make first large-scale issuance of soil credits (Beef Central)

Carbon credits touted as saviour of coal-to-clean energy deals (Climate Home News)

Stop playing ‘climate victim’ and seize opportunity in carbon credit markets (Business Daily)

Ecological tipping points could occur much sooner than expected, study finds (The Guardian)

Hollywood Climate Summit: A Pompous Spectacle of Celebrity Virtue Signaling

African Climate Scientist: “Women Bear the Brunt of Climate Change”  And minorities! Don’t forget minorities!

A Comprehensive Critique of Net Zero Fantasies

Do Washington State Residents Know Why Their Gasoline Prices Are So High Now?

Coal To the Rescue in Britain as Solar Panels Also Work Too Poorly in The Summertime

The Atlantification of the Arctic Ocean Is Underway (Wired ‘Science’)

Al Gore’s Hypocritical Vision Perpetuates Indian Poverty

The Supreme Court’s latest opinion means innocent people must remain in prison (Vox) No, it didn’t. It ruled that they can’t get out on habeas corpus, which is not the same thing.

CNN Host Disparages Titanic Explorers for Their Wealth Acquisition

‘Scurrilous attacks’: DeSantis amps up defense of Justices Alito and Thomas amid scrutiny over donor gifts (Politico)

Taibbi: The Elite War On Free Thought

No Labels Exposed: Here’s a List of Donors Funding Its Effort To Disrupt the 2024 Race (Mother Jones) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

Elise Stefanik Is a Nuisance On Her Way to Becoming a General Blight (Esquire) Republicans talk about issues, Democrats talk about personalities.

Brzezinski Rages about ‘Dangerous and Retrograde’ Dobbs Decision

Trump and Republicans Have ‘Deep State’ Envy (Daily Beast)

Christian Doctor In UK Fired For Refusing To Use Trans Pronouns Cites Genesis, Appeals To European Court

Feds propose starting Trump classified documents trial in December (Politico)

The Supreme Court may be running out of patience for Trump’s worst judges (Vox) Complaining about what Democrat judges do all the time.

Special Counsel Smith Seeks Delay in Trump Documents Trial  Let’s get it a little bit closer to the election, can we?

The Atlantic.

Equity-language guides are proliferating among some of the country’s leading institutions, particularly nonprofits. The American Cancer Society has one. So do the American Heart Association, the American Psychological Association, the American Medical Association, the National Recreation and Park Association, the Columbia University School of Professional Studies, and the University of Washington. The words these guides recommend or reject are sometimes exactly the same, justified in nearly identical language. This is because most of the guides draw on the same sources from activist organizations: A Progressive’s Style Guide, the Racial Equity Tools glossary, and a couple of others. The guides also cite one another. The total number of people behind this project of linguistic purification is relatively small, but their power is potentially immense. The new language might not stick in broad swaths of American society, but it already influences highly educated precincts, spreading from the authorities that establish it and the organizations that adopt it to mainstream publications, such as this one.

Although the guides refer to language “evolving,” these changes are a revolution from above. They haven’t emerged organically from the shifting linguistic habits of large numbers of people. They are handed down in communiqués written by obscure “experts” who purport to speak for vaguely defined “communities,” remaining unanswerable to a public that’s being morally coerced. A new term wins an argument without having to debate. When the San Francisco Board of Supervisors replaces felon with justice-involved person, it is making an ideological claim—that there is something illegitimate about laws, courts, and prisons. If you accept the change—as, in certain contexts, you’ll surely feel you must—then you also acquiesce in the argument.

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Most Americans pay state and local income taxes based upon where they reside. Accordingly, the shift to remote work made no difference to their tax liability. But some employees are subject to commuter taxes, which are assessed based upon where the work itself is performed.

Commuter taxes raise their own public policy concerns—after all, commuters have no say in how those tax dollars are used because they cannot vote in those jurisdictions. The antiquated justification for commuter taxes is that employees receive some tangible benefits while they are physically in the city, i.e., if an employee has a medical emergency while at work, it would be the city’s emergency services that would respond.

But what happens when commuters are no longer commuting to those cities?

…

When Massachusetts issued a rule requiring employees who had previously worked in Massachusetts but were now working elsewhere due to Covid-19 to pay Massachusetts income taxes anyway, its neighboring New Hampshire sensibly filed a case in the United States Supreme Court on behalf of its citizens who were neither living nor working in Massachusetts. Unfortunately, taxpayers got no clarification because the Supreme Court declined to hear New Hampshire’s complaint, leaving Massachusetts’ unconstitutional money grab in place for the time being.

 

John C. Wright.

Let us ponder if there is an argument to repeal women’s suffrage.

Follow the science1

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The future is here, and if you enjoy being dominated by control freaks you are going to love it.

“Digital identification” is one of the primary areas the globalists are focusing on right now, and as you will see below, the radical changes that are now being proposed are extremely scary. But most Americans have no idea that any of this is happening. Instead, many of them are obsessing over the relatively meaningless dramas that our corporate news outlets are constantly pushing. Meanwhile, the globalists are achieving their goals at lightning speed, and there is hardly any resistance at all.

I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.

Washington Free Beacon.

“Can the senator’s penis please be off the record?”

This remarkable sentence, uttered by a panicked press aide after his boss, the seven-fingered Sen. Jon Tester (D., Mont.), relieved himself in an organic pea field during an interview with Washington Post journalist Ben Terris, hardly stands out among the array of mind-boggling details recounted in Terris’s new book, The Big Break: The Gamblers, Party Animals, and True Believers Trying to Win in Washington While America Loses Its Mind.

Tester’s rogue member is merely an aside in this collection of profiles highlighting the unelected power players who survived, thrived, and failed in national politics since Donald Trump annihilated the status quo, violating precious “norms” left and right. Washington may have “felt different” during the Trump presidency, Terris writes, but The Swamp proved as resilient as ever. Rather than being drained as promised, it simply “filled up with new creatures.” And, boy, are they something to behold. The Big Break is not for the faint of heart or stomach.

The book opens in December 2021. Leah Hunt-Hendrix, the 38-year-old granddaughter of billionaire oil tycoon H.L. Hunt, is throwing a holiday party at her $2.2 million Victorian mansion in a trendy Washington neighborhood. Her beloved Maltipoo, named after Malcolm X, roams the living room floor scrounging for crumbs. Ryan Grim, editor of The Intercept, is wearing a Harriet Tubman T-shirt and chatting with the half-brother of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. The host is trying to gin up support for Mandela Barnes, the left-wing Wisconsin Senate candidate she met at a pool party in Miami around the same time he accused the her grandfather’s industry of “destroying the world.” He was “riding in one of those inflatable unicorns.”

This is normal.

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Think about Hunter Biden’s pain. Talk to your dad about his feelings—and his period. And be warned: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is suspiciously cozy with his wife.

These were actual mainstream media narratives last week. As usual, I’m saving the receipts.

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A virulently antisemitic terror-tied group has managed to convince media and politicians that it has been magically transformed into a respectable legitimate “civil rights group.” Created in 1994 by Islamistssupportive of Hamas, the Council on Amesdrican-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has for 29 years systematically engaged in promoting and disseminating vile antisemitic attacks on Jews.

Take, for example, CAIR Michigan Executive Director Dawud Walid, who has invoked religion to attack Jews specifically.

“Who are those who incurred the wrath of Allah? They are the Jews, they are the Jews,” he said in a 2012 sermon. He also blamed “pro-Israeli occupation organizations and activists” for “Islamophobia, and anti-Muslim bigotry,” which he said was “one of the greatest social ills facing American today.”

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

‘We Don’t Need’ Abortion, Former NFL Star Ben Watson Says of Black Community

‘They forced me to carry my baby to the end’: women of color on being denied abortion post-Roe (The Guardian) What next? Infanticide?

Pedestrian Traffic Fatalities Skyrocketed During the Ferguson and Floyd Effects

PBS: Amanpour, Anita Hill Swap Lies on Affirmative Action, Teaching Black History

Will Hurd Is Running To Win A Tiny Slice Of The Small Pie Of Anti-Trump Voters (FiveThirtyEight) Makes you wonder why.

Crazy People Are Dangerous  And many of them turn out to be People of Color. What are the odds?

The troubling heat in Texas and its ties to climate change in 5 maps (Washington Post)

How hydrogen subsidies could cause a ‘doom loop’ for the climate (Washington Post)

Held v Montana Climate Lawsuit

Media Bias and Climate Change: The Art of Public Manipulation

Consumer Advocacy Groups Sue ‘Greenwashing’ European Airlines

Ethics Committee expands investigation into Santos (The Hill) An oldie but a goodie.

Republicans Are Torching Democracy to Deny Women Abortions (Rolling Stone)

Despite Repeated Vows Not To, House GOPers Are Again Proposing Social Security And Medicare Cuts (Talking Points Memo)

Kari Lake continues to defame me. Here’s why I’m suing her for it (Arizona Republic)

Finally, someone is standing up to Kari Lake (AZ Central)

Tucker Calls Out ‘Media Hysteria Typhoon’ Over RFK Jr.

AMC Cancels Documentary Detailing Long-Term Health Implications Of Gender Transitioning After Backlash

ProPublica Backer Gave Millions to Target Thomas

Justice Alito Doesn’t Want to Hear Your Criticism (N.Y. Times) Your criticism, of course, being the same as the NYT’s criticism.

GOP Lawmaker Finds Way To Blame Lost Submersible On ‘Epic Failure Of Leadership’ (Huffington Post) What Republican can we find to bash today? Hey, how about J.D. Vance?

Ron DeSantis pushes racist tropes in latest comments about basketball and baseball players (USA Today)

No Labels declines to reveal just who is funding its third party bid (Politico)

RFK Jr.’s reign of error: Correcting the record about yet another false claim he just made (CNN) Jake Tapper is all in on the Narrative.

In Arkansas, a Vision of Single-Party Democracy (The Bulwark) Complaining about Republicans! And yet no mention of actual single-party Democrat states, like California, Oregon, Washington, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont….

House conservatives’ hardball tactics anger moderates and leave McCarthy in middle (CNN)

Exclusive: House conservatives challenge their leaders on abortion (Axios)

Israel Politician: LGBTQ Community Worse Than ISIS

Silicon Valley Sheriff: EU Regulator Tackles Musk and Zuckerberg on Hate Speech 

The GOP’s abortion bans are what RELIGIOUS FASCISM looks like (The Dean’s Report) That and the laws forcing everyone to go to church every week. (Oh, wait….)

Amanpour Teams Up With Obama To Warn That The GOP Threatens Democracy

Pro-RFK Jr. Super PAC Has Deep Ties to Marjorie Taylor Greene, George Santos (Rolling Stone) Not just ties, but deep ties. That proves it! Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

The U.S. House of Recriminations begins Biden’s impeachment (Washington Post) Dana Milbank: “Mommmeeee! Johnny hit me back!”

Leftist Twitter Targets J.K. Rowling For Saying ‘Cisgender’ Is ‘Ideological’ ‘Jargon’

Sen. Wyden Says Sec. 230 Saves Free Speech, Ignores Rampant Censorship

FBI Investigates Letters With White Powder Sent to Republicans

Samuel Alito scandal shows why conservative justices on the Supreme Court are so whiny (Salon) Although not half as whiny as writers for Salon.

US dark-money fund spends millions to back Republican attorneys general (The Guardian) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH…. (Let’s see: Nope, no mention of George Soros and his proglodyte DAs….)

RFK Jr. super PAC has deep ties to MAGA figures including Marjorie Taylor Greene: report (Raw Story) Deep ties! That proves it! (Proves what? Dunno. MAGA cooties?)

Billionaire-funded group driving effort to erode democracy in key US states (The Guardian) No,  they’re not talking about George Soros.

Ground Launched Small Diameter Bomb Won’t Make Ukraine Combat Debut Till Fal

Ukraine Strikes Key Bridge To Crimea, Hints At More Long-Range Attacks

EU Readies €50BN Package & Pentagon Ramps Up Shell Production, Even As Ukraine Offensive Falters

India’s Russian oil buying scales new highs in May (Reuters)

LOGISTICS: Smaller is Survivable

PHILIPPINES: Getting by With a Little Help from Your Friends

Germany Signs Long-Term U.S. LNG Deal To Replace Russian Gas  Isn’t that convenient.

Anti-NATO Protesters Shout Down Irish Foreign Minister

US Files First-Ever Charges Against Chinese Fentanyl Manufacturers

Gaetz Wants Authorization To Take Out ‘Chinese Assets’ In Cuba

“Watch the News!” Scream MSNBC Russia Hoaxers Defending Schiff

North Carolina Court Corrects Flawed Ruling on Voter ID Law Driven by Ideology, Not Law

Chris Hedges: The Imminent Extradition Of Julian Assange & The Death Of Journalism

It’s Not Just People – Illinois Suffered The Nation’s 3rd-Worst Loss Of Businesses

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The American Mind.

On June 8, the picturesque city of Annecy, nicknamed “the Pearl of the French Alps,” was convulsed with terror when a knife-wielding man attacked a group of preschool children in a park, at least one of whom was sat strapped into a pram. Four children and two adults were seriously injured. The attack, which was partially filmed by bystanders, horrified France—and the world. The attacker was a Syrian asylum seeker.

In recent years, France has seen a number of attacks by migrants, but to call them “attacks” minimizes the nature of the brutality involved. People aren’t just physically assaulted in the sense most Europeans are familiar with: a punch, a kick, or a push. They are stabbed repeatedly without warning or mercy. They’re run over at high speed while walking on the sidewalk. Some are even beheaded in public. In October of 2020, a French secondary school teacher by the name of Samuel Paty had his head chopped off on the streets of Éragny-sur-Oise, a Parisian suburb. The Chechen attacker in that case was an Islamic extremist called Abdoullakh Abouyezidovich Anzorov. He attacked Paty with a meat cleaver.

Some 500 miles away, in Germany, migrants and refugees regularly carry out abhorrent crimes. On the very same day as the attack in Annecy, Bild, one of Germany’s leading papers, published a shocking story involving an Eritrean who dismembered another Eritrean, before dumping the victim’s body in the forest.

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Whenever I do a show on the new religion, I am struck by the stupidity of the claims made by these people, but also the radicalism of it. The people pushing this stuff are not just attacking the Western idea of individual rights. They are attacking the notion that you are an individual with some control over your life. Essential to the social justice cause is the assertion that you are a product of social forces.

Because your protestations against the various social pogroms that come out of the new religion are the result of your conditioning, the social justice warrior sees your resistance as proof of her claims. The more you try to explain why you do not want to submit to the new rules, the more certain she is that she is right. It is why these people are always on the attack. They need the feedback.

The Antiplanner.

North America’s most livable cities are also among the least affordable. At least, that’s my conclusion from the Economist‘s 2023 Livability Index. According to this index, Vancouver BC, which Wendell Cox ranks as the least-affordable housing market in North America, is also the continent’s most livable city.

Other cities that the Economist ranks high on the livability list include Boston, Honolulu, Miami, Montreal, Portland, Toronto, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, all of which are rated unaffordable (median home prices are at least five times median household incomes) by Cox. The only city that is truly affordable and, according to the Economist, livable is Pittsburgh, and it’s so livable that its population has been shrinking for 70 years. Admittedly, the Economist also counts Atlanta, Calgary, and Minneapolis as livable, regions that Cox says are marginally affordable (home prices 4 to 5 times incomes).

The Economist bases its livability index on five factors: stability, healthcare, culture & environment, education, and infrastructure. The stability of Portland, San Francisco, and Seattle is pretty questionable at the moment, but the big question is why isn’t housing affordability one of the factors in the Economist‘s livability index.

Every place is affordable to the Crust.

The Spectator.

Another phony Harvard professor? Say it ain’t so!

Harvard Business School professor Francesca Gino is reportedly on administrative leave with the university amid a review of alleged fraud within her body of research.

A group of three professors from other top universities, who collectively run a data blog called “Data Colada,” say they first flagged the purported fraud to Harvard Business School in 2021. This group of researchers claimed at the time that Gino had falsified data in at least four of her studies spanning the past decade — and believed she had done so in many more papers.

“In the fall of 2021, we shared our concerns with Harvard Business School (HBS). Specifically, we wrote a report about four studies for which we had accumulated the strongest evidence of fraud,” the authors said. “We believe that many more Gino-authored papers contain fake data. Perhaps dozens.”

NBC News.

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As gun violence has spiked across the country, Republicans have pointed to the steady stream of shootings in Democratic-controlled cities such as Chicago, Detroit, and St. Louis to argue that strict gun laws are not the main driver of mayhem.

In response, Democrats and their supporters have tried to turn the tables on the GOP by noting that gun violence is highest in Republican states: “Gun Violence Worse in Red States. It’s Not Even Close,” a headline in Politico proclaimed; “Red States Have Higher Gun Death Rates Than Blue States,” Forbes reported.

The conflicting storylines underscore how various data sets and definitions can be used to politicize and spin the problem of violent crime in the U.S., proving again Mark Twain’s caution about “lies, damned lies and statistics.” Depending on the framing, accurate sets of numbers can be assembled to tell starkly different stories about mass shootings, school shootings, and the overall correlation between gun ownership and gun violence.