22nd June 2023
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22nd June 2023
OceanGate CEO Missing in Titanic Sub Had History of Donating to GOP Candidates
How ex-Confederates spread racist attitudes far and wide after the Civil War (NBC News) All of them Democrats – although you won’t read that in this story.
OceanGate CEO Missing in Titanic Sub Had History of Donating to GOP Candidates (The New Republic)
WATCH: Dem Congressman Scolds Colleague for Using Term ‘Man-Hours’
RFK Jr. Gives Away the Game With Decision to Speak at Moms for Liberty Summit (The New Republic) What ‘game’?
CNN Ignores Polling, Slams ‘Right-Wing Mob’ Over Bud Light Boycott
The Missing Titanic Sub Is Already a Culture War Battlefield (Daily Beast)
“A Non-Negotiable”: UPenn Swimmer Says Team Was Silenced From Speaking Out About Transgender Teammate Lia Thomas
CNN: GOP’s Hunter Fixation Shows They ‘Don’t Have Hold on’ the Issues
ABC, CBS Ignore John Durham Testimony, Hype ProPublica’s Alito Smears
Riley Gaines: Girls’ Rights ‘Thrown Out’ for LGBTQ Athletes
AMC Pulls Detransitioner Documentary After Backlash
Donor bought pricey golf simulator for Ron DeSantis, raising ethics questions (Reuters)
The Unmissable Liberal Tilt of the ‘Fact Checkers’
Sam Alito and his fishy Alaskan getaway (Washington Post) Ruth Marcus takes her turn at the witch-hunt.
The Democrats’ Attack on the Supreme Court
WaPo: Why Is It So Difficult to Fire UnWoke Tenured College Professors?
The professor is canceled. Now what? (Washington Post) What’s a Karen to do?
Snopes Self-Immolates Taking A Shot At Musk
Snctm sex club founder banned after naming Hunter Biden as former member (L.A. Times)
“You Will End Up on the Bottom of a Pyre”: Democrats Attack Special Counsel John Durham (Jonathan Turley)
Alito in the hot seat over trips to Alaska and Rome he accepted from groups and individuals who lobby the Supreme Court (CNN) More of a lukewarm seat.
John Durham Flames Out (The Bulwark) Charlie Sykes cements his position as a loyal fellow-traveler of the left.
CNN Is Annoyed About Republicans’ Reaction to Hunter Plea Deal
Just Another RFK Jr. Lie. I Know, Because It’s About Me. (The Nation) For Joan Walsh, it’s all about her.
Despite Denials, CNN Reveals Hypocrisy On Dem And GOP-Appointed Judges
George Santos’ mystery supporters who put up his $500,000 bail set to be unmasked (Raw Story) Dunh duhn DUNHHHHH….
Tucker Carlson’s racist former head writer resurfaces as Charlie Kirk’s radio producer (Media Matters for America) He worked fo Tucker so he MUST be racist.
“Part Of The Coverup”: Gaetz Rips Durham For Failing To Investigate “Core” Of Russiagate
These 1,572 US politicians have helped ban abortion since Roe fell. They’re mostly men (The Guardian) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….
AMC Cancels Showings of Film Highlighting Dangers of Transgender Surgeries
Anti-abortion leaders tell presidential candidates to embrace national ban to win caucuses (Des Moines Register) A national ban would be unconstitutional; the whole point of the Dobbs decision is that abortion is a matter for the states, not the national government.
Snopes Changes ‘True’ Rating After Citing No Scientists On Musk, Sub Comms
ProPublica’s Fishing Expedition for Justice Alito (Wall Street Journal)
Just for Fun, Let’s Contrast CNN’s Coverage of Hunter Biden and Donald Trump Jr.
Clarence Thomas’ Latest Criminal Justice Ruling Is an Outright Tragedy (Slate) This is a quite technical decision regarding habeas corpus that the writer is obviously incompetent to discuss.
‘Tin-Pot Tyranny’: California Dem Moves To Purge School Boards of Members Who Dissent From ‘Inclusive’ Regime
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22nd June 2023
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22nd June 2023
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22nd June 2023
9to5Mac.
When Apple set out to create an item tracker with deep iPhone integration, you just know the company aspired to make something that would change lives.
That’s exactly what happened with an recently for a recently opened taco restaurant located in San Antonia, Texas.
UPDATE: Fiberglass cattle rustler foiled by a strategically placed AirTag
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22nd June 2023
Antigone.
When I started to learn Latin at school in the 1990s, the idea that the spoken form of the language should be used as part of its teaching barely arose. Certainly, we were encouraged to read gobbets of text aloud before translating them to appreciate their auditory effects: for instance Virgil’s sound-painting of a storm or the hissing of snakes. But the language played little part in active communication. One teacher would bellow sedete! (“sit down!”) after he entered the room, and call us lumbricus terrestris (“earthworm”) if he found our homework less than impressive. However, beyond this, the language in those times remained firmly on the printed page.
Yet, in recent years, the discipline of Classics has shown itself to be far more open to trying out different methods of teaching. The use of spoken Latin is becoming increasingly popular. In the UK, various groups at Oxford are in the forefront of using the ‘Active Method’ to teach not just Latin, but also Ancient Greek and other early languages. I recently visited Oxford to attend a Dies Latinus et Graecus (“Latin and Greek Day”), designed amongst other things to show teachers and students how this method may be used practically.
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22nd June 2023
New York Times.
Mr. Hurd, a moderate who represented a large swing district for three terms, was the only Black Republican in the House when he left office in 2021.
This is Will Hurd:
For reference, this is an actual Black Republican:
UPDATE: Trump PAC Slams Candidate Will Hurd as ‘RINO’
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22nd June 2023
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22nd June 2023
The Investigative Project on Terrorism.
Has the jihadist threat simply become run-of-the-mill? Or has it just disappeared?
You might think either of these to be the case, given how little the media, and particularly the U.S. media, seems to make of them anymore. Arrests of terror cells, the disruptions of plans of attack, shootings and stabbings, particularly in Europe, all go little reported — and are frequently entirely ignored these days by the U.S. press.
But that doesn’t mean they aren’t happening, or that the threat is anywhere near over. As Christine Abizaid, director of the National Counterterrorism Center in Washington, DC, told the Washington Institute in January, “Despite significant progress in diminishing the terrorist threat to the United States, the country continues to face a diversified, transnational, and in many ways unpredictable threat environment both at home and abroad.” And a recent Dutch intelligence overviewof the jihadist threat in Europe and the West cautions, “there are more and more signals that jihadist groups are making preparations for terrorist attacks in Europe.”
Wherever you go,
Whatever you do,
A Muslim waits there
To try to kill you.
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22nd June 2023
Wasthington Free Beacon.
What happened: A hero chef has banned all vegans from his restaurant for “mental health reasons.”
• The aptly named John Mountain said he was “absolutely done, done, done with vegans” this week after an obnoxious diner at his Fyre restaurant in Perth, Australia, complained on social media about her vegan meal and lamented the lack of vegan options.
What they’re saying: “Sadly All Vegans are now banned from FYRE (for mental health reasons),” the restaurant posted on its Facebook page. “We thank you for your understanding.”
“Please go find another kebab shop somewhere that’s happy to give you that plastic rubbish that you enjoy to eat so much,” Mountain said in an interview with CNN.
Q: How can you tell a vegan?
A: You don’t. A vegan tells YOU.
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21st June 2023
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21st June 2023
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21st June 2023
Justice Samuel Alito Took Luxury Fishing Vacation With GOP Billionaire Who Later Had Cases Before the Court (ProPublica) Let’s see, if we scraaaaaaape hard enough, we can get this molehill to look like a mountain….
ProPublica asked about Alito’s travel. He replied in the Wall Street Journal. (Washington Post) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….
Playbook: Alito picks a fight with ProPublica (Politico) Uh, no, it was the other way around.
Justice Alito Uses WSJ to Preempt Unpublished Report on Billionaire Ties (Daily Beast) “Mommeee! Johnny hit me back!”
Well-funded Christian group behind US effort to roll back LGBTQ+ rights (The Guardian) No, trying to roll back LGBTQ+ privileges.
Vitali Slams Comer investigation, Equates Kushner with Hunter Biden
NH Democratic Party Freaks Out As RFK Jr To Speak At Libertarian Festival
Kentucky’s Daniel Cameron Scores Win Against Threat of Banks Cutting Off Conservatives
House GOP messaging bills test members’ patience (Axios)
Leaked Audio: Michigan GOP Chair Says Outrage Over Holocaust Tweet Was ‘Completely Hilarious’ (Daily Beast)
Ron DeSantis Is Playing Fast and Loose With Campaign Finance Laws (Slate) As bad as Hillary?
YouTube Censors Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Tucker Carlson Launches Vicious Attack On Karine Jean-Pierre Out Of The Blue (Huffington Post)
Nets Spend 491 Minutes On Trump Indictment, 0 Seconds On Biden Burisma Bribery
Far-right ‘Moms for Liberty’ promotes RFK Jr. as guest speaker at national event (Raw Story) To the lefty scribblers of the web, there is no right but the far-right. (The have to put that in the headline so you’ll know who the witch is.)
Justice Alito Defends Private Jet Travel to Luxury Fishing Trip (N.Y. Times) Not just ‘jet travel’, but ‘private jet travel’. Not just ‘fishing trip’, but ‘luxury fishing trip’. They have to put those terms in the headline so you’ll know who the witch is.
MSNBC, Harris Falsely Accuse Pro-Lifers Of Banning Miscarriage Care
John Durham Just Made False Statements to Congress (Mother Jones) In the Narrative media. ‘false statements’, like ‘misinformation’, are anything that doesn’t agree with the Narrative.
WATCH: Missing Sub Boss Brags About Not Hiring Experienced ‘White Guys’ with Military Backgrounds
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21st June 2023
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21st June 2023
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21st June 2023
The American Mind.
The Atlantic’s Isabel Fattal recently discussed America’s fascination with tattoos, referring to these body modifications as both “thrilling” and “reassuring.” What the author failed to mention is that tattoos are often a reflection of an individual’s damaged psyche. Getting a tattoo is not necessarily something to be celebrated. Instead it’s something to be examined, discussed—and, in many cases, lamented.
A tattoo, like a body piercing, is a public shout by an insecure person ‘Hey! Look at me! Look at me! Look at me!’ I don’t know if there’s a medical term for what is properly described as an Attention Whore, but there ought to be.
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21st June 2023
99% Invisible.
After World War I, in Frankfurt, Germany, the city government was taking on a big project. A lot of residents were in dire straits, and in the second half of the 1920s, the city built over 10,000 public housing units. It was some of the earliest modern architecture — simple, clean, and uniform. The massive housing effort was, in many ways, eye-poppingly impressive, with all new construction and sleek, cutting edge architecture. But one room in these new housing units was far and away the most lauded and influential: and that was the kitchen.
Many consider the Frankfurt Kitchen to be nothing less than the first modern kitchen. A few of these kitchens still exist, some in museums. And it’s strange to see one there, because to modern eyes, it doesn’t appear to be high art. It just looks like a kitchen.
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21st June 2023
ZMan turns over a rock.
It has been clear for a long time now that Biden is personally corrupt. His son is a drug-addicted degenerate who has made tens of millions for the Biden family by selling access to and favors from his father. Fifty years ago, Biden and all of official Washington would have said such behavior is a threat to the system and the offender must be removed from office. Today, they say talking about this is a threat to our democracy and you need to be removed.
Of course, the news of Hunter Biden’s sweetheart plea deal brings up another great parallel to the Nixon years. That is the modified limited hangout. A “limited hangout” is a bit of tradecraft used when the official story for an operation is blown. The operative then fully admits that the cover story is fake and volunteers some bits of the real story, but omitting the parts that he wants to conceal. This diverts public attention to the new narrative away from the real story.
In a meeting to discuss the unfolding Watergate scandal, H. R. Haldeman described to President Nixon the new public relations plan to contain the scandal. In the conversation he described it as a modified limited hangout. Interestingly, this is now common practice in Washington. We call it spin. Every day that goofy looking African woman reads the latest narratives to the Washington press zombies who then dutifully repeat the story on their platforms.
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21st June 2023
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21st June 2023
Washington Free Beacon.
“First of all, my son has done nothing wrong,” President Joe Biden told MSNBC last month. It was but one of a litany of such statements from Biden, who has behaved as if any question from the press about his son’s criminal activity—and there haven’t been many—is an affront, an indignity, and an insult to the office.
Well, he lied.
The younger Biden owed more than $1 million in taxes over several years, and over $200,000 for the years in which he struck the plea deal. Even then, his celebrity lawyer pal didn’t fork over the money to the federal government on his behalf until the Department of Justice started investigating him. He also copped to owning a gun while he was coked up, and lying about it when he bought the firearm in 2018. That’s a felony, but Hunter is getting off with a slap on the wri—uh, probation and enrollment in a “diversion program.”
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20th June 2023
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20th June 2023
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20th June 2023
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20th June 2023
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20th June 2023
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20th June 2023
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20th June 2023
The American Mind.
With the provisos that every American is entitled to a presumption of innocence, and much of what is known of the Biden family crime organization is “alleged,” there is powerful evidence that President Joe Biden committed multiple felonies as a co-conspirator in an international fraud and racketeering scheme, regardless of whether he personally received bribes.
It is only because the FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) are weaponized against the right, and give a free pass to Democrat leaders and progressive violence, that the President’s son, Hunter, and brother, James, have not been indicted for their participation in this enterprise, or that the President has not been impeached, though fear that Kamala Harris would replace him also may be at play. The news that Hunter has struck a deal with the DOJ to plead guilty to two tax misdemeanors and a failure to report drug use on his firearms application in exchange for probation with no jailtime, and a potential partial expungement of his record after two years, is a slap on the wrist that stays far away from implicating the President.
Democrats and the media—which usually functions as an arm of the Democrat Party—defend the President by observing there is no publicly available proof that he received a bribe, and they assert that he has not used his position to benefit the family’s benefactors. This rose-colored analysis fails in at least three respects: (1) there is no reasonable doubt that Joe Biden knew that Hunter, James, and other family members were engaged in influence peddling; (2) Biden assisted these efforts, at a minimum, by creating the appearance that he endorsed the family business; and (3) at least as to Burisma Holdings, there is strong evidence that he acted in his official capacity as vice president to create value for Burisma and its owner. At a trial, there is no distinction between the weight given to direct and circumstantial evidence.
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20th June 2023
The Antiplanner.
Back when I first began studying light rail, one of my first questions was, “Why rail when buses can work just as well for a lot less money?” That question is becoming less valid today as transit agencies have done their usual job of making something affordable into something grossly expensive.
A case in point is Charleston, South Carolina’s proposal for a bus rapid transit line. Local backers have the audacity to call it South Carolina’s first mass transit system, as if Columbia, Greenville, Charleston, and other South Carolina cities haven’t had bus systems for decades. But the real problem is that they want to spend $625 million on a 21-mile line, or about $30 million per mile.
Back in 2004, Kansas City built one of the nation’s first bus rapid transit lines, a six-mile route for $20.9 million. Not $20.9 million per mile but a total of $20.9 million, or about $3.5 million per mile. That would be about $5.5 million in today’s dollars. Kansas City opened a second line in 2011 that cost $30 million, but it was 13 miles long, so in today’s dollars it was only about $3.0 million per mile. In 2019, Kansas City extravagantly opened a third line costing $5.4 million a mile, under $6.0 million a mile in today’s money.
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19th June 2023
This Juneteenth, Remember the GOP Is the Neo-Confederate Party (Daily Beast) And remember that the Democrats are the original Confederate Party.
Neo-Nazis Are Terrified Nobody Will Care About Their Juneteenth Protest (Rolling Stone) Rolling Stone is terrified that there aren’t really enough neo-Nazis to matter.
Conservatives, Don’t Be Afraid To Embrace Juneteenth (Newsweek) Conservatives aren’t. Newsweek has to pretend that they are, because that’s the Narrative.
What to Know About Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s Newly-Signed Laws Restricting Trans, DEI, and Labor Rights (TIME)
The Supreme Court is making religion an all-purpose excuse for ignoring the law (L.A. Times)
PBS Attacks Trifecta of Dangerous Populist Conservatives, ‘Culpable…Murdoch Media’
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19th June 2023
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19th June 2023
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19th June 2023
Chicago shooting: 5 shot, 2 killed during family gathering in Roseland, police say (ABC)
Juneteenth holiday horror: Four people are shot dead and at least 42 others injured so far this weekend as gun violence erupts across the nation – from Illinois to Missouri (UK Daily Mail)
Big Pokey Dies: Houston Rapper Collapses On Stage At 45
1 dead, 10 injured in shooting at party in St. Louis office building: Police
23 Shot, 1 Fatally, at a Juneteenth Celebration in Illinois
Americans mark Juneteenth with parties, events, quiet reflection on end of slavery after Civil War Oh, and don’t forget the mass shootings.
Indigenous kept from economic opportunities from pot legalization: Senate committee
Parking lot shooting leaves 1 dead and at least 22 people hurt in suburban Chicago
Red Sox, Nationals, A’s among MLB teams commemorating Juneteenth
DC police arrest 3 teenagers for string of armed robberies and carjackings
Washington sheriff’s deputies tracked, retrieved carjacked car after chase and fiery crash with AirTag
5 Minnesota women getting ready for wedding killed in horrific crash by speeding driver (Who is Derrick John Thompson?) (Five Dead, Democrats to Blame)
Opposing Critical Race Theory Doesn’t Make You A “White Supremacist”
As the nation celebrates Juneteenth, it’s time to get rid of these three myths about slavery (CNN) According to the Narrative, that is.
Will the Real Black Man Please Stand Up?
There Is so Much Gun Violence in One Mississippi Neighborhood That This Navy Base Piled up Shipping Containers to Defend Itself From Stray Bullets (Business Insider)
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19th June 2023
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19th June 2023
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19th June 2023
Supreme Court considers recoil from landmark gun rights ruling (NBC News) They hope, they hope, they hope….
Liberals Voice ‘Sense Of Betrayal’ After Muslim-Ruled MI City Bans Pride Flags
A Utah city violated the First Amendment by denying a drag show permit, federal judge rules, marking an LGBTQ victory
Migrant-Smuggling “Influencers” Use TikTok To Advertise
Obama: Need ‘Digital Fingerprints’ to Fight Misinformation
Planned Parenthood Execs Among Highest Paid In Nonprofit Sector: Report
Research: 1-in-4 U.S. Children Live in Fatherless Homes, Spurring Mental Health and Behavioral Issues
“We Are Restricting Freedom… For The Common Good”: Irish Green Party Calls For Limiting Free Speech
London’s Inclusivity Guide: Drop “Men,” “Women,” and “Illegal Migrants”
Using loophole, Seward County seizes millions from motorists without convictions
IRS Audits on Wealthy Recover $12 for Every $1 Spent “Recover”? What, the money actually belonged to the government and the ‘wealthy’ somehow stole the money that they in fact earned? RECOVER?
The Berkeley Files: Faculty Applicants Were Ranked On Their Support For DEI Policies And Practices
Media Runs Cover for Bud Light Amid Slump in Sales
CBS, NBC Silent on Kansas GOP Receiving Letters Filled With White Powder
Bloomberg News Busted! Guess Which Biden Appointee Is Trying to Control the Press
Pupil who questioned classmate ‘identifying as a cat’ called ‘despicable’ by teacher (UK Telegraph)
How Local Officials Seek Revenge on Their Hometown Newspapers (N.Y.Times) Apparently newspapers can dish it out but they can’t take it. (NYT is, of course, on the side of the newspapers. “Mommeee! Johnny hit me back!”)
Kroger Shareholder Fight Over Abortion Benefit
Jewish teacher resigns after antisemitic harassment from 12-year-old student (N.Y.Post)
Disney Pixar Movie With Non-Binary Character And Woke Themes Bombs
NBC Praises Serbia for Disarming Their Population: ‘It Wasn’t That Difficult’
Democrat Governor Says Removal of Far-Left Books From Schools Is ‘Castrating’ Kids
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19th June 2023
Read it.
Cole James Bridges went to a high school in Clarkesville, Tennessee and worked at a Papa Johns pizza place near Akron, Ohio before joining the United States Army. Mateo Ventura was a high school student in Wakefield, Massachusetts.
Within a week of each other in June 2023, Bridges pled guilty to plotting to help ISIS kill American soldiers, while Ventura was arrested for trying to provide aid to the Islamic State.
Bridges and Ventura, 20 and 18 years old, like Trevor Bickford, 19, of Maine, who was hit with federal charges this year for attacking NYPD police officers with a machete in Times Square, and Xavier Pelkey, 18, also of Maine, who pled guilty in April after trying to recruit two underage teens for a terrorist attack in Chicago, show the rate at which ordinary American teens are converting to Islam and plotting terrorist attacks.
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19th June 2023
Read it.
Austria’s intelligence agency, the Directorate for State Security and Intelligence (DSN), has successfully thwarted a planned Islamist terrorist attack on Vienna’s annual gay pride parade that took place on Saturday, June 17th, The Financial Times reported. Lately, authorities have been warning of an increased likelihood of Islamist attacks across the EU.
The suspects—three Austrian citizens of Bosnian and Chechen descent aged 14, 17, and 20—had allegedly schemed to attack parade participants with an array of weapons, including firearms, grenades, knives, a saber, and an ax. Authorities also believe that the trio may have considered using a vehicle to plow into the crowd (as in the 2016 terror attack in Nice, which killed 86).
The Rainbow Parade, one of Europe’s largest gay pride events, took place on Vienna’s Ringstrasse and drew an estimated 300,000 attendees this past Saturday. As the DSN’s press release indicated, the police were expecting the parade to be among the potential targets of the group. This was not the first time that pride events were targeted by Islamists in Europe, as it appears that these two vectors of diversity do not always mix well.
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19th June 2023
ZMan looks behind the Narrative curtain.
The managerial class looks at the masses as a cult. The people who vote for the wrong candidate in elections are not acting from rational self-interest. They are not even acting from subjective preference. They are irrationally lashing out out of fear and anger for no reason at all! The role of the managerial class in the great narrative of life is to impose their rules on these people. Those wreckers and deviationists are cast into a role that supports the narrative.
We see this with the holiday of Juneteenth. If you lived in some parts of the South, you may have known about this event prior to now. Most black people did not celebrate the holiday, contrary to the current narrative. In fact, most black people heard about it when most white people heard about it a few years ago. As part of the ongoing pogroms against white people, the managerial elite decided to take this obscure regional event and turn it into a national holiday.
Of course, this holiday is part of a narrative that has been central to the managerial class since the middle of the last century. The great struggle is one of the main plot lines in the story that justifies the existence of the managerial elite. The struggle is against those backward, recalcitrant bad white people who tirelessly work to turn back the clock and overturn progress. As Joe Biden likes to say, those bad whites want to put black people back in chains.
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19th June 2023
The Antiplanner.
After wasting billions of taxpayer dollars, transit agencies love to give their transit lines cute names like Link, MAX, BART, and DART. Following this tradition, the Honolulu Authority for Ridiculous Transit (HART) agency has decided to name its new rail line the Skyline. This is a rather lame name, however, so it seems like we should think up a better one.
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19th June 2023
Read it.
Monday, the nineteenth of June, is our newest federal holiday (just 2 years old), Juneteenth, and federal workers get yet another day’s pay without having to work for it.
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19th June 2023
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19th June 2023
NPR.
Israeli helicopter gunships struck targets Monday in the occupied West Bank as a gunbattle raged in the city of Jenin between Israeli troops and militants, killing three Palestinians, including a 15-year-old boy, officials said.
The violence marked a rare use of Israeli airpower in the territory. During the clashes, Palestinian militants detonated a roadside bomb next to an Israeli military vehicle. At least 29 Palestinians were wounded, six seriously, and Israeli media said a number of Israeli soldiers were hurt.
The escalation was the latest in more than a year of near-daily violence that has wracked the West Bank.
‘Palestinians’ started it, as part of ongoing ‘Palestinian’ violence; a number of Israeli soldiers were hurt, but only ‘Palestinians’ are worthy of being mentioned in the headline.
Bias? What bias?
Wherever you go,
Whatever you do,
A Muslim waits there
To try to kill you.
Especially if
You might be a Jew.
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18th June 2023
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18th June 2023
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18th June 2023
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18th June 2023
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