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

Biden Downplays Calling Xi Dictator After Backlash

Planned Parenthood, Emily’s List and NARAL-Pro Choice Endorse Biden

The IRS wanted to charge Hunter Biden with felony tax evasion, but it was blocked by the DOJ

IRS whistleblower says Justice Dept. slowed, stifled Hunter Biden case (Washington Post)

Divided House Sidesteps Biden Impeachment Vote but Starts Inquiry (N.Y. Times)

NBC Reports Hunter Implicating Joe Biden in China Deal, ABC/CBS Ignore

Photos Place Hunter Biden At Father’s House The Day He Invoked Dad’s Name to Threaten Chinese Business Partner

I.R.S. Agent Told Congress of Hunter Biden Invoking His Father in Business Deal (N.Y. Times)

Boeing Charges Pentagon $52,000 For Trash Can Previously Priced At $300

FBI Make-Work Entrapment Schemes: Creating Criminals in Order to Arrest Them

Biden Admin Rewards School Lockdown Champion With Homeland Security Role

Is the cover-up unraveling? (Power Line)

Was Joe Biden in on Hunter’s grift? (The Spectator)

FDIC Mistakenly Releases List Of Top Firms Bailed Out By Biden Admin’s Backstop Of SVB Deposits

Joe Biden Is Not OK

House Passes Bill to Revoke Biden Mortgage Rule

DHS Reports Record Number of Overstays in 2022 (Center for Immigration Studies)

Friday Fun: Watch Biden Slowly Realize Indian National Anthem Isn’t ‘Star-Spangled Banner’

Silent as the Grave: ABC Ignores Hunter Implicating Joe in China Deal

This IRS Email Corroborates Whistleblower’s Claims About Biden DOJ Interference in Hunter Probe

As National Debt Hits $32 Trillion, 4 Examples of Absurd ‘Only in Washington’ Budget Logic

House GOP seeking to expunge ‘sham’ Trump impeachments (Fox) I don’t think they can do that.

Trump Trial Setting Could Provide Conservative Jury Pool (N.Y. Times)

Trump Melts Down as DOJ Turns Over Evidence It Plans to Use Against Him (Rolling Stone)

Reid Panics Over 3rd Party Group, Could Elect Trump, End of Democracy!

Fmr Congressman Warns of Trump Special Prosecutor’s Tactics

Will evangelicals finally dump Trump in 2024? (Politico)

The Indictment Can Only Hurt Trump  Peggy Noonan clutches her pearls.

Trump coup plotter John Eastman is finally facing real accountability (Washington Post) Greg Sargent continues the witch-hunt.

Christie is booed as he attacks Trump at gathering of religious conservatives (Washington Post) Christie, the WaPo’s favorite RINO, gets the disrespect he deserves.

“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

Reading and Math Scores Plummet as Racial and Sexual Activism Replace Academics

PA Freedom Caucus Blocks Penn State Hospital Funding Over Trans Puberty Blockers Policy

Senator Calls For Return of Old Mississippi Flag: ‘Our People Died Under That Flag’ (Mississippi Free Press)

China is state most dangerous to its own citizens’ civil rights, report finds (The Guardian)

NHL Tables Specialty Sweaters After Pride Night Backlash

Wawa Shuttering Another Philadelphia Location, Marking Three Center City Closures In A Year

Canadians will no longer have access to news content on Facebook and Instagram, Meta says (CBC)

“A Global Digital Compact” – UN Promoting Censorship, Social Credit, & Much More…

Washington Post CEO Has Funneled Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars To Democrats

150 Starbucks Stores Strike in Support of LGBTQ+

Group seeks boost to labor organizing in Senate (Politico)

Why the Left is Losing the Transgender Debate

Supreme Court Upholds Law on Aiding Illegal Immigration

Unmistakable Liberal Tilt of ‘Fact-Checkers’

N.J. AG Suing School Districts Over Gender Policies

The View Hosts Pity Party and Political Commentary with Adam Schiff

Ruhle Falsely Cries ‘Misinformation’ On Gender Ideology In Schools

Trans New Hampshire Dem Arrested on Child Porn Charges

Defense industry dollars flowed to a Democratic senator after he gained a key role on spending (Associated Press)

Religious Freedom Wins in Court Case About Trans Medical Procedures

California bill: therapist power over parent power

Is Truth Winning? Musk, Rowling Deride Use of Term ‘Cisgender’

Documents reveal Eric Adams sent migrants to Florida, Texas and China (Politico)

Millennials Lead The Way On The Great Migration From California To Texas

City Hall bought $50K worth of plane tickets to ship migrants from NYC to Texas, Florida: report (N.Y. Post)

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.

Don’t want to visit the Turd World? No problem! The government is bringing the Turd World to you!

The ZMan’s weekly podcast. Highly recommended.

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.

Here’s a picture of a standard pistol target:

Read it.

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.

Schiff censured as GOP could be lining up impeachment votes next (Roll Call)

House GOP votes to censure Schiff over role in Trump investigations (Politico)

See Democrats repeatedly interrupt McCarthy on House floor (CNN)

House Republicans censuring Adam Schiff says more about them than him (Washington Post) The Crust take care of their own.

The sleeper legal strategy that could topple abortion bans (Politico)

Republicans Are Systematically Blocking Cities’ Ability to Protect Abortion (The New Republic)

The unlikely blueprint for knocking down abortion bans (Politico)

We’ve already defunded the police — and made things worse (N.Y. Post)

Effects of Dobbs on maternal health care overwhelmingly negative, survey shows (Washington Post) Killing an innocent child = ‘maternal health care’.

Riley Gaines Describes Sharing Locker Room With Lia Thomas

LGBT Schoolbooks For Kindergarten, Elementary Students At Center Of Parents’ Lawsuit

Mapping the Impact of Immigration on Public Schools (Center for Immigration Studies)

Europe Does About-Face On Transgender Therapy For Children

California Moves Toward Giving Therapists Unconditional Power To ‘Emancipate’ 12 Year Olds From Their Parents

Riley Gaines Says She Was ‘Traumatized’ After Sharing Locker Room With Lia Thomas

Inclusive Naming Initiative limps towards release of dangerous digital dictionary

Schumer launches ‘all hands on deck’ push to regulate AI

Judge strikes down Florida’s ban on Medicaid funding for transgender treatment (NBC News)

ProPublica Ignores Liberal Justices’ Indiscretions

House Republicans censured Adam Schiff. He couldn’t be happier. (L.A. Times)

Report Cites More Than 350 Anti-L.G.B.T.Q. Incidents Over 11 Months (N.Y. Times) In a nation of 330 million, that’s not even a rounding error.

San Francisco fire chief fed up with robotaxis that mess with her firetrucks

Watch: LGBTQ Activist Stumped By Question – “Is There A Difference Between Men And Women?”

Scarborough Voted To Impeach Clinton, Slams GOP Move To Impeach Biden

Did Hunter Biden get off easy? We asked the experts. (Politico) How about asking some of the Jan. 6 witch-hunted?

Higher pump prices have impact on Bend HVAC business (KTVZ) Oregon.

California no longer has the most expensive gas in the nation (KTLA Los Angeles)

Washington now has the highest gas prices in the nation and thieves are working harder to steal it

This businessman — who went to prison for 2 years for corrupt donations to Biden — received jail time from the feds because he had wrong last name (N.Y. Post)

CBP: 170K May Border Encounters Double Biden’s First Month

House Poised To Release Whistleblower Testimony Alleging Hunter Biden Cover-up

Rep. Smith Aims to Make IRS Hunter Biden Testimony Public

House Appropriations Committee Zeroes Out Funding for Nefarious DHS TVTP Program

Blinken Cuddles Up to Communist China

Pentagon Paying The Price For Going ‘Woke’

WATCH: Media Come Running to Hunter Biden’s Defense

Republican ‘Jerks’ Need To Leave Vulnerable Addict Hunter Biden Alone, Media Say

Conservatives Wonder Who Navy Is Trying To Recruit With Petty Officer Drag Queen ‘Stunt’

Biden EPA Appointee Under Ethics Scrutiny (for the least of his transgressions)

WTI Extends Losses After Biden Admin Drains SPR For 12th Straight Week

Half of Americans Think Hunter Biden Received Special Treatment: Poll  The other half are evidently dimwits.

NBC Decries GOP Making Hunter’s Issues ‘Pestering Political Problem’ for Joe

The Military Recruiting Crisis Is Getting Worse

Biden Dons Feathered Headdress To Welcome Indian Prime Minister (Babylon Bee)

Biden Bombshell: Whistleblowers Say IRS Recommended Felony Tax Charges Against Hunter Biden  Presumably they’ve been disciplined for departing from the Narrative.

EXCLUSIVE: Heritage Foundation Sues Pentagon to Learn How Many Abortions It Has Paid For

Fact-Checking Slow Joe

In Honor Of Lives Lost In The Sub, Biden Announces Another $5 Billion For Ukraine (Babylon Bee)

Biden’s Approval Hits All-Time Low: Poll

Congress Pushes to Subpoena the Biden Administration’s Iran Deal Ringleaders

Hunter Biden Deducted Payments to Hooker and Sex Club From His Taxes, Whistleblower Says

Senate examines role of ‘dark money’ in delaying climate action (The Guardian)

Innovate, Don’t Litigate, To Solve The Climate Crisis

WEF: “Its too late” is the Dominant Climate Denier Myth

Anti-Fossil Fuel Lawfare Takes Hold in the UK

MSNBC Pushes Climate Communism, Carbon Taxes

KCCI chief meteorologist Chris Gloninger departing station citing PTSD, past death threat (Des Moines Register)

Three of Mount Rainier’s glaciers have melted away (NBC News) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

Wrong (Again), CBC, Climate Change Isn’t Causing a Decline in Wine Production

Ford Gets $9.2 Billion to Help US Catch Up With China’s EV Dominance (Bloomberg) Your tax dollars at work.

EU Scraps Green Sovereignty Fund Despite Rising Protectionism

Rihanna Prures Yellen, World Bank to Fight “Climate Emergencies”  Ah, yes, that famous climate scientist Rihanna.

Disney Chief Diversity Officer Latondra Newton Quits After Pair Of Box Office Bombs

Black Hardware Store Employee Finds Noose on Juneteenth (Daily Beast)

Supreme Court Denies Navajo Nation Challenge on River Water Rights

AOC Joins ‘Squad’ Members Boycotting ‘Shameful’ Address by Indian Prime Minister Apparently he’s not brown enough.

UCLA Diversity Official: White People Should Work For Free On Juneteenth  You first, white boy.

Is Barack Obama Ready To Reassert Himself? (Politico) Depnds–is there any money in it?

Barack Obama, Ever the Racial Arsonist

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

Exclusive: Texts tie DeSantis closely to Trump insider Lev Parnas in 2018 race (Reuters) Eww! Trump cooties!

Poll: 62 Percent Say Trump Indictment Politically Motivated

DOJ fires Black immigration judge in the ongoing purge of Trump hires

Trump is Charged Under a Law Meant to Suppress Political Opposition

Kari Lake Appears at Mar-a-Lago More than Melania Trump and ‘Practically Lives’ in a Suite (Exclusive Source) (People Magazine)

“Decline into anocracy”: Experts outline Trump’s retaliation plan (Salon) Woke ‘journalists’ love to pretend to be able to read minds.

Kari Lake Was At Mar-A-Lago ‘Every Night’ In Bid To Be Trump VP Pick: Report (Huffington Post) He could do worse.

Will Judge Cannon Give Trump a Favorable Jury? (The Bulwark) It’s not up to the judge.

Who was the mystery MAGA rabbi who prayed with Trump? We found him — but big questions remain (Salon) MAGA is the New Nigger.

U.S. Intelligence Agencies May Never Find Covid’s Origins, Officials Say (N.Y. Times) Continuing the pretense that we don’t already know where it came from.

US-Funded Chinese Scientist Fell Ill Amid COVID Outbreak: Report

CDC Advisers Back RSV Vaccines in Older Adults

Pro-COVID-Mandate Scientists Use The “Expert” Fallacy To Avoid Fair Debate

The Government Must Say What It Knows About Covid’s Origins (N.Y. Times)

New York Times Defends Censorship Efforts by Feds to Stop COVID ‘Disinformation’

FAILING UPWARD: Teacher’s Union Leader Who Pushed COVID Mandates Lands Homeland Security Role

COVID-19 Origins: Biden Administration Stalls, but Independent Evidence Is Piling Up

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

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.

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’

The Spectator.

As I creep into my mid-twenties something is changing. I’m not quite young enough to be carefree, I pay my bills and taxes on time and worry about the noise pollution level in the area I’m looking to move to. I’ve swapped my six-inch heels for practical sneakers, and I tut at teenagers causing a commotion on the subway. All of which led a friend to accuse me of becoming “something of a Karen.”

The charge is a serious one these days. You see, Karen is no longer a playful term used to describe your entitled aunt who complains about slow service in a restaurant, flipping her asymmetrical bob in irritation. To call someone a Karen in 2023 is to wade waist-deep into the culture wars. At some point over the last few years, the word became more than a tongue-in-cheek jibe. A Karen is now a racial archetype: a particular kind of privileged white woman. And if you are labeled one, especially by strangers online, there is every chance that your life will be irreparably destroyed.

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.

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.

The 7 U.S. cities where a $250,000 salary is worth the least — New York is No. 1 (CNBC)

New York Passes Bill to Shield Abortion Providers Sending Pills Into States With Bans (N.Y. Times)

Court Rules for Christian Business in LGBTQ Lawsuit

CBS Baselessly Ties Roe Overturn to Shortage of Maternal Healthcare

One third of Canadians fine with prescribing assisted suicide for homelessness  Think of it as evolution in action.

Senate Confirms Abortion Rights Lawyer to US Appeals Court

Abortion still dominates Democratic politics: 3 takeaways from Virginia’s primary night (Politico)

PBS Hypes Alleged Conservative Christian Transitioning Her 4-Year Old

National Reading, Math Scores Plummet  Government schools. Time to leave.

If I disagree with my liberal tribe, does that make me a conservative? (Boston Globe)

Scarborough: The REAL ‘Witch Hunt’ Is Against Joe and Hunter Biden!

WashPost Whines That Companies Don’t Advertise LGBTQ Enough

US Regulator Approves Lab-Grown Chicken for Sale

Dispatch from the Seattle-Area Cesspool

Harvard dishonesty expert accused of dishonesty

New emails show COVID vaccine mandates were based on a lie (Washington Examiner) But you knew that.

Billionaire Ackman Joins Calls for COVID Vaccine Debate  Not ‘conversation’ (the Left’s favorite word) but ‘debate’.

Stop the witch-hunt against vaccinologist Peter Hotez! (World Socialist Web Site)

Biden Misses Deadline to Declassify COVID-19 Origins  Rules are for thee but not for me.

Military Members Kicked Out For Refusing COVID Vaccine Seek To Have Their Discharges Upgraded

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

The North Atlantic is experiencing a ‘totally unprecedented’ marine heat wave (CNN)

Nature at risk of breakdown if Cop15 pledges not met, world leaders warned (The Guardian)

Catch-22: Scientific communication failures linked to faster-rising seas (The Hill)

Buttigieg says US ‘green corridors’ initiative is key to cutting shipping industry emissions (Associated Press)

In Canada, Asking for Evidence Now Counts as ‘Denialism’

Is There a Penalty For Wrong Predictions?

The EV Charging Challenge: US Needs A Million More Stations By 2030

It’s Been 5 Years Since Greta Thunberg Warned Climate Change Would ‘Wipe Out All of Humanity Unless We Stop Using Fossil Fuels Over the Next 5 Years’

Georgia poll workers accused in Trump-backed conspiracy theories cleared of election fraud allegations (ABC News)

Lawyer for Rapper Kodak Black Complains Client Got 3 Years for Hunter Biden’s Gun Crime

Trump’s Fox News interview was a defense attorney’s nightmare (Vox)

Confession to prison? Trump implodes with ‘smoking gun admission’ in Jack Smith’s espionage case (MSNBC)

Samuel L. Jackson Talks Marvel, Racists Like Trump, and His FBI Threat (Rolling Stone) There is, of course, absolutely no evidence that Trump is a racist.

Can John Eastman Get a Fair Trial?

Trump’s penchant for talking could pose problems as Mar-a-Lago criminal case moves ahead (Associated Press)

The new Trump acolyte no one saw coming: Nancy Mace (Politico) Bias? What bias?

DA Alvin Bragg Sued After Refusing To Release Trump Case Records

ABC and CBS Use Hunter Plea Deal to Exonerate ‘Protective’ Joe Biden

Lessons From Swedish Border Ignored by Biden, Mayorkas (The Foundry)

BACK OFF! McCaskill On Verge of Tears Over GOP Targeting Hunter Biden

Biden Awards Anti-Extremism Grants to British Think Tank Under Congressional Scrutiny for Targeting Conservatives 

Hunter Biden’s Sweet Plea Deal

WATCH: Biden Sabotages Own Admin’s China Outreach With ‘Dictator’ Comment

Arrests of Illegal Immigrants on Terror Watch List Hit All-Time High

ABC Decries GOP Focusing on Hunter’s Crimes Despite Joe’s ‘Heartache’

DOJ ‘Violating Its Own Internal Policies’ With Hunter Biden Wrist-Slap

Hunter Biden Was a Member of $75,000-Per-Year Hollywood Sex Club, Owner Claims

Biden administration moves to reverse Trump-era Endangered Species Act rollbacks (The Hill)

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.

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.

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.

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.”

American Medical Association says BMI is ‘racist’ because measurement was designed based on white bodies in the 19th century (UK Daily Mail)

Dozens Shot During Juneteenth Celebrations (Washington Free Beacon) Cue Three Dog Night: Celebrate! Celebrate! Dance to the gunshots….

“Black History Is an Absolute Necessity.” (The New Republic)

CNN: Scott, Haley Ignore Discrimination, Don’t Understand Minorities  But the white people at CNN do.

Black Americans Support, US Majority Reject Reparations

What Americans Get Wrong When They Talk about Race (The Free Press)

Florida Teacher Fired for Comparing Students’ Skin to Coffee

MSNBC’s Sykes Whines GOP Not Supporting Juneteenth, US Not Racist

Detroit: Transgender Woman of Color Murdered During Pride Month

New Zealand Surgeons Told To Prioritise Patients Based on Ethnicity

Sen. Fetterman Faces Juneteenth Post Backlash

6 teens shot near Juneteenth celebration in Milwaukee (The Hill)

Kaepernick Releases Progressive Book Co-Authored By Communists

Millionaire Activist Colin Kaepernick Says Capitalism Is White Supremacy

Frozen Climbers On Mount Everest Decorated For Pride Month (Babylon Bee)

SFO United Staff Accused of Stealing Marijuana From Checked Bags (S.F. Standard) Who in their right mind flies on United?

The 15-minute city is a working-class nightmare (The New Statesman)

NPR Celebrates First U.S. ‘Drag Laureate,’ LGBTQ and Religion (Even Islam?)

Remote Workers Fleeing Dem-Run Cities, Data Show

Number of ‘Non-Binary’ Students in New Jersey Up 4,000 Percent Since 2019

United Nations Planning Digital ID Linked To Bank Accounts

The Daily Chart: Dems Move to the Left

Chicago Mayor Eyes $25 Million Plan To Cover Rent for Illegal Immigrants Time to leave.

EU Proposes a €66B Budget Hike to Finance Geopolitical Ambitions

Backtracking on the lab leak – hey, Trump was right (The New Neo)

Taylor Lorenz Holds Breath To Survive ‘Dangerous’ Encounter With Unmasked Passengers at JFK Airport in 2023

All COVID-Infected At Health Conference Were Vaccinated: Study

More than 1 million people are dropped from Medicaid as states start a post-pandemic purge of rolls (Associated Press) The AP, of course, think this is horrible.

Dem Plaskett: Trump ‘Needs to Be Shot…err…Stopped’

Heritage Foundation Sues DA Bragg Over Trump Indictment Docs

The charlatan who has Trump’s ear (Public Notice)

Trump All But Confesses to Mishandling Classified Docs on Fox News (Rolling Stone) ‘All but’ means ‘doesn’t’.

Sunday Shows Already Cracking Up Over Trump Indictment

Trump Says ‘Secret’ Document He Described on Tape Referred to News Clippings (N.Y. Times)

Trump Real Estate Deal in Oman Underscores Ethics Concerns (N.Y. Times) It’s hard to see how the NYT has any room to be ‘concerned’ about other people’s ethics.

Lawyer Eastman faces a disciplinary hearing over a plot to keep Trump in power after his 2020 loss (Associated Press) Bias? What bias?

It’s Not the Law’s Fault that Trump Broke It (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew continue their Trump bashing.

Trump Adviser May Face Disbarment Over 2020 Election Challenge  Not only must Trump be destroyed, anybody who ever associated with him must be destroyed as well.

Rasmussen Poll: 52% Put Biden Behind Recent Peers

Burisma had Hunter Biden help open account with corrupt Malta bank (N.Y. Post)

The Utter Failure Of Merrick Garland: Turley  Let us thank God that this turkey isn’t on the Supreme Court.

Appeals Court Revives Lawsuit on Border Wall

How James Comer Emerged as the De Facto Special Counsel Probing Biden Bribery Scandal

The Biden Admin Says It’s Cracking Down on Illegal Chinese Vapes. You Can Still Buy Them Next Door to the FDA.

‘We’ll Get The Last Laugh’: Hunter Biden Rallied to Buddy’s Side in Massive Indian Tribal Bond Fraud Scheme

Biden Says His Foreign Policy Knowledge Equals Even Kissinger (Bloomberg)

Federal Policy on Homelessness Becomes New Target of the Right (N.Y. Times) Primarily because it’s appallingly incompetent, founded on proglodyte delusions.

Hunter Biden reaches deal to plead guilty in tax, gun case (Washington Post) Two years of ‘probation’ for crimes that have gotten ‘January 6th rioters’ multiple years in prison. Truly, the Crust takes care of its own.

“Election Interference!”: Trump Rages, Comer Condemns Hunter Biden’s “Slap On The Wrist” Misdemeanor Deal

Hunter Gets Indicted, MSNBC Attacks GOP, Hails ‘Good News’ For Joe

Hunter Biden to Plead Guilty on Misdemeanor Tax Charges (N.Y. Times) The NYT breaks out the handwavium. “Nothing to see here … move along, move along….”

President’s Son Gets Sweetheart Deal From Feds on Gun, Tax Charges

Hunter Biden Plea Deal: CNN Whines GOP ‘Not Going to Let This Go’

No Jail Time for Hunter Biden in ‘Sweetheart’ Plea Deal

FLASHBACK: Joe Biden Says Hunter Has ‘Done Nothing Wrong’

CNN’s Presidential Fact Checker Hasn’t Fact-Checked Biden in Months  Why would he? He existed to bash Trump. You know it, and I know it.

Federal Prosecutor on Hunter Biden Case Served as Right-Hand Man to Longtime Biden Family Crony  The fix has been in from the beginning.

Taiwan Kicking Itself For Not Bribing The Bidens (Babylon Bee)

Biden Promises To Send Rescue Train In Search Of Missing Sub (Babylon Bee)

YouTube removes video of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Jordan Peterson for vaccine misinformation (NBC News) Still censoring.

ACLU Complains Florida Didn’t Give Murderous Rapist Gender-Affirming Care Before Execution (Washington Free Beacon)

YouTube Called Out for Censoring RFK Jr. Interview

UN Begs for More Big Tech Censorship in Latest Anti-Free Speech Plot

TRIGGERED! Media Call for Joe Rogan to Be Censored After Presidential Candidate Interview

MSNBC: Andrew Weissmann (D-FBI) Compares Americans Critical of DOJ to the KKK

The conspiracy candidate: What RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine crusade could look like in the White House (NBC News) As we have found out, a lot of the ‘conspiracy theories’ derided by the Narrative media turned out to be true.

Well-funded Christian group behind US effort to roll back LGBTQ+ rights (The Guardian) They say that as if it came as a big surprise.

Texas Gov. Abbott Signs Law Reining In ‘Rogue’ DAs

CBS & NBC Ignore White Powder Sent to Trump, Thomas & KS GOP

Sen. Josh Hawley Shares His Mindblowingly Stupid Thoughts on Juneteenth (Jezebel)

‘The People’s Justice’: New Book Demolishes Left’s Caricature of Clarence Thomas

French Voters Flock To Le Pen As Anti-Macron Sentiment Fuels Right-Wing Populism

A Small Business Complained About Crime in Chicago. Then the Feds Came After It.

Playbook: Dems salivate as McCarthy caters to the right (Politico)

A Year After Dobbs, Republicans Push Into Risky Territory on Abortion (N.Y. Times)

Pride Police Insist Free Speech Is ‘Unsafe’

Gov. Ron DeSantis used secretive panel to flip state Supreme Court (Washington Post) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

Republicans Aren’t Even Hiding Their War on Young People (The New Republic)

California’s Emissions Regulatory Death Spiral

RFK Jr. Challenging Limits of Speech, Censorship

ProPublica’s Top Donors Also Bankroll Activist Groups Targeting Justice Clarence Thomas

Inside Moms for Liberty’s Close Relationship With the Proud Boys (Vice)

RFK Jr.: A Threat Assessment (The Bulwark) Jonathan Last is one of the most prominent propagandists for the Deep State.

MORE Election Interference! YouTube Removes Another Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Interview

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a threat to your health — and our democracy (L.A. Times) Any threat to the Deep State must be witch-hunted, even one of the Sacred Kennedys.

Joe Rogan Savagely Bullies Scientist By Inviting Him On Podcast To Explain His Position (Babylon Bee)

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his group have promoted and partnered with numerous QAnon conspiracy theorists (Media Matters for America) Any threat to the Deep State must be witch-hunted, even if they have to make shit up.

Beyond Montreal: six months after deal to halt biodiversity loss, where are we? (The Guardian)

Europe is the fastest warming continent in the world, a WMO and Copernicus report warns (EuroNews)

Heat, drought and fire: Europe’s year of extremes in 2022 will not be a ‘one-off,’ new report finds (CNN)

Europe Is The Fasted-Warming Continent In The World (KTBS)

Obama Judge Orders Oil Pipeline Through Wisconsin to Close Within 3 Years

Energy Secretary Granholm talks Michigan energy future, gas stoves as activists chant (Detroit Free Press)

Climate change denial hit its stride in the Bush-Cheney era, precipitating today’s climate disaster (Salon)

Scientists Decide that Scientists are Getting Better at Communicating Scary Climate Stories

China is Throwing Away Fields of Electric Cars – Letting them Rot!

New evidence that polar bears survived 1,600 years of ice-free summers in the early Holocene

Climate Activists ‘Brutalized’ by Security While Protesting Biden Energy Secretary

I Can’t Wait For That Yummy Soylent Green

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.

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.

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’

China Withholds Cremation Data From Late 2022 After Ditching “Zero Covid” Policy

It’s becoming undeniable: COVID came from a Chinese lab (N.Y. Post)

Chinese military scientist Zhou Yusen ‘thrown to his death’ at Wuhan lab for leaking COVID lab information (PerthNow)

Vax-Pushing Debate Dodger Linked To ‘Chimeric’ Coronavirus Creation In Wuhan

Finding Covid’s patient zero

Scientists Who Have No Idea What’s Causing Autism Epidemic Also 100% Certain It’s Not Vaccines (Babylon Bee)