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.

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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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.

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.

Professor Raoult’s Case: COVID Continues To Cause Legal Turmoil

Giroir to Newsmax: GAO Report Proves Fauci ‘Misleading’  He flat-out lied, and publicly admitted that he lied.

Rogan Offers Vax Dr. $100K to Debate RFK Jr.  Prediction: He won’t do it.

‘Double-Talking’ Vaccine Scientist Refuses To Debate RFK Jr. Despite $1.5 Million Charity Pot

People ‘Up To Date’ With COVID-19 Vaccines More Likely To Be Infected: Study  That’s some ‘vaccine’: Not only does it not protect you from getting the disease and not protect people from your spreading the disease, it actually makes it more likely that you will get the disease. Isn’t ‘science’ wonderful?

Mount Rainier is melting. Can anything be done to stop it? (Seattle Times)

Claim: Climate Change Likely Led to Violence in early Andean Populations  Climate change! Is there anything it can’t do? (Or can’t be blamed for?)

Climate LOL: 8 Days to Agree the Agenda of a 9 Day Climate Meeting

Spain: Wind and Solar Parks Lack Environmental Oversight

Anger Grows Over Low-Emission Zones In French Cities

Climate Authoritarianism: WEF Wants 75% Fewer Private Car Owners By 2050

Watch: UN Chief claims fossil fuels are ‘incompatible with human survival’

Gas Stoves Emit Benzene and Increases Indoor Air Pollution

Who will win the war in Ukraine? The 4 counteroffensive scenarios (The Times UK)

Ukraine Situation Report: Waning Flood Waters Could Provide Opportunity For Kyiv’s Forces

Ukraine war is hurting Africa, South African President Ramaphosa tells Putin (NPR)

Both Sides Suffer Heavy Casualties as Ukraine Strikes Intensify

‘A sense of betrayal’: liberal dismay as Muslim-led US city bans Pride flags (The Guardian)

A city in Michigan votes to permanently ban Pride flags from display on public property during Pride Month (CNN)

California’s War Against Prosperity

Mississippi Becomes Ground Zero In National Fight Over Ballot Harvesting

A Year After Dobbs, Advocates Push in the States for a Right to Birth Control (N.Y. Times)

Oscars’ New Diversity Rules Rob Winners Of Authentic Achievement, Say Critics

Blue State Blues: Family Groups And LGBT Activist Uniting Against Bill That Could Make Pedophiles A Protected Class

Don’t Say Socialism! Chris Sununu Spurs Another Touchy Reaction from Isaacson on PBS

NPR Exploits Father’s Day for a Trans Lesson: ‘Navigating Pregnancy as a Dad’

Vertical migration externalities, or another reason why California taxes are too high

Sovereignty Threatened: EU’s Mandatory Migrant Quotas Trigger Revolt

Poll: Nearly 7 in 10 French Favor Restricting Asylum Rights

Exclusive: Support for legal abortion rises a year after Roe v. Wade overturned-Poll (USA Today) Or so they would have you believe.

California Governor Proposes Rolling Back Access to Police Misconduct Records  The progressive mask on the Deep State slips a little

The “anti-intellectual attack” on higher ed will take years to undo (Vox) No wonder Vox went bankrupt.

Levin: Clintons Would Be Doing 50 Years Under Espionage Act

2 Dead, 3 Hurt in Shooting at Washington State Music Festival

FBI Groomed Developmentally Challenged 16-Year-Old To Become A Terrorist, Then Arrested Him

What’s Behind the Widening Divide Between New York City and Its Suburbs? (N.Y. Times) Boy, that’s a real head-scratcher, all right.

Pence Triggers Todd by Mentioning Hillary’s Emails & Hunter’s Laptop

Pence: ‘I’m still waiting for the rash of prosecutions of people involved in the BLM riots’ of 2020 (NBC News)

Native Americans Are Major Victims of Minneapolis Police Racism: DOJ (Mother Jones) if it weren’t for Fashionable Victims, Mother Jones would have nothing to write about.

Shooting in St. Louis Kills 1, Injures 9 Young People, Report Says

Race-Baiting Dems, Media Fall Silent After Black Subway ‘Hero’ Kills Crazed Man In NYC

1 dead, at least 22 hurt in a shooting at a Juneteenth celebration in Willowbrook, Illinois, police say (CNN) Nothing says ‘celebration’ like black people shooting each other.

At Least 20 Shot, 1 Fatally, In “Illegal Street Takeover” Near Chicago

1 Dead, 22 Hurt in Juneteenth Party Shooting

German ‘Black-Only’ Children’s Camp Under Fire for Racism

Fed’s Bostic Made Multiple Trades in Blackout Period Before May 2022 FOMC Meeting

He was prosecuted by Jack Smith, hear what he knows about the special counsel (CNN)

Texas Ends Water Breaks for Construction Workers Amid Heat Wave (Daily Beast) Uh, no. Texas ends law-mandated water breaks for construction workers–like most Narrative media, the Daily Beast assumes that if the government doesn’t mandate something it won’t get done.

Climate change: UN to unmask fossil fuel lobbyists at climate talks (BBC) It’s all about the finger-pointing.

“Unfriending” America: The Christian right is coming for the enemies of God — like you and me (Salon)

CNN Teams Up With TN Dems to Accuse GOP of ‘White Supremacy’

Getting to Define “Transphobic” and “Hateful”

If The Findings Detract, You Must Retract

Ron DeSantis Is Young, Has Little Kids and Wants America to Know It (N.Y. Times) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH…. This sort of snide thumb-sucker is increasingly disgracing the pages of a once-great newspaper. They ough to be ashamed.

Deadnaming Children Would Be Allowed Under School Policy (N.Y. Times) ‘Deadnaming’ is a made-up Woke crime whereby someone refers to a ‘trans’ person by their former name.

Sen. Tim Scott: ‘No Higher Compliment’ Than an Obama Attack

House GOP flirts with Jan. 6 extremism (Politico) Bias? What bias?

Tracing the power of Casey DeSantis (Washington Post) Republicans talk about issues. Democrats talk about personalities. (Scraaaaape that barrel….)

Biden Strikes Economic Populist Tone During Campaign Rally

‘A Little Worried’: Union Members at Biden’s Philly Speech See Uphill Climb for 2024

Illegal Gun Sales Are Now Illegal?

As Trump Battles Charges, Biden Focuses on the Business of Governing (N.Y. Times) Wannabe dictator gets a tongue-bath from the queen of Narrative media.

State Department’s Narrative Control Unit Letting ‘Highly Ideological Activists’ Decide Discourse

Retired Gen. Keane: New Nuke Deal Not in ‘National Interest’

Judge in Trump’s federal case has acted like ‘Trump advocate in a robe’: Whitehouse  A white robe, naturally.

Trump’s legal defenses draw derision — even from some conservatives (The Hill)

Democratic group launches ‘This f***ing guy’ campaign centered on Trump chaos (The Hill)

Trump’s indictment plus candidacy could endanger democracy and the rule of law (Washington Post) The witch-hunt against Trump has already endangered them.

Trump lacked power to declassify secret nuclear arms document, experts say (Reuters) Bullshit. As President, Trump had the unlimited power to classify or declassify anything at any time. These ‘experts’ need to go back to school.

Nine reasons Biden should pardon Trump (The Hill) Mainly because it would imply that Trump is guilty of a crime.

Karl Struggles to Report Poll Showing Trump’s Favorable Ratings Up  Poor ABC.

Morality Is for Trump What Colors Are to the Color-Blind (The Atlantic) Bash that Trump! Bash that Trump!

How government rules for classified papers could help Trump delay his trial (Washington Post)

Marist Poll: 83 Percent of GOP Voters Want Trump to Stay in Race

Republican reaction to Trump indictment is ‘absurd,’ former GOP governor says  RINOs gotta RINO.

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China has delivered its first smart floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) with land-sea integrated operation system, marking a breakthrough in the country’s application of the digital twin technology.

The offshore oil and gas FPSO with a storage capacity of 100,000 tons is the first of its kind in China and employs diverse cutting-edge technologies including artificial intelligence (AI), edge computing, cloud computing, big data and the internet of things (IoT). The ship can process oil and gas on the sea thus eliminating the need for piping from offshore rigs to onshore factories.

The ship is equipped with more than 8,000 sensors that monitor temperature, pressure and liquid level data and transmits it to the server room. In addition to the on-board system, China has also built a digital twin of the ship onshore in the smart control center in Shenzhen City, a full 1,000 kilometers away from the real ship. The digital twin, a virtual replica of the offshore ship, will be used to monitor the production process in real-time.

Well, there ought to be.

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Although Malaysia has a diverse ethnic, cultural and religious population, the constitution requires all Malay to be Sunni Muslims. Those with the Malay-Muslim identity benefit from an “affirmative action policy” which at both a federal and state level, gives ethnic Malay huge advantages over any other religious groups in decisions concerning quotas, grants, loans and tax benefits. With government agencies such as the Selangor state Islamic Religious Council depicting Christians as “enemies of Islam who always have malicious intentions and are the bearers of lies” and the federal Sedition Act – which criminalises anything that “promotes feelings of ill will and hostility between different races or classes of the population of Malaysia” – being used to suppress religious freedom or punish actions deemed to offend religious sensitivities, it is hardly surprising that life is increasingly hazardous for Christians. It also explains why Malaysia sits at 43 in Open Doors’ World Watch List, which ranks nations by the levels of persecution and discrimination experienced by its Christian population.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Over the last few years, the establishment, including government agencies like the FBI, the hegemonic tech companies that control social media, and the press generally, has tried hard to suppress information on several topics. These topics include, among others, the effectiveness of anti-covid measures and treatments, the safety of covid vaccines, Joe Biden’s corruption, and the existence and prevalence of voter fraud. Wrongspeak on any of these topics has been branded as disinformation, and has been likely to result in a ban from Twitter, Facebook and so on.

Despite these efforts at censorship, Rasmussen finds that most Americans have no illusions about the integrity of our elections….

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Warming temperatures and thawing sea ice could soon allow for the expansion of maritime routes through the Arctic region at certain times of the year. Polar powers looking to capitalize not only on the shortened shipping lanes but also on the natural resources that exist there are eyeing up this geopolitically strategic space, with Russia and also China, which is a part of the Arctic Council and a self-defined ‘near-Arctic state’, having become two of the most prominent players in the region.

Currently, the main shipping route between Asia and Europe passes from China to Rotterdam via the Suez Canal. But the fragility of the transit route was revealed in 2021 when the Ever Given ship blocked the passage, halting traffic for 7 days. And so a new route through the Arctic could save time for the transportation of goods.

In 2018, Beijing released a white paper on how China could extend its Belt and Road Initiative to the Arctic region, suggesting that polar stakeholders could work together on connectivity and economic and social development, including the exploration and exploitation of resources such as oil, gas and minerals, as well as on scientific research into the effects of climate change on the region. According to Deutsche Welle, the United States is worried about what this means, while Russia “smells business.”

Ukraine’s counteroffensive is now underway. Here’s what’s happened so far (CNN)

Fighting rages near Bakhmut as Ukrainian counteroffensive presses on (CBS)

Ukraine’s 128th Mountain Brigade Is Probing Russian Defenses—And Finding 70-Year-Old T-54 Tanks (Forbes)

Ukraine counteroffensive has ‘no chance,’ Putin says as Russians brace for long war (NBC)

Will upcoming NATO summit launch forever war in Europe?

Russia To Seize ‘Naughty’ Western Companies As Putin Rails Against “Medieval” Asset Seizures Abroad

The Government Keeps Lying To Us About Ukraine; Where Is The Outrage?

Putin says Russia put nuclear bombs in Belarus as warning to West (Reuters) If you keep poking the bear, eventually the bear will poke back. That never ends well.

Chinese Service Centers in US Contacting China’s Police

Former California cop sends powerful message to Gavin Newsom: There are no words for the horrors I saw (Fox)

San Francisco Announces That Due To Crime, It’s Moving To Texas (Babylon Bee) We’ll trade them San Antonio.

WATCH: John Fetterman Swings at Softball Question—and Misses and Misses and Misses

Politicians In Our Major Cities Have Decided The Solution To The Crime Wave Is To Help Criminals Commit More Crimes

New Jersey Schools Report More Than 4,200 Percent Increase In Nonbinary Students In Four Years  A fad is a fad is a fad.

First Busload Of Illegal Immigrants Arrives In Los Angeles From Texas

The Uprising: Families Clash With Schools Over LGBTQ Propaganda

San Fran Exodus: AT&T Closing Flagship Store, Citing ‘Changing Consumer Habits’

S.F. overdose deaths on track for worst year ever amid crackdown (S.F. Chronicle) Boy, that’s a real head-scratcher, all right. (Natural selection works even when you don’t want it to.)

Flashback: When ABC Tapped Hard-Core Clinton Partisan As Top Anchor

Dodgers Honor Anti-Christian Drag Nuns In Empty Stadium As Thousands Protest

ABC Uses 11-Year Old To Justify Access To Puberty Blockers

Girl Sues Hospital For Removing Her Breasts At Age 13

Philly Introduces Legislation To Ban Ski Masks In Public Areas  Antifa will whine.

Westfield’s San Francisco centre mall lost 46% of its stores since 2020

Four alarming charts that show just how extreme the climate is right now (CNN) Alerming! Extreme!

Courtroom Setback for the Climatistas?

Policing of “Just Stop Oil” Protesters Costing Britons Millions

Last-Generation Eco-Extremists Committed 580 Crimes Since 2022

Britain Turns to Coal Because It’s Too Hot for Solar Panels

Ben Shapiro RIPS WashPost for ‘Most Dishonest Headline Ever’ on Target ‘Trans’ Terrorism

Inside the $100 million door-knocking effort to boost Ron DeSantis (NBC News) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

Ron DeSantis Wants More Honoring Confederates, Less Funding for Black History (New York Magazine) Jonathan Chait risks getting a hernia while pushing the Narrative.

CNN Rules Republicans Are the Enemy of Kids and Climate

The Business of Being Chris Christie (New York Times) Leave no Republican candidate untarred.

Scandal in Michigan: Some TV News Person Dared to Say ‘Get Both Sides’ on Gay Pride

US rightwing group planned $6m for anti-trans messaging in 2022 midterms (The Guardian) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

CNN Goes Negative on Tea Party in Retrospective

PBS Cries ‘Projection’ As GOP Promises To Combat DOJ Weaponization

Best-Selling US Author Cancels Her Own Book In Response To Anti-Russian PR Campaign

Spotify Has Stopped Even Sort of Trying to Stem Joe Rogan’s Vaccine Misinformation (Vox) In the Narrative media, ‘misinformation’ means ‘something contrary to the Narrative’.

Liberals: ‘There Is No Cancel Culture’; Also Liberals: ‘Let’s Cancel This Comic’

More Artists Self-Censor to Avoid Woke Mob

The feds get their hands on the Minneapolis police department and – guess what? – find it racist

DOJ Seeks to Bar Trump From Releasing Classified Docs  Trump’s position is that they are not classified, because he de-classified them as President.

Jack Smith seeks order to protect info on ‘uncharged individuals’ in classified docs case (Raw Story)

Poll: Most GOP Voters Want Trump to Keep Running

Trump’s rage at Biden has cornered his GOP rivals. That’s dangerous. (Washington Post) Dangerous how? Dangerous to whom?

Top Prosecutor in Trump Case Had Unethical Past, Court Records Show

Biden bizarrely ends gun control speech with ‘God save the Queen’ (New York Post)

‘GOD SAVE THE QUEEN’ Biden strangely says to end a gun violence event in Connecticut (Fox)

Creepy Joe Strikes Again

Under Biden, Hatch Act Violations No Longer Front-Page Corruption News

Biden’s Elevation of Woke Admiral to Top NATO Post Among Blocked Promotions

If ‘Banned’ Books Are Harmless, Joe Biden Should Read Them to Kids

When ‘Harm Reduction’ Becomes Harm Promotion: Yale Study Shows Biden’s Drug Policy is Misguided

Biden Baffles US Audience, Closing Speech With ‘God Save The Queen’

New York Times Fairy Tale: Biden’s Justice Department is Independent

Juneteenth: A Day to Celebrate Freedom  And nobody will dare mention the role the Democrat party played in keeping Negroes down. (Most holidays celebrate achievement. Black holidays celebrate victimhood.)

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Ugandan authorities recovered the bodies of 41 people, including 38 students, who were burned, shot, or hacked to death after suspected rebels attacked a secondary school near the border with Congo, the local mayor said Saturday.

At least six people were abducted by the rebels, who fled across the porous border into Congo after the raid on Friday night, according to the Ugandan military.

Authorities blamed the massacre at Lhubiriha Secondary School in the border town of Mpondwe on the Allied Democratic Forces, a shadowy extremist group with ties to the Islamic State, which has been launching attacks for years from bases in volatile eastern Congo.

Funny how there aren’t any places in the world where there are shadowy Christian groups massacring and kidnapping non-Christians.

Wherever you are,
Whatever you do,
A Muslim waits there
To try to kill you.

The Other McCain.

Gloria: “Daddy, did you know that sixty-five percent of the people murdered in this country in the last ten years were killed by handguns?”
Archie Bunker: “Would it make you feel any better, little girl, if they was pushed out of windows?”

That exchange from a 1972 episode of All in the Family always comes to mind when I here politicians and the media discussing “gun violence.” My guns have never perpetrated any violence, and probably your guns are equally innocent, but liberals have a quasi-religious belief that criminals are not responsible for crime. No, it would be wrong to blame the criminals and put them in prison, according to Our Moral and Intellectual Superiors™ in the Democratic Party.

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Peter the Great wrote daily letters to his wife (“my beloved heifer”) while on his grand tour of Europe. In one, he congratulated himself for not farting even once during a fancy state dinner. It is amusing to think of that giant hurricane of a man, the absolute ruler of a large sprawling nation still feeling compelled to conform to societal expectations and good manners.

The sneaky and relentless Gramscian revolution in the West has replaced the notion of manners (and the humanistic concepts and mutual respect that underpin them) with ideology. It is more acceptable to castigate a stranger for openly doubting the likelihood of imminent catastrophic global change, noting that young black men kill many times as many black people as do cops or, God help us, wearing a MAGA hat, than it would be to criticize an offensive, aggressive street dweller. Society as a whole can no longer bring itself to demand civilized behavior on subways and sidewalks nor require that organized demonstrations remain expressly non-violent and respectful of persons and property.

The Foundry.

Father’s Day is a good time to reflect on the importance of dads. It is also an opportunity to bring attention to how fatherhood, marriage, and family became divisive, partisan political issues to the progressive Left.

As a candidate and president, Barack Obama talked often about the importance of fatherhood, marriage, and family. A speech he gave in Chicago a decade ago about violent crime included one observation few elected Democrats today would repeat publicly:

There’s no more important ingredient for success, nothing that would be more important for us reducing violence, than strong, stable families—which means we should do more to promote marriage and encourage fatherhood.

As was often the case, the loudest criticism Obama received for elevating fathers came from his progressive supporters. The rest of the party took notice. Democrats removed all references to fatherhood from their 2016 and 2020 party platforms.

Comer believes new bank records will show the Bidens accepted as much as $30M from foreign nationals (New York Post)

Biden lashes out at reporter asking why FBI informant file referred to him as ‘the Big Guy’: ‘Dumb question’ (Fox)

Hunter Biden associate Devon Archer in talks to dish about alleged $10 million bribe from Ukraine (New York Post)

Biden’s Open Border Policies Are Killing Innocent Americans and Aliens Alike (The Foundry)

Bidens ‘Coerced’ Burisma Founder To Pay $10 Million In Bribes: FBI Source

Tucker Carlson Takes Aim At “Wannabe Dictator” Joe Biden

Report: Biden Backs Plan to Ease Ukraine’s Path Into NATO  They really do want a nuclear war.

House Passes Bill Letting Courts Void Agency Rules

Biden’s (Iran) Deal That Dare Not Speak Its Name

Ernst Has Plan to Stop IRS ‘Playing SWAT Team Dress-Up’

Analysis: Biden’s IRA climate bill won’t cut deficit as expected (Reuters) Of course it won’t. It was never intended to.

Space Force Chief Says State “Anti-LGBT” Laws Threaten US Military Readiness  She is, of course, a woman (if we’re allowed to use that word any more).

Iranian Oil Is Quietly Flooding Into the Global Market Again (Bloomberg) I guess those ‘sanctions’ really work under a Democrat administration, huh.

Hunter Biden to Reveal Finances in Child Support Case

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week (Vol. 47)

Border Agents Intercept “Cloned” FedEx Vans Full Of Migrants.

Biden Vows To Eliminate All Junk Fees Except The ‘10% For The Big Guy’ (Babylon Bee)

How Kamala Harris has emerged as an early winner of the GOP primary (Politico)

Judge Blocks Seattle Police From Graffiti-Related Arrests

Texas governor signs bill placing limits on transgender athletes in college sports (CNN)

The FBI Is Hunting a New Domestic Terror Threat: Abortion Rights Activists (The Intercept)

Texas Law Ends Diversity Offices at State Colleges

Wyoming Sorority Sisters Sue Fraternity For Inducting Biological Male As First ‘Trans’ Member

Twitter is ‘the most dangerous platform for LGBTQ people,’ GLAAD says (NBC News)

CBS Interviews AMA Head Who Frets Bans on Trans Surgeries & Abortions

Texas Gov. Buses First Group of Migrants to LA (NewsMax) Sanctuary city? Or sanctimonious hypocrite city? We’ll find out.

Tijuana Mayor Flees To Army Base As Crime Chaos At Border City Worsens

NBC Worries Teachers Quitting Due to LGBTQ Agenda Backlash

Anger Grows Across Europe Over EU’s Mandatory Migrant Quotas

CNN Owner Sponsoring Drag Queen Story Hour for Kids

Dems eye redistricting redos to regain House majority (Politico) More ballot harvesting?

Watch: RFK Jr. Says He Must “Be Careful” The CIA Doesn’t Assassinate Him

America’s biggest liberal cities are dying (Washington Examiner)

California GOP Legislator Tells Parents to ‘Flee’ the State

Iowa Court Fails to Uphold Abortion Restriction  Never trust anyone with purple hair.

MLB Apparently Not Diverse Enough For Progressives

Jordan Subpoenas Radical ESG Group as ‘Collusion’ Probe Intensifies

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear Lied About ‘Record’ Job Gains, Stats Show  Lying is what Democrats do best.

Georgetown Faculty Object to Renaming Foreign Affairs School After Madeleine Albright

Hotels Are Dumping Property in San Francisco as Tourists Shun Crime-Ridden City

‘They Were Experimenting On Her’: Teen Detransitioner Sues Doctors Over Child Gender Transition

BLM called out after Starbucks pays out $25M to fired White employee: ‘One of the biggest Ponzi schemes’ (Fox)

Ex-Starbucks manager awarded $25.6 million in case tied to arrests of 2 Black men (NPR)

Ex-Starbucks manager awarded $25.6 million in wrongful firing suit (NBC News)

Tennessee lawmakers expelled for gun protests victorious in special primary elections

Nottingham: Stick to the Script

Obama bashes Nikki Haley and Tim Scott on race relations: ‘Long list of minority candidates in GOP who say everything is great’ (New York Post) Obama is just another race hustler after all.

Obama Slams GOP ‘Minority Candidates’ as Too Eager To ‘All Get Along’  And, of course, ‘getting along’ is precisely what race hustlers like Obama don’t want to do.

Tim Scott fires back at Obama over race remarks (The Hill)

Pfizer alerts doctors to impending shortage of antibiotic for kids, will prioritize drug for pregnant adults (CNN)

FDA advisers endorse updating COVID vaccines to target latest omicron strain (Associated Press)

FDA panel recommends updating Covid booster shots for fall (NBC News)

FDA advisers recommend that Covid-19 boosters for fall should drop original strain

FDA advisers back updated COVID shots for fall vaccinations (NPR)

Metformin shown to prevent long Covid

Inexpensive Solar Panels Are Essential for the Energy Transition. Here’s What’s Happening With Prices Right Now (Inside Climate News)

Why the Cost of Solar Panels Will Likely Keep Falling (CNET)

Solved! Are Solar Panels Really Worth The Cost? (Bob Vila)

A Glendale woman’s greenwashing lawsuit against Delta Air Lines aims to set a precedent (L.A. Times)

UN chief says fossil fuels ‘incompatible with human survival,’

Princeton Academic: We Should Become Vegans for the Sake of the Planet

Replacing Coal Power with Wind and Solar Increases Net CO2 Emissions

Fox News Parts Ways With Producer Responsible for ‘Wannabe Dictator’ Chyron (Daily Beast)

Tucker Carlson Takes Aim at Former Bosses Over Biden Chyron Reaction (Newsweek)

White House rips Fox News as the right-wing channel launches sinister attacks on Biden (CNN)

Scarborough Launches Campaign to Trash Trump Documents Trial Judge (NewsBusters)

DeSantis War Room Posts Bizarre Video Suggesting Biden Is a Groomer: ‘Keep Your Hands Off Our Kids’ (MEDIAite)

I Was a Big Marco Rubio Fan. I Was So, So Wrong. (Daily Beast) Still are.

UN Secretary-General Proposes ‘Global Digital Compact’ To Push Laws Against Online ‘Hate’

J. D. Vance and the Yahoo Caucus (The Atlantic) One of the Cloud People is upset that the Dirt People get to vote and run for office.

First look: Book on Capitol intrigue out in 2025 (Axios) A book by two NYT reporters focusing on Republicans in the 118th Congress. Bias? What bias?

Conservative Justice Gorsuch echoes ‘woke’ historians in railing against historical injustices (NBC News) Just one specific injustice, which the reporter has puffed up to “historical injustices” in general–no doubt a case of wishful thinking. I rather doubt it made him hesitate to join the witch-hunt mob during his confirmation hearings.

‘More extreme, more violent’: experts’ warning over khaki-clad Patriot Front (The Guardian) The so-called ‘Patriot Front’ seems to me to be an obvious false-flag operation by persons on th the Left; they’re the typical proglodyte’s vision of a right-wing Antifa analog that matches nothing one would expect to see in the real world. Even the world ‘front’ is a left-wing term–nobody on the right uses, or would use, it.

DOJ probe into Minneapolis police finds racial discrimination and excessive force (NBC News) My, what a surprise. Cue exodus from Minnesota by police officers.

‘Systemic problems’ at Minneapolis Police Dept. led to George Floyd’s murder, Justice Department says (CNN) Except, of course, that George Floyd wasn’t murdered, witch-hunt to the contrary notwithstanding.

NSA staffer linked to ‘America First’ movement joined Jan. 6 mob (Washington Post) Linked to! That proves it!

CNN Beats Down Penny: “Issue of Taking Things into Your Own Hands”

J.D. Vance, the Senate’s MAGA dealmaker (Semafor) MAGA is the New Nigger, and Semafor is the new Narrative bleat-sheep.

Company Fires Catholic Man for Marking Pronouns ‘Assigned by God’

CNN’s Jake Tapper and ‘Whistleblower’ Frances Haugen Bemoan Free Speech on Facebook

Losing a Battle in Culture Wars, Left Resorts to Intimidation

Bernie Kerik Pitched Mark Meadows on ‘$5 to $8’ Million Plan To Reverse Trump 2020 Loss (Talking Points Memo)

Publix heiress gave millions more than previously known to organize Jan. 6 Trump rallies: report (Raw Story)

The Dangerous Trump Indictment Precedent (The Foundry)

RNC shuts down Hutchinson’s push to amend loyalty pledge amid Trump indictment drama (Politico) The chief difference between Republicans and Democrats is that Democrats never forget which side they’re on.

Trump Demands GOP Rivals Pledge to Pardon Him … or Else (Rolling Stone)

Trump Gets Legal Win; DA Closes Golf Course Tax Probe (NewsMax)

Trump Reportedly Left Restaurant Without Paying Any Bills After Telling His Supporters ‘Food For Everyone!’ (MEDIAite)

Inflammatory PBS Warns About Trump’s Rhetoric

Biden allies start to chafe at Democrats’ silent treatment of Trump indictment (NBC News)

Trump’s addiction to “yes men” may be his ultimate downfall (Salon)

MSNBC Demands Judge Cannon, Roberts, Allow Them To Video Trump Trial

As Trump is arrested, Republicans honor the insurrectionists (Washington Post) Dana Milbank is in danger of getting a hernia, he pushes the Narrative so hard.

Trump and his allies try to spin classified documents case with myths and misinformation (L.A. Times) Law of Liberal Projection: Liberals always accuse you of doing what they plan to do.

From Justifying Trump to Justifying Autocracy (The Bulwark) Will Saletan is another of the Kristol Krew of proglodyte fellow travelers.

Morning Joe: Trump’s a Pathological, Deeply Weird, Bizarre, Criminal Hoarder

What Trump doesn’t (but should) understand about the ‘Socks’ case (MSNBC) First, Clintons are above the law.

PBS: Trump Part of ‘International Cabal’ Who ‘Support the Idea of Dictatorship’

The American Mind.

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) used to be one of those gloriously bipartisan institutions where Democrats and Republicans broke bread and shared ideas about how to expand democracy abroad. But like many once-neutral institutions, whether in the media, the universities, or publicly-funded foundations, the NED has become baldly partisan since the 2016 election. In doing so, it has put its mission and its integrity at risk.

Launched by President Reagan 40 years ago “to foster the infrastructure of democracy” around the world, the NED is governed by a bipartisan board. It gives grants to democracy activists overseas, holds events, publishes books and journals, and brings advocates for democracy from around the world to the U.S. on fellowships. It receives fierce criticism from both the anti-American Left and the isolationist Right—a good sign of its bipartisan nature. It is loud and proud about promoting democracy abroad despite the cavils. Its congressionally-approved budget from the Department of State for fiscal year 2022 was $300 million.

But since the election of Donald Trump, NED has repeatedly violated its supposed neutrality on American politics and engaged in openly-partisan advocacy against Trump and Republicans. This is a remarkable intellectual failure for an organization that lectures other countries about accepting the legitimacy of the political opposition, especially one you detest.

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If you’re dropping checks in the mail to your landlord or utility provider, it’s time to look for a different way to pay your bills. Check fraud and mail theft nearly doubled between 2021 and 2022, affecting hundreds of thousands of Americans, according to reports from both the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.
Criminals are taking sophisticated steps to wash checks—stealing them from the mail and changing the payee’s name and payment amount—and conning banks into cashing them. This often involves creating fake identities using stolen personal information and then opening fraudulent bank accounts and writing new checks. Some are selling copies of washed checks online or using stolen mailbox keys to pick checks directly out of collection points.
While banks do refund check fraud victims for money lost, the AP reports that this process is slower than usual due to the significant increase in fraud cases.
Fewer Americans are writing and sending checks, but it’s still somewhat common. Here’s how to minimize the chance of becoming a victim.

Most banks will send a check for you if you use their online facilities.

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Spanish police have claimed that migrant women are travelling to Spain on tourist visas with their children and then abandoning them in the country, telling them to register as unaccompanied minor asylum seekers in a bid to get into the country later through family reunification.

The trend came to light after the arrest of a Moroccan woman, who was charged with child abandonment after her son went to Spanish authorities claiming to be an unaccompanied foreign minor (MENA), a report from the newspaper La Razon states.

Following a rapid investigation into the child’s case, Spanish agents were able to track down the Moroccan woman before she fled the country, and arrested her at an airport. Two others were also detained and made to give statements regarding their possible collaboration with the woman.

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In its annual report on terrorism, Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement agency, has revealed that radical Islamist terrorism for the third consecutive year remained the top security threat across the bloc in 2022, as the vast majority of individuals arrested for terrorism-related offenses were motivated by a jihadist ideology.

Europol’s Terrorism Situation and Trend Report 2023 (TE-SAT), a yearly “situational overview presenting figures and developments within the terrorism landscape in the EU,” was presented in the Hague, Netherlands, on Tuesday, June 14th, and revealed that of the 380 people arrested across all 27 member states last year on suspicion of terror-related offenses, 266 people, or 70% of those arrested, were arrested for jihadist offenses.

The report states that, among the 266 people arrested for jihadist-related terror offenses, the most common charges were membership in terrorist organizations, production or dissemination of propaganda, planning and preparing an attack, and terrorist financing. The number of arrests in this category has risen for the past three consecutive years, with 254 arrests recorded in 2020, 260 in 2021, and 266 in 2022.

Wherever you go,
Whatever you do,
A Muslim waits there
To try to kill you.

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The funny thing about conspiracy theories is they are a fairly good measure of both social trust and trust in civic institutions. In societies with low trust and corrupt government, people tend to assume things are not as they seem. In high trust societies, people tend to accept things at face value. They also tend to accept what is told to them by the authorities, rather than assume they are lying.

Before the Russian revolution, conspiracy theories were common. Of course, lots of people were conspiring to topple the system, but people assumed that the system itself was not as it was presented. Of course, the Great Fear was a period in the French Revolution where rumors and conspiracy theories about the aristocracy ran wild, ultimately leading the storming of the Bastille.

We seem to be entering a similar phase. People are more likely to believe a rumor about Biden taking bribes than to believe anything he says. For a growing portion of the public, it is assumed that everything that comes from the regime is a lie. The use of the word “regime” is a huge change. It is a word that implies rule by men rather than rule by a system of laws, customs, and institutions.

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California began a soft secession when it banned cooperation with immigration authorities. Since then other states run by Democrats, including Colorado, Illinois and New Jersey, have declared war on ICE. The movement to make it impossible for ICE, an arm of the federal government, to operate in Democrat states has largely been successful.

Some Republican states, like Tennessee, Texas and Florida, have responded by ordering law enforcement to cooperate with ICE. And while this is important in limiting the spread of illegal aliens in their states, it may also be time for them to consider their own forms of soft secession.

Democrat states targeted ICE, Republican states could single out other arms of the federal government that are ideologically alien and hostile to conservative areas for a policy of non-cooperation. Obvious examples are the Department of Education, the EPA and the IRS.

Called ‘nullification’, this was one of the primary rights claimed by the states that eventually became the Confederacy. History doesn’t repeat, but it does rhyme.

Fears of hottest year on record as global temperatures spike (The Guardian)

House Judiciary Subpoenas Docs From Climate Groups

29 Dems vote with GOP to protect gas stoves from Biden’s Department of Energy (Fox)

Four major environmental groups endorse Biden’s reelection (CNN)

Climate protesters throw paint and glue at Monet painting in Swedish museum (The Globe and Mail)

Myth of Big Oil’s Funding of Climate Scepticism vs Reality of Big Green’s Billions Driving Climate Alarmism

Against the climate theory of everything

Biden Announces By 2025 All Wildfires Must Be Electric (Babylon Bee)

Karine Jean-Pierre ripped for scolding reporter over trans kids question (New York Post)

Riley Gaines slams Karine Jean-Pierre’s response to question about trans participation in girls sports (Fox)

GOP: Where Did Joe Biden’s $10 Million Windfall In 2017 Actually Come From?

Federal Agencies Admit To $3 Trillion In Improper Payments Since 2004

Wednesday Is World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. Please Don’t Make Joe Biden Run Again.

CNN Can’t Find a Biden Scandal? It’s Not Looking

Watchdog Observes Lack Of Oversight, Says ‘Increased Risk’ US Arms Could Be Lost En Route To Ukraine

Scoop: White House elbows back on “MAGA” Hatch Act violation (Axios) MAGA is the New Nigger.

The Bidens ‘Coerced’ Burisma To Pay $10 Million In Bribes, Says Credible FBI Source (The Federalist)

NASA Blocks Replies To Its ‘Pride Month’ Tweet

Stephanopoulos Melts Down AGAIN When Guest Brings Up Biden Documents Scandal

The disgraced Confederate history of the ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ flag (Washington Post) The WaPo hates America.

Grand jury indicts Daniel Penny in chokehold death of Jordan Neely (ABC)

California Lawyer: Bill Would Make Parents Who Don’t ‘Affirm’ Trans Child’s New Gender Abusive

YouTube Breaks Silence On Absurd ‘Trans’ Censorship of The Daily Wire

Michigan city votes against allowing Pride flags on public property after contentious council meeting

Nearly a year later, most Americans oppose Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe (NPR) And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

Amazon Locks Man Out Of Smart Home Devices Over False Racism Claims

Federal Agencies Routinely Spy On Phone Calls, Texts, Emails Of American Citizens, Experts Say

“Nightmare Scenario”: US Government Has Been Secretly Stockpiling Dirt On Americans Via Data Brokers

Why a third-party presidential candidate in 2024 is a dangerous idea (Washington Post)

Fox News Is Already Declaring the 2024 Election Rigged (Daily Beast)

Rasmussen Poll: Most Americans Expect 2024 Election ‘Cheating’

Misinformation Is A Word We Use To Shut You Up

Republicans Are Bringing Back Their Plan to Gut Social Security and Medicare (The New Republic)

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott buses 42 migrants to Los Angeles

Austin relocates people from homeless encampments to shelters after resident exposes environmental damage (Fox)

VA hospitals are outperforming private hospitals, latest Medicare survey shows (NPR) Anybody who has had to use a VA hospital knows this to be a lie.

Chris Rufo’s War Against Woke Institutions

FLASHBACK: The Media HATED Talking About Hillary’s Emails

With Order Making Maryland a Gender Transition Sanctuary, Governor Aids Sex Traffickers

Conservatives to Rally Outside Pride Mass at Biden Church

ABC ADMITS Downtown San Francisco Too Unsafe Even for a War Reporter

Target Received Bomb Threats From the ‘LGBTQ+ Community.’ The Media Told a Different Story.

Middle School Students Stage Rebellion Against LGBTQ Indoctrination

Election Integrity: Most Voters Expect Cheating Will Affect 2024 Outcome (Rasmussen)

PBS: ‘Hillary Clinton’s Case Is Completely Different,’ Says Undeclared Dem Operative

Oliver Darcy Wails Over White House Anger at Fox Chyron, NYT’s Disobedience

Genital Mutilation for the Masses

Crenshaw Squashes Dem Who Can’t ‘Name One’ Study About the Benefits of Trans Procedures for Kids

Far-Left Jurisdiction Appalled When Middle Schoolers Revolt Against Pride Day

Brazen Hillary Clinton Seen Wearing ‘But Her Murder Victims’ Hat (Babylon Bee)

CIA Knew Ukraine Was Planning To Bomb Nord Stream Pipelines: Report

The U.S. Is Paying Billions to Russia’s Nuclear Agency. Here’s Why. (N.Y. Times)

West Told Us ‘Kill As Many Russians As Possible’: Ukraine Defense Chief

Ukraine: Russia Strikes Industrial Facilities in Kryvyi Rih