US halts online asylum appointments at Texas crossing after extortion warnings (Associated Press)

Democrats, shocked by Supreme Court’s minority voter ruling, see opportunity as House fight looms (ABC News)

Wisconsin County Mulls Sanctuary Status for Trans Kids (NewsMax) To virtue-signal or not to virtue-signal? That is the question.

Man With ‘the Facts’: CNN Has McCabe Defend Clinton’s E-Mail Server

Maryland Dem grovels after saying Muslim kids against LGBTQ+ lessons aligned with ‘White supremacists’

UK, Sweden, and Switzerland Retract Support for Gender Fluidity

Westfield giving up S.F. mall in wake of Nordstrom closure, plunging sales and foot traffic (S.F. Chronicle)

Women’s Group To Spend “Tens Of Millions” To Boost Kamala’s Image

Who is not implicated in the Trump indictment? Hillary Clinton. (Washington Post) Ruth Marcus piles sandbags around the biggest crook in modern American politics.

Outrage at jail sentence for woman who took abortion pills later than UK limit (The Guardian) You break the law, you go to jail. Them’s the rules.

Pittsburgh ‘Pride Mass’ Canceled Following Backlash

“Rantings Of A Demagogue” – Parents Angered By Princeton President’s Graduation Address

The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens (WIRED)

Female-Only Spa With Compulsory Nudity Must Admit ‘Transgender Women’ With Penises: Judge

Prominent Jewish Conservatives Start ‘Jews Against Soros’ Group

Tide Turning Against Biological Men Competing in Women’s Sports, New Poll Finds—Even Among Democrats

Target Stores in Five States Receive Bomb Threats After Removing Some Pride Month Items  But, remember, only Republicans engage in political violence.

Is The EU Trying To Cover Up The Biggest Corruption Scandal In Its History?  Of course.

Fact Check: Nearly 100 Percent of Political Contributions From Fact Checkers Go to Democrats

New York to Set Minimum Wage for App-Based Workers  Thus making sure that none of them have jobs.

Nets Spend 291 Minutes On Trump Indictment, 0 Seconds On Biden Burisma Bribery

Target stores see more bomb threats over Pride merchandise (Washington Post)

Target Stores Close Over Pro-LGBT Bomb Threats

Leftist Billionaire Pierre Omidyar Financed Gov’t-Tied Election Censorship Effort

House Dems Push for Assault Weapons Ban  But that trick never works….

WATCH: 9-Year-Olds Lead Pride Month Celebration at Virginia Elementary School

How online communities feed the transgender spread

Home Depot CEO Warns ‘Organized’ Theft Tsunami Is “A Big Problem”

The Collapse Just Won’t Stop: 10 Weeks Later, Tranheuser Busch Sales Still Cratering, Down 27%

Major League Baseball Strikes All Pride Jerseys

The Democratic Party Is Run by Graduate Students

Trump scrambles to find lawyer on eve of first federal court appearance (Washington Post)

The latest on the federal indictment against Donald Trump (CNN)

Potential delay in Donald Trump’s arraignment as he may be struggling to find a lawyer (MSNBC)

Trump indictment shows federal secrecy gone wild makes political lies — like Biden’s — harder to uncover (N.Y. Post)

Floridians Would Make Up Trump’s Jury Pool. Here’s What Some Are Saying. (N.Y. Times)

Trump-backed Arizona ‘audit’ was even more of a debacle than previously known: newly unearthed texts (Raw Story)

Trump Has Options for Fighting Charges, but They Might Face Challenges (N.Y. Times)

Miami Braces for Trump’s Court Date and Crowds of Up to 50,000 (Bloomberg)

GOP rep accuses DOJ of setting trap to imprison Trump supporters: ‘They want J6 again’ (The Hill)

Magistrate to preside over Trump’s arraignment, not controversial Judge Aileen Cannon (Miami Herald)

CNN Attempts to Discredit Judge Presiding Over Trump Trial (NewsBusters)

Former FBI official details bureau’s disagreement with DOJ ahead of its Trump search (Politico)

Chris Christie Hammers Trump On Secret Document Indictment (Huffington Post) And as long as he does, the HuffPo will be happy to publicize it. (If he stops, of course, he’ll revert to beging The New Goering.)

Inside the Implosion of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Legal Team (Rolling Stone) The notion that anybody writing for Rolling Stone would have any access to Trump’s legal team is ludicrous. They’re just making it up.

How a Trump-Appointed Judge Could Influence His Documents Case (N.Y. Times)

Christie says conduct alleged in Trump indictment ‘awful,’ says ‘lot more information to come’ (The Hill) Christie, as usual, carries water for the Democrats.

How Trump Plans to Beat His Indictment, Politically (N.Y. Times) The NYT does it’s mind-reader trick.

The Media and the Perpetual Trump Prosecution Machine

Christie says Trump ‘will care less about the country this time than he did four years ago’ (The Hill)

Trump is calling for support for his court appearance. The far right may stay away (NPR) But I thought he was The New Hitler? Geez, NPR, get your story straight.

New indictment Trump is a triple threat to national security (MSNBC)

Trump Calls Out Prosecutor’s Conflicts of Interest, Dem Ties

The Media Used To Hate the Espionage Act. That Was Before Trump Was Charged Under the Law.

Nicolle Wallace Compares Trump Documents Case to Fictional Putin Coup

Ida B. Wells Society canceled programs for young journalists after UNC withheld millions in funding (NC News)

At least 9 injured in a mass shooting in downtown Denver, police say, soon after Nuggets’ NBA title win (CNN)

The planet’s coldest, saltiest ocean waters are heating up and shrinking, report finds (CNN)

Slowing deep Southern Ocean current may be linked to natural climate cycle – but that’s no reason to stop worrying about melting Antarctic ice (The Conversation)

Study: “Antarctic bottom water” supply shrinking rapidly (CNN)

Scotland records hottest day so far as heatwave hits (BBC)

Climate-Smart Cowboys Hope Regenerative Cattle Ranching Can Heal the Land and Sequester Carbon (Inside Climate Narrative News)

California Legislation Would Force Corporate Polluters to Come Clean (Mother Jones)

Meta, In-N-Out Burger challenge California bill requiring some companies to disclose greenhouse gas emissions (Fox)

Navajo Landowners Protest Biden Admin Decision To Ban Their Oil and Gas Developments

‘By No Means Unusual’: Media Used To Treat Wildfires Like They Were a Fact of Life. Because They Are.

RFK Jr.: Climate Change Being Exploited to Push Totalitarianism

Red states are blocking blue cities from setting climate policies (Washington Post)

Aussie Academics: Scaring School Children Improves their Climate Behaviour

Anatomy of a Scientific Scandal (City Journal)

‘Trans’ Censorship: YouTube SILENCES Jordan Peterson, Candace Owens, Michael Knowles

Media Give Italy’s Late Conservative Leader the ISIS Treatment

The Confederate Diaspora

‘Radical Pride’ March Features “Bullet For TERFs” Slogan

McCarthy to CNN Reporter: ‘You Can’t Put Words in My Mouth’  Sure they can. They do it every day. It’s their business model.

Why Conservatives Are Losing Their Minds Over Biden’s Pride Flag—and Ignoring Pro-DeSantis Neo-Nazis (The New Republic)

Maddow Suggests GOP Akin to 1930s French Fascist Movement  And Maddow is akin to the 1930s American Communist movement.

Ruhle Rewrites History, Attacks GOP ‘Misinformation’ On Hillary’s Server

EXPOSED: Far-Left Smear Factory That Attacked Moms for Liberty Exaggerates ‘Hate Groups’ by 267%

Morning Joe: Strip Security Clearances From GOP Trump Documents Defenders!

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

Last week we passed along the stunning news that two of the largest hotels in San Francisco have decided to walk away from their investment entirely, defaulting on $725 million in debt on the properties. Today the Wall Street Journal follows up with some comparisons with other cities. Short version: hotel traffic in other major cities has recovered, while hotel traffic in San Francisco has not….

The Foundry.

Chief Justice John Roberts famously wrote in a 2007 case: “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”

He was exactly right in saying so in that Supreme Court decision in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1.

Too bad Roberts didn’t follow his own admonition in Allen v. Milligan, the Alabama redistricting decision released last week by the Supreme Court.

Roberts has been a consistent disappointment.

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The fact of the matter is that we aren’t immune: Right now, today, each and every one of us is caught up in a cargo cult of some variety, going through pointless motions that we’ve been told (or that we’ve told ourselves) will lead to desirable outcomes. This occurs in business, in finance, in romance, and even in science… but one of its most insidious and impactful manifestations lies in entertainment and how we consume it.

Read it.

Prime Minister Kristersson promised reforms that could see violent offenders given heftier prison sentences and a policy that could ban them from certain districts and municipalities.

Kristersson also mentioned that “more people must learn the language,” hinting at the fact many of those involved in gun crime and criminal gangs are from migrant backgrounds, something only recently admitted by Swedish police and others in the Swedish establishment.

What to do when the US becomes uninsurable (Financial Times) Move to Texas.

Bud Light Appears In Promotional Material For “All Ages Drag Show Party” In Flagstaff

Baby Boomers Are Moving To Vegas And Tampa, Millennials Prefer Austin: America’s Great Migration In Real-Time

The Diversity Myth

This blue-state election compact could create a constitutional crisis (Washington Post)

Trans Cyclist Finishes NC Women’s Race 5 Minutes Ahead of Runner-Up

The little-noticed court decision that changed homelessness in America (Vox)

NYC’s Huge Wage Hike for App Delivery Workers Could Cost Customers $5 Per Meal

Planned Parenthood Annual Report: 374,000 Abortions, More ‘Transgender’ Services—While Taxpayers Chip in $670M

‘Let Me Finish’: Lindsey Graham Calls Out George Stephanopoulos for Bias on Hillary’s Emails

World Health Organization Releases Guide About Abortion Care, Doesn’t Mention “Baby” Once

Moving To ‘Wall Street South’ From NYC Can Save You Up To $200k

WATCH: Exploding the Malthusian, Anti-Human One Health Myth

‘Twitter Files’: FBI-Ukraine Censorship Alliance

12 Philly Cops Fired For Social Media Posts Can Sue The City, Appeals Court Rules

Judge Cannon beat the odds to draw new Trump case; She also got free trip to posh Yellowstone resort from right-wing law school (Florida Bulldog)

No Heroes for You, Whitey: Albany, N.Y., Has ‘Cancelled’ Gen. Philip Schuyler

Right-Wing Culture Warriors Are Oblivious to the Coming Backlash (Daily Beast) Au contraire, left-wing ‘culture warriors’ are oblivious to the coming right-wing backlash. Democrats forget that Republicans have most of the guns.

WOKE Tony Awards: Slam on ‘Grand Wizard’ Ron DeSantis, Non-Binary Winners

Actor Denee Benton Slams DeSantis as ‘Grand Wizard’

Soft vs. Hard Bigotry With the Ladies of ‘The View’

Dem-aligned groups launch campaign to keep Supreme Court front of mind in 2024 (NBC News)

Is the Law Coming for Erik Prince at Last? (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew demonstrate once again that they are just another bunch of Woke witch-hunters.

Aileen Cannon’s Previous Statements About Trump Demand Her Recusal (Slate)

Rubio Battles CBS Hosts Over Trump Indictment, Blatant Two-Tiered Justice System

Georgia GOP elects election deniers to key posts (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) In the Narrative media, ‘election denier’ is someone who suspects that Democrats might possibly cheat in an election.

Videos show people with Nazi flags, DeSantis signs outside Disney World (USA Today) Yet another Democrat false-flag operation, as they have done so often in the past.

Why Do Republicans Have a Selective Ability to Understand the Law? (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew demonstrate once again that they are just another bunch of Woke witch-hunters.

Trump Loses It After Bill Barr Calls the Indictment ‘Very Damning’ (Daily Beast)

Bill Barr rebuts Trump’s claim about indictment: He is not a victim here (CNN)

Bill Barr says Trump’s indictment is ‘very damning’ if ‘even half of it is true’ (Fox)

Trump to host first major fundraiser the day of his arraignment (Politico)

‘Saddest case’ Lindsey Graham buried by authoritarian expert for clinging to Trump (Raw Story)

Trump’s Indictment Is Worse Than You Think It Is (National Review)

Eric Holder: Trump conviction could lead to impeachment, removal from office (The Hill)

Jordan defends Trump: A president can control access to classified material ‘however he wants’ (Politico)

Judicial Watch: ‘Indictment Won’t Survive Scrutiny’

CBS Poll: Trump’s GOP Primary Lead Grows to 38 Points After Indictment

Trump’s Miami court date brings fears of violence, rally plans (Washington Post)

Slate.com Panic Attack Over Trump-Appointed Judge Selected in Trump Documents Case

Dem Eric Holder Talking Trump Impeachment 3.0

CBS Poll: 80 Percent of GOP Voters Say Trump Should Be President, Even if Convicted

Here’s what’s most obscene about GOPers crying ‘injustice!’ over Trump indictment (Philadelphia Inquirer) Will Bunch is the Designated Witch-Hunter over at the PI.

Why Trump was charged on secret documents and Clinton, Pence were not (Washington Post) “Orange Man Bad”.

White House Backtracks: Admits China Had A Spy Base In Cuba For Years, Blames Trump

‘I Want Blood’: Heavily-Armed Trump Supporters Say They’ll Protest Trump’s Indictment (Vice) Further evidence of why Vice went bankrupt.

PBS ‘Washington Week’ Insists Biden’s ‘Independent’ of Justice Dept. on Trump Matters  And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

Proud Boys Too Upset About Bud Light to Care About Trump’s Indictment (Vice) They’re obviously just making this stuff up.

Putin’s Pals Dream Up Fresh Plot to Help Trump Beat Biden (Daily Beast) When you’re just making it all up, the sky is the limit.

Six theses on the Trump indictment, part 2

New criminal charges haven’t changed Republicans’ view of Trump, polls say (Axios) they know a witch-hunt when they see one.

We need to talk about Trump’s bathroom chandelier (Washington Post) Scraaaaaaape that barrel….

Ukraine Situation Report: Advances Made In Grueling Fight

How Ukraine’s dam collapse is turning into a slow-moving ecological catastrophe (PBS)

How JFK Would Pursue Peace In Ukraine

Ukraine: Gains in ‘First Results’ of Counterattack

China Spends $700 Billion on Military, US ‘Behind the Curve’

Israel Drills for War With Iran Following UN ‘Capitulation’ on Nukes

White House accused of US Flag Code violation over Pride Month display (N.Y. Post)

Biden shows love for LGBTQ+ at White House Pride event (Reuters)

The surprising corner of the Senate that’s sinking Biden nominees (Politico)

US Rejoins UNESCO, Pays Back Over $600 Million in Dues  Wasting taxpayer money is what Democrats do best.

Biden deserves same treatment as Trump for his classified documents scandal (N.Y. Post) But he won'[t get it. Rules are for Dirt People, not for Cloud People.

CNN Legal Analysts Rip DOJ for Hunter Biden Inaction

Trump Vows ’25 Retaliation After Biden Broke ‘Seal’  What goes around,  comes around.

Dems Jockey To Replace Biden in Case ‘Slippy Joe’ Doesn’t Survive His Next Fall

BioNTech faces first German lawsuit over alleged COVID vaccine side effects (Reuters)

The Capitalists Who Fear Capitalism

Covid-19 Created In Wuhan Lab Through Classified Bioweapons Program: US Investigators

The Great Grift: How Billions in COVID Relief Was Stolen

FDA: New COVID Vaccines Should Target XBB Variants

ZMan turns over a rock.

One line of attack against various forms of socialism has been that these organizational models run contrary to human nature. Humans naturally want to keep the produce of their labor, so any system that requires them to give over their labor to the whole is going to require a great deal of force to implement. Similarly, humans are not equal in ability, so there will always be unequal outcomes. A system that supposes no one is in charge and everyone is equal is unnatural.

Libertarianism has a similar problem. Like communism, it assumes things about humans that are not true. This is why there are no libertarian societies. As Hans Hermann-Hoppe observed, there is no way to go from the present to a libertarian society within the rules of libertarianism. More important, there is no way to maintain a libertarian society within the rules of libertarianism. Like communism, libertarians imagine a world that is odds with the human condition.

In both cases, what we see is a clash between the model-dependent reality of the ideology and reality itself. It is not hard to imagine a society that operates by the sorts of rules the ideologue prefers. The trouble comes when you try to implement the scheme on flesh and blood human beings. As with every model, there are going to be things the model must ignore in order to make sense. In real life, the things that exist outside the model tend to land in a death camp.

Strategy Page.

Threatened by North Korean nuclear weapons and communist Chinese conventional air and missile fires, South Korea has decided to spend serious money on an old but often spurned military concept: the arsenal ship.

The concept is simple. Take a very large but comparatively inexpensive civilian commercial ship. Oil supertankers and huge container carriers fit the profile perfectly — they’re inexpensive when compared to navy warships.

Now pack the ship with vertical launchers and several hundred long- and mid-range missiles capable of destroying enemy shore targets and perhaps enemy surface ships. Add short-range air and missile defense weapons and presto, enormous sea mobile firepower bang for the buck, or in South Korea’s case, bang for their wons.

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

After the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954 ended segregation in public schools, many jurisdictions in the south engaged in what they openly called “massive resistance” to the Court’s decree, and enforcing the decision required both legislation and many follow-up lawsuits at every level of the federal judiciary for many years after.

It appears colleges and universities are already preparing their own “massive resistance” to a prospective Supreme Court finding later this month striking down race-conscious admissions (fingers crossed after the inexplicable VRA ruling last week).

Kakhovka dam collapse has made Black Sea a ‘garbage dump and animal cemetery,’ Ukraine warns (CNN)

US Confirms China Spy Base in Cuba Since at Least 2019

Zelensky Belatedly Confirms That Major Ukraine Offensive Has Begun

Europe: Is compulsory military service coming back?

Give War A Chance – A ‘War That Even Pacifists Can Get Behind’

Russia Shells Boats in Ukraine Flood Rescue; 3 Dead

Academic Journal Editor Faces Cancel Attempt For Allowing Debate On Transgenderism

Disturbing fliers targeting LGBTQ+ community found in Target parking lot (ABC) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

Liberal Podcaster Kara Swisher: CNN Overlord ‘Needs to Get the F—k Out of the Way’

Nazi demonstrators brandish Ron DeSantis 2024 signs outside of Disney World (Florida Politics) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

Graham Goes Nuclear on ABC, Confronts Media’s Clinton Email Hypocrisy

Ron DeSantis Thinks Power Corrupts … Everyone Else (Washington Post) Ezra Klein is one of the WaPo’s reliable stable of witch-hunters.

California Bill Would Punish Parents For Misgendering Children

The 2024 G.O.P. Field Faces a Choice: Law and Order or Loyalty (N.Y. Times) Democrats and the Narrative media have already answered that question.

Now Political Polarization Comes for Marriage Prospects (The Atlantic) Would you want to marry someone who was likely to wake up some morning and decide he or she was trans? I wouldn’t.

Anger and anxiety as DeSantis’s asylum-seeker flights return to US skies (The Guardian)

Newsom claims DeSantis’ migrant flights have a ‘different spirit,’ worse than Biden’s in ‘Hannity’ exclusive (Fox)

Migrant flight gripes continue from Gavin Newsom (Florida Politics)

I’m a liberal — it’s hard to find masculine men to date who aren’t conservative (N.Y. Post) Better get used to it, sweetheart.

Oversight GOP: Dem Members Lying About FBI Doc

CEO Talk Of “Shrink” Hits Record On Earnings Calls Amid Nationwide Shoplifting Crisis

New ‘0% Handgun’ Shows Biden’s ATF Losing Control Over Regulating 2nd Amendment

ESG Dystopia: Why Corporations Are Doubling Down On Woke Even As They Lose Billions

The Publisher Censoring Roald Dahl is Suing Florida Schools for ‘Banning Books’

Spyware Could End Malta’s Golden Passports

Europe’s Digital Services Act Puts Free Speech At The Mercy Of Eurocrats

England’s Health Service Says It Won’t Give Puberty Blockers to Children at Gender Clinics

Fire Under I-95 Causes Section to Collapse, Closing Interstate in Both Directions  Philadelphia. Just sayin’….

Ramaswamy Schools CNN’s Bash: Media’s Doing Biden’s Bidding

West Coast Port Paralysis Returns, But This Time It’s Not Covid’s Fault  Look for … the Union label….

Six People Shot in Parking Lot Outside Houston Club, Police Say

Mass shooting outside Houston club leaves 6 injured (NBC News)

S.F. mass shooting: Police ID person of interest also sought in Oakland killing (S.F. Chronicle)

Some Dems Uneasy About Cornel West’s Third Party Presidential Run

Donald Trump Rallies Supporters After “Explosive” Indictment (NDTV)

Michael Cohen reacts to Trump’s indictment in the classified documents case (MSNBC)

Republicans reaction to indictment shows Trump was right about them all along (Charlotte Observer)

Three ways the indictment of Donald Trump hurts America (The Hill)

Trump delivers fiery post-indictment speech: ‘They’re coming after you’ (NBC News) This is the core of Trump’s most powerful message:

Trump Says ‘He’ll Never Leave’ Race, Even After Indictment

Trump Left the Justice Dept. No Choice (N.Y. Times) Yeah–he wasn’t a Biden or a Clinton.

Trump Apologizes for Getting CNN CEO Licht Fired

Trump Supporters’ Violent Rhetoric in His Defense Disturbs Experts (N.Y. Times) Although they’re apparently fine with BLM and Antifa violent rhetoric.

How Walt Nauta, a Personal Aide, Came to be Charged as Trump’s Co-Conspirator (N.Y. Times) Let no Trump minion escape persecution….

Indicting an ex-president and leading candidate requires more than this (Washington Post)

He devised a fringe legal theory to try to keep Trump in power. Now he’s on the verge of being disbarred. (Politico) Let no Trump minion escape persecution….

Lindsey Graham: Indictment Will Make Trump ‘Stronger’

Turley: Trying Trump – Scandal May Be His Element… But This Time May Be Different

CBS Fears Indictment Will Create Appetite for Trump in 2024  That’s what happens when you don’t think things through.

How the Florida judge overseeing Trump’s trial could hobble the Justice Department’s case (NBC News) OH NOES!

Six months after ‘zero Covid,’ U.S. firms in China still face ‘uncertainty on top of uncertainty’ (NBC News)

White House mandates masks, distancing for unvaccinated — despite emergency’s end (N.Y. Post)

Your Papers, Please

Inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid

Case Closed: It Was a Lab Leak

Mad Gerald: “COVID Shots Are Still One Giant Experiment”

Wildfires are now reshaping human life in an uncontrollable way (Washington Post)

Wildfires are fuelling eco-anxiety but taking climate action can help, experts say (CTV News)

They left California to escape wildfires. Then New York turned orange. (Washington Post) Foolish progs. If they’d gone to Texas or Florida they’d be fine.

When it comes to wildfires, we’re all Westerners now (The Hill)

Galveston sea-level rise some of Earth’s swiftest (Galveston County Daily News)

The Environmental Disaster of “Green” Energy

Germany’s Regulator Warns The Energy Crisis Is Far From Over

UK Windfall Tax To Be Scrapped If Oil And Gas Prices Fall To “Normal Levels”

What the Media Won’t Tell you About … Wildfires

EPA sued over pesticide-coated seeds’ ‘devastating impacts’ on US wildlife (The Guadian)

Top Biden Administration Official Admits To Lying To Congress

Biden Marks Pride Month With WH Celebration  Celebrating abnormality and perversion is what Democrats love to do.

Commodity Prices Debunk The “Blame Ukraine” Excuse For Inflation

Van Drew to Newsmax: WH ‘Purposefully’ Behind Border Crisis

Wall Street Journal.

I am not making this up.

9 are shot, but expected to survive, in San Francisco Mission district

NYPD Commissioner Losing Power Under Mayor Adams

This country’s love affair with air conditioning shows a Catch 22 of climate change (CNN)

Zuckerberg says ‘establishment’ asked Facebook to censor COVID misinfo that ended up true: ‘Undermines trust’ (Fox) And of course they went ahead and did so.

If It’s Not Open Warfare, It’s Collusive Lawfare

“Green” Energy Threatens South Korea’s Economy

The case for bullying hippies

Kerry Unhinged: Fighting Climate Deniers is like the D-Day Pushback Against Hitler

German Greens Target Meat Eaters With Advertising Ban

Green Remorse: Germany Cools on EU Boiler Ban

Exxon: New Fracking Technology Can Double Oil Output  Cue increased ‘activism’.

David Stockman On The Phony Climate Change Catastrophe… And Why Americans Will Foot The Bill

Wildfires are now reshaping human life in an uncontrollable way (Washington Post) If the government would just stop listening to Eco-Nazis….

You are being conned: Data, studies & UN IPCC all reveal Canadian fires not due to ‘climate change’ – ‘There has been a significant & continuing decline in the number of fires’

Biden Energy Secretary Granholm admits false testimony about owning stocks (Fox) But nothing will happen because she’s a Democrat.

The IRS is cracking down on a popular small business tax break that could lead to a costly audit (CNBC)

CARES Act Employee Retention Credit (ERC): Increase In Scammers And Delays In Refunds (Forbes)

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week (Vol. 46)

Biden Names New Border Patrol Chief as Immigration Policies Come Under Scrutiny (N.Y. Times)

Dozens Of Capitol Police Riot Helmets Were Confiscated Just Before Jan. 6, Former Lieutenant Says

Trump indictment thrusts Biden into unprecedented territory (Washington Post)

Biden Elevating Islam at the Expense of Christians and Jews

Biden Admin To Appoint Anti-Book Ban Coordinator As Part Of LGBT Push

GOP “Wrecking Ball” Erodes Support For Woke ESG Shareholder Proposals

Target Shares Hit With Another Downgrade

California Advances Bill To Help Shoplifters Steal

Panicked LGBTQ Group Declares ‘National Emergency’ As Fed-Up Americans Pose Threat To Its Institutional Power

Baltimore’s Top Cop Abruptly Steps Down, Leaves Crime-Fighting Plan In Limbo 

In 2023, Forcing Women to See Penises Isn’t Sexual Harassment. It’s the Law.

How ‘Child-Friendly’ Drag Events Can Expose Children To Sex Offenders

PBS, NPR, and VOA Provide a Puffy Play Mat for Democrats

Colorado Bans Court-Ordered “Brainwashing” Camps For Abused Minors

California Bill Would Redefine ‘Infertility’ To Give Men Access to Pregnancy Treatments

AP Stands for ‘Associated Pride’ with One-Sided Pride Month Propaganda

Gender’s Truth-Distortion Field

20 Years Ago: Media Saluted Hillary’s ‘Candid’ Scandal Fairy Tale

ProPublica Under Fire for Millions in Secret Donations

NC GOP Votes to Censure Tillis for Support of LGBTQ+, Immigration

The Unabomber’s Transgenderism

Biden Administration Announces Additional Security Assistance for Ukraine (Dept. of Defense) KA-CHING!

Putin Reveals New Details On Positioning Tactical Nukes In Belarus

Russia’s Gasoline Exports Have Surged By 37% This Year

Iranian Drone Factory To Be Built Outside Moscow, White House Says

Breakthrough Near In Ukraine?

Sweden Will Allow NATO Deployments In ‘Signal To Russia’

Zelenskyy: Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Underway; Generals Happy

Poland Was Likely Base Of Operations For Nord Stream Sabotage, German Investigation Finds

US Announces New $2.1 Billion Weapons Package For Ukraine

Zuckerberg says ‘establishment’ asked Facebook to censor COVID misinfo that ended up true: ‘Undermines trust’ (Fox) And of course they went ahead and did so.

Lockdown lessons

More Than 100 Young Children Suffered Seizures After COVID Vaccination: Study

NBC Journo Plays P.R. Assistant for Newsom Wanting to Arrest DeSantis, Pass Gun Grab

Russiagate: The Scandal That Became Business As Usual

Why Is The Establishment So Scared Of RFK Jr.?

Jays Cut Pitcher Who Backed Target, Bud Light Boycotts

Amanpour Pushes Coons to Deride Republicans on Environmental Policy

DHS Awarded $750k Grant to SPLC Partner to ‘Inoculate’ Teens Against Extremism

PBS: ‘Sickening’ GOP Calls Trump Indictment ‘Selective Prosecution’

Trump Extremists Demand Civil War, Mass Murder After New Indictment (Rolling Stone) Let’s see … nope, no mention of BLM or Antifa or Extinction Rebellion or Greenpeace or the New Black Panthers or….

Who Is Walt Nauta, the Other Person Indicted Along With Trump? (N.Y. Times) Maggie Haberman is in charge of Let No Trump Minion Escape The Thought Police.

House Dems Refer FBI Whistleblower for Alleged Lie to Congress

Leaked Video Shows D.C. Cops Were ‘Rioters’ And Instigators At J-6 Protest

MSNBC.com Calls for Comedians to Censor Themselves (Indefinitely)

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Wants to Be President. Cheryl Hines Is Along for the Ride. (N.Y. Times) Republicans talk about issues. Democrats talk about personalities.

Software VP Fired For Using ‘Assigned By God’ As Preferred Pronoun Sues Employer

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The Finance website Insider Monkey used the latest homicide data to find which US cities have the highest number of murders so far this year. It is no surprise that many of the most dangerous metros are run by Democrats.

Insider Monkey compiled a list of 30 US cities using the FBI’s Quarterly Uniform Crime Report and police department data. For simplicity reasons, we’re only concentrating on half of the list — so 1-15.

And what we discovered is that metros between 1-15 were all controlled by Democrats. Not shocking whatsoever, considering their social justice reform policies are backfiring and turning many metro areas into crime-ridden hellholes.

Read it.

With experienced pilots and ground crew leaving the service in droves, the Army is struggling to balance equipment modernization and unit training for large-scale, drone-driven war.

Washington Post.

Spoiler alert: NYC mayor could complicate Dem plans to retake the House (Politico)

Minnesota Democrats Approve Free College For Illegal Immigrants as They Hike Taxes on Residents

Girl Scouts Unveil ‘LGBTQ+ Pride’ Patches

Portland Rolls Back Sidewalk Camping Ban It Didn’t Enforce Anyway

WATCH: PBS Reporter Echoes Activist Talking Points Defending Irreversible Trans Procedures for Kids

DEFUND PBS: Reporter Lobs ‘Question’ to Biden About ‘Anti-LGBTQ’ ‘Intimidation’

West Coast Dockworkers Making $200K Demand Higher Pay

Rep. Jordan Says FTC’s Actions Against Twitter Political

Former AG Barr: Dem Rep. Raskin Spread Disinformation

Scarborough Dismisses Comer’s Biden Investigation Before It’s Really Started

California Bill Would Punish Parents Who Don’t ‘Affirm’ Their Child’s Gender Identity

Tucker Talks Taboos After MSM Ignores Instagram Kiddie-Porn Bombshell

Jaw Dropping Stats – Reports Of Bud Light Memorial Day Sales Dropping -60% As Brand Boycott Continues

CNN’s Mostly False Take on Biden’s Stance on Abortion

This Is Not the Time for a Third Presidential Candidate (N.Y. Times) David Brooks, ‘conservataive’ poodle at the NYT, earns his keep.

30 San Francisco Hotels Face Incoming Debt Maturity Wall As Default Dominos Begin

Judge Rules Spa Must Accept Trans Women With Penises  Washington State. Time to leave.

‘Other Unruly Acts’ in Killadelphia

US Air Force Tweets Photo of Soldier Saluting LGBTQ Flag

Dark Money Watchdog ProPublica Rakes in Millions From Undisclosed Donors

60 Companies That Are Celebrating LGBTQ Pride Month More Quietly

Biden dismisses ‘malarkey’ FBI tip claiming he played a role in Burisma bribe scheme: ‘Where’s the money?’ (N.Y. Post) In the Caymans?

The week in whoppers: Pooh-pooing Biden corruption, CNN’s tone-shift on prez and more (N.Y. Post)

Texas to deploy inflatable border along Rio Grande River in Eagle Pass (Fox)

Joe Biden allegedly paid $5M by Burisma executive as part of a bribery scheme, according to FBI document (Fox)

Inflation & Biden Regulations Are Making Life Hard; Small Business Owners Say

ATF Rule Effectively Turns Gun Owners Into Felons

Report: FBI Doc Says Burisma Exec Paid Biden $5M in Bribery Scheme

Revealed: Bombshell FBI Document Alleges $5 Million Bribe Paid To Joe Biden By Burisma Exec

White House: DOJ to Work ‘Hand in Hand’ With LGBTQ Groups Against Threats of ‘Domestic Extremists,’ ‘Hate Groups’

Networks Ignore Revelation Joe Biden Reportedly Received $5 Million from Burisma

CIA Slammed For ‘Dystopian’ Pride Tweet

Biden Admin Interfered to Prevent Release of Censorship Docs Exposing DHS

Stephanopoulos Feigns Outrage When (Now Former) Trump Lawyer Brings Up Biden Docs

Nothing to See Here but a Credible Whistleblower Accusing the President of Bribery  (The Foundry)

DHS Sought To Assign Social Credit Style “Risk Scores” To Social Media Users

How the DEA Scrubbed Thomas Jefferson’s Poppy Garden from Public Memory

Biden Let America Get Bullied by Saudis, Leaked Docs Show

Mexico Threatens Legal Action Over Florida Migrant Flights

New York lawmakers pass bill that considers reparations for slavery (Associated Press) Time for white people to bail out of New York.

NY Lawmakers Pass ‘Historic’ Bill To Consider Slavery Reparations

WATCH: Ibram X. Kendi Suggests Tim Scott Doesn’t ‘Understand Racism’  Guess Scott isn’t black enough.

Illinois To Grant $300k to Black Lives Matter Chapter Led by Convicted Felon  Your tax dollars at work.

Inclusive Bigotry: Watch These Adorable Muslim Children Stomp All Over the LGBTQQIP2SAA+ Pride Flag

Right-Wing Trump Supporter Charged in Murder of Black Transgender Woman

The Checkup With Dr. Wen: A middle ground on masking in health-care settings (Washington Post)

Biden COVID Response Head Ashish Jha Departing

The FDA Pledges To “Stop The Spread” Of Misinformation

The Foundry.

Are you ready for the government to take away your car? New proposed regulations on automobile emissions from the Environmental Protection Agency would require 60% of new car sales to be electric vehicles by 2030 and 67% by 2032, compared to the fewer than 6% that were on the road in 2022—for no environmental benefit.?

Those who like electric vehicles, or EVs, are in luck. But those who prefer gasoline-powered cars will see significant increases in their costs, both for new and used cars.

Theodore Dalrymple.

Last week I reviewed a book published by an American academic press—it hardly matters the title or author, for in the respect to which I wish to draw your attention they are almost all the same these days. With few exceptions, they capitalize the word black when it refers to a person, while keeping white (or brown) in the lower case.

This is no doubt a fashion, but it does not seem a purely spontaneous one. If there is no central enforcement, there might as well be one. The presses have been invaded by the termites of wokeness so thoroughly that there is no need of central direction.

It is unlikely in any case that the authors put up much of a fight, if any, against the imposition; most of them probably don’t even see it as an imposition. I suspect, however, that any author who did want to resist the fashion would soon be faced by a stiff fight, which he would probably lose. His desire to be published would overcome his scruples on a matter of principle.

The Antiplanner.

The owner of San Francisco’s first and fourth largest hotels announced Monday that it is going to walk away from the mortgage it owes for those buildings. The owners of the Hilton Union Square Hotel noted that San Francisco’s path to recovery remains clouded and elongated by major challenges,” including the fact that fewer groups want to hold conventions in a city now more famous for its homeless population than its cable cars and restaurants.

Last month, Nordstrom said that it was closing both its stores in downtown San Francisco. “The dynamics of the downtown San Francisco market have changed dramatically over the past several years,” said a Nordstrom official, “impacting customer foot traffic to our stores and our ability to operate successfully.”

The month before that, Whole Foods closed its downtown San Francisco store. The company cited safety concerns for its employees, but drug-related retail theft also played a role in the decision.