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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.

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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

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.

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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.

OffGuardian.

Canadian wildfires are all over the headlines, but this latest dose of climate-related fear-porn is just another stage in a propaganda campaign aiming to “pivot from covid to climate”.

CNN Claims Fewer Deaths, Less Racism with Electric Cars

Man sexually assaulted woman at CTA station three days after being paroled for his 10th felony: prosecutors (CWB Cbicago)

Mayor Eric Adams’ Sister-In-Law Landed $150,000 City Government Gig (The City) What’s the use of having power if you can’t abuse it?

CBS Brings in Leftists Gorman, Kendi to Screech Racism in ‘Banned Books’ Fight

NYC Mayor Blocked From Giving Six-Figure Job to Brother—But Hands One to His Sister-in-Law

‘Diablo IV’ skips Mac gamers, and Whoopi Goldberg is mad about it

Cornel West Has No Business Running for President (The Nation) Can’t have them darkies getting off of the Progressive Plantation. They need to learn their place.

Fact checking Mike Pence’s CNN town hall in Iowa (CNN)

Supreme Court justices, minus Thomas, and Alito, file financial disclosure reports (NPR) In which nobody had any interest prior to the witch-hunt against Clarence Thomas.

Supreme Court financial disclosures detail flower gift from Oprah, book royalties and overseas travel (CNN) In which nobody had any interest before the Court gained a conservative majority.

Jackson lists flowers from Oprah in financial disclosure, Thomas delays his report (MSNBC)

Justice Thomas delays disclosures after reports of travel, property sale (Washington Post)

Ultrawealthy heterosexual couples are living like the 1950s never ended, according to research of 30 years of data (Fortune) Dunh duhn DUNHHHHH….

“Yesterday’s Soccer Mom Is Today’s Domestic Extremist”: A Guide To Surviving The Culture

First There Were Neo-Nazis, Then There Were No Nazis, Then There Were

Yes, We’re in an L.G.B.T.Q. State of Emergency (N.Y. Times)

MSNBC Deems Parent Organizations Hate Groups

GOP’s booming support for guns is turning off millennial, Gen Z Republicans (Politico)

Tucker Carlson Traffics in Antisemitic Tropes About Ukraine’s Zelenskyy on Twitter Show Debut (Haaretz) No, he doesn’t. (Haaretz is the Israeli clone of The New Republic.)

Joe Biden takes steps to protect LGBTQ Americans amid onslaught of attacks (USA Today) There are no ‘attacks’, merely pushback against their pervert-normalizing agenda.

Ruhle Yells at Republican: It’s ‘Factually Incorrect’ to Make Inflation an Issue

Anti-abortion politicians never intended to support women and children (The Hill) Who knew that Kelly Baden could read minds?

Jan. 6 cases yield courtroom wins but no change in extremist threat (Washington Post) Because there was never such a threat in the first place; it was only a transparent excuse.

MSNBC’s Claire McCaskill Mocks Trump In Ankle Bracelet, DeSantis in ‘Snow White’ Boots Republicans talk about issues, Democrats talk about personalities.

Analysis of Voting Patterns in Congress Shows Hill Democrats Are the True Extremists

MSNBC Ignores Soros Connection to Extremist Group Smearing Moms as Bigots

America’s Suburbs Are Breeding Grounds for Fascism (The Nation) Yup–wherever you find Democrats, you’ll find fascists.

New York City latest to sue Hyundai and Kia claiming their cars are too easy to steal  Well, if they’d actually enforce the law….

Mayo Clinic medical college to doctor: Sit down and shut up

NPR or DNC? Jeffries Whacks ‘Extreme’ GOP Five Times, Compares Pelosi to Michael Jordan

George Santos’ Lawyer Was Part of the January 6 Mob (Mother Jones) Mother Jones cuts to the Narrative….

Clarence Thomas wrote a scathing, nearly 50-page dissent about why the Supreme Court should have gutted voting rights (Insider) Uh, no, he didn’t.

The world’s biggest companies have made almost no progress on limiting global warming since 2018 (CNN)

125-degree heat index: Puerto Rico faces ‘dangerous situation’ due to record-breaking conditions (NBC News)

Historic heat is roasting Puerto Rico, where it feels like 125 degrees (Washington Post)

Puerto Rico breaks record with 125-degree heat index, causing power outages and serious health risks (N.Y. Daily News)

Life-threatening heat sears Puerto Rico as heat index climbs above 110 degrees (N.Y. Post)

Big oil uncovered – about this Guardian series (The Guardian) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

Radical Climate Group Deflating SUV Tires, Says It Has ‘Active Groups’ In 18 Countries, Including US

Reid Fearmongers Over Wildfires, Blames U.S. Oil Consumption

Caltech claims to have beamed energy to Earth from satellite

Ocean Currents Are Slowing, With Potentially Devastating Effects  (Wired ‘Science’)

Socialism Ruins The Environment

Smoky New York isn’t climate change — it’s bad forest management (N.Y. Post)

The Nanny State Strikes Again: 30C Heat Health Alert?

Arctic Ice: A History of Failed Predictions

Alarm at rightwing push to reverse clean-energy success in Texas and beyond (The Guardian) Making energy more expensive and less reliable is not ‘success’.

The stigma around weight and the complexity of obesity treatment  Who’s turn is it to be the victim?

Mayor Breed’s comments on S.F. nightlife draw criticism from venue owners: ‘We desperately need tangible solutions’ (S.F. Chronicle)

‘Do Something’: Mother of Teen Pushed Onto Subway Tracks Demands Eric Adams Crack Down on Crime

New York City Sues Counties That Refused To Accept Migrant Buses

Soros-Funded DA Gives Teen Linked to 3 Murders Just 7 Years in Prison

Chicago Mayor Johnson’s Latest ‘Yes, He Really Said That’ Comments On Crime

NYC Sues 30 Counties With Migrant Relocation Bans

CBS Attempts to Normalize Sex Change Surgeries for Minors

“Literally Impossible”: Trucking Companies Brace For California’s Electric Mandate  That has never stopped Democrats before.

Scarborough Gaslights American Public, Denies Biden Inflation Failure

Rule By Decree: The Emergency State’s Plot To Override The Constitution

BBC Is Biased “On Occasion”, Admits UK Culture Secretary

Mellman: Extremism is more bipartisan than Democrats want to believe (The Hill)

New York Dems Want to Free ‘Son of Sam,’ All Serial Killers

Member States Resist ‘Voluntary’ Obligation of EU Migration Pact

Gavin Newsom wants 28th Amendment for guns in U.S. Constitution (Politico) Good luck with that.

There’s No ‘XY’ in Female Sports

PolitiFact Defends Target for Backing Group Pushing Secret Child Gender Transitions

Nike To Host Drag Shows, LGBT Movie Night For Pride Month  Fortunately, New Balance shoes are better.

US CDC sets first federal target for ventilation of indoor air to lower risk

France legalizes remote camera and microphone activation in smartphones

Colorado Bans Local Governments From Jailing Immigrants for ICE  The problem is elected officials (DEMOCRATS) who refuse to enforce the law.

Every major U.S. news organization is now officially helmed by a woman (Fortune) No wonder they’re all dying.

WATCH: RFK Jr Gives Video Tour of ‘Unsustainable’ Southern Border

Trump informed he is target of special counsel criminal probe (CBS News) My, what a surprise.

Justice Department informs Trump he is target in classified documents probe, sources say (CNN)

Trump targeted for DOJ indictment for first time, Report (MSNBC)

Jim Jordan tries (again) to intervene in DOJ’s Trump probe (MSNBC)

Rep. Jim Jordan demands AG Garland hand over special counsel memo in Trump probe (N.Y. Post)

Democrats accuse GOP of overstepping authority on Trump probes (The Hill)

The electoral threat of another Trump indictment (Washington Post)

Report: DOJ Set to Ask Grand Jury to Indict Trump for Docs (NewsMax) But not Biden, of course.

Trump Accuses DOJ Prosecutor of Attempted Bribery (NewsMax) Stirring the pot is what Trump does best.

Pence is uniquely situated to torpedo Trump’s campaign (Washington Post) More wishful thinking on the part of the Narrative media. Nobody who listens to Mike Pence would vote for Trump anyway, so there’s nothing Pence can do or say that will affect Trumps support base.

Donald Trump asks for new trial in E. Jean Carroll case (NBC)

Covid-19 pandemic ‘lowered cancer survival rates’ in NI (BBC)

Ohio resident sought by scientists may have had ‘cryptic’ COVID strain for 2 years (The Hill)

Nurse Injured By COVID-19 Vaccine Heading To Trial Against Former Employer

US Munitions Stockpile Too Low To Defend In War Over Taiwan

Russia Blames Ukraine For Ammonia Pipeline Sabotage, Civilians Injured

Yacht Watch: Oligarchs Triumph in Courts (So Far)

Ukraine’s Military Says Counteroffensive Has Begun, Intensified Fighting Confirmed

China to Open Anti-US Spy Base in Cuba

UK Universities Are Helping Iran Develop Military Weapons

Russia Shells Ukrainian City Inundated by Dam Collapse

9to5Mac.

Earlier this year, Reuters published an excellent report exposing the false recycling practices of Dow Inc. and the Singapore government using Apple’s AirTag item tracker. In a similar vein, journalist Pamela Cerdeira has now shared a new video in which she used AirTags to track donations made in Mexico that were supposed to be sent to Turkey in response to the devastating earthquakes that hit the country earlier this year.

The donations were collected by the Mexico government, but it turns out those donations never made it to Turkey. In fact, they never made it out of Mexico City.

Yeah, we really need more Mexicans in the United States.