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.

The American Mind.

Former president and current presidential candidate Donald Trump pledged to end birthright citizenship in a recent campaign announcement, promising to sign an executive order on his first day in office to prevent “the future children of illegal aliens” from receiving automatic citizenship. The proposal promises to clarify at least a century of constitutional ambiguity on the subject of American citizenship and its automatic bestowal upon anyone born on the soil of the nation. Immigration has emerged as the most important domestic issue in the 2024 election cycle, with estimates of upwards of ten million illegal aliens flooding the country under the Biden regime. The magnitude of the ongoing crisis far surpasses the number of illegal border crossings in the lead up to the 2016 presidential election, when then-candidate Trump first proposed the idea in response to a crisis whose scale was itself unprecedented for the time. Nearly a decade later, the problem has only worsened. The need for dramatic action—even more than in Trump’s first term—is palpable.

The idea that the Fourteenth Amendment does not license birthright citizenship based on its proper, constitutional interpretation has found support from both legal scholars and political historians. The text of the amendment itself reads, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.” Of controversy is whether the phrase “all persons born or naturalized in the United States” should be read in conjunction with—“and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” As scholars John Eastman and Michael Anton, as well as others, have persuasively argued, the plain meaning of the text itself requires that both elements of that constructive phrase be satisfied in order to qualify for the fruits of citizenship. In other words, a person must not only be born “in the United States”—i.e., the geographical region over which the laws of the United States apply—but also be “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” To fully qualify for citizenship, a person born within the United States must owe no allegiance to any other sovereign—he or she must, in other words, exclusively qualify under the laws of the United States alone.

Read it.

Canada reached a new high in the number of assisted suicides last year, registering a 34% increase in people opting to end their lives under the world’s most liberal euthanasia laws in just one year, the Daily Mail reported on Wednesday, June 7th. Anti-euthanasia activists blame the “heavy promotion” of assisted suicide for this steep incline.

BBC.

For 17-year-old Rutvij Holay, getting into an Ivy League university mattered.
These institutions represent the elite of the elite in higher education in the US.

His parents came to the country from India and “started from scratch”, he said, so that he could achieve the American Dream.

…

With a resume boasting high test results, work volunteering for political organisations, prestigious leadership awards and the ability to speak five languages, he entered the admissions process with confidence.

He says he applied to 35 different schools, though Harvard was not one of them.
But, he says with a sigh: “I was rejected from all the Ivy League universities.”

Although he cannot provide any concrete evidence, Rutvij believes that admissions officers discriminated against him because he is Asian American.

“The worry that myself and many other Asian Americans have is that when admission officer sees Patel, when he sees a Lee, when he sees a Kim, when he sees any Asian last name, basically the image that comes up is kid just sitting in his school on classes studying away math, and not doing anything that has an impact on society,” he said.

The Guardian.

France Info reported that the man was aged 32, was carrying Syrian identity papers and was an asylum seeker. BFMTV reported that the man had refugee status.

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

Biden ‘knew of Ukrainian plan to attack Nord Stream’ three months before explosion (The Guardian)

What Good Economy? NBC Highlights College Grads Losing Job Offers Under Biden

FBI Conduct Sparks Protest At Federal Building In Detroit

2M Immigrants Released Into US ‘Here Indefinitely’

Watch: Biden Press Secretary Defends Him Continually Stumbling And Falling Over

Arkansas Judge Orders Hunter Biden Back to Court, Says Burden Is on Him to Avoid Jail Time

Biden CDC Official Was at Center of Cuomo Nursing Home Deaths Scandal

NYC Gets $104M From FEMA to Deal With Migrant Crisis

Government Considers Releasing Space Aliens In San Francisco Where They Won’t Be Noticed (Babylon Bee)

Your cold-like or COVID symptoms may actually be Human Metapneumovirus (NBC Connecticut)

CDC warns of deadly bacteria with 50% fatality rate that has been declared endemic to the US Gulf Coast (N.Y. Post)

Moderna, Pfizer hit with new patent lawsuits over COVID vaccines (Reuters)

The traffic accidents study exposes the lamentable state of Covid-19 science

WHO Adopts European-Style COVID-19 Vaccine Passports As Part Of New Global Digital Health Certificate

2 dead in shooting after high school graduation ceremony in Virginia capital (Associated Press)

It’s been 4 days since Ajike ‘AJ’ Owens was fatally shot after knocking on a neighbor’s door. Here’s what we know (CNN) Or what we think we know, according to the Narrative.

DeSantis Claims On Chicago Kid Shootings: Hyperbole Or Fact?

Increases in Black unemployment are especially dire for Black women, experts say (NBC News) Women and minorities hardest hit, etc. etc.

NY Lawmakers To Create Reparations Commission

A Government of Laws and Not of Races

Dead raccoon and racist, ‘intimidating’ sign left on front door of Oregon mayor’s office (USA Today) Remember: If you hear the dog-whistle, you’re the dog.

As conservatives target schools, LGBTQ+ kids and students of color feel less safe (Associated Press) Matching the way normal kids feel all the time. Welcome to our world.

Biden back on the attack — hits GOP for threatening Social Security (Politico)

CNN’s Breaking News: Conservative Gov. Likes Conservative SCOTUS Justice

Media Smears Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. For “Conspiracy Theories” Even As Many Come True

Far-right ‘Moms for Liberty’ listed as a hate group for first time (Raw Story) Which it is not. For the Narrative media, there is no Right but the Far Right.

ATF Report Reveals Mass Noncompliance With Pistol Brace Rule

Antifa and Armenian Parents Clash at California School Board Meeting Over Required LGBTQ+ Activities

Conspirators for the Constitution: When Anti-Government Speech Becomes “Sedition” (OffGuardian)

Amid tense LGBTQ+-rights protest, attendees shelter in place at Glendale school board meeting (L.A. Times) They’re not used to getting pushback.

Brawl Erupts as Calif. School Board Meets Over Pride Month

Ron DeSantis Wants You to Be Scared Senseless About Crime (Don’t Be) (Daily Beast) Unless you live in a Blue state–or a Blue city.

MORE Big Tech Election Interference: YouTube Deletes RFK Jr. Interview

O’Donnell Suggests Thomas Be Impeached For Allegedly ‘Selling’ Himself

The paranoid style in American politics (Financial Times)

WashPost Throws Four Pinocchios at Nikki Haley to Echo Lefty Twitter

Oklahoma Republicans pave the way for the Supreme Court to end secular education (Salon) Rather an overreaction to one (1) religious charter school.

The Media Are Acting Like a Bizarre ‘White Woman’ Protest Is Totally Normal

Democrats Threaten To Subpoena Clarence Thomas’s Friend

Officials Confirm Migrants Flown to California Went Voluntarily, After California Accuses Florida of Kidnapping

CATFIGHT: The View Cast CLASHES With Hostin to Let Republican Speak

Soros-Funded NPR Defends Soros-Tied Voting Org from So-Called ‘Far-Right’ Misinfo ‘Machine’

The Palin-ization of Casey DeSantis

Scarborough: DeSantis ‘Depraved’ for Dumping Migrants In Freezing Weather–Except He Didn’t

Newsom Gets Revenge On DeSantis By Continuing To Send Thousands Of Californians To Florida  (Babylon Bee)

A ‘once-in-200 years’ heat wave caught Southeast Asia off guard. Climate change will make them more common (CNN) Except that it never does.

Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells Emit Carcinogens and Other Harmful Pollutants, Groundbreaking Study Shows (Inside Climate Narrative News)

Irish Farmers Raise Alarm Over Government’s Proposal To Kill Off 200,000 Cows

California Governor Newsom’s Actions to Reduce Emissions Conflict with The States’ Legal Framework Statutes

Antarctica gained 600 Gt of ice during ’09-’19 vs. a prediction of a 20k Gt loss

A bipartisan plan to punish global climate laggards: Tax them (Washington Post) I don’t see any ‘bipartisan’ in it.

14 Days To ‘Midnight’ – Greta’s Climate-Change Doomsday Clock Ticks On

As Canada burns, smoke makes US air unhealthy and skies eerie. Is climate change to blame? (USA Today) Narrative says: Yes!

Trump’s former attorney on the likelihood of Trump indictment (MSNBC)

Mark Meadows Testified to Grand Jury in Special Counsel Investigation of Trump (N.Y. Times)

Federal prosecutors using a second grand jury in Florida as part of Trump classified documents probe (CNN)

Political world braces for possible federal indictment of Trump (The Hill) They hope, they hope, they hope….

If the DOJ indicts Trump, the message would be in the details (Washington Post)

Multiple witnesses subpoenaed in Florida in Trump Mar-a-Lago case (The Guardian)

Coming soon to a theater near you – another Trump indictment

ZMan is not afraid to ask the hard questions.

One of the lingering questions about the Covid panic is why did the West suddenly go insane over a regularly occurring phenomena? Pandemics hit the West every generation or so with varying lethality. Most are like Covid in that they are bad for the old and the sick, but mostly a bad flu for everyone else. Once it was clear that Covid was not the Spanish flu, much less the Black Death, the response should have been like those of the past, but instead we got a panic.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

The Southern Poverty Law Center is a far-left hate group with zero credibility. The people who run it are grifters: for a “poverty” organization it has a remarkable amount of money stashed in offshore accounts. SPLC literally doesn’t know what to do with all of the money that rich people and corporations shower on it. I am hoping defamation lawsuits can take up the slack.

SPLC’s childishly simple dodge is to uncover actual “hate” groups–but only on the right, no Antifa–that no one has heard of, and cover a map of the U.S. with them, as though they were everywhere. The SPLC’s real value to the Left is that it goes on to slander legitimate conservative organizations as additional “hate” groups. These are the ones that the Left actually cares about because they are effective. It is an honor to be identified by SPLC in this way.

SPLC has just produced its 2022 “Hate Map.” What’s new? This year, the Left has put Moms For Liberty in the crosshairs. News accounts breathlessly recount the addition of Moms For Liberty to the “hate” map, as though the SPLC had any credibility.

If you look at the SPLC’s hate map of Minnesota, you see five “hate and anti-government groups”–the same thing, apparently–although the web page’s text says there are 19. Whatever. I have never heard of four of the five groups on the map; I suppose they have one or two members if they actually exist. The fifth is Moms For Liberty in Wright County, Minnesota.

Adams floats idea of New Yorkers housing migrants in ‘private residences’  (N.Y. Post) How about ‘private residences in Mexico’?

NYC migrant crisis: Houses of worship to host hundreds of migrants (Fox 5 New York)

Got a spare room for asylum seekers? New York City could pay you, too (CBS New York)

Seeing the light: Partnership with houses of worship to house migrants is welcome (N.Y. Daily News)

‘Americonned’ tackles the country’s income inequality crisis (MSNBC) I’ll bet you didn’t know that there was an ‘income inequality crisis’. (‘Crisis’ means a problem that absolutely must be solved. How does other people having more or less income than you do constitute a ‘crisis’?)

California is killing another industry that families need (Fox) Insurance, in case you haven’t been paying attention.

California insurance commissioner won’t take action against State Farm (KCRA)

California insurance market rattled by withdrawal of major companies (Associated Press)

True the Vote Leadership Accused of Using Donations for Personal Gain (ProPublica) Oh, like Black Lives Matter?

Fake News Group Behind Deceptive TV Ad Funded By Dem Megadonor Reid Hoffman (Washington Examiner)

Park Hotels Makes “Difficult” Decision To Stop Paying San Fran CMBS Loan, Citing “Concerns Over Street Conditions”

Second Plane Carrying Migrants Arrives in Sacramento (N.Y. Times)

‘Gender-Affirming’ Surgery Leaves People Lonelier and Depressed: Study  My, what a surprise.

Multiple NFL Teams Use Twitter Accounts To Push LGBT Agenda

Following in Dr. Mengele’s Footsteps

Narcan and crackpipe vending machines: White flag of surrender to addiction (N.Y. Post)

Republicans’ abortion bans are nothing like those in Europe (Vox) And of course we all want to do it the way Europe does it. (Another clue as to why Vox went bankrupt.)

EU Officials Want All AI-Generated Content To Be Labeled To “Combat Fake News”  I.e. news that might disagree with the Narrative.

London Mayor Wants More Migrants  I.e. more Labour voters.

Nearly a Third of Gen Z Favors the Government Installing Surveillance Cameras in Homes (Cat0) Indoctrination works when you control the schools.

Bank of America: Americans Fleeing Blue States for Red

NYC Democrats Unveil Crack Pipe Vending Machine

A ‘One-Eyed King’: New Book Exposes George Soros’ Extremist Agenda to Unravel America

“Infuriating”: College Tuition Made Free For Illegal Immigrants In Minnesota

PBS Decries Pastors Banning Drag Queens From Their Christmas Parade

Morning Joe Segment On Anniversary of RFK Assassination Never Mentions the Assassin

Trump Lawyers Visit Justice Dept. as Classified Documents Inquiry Nears End (N.Y. Times)

Sununu passes on 2024 to “have more credibility speaking out against Trump” (Axios) Uh, sure.

Chris Christie launching 2024 run as brawler eager to take on Trump (Washington Post) And if he hadn’t, he wouldn’t get a shred of coverage. It’s doubtful that Trump has time for an ankle-biter like Christie.

‘Green light’: Legal expert suggests Jack Smith has been given the go-ahead to indict Trump (Raw Story ) Suggests! That proves it!

Conservative Pundit Says 4 Things Show It’s ‘Gotten Very, Very Real’ For Donald Trump (Huffington Post) It is a measure of the cluelessness of HuffPo that they think Charlie Sykes is a conservative.

Rep. Jordan Demands Documents on Scope of Trump Probe

Trump Asks Judge to Stop Carroll’s Second Defamation Suit (N.Y. Times)

Sununu Fights With Psaki Over Russian Collusion ‘Nonsense’

The 2024 GOP Field Is Basically Donald Trump and His Mini-Mes (Vanity Fair)

Mother of 6-year-old who shot Virginia teacher charged with federal gun crimes (NBC News) The way to eliminate ‘gun violence’ is to take guns away from young black male criminals.

Sen. Tim Scott Confronts ‘View’ Hosts on ‘Exception’ Comments

MSU Hit With Anti-White Discrimination Complaint

Black woman in Florida shot dead through front door by white neighbor (The Guardian) “…threats being made….”

The Three Rs: Reading, Writing, And Reparations?

Racist Roads

Bitter Journo Decries Tim Scott Focusing on Racial Progress in America

Forecasters warn of unpredictability, weather ‘chaos’ as El Niño develops (Washington Post)

El Nino is approaching and your next cup of coffee could be at risk (CNBC)

El Niño may be on its way. Here’s what that could mean for Pueblo and southern Colorado (Pueblo Chieftain)

Here’s What to Know About El Nino and the Weather (Washington Post)

Brazil’s Lula lays out plan to halt Amazon deforestation (Politico)

El Niño Fears Surge Among CEOs As Economy In Crosshairs Of Extreme Weather

‘Earth Overshoot’ Day Is Coming Sooner And Sooner

Death by Carbon Capture

Timmermans: “We Don’t Have the Luxury of Slowing Down”

Prof. Roger Pielke Jr. “The Inconvenient Truth about Climate Science”

Uninsurable America: Climate change hits the insurance industry (Axios) Handwavium from the Narrative media: It’s not ‘climate change’ but government regulation and incompetence that is causing distress for insurance companies. In the eyes of the Deep State, insurance companies are The Rich and exist to be fleeced.

Exclusive: Accounting for war – Ukraine’s climate fallout (Reuters)

Climate Crisis Is on Track to Push One-Third of Humanity Out of Its Most Livable Environment (Pro Publica)

The Arctic may be sea ice-free in summer by the 2030s, new study warns (CNN) OH NOES! WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!

Twenty Grim Realities Unearthed By Lockdowns

Fauci Praised ‘Competent, Trustworthy Scientists’ in Wuhan. His Own Agency Said They Needed Ethics Training Over ‘Research Misconduct.’

WHO Body Calls For ‘Simulation’ To Prep For Next Global Health Crisis

Lockdowns: A Policy Disaster

Novavax: COVID Shot Should Work Against New Variants

Merck sues HHS over drug negotiation, claims program ‘tantamount to extortion’ (Politico) Wake up, little pharma, wake up….

Merck Sues US to Halt Medicare Drug Price Negotiation

I was an FBI agent when two top agents were murdered. Bureau was focused on social justice (Fox)

House GOP tees up contempt vote for FBI director as Biden probe heats up (Politico)

‘Highly Credible’ Source Reveals Scandal Bigger Than Biden Bribery: FBI Election Interference (The Federalist)

‘Apostle of Bipartisanship’: Media Spin Biden’s Debt Ceiling Loss as a Win (Washington Free Beacon)

When Your Own Government Confirms It Paid Censors To Silence You…

Networks Ignore FBI Refusing to Hand Over Biden Bribery Docs to James Comer

RFK Jr.: Biden Is Using Ukrainians For Neocon Political Machinations (Real Clear Politics) Well, duh.

No Surprise: FBI Director Playing For Team Biden

Biden Weaponizes the Government’s Terrorism Prevention Program to Attack Conservatives

The Media Is Worried About Biden

Elder Abuse: What the Ghouls of the Biden Family Are Doing to Joe Biden

J6 Defendant on Ray Epps: ‘They Are Protecting Him Like Crazy’

Under Threat of Contempt, Biden Admin Lets Republicans See Document Predicting Afghan Collapse

We Need A New President’

Report: US-Bound Immigrants Flooding Mexican Cities

1 Biden Nominee Wants Wokeness in Air Force’s ‘DNA,’ Another Decries ‘Whiteness’ (The Foundry)

Head of ICE Retiring After Biden Administration ‘Did Not Allow Officers to Do Their Job,’ a Predecessor Says

DHS Faces Backlash Over App Used To Grant Would-Be Illegal Immigrants Entry To US

State Dept Pushes LGBTQ ‘Pride’ Everywhere Except Muslim World

Newsom threatens DeSantis with kidnapping charges after migrants flown to Sacramento (L.A. Times)

The Supreme Court Is Corrupt Because It’s Conservative (The New Republic) Get yer Narrative, right here.

Is House Oversight’s pressure on FBI just a Giuliani goose chase? (Washington Post) Handwavium from Philip Bump.

Texas sheriff recommends criminal charges in DeSantis’ migrant flights to Martha’s Vineyard (Miami Herald) Bexar County, home of San Antonio, one of the bluest cities in Texas.

N.Y.P.D. Anti-Crime Units Still Stopping People Illegally, Report Shows (N.Y. Times)

Watch: Republicans literally beg migrants not to leave Florida over DeSantis anti-immigration law (Raw Story) Can anyone seriously believe that Republicans are begging ‘migrants’ to stay in Florida? Seriously?

When Did Policing Americans’ Thoughts Become Part of Homeland Security?  (The Foundry) When it was created?

Ron DeSantis is dry and dull — yet still more dangerous than Donald Trump (Salon)

RFK Jr. Blames Anti-Depressants for School Shootings (Rolling Stone) Being a Kennedy won’t prevent you from being tarred a heretic–or a sinner.

Newsom Threatens DeSantis With Kidnapping Migrants

Why prosecutors in WA are recharging a man police nearly beat to death (Seattle Times)

University Of Texas Students Behind Censorship Project Targeting Conservative News Outlets

Texas Sheriff Recommends Charges Against Florida for Massachusetts Immigrant Flights  Charges from whom? Both Florida and Massachusetts are far, far outside of his jurisdiction.

Team DeSantis bets big on angrier GOP base (Axios)

EU Threatens Twitter After Quitting Disinformation Pact

Fox News’ favorite Democratic presidential candidate (Popular Information) The reason RFK jr. is ‘Fox News’ favorite Democratic presidential candidate’ is that the rest of them are fringe Left nutjobs or geriatric Creepy Joe. That says more about Democrats than RFK.

ABC Cheers Leftist’s Book on Conservatives Justices Being ‘Threat to Democracy’

It Is Completely Bizarre That Florida Is Allowed to Do This (Esquire)

Oregon breakaway effort is down to just 8 votes, deepening urban-rural divide (NBC News)

MSNBC Blasts Haley For Not Agreeing Abortion Is The Biggest Issue Facing Women  It’s only the biggest issue for women who want the right to kill their children.

Robert Kennedy Jr., With Musk, Pushes Right-Wing Ideas and Misinformation (N.Y. Times) Kennedy is a threat to Biden and the Deep State and so must be cancelled, despite being one of the Royal Kennedys.

Florida college left without American history professor after axing DeSantis critic (Raw Story)

DHS Intel Report on Cop City Protesters Cribbed Far-Right Activist Andy Ngo (The Intercept) For The Intercept, there is no Right but the Far Right.

Harvard affirmative action challenge partly based on Holocaust denier’s work (The Guardian) Oooo! A heretic! And a sinner! Burn the witch!

CNN Analyst Gives Solution to End Big Tech Censorship of Republicans “Shut up,” she explained.

Tim Scott Wishes Joy Behar Didn’t Hide from Him on The View

There Is One Group the Roberts Court Really Doesn’t Like (N.Y. Times) And, quite by coincidence, it’s a core Democrat constituency.

‘I was hounded out of Oxfam over JK Rowling’ (UnHerd)

Politico Admits It: Press Will Act as Biden Attack Dogs on RFK Jr.

Reuters.

The 11-4 ruling from the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is the latest defeat for gun control laws in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year expanding gun rights nationwide.

The decision stems from a 2020 lawsuit by a Pennsylvania man, Bryan Range, who was barred under federal law from possessing a gun after pleading guilty to welfare fraud. He claimed the prohibition violated his right to bear arms under the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

Washington Free Beacon.

A Democratic congresswoman who recently claimed she paid “more in taxes” than Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was revealed last week to have skipped out on thousands of dollars in business taxes.

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The Biden administration misled investors by prematurely announcing a massive $200 million grant to a lithium battery-maker that has since been revoked, leading to drastic fluctuations in the company’s stock price based on false information, according to the top Republican on the Senate Energy Committee.

The White House and the Department of Energy framed the funding for Microvast as a done deal in press releases last October, but officials later said the companies were still being vetted after the Washington Free Beacon uncovered the company’s extensive ties to China. The administration officially pulled the plug last month on the grant to lithium battery-maker Microvast after facing heat from Congress.

“It is irrefutable the White House and Department of Energy’s deceptive press releases were a major catalyst in misleading investors,” said Sen. John Barrasso (R., Wyo.) in a letter to Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm on Monday. “It is clear that in the minds of investors the Department’s loan to Microvast had been perceived as a guarantee.”

How else are you going to get 10% for the Big Guy?

The American Mind.

The words on a poster taped to a teacher’s classroom door at a New Jersey public school expose the precarious corner American parents have been painted into. “If your parents aren’t accepting of your identity, I’m your mom now.” The poster featured a drawing of a mama bear tending to her bear cubs, who are each painted the color of a different LGBTQ flag.

Parents, I have bad news. You’ve got competition. Someone posted a job listing looking for a new authority figure in your house, and they hired everyone who applied. Lots of other adults, most of them unpleasant strangers, would like to raise your children for you—or at least get your children to hate you.

This may already be happening—and you’ll be the last to know! All your hard work to keep creeps, perverts, and kiddie-sniffers away from your kids may get reversed in an instant when you’re not looking.

Zman destroys all of your illusions.

In 2016 the Dirt People stole fire from the gods in that they defied their masters and supported Trump in the primary then the general election. Instead of sending a jar containing plagues, they sent another ballot box. In 2020 that box was opened and out came the secret police to carry Joe Biden to the White House. Despite it all, some still cling that that ballot box, hope trapped inside, thinking that maybe this time when they open the box, their hopes will be realized.

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The Florida judge who oversaw the penalty trial of Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz should be publicly reprimanded for showing bias toward the prosecution, failing to curtail “vitriolic statements” directed at Cruz’s attorneys by the victims’ families and sometimes allowing “her emotions to overcome her judgement,” a state commission concluded Monday.

 

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Unless there’s a war going on, developing new or improved military equipment or weapons is delayed by bureaucrats more concerned about avoiding mistakes than getting the job done. This leads to lots of delays. The Ukraine War has changed that for NATO nations and Russia. While the Ukrainians develop a lot of their own weapons, and always have, they need more and that is what their NATO allies are supplying. With a war going on in Ukraine, it’s easier for the NATO defense procurement officials to say yes. With their nation under attack, Ukrainian developers are coming up with new weapons and equipment as well as upgrades for items they have received from NATO nations. Ukraine can put new or improved systems to the test quickly. Sometimes the Ukrainians don’t tell their NATO allies about new items used or produced in Ukraine because the NATO countries are more likely to publicize that. The Ukrainians are more discreet, realizing that what the Russians don’t know about will hurt them more. At the start of the war the Russians underestimated Ukrainian weapons and military equipment and the Ukrainians’ ability to use it effectively. This continues to supply the Russians with unexpected and unpleasant surprises.

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“I will not stand by and let criminals undermine our economy and the livelihood of New Yorkers. We are going to act,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams vowed.

After announcing a 44% increase in retail theft in one year, Adams promised a bold new effort called “Second Chance” and “Re-Engaging Store Theft Offenders and Retail Establishments (RESTORE)” that will allow shoplifters “to avoid prosecution or incarceration by meaningfully engaging with services to help address underlying factors that lead to shoplifting.”

What “underlying factors” led gangs to steal hundreds of thousands worth of jewels or handbags, pack them up and walk away, or roll a trash can full of them down the street?

The root cause of the crime wave is a lack of consequences.

“Last year alone, 327 repeat offenders were responsible for 30 percent of the more than 22,000 retail thefts across our city.,” Adams noted.

The Debt Ceiling “Crisis” Is Over And Now US Debt Will Rise From $31 Trillion To $50 Trillion By 2030

Ex-FBI Director Comey: ‘Has to Be Joe Biden’ in 2024

Trump Post Laments ‘Biden Crimes Go Unpunished’

Biden ‘Completely’ Playing Politics With Space Command HQ

Kamala Harris can’t be trusted with AI regulation (Fox) Jambalaya gets put in charge of everything Biden doesn’t care about, like the border and artificial intelligence.

‘People Of Interest’ Within Government Suppressed Critical Intelligence Before J6

#BidenFalls

Failing Up: Biden to Tap Buttigieg Deputy To Lead Flailing Federal Aviation Administration

Oversight Chair Comer to hold FBI Director Wray in contempt of Congress over Biden doc alleging crime scheme (Fox) Meaningless. It’s not like he’s going to get fired or go to jail–nothing every happened to Eric Holder after he was held in contempt.

State Dep’t Absurdly ‘Stands By’ Funding ‘Conservative Blacklister’

Exclusive: Ministers had ‘chilling’ secret unit to curb lockdown dissent (UK Telegraph)

The AI firm that conducted ‘state surveillance’ of your social media posts (UK Telegraph)

The Lowest VIX Since The Pandemic Started Is Something That Deserves Attention

UK Government Denies Targeting COVID-19 Policy Critics On Social Media

Biden Continues the Fauci Legacy

Personalized MRNA-based Vaccines Fighting Cancers

Taiwan Strait: footage released of near miss between Chinese warship and US destroyer (The Guardian)

Ramaswamy: Defending Ukraine Isn’t ‘Top Foreign Policy’ for US

Ukraine Officials Openly Taunting Russia As Zelensky Says ‘Ready’ For Counteroffensive

Is The United States Losing Its Control Of Ukraine?

US, UK Navies Reply to Call IRGC ‘Harassed’ Ship

Berlin Warns China to Stop Enlisting Fmr German Pilots

Inside the high-stakes clash for control of Ukraine’s story (Semafor)

INFANTRY: Russian AK-12 In Ukraine

German Police on Nord Stream Saboteur’s Trail

Exclusive: Ukraine has cultivated sabotage agents inside Russia and is giving them drones to stage attacks, sources say (CNN)

Ukraine war: Russia says it thwarted major Ukrainian offensive (BBC)

Kyiv: Russia’s Claim of Major Attacks by Ukraine Is Misinformation  But of course you can TOTALLY believe what Ukraine says.

Ukraine’s counter-offensive appears to have begun (The Economist)

An Unwinnable War (Foreign Affairs)

CNN: Pro-Ukraine Forces Behind Attacks Inside Russia

Nazi Symbols on Ukraine’s Front Lines Highlight Thorny Issues of History (N.Y. Times) Communist symbols, of course, are not a problem.

Russia Says It Put Down Major Ukrainian Offensive Hours After It Began

Weapons firms influence the Ukraine debate  My, what a surprise.

US Officials Belatedly Confirm NATO Weapons Used In Attacks On Russia  My, what a surprise.

Cashing In? NPR Hypes Mary Trump’s Amateur Romance Novel, with E. Jean Carroll

Parlatore: Not Surprising if No Charges for Trump

Seymour Hersh: Russiagate’s Missing Pieces

‘Trump too small’ trademark clash to be decided by Supreme Court (NBC News) Republicans talk about issues, Democrats talk about personalities.

Trump Moves To Disqualify Judge in Manhattan DA’s Prosecution

‘A Very Easy Case:’ Scarborough Sees Slam Dunk Prosecution of Trump on Documents

Meta Is Trying, and Failing, to Crush Unions in Kenya (Jacobin)

Psaki Frets Media Giving Credit to Hostage Taking GOP in Debt Deal (NewsBusters)

Vivek Ramaswamy Takes Putin’s Side in Heated Exchange With ABC’s Martha Raddatz (Daily Beast)

Comey: Trump ‘could be wearing an ankle bracelet’ while accepting GOP nomination (The Hill)

MSNBC’s Phang Enlists Trump’s Nasty Niece In War Against MSM Coverage of Republicans

Jordan Intensifies Stanford’s Censorship Probe, Threatens Subpoena Enforcement

Calif. Probes Florida for Flying in Migrants

Showtime Pulls ‘Vice’ Episode on Ron DeSantis (Hollywood Reporter)

‘Jews Against Soros’ Group Says Criticizing Billionaire Activist ‘Isn’t Antisemitic’

Casey DeSantis Is the Walmart Melania (Daily Beast) Republicans talk about issues, Democrats talk about personalities.

Daily Beast’s Childish, Vicious Smear Piece on Casey DeSantis Is Worse Than You Think

Immense Crowds Protest Poland’s Governing Conservative Party (N.Y. Times)

Germany’s Siemens Facing American Scrutiny for Agreeing To Boycott Israel

Guardian COP28 Circus: Our Last Hope is an Arab Oil Sheik who Plans to Increase Production

Musk: Twitter To Publish All Government Censorship Requests

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tests the conspiratorial appetite of Democrats (Washington Post) Unfortunately for the Narrative media, a lot of what they derided as ‘conspiracy theories’ turned out to be reality.

Elon Musk is set to host anti-vax presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Twitter — weeks after Ron DeSantis’ campaign launch flopped on the platform (Insider)

The GOP’s Authoritarian Acceleration (New York Magazine) Jonathan Chait, leftist NPC, illustrates the Law of Liberal Projection: They always accuse you of doing what they plan to do.

WashPost Front Page Warns of Violent ‘Far Right Fringe’ Hijacking Target Stores

The Real Reason Republicans Want to Give Tax Breaks for Embryos (Rolling Stone)

Far Right Turns on Marjorie Taylor Greene—and MTG Hits Back in Text to Matt Gaetz (Daily Beast)

Student Says Prof Failed Her for Using Term ‘Biological Women’

How a Fringe Legal Theory Became a Threat to Democracy (The New Yorker) In the Narrative media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

Newsom Threatens DeSantis With ‘Kidnapping’ Charges as 2nd Jet Full of Migrants Arrives in California

DeSantis mum on migrant flights as California alleges ‘state-sanctioned kidnapping’ (Miami Herald)

World’s Oceans at Record High Temperature

Biden’s Green Rules Mean Appliances Will Soon Cost More And Do Less, Experts Say

Ireland Mulls Over Plan To Kill 200,000 Cows To Fight Climate Change

Nuclear Power May Become Crucial In Decarbonization Efforts

House Republicans Turn Up Heat on Gas Stove Bans

Climate fearmongering reaches stratospheric heights

Leftist Hypocrisy: Failing to Criticize Environmental Disaster of Biden’s Open Border

A Secret Key to Saving Species Is Blowing in the Wind  (WIRED ‘Science’)

SUVs Superior to Smaller Cars, New Study Finds

Black immigrants are growing in numbers, but in the U.S. many often feel invisible (NPR)

Biden Appointee Calls Upon UN To Act To Secure Reparations And End The “Continuation Of Slavery” In The US

Elie Mystal Claims John Roberts ‘An Enemy of Black People Voting’

The Myth Of Systemic Racism

How Do Conservatives Connect With Black Voters Who Distrust Them? Star Parker Has the Answer (The Foundry)

Reparations Now!

NYT: How Are We Supposed to Know if Anything Has Changed Since Jim Crow Times? Are We Supposed to Keep Up with the Changing Times?

Another 52 Shot, 10 Murdered In Chicago This Weekend

Cornel West Announces Run For President As Third-Party Candidate (Huffington Post)

‘Our Recreational Drug Use Began About a Year Ago … It Increased Recently.’

Death by ‘Mommy Makeover’?

The ‘I’ in BIPOC

Another violent weekend in Chicago is met with silence from the mayor and local BLM (Washington Examiner)

Sen. Tim Scott Goes on The View and CONFRONTS Their Racism

Socialist Philosopher Launches Third-Party Presidential Bid

Every published ad photo of Apple’s new VR headset has it being worn by a Person of Color.

The Strange Pandemic Of ‘White’ Disparagement

NewsMax.

Robert Hanssen, the former FBI agent turned spy whom the bureau describes as the most damaging in its history, was found dead in his prison cell on Monday, U.S. authorities said.

Hanssen, 79, was sentenced in 2002 to life in prison after pleading guilty to spying for the Soviet Union and later Russia for over 20 years.

Prison staff initiated life-saving measures after finding Hanssen unresponsive on Monday morning but were not successful, the Bureau of Prisons said in a statement. It did not provide a cause of death.

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A dozen years ago, National Association of Scholars President Peter Wood posed the provocative question: Could science leave the university?

Wood framed his question in practical terms. There has always been a bargain of sorts between universities and their science faculties. Universities provide the means for scientists to do science—laboratories, students, bookkeepers, etc. Scientists hustle the grant monies not only to do their work, but also to pay for universities’ costs. Wood argued that the bargain works mostly in favor of the universities, because they ride along on the substantial streams of research revenues their scientists bring in. While scientists were not exactly disadvantaged thereby, Wood suggested that they could prosper as much outside the university as in, raising the question that logically follows: who needs whom?

Since 2011, academic scientists have largely stayed put in the universities. “Who cares what universities charge for their services, as long as we are left alone to ‘do science,’” was the prevailing sentiment. Such a blasé attitude is no longer viable. While scientists busied themselves at their benches, the terms of the bargain have been steadily shifting to scientists’ disadvantage. The unique attractions of academic life are relentlessly, if slowly, falling away. Tenure is on its way out. Freedom of inquiry is increasingly constrained. Pushy administrators presume to dictate hiring, promotion, and curricular decisions that should sit squarely in scientists’ hands. Faculty governance has become mostly performative, with no power to make decisions stick—particularly budgetary and personnel decisions, which have become concentrated in the hands of administrators, governments, and favored political activists. Accreditation boards brazenly impose political agendas on faculties of science and engineering. Challenging the new racial / gender / sexual orthodoxies can snuff out careers in the blink of an eye.

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Italy’s center-right government is again grabbing international headlines by virtue of enforcing its immigration laws.

On Friday, June 2nd, the Italian coast guard announced that it had detained two German charity-run vessels rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean.

The vessels’ crews, the coast guard explained, had failed to abide by a new law, passed by Italy’s parliament last February, which stipulates that after each rescue, rescue ships have to request access to the nearest port and sail to it, rather than remain at sea looking for other migrant boats in distress.

The scam is this way: ‘Migrants’ get their boat out beyond the territorial limit, an NGO ‘rescue’ boat ‘rescues’ them and then takes them to Europe, where they promptly vanish into the migrant underworld.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

For reasons I can’t explain, the Left, including the Democratic Party, has made sex change operations on minors its signature issue. It has become a litmus test: in order to be considered progressive, one must now advocate the mutilation of children’s genitals. If there is a Democratic Party politician who dissents from this orthodoxy, I am not aware of it.

Sex change operations on minors are massively unpopular. Opponents of the practice outnumber supporters by three to one. And from the progressives’ standpoint, those numbers are more likely to get worse than better. This weekend, the superb documentary “What Is a Woman?” got over 150 million views on Twitter. Of course, two seconds counts as a Twitter “view.” But still, millions of people must have actually watched the film. One who did was Elon Musk. Today on Instagram:

If it doesn’t flame out at the polls, “trans” madness will die in a hail of lawsuits. That is what is happening in the U.K., where genital mutilation is increasingly out of favor. The facility where such surgeries were carried out on minors, Tavistock, has now been closed, but youngsters age 18 and above are still being carved up. From today’s London Times, notable because the Times is a liberal paper: “NHS trans surgery damaged my body for ever — it’s not safe.”