VMI’s chief diversity officer resigns amid alumni war over DEI (Washington Post) A Colonel wearing diamond-stud earrings? I think not.

CBS Discovers ‘Brand Politics,’ Frets ‘Woke’ Businesses Being ‘Caught‘ in ‘Culture Wars’

Why the Media Are Rushing To Defend AOC’s Honor (Washington Free Beacon)

Pentagon Chiefs Cancel “Family Friendly” Drag Show At Air Force Base After Rep. Gaetz Pressure

“Migrants Will Soon Be The Powerful” – German Broadsheet Causes Uproar With Immigration Article

J1 – The Anniversary of the BLM Insurrection at the White House

The European Union Will Shut Your Mouth For You

Inside The Meltdown At CNN (The Atlantic)

LGBTQ Pride event at North Hollywood elementary school draws protest, heightened security (ABC)

Insurers are fleeing states due to climate realities, not ‘anti-woke’ bullies (The Hill) As Thucydides said, you have to be careful to distinguish the reason from the excuse.

Extremists Are Running America Because No One Runs Against Them (The New Republic) He’s talking about Republicans, of course, not Democrats.

Trump Admits Republicans Don’t Even Know What ‘Woke’ Means (Rolling Stone) Rolling Stone admits that it has no clue what Republicans know or don’t know, so it just makes shit up.

What Trump’s Recording Could Reveal (The Atlantic) Lazy ‘journalists’ love to make stuff up about what ‘might’ or ‘could’ happen as if it were a fact.

Recording of Trump Underscores Growing Evidence in Documents Case (N.Y. Times) If we push this molehill hard enough, we can surely make a mountain out of it.

How The FBI Lost, Found, And Rewarded The Alleged Russian Spy Pivotal To Surveilling Trump

A Peek Behind the MAGA Curtain (N.Y. Times) David French is apparently enjoying his job as the left’s poodle.

Did Trump declassify documents? Criminal indictment of former president has no legitimate basis (Washington Times)

Georgia probe of Trump broadens to activities in other states (Washington Post)  Hunt that witch! Hunt that witch!

ABC Whines Republicans Are POUNCING on Biden Falling on His Face

CNN Doctor Recommends Biden Walk With Cane to Stop Falling  How about a wheelchair?

CBS News (Barely) Lets Catherine Herridge Report About the Biden Scandal

House Panel Probing FTC Chair Lina Khan

Former Chicago Mayor Lightfoot takes on new role since leaving office (CBS Chicago) BRAAAAAAAINS!

Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot lands teaching gig at Harvard after leaving office (Fox) Talk about Failing Upward … Those that can, do; those that can’t, teach; those who never could, teach at Harvard.

Forgotten DC Riots Did Far More Than Physical Damage to America

Ron DeSantis fires back at NAACP over travel advisory, education and shootings (NBC News)

When she won the first national spelling bee, Marie C. Bolden dealt a blow to racism (NPR) And yet racism is worse now than then, it just points the other way.

Only 7 Black Students Are Admitted to Stuyvesant High School, Out of 762 (N.Y. Times) Stuyvesant has rigorous admission standards. Of course, the NYT thinks this is WAAAAAACIST!

US deal could plug Turkmenistan’s colossal methane emissions (The Guardian)

Renewable energy surges, driven by solar boom and high fuel prices, report finds (Associated Press)

Renewable power on course to shatter more records as countries around the world speed up deployment (IEA)

High fuel prices, energy security concerns drive surge in renewables: research (The Hill)

Renewable energy capacity on track to rival fossil fuels in 2024 (Nikkei Asia)

How Republican AGs Tanked a $3 Trillion Woke Climate Alliance

Paul Krugman Sobs Green Energy Victim of ‘Anti-Woke Mind Virus’ in Texas

Rand Paul: Release COVID Docs or Biden Nominees Blocked

All New US Jobs Since The Covid Crash Have Gone To Foreign-Born Workers

COVID-19 Testing Resumes In Beijing, Shandong, As Reinfection Cases Surge

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Lightfoot spent the end of her term managing the migrant crisis and criticizing Republicans who sent migrants to her city, which she advertised as a “sanctuary city.”

She also saw the homicide rate skyrocket nearly 40 percent since entering office in 2019, watchdog Wirepoints reported.

“I’ll share specifics about the way we managed the COVID-19 public health crisis,” Lightfoot said of her Harvard course. She faced immense criticism as mayor for her lockdowns and treatment of the pandemic.

The Guardian.

Archaeology is facing a time crunch. Thousands of years of human history risk imminent erasure, from tiny hamlets to entire cities – temples, walls and roads under grave threat of destruction. Urban sprawl and industrial agriculture are but two culprits, smothering ancient settlements beneath car parks and cattle pastures. International conflict and climate change are also damaging vulnerable sites, with warfare and water shortages destroying pockets of history across the world.

The endless excavations of yesteryear are no longer the best solution. Big digs aren’t the big idea they once were: mapping the human archaeological record is now moving upward, into the sky.

Cambridge University Press.

Abstract

Although bullshit is common in everyday life and has attracted attention from philosophers, its reception (critical or ingenuous) has not, to our knowledge, been subject to empirical investigation. Here we focus on pseudo-profound bullshit, which consists of seemingly impressive assertions that are presented as true and meaningful but are actually vacuous. We presented participants with bullshit statements consisting of buzzwords randomly organized into statements with syntactic structure but no discernible meaning (e.g., “Wholeness quiets infinite phenomena”). Across multiple studies, the propensity to judge bullshit statements as profound was associated with a variety of conceptually relevant variables (e.g., intuitive cognitive style, supernatural belief). Parallel associations were less evident among profundity judgments for more conventionally profound (e.g., “A wet person does not fear the rain”) or mundane (e.g., “Newborn babies require constant attention”) statements. These results support the idea that some people are more receptive to this type of bullshit and that detecting it is not merely a matter of indiscriminate skepticism but rather a discernment of deceptive vagueness in otherwise impressive sounding claims. Our results also suggest that a bias toward accepting statements as true may be an important component of pseudo-profound bullshit receptivity.

I am not making this up.

NewsMax.

The King James Bible is being removed from elementary and middle school libraries in Davis County, Utah, after a complaint that it contained passages describing sex and violence.

For once, the Left has no complaint to make. Children with the Bible in their homes, of course, may consult it freely.

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In the latest ambitious project to use solar energy in space for powering the earth, a public-private Japanese partnership plans to test as soon as in 2025 if solar power generated in space can be beamed to the earth and converted into electricity.

This was one of Jerry Pournelle’s perennial projects.

The Other McCain.

Where this anti-white “diversity” mania began, of course, is in higher education, where discrimination against white males has been more or less overt for the past 25 years. The admissions data that came out of the lawsuit Harvard showed that, year after year, 14% of the freshman class was black — demonstrating that a de facto numerical quota was in effect, otherwise some variation in the percentage would have been expected. Asian students sued because, it was equally obvious, no matter how clearly their superior academic aptitude was demonstrated by GPA and SAT scores, the number of Asian students admitted to Harvard was artificially “capped” at around 20% of the freshman class total. Expert testimony showed that an Asian student whose GPA/SAT gave him a 25% chance of being admitted to Harvard would have had a 95% chance, if he had been black. In other words, being black was worth at least four times as much as academic aptitude. And this type of blatant bias is now being replicated in corporate America (see “Google Lawsuit Exposes Stalinist Climate Protecting Anti-White, Anti-Male Bias,” Jan. 10, 2018).

Ukraine Situation Report: Spent Patriot Missile Narrowly Misses Kyiv Motorists

Oligarch’s Bell 427 Is The Ukrainian Military’s Latest Helicopter

Why NATO Just Sent Hundreds Of Troops To Kosovo

Russia Evacuates Children From Border Villages As Ukrainian Shelling Escalates

RFK Jr Calls For “Mature Conversation” On Ukraine As Admin Is “Lying To Us”

New Stingers in Taiwan Come From US Backlog

“See You In The Hague!”: Lindsey Graham Snarks Back After Russia Issues Arrest Warrant

Fake Signals and American Insurance: How a Dark Fleet Moves Russian Oil (N.Y. Times)

Ukraine war: Three killed in overnight missile attack on Kyiv (BBC)

SUBMARINES: Ukraine Creates an Attack UUV

Iran plans to escalate attacks against U.S. troops in Syria, documents show (Washington Post)

Tape shows Trump saying he kept classified document on Iran: CNN

EXCLUSIVE: Trump captured on tape talking about classified document he kept after leaving the White House (CNN) Let’s see … nope, no mention that Biden also had classified documents at home while VP.

Trump tape bomb is ‘last nail in coffin’: Audio has Trump talking about classified doc, report (MSNBC) Walls are closing in,. etc. etc.

Trump Lawyer Gets Cagey When Asked About Alleged Secret Docs Tape (Daily Beast) Cagey!

Donald Trump reiterates pledge to scrap birthright US citizenship (The Guardian) For illegal immigrants.

Trump vows to end birthright citizenship (KPIX) For illegal immigrants.

Trump’s call to end birthright citizenship echoes past calls, likely to face similar opposition (Fox)

Trump Was Taped Discussing Sensitive Document He Had Kept After Leaving Office (N.Y. Times) Which he had declassified–as President, he could do that.

The U.S. Government’s Over-Classification Epidemic: Ratcliffe

Trump’s Smoking Tape? (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew allow their anti-Trump obsession to drag them into fantasy-land.

Trackdown: Help find two Plano robbery suspects (Fox) Young black males! What are the odds?

Liberal Writers Can’t Stop Calling Black Republican Daniel Cameron Anti-Black

RAF Discriminates Against “Useless White Male Pilots”

The Anniversary the Media Would Prefer You Forget

Lori Lightfoot to teach public health course at Harvard after losing reelection (Washington Examiner) BRAAAAAAAINS!

Howard University Prof. Floats $5M in Reparations

Sign with a homophobic slur in front of Florida business sparks backlash (NBC News)

Atlanta Police Arrest Organizers of Bail Fund for Cop City Protesters (The Intercept)

Ringleaders of Atlanta Bail Fund Booked on Money Laundering Charges

The Leader of the Gun Church That Worships With AR-15s Is Now a MAGA Rapper (Vice) If you’re wondering why Vice declared bankruptcy, this may give you a clue.

University Of Colorado Declares Misgendering An “Act Of Violence”

After Warren Attack, Tuberville Vows to Keep Fighting Pentagon Abortion Policy

All Floridians Should Be Worried About DeSantis’ New Anti-Immigration Law (Mother Jones) But they aren’t.

Nets Yawn at Pro-Abortion Thug Brutally Assaulting Two Pro-Life Men

How James Van Der Beek Became Fox News’ New Hero (Daily Beast) Who the hell is James van der Beek? Only the Daily Beast knows for sure.

Wagner Throws a Fit Over Dems Needing to Work with GOP on Debt Deal

‘Demeaning’ Marianne Williamson Has Staff Running for the Exits (Daily Beast)

Inside Trump and DeSantis’ Ugly Feud Over The Babylon Bee (Rolling Stone) I’ll bet you didn’t know that there was an ‘ugly feud’ over the Babylon Bee. I certainly didn’t.

Combating The Censorship Industrial Complex

New York Wedding Photographer Won’t Share Her Beliefs About Marriage Because Speaking Out Could Put Her in Jail

In a deep red Florida county, a student-teacher revolt shames the right (Washington Post) Or so they believe.

There’s Unsettling New Evidence About William Rehnquist’s Views on Segregation (Slate) No conservative is too dead to be cancelled.

CNN, MSNBC Plug Democrat Book Complaining About GOP Winning Elections

Don’t Expect DeSantis to Deliver the GOP from Trumpian Abuses of Power (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew continues it’s lurch to the left.

‘Fastest girl in Connecticut’ Chelsea Mitchell suing state after losing to trans athletes (N.Y. Post)

PolitiFact Torches Straw Man To Rate DeSantis ‘False’ On Alleged Book Banning

The View Kicks Off Pride Month Claiming GOP Wants Gays Executed

Vermont School Agrees to Pay $125K to Father, Daughter Punished for Speaking Out Against Trans Student

San Francisco: An Elitist Bubble Ignoring a Crime Epidemic?

How Flipping Colorado Blue Has Become Democrats’ Blueprint For The Rest Of America

Major Grocery Chain Struggles To Survive Amid Wave Of Thefts

Pentagon leaders cancel drag show at a Nevada Air Force base (NBC News)

California Senate Approves $300 Weekly Checks for Unemployed Illegals  Time to leave.

Boston Spends the Most on Students of Any Large District in the Nation. Its Test Scores Are at Their Lowest in More Than a Decade.

North Carolina Democrats Push for State To Mourn ‘Catastrophe’ of Israel’s Creation

Berkeley Hires Axed San Francisco Prosecutor Chesa Boudin to Train California Law Students

Pence Wants to Know Why LA Dodgers Are ‘Welcoming Anti-Catholic Bigots’ to Their Stadium ‘With Open Arms’

Walmart Hasn’t Made Changes to LGBTQ-Themed Merch

Alabama Expands Restrictions on Trans Athletes

Randi Weingarten Has Zero Credibility

Female Athlete Retires After Competing Against Biological Men, Says Girls “No Longer Have A Fair Chance”

Research Finds Women Are Advantaged in Being Hired in Academic Science

Corporations Paint Rainbows On Door Posts So Woke Gangs Will Pass Them By (Babylon Bee)

Bud Light Giving LGBTQ Organization $200,000 Donation

ESPN to Display Pride Flag for Month of June at Main Campus

CNN Interviews Comey On Every Alleged Violation Of The Rule Of Law… Except His Own

Lawmakers Condemn NYC Mayor For Housing Illegal Immigrants In Public Schools

USA TODAY Celebrates June with Front-Page Trans Teens ‘Pride-a-Ganda’ Piece

World’s Lamest Country Slaps Health Warnings on Individual Cigarettes

WATCH: Transgender Soccer Player Injures Female Opponent

ABC Refuses to Tie Organized Retail Theft to Weak-on-Crime DAs

Even Millennials Are Turning Republican, Data Show

San Francisco Mayor Makes U-Turn To Fund Police After Company Exodus Pressures City Finances

How Biden world gets its Shakshuka (Politico)

Comer: FBI Confirmed Existence of Document That Alleges Joe Biden Bribery Scheme  

CBS Skips Own Scoop on ‘Multiple’ ‘Whistleblowers’ Claiming Hunter Probe Shenanigans

DOJ sues coal firms owned by Jim Justice’s family (The Hill) Pre-emptive strike against Republican governor who might challenge Democrat Senator.

Report: Biden Mulls Keeping Trump’s China Tariffs  Heh.

3 More GOP Govs Send Guard to US-Mexico Border

‘Always Available for You’: Hunter Biden and His Associates Had Direct Contact With Joe Biden’s Staff, Emails Show

Could Hunter Biden be the next poster child for Second Amendment rights? (Politico)

Joe Biden just proved his critics wrong — again (MSNBC) Pushing the Narrative.

Tea Party Group: ‘Disgraceful’ DHS Grant Targeted Us

DISTORTED PICTURE: Biden Antisemitism Push Celebrates CAIR, SPLC, Ignores Left-Wing Jew-Hatred

Mexican TV Spots Cartel Wielding Anti-Tank Rocket Launcher In Border Town Near Texas

U.S. plans to admit nearly 40,000 asylum-seekers per month through mobile app (CBS News)

Jill Biden to Skip Israel on Middle East Trip

WATCH: Biden’s Falls in Slow Motion

18 States Sue Biden Administration Over Redefining ‘Illegal Border Crossings’ as ‘Lawful Pathways’

Biden Speech Hailing NATO Strength Overshadowed By Serious Fall On Stage

“Cool the Mark Out”: How the media minimizes Covid vaccine injuries

If climate goals are meant to protect us from ‘significant harm,’ then they aren’t good enough, scientists say

Earth is ‘really quite sick now’ and in danger zone in nearly all ecological ways, study says (Associated Press)

Seven of the nine thresholds that allow for human life on earth have already been crossed (El Pais)

Planet Earth Is on the Brink and in Worse Shape Than Expected: New Research (Daily Beast)

Manchin could get a gas pipeline out of the debt ceiling deal, and environmental advocates are livid (CNN)

Carbon Footprint Of Lab-Grown Beef “Orders Of Magnitude” Worse Than Traditionally Raised: Study

More Proof The Lancet Has Fallen – Publishes New Paper: Envisioning environmental equity: climate change, health, and racial justice

Seven out of the nine thresholds enabling human life on Earth have been exceeded

CNN.

Thursday’s sanctions target Mohammad Reza Ansari, an official with a unit of the IRGC-Qods Force “tasked with undertaking covert operations abroad, including planning and conducting intelligence and lethal operations against Iranian dissidents and other non-Iranian nationals in the United States, the Middle East, Europe, and Africa,” according to a release from the US Treasury Department.

“Ansari, with the support of Shahram Poursafi (Poursafi), an Iranian national, planned and attempted to assassinate two former U.S. government officials,” the Treasury Department said.

The US Justice Department announced criminal charges last August against Poursafi for allegedly trying to orchestrate the assassination of Bolton, who served in senior national security positions during the Trump and Bush administrations, likely in retaliation for the killing of IRGC Commander Qasem Soleimani.

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

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Q: What’s the difference between Hunter Biden, Konstantin Kisin and you?

A: Access to banks

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Do liberal women like to be victimized by the feral predators that haunt America’s cities? No. No, they don’t. This is why a crowd turned out for a city council meeting in Oakland, California, perhaps the most liberal city in the U.S., to protest the city’s soft-on-crime policies

…

The interesting question is, will citizen uprisings in liberal cities like Oakland bring about any significant change? I think the answer is No. The Democratic Party is pro-crime, and I think that commitment is unshakable. To bring meaningful change, residents would have to be willing to vote Republican. And even if they were willing, there is hardly any Republican infrastructure in cities like Oakland. I am not sure there are any serious Republicans to vote for, or an organization to get them elected. So basically, it is either put up with increasingly horrific violence and disorder, or move. This is a principal reason why California is hemorrhaging residents.

Gates of Vienna.

A culture-enriching teenager in northern Italy was planning some boisterous activities in association with the civic group known as the Islamic State, but had the misfortune to be detained by the police. I’m sure it’s all just a misunderstanding, and the unfortunate lad will soon be released.

Actually, there’s no indication in the report as to the specific age of the young feller, who may in fact not even be a teenager yet. He might be one of those prepubescent ISIS “cubs” who spend a lot of time in training camps being tutored in special skills by the older mujahideen.

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

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Bloomberg said a 535-mile rail line used to haul iron ore and manganese from Kumba Iron Ore Ltd.’s giant Sishen mine in the Northern Cape province to west coast ports was paralyzed on Tuesday after criminal organized gangs stole power cables used to power electric locomotives.

Boy, ending apartheid and putting indigenous Africans in charge really made the country explode with prosperity, didn’t it?

The Foundry.

As Congress debates a deal to increase the debt limit, here are four things Americans should know.

Tampa Bay Times.

Tell the truth: We’ve all wanted to do that.