Sharpton: ‘Crime Boss’ Trump Immune to Lawsuits Because GOP is Racist (NewsBusters)

Starbucks Hired Eric Holder To Conduct a ‘Civil Rights Audit.’ The Policies He Blessed Got the Coffee Maker Sued.

Associated Press.

Omar Touray told the U.N. Security Council that half a million people in the 15-nation Economic Community of West African States known as ECOWAS are refugees and nearly 6.2 million are internally displaced. If there isn’t an adequate international response to the 30 million people ECOWAS assesses need food right now, he said, the number of people in need will increase to 42 million by the end of next month.

Touray, who is president of the ECOWAS Commission, singled out the following drivers of insecurity in the region: terrorism, armed rebellion, organized crime, unconstitutional changes of government, illegal maritime activities, environmental crises and fake news.

Unmentioned by the guy named Omar: Militant Islam.

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

33 Shot in Chicago in Bloody Weekend Under Soft-on-Crime Mayor

NY Drug Dealer Sentenced in Overdose Death of ‘The Wire’ Actor

88-Year-Old Asian Woman Faces Life-Threatening Injuries After Unprovoked Attack in San Francisco

Squad Member Mocked After Launching ‘Strike’ That Lasts Just 9 Hours

A crucial system of ocean currents is heading for a collapse that ‘would affect every person on the planet’ (CNN)

Scientists detect sign that a crucial ocean current is near collapse (Washington Post)

A vital system of ocean currents could collapse much sooner than expected, scientists warn (CNBC)

Gulf Stream could collapse as early as 2025, study suggests (The Guardian)

Can slag heaps help combat the climate crisis? (The Guardian)

Hot Weather Does Not Mean Climate Change (The Foundry)

Dancing COVID Nurses That Supported Draconian Mandates Switch To Climate Change

Gulf Stream could collapse as early as 2025, study suggests (The Guardian)

Endurance Of Electric Vehicles Falters In Extreme Heat

Solar Panels Are Three Times More Carbon-Intensive Than IPCC Claims

‘When will politicians listen?’: Another green energy project ‘bites the dust’

The New Authoritarians: How Professors Are Now Calling For Biden To Simply Defy The Supreme Court

Bowe Bergdahl’s Court-Martial Conviction Voided by US Judge

One Of The Biggest Organizations Helping Democrats Win Elections

Democrats Run The Most Crime Ridden Cities In The US – But Is The Situation Even Worse Than We’re Told?

Pulling Back Curtain on ‘Erosion of Parental Rights’ in California

Scientists Say Recycling Has Backfired Spectacularly

Daughters of the American Revolution Faces Revolt, Resignations Over New Policy Admitting Biological Men

“Six-Month Rush-Job”: Ice Cube Tells Tucker Why He Refused COVID Vax

¡Cuidado!: Mexican Consulate Warns Citizens About Rising Crime in D.C.

Myocardial Injury After Covid-19 mRNA Booster Vaccination

Who Ordered The Lab-Leak Cover-Up?

California Population Will Remain Stagnant Through 2060, State Forecast Projects  Betcha anything that it goes down.

Doctors who put lives at risk with covid misinformation rarely punished (Washington Post) In the Narrative media, ‘COVID misinformation’ means ‘telling the truth about the Pandemic Panic’.

Bernie’s Minimum Wage Bill Would Kill 1.7 Million Jobs and Decimate Restaurant Industry, Report Finds

A California professor sues over new DEIA performance reviews

Hunter Biden expected to plead guilty in criminal tax case (NBC News)

Hunter Biden’s counsel faces possible sanctions after accusations of lying in criminal tax case (Fox)

Hunter Biden to plead guilty to federal tax crimes on Wednesday (CNN)

CNN Sides with DoJ Against Texas’s Buoy Border Fence

The Biden Administration’s Plot to Kneecap Merit in Federal Hiring (The Foundry)

NBC Ignores Federal Judge Blocking Biden’s Asylum Policy

Nets Ignore FOUR New Biden Scandals on Burisma, Hunter’s Life of Corruption

Joe Biden vs. the Microphone—Again

CNN Relies On Fake News To Label Biden-Burisma Allegations ‘Debunked’

Biden Again Wrongly Claims Civil Rights Role

Clueless WashPost Claims GOP Should ‘Rethink Attacks on Biden Economy’

Judge Says Hunter Biden Legal Team Impersonated Republican To Hide Evidence, Threatens Sanction

Hunter Biden Plea Deal Unravels

Justice Department Grants Hunter Biden Broad Legal Immunity In New Plea Agreement

Hunter Biden Plea Deal Collapses, Trial Increasingly Likely

Biden cures cancer and the White House transcript office won’t even give him credit for it

‘What Bribery Scheme?!’ The View Plays Dumb Then Defends Biden Corruption

What’s going on in the Hunter Biden trial?

Foreign Agent Cases Loom Over Hunter Biden’s Plea Deal

Trump’s ‘Elite Strike Force Team’ Falls on Hard Times (Politico)

Trying to Stop Trump, Ads Feature Iowans Who Ditched Their MAGA Hats (N.Y. Times)

The Fulton County Case Against Trump May Be the Most Serious—and Imminent (Daily Beast) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

The 2024 Election Could Be the End of the Cases Against Donald Trump (The Atlantic) Scott Adams has a theory that the reason Biden and Trump are so desperate to become President is so that they can pardon themselves. Scott’s not a lawyer, of course, so I think he’s off base on this.

Trump Struggles to Find Enough Lawyers to Handle His Many Indictments (Rolling Stone)

Could a Special Plea Deal Keep Trump Out of the White House? (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew continues to carry water for the Left.

NatWest Bank CEO ousted after furor over politician Nigel Farage’s bank account (Associated Press)

UK bank CEO quits after spat over Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage’s account (CNN)

Who is Alison Rose? Trail-blazing finance boss bows out (Reuters)

The worst thing about the woke banking scandal is the hypocrisy of Nigel Farage’s foes (UK Telegraph)

As Spending Fights Loom, Freedom Caucus Is at a Crossroads (N.Y. Times)

MSNBC Guest Proposes New Patriot Act to Fight ‘Right-Wing Extremists’

Elon Musk has officially killed Twitter. The zombie platform lives on as X, a disfigured shell of its former self (CNN)

How the Ultrawealthy Use Private Foundations to Bank Millions in Tax Deductions While Giving the Public Little in Return (ProPublica) Hating rich people is for some a way of life.

Put You ‘IN THE GROUND’: Grad Student Threatens State Senator Over Vote to Protect Kids From Trans Drugs  But of course only Republicans resort to political violence. MSNBC assures us that is so.

MSNBC’s Big Takeaway On Hunter: Republicans Are Hypocrites  Less so than Democrats.

Broadcast Networks Are Furious That Texas Buoys Actually Deter Illegal Aliens

Meta Exec Boasts Company Is ‘Getting Better’ at Censoring Election Content

PBS Touts ‘Startling Connections’ Among the Young, Gun Ownership, and ‘White Supremacy’

The American Mind.

Gentrification is the urban policy most closely associated with the neoliberal era. Though reports of neoliberalism’s death are greatly exaggerated, there is no question that policies such as free trade, deregulation, entitlement reform, and foreign intervention are now more on the defensive than 20 years ago. Gentrification may be vulnerable, too. Certainly, fertility decline and remote work pose threats to it. The smaller family sizes that have become normal in 21st-century America mean fewer potential urban professionals in the college-to-city pipeline. Those currents will be yet further stemmed by the increased share of white collar jobs done via Zoom.

Gentrification is, at core, an economic strategy. It aims at increasing the number of middle- and upper-middle-class people living in urban cores. There always were, and always will be, young adults who want to live in cities. Gentrifiers differ from Patti Smith types, because they’re respectable and promise quantifiable gains to the urban economy such as higher real estate valuations. They moved into housing previously occupied by people with lower incomes.

This strategy made sense. The best argument for gentrification is that no other model seemed to work. It’s one thing to nag former industrial cities to lay off their yuppie-hugging and get to work rebuilding the great American working class. It’s quite another to make that happen. The cookie-cutter aspect of gentrification—micro-breweries, Starbucks, people riding bikes to work for reasons other than a DUI or an inability to afford a car—is precisely its virtue. An urban policy “model” is something that can be implemented anywhere and does not require much in the way of charisma or talent in city hall.

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that there even is a ‘National Chicken Wing Day’.

Is this a great country or what?

Read it.

Two separate jihadi suicide bombings of the Maalbeek metro station in the EU Quarter and Brussels Airport in Zaventem killed 32 people—a number to which, the court ruled on Tuesday, three victims, like the 23-year-old Shanti De Corte who chose euthanasia, must be added since they did not manage to overcome the mental trauma they had suffered.

In addition to the now-official 35 fatalities, nearly 300 people were injured.

The most notorious of all the defendants in Brussels is Salah Abdeslam, who is already serving a life sentence in France for his role in the 2015 Paris attacks, in which he was the sole survivor out of eight.

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

Ah, yes, the good old days, when Communists were Communists.

John C. Wright.

The idea is that the smartest kids are admitted to the best schools, where they’re taught by the top minds in the sciences, philosophy, law, medicine, and the arts. They therefore possess both the highest degree of natural aptitude, and have been provided with the best possible training, meaning that they are naturally the most suited to take society’s reins.

What universities really sell isn’t an education: it’s the credential.

Credentials are meant to serve a crucial social function. They’re supposed to be a guarantee that a potential employee or professional has mastered the skills for which his services are being retained.

At some point over the last generation, the ruling class shifted its emphasis from competence to ideological loyalty.

Fed-up NYC businesses sound off as migrant crisis causes chaos in the streets, hits shops’ wallets: ‘Enough is enough’ (N.Y. Post)

Dem Governor: Failing To Notify Parents When Their Child Changes Gender Is ‘The American Way’

California Dem Says His Party Is Throwing Money Away

A ‘Traumatic Fight For Survival’: The Demise of San Francisco Should Concern All Americans

Twitter rival Mastodon rife with child-abuse material, study finds (Washington Post)

Desperate SF Grocery Stores Turn To High Tech Upgrade To Combat Theft

Senate Democrats Sneak Gun Control Into Military Funding Bill

More Grooming From Netflix as Adults Host ‘Alternate Prom’ for Kids at Drag Bar in ‘Survival of the Thickest’

Detransitioner Sues Doctors Who Treated Her Depression with Transgender Surgery

NYC Businesses Fed-Up With Migrant Influx

Pushing LGBTQ Agenda, Top California Educrat Disrupts School Board Meeting. Board Rules Against Him Anyway.

AOC Is Just a Regular Old Democrat Now (New York magazine)

Federal Judge Blocks Arizona’s Transgender Sports Ban After Challenge From Prepubescent Transgenders

Rep. Gaetz Intros Bill Ending ‘Unqualified’ Birthright Citizenship

Study: Republican deaths in Florida, Ohio linked to COVID vaccine politics (Axios)

Vaccine politics may be to blame for GOP excess deaths, study finds (Washington Post)

Democrats Learned From Their Covid Mistakes. Republicans Didn’t. (New York magazine)

COVID-19 vaccine politics could be linked to excess GOP deaths in Ohio, Florida: study (The Hill)

The burden of Long Covid “so large as to be unfathomable”

Vaccine rejection may be linked to excess deaths among Florida, Ohio Republicans (Washington Post)

Pentagon Watchdog Finds Numerous Errors in COVID Case Registry (NewsMax)

Networks Spend Days LYING Their Teeth Off for Kamala Over FL Education Standards

Justice Department sues Texas after Gov. Abbott refuses to remove floating barrier (NPR)

WH Tries to Salvage Authority Over Federal Workforce Mandates

Mayorkas Claims Illegal Border Crossings Are Down 65% Due To New Biden Policies, But… Sure, I believe that.

Rep. Jordan Says House Could Move To Impeach Merrick Garland At A “Pretty Quick Pace”

Republican Lawmakers Block $75M in Aid to Palestinians

Biden’s Gun Control Backfires After Fifth Circuit Ruling: Ghost Guns Legal Once More

Exclusive: Hunter Biden’s gallery sold his art to a Democratic donor ‘friend’ who Joe Biden named to a prestigious commission (Insider)

Biden Administration’s Next Target: Your Water Heater

Biden’s Dog Commander Sent Secret Service Agent to Hospital During Unreported Biting Spree

Biden’s Cultural Crusade Undermines Military Readiness

PolitiFact Defends Harris On Florida’s ‘Offensive’ History Standards

“Nothing To See Here”: Members & The Media Panic As The Biden Scandal Mounts

Federal judge blocks Biden’s controversial asylum policy in a major blow to administration (CNN)

Records Reveal 10 Attacks by Biden’s Dog Commander

McCarthy Hints At Biden Impeachment Over Crimes Trump Was Impeached For Asking About

The case for a Biden impeachment

DHS Official: Biden’s Immigration Policy Helps Cartels

Rudy Giuliani ally, pardoned by Trump, gives trove of papers to special counsel (The Guardian)

Special counsel received documents from Giuliani team that tried to find fraud after 2020 election (CNN)

Ex-NYPD Boss Handing Over Trump Records to Jack Smith (Daily Beast)

Former Giuliani colleague turns over thousands of pages to special counsel on 2020 election (NBC News)

Special counsel scrutinizing February 2020 meeting where Trump praised US election security protections (CNN)

Ukraine war: Russia attacks grain stores at River Danube ports (BBC)

Donors, Don’t Fund a Trump Plurality (Wall Street Journal) Mitt Romney does his RINO thing.

Georgia prosecutors eye criminal solicitation charges in Trump inquiry (The Guardian)

Trump’s downfall is coming: Now the Democrats must use his crimes to finish him (Salon)

A New Kind of Fascism (The Atlantic) It’s actually not ‘fascism’, but we have to twist it so we can apply it to Trump and scare the ignorant.

Carlee Russell admits there was no abduction or baby on I-459; apologizes to Hoover police

Carlee Russell, who went missing in Alabama after 911 call about child, says through attorney she wasn’t kidnapped. Authorities are mulling charges (CNN)

Carlee Russell admitted to lying about her disappearance by Alabama freeway: police (Fox)

Florida and DeSantis dig in as criticism of Black history curriculum mounts

BLM Comes to South Africa

73% Of Trump Voters Say Racism Against White Americans Is A Problem; New Poll Finds

PANTS ON FIRE: ABC Ties Emmett Till Lynching to DeSantis, FL’s History Standards

Without Evidence, MSNBC And CNN Claim Biden Is Protecting Emmett Till’s Legacy From GOP

Quilette.

Fake reviews, vindictive editors, ignorant reviewers, “moderation” without reading, rejections for want of “a critical theory lens,” retention of submissions for a year without review, and defamation. If you think I gathered these abuses of peer review in only “woke” fields, think again. They’re problems in the hardest of sciences. And if you think academics can avoid these abuses by keeping out of politics, think again. Submissions are being rejected for their subjects or conclusions.

I received more stories of abuses than were released for publication, because of fears of professional retaliation. I will publish here only stories from academics prepared to go on the record, including myself.

The Antiplanner.

As if the 15-minute city wasn’t bad enough, planners are now promoting what they call the 20-minute suburb. According to its supporters, suburbanites are fed up with driving everywhere and are demanding that the suburbs be rebuilt at higher densities with lots of “town centers” so that everyone can walk to a shop in 20 minutes.

How do planners know this? Because during the height of the pandemic, a lot of people bought bicycles causing, for a brief time, a bicycle shortage. Based on this and similar anecdotal information, planners agree that the time is ripe to completely rebuilt the nation’s suburbs by eliminating single-family zoning and building lots of dense mixed-use developments.

These are not new ideas. Instead, like the 15-minute city, these are just the same tired old New Urbanist ideas with a catchy new name.

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Radical Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary has a long history of spreading militant radical Islamic ideology in the United Kingdom and has been an influential figure, having pledged his allegiance to the Islamic State and its former leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in 2014.

Choudary was found guilty by a British court of inviting support for the Islamic State and handed a five-year and six-month prison sentence in 2016, though he was released just two years later in 2018.

This week, the BBC reports that Choudary faces fresh terror-related charges and appeared in court where he was accused of taking part in meetings calling for others to support the radical Islamist group Al-Muhajiroun.

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

OffGuardian.

It feels weird to write sceptically about this, because, as a self-proclaimed leftist for most of my life, free school meals is exactly the kind of policy I likely would have supported without question just a few short years ago…

…but those few years were Covid years, and they’ve taught us all a lot.

Firstly, and most importantly, its become increasingly apparent that any policy is only as fair as the people implementing it, and only as decent as the intention behind it, and, however superficially humane this plan might sound, the practical impact would be to hand yet more control over to the same murderous, eugenicist state that very recently killed thousands with a lie.

Secondly, a monopoly is a monopoly – whether private or state-backed – and the moment a monopoly exists the freedom to choose is dead. Freedom of choice is always the first liberty to go, but never the last.

I used to bring my lunch in a brown paper bag. I guess that’s not allowed any more.

Ukraine live briefing: Drone strikes skyscraper in Moscow; another night of attacks in Odessa (Washington Post)

Russia claims Ukrainian drone strikes hit two non-residential buildings in Moscow (CNN)

Russia says it foiled a Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow (Al Jezeera)

Russian ammunition depot hit during Ukrainian drone attack in Crimea – official (Reuters)

Red Cross Admits Taking Ukrainian Children to Belarus

Loophole Helps Russia Avert War Gear Sanctions

Putin Boasts ‘Record’ Amount Of Heavy Western Equipment Destroyed In One Day

CDC Changed Definition Of Breakthrough COVID-19 After Emails About ‘Vaccine Failure’

‘Serious Doubt’ About COVID-19 Vaccine Safety After Forced Release Of 15,000 Pages Of Clinical Trial Data

Parents take the reigns in Florida’s book censorship fight (Axios)

Ben Shapiro, 39, Films Himself Setting Fire to Barbie Dolls Because He Is Manly and MAD (Daily Beast)

Republicans Are Throwing Temper Tantrums Over ‘Barbie’ (Huffington P0st)

Ben Shapiro Destroys Dolls While Having A Total Meltdown Over ‘Barbie’ Movie (Huffington Post)

Woke Researchers Spin Mockery Of STEM/Trans Survey Into Laughable ‘Online Fascism’ Paper

Christie Slams DeSantis Over Florida Education Controversy

The GOP is rushing headlong into huge election losses in 2024 (The Hill) If they repeat it loud enough and often enough, maybe it will come true, like Tinkerbell.

Adidas Scores Win With Huge Demand For Unsold Yeezy Shoes

Why Elon Musk Bid Twitter Goodbye (N.Y. Times) More mind-reading from the NYT; just-make-it-up is the news that’s Fit To Print.

Democrats Are Outraged Over Texas Efforts To Secure The Southern Border

Opinion: Diversity programs were once celebrated. Now an uproar over DEI has cost a college president her job (CNN)

US Banks Are Abruptly Freezing Accounts, Halting Withdrawals Without Warning or Explanation: Report

Police towed RVs from a homeless camp to her street. Now residents are moving out, ‘our tenants have left’ (Fox)

Nicklaus: It’s time to find alternatives to the harmful St. Louis earnings tax (St. Lous Post-Dispatch)

Walking is getting a lot more dangerous

California Demographers Forecast Population To Stagnate By 2060

Texas’ Operation Lone Star Seizes 422 Million Doses Of Fentanyl, Nearly 400K Migrants Arrested

Solvency Dies in Darkness: Washington Post On Pace to Lose $100 Million This Year

Illinois’ No Cash Bail ‘Spits in the Face’ of Crime Victims (NewsMax)

The Rise Of Totalitarianism: Banks Denying Services Based On Political Views

Young people are flocking to astrology  Every person I have ever met who believed in astrology was a Democrat.

Chesa Boudin, Ousted San Francisco DA, Now Pulls Six-Figure Salary at UC Berkeley  The Crust take care of their own.

Ocasio-Cortez joins writers and actors on the picket line: ‘Direct action gets the goods’ (The Hill) Cheap virtue-signaling.

Florida Man Shoots & Kills Pregnant ‘Boyfriend’

A radical idea: Just give kids lunch (Washington Post) News flash: We’re already ‘just giving them lunch’. That’s what the School Lunch Program is all about. Try a little reading first.

STUDY: Broadcast Networks Continue To Prioritize Illegal Aliens Over America

Chelsea Handler Bursts Into Family’s Living Room To Tell Them She’s Totally Happy Being Child-Free And Not At All Miserable (Babylon Bee)

School board in Missouri, now controlled by conservatives, revokes anti-racism resolution (Associated Press)

Missouri School Board Revokes George Floyd-Era Resolution (NewsMax)

Juan Williams SLIMES Florida Black History Standards Under DeSantis with 9/11, Holocaust

The View: ALL White People ‘Continue to Reap the Benefits’ of Slavery

Even as third indictment looms, many Republicans still stand by Trump (Washington Post) Gee, how surprising that people still support Trump even when he is being witch-hunted by the Deep State. The WaPo just can’t explain it.

Neither Trump’s Election Challenge Nor His Electors Were Illegal

Climate anxiety spiking during the heatwave? Stay hopeful by taking these small steps (EuroNews)

The Largest And Most Powerful Wind Turbine Ever Built Is Now Operational (ScienceAlert)

A paleoclimate scientist explains why he cringes at the 100,000-year heat—and how far back in prehistory it was really this hot (FORTUNE)

Hottest Stretch of Summer Next Week (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)

News Wrap: Earth sees hottest July ever recorded in human history (PBS)

And Now, The Climate Gang Is Coming For Our Thermostats

New York Times Front Page Finds ‘A Mission From God’ It Can Get Behind: Suing ‘Big Oil’

Cancellations Start For John Clauser After Nobel Physics Laureate Speaks Out About “Corruption” Of Climate Science

Electric Formula 1 car catches fire while charging at race track

Alarmist Media Push “Opinion Survey” as Basis for CA Climate Policy vs Using Energy & Science Data

Hunter Biden put then-VP dad Joe on the phone with business associates at least 2 dozen times, ex-partner Devon Archer to testify (N.Y. Post)

Rep. Jordan: Appears We’re Heading Toward Garland Impeachment

Biden Admin Gives Soros-Backed Group Millions To Teach Young Puerto Ricans About ‘Toxic Masculinities’

This week in Biden probe

FBI Told Delaware U.S. Attorney It Had Already Partially Corroborated Biden Bribery Claims, Source Says (The Federalist)

Texas governor to defy DOJ request to remove floating barriers in Rio Grande: ‘Texas will see you in court, Mr. President’ (CNN)

Texas Governor Vows To Fight Biden Admin To Keep Rio Grande Floating Barrier

Watch: Air Force Head Declares Support For “Demi-Genders”

WATCH: Black Professor Behind Florida History Standards Slams Kamala’s ‘False’ Criticism

Fifth Bus of Migrants Arrives in LA From Texas

25th Amendment Looms: Kunstler Warns Biden’s “Infirmity Is As Hard To Ignore As The Evidence Of His Crimes”

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Ever since Tony Blair first foisted mass immigration upon Britain in 1997, the Labour Party has been addicted to the Muslim vote—and it’s not something they plan to go cold turkey on any time soon. With two-thirds of Britain’s Muslims voting for Labour, and the party increasing their majority by over 10,000 in seven out of ten seats with large Muslim populations between 2015 and 2017, it’s not hard to see why. There are however, issues involved with such a dependency—and, one might even argue, criminality.

Firstly, there’s the law which allows Muslims to dodge stamp duty, brought in by Labour in 2005. Then there’s the election fraud, aided and abetted in Muslim communities because of ‘political correctness.’ One could hardly forget (unless one were a prospective Labour councillor) the heinous grooming gang scandal, which operated (and still operates) predominantly in Labour councils; some critics have argued this was a deliberate strategy to retain the Muslim vote.

Reports come and go about gender segregation permitted at Labour Party rallies, as they do about the religious influence and coercion brought to bear on Muslims to vote Labour—some of whom are told they will “go to hell if they don’t.” And of course, there are the tests of strengths such as the Batley and Spen by-election, where Labour haemorrhaged the Muslim vote thanks to disagreements over LGBT issues and Mohammed cartoons—in the end, holding onto the seat by the skin of their teeth.

Gates of Vienna.

In Western media, criticism of Islamic zealotry is both rare and muted. The reason for such reticence is obvious: any publication that gains widespread attention for its negative analysis and/or mockery of Islam puts its personnel and plant at risk of Islamic ultra-violence. Salman Rushdie, Jyllands-Posten, Charlie Hebdo, and numerous others have provided object lessons on what happens to Islam-critics who become well known to the general public. Most writers see no point in risking violent death or maiming. A publisher has to consider what will happen if his offices are torched and his staff massacred. Best to leave the topic to daredevils like Tommy Robinson and Rasmus Paludan, and keep a low profile.

The Muslim Brotherhood is genteel-seeming front for the Islamization of the West. It provides cover for various groups and individuals (including violent “radicals”) who push for sharia and intimidate the kuffar. Not unsurprisingly, criticizing it directly carries a measure of risk.

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

UPDATE: Muslim Mobs Get a Pass for Assaulting Jews in NYC and LA

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As they do.

Perhaps the single biggest legislative fight this year has been over federal spending.

There’s a good reason for that: The national debt is now an eye-popping $32.5 trillion (roughly $250,000 per household), and out-of-control deficit spending is one of the main reasons why families are struggling with inflation.

In May, Congress passed a bipartisan deal to raise the debt ceiling in exchange for reforms that would supposedly reduce spending levels.

Some parts of the deal were good, but as we learn more about the details of the package, it looks more and more like a raw deal for current and future taxpayers.

The Steep Cost of Ron DeSantis’s Vaccine Turnabout

COVID lab leak coverups, then and now

US Military Confirms Myocarditis Spike After COVID Vaccine Introduction

Every Mask is a Nail in the Coffin of Humanity

Andrew Weissmann: Jack Smith is going to charge ‘big’ (MSNBC)

Actress Ellen Barkin: Trump Will Win, Kill 6 Million Jews (Like Hitler)

Sununu: Most New Hampshire voters are ‘not with Trump’ (Politico)

Eric Holder: DOJ ‘Back on Track’ With Indicting Trump

Georgia Gov. Kemp Contacted in Special Counsel Hunt for Trump Crime

Trump Unlocked a Whole New Level of Bullshitting in Iowa (Daily Beast)

Tulsi Gabbard pushes back against Jack White’s anti-Trump comment (The Hill)

As Inquires Compound, Justice System Pours Resources Into Scrutinizing Trump (N.Y. Times) Witch-hunting Trump is causing the DoJ to put everything else on back burners.

DeSantis doubles down on claim that some Blacks benefited from slavery (Washington Post) Which they did, which is why none of them are returning to Africa–America, whatever its faults, is just a better place, for everybody.

VP Harris says FL officials trying to ‘replace history with lies’ with new Black history standards (MSNBC)

Post readers: Florida’s new African American Studies curriculum ‘sickening’ (Palm Beach Post)

California Expands Travel Ban List Over Gender Ideology To Half The Country

Trump’s GOP rivals open door to cutting Social Security for younger people (Washington Post)

PBS’s Abortion-Beat Reporter Pushes Fear: ‘Very Extremist Christian Language’

Kennedy Schools Dems On Free Speech; “Shut Up!!!” They Explained…

WashPost Scandalized by Conservative ‘Drive to Lionize’ Justice Thomas, Sway Public Opinion

Inside the DeSantis Doc That Showtime Didn’t Want You to See (Daily Beast)

Newsom’s Plan To Fine School District $1.5 Million Over Blocked Textbook Lacks Legal Grounds

Washington Week Skips GOP Hearings Entirely, Lusts Over Trump in Jail with Jeffrey Goldberg

Pitcher Who Was Deemed ‘Homophobic’ Will Not Renounce Beliefs To Get Back In MLB

In the GOP primary, one thing sells (merch) above all: Owning the libs (Politico) As usual, proglodytes are convinced that the Right is doing what the Left would be doing in their place.

DeSantis fires back at Kamala Harris over Black history standards (Axios)

Biden Approves Monument to Honor Emmett Till in Civil Rights Win (Bloomberg)

White Men Face Systemic Racism in the Workplace

Weekend Shootings Leave at Least 6 Dead, 20 Others Wounded in Chicago

White Lowe’s Worker Confronts Black Thieves – Gets Black Eye And Pink Slip

Why South Africa Is on the Brink of Chaos

Against SecDef’s Wish, Diversity-Obsessed Biden Picks Woman To Lead Navy

41 Percent Of Illegal Immigrant Group Biden Admin Released Into US Never Showed Up For Court Dates

Hunter Biden Expected To Face Up To 10 Criminal Referrals, Here Are The Top Bombshells From Last Week

New York Times, Washington Post, Nets Ignore Biden Bribe Allegations

GOP’s crumbling case against Biden on crime, immigration and inflation (Axios) Who are you going to believe, Axios or your lyin’ eyes?

The truth about the Biden family business is becoming too big to hide

Water Heaters Next on Biden Administration Hit List

CNN’s Jennings SLAMS Kamala Harris for Lying About Florida’s Education Reforms

Why aren’t we more scared of the climate crisis? It’s complicated (The Guardian) It’s not complicated at all. People no longer automatically believe the Narrative media.

How to Choose Carbon Credits That Actually Cut Emissions (Entrepreneur)

EVs For All? If The Dream Was Met, Would It Help The Environment?

Biden Administration Rule Would Ban Nearly All Portable Gas-Powered Generators

China Rebuffs John Kerry–Xi Tells Him, It’s Business as Usual for China

Scientists: ‘More Ocean Life Making Seas Look Greener’, Media: ‘Climate Crisis!’

IT’S JULY! ABC’s Raddatz Howls Over Climate Change, Blames Human Activity

Report: Nobel Prize-winning scientist Dr. John Clauser — who recently declared climate science a ‘pseudoscience’ — has his IMF talk abruptly canceled

Time is running out on the Climate Clock

Most People Aren’t Panicking because We’re in a Climate Change War Zone

Mayor Adams’ new 60-day shelter limit in NYC blasted by migrants: “I don’t want to sleep on the street” (N.Y. Daily News)

Tyranny of the minority: Liberal law profs urge Biden to defy the courts and the public (The Hill)

Teachers’ union conference led by Randi Weingarten offers trainings on ‘affirming’ children’s LGBTQ identities (Fox)

Velshi Dismisses IRS Whistleblower Hearing As ‘Stunts And Conspiracies’

Google Tests AI Tool To ‘Help’ Journalists Write News Articles

Inside Biden’s unusual hidden campaign (Washington Post)

They Checked Out Pride Books in Protest. It Backfired. (New York Times)

Oakland Fails Women As Staggering Crime Surge Goes Unpunished

Democrats scramble to reach voters after Florida cancels mail-in ballot requests (NBC News)

You’ll Need a ‘Visa’ for Europe Soon

‘No One Needs An AR-15’ Says Person Who’s Obviously Never Seen The Cockroaches In Texas (Babylon Bee)

Ukrainian Bradley Fighting Vehicles Seen With Explosive Reactive Armor

Ukraine Situation Report: Huge Explosions Rock Crimean Ammo Depot

China Sends Dozens of Warplanes Toward Taiwan

Zelensky Fires His Ambassador To UK Over Slight Criticism

Poland Wouldn’t Hesitate To Occupy Parts Of Western Ukraine, Putin Claims

Belgorod Governor Says Cluster Bombs Used Against Village In Russian Territory

US Warns Of False Flag Attacks As Russia Targets Civilian Ships Off Ukraine

Putin Warns Poland: Aggression Against Belarus Means Aggression Against Russia

LOGISTICS: Ransomware Targets Ports

Blinken Says Ukraine Has Taken Back 50% of Territory That Russia Seized  And if you believe that one, he’ll tell you another one.

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From the Great Recession to 2020, Yellow nearly went bankrupt four times. In each episode, the trucking giant was saved — thanks to concessions from lenders, the Teamsters union, the federal government or often all three.

As a result, some of Yellow’s 30,000 employees weren’t too scared when the company began warning this summer that the end times were coming again. “It’s like crying wolf at this point,” Yellow mechanic Brian Atchely told FreightWaves earlier this month.

Now — as a strike looms, customers begin to pull freight and the Teamsters union refuses to meet — industry watchers are on alert that the trucking fleet may finally shutter. Ahead of a federal court hearing on Friday, Yellow said a work stoppage could force the company into a Chapter 7 liquidation bankruptcy proceeding.

Truck drivers are grappling with the idea that they could lose their jobs. Some 22,000 Teamsters members work at Yellow.

Look for … the Union label….

Wall Street Journal.

The ongoing saga of the severely mentally ill in America is stirring attention again in a sadly familiar way. In Los Angeles in early 2022, a 70-year-old nurse was murdered while waiting for a bus, and two days later a young graduate student was stabbed to death in an upscale furniture store where she worked. That same week in New York City, a 40-year-old financial analyst was pushed onto the subway tracks as a train was arriving, killing her instantly.

All three assaults, random and unprovoked, were committed by unsheltered homeless men with violent pasts and long histories of mental illness. In New York, the perpetrator had warned a psychiatrist during one of his many hospitalizations of his intention to commit that very crime.

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Boston startup Galy has inked a deal with Japanese manufacturer Suzuran Medical Inc. to use the startup’s lab-grown cotton in its products.
Suzuran says it plans to use thousands of tons a year of Galy’s “Literally Cotton” fibers as part of a 10-year, $50 million partnership.
“It’s huge,” says Luciano Bueno, Galy’s founder and CEO. “It’s the first-time lab-grown cotton will enter any market worldwide.”

In Jacksonville, V.P. Kamala Harris warns of ‘national agenda’ to whitewash Black history (Florida Times-Union)

Top Border Patrol agent Gregory K. Bovino ‘relieved of his command’ after talking to Congress: officials (N.Y. Post)

New rule aims to make outdated home water heaters cheaper and greener (Washington Post)

FBI improperly used 702 surveillance powers on US senator (The Hill)

FBI analyst improperly searched surveillance data for U.S. senator’s name (The Hill)

FISA Court opinion reveals a US senator, state senator, state judge got swept up in 702 queries (Fox)

It’s Time for Congress to Reform Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Courts (Newsweek)

What Biden corruption? The IRS whistleblowers, the Democrats, the press, and Trump

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week (Vol. 52)

The Media Loved Whistleblowers. Until They Were Blowing the Whistle on Joe Biden.

Vast Majority Of Americans Say Illegal Immigration Is Either “Crisis” Or “Major Problem”

Hunter Biden’s lawyer Kevin Morris is seen smoking a BONG on the balcony of his LA home while clearly visible from the road during a visit from the president’s son (UK Daily Mail)

Illegal Immigrant Children With Tuberculosis Released Across US

Twitter Roasts ATF For Posting Image Of Agent Loading Nazi Gun Pointed At Testicles 

Harris rips Florida going soft on slavery; DeSantis seeks GOP favor, attacks black history (MSNBC)

Ted Cruz picks an odd fight over who truly ‘believes in democracy’ (MSNBC)

Researchers horrified, decry rise of ‘fascism’ as students send mocking responses to woke survey (Fox)

Majority of college students favor reporting professors for ‘offensive’ opinions: poll (The Hill)

Researchers condemn rise of ‘fascist ideologues’ after students send mocking responses to LGBTQ survey (N.Y. Post)

NY Times, NPR Bash Popular Film on Fighting Child-Trafficking After Trump Thumbs-Up

Mental Health Round-Ups: The Next Phase Of The Government’s War On Thought-Crimes

Jason Aldean, Eric Adams and the Strange Rise of the City Bumpkins

Transgenderism and the Censorship of Women

Quebec’s public health insurer hangs up on Anglophone woman for speaking English