Black Woman Who Claimed She Was Kidnapped By White Man With ‘Orange Hair’ Admits She Made It All Up

Kentucky Nurses Take Mandated Training: ‘White Silence is Racist’

Oldest Black fraternity pulls 2025 convention out of Florida citing ‘hostile’ policies (Tallahassee Democrat)

NPR Music: Jason Aldean Song and Video Attacks Cities ‘Using Racist Dog Whistle’  Remember: If you hear the dog whistle, you’re the dog.

After Tyre Nichols’ death, DOJ launches civil rights investigation into Memphis police, city (USA Today) Unmentioned in all of the coverage, unless they are forced to do so, is the fact that all five of the officers in question are black. I guess they were white supremacists and didn’t know it.

Black Leaders Decry DeSantis’ ‘Policy Violence’

Civil Rights Groups Rip ‘Soul Fest’ at Confederate Park

How Alabama could get away with defying the Supreme Court (Vox)

Alabama Republicans’ defiance keeps an ugly history alive (CNN)

WATCH: Senator Mike Lee Blasts Soros-Funded ProPublica for Attacks on Thomas

Black History Is a Casualty in Ron DeSantis’s Christian Nationalist Quest (N.Y. Times)

CNN Host Fights With GOP Rep. On Burisma: ‘I Don’t Have a Base, I’m a Journalist’

Why Dems are hesitating on Santos censure (Politico) Using a hammer to smash a gnat?

Watch: MSNBC Leftist Calls For Post 9/11 Style Crackdown To Prevent Americans Becoming Too Patriotic

Twitter placed ads for USA Today, National Women’s Soccer League, and other major brands on a terrorism-linked neo-Nazi account (Media Matters for America)

CNN Falsely Accuses DeSantis Of ‘An Attempt to Soften The Brutality’ Of Slavery

Feds Are Mystified Why Syrian Named Mohamad Planned Terrorist Attack  (The Other McCain)

The war on life’s simple pleasures

California’s War on Math

Nine EU Countries Have Still Not Received Any Money From The COVID-19 Recovery Fund

Bud Light To Lay Off Hundreds Of Employees In Wake Of Disastrous Pro-Trans Marketing

Michigan Democratic governor signs ban on ‘conversion therapy’ for minors (CNN) We don’t want fewer homosexuals, we want fewer heterosexuals!

Surge in Illegal Immigration to Italy Through the Balkans Overwhelms Authorities

‘First Amendment Auditor’ Sues NYPD over Right to Record in Police Stations

Nation’s Largest Teachers’ Union Bankrolls Fight to Kill School Choice in Nebraska

Dems Exit Committee to Avoid Doctor’s Description of Gender-Transition Surgeries on Minors  Please don’t disturb their fantasy with facts.

Sexual Assault Survivor Describes Trauma of Sharing Locker Room With Lia Thomas

This pro-mask “study” is why you should NEVER “Trust the Science”

Watch: Mitt Romney Argues That It Shouldn’t Be Illegal For Government To Use Big Tech For Censorship

High Earners Leaving N.Y., California in Droves

Shoplifter Strolls Past CNN Reporter As She Profiles Rampant San Fran Crime

WATCH: 90-Year-Old Feinstein Told ‘Just Say Aye’ at Vote on Defense Bill

Democrat Propagandist: Morning Joe Is Part Of America’s ‘Fact-Based’ Community

Trump ‘panicking’ after Giuliani admits election lies: Michael Cohen (MSNBC) I don’t think so. Trump doesn’t panic.

Trump teams prepare for possible grand jury vote in special counsel probe (NBC News)

Trump Lawyers Told to ‘Expect Another Indictment’ (NewsMax) And the witch-hunt continues.

Media Chant In Unison: Judge Who Rejected Hunter Biden’s Plea Deal Was a Trump Appointee

EV Suspected In Fire Of Massive Cargo Ship Carrying 3,000 Cars

NASA’s Solid-State Battery Breakthrough Could Transform Air Travel

Greta Thunberg Now Has a Criminal Record

This Looks Like Earth’s Hottest Month, and Maybe Its Coolest Year for a While (N.Y. Times) WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!

Heat Waves Aren’t Just Getting Hotter—They’re Sticker Too (Wired ‘Science’) WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!

Supreme Court clears path for Mountain Valley Pipeline construction to resume (Politico)

This month is the planet’s hottest on record by far – and hottest in around 120,000 years, scientists say (CNN) Scientists say! That proves it!

Scientists Are Worried About Antarctica’s Unprecedented Lack of Sea Ice Growth

Read the proposed Hunter Biden plea agreement (Politico)

Hunter Biden judge says can’t accept plea deal (Reuters)

Hunter Biden plea deal derailed (MSNBC)

Why the Hunter Biden plea hearing will fuel Republican outrage (CNN)

CNN Claims Biden Investigation is “Much Ado About Nothing” (NewsBusters)

PolitiFact Falsely Claims Biden Didn’t Awkwardly Leave MSNBC Set (NewsBusters)

Oh No! MSNBC Frets Hunter’s Plea Deal Bust Will Hurt His Daddy in ‘24 (NewsBusters)

Poor Hunter! Networks SAD About Hunter’s Plea Deal Falling Apart (NewsBusters)

Hunter’s Legal Team Accused of Scheme to Dump Damaging Brief (NewsMax)

MSNBC’s McCaskill Insists Biden Did Nothing Wrong Except Love Hunter

Hunter Biden plea hearing features dramatic twists and turns, and a cliffhanger ending (USA Today)

Why Kamala Harris Is A Better VP Than You Think (Politico) She doesn’t have any ideas, and she doesn’t cause trouble?

Rejected plea deal leaves Hunter Biden’s team fuming (Axios)

Watch: New York Post Editor Details Coordinated Social Media Censorship Of Biden Family Corruption

“Bidenomics” Is A Fraud Based On Deliberately Misrepresented Stats

The View’s FAKE Conservative Demands House Ignore Evidence, Not Impeach Biden

Biden Admin Ignored Warnings About Withdrawing Troops From Afghanistan, Military Leaders Say

Rod Dreher.

is unlikely that Europeans will understand the controversy over Jason Aldean’s No. 1 country music hit “Try That In a Small Town,” and why it matters. But it really does matter, and you can’t really understand what’s happening in the U.S. culture war unless you take the Left’s smear of Aldean seriously.

Jason Aldean is a popular country music singer who, this past May, released a song called “Try That In a Small Town.” It’s a bog-standard country tune, undistinguished musically or lyrically. The song is a taunt to criminals and violent protesters, of the sort that flooded American cities during the Summer of George Floyd in 2020, and afterward. It tells them that if they try to get away with crime, or violently disrespecting authority, in a small town, they will be met with violence. Aldean has a line referring to the fact that small town people are armed.

…

When leftist ideologues constantly excuse criminality and other anti-social behavior, or even (as with violent and misogynistic rap lyrics) celebrate it, and at the same time damn white conservative males as bigots for writing songs defending law and order, and affirming the morality of violence to stop criminals—well, this is how Trump voters are made.

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

They story arc of the climatistas goes as follows: It started out as “global warming” in the 1980s. But that term was abandoned in favor of “climate change,” since it enabled the climate campaign to account for inconvenient things like cold weather. (Aside: initially not everyone was on board with “climate change.” I distinctly recall Robert F. Kennedy Jr. calling “climate change” “the deceptive language of anti-environmentalism” about 20 years ago. But he quickly fell in line, no doubt after getting The Memo from Climate Central.)

But “climate change” didn’t do the trick either, so now it’s being called the “climate crisis.” Ooooh, crisis! It doesn’t get any worse than crisis does it? Got do to something radical now now now.

With surveys showing declining public support for the climate crusade despite all the hot and bothered headlines about heat waves, what comes after “climate crisis”? Where is there to go after “crisis”? How do the climatistas turn the panic up to 11?

Read it.

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson is “extremely worried” about the consequences if more demonstrations go ahead in which the Koran is desecrated, he said on Thursday, amid growing Muslim anger at a series of attacks on Islam’s holy book.

Attacks on the Koran in Sweden and Denmark have offended many Muslim countries including Turkey, whose backing Sweden needs to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a goal of Stockholm’s following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Kristersson told Swedish news agency TT that further requests had been filed with police for permission to hold protests where desecration of the Koran was again planned.

“If they are granted, we are going to face some days where there is a clear risk of something serious happening. I am extremely worried about what it could lead to,” he said.

What would happen if Christians reacted that way to burning a Bible? Or if patriots reacted that way to burning the American flag? The relevant point is that there is no ‘freedom of speech’ in Islam.

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

Zeihan.

Every time we’ve used an asset-backed currency, it’s resulted in collapse. There’s just no asset, especially not gold, that can keep up with economic growth and expansion around the world. And when the currency becomes a brake on economic activity, you end up with a sharp crack in the system; which leads to depression and often state collapse.

Exactly right. I’m as fond of an asset-backed currency as the nest right-wing nut, but the problem is that the amount of the asset can’t keep up with economic growth in the modern world, and so sooner or later acts as a noose strangling the money supply, which cases deflation, which chokes off growth, and we all suffer. (Oh, for the 19th century,  when we didn’t have that problem and could use gold and silver coins to our hearts’ content….)

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.

Read it.

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.

ZMan lays it out.

Imagine one of your friends tells you that the governor of your state was caught on video robbing a liquor store. Not only that, his brother pistol-whipped the clerk during the commission of the crime. Most likely, you would want proof. Your friend then sends you a link to a Twitter thread on the subject. Knowing the volume of nonsense on Twitter, you then go to mainstream news sites looking for something on this incredible story, but everywhere you look you find nothing but silence.

This would present a dilemma. On the one hand, you trust your friend and the story does seem legitimate. Upon further inquiry you find some stories tucked away here and there that confirm the tweet. Independent news sites are howling about the crime and the refusal of the mainstream media to notice it. The dilemma is not about believing the story is true but about trusting your own judgement. If all of the serious people are ignoring this story, why should you be outraged by it?

If this sounds familiar, it should. This is daily life in America. Events that should warrant national coverage go unmentioned, while trivial nonsense gets wall-to-wall coverage from all of the regime media organs. Compounding it is the fact that the stuff getting covered comes with truckloads of official lies and narratives designed to trick the audience into viewing the facts presented in a way that leads to an inaccurate understanding of the event in question.

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.

The Spectator.

makeup in Renaissance theater, Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance Drama, was published in 2006. Its enduring popularity is not so much a testament to her scholarly insights on powdered hogs’ bones mixed with poppy oil — the old stage recipe for pale skin — or Shakespeare’s sardonic references to the kind of beauty “purchased by the weight” in The Merchant of Venice, as to Karim-Cooper’s celebrity: for more than a decade she’s been one of the leading racializers of Shakespeare’s work.

Perhaps the key moment in her rise to fame was her 2018 curation of the Globe Theatre’s first “Shakespeare and Race Festival,” now held annually. Those who are scratching their heads trying to think where, besides Othello, or perhaps Shylock, you can find “race” in Shakespeare, should hie them to the postmodern cosmetic counter. Race is not where we find it — it is where we put it. And Karim-Cooper puts it everywhere.

The Spectator.

The Washington Post is collapsing. Once one of America’s great media institutions, the paper lost $100 million last year and has shed 500,000 subscribers. Recent reports reveal that Postowner Jeff Bezos is going to be more hands-on to try and save the paper.

Yet trying to get employees of the Post to do their jobs is like trying to get dogs to play baseball. Dogs just aren’t interested in baseball, and the breed of journalist now at the Post is just not interested in journalism. Always a liberal paper, the Post is now pure propaganda.

Jason Aldean? Please spare me the small town nostalgia. (Washington Post) “I’m not here to talk about Jason Aldean’s country song “Try That in a Small Town.” I’m not a fan. I’m just here to pat you on the back if you’re one of the many Americans, like me, who ran from small-town life and never looked back.” A very pure example of the contempt the Cloud People have for Dirt People.

Luongo: The DNC Soap Opera Gets A New Villain – RFK Jr.

CNN (and Will Hurd) Falsely Accuses DeSantis of Calling Slavery a “Jobs Program”

DEMONIC Joy Reid Lashes Out At Greg Abbott, Wants to ‘Cause Death to Migrants’

George and Alex Soros Max Out to Israel-Hating Congresswoman

The Political Dead-End Abortion Foes Should Avoid (Politico) As if ‘abortion foes’ are going to be taking political advice from some proglodyte at Politico…. (Progs love nothing more than giving their opponents advice.)

Democrats move to censure Marjorie Taylor Greene (Washington Post) I doubt that she’ll care.

How right-wing news powers the ‘gold IRA’ industry (Washington Post)

New J6 Video Suggests Capitol Police Officer Lied ‘Repeatedly’ About Injuries: Julie Kelly

Sugary drinks tax could prevent decay and increase health equity: study  “Health equity”? Does everything have to be an “equity” now?

NPR, Virginia Media Lose It Over Youngkin’s New Transgenderism in Schools Policy

Pro-LGBTQ Radicals Threaten to Kill, ‘Dismember’ School Board Chief Over Parental Rights Policy

MAGA Republicans Convene In Underground Lair To Turn Planet’s Heat Dial Up Three More Notches (Babylon Bee)

Hillary Clinton Points Finger at ‘MAGA Republicans’ for Hot Summer Weather

Deadly global heatwaves undeniably result of climate crisis, scientists show (The Guardian)

Heat waves hitting U.S. and Europe ‘virtually impossible’ without climate change, researchers say (NBC News)

Heat waves in US and Europe would have been ‘virtually impossible’ without climate change, new report finds (CNN)

Heat waves in U.S., Europe ‘virtually impossible’ without climate change, study finds (Washington Post)

Keeping contentious nuclear plant open could cost Californians $45B: report (The Hill)

US to spend $1.55 bln for oil and gas sector to cut methane emissions (Reuters)

Powerful nonprofit pushing companies on net-zero emissions is hurting consumers, watchdog tells Jim Jordan (Fox)

Climate change is pushing young people in Honduras to leave farming and migrate (NPR)

Behold, The Rise Of Europe’s Anti-Greens

Coming Soon Near You: Bears (Wired ‘Science’)

Gulf Stream shutoff could happen this century, scientists warn (Politico) WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!

Warning of forthcoming collapse of Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (Nature) WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!

Crucial system of ocean currents is collapsing; ‘affects everyone on the planet’ (CNN) WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!

Why the media is pushing climate lockdown fantasies 

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.

The New Neo.

I’ve seen lots of articles lately of this sort:

More than HALF (56.3%) of liberal white women age 18-29 have been diagnosed with a mental health condition. That’s more than DOUBLE the percentage (27.3%) of conservative white women in the same age bracket.

If you look at the charts at the link, the same is true of other age groups (although the differences between liberal and conservatives in other age group are considerably less, they follow the same pattern) and it’s also true for white men. In fact, the differences are even more stark for liberal white men versus conservative white men, and there’s a huge disparity in all age groups for that population.

Most of the speculation on this seems to focus on women; I’m not sure why. And I’d be curious if this effect is only found among white people.

Read it.

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