‘We can’t escape’: climate crisis is driving up cost of living in the US west (The Guardian)

Plagued By Drought, China Turns To Coal To Keep The Lights On

Italy Ruffled by German Health Minister’s Wild Claim: “Climate Change Destroying Southern Europe”

Climate records tumble, leaving Earth in uncharted territory – scientists (BBC)

Alabama GOP governor approves congressional map with just one majority-Black district despite court order (CNN)

Alabama lawmakers vote on redistricting map despite Supreme Court ruling (NBC News)

Carlee Russell’s case gave hope that missing Black women finally mattered — until doubts set in (NBC News)

Tony Thurmond kicked out, ‘verbally attacked’ at school board meeting (Fox)

Black Leaders Denounce Florida’s New Education Guidelines

Death in ‘Killadelphia’

From the Police Blotter: ‘They Were in the Way’

Crazy People Are Dangerous

FLASHBACK: Reporters Adored Jesse Jackson, “King” of America’s Left

PBS Cheers ‘Uniquely Qualified’ Harris Attacking Florida’s New History Standards

Judge Aileen Cannon Kills Trump’s Hopes of a Post-Election Trial (Newsweek)

Jack Smith’s surprise weapon against Trump has a long civil rights history (MSNBC)

Fulton county prosecutors prepare racketeering charges in Trump inquiry (The Guardian)

Trump prosecutions consume campaign funds and messaging as charges mount (Washington Post)

Before Jan. 6, Mark Meadows joked about Trump’s election claims (Washington Post) So what?

California State superintendent kicked out of school board meeting following passage of new transgender policy (NBC Los Angleles)

California school district stands up for parental rights as Newsom targets conservative school boards (Fox)

Texas A&M President Resigns Over Botched Hiring of Woke Professor

‘You Will Not Bully Us’: California School Board Shuts Down State Superintendent

Muslim Migrants Carry Their Contempt for Women to New Lands

OffGuardian.

There was a time when the census was just a head count. That is no longer the case.

The American Community Survey (ACS), sent to about 3.5 million homes every year, is the byproduct of a government that believes it has the right to know all of your personal business.

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A far cry from the traditional census, which is limited to ascertaining the number of persons living in each dwelling, their ages and ethnicities, the ownership of the dwelling and telephone numbers, the ACS contains some of the most detailed and intrusive questions ever put forth in a census questionnaire.

At 28 pages (with an additional 16-page instruction packet), these questions concern matters that the government simply has no business knowing, including questions relating to respondents’ bathing habits, home utility costs, fertility, marital history, work commute, mortgage, and health insurance, among other highly personal and private matters.

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Attention conservation notice. This jeremiad is all about financial policy, which I know is not a topic all of my readers are interested in. This piece is only relevant to you if you own a home in the US (because mortgage rates matter) if you rent in the US (because market rents are set in comparison to the cost of owning), or if you save and/or borrow money anywhere in the world (because of the US mortgage system’s effect on long-term interest rates. Readers who live in monasteries, survivalist compounds, or the Sentinel Islands can safely skip this one.

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For the past few weeks, women archaeologists working on an excavation site near the royal basilica of Saint-Denis in the north of Paris have been subjected to intimidation and insults on the grounds that they wore ‘indecent’ clothing and did ‘men’s work.’ Posters calling for respect for their work and their persons have been put up around the site. The verbal abuse the women have been subjected to has reignited the controversy surrounding the origin of the perpetrators, who belong mainly to North African immigrant populations that have become the majority in certain areas of Seine-Saint-Denis.

‘We have no more room in the city’: NYC announces shelter limits for asylum seekers (NBC News)

5 California cities ranked among the 10 least educated in the U.S. (KTLA)

SOS: The Left’s MISSgendering, Sniffing Kids and Drinking Horse Pee

Gay Men Reportedly Have Their Baby Killed After Surrogate Gets Breast Cancer

House Biden Hearings ‘Died in Darkness’ — Washington Post Had NOTHING in Paper

Video Of Deserted Mall And Streets In Downtown San Fran Reveals Democrats Destroyed City  Except for the ‘unhoused’, of course.

Pushback Forces Major Retailer To Shelve Graphic Book On Sex Aimed At 10 To 15 Year Olds

Relocating To Austin Can Save High-Income New Yorkers $250,000  And they’ll still be in a little blue bubble all their own.

Randi Weingarten’s Union Descends on DC To Instruct Teachers How To Push Radical Agenda on Students

‘This Is a Really Big Deal’: How College Towns Are Decimating the GOP (Politico)

The Washington Post Celebrates Illegal Abortion Pill Distribution

Nike Ad Touts Rapinoe as ‘American Hero’ as She Advocates for Men Competing in Women’s Sports

Harvard Law Professor Forgets Why Judicial Review Exists

New Jersey Sues Feds Over NYC Congestion Pricing Plan

‘Sound Of Freedom’ Shatters Expectations, Hits $100 Million Milestone At Box Office

Senate Dems Pledged To Return Donations From FTX Fraudster. They Still Haven’t.

Biden’s Education Department to Hold Summit on Race in College Admissions Despite Recent Supreme Court Ban

Lefty ‘Journalism’ Site Dubs Maryland the ‘Patron State’ For Abortion

Seattle Public Schools Offer FREE ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ For Kids 10 and Up

The Decline of DEI

Tom Fitton’s claims about Jack Smith’s legal authority don’t add up (MSNBC)

Judge scolds Jack Smith’s team for causing delay in unrelated Jan. 6 verdict (Politico)

Ex-Overstock CEO Claims to Have Damning Video of ‘Naughty’ Jack Smith (Newsweek)

There’s no way Jack Smith would bring a weak case against Donald Trump (MSNBC)

Special counsel continues to schedule witness interviews even as potential Trump indictment looms (CNN)

Trump’s Legal Woes Mount as Trial Dates and Campaign Calendar Collide (N.Y. Times)

Murkowski: Given Biden-Trump Choice, Would Pick Manchin

No one wants to talk about Trump in Aspen (Politico)

Trumpworld Quietly Prepares for a Chaotic Convention Fight (Daily Beast)

Fulton county prosecutors prepare racketeering charges in Trump inquiry (The Guardian)

Unpacking the “Surprise” Jan. 6 Crime in the DOJ’s Target Letter to Trump (Slate)

Trump Motion to Disqualify Georgia Case Gets New Life

Nicolle Wallace Ponders the Woes of Many Prosecutions of ‘Kamikaze’ Trump

Our leaders failed us on the climate emergency (The Guardisn)

When It Comes to Climate Change, There’s No Such Thing as a New Normal (TIME)

Solar panels on water canals seem like a no-brainer. So why aren’t they widespread? (Associated Press)

New catalyst could dramatically cut methane pollution from millions of engines (Stanford University)

From Kawasaki to Phoenix: tracking a day of extreme heat around the world (The Guardian)

Lab-Grown Artificial ‘Meat’ May Actually Be Worse For The Environment

Experts Warn Renewable Energy Creates ‘New Opportunities’ For Chinese Grid Attacks

80 Million Americans To Face 105 Degree Heat This Weekend: National Weather Service

EVs Aren’t the Solution to Anything

Is Global Warming Causing Massive Heatwaves?

Greta Thunberg Downgraded: Winchester Statue to be Moved to Somewhere “Less Visited”

SEA TRANSPORTATION: Nuclear Powered Cargo Ships Fade Away

German Climate Extremists Escape Criminal Organisation Classification

The Hill Should Check Their Data, Weather is Not Getting Worse

The Politics Of The Strategic Petroleum Reserve: A Comprehensive Review

Wind And Solar Are Not Cheaper Than Coal And Oil

Death Valley Just Had the Hottest Midnight on Record  So what?

There’s a heatwave in the sea and scientists are worried

Record-Breaking Heat Baking Southern US to Expand

“Just Stop Pissing Everyone Off”: Citizen Heroes Confront Environmentalists’ Traffic-Blocking Bull$hit

CNN Spouts Off About New FL Black History Education Standards

Rep. Bush Pays $700K for Security Amid Bid to Defund Cops

“Go Somewhere That Understands Your Worth” – Los Angeles Police Union Boss Tells Cops Leaving City

Where Black Youth Gun Murders Soared and Where They Fell

DEI Officers Are ‘Questioning Their Career Path’ as Demand Falls: Report

For the few local businesses that still require masks, a series of uphill battles (Boston Globe)

The new CDC director has a plan to fix the agency’s trust problem (NBC News)

After Long Silence On ‘Long Vax’, Science Magazine Links Autoimmune Disorders To COVID Shots

Hunter Biden spotted at Malibu hotspot Nobu as secret FBI file on Bidens unveiled (N.Y. Post)

Bidens allegedly ‘coerced’ Burisma CEO to pay them millions to help get Ukraine prosecutor fired: FBI form (Fox)

IRS whistleblower speaks out about Hunter Biden probe (CNN)

IRS whistleblowers reveal who’s really to blame for shocking Biden corruption (Fox)

U.S. leading indicators point to recession starting soon (Reuters)

Grassley Releases Bombshell FBI Doc Discussing $10MM Biden Bribe; Burisma Boss Said Hunter ‘Dumber Than His Dog’

Republicans release FBI form with unverified Biden-Burisma allegations (The Hill)

‘Everyone Noticed the Lack of Socks.’ Legacy Media Finally Noticing Biden’s Obvious Signs of Health Decline.

No Sanctuary: NYC Shoos Migrants Away, Warns “No Guarantee” Of Shelter, Services

FBI Official Admits Under Oath They Knew Hunter Biden Laptop Was Real

It’s Increasingly Clear Feds Were Protecting Joe Biden, Not Hunter

Miranda Devine: Special Prosecutor for Biden Bribe Allegations

“So Called” Journalism: NBC Calls The Two Respected IRS Veterans “So Called Whistleblowers”

Justice Department planning legal action against Texas over floating border barrier (CNN)

Biden to keep Julie Su on indefinitely as Labor chief despite lack of Senate votes (NBC News)

Harvard Law Professor Tells Biden He Can Ignore the ‘MAGA’ Supreme Court

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What happened: A bunch of Democratic lawyers are getting rich after settling a class action lawsuit against Google.

• The plaintiffs in the case, Illinois residents who can prove Google violated their privacy rights between 2015 and 2022, will receive about $95 each.

• Their lawyers will receive $35 million in fees.

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The show this week was going to be about the religious underpinnings of what I call the New Religion of the ruling class, but as I was doing it other things came to mind, so it is more of a survey of the antecedents. In retrospect I probably should rework the show around that idea, but that will have to be another show. As a result, this show is more of a thinking aloud about the roots of social justice.

The odd thing to me is the resistance I see to using the word “religion” to label this mode of thought that dominates the ruling class. The behavior of the managerial class ticks the boxes for a theocratic mindset. The only thing missing is a well-defined god, but all the other behavior mimics religious fervor. If you replace God with “arc of history” the puzzle is complete, as far as a religion.

There seems to be two camps that oppose the religion idea. One camp are Christians who think a religion must have all the things in their form of Christianity, which means most of Christianity is a false religion. The other camp is those who cannot move past the idea that people are motivated by something other than money. In both cases the opposition is about their own needs and desires.

Why do some never get COVID symptoms? This genetic mutation could be the answer (S.F. Chronicle)

Massachusetts Parents at Risk of Losing Religious Exemption on Vaccinations of Their Kids

Five takeaways from Hunter Biden IRS whistleblower hearing (The Hill)

Whistleblower confirms attorney who donated to Biden’s 2020 campaign ‘refused to bring charges’ against Hunter (Fox)

Second IRS whistleblower goes public at House Oversight hearing about Hunter Biden probe (CNN)

Another Day, Another Short-Squeeze For Stocks; Yield Curve Yells ‘Recession’

WATCH: House Dem Compares IRS Whistleblower to Villain From ‘Les Mis’

White House Accused of Preparing for Another ‘Basement Campaign’ by Restricting Press

Cruz, Paul Speak Out After White House Changes Press Rules Affecting Daily Signal Reporter’s Credentials

‘I Would Be Embarrassed’: Economists Hammer Biden’s Attempts to Spin Sky-High Inflation

‘America’s New Slave Trade’ Is Here at Hands of Mexican Cartels, Border Expert Tells Lawmakers

Shrinkflation: You’re Paying More And Getting Less

The Major Revelations From the Hunter Biden Whistleblower Hearing

“All roads lead to Joe”

NBC Frets GOP ‘Seizing on’ IRS Whistleblowers in Hunter Probe as ABC Stays Silent

Grassley Releases FBI Doc on Biden Bribery Allegation

Biden Has Started Using the Short Stairs on Air Force One To Avoid Falls

FBI Task Force Knew Hunter Biden Laptop Was Real but Refused To Tell Social Media Companies

Is Biden’s New Student Loan Scheme Any More Legal Than the One Quashed by Court? (Probably Not)

WATCH: Pelosi Dismisses Concerns About Biden’s Age—’He’s a Kid to Me’  Which means that Pelosi is senile too. But you knew that.

‘Very Important’: Rep. Steube Lists Biden Admin Censorship Coercion Efforts

Foreign nationals gave Biden family and associates over $17M, IRS whistleblower claims (N.Y. Post)

Gaetz says he’ll offer bill to defund Jack Smith investigations of Trump (The Hill)

Ex-NYPD Commissioner Bernie Kerik ‘in Talks’ With Jack Smith’s Team, Lawyer Says (Daily Beast)

McConnell Dodges If Trump Should Be Charged for Jan. 6

Playbook: Is Trump’s third indictment imminent? (Politico)

Potential Trump Charges Include Civil Rights Law Used in Voting Fraud Cases (N.Y. Times)

CNN Claims Two-Tier Justice System Benefits Trump in Jan. 6 Case

McCarthy: No ‘Criminal Activity’ by Trump on Jan. 6

After fitful starts, Trump Jan. 6 investigations hurtle toward charges (Washington Post)

Jan. 6 Rioters Have Bad News for Trump About D.C. Juries (Daily Beast) Saying the quiet part out loud: Trump can’t get a fair trial in a Democrat town.

Trump Could Face ‘Seditious Conspiracy’ Charge In Jan. 6 Probe, Previous Trials Suggest

Inside Kevin McCarthy’s secret promise to expunge Trump’s record (Politico) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

Former aide expected before grand jury as Trump faces possible charges (Washington Post)

Stanford president resigns after fallout from falsified data in his research (NPR)

Over 400 migrants bussed from NYC to Erie County as asylum seeker crisis spirals: officials (N.Y. Post)

Virginia Dems Take Lavish Trip to Africa on Taxpayers’ Dime

WATCH: Homeless Man Attacks Santa Monica Councilman Who Asked Him To Stop Littering

“This Year Is The Worst”: SF Walgreens Store Suffers 20 Thefts A Day, Chains Up Freezer Section

Illinois Delegated Control Over Its “Ban On Book Bans” To Self-Described Marxist

FACT CHECK: CNN Is a ‘Nonpartisan Media Outlet’

YouTube Censored Detransitioner’s Story While ‘Glamorizing’ Pro-Trans Content

Doctors in the Northeast launch abortion pill pipeline into states with bans (Washington Post)

ABC Stood Alone as They Ignored Damning IRS Whistleblower Testimony

The European Court of Human Rights Attacks Free Speech

Shield Laws Let Doctors Mail Thousands of Abortion Pills

Your children belong to the schools, where their trans status will be kept secret from parents

CRE Panic Hits Baltimore As Second Office Tower Dumped At 69% Discount

Democrat AGs Scramble To Convince Companies DEI Is Still Legal

Upstate Motel Kicks Out Guests After NYC Moves Migrants In

Transgender Triple Murderer Harassing Women in California Prison, Inmates Say

Winner Of $1 Billion Powerball Jackpot Excited To Finally Be Able To Afford An Apartment In L.A. (Babylon Bee)

The hometown of San Francisco’s drug dealers

RFK Jr. Disavows Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan, Whom He Once Called a ‘Truly Great Partner’

Alabama House passes redistricting map that Democrats say defies court order (Washington Post)

‘Most Contemptible Song Of The Decade’: Country Music TV Bans Jason Aldean’s “Try That In A Small Town” Video

Voting Rights Group Sues DeSantis

“Disgraceful” Coutts ‘De-Banked’ Nigel Farage Because Of His Conservative Views, Internal Dossier Reveals

Senate Dems Push Binding Supreme Court Ethics Code

NBC Frets GOP ‘Seizing on’ IRS Whistleblowers in Hunter Probe as ABC Stays Silent

Nearly two years after Texas’ six-week abortion ban, more infants are dying (CNN) Than would have died through abortion? (You can’t make this stuff up.)

MSNBC Declares Florida’s History Curriculum Is Akin To Defending The Holocaust

YouTube Is Pulling ‘Sound Of Freedom’ Interviews, Reviews

RFK Jr. defends himself at House hearing as Dems rebuke him for COVID and race comment (ABC News)

Woman at Center of Supreme Court Case Describes Death Threats, Harassment, ‘Doxxing’

House Dems Try To Shut Down Hearing on Censorship

Stanford Law School Ousts Diversity Dean Who Egged on Protest of Federal Judge

Nebraska Teen Sent to Jail Over Illegal Abortion (Rolling Stone) Break the law, go to jail. What part of that don’t they understand?

MSNBC Gloats: Trump ‘Squirms and Sweats’ Over Jack Smith’s Next Moves  A very rich fantasy life.

ABC, CBS Trash Greg Abbott, Texas as Big Meanies for New Measure to Secure the Border

Modern ‘Sixth Mass Extinction’ Event Will Be Worse Than First Predicted (Forbes)

Collecting energy from raindrops using solar panel technology (EurekaAlert!)

Fake Twitter profiles, Wikipedia editing and PR battles: Inside the push to greenwash the COP28 climate summit (CNN)

How Germany’s Green Energy Transition Led to Dependence on Imported, Fossil Fuel-Based Energy

UK Looks To Boost Energy Security With Small Modular Nuclear Reactors

EU Ditches Idea To Cap Power Firms’ Revenues

Europe’s “48°C Horror That Never Was”…ESA, Media Sharply Criticized For Manipulative Reporting

Don’t Be Fooled! Here’s How NOAA Perpetuates A Climate Crisis Rainfall Myth

Thousands of Irish Farmers Protest Nitrogen Cuts

Europe Demonstrates False Underlying Assumption of Mainstream Environmental Policy

Lawmaker Questions Top Official Over Proposed Gas Stove Ban

Biggest Beneficiaries of Biden’s Climate Cash Are Foreign Companies

Florida Board of Education approves controversial standards for teaching Black history (The Hill)

Florida Board of Education approves controversial Black history standards (Axios)

Florida approves Black history standards decried as ‘step backward’ (Washington Post)

A Black Man Was Elected Mayor in Rural Alabama, but the White Town Leaders Won’t Let Him Serve (Capital B News)

The Django Syndrome: What The Latest Racist Attacks On Clarence Thomas Say About Our Rage Politics

Report: US Soldier Lied About Missing Passport to Avoid Flight Home

NYC to Pay $13M to 2020 George Floyd Protesters

CNN: Mass Shootings Correlate with Black People’s Share of Population, Whites to Blame,

Being Against Crime Added To List Of Things That Are Racist (Babylon Bee)

Crime Pays: NYC To Shell Out $10K to BLM Protesters Arrested by Police

The View Smears Country Star Jason Aldean as a ‘Racist’ for Hit Song  I challenge you to listen to the song and find anything racist in it.

ZMan draws an historical parallel.

Today we have mountains of facts and figures to tell us how things are doing in the Global American Empire. There was a time not so long ago when these facts and figures made up the bulk of news coverage. Economists became court wizards, explaining the latest unemployment figures or trade numbers. They were also called upon to bless whatever polices were being debated in Congress. In the Obama years, economic data was the way we measured the glories of the empire.

That has all changed now. One reason is no one in their right mind takes anything the government says at face value. People had grown used to the way the media biased the numbers depending upon who was in office, but the mortgage crisis cratered the public’s confidence in the numbers themselves. If all of the court wizards explaining the numbers could not see the mortgage fiasco coming, then why should anyone believe them about unemployment or inflation?

Then you have the general lying that has become a feature of government. The lying about Covid not only disgraced the medical profession, but it finished off whatever trust people had in the official numbers. If the government lies about how many people are dying from Covid just to move more product for the drug makers, the government will lie about how many people are working or the inflation numbers. No one trusts the numbers because no one trusts the people issuing the numbers.

NewsMax.

Mohamad Barakat, 37, shot Officers Jake Wallin, Andrew Dotas and Tyler Hawes from inside his car on Friday, from about 15 to 20 feet away, before they could even reach for their guns, North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley said at a news conference. Wallin was killed while Dotas and Hawes remain hospitalized in critical condition. Wrigley said Barakat also shot and injured a bystander, who was trying to run away when she was hit twice.

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

UPDATE: The Islamization of North Dakota

Whoopi Goldberg walks off The View stage during Miranda Lambert debate: ‘I’m leaving y’all!’ (Entertainment)

Whoopi Goldberg WALKS OFF as The View co-hosts weigh in on Miranda Lambert drama: ‘I’m leaving y’all!’ (UK Daily Mail)

Whoopi Goldberg stops ‘The View’ over Miranda Lambert debate: ‘I’m leaving y’all’ (N.Y. Post)

Whoopi Goldberg Walks Off ‘The View’ Stage As Co-Hosts Debate Miranda Lambert Drama: ‘I’m Leaving’ (Hollywood Life)

The Sick Strategy of Smearing Moms as Nazis

Rudy Giuliani Denies Claims That He ‘Flipped’ on Trump (Daily Beast)

CNN and Dem Slotkin Team Up to Tie RFK Jr.’s Anti-Semitism to GOP

House Republicans Reject Democratic Pressure To Disinvite RFK Jr. From Testifying On Censorship

Jan. 6 Prisoner Takes His Obstruction Charge To The Supreme Court

MSNBC: Tennessee is Fascist Because They Won’t Elect Liberals

Michigan Charges 16 Elderly ‘Fake Electors’ With Felonies

Southern Poverty Law Center: Will Smear for Cash

The Media Display Hostility Toward a Third Party

Robert Kennedy Jr’s racist, antisemitic and xenophobic views go back decades, report says (The Guardian)

Woman who directed Jan. 6 rioters with bullhorn convicted on federal charges (The Hill) Let’s see … nope, no mention of Antifa or BLM. (Bias? What bias?)

CNBC Puts All Blue States In Top 10 States To Live, Red In Worst 10  If you look at the criteria they use, you’ll see why.

WATCH: Congresswoman Shouts Israel Is ‘Apartheid State’ Before 9 Dems Vote in Agreement

The View: Trump Thinking Like Mussolini, Could End Up ‘Hung’ Like Him  At which they would all applaud.

Navarro Tars DeSantis: ‘Vindictive, Thin-Skinned, Awkward Bobblehead’ Republicans talk about issues, Democrats just call names.

Big Tech Censored RFK Jr. 10 Times, But the Left Is Begging for More

Donald Trump says he’s a target of special counsel’s criminal probe into 2020 election aftermath (CNN)

‘This is an endgame move’: Trump receives target letter from Special Counsel in 2020 election probe (MSNBC)

Latest on probe into Trump and 2020 election aftermath (CNN)

The ultimate Trump test is near. Which side are you on, Republicans? (The Charlotte Observer) Are you with the witch or the witch-hunters?

Dissecting Trump’s Truth Social post on his Jan. 6 probe target letter (Washington Post) Philip Bump takes his turn with the witch-hunt.

Former Arizona governor contacted by special counsel in Jan. 6 probe (CNN)

Special Counsel’s Jan. 6 Target Letter to Trump Mentions Conspiracy, Tampering (Rolling Stone)

Michigan AG charges 16 GOP activists who falsely claimed to be electors in bid to aid Trump (Politico)

‘If Trump’s lawyers complain he’s got too many indictments, maybe he should stop criming’: MSNBC host (Raw Story) How about if Democrats quit making shit up?

GOP Lashes Out Over Trump Target Letter: ‘Worse Than Russia’ (Daily Beast)

Looming indictment wrenches open the central question of 2024: Is Trump fit to serve? (Politico) And raising that question is the whole plan behind the witch-hunts.

Trump’s Conspirators Are Facing the Music, Finally (N.Y. Times) Let’s see … nope, no mention of the Biden Crime Family.

Third Verse, Same as the First: Republicans Shrug at Latest Trump Case (N.Y. Times) They know it’s a partisan witch-hunt.

Sen. Tester Compares Trump to Dictator at Fundraiser

Huckabee Sanders’ 2024 neutrality frustrates Trump (Axios) I doubt that anyone at Axios has any clue as to what does or does not frustrate Trump. They’re just making this shit up.

Trump Loses Bid for New Trial in E. Jean Carroll Case

Trump has a plan to consolidate power in a second term. It just might work. (Washington Post) The possibility that anyone writing for the WaPo has the vaguest clue about what Trump’s plans might be is ludicrous. They’re just making this shit up.

Maggie Haberman Reveals How Trump Reacted To Jack Smith’s Letter (Huffington Post) The possibility that Maggie Haberman, famous anti-Trumper at the New York Times, knows anything about Trump’s reactions to anything is ludicrous. They’re just making this shit up.

DOJ Let Hunter Biden Call To Give FBI, IRS Interviews — So He Never Did

Shaving Ryan’s Privates: Female Military Recruits Forced To Shower With, Sleep Between, Transitioning Men

Biden Deteriorates Rapidly During Meeting With Israeli President (RedState)

Nets Skip BOMBSHELL Report FBI Obstructing Congress’s Hunter Probe

Not Just Gas Stoves: Biden Admin Rule Would Outlaw Nearly All Portable Gas Generators

Biden DoD Lets Transgender Service Members Skip Deployments, Receive Indefinite Physical Fitness Waivers: Confidential Memo

DOJ Sued for Not Registering Hunter Biden as Foreign Agent

Jacqui Battles KJP Over Anti-Semitic Dems as Print Journos Lob Softballs on Abbott

Unused Wall Materials Have Sat ‘on Border for Over 2 Years’ on Family’s New Mexico Ranch, Hill Panels Are Told Your tax dollars at rest.

Watch Live: IRS Whistleblowers – One, A Gay Democrat – Testify Against Bidens

The SPR Could Stay Half Empty Forever

Anonymous Whistleblower, Now Revealed, Calls for Special Counsel in Biden Case

A Decade Of ‘Deals’: The Definitive Timeline Of The Bidens’ Influence-Peddling

Myocarditis and COVID Vaccination: Yale Researchers Reveal New Insights (SciTechDaily)

Wuhan Lab Leak “So Friggin’ Likely” – New Slack Messages Reveal Massive Media Deception By Fauci & ‘Scientists’

Watch: Rand Paul Is Engaged In An All-Out-War Against Fauci

US Suspends Wuhan Institute Funds Over Covid Stonewalling (Bloomberg)

US Finally Cancels Funding To Wuhan Lab

“We Have Been Lied To”

Breitbart Notes New York Times Admits Wildly Exaggerated COVID Deaths

‘We are damned fools’: scientist who sounded climate alarm in 80s warns of worse to come (The Guardian)

False ‘greenwash’ solutions won’t help — we need to eliminate our use of plastics (The Hill)

Some EVs Are “Dirtier” Than Conventional Vehicles; New Study Finds

Will Wind Turbines Be Generating More Waste Than Electricity?

Are Green Investments so Lame they need Special “Green Banks” to Succeed?

Former Enron Adviser Paul Krugman Claims We ‘Absolutely Should Politicize the Weather’ As indeed ‘we’ are.

John Kerry Leaves China Empty-Handed After Days of Climate Discussions  By private jet, of course.

‘California of the East Coast’: New Jersey Moves to Ban New Gas-Powered Cars By 2035

States Reconsider: The Folly of Fear-Driven Climate Policies

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“It’s only ‘democracy’ if your side is winning,” the managing editor of this publication is prone to muttering. She is referring, of course, to the hypocrisy of our managerial elites. They bleat loudly about the ‘dangers to democracy’ posed by right-wing populist movements—but silence anyone in the public square with whom they disagree. In the name of ‘protecting’ democracy, our elites operate anti-democratically—like dockside bullies.

They do this by blocking accounts, cancelling contracts, disinviting people, shutting down servers—or through vandalism and violence. With these tactics, progressives have achieved a near-total stranglehold on communications, entertainment, media—and, thus, on our culture and even our very minds. Additionally, manipulative campaigns and a constant flow of media disinformation have created a ‘false consciousness’ among the unwitting public. This leads them to believe that conservatives really are ‘fascists,’ that abortion somehow does preserve women’s dignity, and that the ubiquity of rainbows is a sure sign of our moral emancipation.

Naturally, the surveillance state is employed to track and monitor any dangerous idea that contradicts this state of affairs. Anyone who resists or violates the ever-shifting ‘community guidelines’ is punished. The rest of us learn to do what they tell us. We learn to obey.

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A popular tax break in the form of being able to make so-called catch-up contributions to 401(k) retirement savings plans is set to vanish for many higher-earning Americans at the end of this year.

Catch-up contributions refer to a provision in 401(k) plans that allows individuals aged 50 and older to contribute extra money to their retirement savings accounts. The aim of catch-up contributions is to enable older workers to accelerate their retirement savings in the years leading up to their retirement.

All your money are belong to us.

Georgia Supreme Court rejects Trump bid to head off potential indictment (Politico)

Lawrence on Trump judge hearing espionage case: Never get over how outrageous this is (MSNBC)

MSNBC Historian: Trump Promises to Be a Dictator, Could Start Jailing People

Trump Hired Adviser He Pardoned for Campaign Finance Crimes (Daily Beast)

Whoopi Suggests Bail Rules Newly Invented to Keep Trump Out of Jail  Goldberg has the IQ of a carrot. At best.

‘A Message to Donald Trump,’ CNN Oozes Over Jack Smith Going to Subway

What Trump’s G.O.P. Rivals Are Saying About Another Potential Indictment (N.Y. Times) The Narrative media are convinced that, if they just keep pushing hard enough, the indictment witch-hunts will somehow get Trump out of the Presidential race.

N.H. Poll: Trump Holds Lead Over DeSantis

Prosecutors and Trump Lawyers Meet in Court in Classified Documents Case (N.Y. Times) Sometimes it is good to be a billionaire.

Israel Struggling to Recover Ancient Artifacts Trump Took to Mar-a-Lago: Report (Rolling Stone) The witch-hunt continues.

16 false Trump electors face felony charges in Michigan (Detroit News) The witch-hunt continues.

Michigan attorney general charges fake Trump electors over alleged 2020 election crimes (CNBC)

Two tiers of justice: more on the Hunter Biden protection squad, plus a new Trump indictment?

Facing Civil Rights Complaint, NYU Says Whites-Only Anti-Racism Seminar Was ‘Open To All’

Rewarding failure in New York City

Networks Ignore Anti-Semitic Democrat Calling Israel a ‘Racist State’

CNN Upset Dem Jayapal Made to Walk Back Hate Message Against Israel

Detroit Police Commissioner Caught With Prostitute, Asked Arresting Officers To “Help Him Out”

Former Congressional Black Caucus Aides Launch Caucus-Aligned Super PAC (Huffington Post) Note the assumption that ‘black’ = ‘Democrat’.

Bowman on Donalds: ‘Every Brotha Ain’t A Brotha’  Unless he’s a Democrat.

Whoopi Suggests Bail Rules Newly Invented to Keep Trump Out of Jail  Goldberg has the IQ of a carrot. At bets.

Ta-Nehisi Coates Crashes School Board Meeting Over Banning His Book (Daily Beast) “Do you know who I am!!!!!”

Female recruit considered resigning after being forced to shower with trans women with full male genitalia (Fox)

BofA And Others Share Records With FBI Without A Warrant “All The Time”, Director Wray Admits

Biden Admin Awards Massive No-Bid Contracts to Dem-Connected Firm with $600k Tax Lien

Fact Checker Says Kamala Harris ‘Did NOT Suggest’ What She Clearly Suggested

House GOP Debating Possible Garland Impeachment Effort

US Industrial Production Posts First Annual Decline In 28 Months  Thank you, Joe Biden. Thank you, Democrats.

Confirming the IRS whistleblowers

Pentagon Says Military Needs Abortion To Help Them Become Proficient In Killing Innocent People (Babylon Bee)

Nets Spend 527 Minutes on Trump Indictment, 0 Seconds on Biden Burisma Bribery

J&J Files Litigation to Challenge Inflation Reduction Act

While Navy Pushes ‘Pride’, a Third of Attack Subs Are Out of Order

Jim Jordan Threatens to Hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in Contempt of Congress (The Foundry) He won’t care, any more than Eric Holder cared.

Biden Is Barely Functioning

Biden Boots Daily Signal Reporter From White House Press Briefings

How the Supreme Court put itself in charge of the executive branch (Vox) Getcher Narrative, right here.

What Jared Kushner’s testimony means for the Trump investigation (MSNBC) Because you’re too stupid to understand anything unless we explain it to you.

Chris Christie Suggests Jared Kushner May Not Have Been Entirely Truthful When Testifying About Trump’s Failed Election Coup (Vanity Fair) Christie never hesitates to punch right.

The Big Money behind the Fight to Ban Environmentally and Socially Conscious Investing (Informed Comment) As if there weren’t Big Money behind every side in every question.

Democrats push DHS for plan to root out internal extremists (The Hill)

‘Warning Signs’; Nets Cheer ‘Trouble on the Trail’ for ‘Struggling’ DeSantis (NewsBusters)

Foreign Policy Magazine Slams Musk’s Twitter as ‘Sewer of Disinformation’ (NewsBusters)

WATCH: Jen Psaki Suggests GOP Oversight Chair Is ‘Being Co-Opted By Foreign Agent’

Watchdog: Uninvite RFK Jr. for ‘Antisemitic’ COVID Comments

Author of spoof story shared by Greg Abbott calls him one of ‘dumbest people in the country’ (The Guardian) Say the people who believe ‘global warming’ and whatever the Narrative is this week.

Bloomberg ‘Sound Of Freedom’ Hit Piece Written By Pro-Pedo Contributor

Report: Dems to Force House Censure Vote on GOP’s Santos (NewsMax) What’s the point? He’ll just ignore it, as Schiff ignored it, and it will have no effect. This just looks like petulance.

PBS Backers Whine (Over HBO Show?): ‘House Republicans Take Fresh Aim at Big Bird’

Florida Officials Sued Over Migrant Transportation Law

Kerry Kennedy rebukes brother RFK Jr. after he linked Covid-19 and Jewish people (NBC News)

GASLIGHTING 101: How Biden and the Left Create Their Own Villains

McCarthy rejects RFK Jr.’s comments about Covid and race but won’t cancel his testimony (NBC News) Note the implicit assumption that RFK’s testimony ought to be cancelled for CrimeThink.

Democrats push DHS for plan to root out internal extremists (The Hill)

How Democrats and Their Media Allies Cooked Up a Phony Supreme Court ‘Legitimacy Crisis’ (The Foundry)

MSNBC Labels GOP as ‘Callous’ for Calling Out ‘Abortion Tourism’

Canadian PM Trudeau Blames ‘American Right-Wing’ for Muslim Backlash to LGBT Curriculum  Clueless in Toronto.

Supreme Court, Republicans to blame for lack of debt forgiveness, students say in poll (The Hill)

Is Tennessee A Democracy? (The Atlantic) Anne Applebaum pushes the Narrative: Republicans are a ‘faction’ and when they’re in control democracy is dead.

Help ‘Elect a Fascist’? Scarborough Scalds Joe Manchin’s Third-Party Flirting

Twitter Files: Who Are The People Claiming RFK Jr. Is ‘Spewing Disinformation’?

CBS Screeches ‘Extreme,’ ‘Hard-Lined, Nationalist,’ ‘Right-Wing’ Israel Is Ignoring Biden

No Labels CEO defends 2024 ticket against spoiler charges (NBC News)

Michigan attorney general charges ‘false electors’ over efforts to overturn the 2020 election (NBC News)

Democrat Rosa DeLauro calls GOP ‘terrorists,’ forcing explosive House hearing into recess (Washington Examiner)

Michigan Bill That Would Send People to Prison for ‘Misgendering’ Is Unconstitutional

Rand Paul lambasts Fauci for getting ‘treated like a president’ with taxpayer-funded security (Fox)

Ex-CDC director says unredacted Fauci gain-of-function email reveals ‘aggressive attempt’ to change narrative (Fox)

Life is about to get much more expensive for millions of families (Axios)

Affordable Diabetes Drug Reduces Long-COVID Risk By 41 Percent: Study

In the Asian Flu of 1957-58, they rejected lockdowns

The American Mind.

As part of its “celebration of Pride Month,” the Biden-Harris Administration announced that the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) will “appoint a new coordinator to address the growing threat that book bans pose.” The White House alleges that “book bans” can “create a hostile school environment [that] may violate federal civil rights laws.”

The creative new strategy has already been tested in Forsyth County, Georgia, where a federal government investigation found that district-level discussions about not including certain books in school libraries can create a hostile environment for students who associate with the identities portrayed in the materials being challenged. The Biden Administration’s new book czar is likely to launch similar investigations around the country. This will lead to a new level of federal micromanagement of K–12 education, undermining local school districts’ ability to curate educational resources that align with local priorities and sensibilities.

What activists deceptively characterize as “book bans” amount to routine decisions about what to teach or what books to include in school libraries. Asking whether materials are age-inappropriate is the basic, commonsense place to start when curating a library collection or developing a curriculum. Those decisions inevitably lead to including some materials and excluding others. Just as we do not teach calculus to third graders, materials that are pervasively vulgar or developmentally inappropriate for young children should not be acquired in the first place. The limited space on school shelves should be filled with materials that area families believe convey maximum educational benefit to students.

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

Every summer we are now treated to “Shark Week” on one of the cable channels, just in time for our beach vacations. And we’re also now treated to “Thermageddon Week” by the climatistas.

Every summer it seems someone discovers that it gets hot. “How hot is it?” (as the crowd would ask Johnny Carson). Always the same answer: Record heat! Climate change. Thermageddon is upon us!

Dennis Prager.

In February, I was invited along with Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA (TPUSA), and Robert Kiyosaki, author of the bestseller, “Rich Dad, Poor Dad,” to speak at Arizona State University at a conference titled “Health, Wealth and Happiness.”

The invitation came from the T.W. Lewis Center for Personal Development, an independent center affiliated with Barrett College, the honors college of ASU.

About a week before the scheduled event, 34 (Ann Atkinson — see below — counted 39) of Barrett College’s 47 faculty members signed a letter to the dean of ASU condemning the event on grounds that Charlie Kirk and I are “white nationalist provocateurs … purveyors of hate who have publicly attacked women, people of color, the LGBTQ community, [and] institutions of our democracy.”

Tom Veal.

The House of Representatives has passed a Defense authorization bill that, if enacted, would end the Pentagon’s policy of free abortions for service members and their families. In response, a spokesman for the National Security Council has declared that access to abortion is “a foundational sacred obligation”.

So much for separation of Church and State.

Erick Erickson.

Inflation numbers are out. Living costs are decreasing, but that does not mean things are cheaper. It just means things are not getting more expensive as quickly as they were. The cost of living is still high, and rental and mortgage prices continue to rise. During these times, the Biden administration has found a new target for their ire: airplane bathrooms.

Over the past few years, morbidly obese and mentally ill TikTok “influencers” have raised a ruckus on airplanes because the aisles are not wide enough, the seats are not big enough, and the bathrooms are not expansive enough for them. In the past few years, airlines have made bathrooms uncomfortably small. But they did so for a specific reason: They needed more seats.

Every seat added to a plane is a reduction in price for travelers. In the ‘70s and early ‘80s, only the rich and business travelers could afford to fly. People dressed up. Meals were served. It was an experience and one that cost a pretty penny. Today, thanks to former President Ronald Reagan’s deregulation plans, air travel has been democratized. It is more cramped. It is more crowded. It has few amenities. But a family of four can now take a trip without taking out a second mortgage. The trade-offs have reduced ticket prices.

The Biden administration, with Vice President Kamala Harris as the frontwoman, wants to mandate larger bathrooms for the small contingent of inconvenienced TikTok influencers of America. Doing so will price the middle class out of air travel. It is all part of the plan. The Biden administration and the Left, in general, are at war with the middle class.

Here’s What Our Climate Overlords Fail To Understand About Fossil Fuels

Russian scientists warn of powerful solar flare activity on Monday (Reuters)

Ford Slashes F-150 Lightning Truck Prices By Up To $10,000 As EV War Heats Up

Politico: Chinese Emissions are Cancelling Biden’s Efforts to Save Us from Climate Change

China Set To Benefit As Global South Lobbies Against EU Carbon Tariffs

12 Ocean Disaster Podcasts That Will Ruin Your Beach Vacation

US Must End Its ‘Crackdown’ on China or Lose Climate Cooperation, CCP Warns Amid Kerry Trip

Experts Advise Responding To Heat Wave By Staying Indoors And Paying More Taxes To The Government (Babylon Bee)

Florida County GOP Calls mRNA COVID Shots “Bioweapons”

FDA Approves First Drug to Protect Babies From RSV  Except we have no evidence that babies are susceptible to RSV, any more than young children.

Trump’s Coup Lawyer Advised on Weird Supreme Court Fanfiction (Daily Beast) Nothing is too irrelevant or silly if it can be used to smear Trump and anybody who deals with Trump.

Trump Wins Turning Point Action Conference Straw Poll

Trump seeks unprecedented delays as he battles prosecution (The Hill) Unprecedented! (Hm. Seems to me that ‘unprecedented’ is what Trump is all about….)

Trump and Allies Forge Plans to Increase Presidential Power in 2025 (N.Y. Times)

Can Donald Trump delay trials until after 2024 election? Why he’s trying to ‘slow things down’ (USA Today) What are the chances that somebody writing for USA Today knows why Trump does anything? Not great.

Fani Willis: The No-Nonsense Georgia Prosecutor on a Collision Course With Donald Trump (Wall Street Journal)

Trump to Expand Presidential Powers If Reelected: Report (NewsMax) Even news orgs that ought to know better can pick up on proglodyte speculations.

The MAGA persecution complex is eating itself to death (Washington Post) Greg Sargent loses his shit.

Trump To Young Americans: “Choose Fascism Or Freedom”

Minn AG Keith Ellison compares Justice Clarence Thomas to house slave character in blockbuster hit

WATCH: Far-Left Minnesota AG Compares Clarence Thomas to House Slave From ‘Django’