Oath Keepers Leader Warns Trump About Trial (Newsweek)

Insight: Swing state Republicans bleed donors and cash over Trump’s false election claims (Reuters) Bias? What bias?

Oath Keepers leader convicted of seditious conspiracy warns Trump: ‘You’re going to be found guilty’ (Washington Times)

The Age of Insurrection review: how the far right rose – and found Trump (The Guardian)

Suspect in mass shooting that left 5 dead fired randomly at victims, Philadelphia police say (CNN)

2 Youths, 7 Adults Wounded in D.C. Shooting

Gunman arrested for Philadelphia mass shooting which left 5 dead is BLM activist who wore women’s clothes: sources (N.Y. Post)

Glutton For Punishment? Nikole Hannah-Jones Tweets Out Her Loathing For The 4th

ABC’s ‘The Wonder Years’ Character ‘Not…Interested in Moving Next to White Folks’

Pittsburgh Schools Push CRT Curriculum

ABC Uses Neutral Pronouns for Trans Philly Shooter, Edits Out DA Saying ‘Man’

Americans Can’t Even Agree on What Our Country Is (Daily Beast) We used to, before the rise of the Wokerati who hate America.

WNBA player shredded after calling America ‘trash’ ahead of July 4th: ‘Quintessential Gen Z-er’ (Fox)

Watchdog Group: Biden Administration Pushing To Make A.I. Inherently Left-Wing

It’s Getting Hard to Stage a School Play Without Political Drama (N.Y. Times)

Watch: Woke Demonstrators Protest Supreme Court Rulings With Bizarre Ritual

PBS Hosts LGBTQ Journalist-Activist to Label SCOTUS Winners a ‘Hate Group’

Inside the House GOP’s plan to go after FBI and DOJ (Politico)

Ben & Jerry’s July 4 Memo: ‘US on Stolen Land’

Biden faces renewed pressure to embrace Supreme Court overhaul (Washington Post)

A Georgia teacher’s plight exposes the essence of anti-woke MAGA fury (Washington Post) MAGA is the New Nigger.

Senate Republicans fear abortion could derail hopes for majority (The Hill) At least the Narrative media would like you to think that, because that’s what they would be thinking.

Why Josh Hawley’s fake historical quote matters (MSNBC)

Happy 4th: Ben & Jerry’s Says ‘US Exists on Stolen Indigenous Land’

Man Charged After Trans Double Rapist Lodges Hate Crime Complaint

Taliban compounds misery for women in Afghanistan with order to close all beauty salons (CNN) The horror! The horror! Somebody call Human Rights Watch!

BBC Host Nukes Her Twitter, Claims Israel Is ‘Happy To Kill Children’  But at least they don’t close down beauty salons!

The Far Right Is Already Using the Philadelphia Shooting to Smear Trans People (Vice) To Vice, there is no Right but the Far Right. (Smearing people on the right is okay, though.)

Kappa Kappa Gamma Turns On Sisters For Wanting All-Female Sorority House

‘Israeli forces are happy to kill children,’ BBC anchor tells ex-PM Bennett (Jerusalem Post) ‘Palestinians’ still have them beat ten-to-one.

Knives Out in New York: Squad-Backed Democrat Launches House Campaign Against Gretchen Whitmer’s Sister

CNN Wants ‘Controlled Conversation,’ Disparages Objectors

A Tale of 2 Philadelphias: Moms for Liberty Gather ‘Joyfully’ and Protesters Lose Their Minds

In its tech war with America, China brings out the big guns (The Economist)

CIA Director Calls Ukraine War Major ‘Opportunity’ For Recruiting Spies

Xi Jinping warned Vladimir Putin against nuclear attack in Ukraine (Financial Times) And the FT know that how? Did Xi send them a press release? (Kremlin Denies Xi Warned Putin on Ukraine Nukes)

Russia has lost half its combat capability in Ukraine, says UK armed forces chief (Financial Times)

US Navy: Iran Tried to Seize 2 Oil Tankers

UK, Canada, Sweden, Ukraine Sue Iran at Top UN Court

Ex-Top Chinese Official Says Export Curb On Key Metals Is “Just The Beginning”

US Navy Thwarts Iranian Attempt To Seize 2 Oil Tankers, Shots Fired

Ukraine Says Western Allies Have Already Failed On F-16 Pledge

Awkward: Russian And Ukrainian Soldiers Arrive At The Same Nuclear Power Plant To Blow It Up And Blame On Each Other (Babylon Bee)

WATCH: Iranian Navy Opens Fire on Oil Tanker

The Foundry.

Over the weekend, Ohio lawmakers passed a state budget that expands eligibility for the state’s EdChoice Scholarships to all K-12 students. Gov. Mike DeWine signed the bill into law on Monday, making Ohio the eighth state in the nation to pass a universal school choice policy and the sixth state to do so this year, following Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, Oklahoma, and Utah.

Universal school choice is when education choice is offered to all students in a state, not just those who are low income or who have special needs.

Several other states also expanded their education choice policies already this year, including Alabama, Indiana, Montana, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.

Starting this fall, children from Ohio families earning up to 450% of the federal poverty line ($135,000 for a family of four) will be eligible for full scholarships worth about $8,400 (up from about $6,150 last year). Children from families earning above that threshold will be eligible for partial scholarships that will be adjusted based on income.

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Here’s a Lincoln Project tweet that states some true facts. The same facts stated by MSNBC. These true facts, taken in isolation, are on the order of crying, “my mother died after five minutes alone with that man!” when the man was a priest giving Last Rites to the afflicted mother.

Human Rights Watch.

• Lebanese Armed Forces have summarily deported thousands of Syrians, including unaccompanied children, back to Syria between April and May 2023.
• Syrians in Lebanon are living in constant fear that they could be picked up and sent back to nightmarish conditions, regardless of their refugee status.
• Lebanese authorities should enable Syrians to regularize their status in the country. Donor governments should ensure that funding does not contribute to rights violations.

Apparently it is a ‘human right’ to remain in somebody else’s country illegally.

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In April of this year, Christine Lagarde gave a speech before the Council on Foreign Relations in New York in which she warned that “we are witnessing the fragmentation of the global economy into competing blocs”. Regular readers of this Daily will be familiar with the speech; we made quite a big deal of it at the time, because it is a big deal! We have been warning of this fragmentation for a number of years. Great Power competition is back, and we’re not going back to the halcyon days of US hegemony, ever-liberalising trade, secularly lower inflation and assumptions of the death of history anytime soon.

The Lagarde speech will be rightly viewed as a watershed in years ahead. Much like “whatever it takes”, or comments from Paul Volcker in the late 1970’s when he told students at Warwick University that “it is tempting to look at the market as an impartial arbiter… But balancing the requirements of a stable international system against the desirability of retaining freedom of action for national policy, a number of countries, including the United States, opted for the latter… Controlled disintegration in the world economy is a legitimate objective for the 1980s.”

We’re watching the global economy being re-organized before our eyes and, like Volcker in the 1970’s, policy-makers are prioritizing freedom of action for national policy. Increasingly, we are seeing financial markets and global trade being more clearly subordinated to national policy objectives. There are no atheists in a foxhole, and no free-market liberals in a multipolar world (at least not in the halls of power).

The Critic.

In England, it costs over 40 percent of the average person’s take-home pay to put a one-year-old child in daycare. In London, where nursery schools can cost upwards of £20,000 per year per child, that figure is even higher. These costs are not just steep: for many, they are literally impossible to manage. Even selling a kidney — something the most desperate person can only do once — might not cover a year’s fees for one child.

This has predictable consequences. Many young couples take it as read that they will have to leave London if they want to have children; either that or they just don’t do it at all. Birth rates in the UK, which have been below replacement levels for the last half-century, reach new record lows every year, with fertility in the capital even lower than the rest of the country. Many specifically cite the impossibility of paying for childcare as the reason they are not reproducing.

Allowing costs to remain this high is a form of slow-motion national suicide. But most discussion of this issue seems to focus on subsidising this enormous cost, rather than wondering why it is so high in the first place. In the latest budget, the Conservatives announced a plan to pour more money into the system with a radical new expansion of subsidies to much younger children, an approach which Labour seem likely to mimic in their manifesto for the next general election.

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Some U.S. senators have famously kept a pocket Constitution handy to use as a prop at political rallies; a few may have even read it. But at this point in American history it no longer matters whether they, or anyone else, can read the words of the Constitution because the words no longer mean what they say.

Take, for instance, the Supreme Court’s ruling last week that state legislatures do not have the sole discretion to determine how federal elections will be run in those states. Instead, state courts are given veto power over the decisions of the legislature.

The mainstream media (and of course their Democratic Party allies) celebrated the court’s decision in Moore v. Harper that rejected the so-called “independent state legislature” theory. The New York Times called the theory “dangerous.” Vox said the ruling was a “big victory for democracy.” Those who supported the independent state legislature “theory” were called extreme, fringe, radical, and worse. In other words, they were Trump supporters.

The only problem is that if the theory is extreme, then so is the U.S. Constitution, because no matter how much the 6-3 majority insists otherwise, it isn’t a theory at all. It is the plain language of the Constitution. Check it out for yourself.

UK COVID Inquiry Reveals Just How Vast International Communist Conspiracy May Be

Will El Niño on top of global heating create the perfect climate storm? (The Guardian)

Your next BBQ could feature an electric grill (Canary Media) No, it couldn’t. Trust me on that.

ESG Investing Isn’t Doing Much For The Environment; Yale Study Confirms

Only 5% of national TV news segments on the record-shattering heat wave that scorched Texas mentioned climate change (Media Matters for America) Well, first of all, it’s not ‘record-shattering’. I’ve lived in Texas for forty years, and it’s no hotter this year than any other year.

The Myth Of Replacing Fossil Fuels

Claim: Australia is Opposing an International Shipping Carbon Tax Proposal

‘Could we do with less ice?’: Scientific American touts climate-inspired ICE CUBE restrictions! Mag pushes end to ‘unsustainable’ ice cube practices & urges ‘Climate-friendly Cocktails’

Will “Climate Denial” Become an International War Crime?

June Extremes Suggest Parts of the Climate System Are Reaching Tipping Points (Inside Climate Narrative News)

Every month seems to be the hottest, the driest, the wettest, or whichever record-breaking event it is.

Correct, CBS News Texas, Wind Energy Struggles in Heat (And Other Conditions)

Biden’s latest eco regs blasted by small businesses, manufacturers: ‘Will do terrible damage’ (Fox News)

Fed Economists Warn Of Looming Disaster Due To High Interest Rates

Officials: Lull in Border Crossings Won’t Last

Gallup Poll: Confidence in US Government Lowest in G7

So, now it’s time to get serious about Biden’s brain? (The New Neo)

Why Democrats Should Primary Biden (Politico) I guess they’ve decided that it’s time to drop Biden.

The Bidens’ Existential Threats to the American Rule of Law (Victor Davis Hanson)

Former Sen. Gregg: Loan Relief ‘Biggest Vote-Buying Scheme Ever’  And quite obviously so.

Obama White House looped in Hunter Biden in email to his VP dad about Ukraine (Washington Times) This isn’t just about Biden; Obama was in it up to his neck.

WATCH: Veep Thoughts with Kamala Harris (Vol. 11)

Substance found in White House library tests positive for cocaine (N.Y. Post) Apparently the Hunter Fairy came to visit.

Republicans Are Divided on Impeaching Biden as Panel Begins New Inquiry (N.Y. Times)

Hunter Biden Plea Deal Prosecutor Has Conflict of Interest

The highest office! White House guessing game begins after cocaine found in library forced Hazmat evacuation – two days after recovering drug fiend Hunter Biden was on the property (UK Daily Mail)

US Military Can’t Afford To Fool Around With Feel Good Green Initiatives

Biden Urges Tighter Gun Laws After Rash of Shootings  We don’t need ‘tighter gun laws’; we need ‘tighter shooter laws’. Forbidding young black males from possessing guns would cause the crime rates to plummit–but of course if you say that you’re waaaaaaacist.

Bidenomics Means The Most Expensive Independence Day Cookout Ever

Federal Complaint Says Harvard Legacy Preferences in Admissions Violate Civil Rights Act (Harvard Crimson)

Pro-choice Catholics fight to seize the narrative from the religious right (The Guardian) There is no such thing as a ‘pro-choice Catholic’. If you’re ‘pro-choice’, you’re not Catholic, period.

At UChicago, a Debate Over Free Speech and Cyber Bullying (N.Y. Times)

Judge Blocks Wyoming School District Gender Policy

Vietnam bans Barbie movie over pro-Chinese map of disputed S. China Sea

Ariz. AG Won’t Enforce State’s Abortion Laws, ‘Period’

Migrant Workers Flee Florida as New Immigration Law Takes Effect (Wall Street Jornal) Not back where they came from–Oh, no! Perish the thought!

“The World Is Laughing At Us”: U.S. Army Shares Story Of Suicidally Depressed Transgender Major

Judge Blocks Elections Law Banning Noncitizens From Handling Voter Forms

Radley Balko Finally Finds a Single Data Point to Support His Life’s Work

“We’re Coming for Your Children:” Activists Against Childhood

A viral left-wing Twitter account may have been fake all along (Washington Post)

The Numbers Don’t Lie: Corporations Are Realising Going Woke Kills Business

Indiana Supreme Court Rules Abortion Ban Is Constitutional

California Reparations Report Hits Child Support Debt  God forbid that black men be required to support their children. Baby mama, you’re on your own. (With the government’s help, natch.)

Head of school linked to Amy Coney Barrett’s faith group abruptly resigns (The Guardian) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

The Tragedy of John Roberts (N.Y. Times)

House Progressives Call for Supreme Court Changes

Elton John: US Is ‘Going Backwards’ on LGBTQ Rights  Yeah, that’s the point.

Ron Desantis Just Posted One of the Weirdest and Most Vile Ads in Political History (The New Republic) Don’t hold it in, guys, tell us how you really feel.

Scarborough Disses Nicolle Wallace: Biden Ditched Her To Impress ‘Important’ Al Sharpton!

AOC Wants Supreme Court Justices Impeached In Retaliation For Doing Their Job

Watch: Army Veteran ‘Sick Of Guns In Texas’ Destroys His Own Gun In Protest  The Narrative media specialize in turning an exception into a rule.

Laura Ingraham’s show has often flown under the radar. But she has been central to Fox News’ controversies. (Media Matters for America)

The housing community that will require ‘patriots’ to fly the US flag (The Guardian)

When it comes to the economy, how does Tim Scott define ‘worse’? (MSNBC)

Teacher Scolded for Failing Student Who Wrote ‘Biological Women’

Elon Musk Really Broke Twitter This Time (The Atlantic) If he’s not doing it Our Way, then it’s Broken.

Michigan Hate Speech Bill Would Make Using Wrong Pronouns A Felony With $10K Fine, Prison Time  Time to leave.

El Dorado County Group Mulls Secession From California

PBS, VICE News Smear Parents Group Moms for Liberty as Violent Harassers

The Supreme Court Has Kicked the Door Wide Open to Jim Crow–Style Bigotry (The Nation)

‘We didn’t want to live in fear’: Exodus of workers begins as Florida’s extreme anti-immigrant law goes into effect (Raw Story) Pity the poor lawbreakers, ‘living in fear’.

NPR: Racist Whites Are Exploiting Asians to ‘Bamboozle’ People on College Quotas

The GOP has a glaring Mormon problem (Washington Post) The correct term is ‘Latter Day Saint’; I’m shocked, shocked that so Woke an institution as the WaPo, who are so supportive fo the Pronoun Police, would make such a hateful misstep.

Germany’s Far Right Sees Its Opening (Again) (Foreign Policy) For Voices of the Crust, there is no Right but the Far Right.

The GOP field is more diverse than ever. The GOP isn’t heralding the achievement. (Politico) Why would they, any more than Democrats will point out that they are more rich and white than ever?

Farage ‘Banking Ban’ Sparks UK Govt Probe Of Blacklisting Accounts Over Political Views

How Wingnuts Made Violent Extremism the New Normal (Daily Beast) He is of course not talking about Antifa or BLM.

DeSantis is squeezing the sunshine out of Florida’s public records law, critics say (NBC News)

Watch: RFK Jr Pushes Back When Accused Of Being A Candidate Who “Traffics Routinely In Conspiracies”

‘Squad’ Members Scold Americans on July 4th: ‘Enslavers, Stolen Land’

Trump Showed Docs to People at Mar-a-Lago’s Dining Room Patio Claims Former White House Press Secretary (MEDIAite)

Poll: Trump Most Electable Republican

The Republican Not Heading to a July 4 Parade? Trump. (N.Y. Times) He doesn’t need to. Everybody knows he’s a patriot. (What part of Make America Great Again don’t you understand?) (New York Times Touts USA as a Global Danger, But Trump’s Somehow the Unpatriotic One)

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When looking at how gun laws across the United States have changed over the past few years, there’s a lot to be hopeful for. Just this year, Nebraska became the 27th state to pass a “constitutional carry” bill into law, following in the footsteps of Florida, which passed similar legislation just a few days prior.

The residents of Florida and Nebraska now join 25 other states where American citizens can freely carry firearms concealed without needing a permit, just as our founding fathers intended when they wrote the Second Amendment into the Constitution.

Those two States won’t be the last to pass permitless carry bills either. There are several different bills at different stages of the legislative process in multiple states nationwide.

But let’s not forget, just a mere 15 years ago — the Second Amendment was not considered an individual right. If we look further back to the 1980s, there was only one constitutional carry state, Vermont. In addition, very few states would even allow carrying with a permit.

Washington Post.

A federal judge on Tuesday blocked key Biden administration agencies and officials from meeting and communicating with social media companies, in an extraordinary injunction in an ongoing case that could have profound effects on the First Amendment.

The injunction came in response to a lawsuit brought by Republican attorneys general in Louisiana and Missouri, who allege that government officials went too far in their efforts to encourage social media companies to address posts that they worried could contribute to vaccine hesitancy during the pandemic or upend elections. The Trump-appointed judge’s move could upend years of efforts to enhance coordination between the government and social media companies.

The injunction was a victory for the state attorneys general, who have accused the Biden administration of enabling a “sprawling federal ‘Censorship Enterprise’” to encourage tech giants to remove politically unfavorable viewpoints and speakers, and for conservatives who’ve accused the government of suppressing their speech. In their filings, the attorneys general alleged the actions amount to “the most egregious violations of the First Amendment in the history of the United States of America.”

Think about it.

Off-Guardian.

In Part 1 we explored the reasons why the basis for the BBC’s “Marianna in Conspiracyland” podcast series is fundamentally flawed. Spring claims that her intention is to investigate “the people at the core of the conspiracy theory movement.”

Not only is there no such thing a “conspiracy theory movement” nor is their any plausible definition of a “conspiracy theorist.”

“Conspiracy theorist” is just a state propagandist’s label for someone who holds an anti-Establishment opinion that questions power and is sceptical of authority. You can read more about the history of how that “label” came into being here.

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Sweden’s latest Quran-burning demonstration, which this time saw an Iraqi national set fire to the Islamic holy book outside of Stockholm’s central mosque on Wednesday, June 28th, as Muslims celebrated Eid al-Adha, has prompted widespread fury across the Muslim world and a diplomatic debacle for the Swedish government as well.

Sweden’s ruling center-right coalition, despite having condemned the desecration of the Islamic holy book and insisting the stunt “in no way reflects the opinions” held by the government, has faced significant backlash on multiple fronts, including—but not limited to—having its embassy in Baghdad, Iraq stormed by an angry mob, the state broadcaster SVT Nyheter reports.

Incensed by the Quran burning, dozens of protesters led by the Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr gathered outside of the Swedish embassy in the Iraqi capital on Thursday, June 29th, before storming and occupying the building for 15 minutes prior to the deployment of local security forces. Luckily, no one was injured as the embassy’s staff had vacated the premises before its walls were breached by the protesters.

Freedom of speech is not a Muslim value. (Imagine the yawns if they had burned a Bible instead.)

If the choice is between Alice and solitaire….

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Steve notes that the liberal media are trying to make some kind of hero out of new Justice Ketanji Brown-Jackson. Good luck with that: based on what we have seen so far, I would assess her as incompetent.

Her dissent in the UNC race discrimination case was awful. It was one long political screed, devoid of legal argument and oblivious to the standards (the 14th Amendment and Title VI) that she was supposed to be applying. Also, she can’t deal honestly or competently with data.

The Spectator.

Allowing a psychopath to form a private army of violent criminals may not, on reflection, have been Vladimir Putin’s greatest idea. But Yevgeny Prigozhin’s mutinous Wagner Group is by no means the only private army operating in Russia. Over the past couple of months no fewer than five armies have been fighting on Russian soil. Only one of them, the official Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, is directly subordinate to the Kremlin.

The Independent.

A huge phosphate rock deposit discovered in Norway contains enough minerals to meet the global demand for batteries and solar panels for the next 100 years, according to the mining company that controls it.

Norge Mining said up to 70 billion tonnes of the non-renewable resource may have been uncovered in south-western Norway, alongside deposits of other strategic minerals like titanium and vanadium.

Hunter Biden filmed himself smoking crack behind the wheel, driving at 172mph on way to Vegas: photos (N.Y. Post) And the hits just keep on comin’.

Ex-Director of National Intel: Deep-Rooted ‘Cultural Problem’ in DOJ

Hunter Biden’s Former Business Partner Was Willing To Testify Before Grand Jury; Delaware US Attorney Didn’t Answer His Calls

How Bidenomics Generates More Debt And Inflation

US program is leaving asylum seekers stranded in Mexico, advocates say (The Guardian) They say that like it was a bad thing. (“Advocates” are always advocates for the “asylum seekers”, never for the country they are trying to invade.)

Conservative French mayor’s wife and child injured after home attacked by rioters in ‘assassination attempt’ (Washington Examiner)

Moms for Liberty’s focus on school races nationwide sets up political clash with teachers unions (Associated Press)

The Media’s Weirdest Pride Coverage of 2023

In Canada, ‘Decolonization’ Has Become a Profitable Enterprise

Anti-terror Laws Put UK Village Halls ‘At Risk’ of Closure

Texas Sends Another Busload of Migrants to LA

How sellers of L.A. mansions are dodging a tax to help the homeless (Washington Post) It’s impossible to write a law that can’t be dodged if there’s enough money at stake–which is why bureaucrats is always outmaneuvered by the market.

Macron Demands Platforms Delete Riot Content; Blames Social Media & Video Games For Protest Spread

Bud Light’s Disastrous Pro-Trans Marketing Sparks Major Job Losses As Bottle-Suppliers Start Shutting Down

How ‘climate lockdowns’ became the new battleground for conspiracy-driven protest movement (NBC News)

Ocasio-Cortez calls Thomas comments on Jackson in affirmative action opinion ‘profoundly disrespectful’ (The Hill) I haven’t seen anything about Justice Jackson that would inspire respect–quite the contrary.

Departing CDC Director Rochelle Walensky Warns of Politicized Science (Wall Street Journal) There’s irony for you.

What’s causing the extremely warm temperatures in the North Atlantic?

Israel Buys 25 More Lockheed F-35 Stealth Jets In $3 Billion Deal

Economic Coercion: China’s Leverage In Trade

Poland Sends Hundreds Of Counterterrorism Police To Belarus Border On Wagner Fears

ARMOR: South Korean Tank of Tomorrow

WINNING: North Korea Tries to Substitute Quality with Quantity

US authorities warn on China’s new counter-espionage law

Russia’s Medvedev: Ukraine Conflict ‘Permanent’

China Seeks More Cooperation With Russia’s Military

When the Gloves Come Off

Poland Reinforces Belarus Border Against Migrants and Wagner  Of the two, I’d say that the migrants are the greater problem.

States to sue EPA over ‘damaging’ environmental impact of residential wood-burning stoves (Fox) All Blue states, of course.

Deep-sea mining may soon ease the world’s battery-metal shortage (The Economist) If the Eco-fascists let them.

Batteries and Renewables Are Saving Texas During the Heat Wave (Forbes) 1. There is no “heat wave”, other then the normal hot weather that hits Texas every summer; 2. Batteries and renewables aren’t “saving” anything or anybody–in fact, relying on “renewables” are making the electrical grid more fragile than ever, as we discovered in Frigid February two years ago. (Which prompted my wife and I to install a gas-powered emergency generator.)

Jen Psaki Claims GOP ‘Recruiting’ Muslims to ‘Go After’ Trans People  Jen apparently doesn’t know any real Republicans.

JK Rowling Congratulates Anti-Trans Activist After Judges Award $127K For Wrongful Firing

New York Times Reporter Smears Moms for Liberty: ‘Demagogy, Violent Threats’

Don’t believe the data: This is the most conservative Supreme Court we’ve known (MSNBC) Who are you going to believe, me or your lyin’ eyes?

House Republicans scared to lose majority push back on extreme agenda (Washington Post) Not extreme other than to proglodytes.

Christie: Trump will attend debates because ‘his ego won’t permit him not to’ (The Hill) Speaking of ego….

Trump once said a president under felony indictment would grind the government to a halt and create a constitutional crisis (CNN) So don’t do it. Easy peasy.

Lindsey Graham getting booed at Trump rally is both hilarious and alarming (CNN) No, it’s just hilarious.

Barkley Leaves $5M for Black Students in Will  He’s so oppressed.

BBC.

The Orkney Islands could change their status in the UK or even become a self-governing territory of Norway under new proposals.
A motion will go before the council next week to investigate “alternative forms of governance”.
Council leader James Stockan said Orkney does not get fair funding with its current relationship within the UK.
He wants to look at Crown Dependencies like the Channel Islands and overseas territories like the Falkland Islands.

They were, once.

Bruce Schneier.

Police are already using self-driving car footage as video evidence.

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“We’ve known for a long time that they are essentially surveillance cameras on wheels,” said Chris Gilliard, a fellow at the Social Science Research Council. “We’re supposed to be able to go about our business in our day-to-day lives without being surveilled unless we are suspected of a crime, and each little bit of this technology strips away that ability.”

Gates of Vienna.

Muslim immigrants in Europe seem to have a thing for deadly dramas involving apartment balconies. Culture-enrichers in Sweden are notorious for “accidents” in which teenage girls suddenly fall to their deaths from balconies after dating infidel boys, or balking at marrying their cousins.

The following report from the Italian city of Turin concerns the trial of an “Italian” who allegedly threw his little stepdaughter to her death from a balcony during a conflict with the girl’s mother.

The Critic.

ike a cup of coffee, the Guardian newspaper acts on me in the morning like a tonic, increasing my alertness after sleep. For example, I read the following this morning, shortly after I regained consciousness:

Matt Rowland Hill, 38, is the author of Original Sins, about growing up as the son of a baptist minister before falling into a decade-long addiction to heroin while studying at Oxford.

I have not read Mr Rowland Hill’s book, which I am perfectly prepared to believe is a very good one. But he did not fall into a decade-long addiction; he knowingly chose to become and remain addicted, for whatever reason he might have had. He jumped into it.

The author is not stupid or an ignoramus. It is impossible that he did not know that heroin was addictive before he first took it. One does not become addicted to it on a first dose: most heroin addicts, in fact, take it on and off for some time before they are physically addicted.

The Antiplanner.

More than 5,000 people are homeless in Oregon’s Multnomah County, most of them in Portland, and Oregon has the fourth-highest rate of homelessness in the nation. According to community-service worker Kevin Dahlgren, the problem is that the bureaucracies and non-profit groups that work on the homeless issue spend their time enabling people to remain homeless, rather than trying to rehabilitate them so they can get a job and housing.

Why the CDC’s New Mask Guideline Proposal May Actually Imperil Frontline Workers (Daily Beast)

New Research Paper: mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines Are Gene Therapy Products

HBCUs brace for influx of applicants after SCOTUS ruling (MSNBC)

Inspiring: Justice Sotomayor Shows World Illiteracy Doesn’t Have To Stop You From Achieving Your Dreams (Babylon Bee)

‘Mass Shooting Incident’ in Baltimore, Police at the Scene (NewsMax)

Most Americans approve of Supreme Court decision restricting use of race in college admissions: POLL (ABC News)

30 People Shot, 2 Dead As Block Party In Baltimore Turns Into ‘War Zone’

GOP Candidate Hurd: ‘Race Still Does Matter’ Admissions

With End of Affirmative Action, a Push for a New Tool: Adversity Scores (N.Y. Times) How to cheat your way around the law.

‘Antiracist Newsroom’ Is ‘Inclusive’—Except for What It Excludes: Any Pretense of Fairness, Balance

Affirmative action for white people? Legacy college admissions come under renewed scrutiny (Associated Press)

Why Dems aren’t campaigning on affirmative action (Politico)

The affirmative action ruling is big. Now elite colleges need to think bigger. (Washington Post)

Can’t ‘defund’ our way out of homeless crisis (New York Post)

In Wake of Supreme Court Decision, Liberal Media Stands Up for Discrimination

I’m not a lawyer. But I see what the same-sex wedding website case will mean. (Washington Post) Amazing how ‘journalists’ have no hesitation emitting opinions in areas where they admit that they’re unqualified.

After Fostering Cesspool Of Crime, Gavin Newsom Finally Gets Serious About Fentanyl In San Francisco

Oregon County Sues BP, Chevron, Shell, Exxon for $51B Climate Damages

Elizabeth Warren Says Without Affirmative Action, A Native American Girl Like Herself Would Never Have Been Accepted To Rutgers (Babylon Bee)

Morning-After Pill Vending Machines Gain Popularity on College Campuses  My, what a surprise.

San Francisco may soon get 24/7 driverless cabs. City leaders are fuming. (Washington Post)

Affirmative action divided Asian Americans and other People Of Color. Here’s how (NPR) Really? People have to have this explained? (Getcher Narrative, right here!)

CNN Lets Buttigieg Suggest Christian Website Designer Case Was Made Up

HBO’s ‘Sex and the City’ Reboot Promotes Grooming as Moms Openly Lust After Teen Boy  My, what a surprise.

US attorney leading Hunter Biden probe breaks silence on claims investigation was ‘influenced by politics’ (Fox News)

Hunter Biden’s Daughter and a Tale of Two Families (N.Y. Times)

US Releases Internal Review Of Botched, Disastrous Afghan Withdrawal 

Think About It, Would You Really Want the Biden Name?

Biden Explores Refugee Program for Non-Mexican Asylum Seekers in Mexico

Prosecutor in the Hunter Biden Case Denies Retaliating against IRS Agent Who Talked to House GOP

No, Joe, There Is No Such Thing As A “Fair Share” Of Taxes

Global Warming Madness: New White House report considers blocking the sun to cool the planet  Superman could do it. Creepy Joe? Uh, no.

Why the media too often ignores the connection between climate change and meat (Vox)

Advocates from Across the Country Rally in Chicago for Coal Ash Rule Reform (Inside Climate News) Where do these people come from? Do they not have jobs?

A heat wave is scorching America’s southern half as the Fourth of July holiday approaches (Associated Press)

How Old Are The World’s Nuclear Reactors?

Heat Wave Scorches South as Fourth of July Approaches  Some years it’s hot and some years it’s not. Sheesh.

Claim: Climate Impacts Could Lead to More Authoritarian Governments

Liberal Dilemma: “Just Stop Oil” Climate Protestors Disrupt Gay Pride March

Volkswagen: “Strong Customer Reluctance” in the Electric Vehicle Sector

No, WaPo, Climate Change is NOT Fueling More Devastating Rains and Flooding

The Supreme Court’s conservatives are doing exactly what they claim to detest (MSNBC)

DeSantis, Seeking Attention, Uses L.G.B.T.Q. Issues to Attack Trump (N.Y. Times)

Former Busch Exec: Oust CEO for Mulvaney Bud Light Backlash

NY Times Petulant Over Affirmative Action Loss: ‘Threatens…Court’s Legitimacy’

Liberals Beclown Themselves in Reaction to SCOTUS Decisions

Half the Police Force Quit. Crime Dropped. (N.Y. Times) Radley Balko pushes the Narrative.

DeSantis’s stalling campaign: how to lose friends and alienate people (The Guardian)

PBS Cries Over ‘Right-Wing Backlash…False Information’ As Big Biz ‘Rethinks’ Pride

California Teachers’ Union Threatens Local School Board With Legal Action Over Flag Policy

Trump takes over small city in South Carolina show of force (Politico)

Jersey Boy Takes On Florida Man (N.Y. Times) Chris Christie appears to be Maureen Dowd’s favorite Republican.

Trump in SC: Tens of thousands pack Pickens. More than 50 treated for heat-related illness

DOJ Plans ’30 to 45′ More Charges If Judge Is Pro-Trump Can’t have the witch-hunt fail!

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Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is big business these days, and even though we all know it does more harm than good, the industry is set to expand from an estimated $3 billion in 2020 to a whopping $17 billion by 2027. Those who want a piece of the action are vying for access to your children as close to in utero as humanly possible. Whether it’s drag queen ‘story time,’ demanding children accept 73 genders, schools encouraging 4-year-olds to ‘gender transition’ without parental consent, or ‘Maoist’ consultants ‘decolonising’ the minds of nursery school children by telling them they’re racist, the ‘woke’ Gestapo takes no prisoners.

Cue Bright Horizons, a £4.7 billion, U.S.-based company which runs 1,000 childcare facilities globally, and appears to be setting out its diversity stall in an already crowded marketplace. The company came to the attention of the British press over the weekend, when it was accused by a Kent mother of having a “left-wing campaigning agenda” and “dictating to parents their own political views on how to raise their children.”

Gates of Vienna.

During the night between Saturday and Sunday, the residence of the mayor of L’Haÿ-les-Roses, in Val de Marne, was attacked by car ramming. His wife and one of his two young children were injured, announced the mayor of the municipality, Vincent Jeanbrun.

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

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Scott wrote here about the riots that have paralyzed France for five days. Reuters reports that thousands of rioters have been arrested, rioters have burned 2,000 vehicles, 200 police officers have been injured, and more than 700 businesses have been looted, ransacked or burned to the ground.

All of this was triggered by the death of a 17-year-old named Nahel Merzouk who was shot by a police officer following a traffic stop. But what exactly happened leading up to the shooting? And who was Nahel Merzouk? The liberal London Times has a reasonably honest account.

Apparently the Muslim kid that was shot hadn’t had a chance to view the Chris Rock video “How Not To Get Your Ass Kicked By The Police“.