John Hinderaker at Power Line.

The Georgia indictment relates to his (and 18 other defendants’) post-election efforts to reverse the apparent result of the 2020 election, in Georgia and elsewhere. That Trump made such attempts is not disputed. The question is, what did he do that was illegal?

The indictment alleges a vast conspiracy, supported by 161 “overt acts,” that ultimately comprises Count I, a violation of Georgia’s RICO statute. The problem is that, with two exceptions, the “overt acts” are all legal. You can’t aggregate a series of legal acts and make them a crime by calling them a conspiracy.

The Antiplanner.

First, planners identify a solution they want to implement. It might be light rail or high-speed rail, it might be urban densification, or it might be something like complete streets or vision zero.

Second, planners cast around for problems that they think they might be able to persuade people their proposal will solve. These can include childhood obesity, global warming, traffic congestion, or housing affordability.

Third, they use public involvement techniques designed to generate support for their plans. One such technique is the charente, a meeting in which planners strictly control the agenda to make sure that people only consider questions the planners want to answer. At the charities, planners might ask, “Do you want more congestion or less?” or “Do you want higher housing costs or lower?” Since they assume their proposals will reduce congestion or housing costs, if you answer less congestion or lower housing costs, they will claim that you support their plans.

Another technique is a survey with a limited number of questions. The San Francisco Metropolitan Transportation Commission wants to increase taxes to subsidize transit, so it is asking residents to fill out a survey. The survey never asks if people want to pay more taxes; instead the higher tax is a given. Instead, it asks how people want to spend the money. There are five possible answers: transit, transit, bike lanes, transit, and transit.

Actually, this is a good description of any Democrat-dominated political regime devoted to increasing government power and government employee paychecks.

NewsMax.

The juvenile allegedly contacted the group through an Instagram account in March and April and had contact with the Chechnya-based terrorist group Riyad-us-Saliheen Martyrs’ Brigade through WhatsApp, the agency said.

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

Washington Post.

In the first ruling of its kind nationwide, a Montana state court decided Monday in favor of young people who alleged the state violated their right to a “clean and healthful environment” by promoting the use of fossil fuels.

This is horseshit.

First of all, there is no such right that can be enforced by a court without a degree of judicial authoritarianism foreign to the entire history of the United States. If people don’t feel that they have a sufficiently ‘clean and healthful environment’, the remedy is through the political process and the legislature; that’s what they’re for.

Secondly, a state of the United States has sovereign immunity unless what they do violates some provision of the U.S. or State constitution, neither of which is either alleged or demonstrated here.

This is a result of rampant Wokery in the educational system wreaking its havoc on the judicial system like a smallpox pustule erupting on a body. There is serious sickness here, and even if it is caught and corrected, it will leave scars.

Scott Adams claims that the COVID authoritarianism was merely a dress rehearsal for the upcoming more serious Climate Change authoritarianism. I hope he’s wrong, but I’m afraid he might be right.

Don’t expect the greens’ 1,600% mistake on ocean plastic to get them to change course (N.Y. Post)

Under Siege: Earth’s “Living Skin” Under Threat From Climate Change (SciTechDaily)

‘This way of farming is really sexy’: the rise of regenerative agriculture (The Guardian)

New York Climate Change Congestion Charging Scheme Blocked by Federal Environment Law

Climate Hysteria Ramps Up in Antarctica but Recent Data Shows Sea Ice Levels Similar to 1966

Every Step You Should Take Now to Prepare for a Climate Disaster Evacuation (Lifehacker) Some days it’s hard to distinguish the Proglodytes from the Preppers.

Biden administration coming for middle-class money, not billionaires’ wealth (Fox)

Fewer migrants are crossing the U.S. border, but that hasn’t slowed influx to NYC (The Gothamist) Sanctuary City – It’s A Pity.

Asylum seekers could cost NYC $12B (Pix11News)

Randall’s Island migrant shelter to cost NY taxpayers $20M a month — or $10K for every migrant: source (N.Y. Post) It would cost less than that for a first-class airline ticket back where the came from.

NBC Admits New Hunter Probe: ‘Could Damage Biden Pretty Seriously’

“Illusion Of Influence”: The Media Moves The Goalpost Again On Biden Corruption Coverage

Hunter’s Lawyer: No New Charges Expected From Weiss

CNN’s Tapper Asks If Biden Should Stop Saying Hunter Did Nothing Wrong

Here Are The Dumbest Moments from Al Sharpton’s Kamala Harris Interview

Biden’s Favorite Super PAC Used Illegal Scheme to Conceal Its Donors, Experts Say

Rep. Greg Steube introduces impeachment articles against President Joe Biden (Washington Examiner)

Monday briefing: The new variant that’s a reminder the pandemic never fully ended (The Guardian) At least for some people.

COVID Victims’ Families Sue EcoHealth Alliance For ‘Funding, Releasing’ Virus

Children Excluded From Official UK COVID Inquiry  What are they trying to hide?

The legal battle in Oklahoma over public funding for a religious charter school (PBS) Proglodytes don’t want any religion other than theirs taught in government schools.

Oklahoma sued for funding US’s first ‘state-sponsored’ religious charter school (The Guardian)

The mystery of Vivek Ramaswamy’s rapid rise in the polls (Politico) It’s not a mystery at all–he’s smart and he’s got great ideas. (Understandable, though, that that’s a mystery to Politico.)

GOP presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy rejects Sen. Mitt Romney’s call to back one Trump opponent (Deseret News)

Climate skeptic Vivek Ramaswamy on fire in White House presidential race (Firstpost)

Tennessee Mayor’s ‘Hate’ Council Strategized With Far-Left Group Demonizing Moms for Liberty

EXCLUSIVE: Court Upholds Texas Dad’s Free Speech Claim Against School Board That Had Him Arrested (The Foundry)

Police Raid on Kansas Newspaper Sparks Outrage

DeSantis campaign struggles unsurprising, say some Florida insiders (Washington Post)

AfD Bavaria Chief Beaten Up in Organised Migrant Attack

Fox Executives Are Pouring Cash Into Joe Manchin’s Campaign (The Intercept) Dunh dunh DUNHHHH….

Christie says no one has given him a loyalty pledge to sign (Politico) Perhaps because any ‘loyalty pledge’ from Christie isn’t worth squat?

Big Tech Should Pay Its “Fair Share”… The Best Way Is To Leave California

Questions Over Legality of Kan. Newspaper Raid

Video Shows Looters Ransacking L.A. Nordstrom

Massachusetts passed a 4% millionaire’s tax last year. Now every public school student is going to get free lunch. (Business Insider)

‘Huddled Masses’ Update: Why Is This ‘Crisis’ Costing New York Billions?

Trump’s legal team connected to Georgia voting system breach: report (The Hill)

Georgia prosecutors have messages showing Trump’s team is behind voting system breach (CNN)

In Georgia, cameras could sharpen the focus on Trump in the courtroom (NBC News)

‘Overlapping conspiracies’: How Trump’s team accessed confidential voter data in Georgia (MSNBC)

Obama’s Brother ‘All-In’ for Trump in ’24 (NewsMax)

Why Are So Many of Trump’s Alleged Co-Conspirators Lawyers? (N.Y. Times)

Playbook: Another week, another indictment? (Politico)

GOP sees turnout disaster without Trump (The Hill)

Trump’s Bid to Sink the Manhattan DA’s Case Has Already Made It Stronger (Daily Beast)

Why Georgia’s case against Trump could be so damaging (Axios)

Georgia on My Mind: A Fourth Trump Indictment Needs Something Other Than ‘The Call’ (Jonathan Turley)

McConnell in Winter: Inside the GOP Leader’s Attempt to Thwart Trump (Politico) Soon to be a major motion picture: The Turtle In Winter. The problem is finding somebody who looks goofy enough to play McConnel.

Scarborough: Trump Would Be ‘Quite Dumb’ Not to Give Up and Plead Guilty  Presumably Joe Scarborough once had a brain. I wonder where he saw it last.

Judge In Trump J6 Trial Worked At Law Firm that Repped Russia Hoax’s Fusion GPS, Tied To Hillary’s Emails  My, what a surprise.

Off-Guardian.

And I am so very sorry that I have to type this.

Rod Dreher.

Confession time! I did something last weekend that I’ve never done before: I read a business book.

It’s called Truth To Power, and it’s the memoir of André de Ruyter, who led the troubled South African power monopoly Eskom for three years, before resigning in early 2023. Over his short, fraught tenure, he uncovered criminal networks stealing from the company, allegedly with the collusion of partners high in the ruling African National Congress. On his way out the door, someone in his office tried to poison him with cyanide. Quite a business climate South Africa has these days.

The Antiplanner.

At the latest count, 93 people died in the Maui fire that also burned most of the town of Lahaina. The blame for this fire can be traced directly to Hawaii’s 62-year-old land-use law, which was written to protect Hawaii’s agricultural industry but had the opposite result.

The land-use law divided the state into urban and rural zones and heavily restricted development of the rural areas. As the state’s population grew, Maui’s median home prices rose from about 3 times median family incomes in 1969 to 7.9 times median family incomes in 2021. Any prices above 5 times median incomes are unaffordable since banks won’t approve a mortgage for a home that costs that much more than a family’s income.

The stated goal of the land-use law was to protect Hawaii’s agricultural industry from urban sprawl. But high housing prices made it impossible for Hawaiian farmers to hire the help they needed as people earning farmworker pay couldn’t afford to live in Hawaii. As a result, most Hawaiian farms went out of business. Between 1982 and 2017, according to USDA’s 2017 Natural Resources Inventory, the number of acres in Hawaiian crop production declined by 72 percent as sugar cane, pineapple, and other crops moved to other tropical countries that didn’t have self-inflicted housing crises.

NewsMax.

Al-Qaida has called for targeted assassinations of Swedish and Danish diplomats at embassies worldwide after several copies of the Quran were burned in the two Scandinavian countries in recent months, U.K. news outlet Express reported.

Copies of the Islamic holy book were burned during a recent spate of public desecrations in both Sweden and Denmark, sparking angry protests in Muslim countries.

A reminder that freedom of speech is not a Muslim value.

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

Fox Business.

The U.S. manufacturing sector is in the midst of revitalization as global supply chains reshuffle in response to changing economic conditions and geopolitical shocks, reversing a decades-long trend of American industrial capacity moving overseas.

Manufacturing firms began to offshore their operations from the U.S. to countries with lower labor costs several decades ago. But the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine and concerns over China potentially looking to compel Taiwan’s unification with the mainland by force have driven efforts to reshore manufacturing – in addition to government incentives and rising labor costs overseas.

Georgia prosecutor will present witness testimony to grand jury as another Trump indictment appears imminent (Politico)

Ex-Lt. governor’s subpoena indicates Trump indictment in Georgia coming soon (CNN)

Georgia DA will present case against Trump early next week (The Hill)

Trump swoops into Iowa fair, defying customs and clashing with DeSantis (Washington Post) Since when has the WaPo given a shit about ‘customs’?

How Trump Benefits From an Indictment Effect (N.Y. Times) Well, if the witch-hunt weren’t so obvious, there would be no such effecgct. ODF.

Former Rep. Al Lawson’s Florida congressional seat could come back under new agreement (Politico)

School District Blames ‘Rogue’ Principal For Anti-White Discrimination, But Documents Suggest It Was Official Policy

White Americans Under 18 Are Already Ethnic Minorities in the U.S.

Chants for Trump Overshadow DeSantis at Iowa Fair (NewsMax)

he Supreme Court is taking a wrecking ball to the wall between church and state (Vox) Proglodytes can dish it out but they can’t take it.

Uganda Pivots to Russia Amid World Bank LGBT Boycott

Scoop: Biden wants new housing program for migrant families (Axios)

U.S. Rep. Greg Steube Files Articles of Impeachment Against Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., President of the United States, For High Crimes and Misdemeanors

Spectator: Investigate Biden Special Counsel

“David Weiss Can’t Be Trusted”: Comer, Jordan Slam Hunter Biden Special Counsel ‘Coverup’

Experts: Don’t Credit Inflation Act for Slowing Inflation (NewsMax)

China vows ‘forceful measures’ as Taiwan’s William Lai arrives in US (Al Jazeera)

INTELLIGENCE: China Exploits Western Universities

Downtown San Fran Office Tower Sells At 66% Off As CRE Crisis Claims Another Victim

Future Headline: Oakland Police Advise Residents To “Appear As Poor As Possible”

Vos says lawmakers may consider impeachment if Protasiewicz doesn’t recuse from redistricting cases (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)

McDonald’s Scrubs Mentions Of “ESG” From Its Website

Crime blotter: Apple Stores hit with forklift, serial thefts, and slight-of-hand cash robbery.

Surprising Study: Seemingly Healthy Ecosystems May Already Be on the Path To Decline (SciTechDaily)

What’s going on with your lightbulbs? (Vox)

Good-bye, Incandescent Bulbs (New York Magazine)

Biden turns the lights out on yet another one of your home’s essentials (Fox)

Is Carbon Capture and Storage a Climate Solution? (Inside Climae Narrative News)

The Rise and Rhetoric Of The Climate Chicken Littles

Read it.

Imagine a politician who is so hated by the political establishment that people form or fund entire parties to stop him.

That is where Donald Trump is today. At present, he looks like the safe-bet Republican presidential candidate for next year, despite obviously coordinated efforts from the political establishment to stop him.

Now a third party is getting ready to run its own candidate for president, with one and only one goal: to stop Trump from getting elected.

Washington Free Beacon.

Postliberals are on the march. Whether it is decrying modern American conservatism, cheerfully embracing the administrative state, or insisting that tyranny is the natural fulfilment of Anglo-American classical liberalism, a slew of books written by postliberal intellectuals seeking to save us from the delusions of liberal order—political, legal, and economic—continue to appear.

They’re everywhere, the bastards.

Steve Sailer.

I haven’t been to the Nancy Pelosi building, but I’ve been to Mayne’s CalTrans building in downtown Los Angeles, and it radiates a palpable hatred toward the bureaucrats and visitors who must come into contact with it. Genius is said to be an infinite capacity for taking pains, but Mayne is a peculiar kind of genius, once with an infinite capacity for inflicting psychic pains on the public forced to deal with his buildings.

Read it.

The Taliban government in Afghanistan – the nation that until recently produced 90% of the world’s heroin – has drastically reduced opium cultivation across the country. Western sources estimate an up to 99% reduction in some provinces. This raises serious questions about the seriousness of U.S. drug eradication efforts in the country over the past 20 years. And, as global heroin supplies dry up, experts tell MintPress News that they fear this could spark the growing use of fentanyl – a drug dozens of times stronger than heroin that already kills more than 100,000 Americans yearly.

We’ve Been Accidentally Geoengineering the Earth for Decades (Daily Beast)

Is It Time To Fact-Check Corporate Media’s ‘Climate Hysteria’ Over “Hottest Day Ever”?

Green Tasmania, the “Battery of Australia”, Runs Out of Electricity

YouTube Won’t Admit That It Demonetized Ben Shapiro Bombshell Video (NewsBusters)

Ariz. Judge Rules No Labels Party Can Stay on ’24 Ballot (NewsMax)

Voters Keep Thwarting the Right’s Plans to Build Their Post-Dobbs Dystopia (The New Republic)

House Dems, Led by AOC, Call for Clarence Thomas Probe (NewsMax)

Police stage ‘chilling’ raid on Marion County newspaper, seizing computers, records and cellphones (Kansas Reflector)

Ron DeSantis and his backers paid $95,000 to an Iowa religious leader’s group (Reuters) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

‘Better martyrs’: the growing role of women in the far-right movement (The Guardian) To the Narrative media, there is no right but the far-right.

Right Wingers Furious That The FBI Killed A Man Threatening Biden. Trump’s Truth Social Tipped Agency Off (Talking Points Memo)

NPR’s New Cultural Idiocy: ‘How Racism Became a Marketing Tool For Country Music’ (NewsBusters)

Judge warns Trump: ‘Inflammatory’ statements about election case could speed trial (Politico)

‘It’s Over’ Moans Deutsch on Fears Trump Will Shut Down Morning Joe

Judge Chutkan says Trump’s right to free speech in January 6 case is ‘not absolute’ (CNN) Because, you know, Orange Man Bad.

Fauci Defended NIH Culture Of Secrecy: The $325M Third-Party Royalty Complex… Now We Know The Details

COVID-19 Vagus Nerve Inflammation May Lead To Dysautonomia: New Study

Never Forget: Leftists Showed Their True Authoritarian Colors During COVID

65% of migrants handed notices of 60-day shelter limit say they want to leave system: NYC officials (AMNY)

New York leaders strike deal to relocate 1,200 asylum-seeking families; Schenectady County says, not here (CBS)

Judges Question Gov’t-Big Tech Collusion: ‘Unsubtle Strong-Arming’ (NewsBusters)

Court Blocks Idaho Law Restricting Trans Students’ Restroom Use (NewsMax)

Skittles Catching Flak Over Black Trans Packaging (NewsMax)

Anarcho-Tyranny in Seattle and L.A. (The Other McCain)

Growing Segregation by Sex in Israel Raises Fears for Women’s Rights (N.Y. Times) Apparently women have a right to pester men whenever they want to.

Downtown SF office building sells for 66% below assessed value

Harvard University Encourages Students To Go On Food Stamps

New California Gas Czar Will Boost Prices Even Higher

Steve Sailer.

I’ve always liked fellow opinion journalist Michael Lind (here’s my positive review of his 2020 book The New Class War) even though he dislikes me. I’ve learned a lot from him, although it doesn’t appear from this article that he’s learned much of anything from me.

…

I’ve never heard the term “eugenicon” before. I guess it means I’m an icon of good genes.

The Eugenicons sound like a 1980s synth pop super group.

 

Biden’s border crisis has hurt everything else in our world and now it’s come for the kids (Fox)

Biden’s top aide Tom Perez meets with Adams, budget chief over NYC migrant crisis mayor fears could cost $12B (N.Y. Post)

Adams warns Biden’s inaction on migrant crisis will ‘decimate’ NYC (N.Y. Post) New York City can’t cope with the number of illegal immigrants that any Texas border town gets every month.

Ignorance Isn’t Bliss: Mexican Cartels’ Wristbands Underscore Mayorkas’ Willful Blindness on Border (Daily Signal)

Watch Tapper Spin His Wheels as Comer Lays Out Evidence Against Biden (NewsBusters)

OUCH: Kamala Harris Gets Brutally Fact Checked for Claiming People Like Her (Washington Free Beacon)

House Republicans Will Subpoena Biden Family (Washington Free Beacon)

$13 Billion For Ukrainians, $12 Billion For Devastated Hawaii

Burisma Told To Remove Joe Biden’s Picture From Website After Lawyer Freaked Out

Watchdog: IRS Can’t Locate Millions of Tax Records

‘This Is Not The Scandal You’re Looking For’: How Washington Is Attempting To Dismiss $20 Million As An Illusion

‘It’s a Little Late,’ Lawmaker Says of Biden’s Executive Order on US Investments in Chinese Technology

Biden Lawyers, Special Counsel Discuss Interview Terms (NewsMax)

MSNBC Sees ‘Basic Hollowness And Absurdity’ In GOP Focus On Biden Scandals

China Blasts Biden’s Error-Riddled “Ticking Time Bomb” Comments

CNN Touts ‘Moderating Inflation Picture’ that Excludes Energy and Food

Biden Admits His Signature Inflation Reduction Act Isn’t About Inflation  The title of a federal law can be depended upon to tell what it’s not about.

Attorney General Garland appoints a special counsel in Hunter Biden probe (NBC)

CNN, MSNBC Spent 36 Min. Dismissing Comer, Then Special Counsel Gets Appointed

Biden Negotiates With Special Counsel Over Interview in Classified Documents Probe: Report

DOJ Names ‘Sweetheart Plea Deal’ Prosecutor as Special Counsel in Hunter Biden Probe

Comer: Weiss Appointment More DOJ Coverup

Energy Department announces largest-ever investment in ‘carbon removal’ (Associated Press)

Biden administration to invest $1.2 billion in projects to suck carbon out of the air (CNN)

US awards $1.2 billion to Oxy, Climeworks-led carbon air capture hubs (Reuters) Your tax dollars at … work?

U.S. unveils plans for large facilities to capture carbon directly from air (Science.org)

Cleaner shipping emissions may have warmed the planet – but only a bit (New Scientist)

A billion-dollar coastal project begins in Louisiana. Will it work as sea levels rise? (Associated Press)

Carbon-Pricing Initiatives Around The World

6 Taxpayer-Funded Green Energy Companies That Went Belly-Up (NewsMax)

The Climate Crisis Frenzy Is a Mass Hysteria Movement

An insidious form of climate denial is festering in the Republican Party (Vox) Insidious!

Climate Activists Warm Up as Wildfires Burn in Hawaii

Climate Fact-Check July 2023 Edition

Seattle Mayor’s Office Demanded Fewer ‘Officers Who Are White’ For New Police Hires

“Failed Leadership” – Oakland, CA Faces “State Of Emergency” As Consequence-Free Crime Soars

South Africa’s Zuma granted remission, avoids return to jail

Native Americans Want ‘Washington Redskins’ Name Back

Inside One ‘Egregious’ Mistake From Trump’s Florida Judge Aileen Cannon (The Daily Beast)

Busted: Clarence Thomas ethics scandal gets worse (MSNBC)

GOP presidential candidate says rivals who don’t make the debate stage should drop out (Fox) Chris Christie ought to drop out.

NPR Media Reporter Touts Ex-Murdoch Aide: Rupert’s ‘Unfit to Own TV Stations’ (NewsBusters)

Woody Harrelson Appears to Endorse Anti-Vaxxer RFK Jr. for President (Daily Beast) ‘Anti-Vaxxer’? Not ‘Vax Denier’?

The Left’s Relentless, Unjustified Assaults on the Supreme Court’s Legitimacy (The Foundry)

ABC Continues Harassing Justice Thomas, Still Ignoring Biden Bribery (NewsBusters)

Morning Joe Manufactures Clarence Thomas Conspiracy (NewsBusters)

PBS NewsHour Skips New Biden Foreign Money Memo, But Finds Nearly Six Minutes for Trump (NewsBusters)

Arrested For Saying ‘Lesbian’!?

‘Unprecedented, stunning, disgusting’: Clarence Thomas condemned over billionaire gifts (The Guardian) The witch-hunt continues.

California Superintendent Threatens School Board Over Proposal To Tell Parents About Trans Students

Wherefore Whataboutism? 10 ‘Crimes’ Dems Skated On, Then Charged Enemies With

The kingmaking Trump ally behind a cadre of rightwing judges (The Guardian)

Aileen Cannon’s Order in Trump Case Could Lead to Her ‘Recusal’: Lawyer (Newsweek)

The Other Judge Cannon Case With Eerie Similarities to Trump (Daily Beast)

Conservative Case Emerges to Disqualify Trump for Role on Jan. 6 (N.Y. Times) Yeah,  sure.

Jack Smith Wants Trump Convicted by Super Tuesday (Daily Beast)

John Eastman: The Dems Made Me Do It (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew continue to punch right.

Fulton County DA Warns Staff Not to Respond to Trump Ad (NewsMax)

Trump Coming Back Is Already Spooking Western Elites

Jack Smith Thinks He Can Leak Evidence, But Trump Can’t (NewsBusters)

Trump could face “big picture” RICO case in Georgia, expert says (CBS) Pulling out all the stops for the witch-hunt.

As Hearing Begins, Evidence Of Bias Mounts Against DC Judge

Trump’s speech will be limited to protect trial, witnesses, judge says (Washington Post) After all, Orange Man Bad,

Trump Allies Deliver ‘Incriminating’ Info on Conspiracy-Peddling Sidney Powell (Rolling Stone)

Scarborough Claims Trump’s Responsible For Death Of Elderly Utah Man Shot By FBI

Richard Epstein: Parsing the Trump Indictment

Growing Number Of Leprosy Cases Reported After COVID-19 Vaccination

Global Covid Cases Up 80 Percent (NewsMax)

FDA Drops Ivermectin Bombshell

Rand Paul: “No Clearer Case Of Perjury In The History Of Government Testimony Than Fauci”

New York rights groups call for fast-track work permits for asylum seekers (The Guardian)

Corporate America is rebranding ESG (Axios)

California Dem says he’s not suspending campaign; blames ‘now-former aide’ (The Hill)

Bernie Sanders funneled $200K in campaign cash to wife and stepson’s nonprofit institute, records reveal (Fox)

Appeals Court Rules Against Drug User Gun Ban Cited in Hunter Biden Case (NewsMax)

‘Criminals Are Running This City’: Veteran Seattle Cop Resigns With Scathing Letter (Washington Free Beacon)

California Is The Most Costly State For Starting A Business

Thank Unions: Hottest Job Is $170k UPS Driver

Manhattan Rents Hit Record High As Lease Activity Slumps, Indicating Deepening Affordability Crisis

It Was Pelosi: Former Capitol Police Chief Reveals ‘Set Up’ Behind January 6

‘He Was Alive’: Tormented Chinese Doctor Recounts Harvesting Organs In Back Of Van

DeSantis Fires Another ‘Soros’ Prosecutor Over ‘Needless Pain, Suffering, And Death’

How Are Iowa Democrats? ‘I Can’t Even Describe to You How Bad It Is.’ (N.Y. Times)

Doctors Group Urges Peers to Rethink Minors Trans Care

The Arc of Reform–New College of Florida votes to abolish its gender studies program.

Austin School District Shuttles Students to Raunchy Pride Parade

Tennessee Teachers’ Union Drops Lawsuit Demanding Right To Deduct Fees From Paychecks

The Anti-Democratic Party

‘UNMITIGATED DISASTER’ Lawmakers Call for School Choice After Students Soil Themselves Stuck on Buses Until 10 p.m.

Washington Free Beacon.

An attack on a military bus in Syria’s east killed 23 government troops and wounded more than 10, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) war monitor said on Friday.

Islamic State, which operates sleeper cells in lands it once ruled, claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement on its Telegram channel.

It took place near the town of al-Mayadeen in the vast desert province of Deir Ezzor, which is split into areas controlled by Syrian troops backed by Iran and Russia, and Kurdish-led fighters backed by the United States.

Wherever you go,
Whatever you do,
A Muslim waits there
To try to kill you.
And they don’t much care
That you’re Muslim too.

Quilette.

Historically, the knock on psychotherapy has been that it’s a pseudoscience perpetrated by overeducated life coaches. Their insights are so arbitrary and insubstantial that they can render diametric judgments under oath about the risks posed to society by the same accused serial killer.

Jaundiced perceptions aside, therapy’s role in modern life is no joke. America is a nation increasingly surrendering itself to the therapist’s couch. Forty-one million American adults sought therapy in 2020–21 alone, which was peak-COVID. Nevertheless, that figure reflects a therapy juggernaut not out of line with trends before or since. Nearly a quarter of America has been in therapy in the past 12 months, according to Gallup polling. It is nigh impossible to consume any form of media without being bombarded with PSAs that herd people into overcrowded therapy waiting rooms the way Japan’s oshiya herd people into jam-packed subway cars.

Obviously, then, psychology’s efficacy is a matter of some importance. Yet this is where we encounter an irony—it may be that psychotherapy is most dangerous when it works.

Zman’s weekly podcast. Highly recommended.

The inspiration for the show this week is the ongoing collapse of college football due to the financialization of the sport. I do not consume much sportsball these days, but I will watch a college football game. It was always my favorite sport to watch on television and it is now the only sport I can watch at all. The rest are human flea circuses woven within hours of commercials and agit-prop.

The appeal of college football has always been the variety. Each regional conference has its own traditions, rivalries, history and style of play. All of it was organic, having evolved with the leagues and the teams over time. The schools themselves have weird customs and traditions that often exist for reasons no one remembers. What people know is those traditions are important.

The same people behind all of the other problems have been gnawing away at these traditions for the usual reasons. They look at our culture and wonder how they can turn it into a quick buck and then into something vulgar. That is what is happening to college football through the lure of television money. As a result, it is becoming the same degenerate circus as the rest of entertainment.

A billion-dollar coastal project begins in Louisiana. Will it work as sea levels rise? (Associated Press)

Heat-Related EMS Activation Surveillance Dashboard (NEMSIS) Your tax dollars at work.

As Anti-Farming Climate Activism Builds, 27% Of Global Workforce Employed In Ag

Confidence Crisis Emerges As Biden’s EPA Pushes “Unproven Technologies” To Decarbonize Grid, Power Sector Warns

How To Push a Climate Hoax 10: Turning Boring Statistics into a Hollywood Horror Show

Kite and Key: How Science Can Help Us Distinguish Fake Health Scares from Real Ones

Will Biden and the U.N. Declare a ‘Climate Emergency’? Looks like it.

What Sky News Did Not Tell You About Antarctic Ice

Fauci, Collins Bagged 58 Royalty Payments Amid $325 Million Collected By NIH

How Climate ‘Science’ Got Hijacked by Alarmists

Special Counsel Jack Smith Obtained Secret Warrant For Trump Twitter Account

Trump’s Allies Prepare for Indictments in Georgia Probe: ‘They’re Coming for Everyone’ (Rolling Stone)

‘Derogatory and false’: Fulton DA denies rumors circulated by Trump (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) They can dish it out, but they can’t take it.

Trump Attorney Says Pence’s Testimony Could Prove Trump’s Innocence In Jan. 6 Case

Racing to Stop Trump, Republicans Descend on a Strange New Iowa (N.Y. Times)

Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson on MSNBC: “Put A BULLET In Donald Trump” How about we put a bullet in Rick Wilson instead? Or anybody associated with the ‘Lincoln Project’.

Federal Court Declares Trump A Flight Risk In Secret Subpoena Decision  The witch-hunt intensifies.

Vance Asks FTC to Investigate Universities Over Alleged Admission Policy Collusion Following Affirmative Action Ban

New York Magazine: Pelosi Was ‘Essential’ in ‘Exquisite, Beautiful’ Trump Jan. 6 Indictment (NewsBusters)

Trump is a serious threat to the union of American states (Politico)

Ohio vote shows enduring power of abortion rights at ballot box, giving Democrats a path in 2024 (Associated Press)

Historic Supreme Court case could imperil the entire US tax code (The Hill)

China to require all apps to share business details in new oversight push (Reuters)

The toughest plastic bag ban is failing: A tale of smugglers, dumps and dying goats (NPR)

‘ESPECIALLY CRUEL’: Mother of Down Syndrome Daughter Calls Montgomery County’s Denial to Opt Out ‘an Attack on Children’

First, NY Democrats Came for Pizza Ovens. Now, They’re Coming for Ice Cream Trucks.

Elite Universities Strategize To Maintain Diversity In Admissions Despite Supreme Court Ruling

Schools Intent on Skirting Supreme Court Diversity Rulings

Catholic Couple Sues Mass. for Woke Foster Parent Policy

Biden’s first climate czar, Gina McCarthy, is getting a big new gig (Washington Post) The Crust take care of their own.

Lawmakers Rip Hochul, Adams for Seeking Migrant Funds

Democrats Are the Party of Spoiled Children

The Barack Obama Cover-Up (Ben Shapiro)

STUDY: CNN Desperately Tries to Shove ‘Bidenomics’ Down Americans’ Throats

Massachusetts Starting To Wonder If Trump Was Onto Something With That Whole ‘Build The Wall’ Thing (Babylon Bee)