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

The new twist in Hunter Biden’s case is a huge political headache for his father (CNN)

Joy Reid: Evidence I’ve seen suggests Hunter Biden is being treated worse than anyone else would be (MSNBC) Worse than a Trump? I think not.

Hunter Biden May Be Headed to Criminal Trial, Special Counsel Says (Washington Free Beacon)

Biden world resigned to a campaign shadowed by Hunter drama (Politico)

US Diplomat Threatened To “Kick The Sh*t” Out Of Biden For Groping Wife

Court Stops Another Biden Attempt to Cancel Student Loans (Daily Signal)

A Sham Special Counsel (The Foundry)

CNN Ignores Comer Evidence in Biden Case, Claims ‘No Direct Evidence’

Drew’s Receipts: Media React to Appointment of Hunter Biden Special Counsel

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week (Vol. 55)

Capehart Mourns GOP Voters Being Fed a ‘Anti-Biden Family Diet’ (NewsBusters)

When the ‘Investigation’ Is a Cover-Up (The Other McCain)

Andrew C. McCarthy: Weiss’ appointment as special counsel is a farce and a joke

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.

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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.

The Spectator.

politics don’t get in the way of treating their patients. I was taught during graduate school that separating my “stuff” from my patients’ therapy was essential. After all, their therapy was all about them.

But that has changed in this country — everywhere from college-level classes and professional organizations, to therapy practices both public and private.

Earlier this summer, in a private group of mental health professionals that I administrate, I witnessed how the critical theory ideologues are destroying mental healthcare.

The Spectator.

It’s boom time for nomad history. It started some eight years ago, when Bloomsbury published a study of Central Asia from an Oxford academic. This might have been a fringe book, but the author’s breadth of knowledge and analysis was exceptional, the narrative was gripping, the cover was beautiful and the publisher had high hopes, in spite of my quibbling review. Their punt paid off. Peter Frankopan’s The Silk Roads has sold more than two million copies and counting. It has also helped renew interest in Central Asia, which had mostly been the preserve of travel writers and niche historians, including the great René Grousset.

Interest has been further stoked by politics, first China’s Belt and Road Initiative and now the Russia-Ukraine war. Since 2017, a series of books has included Warwick Ball’s dry but insightful The Eurasian Steppe, Nicholas Morton’s The Mongol Storm and my own Nomads. Bloomsbury now offers us another beautifully wrapped work, Empires of the Steppes.

The author, Kenneth W. Harl, is a professor of classical and Byzantine history in New Orleans. An expert on Roman coins, his plan is to present the steppe people from their own perspective, show how their empires came together and how, in the process, they changed their world and shaped ours. The narrative covers some 4,500 years, ending with the death of Timur, or Tamerlaine, in the early 1400s.

I knew Ken Harl at Yale, when we were both regulars at the Classics/Ancient History table in Silliman College, along with people like Paul Rahe and Barry Strauss (Ken and I used to pass notes in Greek). Ken has taught at Tulane his entire career; he is a man of high intelligence, great breadth of knowledge, and a delight to read. Highly recommended. (Ken has contributed to The Great Courses — also highly recommended.)

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)

House Oversight GOP claims they don’t need to find direct payments to Joe Biden to prove corruption in Hunter Biden business dealings memo (CNN)

Biden Signs China Investment ‘Ban’ Republicans Call ‘Riddled With Loopholes’

Biden Gets Angry After Doocy Confronts Him on Devon Archer’s Testimony

Army Officer Court-Martialed After Refusing To Soften Findings Of Probe Of Suicides At Base

Biden Champions ‘Equal Pay’ While His Own White House Pays Women Less Than Men (The Foundry)

Networks Turn a Blind Eye to Newly Released Payment Records to Hunter  Except for Fox.

‘Egregiously Obvious’ That Biden Admin Violated First Amendment Rights, Tech Policy Expert Says

Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler ‘Updates’ — Not Corrects — FALSE Biden ‘Fact Check’

Oligarchs Paid Millions of Dollars to Biden Family  ‘Oligarch’ appears to be defined in the modern world as ‘Rich Russian We Don’t Like’.

Targeting of Catholics ‘More Widespread’ Within FBI Than Director Claimed, Republicans Say

$20 Million for the Big Guy? ABC, CBS, NBC Still Silent on MASSIVE New Biden Scandal

MSNBC Skimps on News of Alleged Mammoth Payouts to Biden Family From Shady Cats

Today in Kamala Komedy

Democrats Say It’ll Take A Lot More Than Eyewitness Testimony, Bank Records, Audio, Video, Complete Confessions For Them To Believe Biden Did Anything Wrong (Babylon Bee)

Conservatives Are Mad That Robert E. Lee’s Dead Horse Has Been Canceled (Daily Beast) Really? Really?

Exclusive: A veteran FBI agent told Congress that investigations into Giuliani and other Trump allies were suppressed (Business Insider)

De-Banked: It’s Only A Matter Of Time Before It Happens To You

Andy Ngo Denied Justice As Portland Jury Clears Alleged Antifas

The Montgomery Brawl Was, for Some, a Clarifying Moment (N.Y. Times) Cloud People just love to sneer at Dirt People.

‘Native American Guardians Association’ Petition To Restore Washington Redskins Name Goes Viral

DOJ: More Than 1,106 Charged for Jan. 6 ‘Siege’  Let’s see … BLM? Not a one. Antifa? Not a one.

Nets Ignore Jan 6 Committee Destroying Evidence Related to Capitol Riots

NPR Host, NYT Reporter Go Label-CRAZY on ‘Far Right,’ ‘Hard Right’ Republican Congress

Clarence Thomas’ 38 Vacations: The Other Billionaires Who Have Treated the Supreme Court Justice to Luxury Travel (Pro Publica)

PBS Doc Warns GOP Trying To ‘Reinstitute Many Of The Barriers’ To Voting In the Narrative media, ‘barriers to voting’ means ‘preventing Democrat vote fraud’.

CNN Pushes Anti-Thomas Hit Piece But Admits He Did Nothing Wrong

US Supreme Court’s Clarence Thomas enjoyed array of luxury perks, report says (Reuters) The ‘report’ in question is another ProPublica smear job.

Maryland School District Restricts Parents Direction Over Children’s Religion, Parents Sue

Mitchell Yawns As Cuban Diplomat Compares U.S. To Cuba

Dems revive calls for Clarence Thomas resignation after new report (Politico)

Kellogg’s ‘Woke’ DEI Programs Illegal, Group Claims

‘Trying to Chill Parents’: California Bill Would Criminalize Sparking of ‘Substantial Disorder’ at School Board Meetings  Let’s see … nope, no mention of BLM or Antifa.

RACE CARD: WIRED Smears Concerns of CCP-Tied TikTok Security Risks as Racist (NewsBusters)

Suspended Soros-linked central Florida prosecutor blasts DeSantis as a ‘dictator’ (Washington Examiner)

Top Dem’s Family Sold BlackRock Stock Weeks Before His Committee Announced Investigation

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So throughout the Oberlin/Gibson’s litigation I kept thinking: It looks like it wouldn’t take much effort by the college to restore the Gibsons’ satisfaction and to get them to drop the lawsuit. Make a perfunctory statement about the good faith of the Gibsons (especially since the shoplifters admitted guilt and said they didn’t believe race played any role in their apprehension). Agree for the college to continue buying products at about the rate the college bought them before the dispute. Agree to put Gibson’s on a “recommended vendor” list for outside organizations that meet on or use college facilities. Instead, the college dug in its heels, going full “scorched earth” in public relations and in litigation, cutting off business relations with Gibson’s, urging others in town to cut off business relations with Gibson’s, and making or encouraging others to make unfounded accusations against Gibson’s and the Gibson family.

The lawsuit verdict appears largely a consequence of the unreasonable behavior of the college. So I find it amusingly ironic that the college is now asserting that the insurance companies should have been more reasonable.

Read it.

We have the technology.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Under Ron DeSantis’s leadership, Florida has attained the enviable status of the state that liberals most like to hate, and to denigrate irrationally. Thus it is no surprise to see this headline: Pro-woke professors leave Florida universities in protest.

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Job prospects in academia are, in general, brutal. There are many teachers hungry for tenure-track positions, and the Florida universities will have no trouble filling their ranks. And, of course, the professors who are attracted to Florida precisely because DEI has been dismantled will be vastly better than the ones who think they can’t survive without it.

Voters in Ohio reject GOP-backed proposal that would have made it tougher to protect abortion rights (Associated Press)

Dana Bash’s BIG LIE: Suggests No Dem Supports Abortion Until Birth

Air horns and moving trucks: How Oakland, California, residents are facing a surge in crime (CNN)

LGBTQ+ veterans file civil rights suit against Pentagon over discriminatory discharges (CBS)

How Feminist Movement Drew Ideology From the Occult

Porsche Goes Woke, Erases Jesus Statue From New Promo Video

DC’s City Council Slashed Police Funding. Now, Its Members Want More Cops as Shootings Plague City.

Barack Obama’s Self-Made Myths Still Stand

This family is moving to Italy because they’ve had enough of the US (CNN)

Target Sued Over LGBTQ Merchandise Backlash

DeSantis Suspends Prosecutor for ‘Dereliction of Duty’ on Crime

Win for reproductive rights as Ohio voters reject effort to make it harder to amend state constitution (The Guardian) Ponder the sort of world in which a newspaper reporter can call killing your child ‘reproductive rights’.

On-Campus DEI Bureaucrats Already Ditching New Loyalty Oaths

Maddow MELTDOWN: Falsely Claims AR-15 for ‘Babies’ Has Hit the Market

Arizona Universities Drop DEI Wording in Job Posts

NYT’s @paulkrugman – Mendacious, an idiot, or both?

They Just Keep Coming: German Asylum Applications Up 80%

Oakland Mayor Asks Residents To Blow Air Horn Once To Announce Stabbing, Twice For Shooting (Babylon Bee)

Turning California Purple

Gender Medicine’s ‘Dr. Frankenstein’ and His Nonsensical Surgical Option for Kids

Fighting Crime by Shooting Back

LA Times: Remote Work Helps Employees Avoid Racism at the Office

American Nurse, Young Daughter Freed After Abduction in Haiti

Oil-Friendly Climate Advocates Shocked to Learn Big Oil Is Bad (The New Republic)

Environmentalists raise concerns about booming wood pellet business (AL.com)

Why ‘Blood-Red’ Glacier Is an Ominous Sign (Newsweek)

New EPA Tailpipe Standards Call Electric Vehicle Promises Into Question

Climate Activists are Silent on Polar Bears Because their Doom-Mongering Blew Up in their Faces

How That ‘Scientific Consensus’ on Climate Change Was ‘Manufactured’

Today in Climate Parody

Judge in Trump election case sets hearing for arguments about what evidence can be publicly disclosed (NBC News)

DA probing efforts to overturn Georgia election results likely to present case to grand jury next week: Sources (ABC News)

Rep. Justin Amash Defends President Trump Over 2020 Election Indictment

Previously Secret Memo Laid Out Strategy for Trump to Overturn Biden’s Win (N.Y. Times)

Lindsey Graham: Democrats Break All Rules to Get President Trump (NewsMax)

Trump Derangement At The Washington Post

Trump’s criminal trials prompt GOP political doomsday alarms (The Hill)

The Churchillian Case Against a Trump Pardon (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew continue to carry water for the Left.

Premise Poll: Trump Beats Biden But DeSantis Will Lose

No, fellow Republicans, the Justice Department is not biased against us (Washington Post) Another RINO fell0w-traveler does the Uniparty dance.

Atlanta-area prosecutor expected to seek more than a dozen indictments in Trump case (CNN)

White House cocaine belonged to ‘Biden family orbit’ member: report (N.Y. Post) Oh, ya think?

White House unveils wage rule for federal projects, in win for unions (Washington Post)

Biden Admin Is Hiding How Many Illegal Immigrants Are in Monitoring Programs

Admin Hasn’t Reported Numbers in Immigration Programs

GOP Rep Moves To Defund DHS Until Biden Secures the Border

Bank Records Show $20 Million to Biden-Tied Businesses

Biden says he has ‘practically’ declared a climate emergency (The Hill) Pursuing the effect without actually taking any action for which he might get sued.

FBI Director Lied Under Oath on Memo Targeting ‘Radical Traditional Catholics,’ New Memo Suggests

House Republicans Release Bank Records Showing Over $20 Million In Payments To Biden Family, Associates

WH Denies Bank Records Show Payments to Joe Biden

NCLA Files Legal Brief Against Biden’s Anti-Free Speech Scheme

Who is sneaking fentanyl across the southern border? Hint: it’s not the migrants

Surprise! The FBI Lied About ‘White Supremacist’ Memo Targeting Catholics, New Document Reveals

Poll: Most Voters Support Texas’ Floating Barriers

FLASHBACK: Why Gold Star Parents Are Furious at Biden for Afghanistan

Newsom Funded Chinese COVID Lab Known To Biden’s FDA

What to know about the EG.5 coronavirus subvariant, now dominant in the U.S.

COVID Uptick Sends New York Times and PBS Clutching Their Masks Again

Rand Paul Slaps Fauci With DC Criminal Referral Over Perjury Allegations  Whenever I see Fauci, I see him in a Mussolini uniform.

Biden Admin Concedes No Evidence Behind Recommendation for 6 Annual COVID Booster Shots

Ruling Against Middle Schooler Punished for Wearing ‘There Are Only 2 Genders’ T-Shirt to Be Appealed

Taxpayer-Funded Research Seeks To Devise New Stealth Censorship Technology

States Stop Credit Card Companies From Tracking Gun Purchases, Though It May Not Last

J6 Committee failed to preserve records, has no data on Capitol Hill security failures, GOP charges (Fox)

Finland Christian Faces Second ‘Hate Speech’ Trial for Bible Verse Tweet

Catholic Couple Banned in Mass. from Fostering Children Over Religious Beliefs

Not just Trump: The Ohio abortion vote exposes the bitterness fueling the GOP war on democracy (Salon) In the Narrative media, ‘democracy’ means ‘rule by Democrats’.

Those truncated DeSantis quotes

CNN Labels Biden ‘Kind of a Centrist’ On Environmental Policy

ABC, NBC Bask in DeSantis Shakeup, Gleefully Hope He Goes Down to Trump

Most Alabama voters want Tuberville to drop military hold: poll (The Hill)

Civil rights groups challenge Tennessee GOP-led redistricting maps (The Hill)

Smash the patriarchy! Oh, wait….

NYers are right to be furious about their sacrifices to accommodate migrants (N.Y. Post)

New York City considers tent cities for migrants in Central Park, other green spaces (CBS News)

Large asylum seekers shelter could open on Randalls Island (CBS)

Code Pink Used To Criticize China on Human Rights. Then Its Founder Married a Propagandist for the Regime.

This Tech Mogul Bankrolls a Chinese Propaganda Network—And Left-Wing Lawmakers Like Ilhan Omar

House Democrats Demand 1,000% Tax On Semiautomatic Rifles

LA Govt Workers Plan to ‘Shut Down’ City for 24 Hours

‘Woke’ Women’s Soccer Team ‘Oblivious’ to What US Fans Want

Democracy Dies in Terrorism, WashPost Platforms Palestinian Killers

Happy Trails, Megan Rapinoe: Liberal ‘Equal Pay’ Activist Exits Final World Cup in Humiliating Fashion (Video)

Judge Lets School Policy Allowing Boys to Use Girls’ Bathroom Stand

Planned Parenthood, ACLU Fight to Keep Child Marriage Legal Can you say ‘Muslim’? I’m sure you can.

End Practice of Federal Government Serving as Unions’ Bill Collector

CNN Gawks at Outrageous Oakland Crime Surge, Worry It Helps GOP

Amid crush of migrant and homeless families in shelter system, Healey to announce plan to help (Boston Globe)

Participation Payout: US Women’s Soccer Players Pocket $7.3 Million for Disgraceful Showing at World Cup (Babylon Bee)

Mass. Gov. Healey Declares Migration State of Emergency

Pritzker’s Truth Police: How The Illinois Governor Made The Case Against The Trump Indictment

Jen Psaki’s MSNBC propaganda hour

G.O.P. Contenders Feed Voter Distrust in Courts, Schools and Military (N.Y. Times)

CNN Decries GOP Criticizing Kamala While White House Promotes Her Work

Newsmax Ropes Matt Gaetz Into Battle to Become GOP’s Comms Shop (Daily Beast)

Once Rare, Impeachments and Censures Have Become the Norm in Congress (N.Y. Times)

Musk Offers to Fund Lawsuits Against Woke Companies Targeting Employees for Posting on Twitter

WATCH: Bystander Cop Sentenced to Nearly 5 Years in Prison Over George Floyd’s Death  Unfortunately he was of the wrong minority.

Legal Fund for Marine Vet Daniel Penny Nears $3M

NBC’s Dasha Burns Returns for MORE Embarrassing Hackery Against Ron DeSantis

Continued Major Errors and Misinformation in Seattle Times Climate Stories: Damaging and Unnecessary

Senate Democrat: Tuberville ‘prepared to burn the military down’ with promotions blockade (The Hill) More accurately, the Biden administration is prepared to burn the military down in their promotion of abortion. Which won’t surprise anybody.

Riley Gaines, activists say they were spat on, attacked by protesters at ceremonial bill signing in Texas (Fox) But of course only Republicans indulge in political violence.

Andrew Cuomo’s Sister Orchestrated Sexist Attacks on His Accusers

Why not tax private jets out of business? (Portland Press-Herald) Progressive totalitarianism, fresh from the Left Coast.

This is TERRORISM! MSNBC Lashes Out at Tuberville Fighting Military Wokeness No, terrorism is when you kill people; just interrupting their career path is not enough.

CDC says COVID variant EG.5 is now dominant, including strain some call “Eris” (CBS New)

New COVID-19 variant ‘Eris’: How bad is the new EG.5.1 variant? (DownToEarth)

MedWatch Daily Digest: A new COVID variant has emerged (WGN)

SBA Contractors Profiteered During Pandemic

Heart-Scarring Observed In Children Months After COVID-19 Vaccination: Study

Study Suggests COVID Vaccine Heart Damage Much More Common Than Previously Thought

The Impact of Vaccines and Behavior on U.S. Cumulative Deaths from COVID-19

Kids Almost Never Transmitted COVID In Schools; Major New Study Finds

Sharpton: Trump on the Side of King George III, Confederates

Biden Discovers Most Black People Aren’t Really Black

Who Is ‘Negasi Zuberi’?

Uvalde Shooter’s Cousin Arrested for Similar Threat

US Shutters Haiti Embassy Amid “Rapid Gunfire” As Armed Gangs Have Run Of The Capital

Emory Researchers Blame “Structural Racism” For Type 2 Diabetes Prevalance Among Black People  Not to mention rampant gun violence in black slums.

D.C. on Track for Most Homicides in Two Decades

‘Extortion’: Attorney flames report Jack Smith deputy tried to ‘flip’ Trump valet (Fox)

Judge Cannon adds new wrinkle to Trump’s classified docs case (MSNBC)

There is more than one conflict in Trump’s classified documents case (The Hill)

Judge asks prosecutors to justify use of 2 grand juries in Trump documents case (Washington Post)

Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan subpoenaed in Fulton’s Trump probe (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Security increases for judge assigned to Donald Trump’s January 6 criminal case (CNN)

Ex-Pence Adviser Trashes Former Boss, Backs Trump Instead (Daily Beast

The Prosecution of Trump May Have Terrible Consequences (N.Y. Times)

Emerson College Poll: Trump Leads Biden in Arizona

Nancy Pelosi Declares America Will Cease To Exist If Trump Becomes President Again

Robert Barnes on the Jack Smith indictment of Trump

Did Jack Smith Open The Door On The 2020 Vote?

Scientists ‘shocked’ by extreme events in Antarctica as Earth heats up (New Scientist)

Even frozen Antarctica is being walloped by climate extremes, scientists find (Associated Press)

‘Virtually certain’ extreme Antarctic events will get worse without drastic action, scientists warn (The Guardian)

No quick fix to reverse Antarctic sea ice loss as warming intensifies, scientists say (Reuters)

It’s official: Scientists confirm July was the hottest month ever recorded (CNBC)

July hit a crucial warming threshold that scientists have warned the world should stay under (CNN)

July breaks record for Earth’s hottest-ever month (Euronews)

Hotter than July? Climate change causing higher temperatures and endangers future generations (Savannah Morning News)

EPA is ignoring the glaring problem with dirty electric vehicles (The Hill)

China Abandons Paris Agreement and Makes Others’ Efforts Even More Futile

Climate Change-Obsessed AP Blames Humanity for ‘Hellish’ ‘Summer of Earth’s Discontent’

Tax-Funded PBS/NPR Polling Push: The World Is Melting, Anti-Science Republicans to Blame

Biden Said EV Maker Proterra Was ‘Getting Us in the Game.’ It Just Declared Bankruptcy.

John Stossel Interviews Judith Curry: How Climate “Science” Got Hijacked by Alarmists

Biden on Weather Channel to Discuss Climate Change

Another New Nuclear Reactor Energizes U.S. Clean Energy Hopes

Mitchell Mourns High Gas Prices Won’t Allow Biden To Cut Fossil Fuels

The American Mind.

A feeling of triumph has flushed through the conservative ranks this summer with the Supreme Court’s blockbuster decision in Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. Harvard College and SFFA v. University of North Carolina to invalidate Harvard’s and UNC’s affirmative action programs. And it’s true that there is much in the SFFA opinion to celebrate. But the decision will not end, or even do much to threaten, affirmative action programs. As I have explained elsewhere, unless we get a legal and cultural paradigm shift in how we think about diversity and the civil rights regime, affirmative action is here to stay.

Three Generations of Affirmative Action, Two Generations of Erroneous Predictions

There is a kind of affirmative action amnesia that sets in at such moments, causing us to forget how long the practice has been in place and how many times we have erroneously predicted the program’s demise. In a 2021 law review article, I demonstrated how, although affirmative action in higher education can be traced to the beginning of the civil rights revolution in the late 1940s, scholars have been consistently and erroneously predicting the demise of affirmative action for nearly 50 years. To illustrate how often scholars have erred on this point, I began the article by collecting a sample of publications, dating all the way back to 1978, predicting the end of affirmative action. This sample constituted over 50 citations and took up several pages of law journal space.

Washington Free Beacon.

The Taliban has deployed hundreds of suicide bombers to Afghanistan’s border with Iran amid an intensifying dispute over water access, Bloomberg reported.

Thousands of Taliban troops, including hundreds trained to blow themselves up, were sent to the border since May, a source told the outlet. Iran and the Taliban have moved toward a conflict over water from Afghanistan’s Helmand River, which Iran relies on.

Afghanistan in 1973 agreed to provide a certain amount of water from the river to Iran, but since the Taliban took over Afghanistan after the Biden administration withdrew in 2021, Iran claims the new regime has reduced the water supply.

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

ZMan says the quiet part out loud.

Every human civilization has some mechanism to find talented people who can be of service to the ruling class of the society. The system can be formal, like the Chinese exam system or graduate school in modern America. It can also be informal, as it was in the Middle Ages when a talented young man could be noticed by his lord and given a chance to raise his own status. The Hundred Years War created fortunes for many common men who fought on behalf of their king.

This search for talent is not only internal. Jews in Europe found that there was always a noble in need of smart and literate men. The Hoffaktor in Germany was almost always a Jewish banker who not only kept the finances of the house he served, but he also maintained connections with other court factors. In return for these services, these Jewish men were often awarded lands and titles. The endless search for talent by the ruling elites is why we have Ashkenazi Jews.

This is important to keep in mind when members of the chattering class talk about the meritocracy and the role it plays in the current crisis. This column by David Brooks titled, “What if We’re the Bad Guys Here?” is a good example. Brooks speaks as a member of the meritocracy, which he defines as the highly educated and highly connected urban class that runs the institutions. His column is mostly a self-congratulatory call to action to address the growing unrest.

SciTechDaily.

A joint research team from the City University of Hong Kong (CityU) and collaborators recently developed a stable artificial photocatalytic system that is more efficient than natural photosynthesis. The newly developed system, which replicates a natural chloroplast, is capable of transforming carbon dioxide in water into methane, a useful fuel, very efficiently using light. This represents a significant breakthrough with potential contributions toward achieving carbon neutrality.

 

Psaki calls out one big problem with MAGA world’s ‘unhinged reaction’ to Trump indictment (MSNBC) Only one? She’s not trying.

Trump Calls for Judge’s Recusal as His Lawyer Deems Effort to Overturn Election ‘Aspirational’ (N.Y. Times)

Playbook: Welcome to the courtroom campaign (Politico)

There’s a Good Reason Trump Aides Don’t Think the New Indictment Is a Joke (Daily Beast)

Will Trump’s Social Media Behavior Cost Him in Court? (The Bulwark) They hope, they hope, they hope….

DOJ Slapped By Judge In Trump Documents Case

Court Bans Religious Vaccine Exemptions For Connecticut Children

Developed Nations With Packed Infant Vax Schedule Linked To Higher Childhood Mortality Rates: Study