Racism at heart of US failure to tackle deadly heatwaves, expert warns (The Guardian) Tagging somebody as a ‘climate justice reporter’ rather says the quiet part out loud, doesn’t it?

You Won’t Believe the NY Times Double Standard on Jason Aldean and ‘Racist Vigilantism’

Does IQ by Ethnicity Correlate with College Admissions Test Scores?

Ancient DNA reveals the living descendants of enslaved people through 23andMe

8-Year-Old Killed in Chicago, Dozens Shot in Weekend Violence

Former Kamala Harris staffer says VP is unpopular in polls because she’s a ‘Black woman’ and a ‘history maker’ (Fox) She’s not ‘Black’, she’s Barely Brown. (Hitler was a ‘history maker’ too.)

“Banana Republic”: Dershowitz Says Biden ‘Urged’ Garland To Indict Trump, Jack Smith ‘Could’ Be Indicted Under KKK Statute

Kamala Harris Takes on a Forceful New Role in the 2024 Campaign (N.Y. Times) Harris? Forceful? (*snort*)

Super PAC Ad Targets Bidens’ Ties to China, Ukraine

The White House plays it cool as ‘Bidenomics’ struggles to catch on (Politico)

Joe Biden Enjoys His 1967 Corvette While Forcing You to Go Electric

Report: Quincy Institute Contributor’s Racist Rantings Unmasked

Kevin McCarthyism: Why the GOP’s culture war on the troops will end badly (Public Notice)

Police Investigating Shop Owner Who Took Down Armed Thief With A Stick

Record glacial flooding damages homes in Alaska (The Hill)

Drone video captures moment house collapses into water in Juneau, Alaska (CBS Philadelphia)

Glacier basin flooding destroys two structures in Alaskan capital of Juneau and prompts local emergency declaration (CNN)

House collapses into river as floods rage from Alaskan glacier (MSNBC)

Progress on slowing deforestation could boost climate efforts, say experts (The Guardian)

On a ‘Toxic Tour’ of Curtis Bay in South Baltimore, Visiting Academics and Activists See a Hidden Part of the City (Inside Climate Narrative News)

Biden Admin Reduces Savings Estimate For Americans Switching Away From Gas Stoves: Industry Group

Scottish Govt Axes 16 Million Trees To Clear Way For ‘Greener’ Solutions

NYT: “When the Novelty of Skiing in California in August Wears Off, the Terror Sinks In”,

EVs On a Collision Course With Reality

Think Megawatt Hours of Gasoline

Costs Beginning to Change the Net Zero Debate in the UK

Our planet is swimming in plastic. Here’s how we fix that

Scottish Government Felling Almost 2,000 Trees per Day To Save the Environment

Scotland Admits Chopping Down 16M Trees to Make Way for Wind Energy Farms

ZMan dives under the hood.

The people in charge seem like they are not just speaking a different language but doing so from a different reality. That is because for the most part, they are using a different language and they do operate in a different world from the bulk of the people. The managerial class is defined by the managerial elite and therefore operates by a different cooperative principle.

Take the word “democracy” which is used all the time by the regime. To normal people, this means majority rule. In a democracy, the government does what the majority of the people want, with some exceptions. Normal people accept that some things like slavery are not up for debate. Even if the majority wants to bring back slavery, it is an immoral practice, so it is not permitted. Otherwise, normal people assume democracy is the will of the people expressed in the laws.

To the managerial elite, democracy means the process by which the majority or an assumed majority is convinced to support elite opinion. This is why they are inspired to redouble their efforts whenever they lose at the ballot box. Democracy requires them to work harder to get their desired result. Expediency may require them to go around this process using the courts or administrative fiat. The assumption is that enough people already agree so it is close enough to justify action.

This one word shows how the elite and the commoners do not share the same basis of understanding when it comes to politics. The elites see democracy as the process of working toward their desired end. The people assume it is the process by which elites discover the common will. These are two entirely different and incompatible views of the democratic process. Inevitably this leads to a large number of words and concepts lacking a shared understanding.

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One of the oddest things that has been accepted with little real challenge is the notion that there is such a thing as a ‘hate crime’. Throughout the western world we have seen legislative changes and judicial advice that embeds the new notion that a crime is particularly heinous if it is motivated by an entirely subjective interpretation of whether it was motivated by ‘hate’ and whether that hate was directed at particular groups. We now have ‘hate crime laws’ on the statute books, in one form or another, of every western nation.

Logically the notion of a thing called a hate crime is a peculiar one. It is one which immediately moves the matter of law from the punishment of actions to the interpretation of thoughts. That in itself subjectifies what is going on in the judicial process and makes it inherently more prone to error.

We no longer have to prove simply that a harmful action took place, we now also scale and grade those actions by mind reading the thoughts that lay behind them, and by deciding that some thoughts are more wicked than others and some groups more deserving of protection than others.

It’s all part of easing ‘CrimeThink’ into the legal system. Orwell was a better forecaster than he knew.

Steve Hayward at Power Line.

A properly Biden-hating but Trump-critical friend remarked to me lately that “I just don’t know any intelligent, educated people who want to vote for Trump next year.” Well maybe so, but I am reminded of the revealing line from Adlai Stevenson in the 1956 presidential campaign, when an enthusiastic supporter ran up to him and breathlessly exclaimed, “Oh, Governor Stevenson! All educated people are for you!” To which Stevenson responded, “Yes, ma’am, but I need a majority.”

That’s a perfect expression of liberal elitism and disdain toward the broad spectrum of Americans who don’t attend elite universities or live in the trendiest neighborhoods or hold the “correct” views.

Which brings me to David Brooks’s mid-week column in the New York Times that people are still talking about days later, which is a much longer half-life for a column than is typical these days. His column is “What If We’re the Bad Guys Here?“, and the “bad guys” here are not the Deplorables that Times readers and other “enlightened” people blame for blocking all desirable progress, but the Times readership itself. Brooks doesn’t put it that directly, but that’s the clear subtext.

Gates of Vienna.

A Tunisian culture-enricher in the German city of Halle experienced a sexual emergency, and then found a 15-year-old girl to help him alleviate his distress. Now he’s in custody, and the target of his affections is in the hospital, but the authorities seem to want to keep a lid on the affair.

Senior Investigator for Jan. 6 Cmte reacts to ‘incredibly damning’ new indictment details (MSNBC)

Trump’s January 6 indictment ‘looks like pressure’ (Fox)

Analyst: Third indictment different in that ‘everyone saw Jan. 6’ (WMUR)

The Orchestrated Cases Against Trump Explained

MSNBC Spin Ruined? Ex-Garland Aide LOVES Rough-on-Rioters Judge in Trump’s Jan. 6 Case

Pence Does Not Rule Out Being Witness for Trump’s Prosecution

Trump’s Threat Toward Georgia Secretary Of State Was An ‘Aspirational Ask,’ Lawyer Says (NBC News)

Rep. Donalds: Biden’s DOJ Trying to ‘Bleed Donald Trump Dry’

‘Flu shot cheerleader’ speaks out on being used by anti-vaxxer movement (The Guardian)

“Your Injections Are Killing Our Young People” – Pfizer, Moderna Reps Slammed During Heated Aussie Senate Hearing

Iowa Governor Deploys Troops To Mexico Border Using COVID-19 Funds

Biden Energy Secretary Secretly Consulted Top Chinese Energy Official Before SPR Release, Sales To Hunter Biden-Linked Chinese Energy Giant

Conservative Groups Sue to Block Biden Plan Canceling $39 Billion in Student Loans

Newsom spokesperson slams DeSantis debate counteroffer as a ‘joke’ (The Hill)

‘What a joke’: Gavin Newsom’s team slams Ron DeSantis’ debate proposal (NBC News)

Playbook: How DeSantis wants to debate Newsom (Politico)

Democrats demand 1,000% excise tax on ‘assault weapons,’ high-capacity magazines (Fox)

The Two Minutes Hate (New Normal Edition)

Anguish in Camelot: Kennedy Campaign Roils Storied Political Family (N.Y. Times)

German Cardinal Gets Slammed for Criticising Priest Giving Gay Blessings 

Burgum Angers Stephanopoulos by Refusing to Discuss Trump, Brings Up Hunter Instead

Phangs Out! MSNBC Host Says ‘Let’s Hasten’ That ‘Dead’ GOP ‘Rotting in the Field!’

Refugee-Rescuer Suing CNN For Libel Wins Right To Seek Punitive Damages

Ukraine live briefing: Zelensky condemns deadly Russian strike on blood transfusion center (Washington Post)

Russian bomb hits Ukrainian blood transfusion centre, says Zelensky (BBC)

Blood bank, university hit as Russia, Ukraine intensify attacks (Al Jezeera)

Russian attack on blood transfusion centre in Ukraine constitutes a ‘war crime’ (France 24)

China, Russia send naval warships near Alaska, triggering forceful US response (Fox)

US Suspends Foreign Aid To Niger As West Africa Bloc Prepares Military Intervention

UK Fears China Will Use EVs to Spy on Citizens

Russia’s Economy Projected To Grow Despite Western Sanctions

Niger coup: Junta shuts airspace citing military intervention threat (BBC)

Are G.O.P. Voters Tiring of the War on ‘Wokeness’? (N.Y. Times) Not that I’ve seen.

Pope Francis Labels Transsexuals “Daughters of God” Following Meeting

Spain’s Supreme Court Upholds “Gender Theory” in Schools

UK Tories Introduce New Initiatives on Illegal Migration

Cultural Globalism: USAID Engages in Ideological Imperialism With LGBTI Inclusive Development Policy

NY Times Writer Mocks ‘Wave of Whataboutism From Trump World’ on Biden Money Scandals

OOPS: ‘Fact Checker’ Accidentally Admits Leftists Want Porn In Schools

‘Despair is a luxury we can’t afford’: David Suzuki on fighting for action on the climate crisis (The Guardian)

EPA approved fuel ingredient with sky-high lifetime cancer risk, document reveals (The Guardian)

Report: EPA approved a fuel component almost guaranteed to cause cancer (NewsNation)

EPA Approved a Fuel Ingredient Even Though It Could Cause Cancer in Virtually Every Person Exposed Over a Lifetime (ProPublica)

Consumers may soon get up to $14,000 or more in rebates for making energy-efficient home upgrades — if states sign on (CNBC)

Our Oil Predicament Explained: Heavy Oil And The Diesel Fuel It Provides Are Key

The Evil of Climate Alarmism: Dissecting Michael Walsh’s: Hoax of the Millennium

Fire Tornadoes!

German DWD National Weather Service Declares Near Normal July As “Too Warm, Wet And Sunny”

English Villagers Fight Solar Farm Developer

Despite Alarmists Denials Statue of Liberty Photos Expose Sea Level Rise Acceleration Failed Projections

Climate Experts Criticize Alarmist Rhetoric Over Summer Temperatures

Teen Charged With Hate-Motivated Murder in Killing of Gay Dancer (NewsMax)

Study Shows Gun Laws Don’t Matter, Race Does

Bantu über alles: three millennia of unstoppable African farmers repeopling the vast continent

Disturbing audio captures anti-racism instructor attacking principal’s ‘white supremacy’ before he killed himself (N.Y. Post)

Shocking Video: Gun-Strapping Kids Roam ‘Grand Theft Auto’-Style Around St.Louis Suburb The way to prevent gun violence is to prohibit young black males from possessing guns.

Black mayor of tiny Alabama town says he was ousted by his White predecessor (CNN)

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A 100-year history in college sports is ending. Barring some sort of miracle, or a negotiated deal there will only be four schools left in the Pac-12.

USC and UCLA were the first to leave to join the Big-10. The University of Oregon and the University of Washington have announced their decisions to join the Big-10. Utah, Arizona State, and Arizona are headed to the Big-12. There will be four members left in the Pac-12. Stanford, Oregon State, Washington State, and Cal.

Football programs are the biggest money makers in college sports and the most expensive sport to maintain. Televison money and viewing ratings are the key to survival. There are rumors that some current conferences will cut teams that are not generating TV ratings and will be shown the door as new teams join super conferences.

CNN.

“I told them I could see it at Terminal 1 baggage reclaim in Chicago, and they said ‘We have no record of it.’ I asked them to call Chicago, and they said ‘No, we’re not allowed.’ They said they’d put notes in the system and the baggage team would take care of it.”

When the bag still didn’t arrive, and Shuster called a third time, she was told “We have no idea where it is.”

They also told Shuster that she had the wrong claim number – impossible, she thought, because she still had the sticker that had been attached to her boarding pass. The other half was on the bag.

In fact, they were right – sort of. The claim number was indeed the same as the tag that had been attached to her bag – but the check-in agent had attached the wrong tag. This one was for another passenger, who was traveling from Baltimore to Chicago only. That meant the bag had been taken off the plane at O’Hare and sent straight to the reclaim belt, instead of being loaded onto the Denver flight.

The significant aspect of this is that the incompetent airline is United. In fact, in every single such case that I have read, the incompetent airline is United.

Anybody who ‘flies United’ these days is an idiot.

Steve Sailer.

A recent trend has been Middle Eastern immigrants, mostly Muslims but also Armenians, objecting to the Establishment pushing the gay and trans agenda. Sometimes they do it admirably through the parents rights movements, sometimes despicably through street violence.

For mainstream newspapers pushing the Democratic Party line, this immigrant vs. LGBT stuff is tricky because it raises questions about inherent tensions in the Democrats’ Coalition of the Fringes grand strategy. On the other hand, a gay was murdered in a hate crime, a black gay! So the story is too On-Narrative to not push heavily.

But the stabber is a Muslim teen whose friends objected to the gay display as offensive to Islam. So that’s Off-Narrative.

The usual solution is to hope that readers assume, out of racist bigotry, that the Brooklyn stabber must have been Archie Bunker IV, and hope the public doesn’t pry too much into the facts.

NewAtlas.

LiquidPiston says its new XTS-210 solves the efficiency, lubrication and fuel type issues of Wankel rotary engines. This supercharged, liquid-cooled two-stroke claims 5X the power of an equivalent size or weight diesel engine, and 3X the torque.

Targeted at military, commercial and aerospace applications, the XTS-210 is about the size of a basketball, weighs in at 19 kg (42 lb), and displaces 210 cc. It’ll run on multiple fuels, including diesel and kerosene/jet fuel. The company is shooting for about 20 kW (26.8 hp) and 29.4 Nm (21.7 lb-ft) of torque, both at 6,500 rpm.

Quillette.

I’ve worked as a professor in an English department for the last 15 years, and I spent the 10 years prior to that as a student in English. Over the course of that time there was never a period when the English major wasn’t in decline. For the first half of the 20th century, English departments occupied a critical and celebrated position in the American university. But by the time of Sputnik and the beginning of the space race, the field had begun a long slide into obscurity.

Today, most people who take English departments seriously are English professors and the handful of students who still choose the major. Current university administrators see the English department as serving a gatekeeping role: the required freshman-level courses generate massive enrollment, mostly from students who are not prepared for the demands of college writing. Thus, in the eyes of the administration, the job of the English department is remedial—getting those students “up to speed” so that they can do the writing required by their majors (which are overwhelmingly housed in other departments). Liberally educated professors in other disciplines often have a nostalgic reverence for the humanities and humanistic knowledge, but they know that English professors no longer serve as guardians of that tradition. In fact, it’s common knowledge that the vast majority of English faculty are resolutely opposed to traditional notions of humanistic inquiry. For that reason, they have become a parody of the erudition that used to be synonymous with literary study.

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In your book you talk about progressivism as a religion. How does this religion sell transhumanism?

It is sold as a material improvement, as an idea of progress in which the human being is improved, replaces God, and becomes God thanks to technology. The problem with this approach is that it is a false and empty promise. The sine qua non condition of this process is that the human being ceases to be human. You will progress, but the cost of that progress is that you cease to be what you are. So, homo sapiens can transition into a homo deus or any kind of form, what I call a neo-entity. Basically, technology is going to allow you to be whatever you want to be and that is one of the promises of progress.

This technological progress is accompanied by a postmodern moral progress, in which all the value categories that Judeo-Christianity established in the previous 2000 years become irrelevant. This progressive morality is completely anti-Christian. We are going to be better intellectually, cognitively, physically, and morally, but this morality is an amorality because it has no landmarks and no flag. It is a relativistic morality.

Fortune.

Stakhanov’s personal striving, commitment, potential and passion led to the emergence of a new ideal figure in the imagination of Stalin’s Communist Party. He even made the cover of Time magazine in 1935 as the figurehead of a new workers movement dedicated to increasing production. Stakhanov became the embodiment of a new human type and the beginning of a new social and political trend known as “Stakhanovism”.

That trend still holds sway in the workplaces of today – what are human resources, after all? Management language is replete with the same rhetoric used in the 1930s by the Communist Party. It could even be argued that the atmosphere of Stakhanovite enthusiasm is even more intense today than it was in Soviet Russia. It thrives in the jargon of Human Resource Management (HRM), as its constant calls to express our passion, individual creativity, innovation and talents echo down through management structures.

But all this “positive” talk comes at a price. For over two decades, our research has charted the evolution of managerialism, HRM, employability and performance management systems, all the way through to the cultures they create. We have shown how it leaves employees with a permanent sense of never feeling good enough and the nagging worry that someone else (probably right next to us) is always performing so much better.

New Evidence Suggests Vaccinated Can Transmit Covid-19 Vax Antibodies Through The Air

Stefanik urges Biden’s CDC to fire ex-NY official who backed Cuomo’s deadly COVID nursing home policy (Fox)

The GOP’s race problem goes well beyond DeSantis (Washington Post)  Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

Who ‘banned’ what? Florida schools grapple with fallout from AP psychology dispute (Politico)

JPMorgan Chase Is Up To Its Old Tricks…

Oklahoma Man Pleads Guilty to Threatening DeSantis, Cruz and Other Republicans (N.Y. Tiems) But of course only Republicans indulge in political violence.

The Bezos Decade: Partisan Washington Post Is as Rabid as Ever

Another 2024 Republican Candidate Is Now Profiting Off Saudi-Backed LIV Golf (Huffington Post) When did golf become political?

Clarence Thomas’s $267,230 R.V. and the Friend Who Financed It (N.Y. Times) Let’s see … nope, no mention of the Biden Crime Family.

John Eastman Comes Clean: Hell Yes We Were Trying to Overthrow the Government (Talking Points Memo) Your daily dose of Woke science fiction.

Showtime’s ‘Deadlocked’ To Attack ‘Conservative’ Supreme Court

Technocensorship: The Government’s War on So-Called Dangerous Ideas

DOJ asks judge to issue protective order after Trump posts apparent threat of revenge (NPR)

Is this Jack Smith’s endgame? (The New Neo)

‘I’m coming after you:’ Donald Trump threatens rivals; prosecutor seeks protective order (USA Today)

Feds alert judge to Trump’s ‘If you go after me, I’m coming after you!’ post (Politico)

Can Prosecutors Convince a Jury Trump Means Every Bonkers Thing He Says? (N.Y.Times) Why not? The NYT believes every bonkers thing that Democrats say.

How Jack Smith Structured the Trump Election Indictment to Reduce Risks (N.Y. Times)

I regret to report the economic anxiety theory of Trumpism is back (Vox) For proglodytes, everything is an ‘-ism’.

Here’s the Intelligence Assessment of Donald Trump that the Government Can’t Write (Politico) Perhaps because it lacks any connection with reality?

Awkwardness in Trump’s circle: Top aides could be trial witnesses (Washington Post)

Charges Against Trump Hinge On What He Believed And When

Biden pushes to end remote work era for feds (Axios)

Supreme Court Urged To Reject Ghost Gun Ban

Key Witness Doesn’t Back Up G.O.P.’s Biggest Allegations on Bidens (N.Y. Times)

Biden Border Policies Open Loopholes For Human Traffickers, Insiders Say

The changing story on Biden family business dealings (The Spectator)

CNN Denies Democrats Protested Recent Republican-Won Elections

Morning Joe Doubles Down on Devon Archer Testimony Lies

Mississippi cannot strip convicts of right to vote, federal appeals court rules (NBC) Since when does a federal court have oversight over a State constitution?

News From San Francisco: ‘A Lot of People Around Here Have Mental Issues’ (The Other McCain)

Factional Warfare in Sweden: Eritrean Cultural Festival Devolves Into Anarchy

CBS Runs Puff Piece On Far-Left Barbara Lee’s Senate Campaign

Democrat Congressman Lied About Devon Archer Testimony, Transcript Shows

Country lacks a unifying voice in aftermath of Trump charges (Washington Post) “No trusted figure has emerged to reassure the country in a shattering moment…” Where is Big Brother when we really need him?

The Atlantic.

This article offers an appalling insight into the proglodyte mind.

Income is one vital indicator of well-being, but it is not the only one: Things like health outcomes and social mobility matter too. That’s why we should shift our focus from poverty to disadvantage. Disadvantage is a more useful term than poverty because we aren’t just talking about income—we’re trying to capture the complexity of a person’s life chances being hindered by multiple circumstances. Disadvantage is more accurate because it implies an injustice. People are being held back—unfairly.

It’s not enough to just describe the position of the poor. It must be described in a way that blames someone else. “People are being held back–unfairly.” The obvious assumption is that if it weren’t for that unjust, unfair ‘holding back’, they’d be just as ‘advantaged’ as everybody else. Are they morons? Doesn’t matter. Are they lazy? Doesn’t matter. Are they vicious? Doesn’t matter. Are they feckless?Doesn’t matter. Do they come from a culture that encourages crime, violence, and venality? Doesn’t matter. They are ‘disadvantaged’ and therefore victims. They have no agency. Their life circumstances have no relation to what they do or don’t do. They are ‘disadvantaged’ and therefore victims, like a species of fish or insect.

Go ahead and read the whole thing; it reads like anthropologists discussing a species of animal, governed by instinct and unable to exert any control on their own lives. That’s what people outside the Crust look like to the Anointed: A different species that must be controlled and manipulated, whether they like it or not.

Disgusting.

Watch it.

“People have not only left San Francisco, they’re continuing to leave. And if you have a vacant unit for over 182 days, six months, they will start fining you… up to $20,000 per year per unit.”

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Three years have passed since the city of Beirut was nearly turned to rubble by history’s biggest non-nuclear explosion, which killed well over 200 people and injured thousands. In the intervening time, no official has been held accountable for allowing a vast stockpile of industrial chemical ammonium nitrate to be haphazardly stored in the heart of Beirut for seven years.

The dangerous chemicals ignited on August 4, 2020, creating a massive shockwave that tore through several neighborhoods, causing over $15 billion in damage. According to experts, had the blast not happened by the sea, the entire city of Beirut would have been wiped off the map, as the shockwave was felt as far away as Cyprus.

Read it.

Data show that the high levels of warming, especially at night and as measured at an airport, are primarily due to urbanization over time, with the modest warming of the past hundred-plus years playing a very small part in comparison.

Read it.

Anti-Christian hatred and attacks are becoming more and more common in Israel, as some are calling the levels of violence a “crisis” for the conservative government led by Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu.

The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Archbishop and soon-to-be Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, has spoken out regarding the growing anti-Christian attacks in Israel in a recent interview with Vatican News.

“Let us say that these clashes, these spats, these accusations, these insults, are not new. But the exponential increase in these phenomena, especially in the Jerusalem area, in the Old City, has become a matter of concern and an issue on the agenda that worries both the Christian community and the Israeli authorities,” Archbishop Pizzaballa said.

The Spectator.

There has been no shortage of reminders of the gerontocracy in which we live lately. Last week brought two in the Senate.

One was Mitch McConnell’s worrying freeze-up at a press conference when he had to be helped away from reporters. The second came courtesy of Dianne Feinstein, who had to be prompted several times when asked to cast her vote on the Defense Appropriations Bill. “Say aye,” Senator Patty Murray of Washington told her ninety-year-old colleague from California. There are presumably other examples courtesy of the octogenarian commander-in-chief, but they are so frequent these days that it can be hard to keep track.

Feinstein’s age-related shortcomings have made news again. In a story published yesterday, the New York Times reports on Feinstein’s family fight over her late husband’s estate.

Read it.

A group of U.S. researchers has developed a new “cancer-killing pill” that could target and kill solid tumors while leaving healthy cells unharmed.

That’s according to their preclinical research findings, published Aug. 1 in the Cell Chemical Biology journal.

Titled “Small Molecule Targeting of Transcription-Replication Conflict for Selective Chemotherapy,” the study found that a drug the researchers developed was able to selectively disrupt DNA replication and repair in cancer cells.

Oakland NAACP Begs For More Cops Amid ‘Heyday For Criminals’

Al Sharpton Beclowns Himself, Displays His Ignorance About the Revolutionary War in Remarks on Trump Indictment (RedState)

Sub-Saharans Flourished Biologically in the United States

DeSantis appointee to Disney board taught seminar using discredited research claiming White people were slaves in America (CNN) Discredited!

US court tosses conviction after judge says Black man ‘looks like a criminal’ (Reuters)

The Preventable Death of Khaliyah Jones

‘Violence at the core’: Trump could face 55 years behind bars in DOJ indictment (MSNBC)

How much prison time might Donald Trump actually face? (Washington Post)

Jack Smith’s Sham Indictment Shows Biden Regime Wants To Face Trump (Newsweek)

Fact check: The day after his indictment, Trump lies again about Pence’s powers on January 6 (CNN)

Mike Pence says Trump and ‘gaggle of crackpot lawyers’ asked him to overturn election (CNN)

Amid Trump indictments, GOP should find a spine. Pence did. (Houston Chronicle)

NBC’s Chuck Todd FREAKS OUT: We’re SCREWED Since the GOP Didn’t Remove Trump!

Networks Pound Their Chests Over ‘Historic’ Third Trump Arraignment

Donald Trump Pleads Not Guilty to Trying to Overturn the Election, Despite Us All Witnessing Him Trying to Overturn the Election (Vanity Fair) Let;s see … nope, not a word about Hunter Biden.

Exclusive: Trump documents case judge made multiple errors in earlier trial (Reuters)

Donald Trump is the leading 2024 candidate — all thanks to Democrats

Democrats and the Trump Indictment Spectacle (Wall Street Journal)

Trump’s Legal Team to Put 2020 Election on Trial (NewsMax)

Trump’s Legal Team to Put 2020 Election on Trial (The Guardian)

House Democrats call for live broadcasts of court proceedings in Trump criminal cases (NBC News) They could have Russian TV do it — they’re experienced with show trials.

Mike Pence shows how Trump destroys everything he touches (Public Notice)

It’s justice that Trump, who wanted to toss Black votes, gets charged under a KKK Act (Philadelphia Inquirer) Will Bunch appears to be working toward getting one of the anti-Trump slots at the WaPo.

STILL OBSESSED: MSNBC, CNN Spend 91% Of Thursday On Trump

Are Democrats Tricking Republicans Into Nominating Trump? (New York magazine) Jonathan Chait is so out of touch with what is going on that it’s almost funny.

MSNBC Panel Stunned by Trump Lawyer’s ‘Admission’ on Fox News (Daily Beast) The ‘admission’ in question was the lawyer reiterating Trump’s position that he wanted to have the election results reconsidered by the states. MSNBC, of course, immediately characterized this as ‘admitting to the commission of a crime’, which it obviously is not — unless you adopt the Democrat view of ‘thoughtcrime’.

Trump Charged With Questioning Election Results While Not Being A Democrat (Babylon Bee)

Jack Smith Has an Indictment. Trump Has a Massive Plan for Revenge (Rolling Stone) And of course the writers for Rolling Stone know what Trump’s plans are (NOT).

Attorney General Josh Kaul won’t say if fake electors are under investigation after latest Trump indictment (MIlwaukee Journal Sentinel)

Kagan enters fray over Congress’ power to police Supreme Court (Politico)

Top Democrat tries to school Justice Alito in growing tiff over Supreme Court oversight (Fox)

Supreme Court struggling to agree on ethics policy, Justice Kagan says (Washington Post)

Sorry, Justice Alito: Congress has the power to regulate the Supreme Court (The Hill)

Democrat doesn’t think Jan. 6 committee was aware of notes Mike Pence took on day of riot (The Hill)

Haass: Republicans to Blame for Credit Downgrade, Not Bidenomics

CNN’s Kasie Can’t Stifle Snort As Christie Calls Trump Team ‘Corleones’

How The Establishment Uses ‘Hate And Fear’ To Manipulate Voters

Joe Rogan Irresponsibly Suggests Kari Lake Has a Point About Election Fraud (Daily Beast) Irresponsibly!

Persecuting the UK’s Rural Communities by Freezing Financial Services

Richard Hanania, Rising Right-Wing Star, Wrote For White Supremacist Sites Under Pseudonym (Huffington Post) I must have missed where that was somehow against the law.

RFK Jr. Sues Google, YouTube Over Censorship

US Intelligence Has Been Manipulating Wikipedia For Over A Decade: Wiki Co-Founder

Ex-Capitol Police Chief Called Jan. 6 Events a Cover-Up

US Credit Downgrade Caught White House Staff Flat-Footed

US Gas Prices Rise (Again) to $3.83

Biden at Risk of Losing a Quarter of His Voters, Poll Finds

UAW Demands “Largest Pay Hike In Recent Memory” From Big Three Over ‘Bidenflation’

White House Purges 442 Reporters Using New Press Credential Rules

Army chief retires as Tuberville hold snarls the Pentagon’s top ranks (Politico) This ‘problem’ is all of Democrats’ own making. If they would just quit promoting abortion in the armed forces, the hold would be released and everything would to back to normal (for a sufficiently proglodyte meaning of ‘normal’.) One might question whether an individual senator ought to have such a power, and (since Democrats hold the Senate) it could easily be gotten rid of, but Democrats don’t want to do that because they want to be in a position to do it themselves if the opportunity presents itself.

White House Says Bidenomics So Successful The Average American Has Twice As Many Jobs As They Had Two Years Ago (Babylon Bee)

Watch: CNN Admits Joe Biden’s Poll Numbers “Stink” And Trump Is In “Historically Strong Position”

Biden expected to create new Grand Canyon national monument to block mining, sources say (Washington Post)

Mayorkas’ Reorganization of DHS Reeks of Scheme to Impact 2024 Election (The Foundry)

Behar Proclaims Economy ‘Booming,’ Whines Biden Not Getting ‘Credit’  There are lies, damned lies, and MSNBC.

Energy Secretary Granholm Consulted Top Chinese Energy Official Before Draining U.S. Strategic Oil Reserve

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week (Vol. 54)

July blows away temperature records, testing key climate threshold (Washington Post)

Study shows climate change made record July heat far more likely (Fox News)

The world likely just had its hottest month on record. What a time to be a climate science denier (The Guardian)

Energy Sec Granholm secretly consulted top CCP energy official before SPR releases (Fox)

Wrong, Mainstream Media, Florida’s Sea Water Is Not Setting Records

After helping prevent extinctions for 50 years, the Endangered Species Act itself may be in peril (Associated Press)

Why the diversity-industrial complex bubble burst (N.Y. Post)

Why it’s time for the C-suite to double down on DEI (Fast Company)

DEI positions dwindling amid company layoffs, Republican political pressure, and court decision (Just The News)

Governor Of State People Are Fleeing From Agrees To Debate Governor Of State They Are Fleeing To (Babylon Bee)

Library Of Congress Decides To Go Ahead And Clean That Flute Lizzo Borrowed One More Time (Babylon Bee)

“We’re Going To Take Over”: Chicago Residents Threaten To “Deal With” Influx Of Disruptive Illegals

Court Upholds Indiana Transgender Students’ Bathroom Access

‘We Did This to Ourselves’: Victim of ‘Brutal’ Portland Attack Regrets ‘Defund the Police’

New Jersey To Separate Sex Ed Classes By Gender Identity, Not Biological Sex

Anheuser-Busch Down Nearly 30 Percent in US

Feinstein Cedes Power of Attorney, Clings to Senate Seat

Dem Lawmakers Heaped Praise on This Celebrity School. It’s Failing Students and Taxpayers.

Affordable Sprawl vs. Costly Walkability

NYT: “In Most Modern Foraging Societies, Women Have Played a Dominant Role in Bringing Home the Game”

Asylum Seekers Only: New 128-Apartment Complex To Open in Berlin

Transgender Player Leads Wyoming Tennis Official to Resign

SEE YOU IN COURT: Parents Challenge LGBTQ Book Policy That Requires Teachers ‘To Shame Children’ for Religious Faith

‘We’re Not in a Great Place’: Democrat Group Behind the ‘Squad’ Lays Off Half Its Staff (Washington Free Beacon)

A Progressive Powerhouse’s Surprise Layoffs Fuel Concerns About The Left’s Future (Huffington Post)

Why child marriage is legal in California — and the unexpected groups fighting to keep it that way (L.A. Times) Of course, the incident they use as an example not only didn’t happen in California but also involved ‘evangelical Christians’, the sort of people the Narrative media love to witch-hunt. One mention conspicuous by its absence is ‘Muslim’, although there are some vague references to ‘immigrant families’.

The Pro-Trans Medical Establishment Does the Very Thing It Falsely Accuses Conservatives of Doing

Tiny Texas Border Town Really Sorry To Hear About New York City Struggling With A Few Thousand Migrants (Babylon Bee)

The Foundry.

Rising interest rates and a shortage of lower-cost houses under the Biden administration continue to make homeownership unobtainable for many young families. Instead of working to solve actual problems like these, President Joe Biden is once again choosing to prioritize the expansive promotion of woke diversity, equity, and inclusion ideology in housing policies, as a recent proposed rule from the Department of Housing and Urban Development shows.

The proposed regulation would encourage taxpayer-funded housing agencies to abandon the goal of ensuring fairness in the housing market and instead pursue the elimination of all inequality in housing and income.

Under the rule, program participants—entities like public housing agencies, grant recipients, private entities that supply public or subsidized housing, and other entities receiving HUD funds—must supply an “Equity Plan” to HUD, describing the steps they have taken to “eliminate disparities in housing-related opportunities.”

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An infographic that will tell you more than you really want to know about the demographic makeup of the Ivy League colleges. (Click to expand)

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Through a string of unchecked acquisitions over 30 years, Tyson Foods, Cargill, JBS USA Holdings, and National Beef have gained control of roughly 85% of the total hog, cattle, and poultry processing market. For brevity, we’ll call these four meat processing corporations “BigAg” (or “the cartel”).

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The UK’s Royal Mail today shared images of the eight Special Stamps they are issuing to celebrate Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series, marking the 40th anniversary of The Colour of Magic, first book in the series. The stamps can be pre-ordered now, and will be available for general purchase on August 10.

Nikki Haley and Tim Scott’s befuddling response to Trump indictment (Charlotte Observer)

Trump has dug himself into the deepest possible hole (CNN)

Pro-Life Father Targeted by Biden DOJ Announces Congressional Run (The Foundry)

Mexican President Celebrates DOJ’s Lawsuit Against Texas (NewsMax)

‘Blacklisted’: Shapiro Cites MRC Study to Expose NewsGuard’s Leftist Bias (NewsBusters)

Whoopi: ‘Our Grandfathers Went to Fight’ WWI and WWII to Prevent January 6

Ramaswamy: I ‘don’t believe’ the 9/11 Commission report (Politico)

Gay Louisiana doctor says he’s leaving the state over its ‘discriminatory’ legislation (NBC News)

Technocensorship: The Government’s War On So-Called ‘Dangerous Ideas’

MSNBC Blames ‘Chaos Created By The GOP’ U.S. Credit Downgrade

Twitter Community Notes Targeting Presidential Candidates Sends Q2 Secondhand Censorship Skyrocketing

“Everything Appears To Be A Cover Up”: Capitol Police Chief Challenged J6 Narrative In Never-Aired Tucker Carlson Interview

CANCELED FOR ‘HATE’: Tech Company Moves Against Parental Rights Group After SPLC Attack

Psaki Claims Talking About Hunter ‘Is a Tactic That Vladimir Putin’ Uses

Eco-Obsessed Washington Post Rips Republicans for … Trying to Plant Trees?