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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

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.”

Read it.

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.

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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

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.”

Check it out.

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)

Read it.

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”).

Read it.

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?

The one health care solution to protect everyone from outrageous medical bills (Fox)

Wisconsin Supreme Court chief justice accuses liberals of ‘raw exercise of overreaching power’ (Associated Press)

Lawsuit Challenges California’s’ DEI Program for Doctors (NewsMax)

Tenn. AG Probes Transgender Clinic for Billing Fraud (NewsMax)

Partner in NYC Mayor’s Anti-Violence Initiative Busted in Gun and Drug Bust (Washington Free Beacon)

No Labels, No Cash: Third-Party Ballot Access Group Raised Zero Dollars in First Six Months of 2023 (Washington Free Beacon)

“Major Artery” In Downtown San Fran Is Deserted

CBS Joins ABC in NYC Immigrant Sob Story, Omits NYC is Sanctuary City

Networks Ignore DOJ Investigation of Corrupt NJ Senator Bob Menendez

Democratic Senator Lobbies Egypt to Free Cleric Who Called for Murder of Israeli Tourists

NYC Accused of Using Migrants in Bid for Federal Aid

Adidas $437M Yeezy Profit to Benefit Anti-hate Groups

Americans Continue to Move out of Big Cities (Antiplanner)

British Rowing Bans Transgenders from Women’s Division

Dem Rep Attended Art Show Celebrating Palestinian Terrorists and Calling for Destruction of Israel, Photos Show

Watch: Bill Maher Says Democrats Are ‘Full Of Shit’ When It Comes To Illegal Immigrants

Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders Demand Closure Of “$50 Billion Crypto Tax Gap”

AOC, Cohorts to Visit Left-run Latin American Nations  At taxpayer expense, of course.

Democrat Mayor Pleads Guilty to 140 Child Pornography Charges

Alabama GOP Proposes Ban on Teachers Union Donations to Candidates

Moderna May Be the Safest mRNA COVID Vax to Take If You’re Older (Daily Beast)

Moderna or Pfizer? One COVID Shot May Be Safer for Older Adults (U.S. News & World Report)

Moderna vaccine linked to lower risk of adverse events in older adults (News-Medical)

Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine safest, most effective for older adults, study says (UPI)

Worker Fired Over Refusal To Receive COVID-19 Vaccine Wins Job Back

Faulty COVID Study Claims Republicans Had 43% Higher Death Rate Due To “Vaccine Hesitancy”

Huge Numbers Of Kids Permanently Damaged By Lockdowns; New Study Finds

Big Pharma’s Big Tax Dodge

‘COVID-Karen’ Installed As Fauci’s Replacement At NIAID

Question the COVID Narrative? It’s the Loony Bin For You!

LA Times Columnist Tries Desperately to Lionize Lying Kamala Harris (The Foundry)

Biden Administration and University Leaders Hold Summit to Strategize Continuing Racial Discrimination (The Foundry)

$51,000 Trash Cans: Senate Votes To Throw $886 Billion At Defense; How Much Money Is Wasted?

NYT Discloses New Details About Biden’s Universal Background Check Mandate

White House Backs Renewal Of Law Enabling Spying On Americans

Fifth Circuit Reverses Lower Court ATF Pistol Brace Ruling

Biden’s Open-Border Policies Create Depression-Era “Hooverville” In New York’s Central Park

Ron DeSantis invites Kamala Harris to Florida to ‘set the record straight’ on new Black history standards (NBC News)

Biden world eyes Cornel West and No Labels as potential obstacles for his reelection campaign (Politico)

Biden Administration Uses Visa Sanctions to Exert Pressure on Hungary

CNN Poll: Percentage of Republicans who think Biden’s 2020 win was illegitimate ticks back up near 70% (CNN)

CHILLING: Biden’s DOJ May Be Working With Leftist Group to Silence Parents Again, America First Legal Warns

‘Four Pinocchios’: The Washington Post Admits Biden Has Been Lying About Hunter Not Accepting Money From China

Biden Admin Withdraws Troops From Border Amid New Migrant Spike

Hunter Biden Raked In Millions Amid ‘Nonstop Debauchery’

Kidnapped woman escapes from cinderblock cage in Oregon; FBI looks for more possible victims (ABC)

Lebron James’ “I Promise” School Hasn’t Had A Single Student Pass The State’s Math Test

Unnecessary Outrage Stirred By Florida’s African American History Curriculum

Is Fmr Obama AG Legally Liable for Starbucks Diversity Report?

NYT: “But at Least “Kill the Boer” Isn’y “Try That In a Small Town”

Cornel West Owes More Than Half a Million in Unpaid Taxes (Daily Beast) Not even a Magic Negro can be allowed to get in the way of Biden’s re-election.

2 expelled Tennessee lawmakers vying to win back seats in Thursday special election (The Hill) How dare they expect Magic Negroes to abide by the same rules as everybody else!

Retailers Strike Back! 7-Eleven Workers Beat Brazen Mega-Shoplifter With A Stick

The Foundry.

“If we keep quiet, we are going to go extinct,” says Catholic Bishop Chipa Wilfred Anagbe of the Diocese of Makurdi in Benue state, Nigeria.

In June, the Congressional Values Action Team caucus met with Anagbe and the Rev. Remigius Ihyula who shared their testimonies of atrocities committed against Christians in Nigeria by Islamic extremists and about the complacency of the Nigerian government.

The meeting rallied support behind House Resolution 82, introduced by Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., expressing the sense of Congress that the Biden administration officially redesignate Nigeria as a “country of particular concern for grossly violating religious freedoms and appoint a special envoy for Nigeria and the Lake Chad region.”

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

Read it.

In 2014, the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group ruled much of Iraq and Syria and carried out a wave of oppression toward various minority groups, committing acts of genocide against the Yazidis (a Kurdish-speaking ethnoreligious group), a fact now finally being acknowledged by the British government.

This week, the UK Foreign Office announced it would recognize that the Islamic State carried out acts of genocide against the Yazidis in 2014, with the group being largely targetted by the Islamic extremist group because of their non-Islamic beliefs.

“The UK has today formally acknowledged that acts of genocide were committed against the Yazidi people by Daesh (the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State) in 2014,” the Foreign Office said in a statement on Tuesday, August 1st.

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

Zman blows the whistle.

A paradox of the modern age is that the average person in the West knows more about the natural world than the most learned man of prior eras, but people remain as superstitious and irrational as ever. This is true even in the human sciences, where doctors continue to tell patients that they should make sure to eat plenty of vegetables and avoid fatty foods. Much of what people experience as medicine is the same old oogily-boogily that has been with us since forever.

The carnivore diet is the latest bit of nonsense to make the rounds. Search the topic on YouTube and your recommendations will suddenly be packed with videos of men wearing lab coats or standing in front of dry erase boards, explaining how this diet is based on the science of cavemen. They claim that humans are made to eat meat, not bread or vegetables, so we should only eat meat. This will cure the things that ail you in the modern age, like obesity and unhappiness.

This is pure nonsense. Modern humans are the product of a long process that continues to this day. That process is called evolution. The ancestors of modern humans survived on what they could find. We know that species that can survive on a varied diet are more adaptive than species hooked on a narrow diet. If you can eat anything, you can live anywhere. If you can only eat bamboo shoots, then the only place you can live is in a Chinese zoo.

Some of us can’t wait that long.

Gates of Vienna.

The following video shows a rant by a transgender “woman” in Sweden with a bullhorn, who harangues passersby on the deadly danger that Islam poses to homosexuals, transgenders, women, Christians, Jews, and anybody else who is not a Muslim.

Transgender People Face Further Erasure With Oklahoma Executive Order (Huffington Post)

California lieutenant governor joins call for Taylor Swift to postpone Los Angeles shows (Politico)

Supreme Court approval ratings at record lows, new Gallup poll shows (CNN)

NY Times Unearths Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy: ‘The Secret History’ of the NRA

RNC Video Features 24 Minutes of Dems Denying Elections

Barista Making Minimum Wage Explains How Elon Musk Is Making All The Wrong Financial Decisions (Babylon Bee)

BLM Activist Shaun King Quietly Settles Defamation Suit With Candidate He Said Framed Man for Murder

‘There’s a Lot of Pandering’: Fed-Up Black Voters Could Cost Biden the 2024 Election

Columbia Law School: Race Isn’t Real, But Please Submit a Video of Yourself with Your Application

Not a Genocide

Two Mail Carriers Robbed, One Shot, in Chicago Amid Crime Wave

Mayor Eric Adams has messed up the migrant crisis in NYC (N.Y. Post)

Adams warned Biden there was no room for migrants. Now they’re sleeping on the sidewalk. (Politico)

NY leaders push for federal help with migrant crisis (Fox)

Meta starts blocking news in Canada over law on paying publishers (Reuters)

‘Don’t Buy the Rebrand:’ Vivek’s Warning About ESG Coverup on Fox Business (NewsBusters)

Pivotal Date Approaches as Far Left Battles to Enshrine Abortion Into Ohio Constitution (The Foundry)

Non-Citizens Can Become Police in Illinois Under New Democrat Law

NYC Mayor Unveils $500 Million Blueprint To Fight Gun Violence—With No Plans To Hire More Officers

New Boycott As UK Coffee Giant Celebrates Women Having Breasts Removed

The Immigration Disaster, New York Edition

German Village Successfully Revolts Against Refugee Centre

Swedes Turn to Vigilante Justice To Deal With Migrant Crime

DeSantis-controlled Disney World district gets rid of all diversity, equity and inclusion programs and staffers (NBC News)

Meet the Company Trying to Control Your Mind

Generational Wealth: Lincoln Project Hires Cofounder’s Son

WaPo Laments Couple’s Hard Life Because They Didn’t Abort Their Twins

Cops still take more stuff from people than burglars do

Donald Trump indictment: Ex-president charged with bid to overturn 2020 election (BBC)

Former president Trump indicted for third time (Fox)

Trump indicted for efforts to overturn 2020 election and block transfer of power (WPRI)

Trump and American democracy’s time of trial (Financial Times)

One of Trump’s former lawyers can’t stop slamming his former client (MSNBC)

Former President Donald Trump has received a historic third criminal indictment (CBS Miami)

Mar-a-Lago property manager latest charged in Trump legal woes (CBS)

Panic at Mar-a-Lago: How the new obstruction charges may produce even more witnesses against Trump (The Hill)

Trump charged in probe of Jan. 6, efforts to overturn 2020 election (Washington Post)

Trump Campaign Compares New Indictment With Nazi, Soviet Tactics (The Foundry)

Trump’s Case Has Broad Implications for American Democracy (N.Y. Times)

New York attorney general’s Trump lawsuit “ready for trial,” her office says (CBS)

OBSESSED: Nets Spend Nearly 25 Minutes on Latest Trump Indictment

Trump indicted for Jan. 6. At last. (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

This Is THE Case (The Atlantic) The witch-hunt continues.

Prosecuting Trump is perilous. Ignoring his conduct would be worse. (Washington Post) Ruth Marcus joins the witch-hunt.

5 takeaways from Trump’s indictment for trying to overturn the 2020 election (The Hill) Gitcher Narrative, right here!

CNN Analyst Compares Trump Indictment to Death of Bin Laden

‘Bizarre’: Biden Team Blames Trump for Downgrade of US Credit Rating

Trump Is a Dangerous Criminal Who Belongs in Prison (Daily Beast) Joe Walsh loses his shit. Apparently proglodytes think that it’s enough to be accused to prove that you’re guilty.

A Reason to Drop Biden Scandals: Nets Spend 70 Mins on 3rd Trump Indictment

Surprising What Is — and Isn’t — in 3rd Trump Indictment, Legal Expert Says

A dumbed-down defense of Trump on Jan. 6 indictment

Show Trial, American Style

US pulls back offer to buy 6 million barrels of oil for emergency reserve (Reuters)

Harris Rejects DeSantis Invite, Resumes Attack on Fla. Curriculum (NewsMax)

Open Borders Creating Bidenvilles of Homelessness. Who Saw That Coming? (The Foundry)

Harris Rejects DeSantis Invitation to Discuss Black History (Bloomberg) She doesn’t dare.

Biden Admin Gives Up On Refilling Strategic Petroleum Reserve Due To “Market Conditions”

Confidence In US Military At Lowest Point In 26 Years: Gallup Poll

The new Democrat line: Hunter was selling an “illusion” of access (Hot Air)

Hunter Biden Bragged Chinese Mogul Loves Him for His ‘Last Name’

The Media Throw Hunter Biden Under the Bus To Save the ‘Big Guy’

Democrats Beg Biden To Declare Emergency As Illegal Immigrants Flood NYC

Biden Admin Waives More Migrants Through Southern Border Than Promised

California’s Homelessness Policy Is a Disaster. Biden Wants to Replicate It.

Hunter Biden Told Devon Archer to Buy Burner Phone

Manufacturing Sector Loses Jobs For 5th Straight Month; ADP Report Shows Wage-Growth Slowing

Biden’s Job Approval Rating Is The Lowest Of All Post WW2 Presidents Except Jimmy Carter: Gallup

ABC Misleads on Border Crisis, Ignored SURGE in July Apprehensions

The new CDC director outlines 3 steps to rebuild trust with the public (NPR) Good luck with that.

Walgreens is now offering RSV vaccines for older adults (CNBC)

Vaccines for flu and RSV now available ahead of fall virus season (CNN)

This Pro-Mask “Study” Is Why You Should Never “Trust The Science”

House Panel Announces Probe COVID Vax Mandates

WATCH: MSNBC Doctor Says It’s Time To Start Wearing COVID Face Masks Again

American Gun Demand Hits Five-Year Low As Covid Mania Cools 

Climate collapse debate reinvigorated by study of Atlantic ocean currents (NBC News)

Climate change could collapse a key Atlantic Ocean current. How that could affect Wisconsin (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

Bernie Sanders leads lawmakers demanding DOJ prosecute fossil fuel companies for climate change (Fox)

Meet the Biden Climate Official Who Wants To Force You To Live a ‘Simpler Life’

Companies With Good ESG Scores Pollute Just As Much As Those With Low Ones, New Analysis Finds

More Media Lies About the Texas Electricity Grid

Democrats Blame Republicans for the Heat

Wasting Time with Climate Science?

This Heat Is Shaking the Very Foundation of the Ocean Food Web (Wired ‘Science’)

Incandescent Bulbs Finally Banned Under New US Rule

A Brief History of Climate, From Prehistory to The Imaginary Crisis of the 21st Century

Daily Signal

The social networking platform Nextdoor bills itself as an app to bring neighbors together, claiming that “connecting with others is a universal human need,” but it relies upon the Southern Poverty Law Center, a far-left smear factory, to determine which groups are too “hateful” to be good neighbors.

Nextdoor recently banned a Tennessee chapter of the concerned parents group Moms for Liberty after neighbors reportedly complained about the group being on the site. The ban took place exactly one week after the SPLC put Moms for Liberty—including the Hamilton County, Tennessee, chapter—on a “hate map,” along with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan.

“As a mom and former teacher in the community who cares deeply about the future of our children, I think it is ironic that a company that aims to bring communities together has targeted a large group of our community members by canceling us. We cannot communicate with our community,” Tonya Dodd, chapter chair of the Hamilton County Moms for Liberty, told The Daily Signal.

NewsBusters.

One of the most annoying ploys of liberal journalists is to advise Republicans that the truly wise path in politics is to surrender to liberals on everything, and the dumbest path is to oppose them emphatically.

The latest flagrant example of this is a column in the Los Angeles Times with the provocative headline “Republican racism has finally weaponized Kamala Harris.” The columnist, Jackie Calmes, was falsely categorized for decades as an “objective journalist.” Moving over to the opinion pages isn’t really a significant change. Calmes begins by acknowledging Harris is deeply unpopular. But, shazam! Republicans “keep doing stupid stuff underscoring their racial insensitivity” — like Ron DeSantis and his government in Florida claiming a “silver lining to slavery” in their new African-American history standards for schools.

It doesn’t matter that the Florida standards explicitly demand slavery be presented to students as a dehumanizing horror. It doesn’t matter that the original standards that DeSantis criticized also had a passage about a so-called “silver lining to slavery.” It doesn’t matter that the “silver lining” for slaves came after slavery ended or after they escaped slavery. What matters is trying to construct a spin that makes Kamala Harris less of a liability for Democrats.

Read it.

In Democracy on Trial, Jean Elshtain stresses the need for what she calls “democratic dispositions,” which include a willingness, or perhaps even eagerness, to act with others toward shared purposes, to compromise, to converse, and to understand one’s unique life as embedded in a skein of relationships that help constitute one’s distinctive personhood. The maintenance of these dispositions is a necessary condition, it seems, for preserving the civic virtues of “sobriety, rectitude, hard work, and familial and community obligations.”

What Elshtain calls democratic dispositions are, by my way of thinking, habits that temper and moderate democracy rather than express its inherent nature. The “savage instincts of democracy,” to use Tocqueville’s phrase, tend toward despotism rather than freedom, toward barbarism rather than toward civility. Unchecked democratic instincts encourage people to withdraw into an intensely private sphere and to see the world from the narrow perspective of their own self-interest, crudely understood. Disconnected from public obligations, having come to think of individualism as a virtue, the democrat sees only his own small world of family and close associates, and then the abstractions of nation or humanity. The rich world of political and civil associations in between these two extremes are invisible to him.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Why do electric car batteries frequently burst into flame? In my opinion, EVs are essentially an obsolete technology even without this glaring flaw. But those who are trying to force them down our throats should be made to explain why this isn’t a serious issue.

Phoenix ends record 31-day streak of above 110-degree weather (NBC News)

From Washington to Warsaw, a ‘greenlash’ is picking up steam despite extreme heat (CNBC)

Wyoming, long known as a top coal producing state, makes a big move into wind energy (Marketplace)

The U.S. Clean-Energy Company That Hit the Subsidies Jackpot (Wall Street Journal)

Exxon About To Become ‘Lithium Kingpin’? Talks Begin With Tesla, Ford, Volkswagen, Reports Say

Biden Admin Wants 58 MPG Fuel Efficiency Standard By 2032

Germans Have “Moral Obligation” To Sacrifice Living-Standards & Wealth, Claims Green Party MP

Biden Taps New ‘Climate’ Czar to Unleash ESG Agenda

Electrified cement could turn houses and roads into nearly limitless batteries

Noble Prize-Winning Scientist Has Speech Canceled After Saying ‘Climate Change Is Not a Crisis’

Watch: South African Black Party Chants ‘Kill The Boer (White), Kill The Farmer’

Columbia Law School Said It Would Require Applicants To Submit ‘Video Statements’ In Wake Of Affirmative Action Ban. Then it Backtracked.

Proof That Law Enforcement Does Not Discriminate Against Blacks

Fulton County D.A. receives racist threats as charging decision against Trump looms (CBS) Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Anti-Italian HATE: Whoopi Attacks DeSantis’s Immigrant Heritage

Oakland NAACP Demands Prosecution of Criminals, Hiring More Police

Florida University Professor Fired Over ‘Erroneous’ Studies Finding Racial Bias in Criminal Justice

First long COVID treatment clinical trials from NIH getting underway (CBS)

Dr. Anthony Fauci is caught in his biggest COVID lie yet (N.Y. Post)

Fauci Accused of THIS Lie that Could Land Him in Jail, After Claims Caused Censorship (NewsBusters)

NIH announces first clinical trials for long COVID treatments (The Hill)

“Too Big To Hide” – Ed Dowd Slams COVID Vax Injuries “Cover-Up… It’s A Crime”

MSNBC on Masks: ‘Time To Bring Them Out Again’

Challenging COVID Worship Bans

‘Stop the Steal became a cash machine’: Dishonest fundraising could come to bite Trump (MSNBC)

Fulton DA says she’s not coordinating with Special Counsel Jack Smith, warns of safety risks as indictments loom (WABE)

Why Trump Is So Hard to Beat (N.Y. Times)

Mar-a-Lago Manager Makes 1st Court Appearance in Trump Doc Case

After Paying Lawyers, Trump’s PAC Is Nearly Broke (N.Y. Times) I wouldn’t call $4M ‘nearly broke’.

Could Jared and Ivanka Return to the Trump Campaign Fold? (Vanity Fair)

No Labels to GOP donors: We are your anti-Trump alternative (Politico)

Trump’s Rape Trial Testimony Is Already Coming Back to Haunt Him (Daily Beast)

Trump’s New Legal Fund Is a Lean, Mean Grift Machine (Daily Beast)

Trump’s campaign finances are strained as legal peril mounts (Associated Press) As the witch-hunters no doubt intended.

Trump’s Plan to Save Himself: Scapegoat His Coup Lawyers (Rolling Stone) The mind-readers at the Rolling Stone have all the answers.

Trump’s indictments are having diminishing returns for his political fundraising (Politico)

Is there any way to shift the bizarre Republican conviction that only Trump will save them? (L.A. Times) Jonah Goldberg burnishes his badge as one of the Washington Generals.

Super PAC Raised $78M, Aims to Stop Trump Win in 2024

Missouri Democratic Party Advocates Burning Down Neighbor’s House Over Trump Flags

D.C. Grand Jury Ends Day as Trump Indictment Looms

Woke culture has pushed this mom too far (Fox)

DEI is failing because it ‘promotes division instead of unity’: DEI pro (N.Y. Post)

Companies are ‘diversity ditching,’ which could have long-term consequences on employee retention (Fortune)

Why companies are souring on DEI (Washington Examiner)

The Indoctrination Of America’s Boys Is Not Working…

NBC Ignores Archer Testimony In Favor of Interview with Megan Rapinoe

Banks Take The Lead In Establishing Personal Social Credit System, Critics Charge

Adams warns NYers migrant crisis is coming ‘to a neighborhood near you’ — as he slams Biden’s liaison offer (N.Y. Post) Be careful what you wish for, Sanctuary City, you just might get it.

Teamsters Sacrifice 30,000 Workers: 3 Ways Union Contributed to Yellow Trucking’s Demise

No Bail for Any Crime in Illinois as Judge OKs Democrats’ Law

Miami Population Drops for 1st Time Since 1970

Florida Tourism Board Eliminating DEI at Disney World