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Wright didn’t hurt Obama, so I doubt that this clown will hurt Harris. But it’s a good reminder of where she’s coming from.

UnHerd.

For all the firsts that Kamala Harris represents as a presidential candidate, there’s one part of her identity that seems to both inflame her opponents and energise her supporters like none other. If elected, Harris will be not just the first woman of colour to ascend to the presidency; she will be a woman without children of her own.

Harris, 59, has been married for 10 years to attorney Douglas Emhoff, and is stepmother to his two adult children who famously (and, let’s be honest, adorably) refer to her as “Momala”. It’s her first marriage; before that, she had several high-profile relationships with men including television personality Montel Williams and San Francisco politician Willie Brown, who is 30 years Harris’s senior and is credited with helping jump-start her career as a district attorney.

There are various ways to describe Harris’s romantic history and current family background: non-traditional, blended, modern, messy. The youths, possibly, might call it “brat”, a lifestyle vibe characterised by chaotic fun (along with cocaine use and the occasional emotional breakdown). But whatever you want to call it, it’s remarkable to consider how far we’ve come from the days of rigidly defined “family values” in politics, when extramarital affairs could be career-ending scandals, and even just being divorced was vaguely suspicious.

The Spectator.

Diosdado Cabello, a Chavista deputy, who has served as vice president, acting president, among others, addresses his base. “Brothers and sisters, how are you? Look, once and for all, let’s not think about it anymore, let’s go to the streets, the people to the electoral centers, because they do not understand reasons, but rather popular mobilization.”

“So let’s move, let’s move. They do not understand the reason for the people’s vote, that the people came out to vote in a majority, that there are some results that the [electoral council] is going to give and those results they know do not favor them and they are going to seek to generate violence. So let’s take the before, during and after plan at once. Defense of the vote. Give him a hug with Bolívar, with Chávez, with Maduro, with the people. We will win.”

Unconfirmed pictures are leaking. On FaceTime calls, family members dotted around the world are asking, “how will they steal it?”

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For the past two years, Chicago has received more than 45,000 foreign nationals from the southern U.S. border, where border communities have been inundated with border crossers. The taxpayer costs for Illinois and the city of Chicago continue with the new state budget that started this month setting aside more than $900 million for health care, housing, food and even legal subsidies.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott recently went on record with his plan to continue busing people to Chicago, where local law enforcement are prohibited from assisting enforcement of federal immigration laws. Earlier this week, a Chicago City Council committee heard from the budget director they have not budgeted for the expected surge.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson was asked about the potential of thousands of more non-citizen migrants being transported to the city leading up to the Democratic National Convention next month.

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Jamiee Michell, a lesbian who founded the organization Gays Against Groomers, finds it ironic and “hilarious” that the Southern Poverty Law Center brands her openly LGBTQ group an “anti-LGBTQ hate group.”

“It classifies us as an anti-LGBTQ hate group, which is the most ironic and hilarious thing ever because everybody in our organization is gay and we even have a few trans people,” Michell tells The Daily Signal in an interview at the Republican National Convention earlier this month.

She says the SPLC, Anti-Defamation League, and other liberal organizations “labeled us anti-ourselves just for speaking out, wanting to protect children.”

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Surveillance capitalism is a novel economic system that has emerged in the digital era. It is characterized by the unilateral claim of private human experience as free raw material for translation into behavioral data. In this version of capitalism, predicting and influencing behavior (political and economic) rather than producing goods and services is the primary product. This economic logic prioritizes extracting, processing, and trading personal data to predict and influence human behavior by exploiting those predictions for various economic (marketing) and political objectives.

More accurately ‘surveillance socialism’.

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The medical establishment is teeing up for the launch of another “pandemic,” this one centering around H5N8 Influenza, also known as avian influenza or bird flu.

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Nearly every American teen has access to a smartphone or tablet and actively uses multiple social media platforms, including TikTok, Snapchat, and Instagram. In recent years, the number of social media challenges has skyrocketed and become increasingly dangerous, such as the “Tide pod challenge” and “Benadryl challenge.” Some teens are engaging in risky stunts and even orchestrating events in the real world that pose significant risks to themselves and others—all to get the clicks.

A 17-year-old Nebraska teenager has been slapped with two felony counts of criminal mischief after he was accused of derailing a BNSF Railway freight train while filming the incident for a YouTube video.

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Canada’s standard of living is on track for its worst decline in 40 years, according to a new study by Canada’s Fraser Institute.

The study compared the three worst periods of decline in Canada in the last 40 years – the 1989 recession, the 2008 global financial crisis, and this post-pandemic era.

They found that, unlike the previous recessions, Canada is not recovering this time. Something broke.

In fact, according to the Financial Post, since 2019 Canada’s had the worst growth out of 50 developed economies. Inflation-adjusted Canadian wages have been flat since 2016.

Go Woke, go broke. Reality is what sticks around even after you quit believing in it.

New York Times.

Linda Yaccarino, the C.E.O. of X, has worked hard to bring back advertisers and fix the platform’s business. But its owner, Elon Musk, is always one whim away from undoing her work.

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened on Sunday to invade Israel in order to support the Palestinians as the Israel Defense Forces continues to battle Hamas terrorists in Gaza, The Times of Israel reported.

I see a number of Turkish cities glowing in the dark….

Newsbusters.

We were reliably told that attacks against the courts were attacks against our very institutions, and therefore on Democracy™ itself. That is, unless you are a Democrat appearing on a Regime Media Sunday political affairs show and attacking a majority-conservative Supreme Court. In which case, fire at will. Figuratively, hopefully.

WATCH as CBS’s Robert Costa, filling in for Margaret Brennan on deFace The Nation, enables Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) as he attacks the Court, accusing it of “threatening democracy” without any sort of pushback or followup:

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On Saturday, the organizers of the Paris Olympics scrambled to pressure social media platforms, such as X, to censor users who mocked and criticized Friday night’s shocking Opening Ceremony. The event, which featured drag queens, nudity, and scenes deemed highly disrespectful to Christians, sparked outrage worldwide. When the International Olympic Committee’s social media 1984-style censorship efforts failed (read: here), the committee had no choice but to apologize for the drag queen parody of Jesus’ Last Supper on Sunday morning.

Trump tries to sharpen Harris attacks as she blunts his momentum (Politico)

5 Excerpts From JD Vance’s Emails to a Transgender Classmate (New York Times)  Don’t communicate with left-wing crazies. It will always prove a pretext to attack you.

Trump tells Christian voters “they won’t have to vote anymore” if he is elected in November (CBS News)

Rebuke Of Trump Calling Kamala ‘Bum’ Sends MSNBC Host Into Frenzy! ‘Hear Hear!’

Trump’s superpower is plausible deniability (Jason Sattler/I Know How Much You Care)

German Publisher Stops All Printing Of JD Vance’s Book Hillbilly Elegy

Buttigieg says voters have transferred their concerns about age to Trump (Isabella Ramírez/Politico)

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Before Joe Biden’s stumbling and incoherent debate performance led panicked journalists to join Democrats in bullying the presumptive Democratic nominee out of the 2024 campaign, the media airwaves were full of praise for Biden’s “enormously consequential” and “extraordinarily successful” presidency.

The “successes” that so impressed journalists, of course, were the *multiple* trillion-dollar-plus legislative packages passed by a friendly Democratic Congress during Biden’s first two years — “accomplishments” that have stoked the awful inflation that’s led most Americans to say the President’s economic policies have failed.

“If you add up those seven pieces of legislation, it’s a $3.5 trillion agenda that Biden and the Democrats have passed since early last year,” political analyst Ryan Lizza gushed on CNN in 2022. “There’s really nothing like that in terms of that scale….He’s sort of in that modern pantheon now.”

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Time to leave.

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The most expensive member of the oldest profession.

The Cloud People will be throwing money at her for the next three months in an attempt to buy their way to retaining power. We will find out whether that actually works.

Cat Rotator’s Quarterly.

I was outwitted by a Finnish outhouse.

I have never encountered a fully electronic and mechanized, high-efficiency outhouse before. This one, once the door slid shut, was totally dark inside. The door locked and could only be unlocked from inside, using a push-button on a panel. Which was not lit. I ended up digging out my phone, using the light to locate the facility I needed, then had enough light to wash my hands. I managed to find the proper control panel to let myself out. I never did locate the light switch. I guess if you use the fancy facility often enough, you learn where everything was. Intuitive the biffie was not.

Alma Boykin is an excellent writer of Speculative Fiction. Highly recommended.

Tyler Cowen.

The minimum wage will tend to increase unemployment among low-skill workers, often minorities. To many people that’s an argument against the minimum wage. But to progressives at the opening of the 20th century that was an argument for the minimum wage–progressive’s demanded minimum wages to get women and racial minorities out of the work force.

Something similar may be happening with rent control. Rent control reduces new development. Bug or feature? California Republican Tony Strickland argues that reduced development is a feature. New state laws in California prevent cities from restricting development but if rent control was legal cities could be used it to do the same thing just by making it unprofitable to build.

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The so-called protest in Washington, DC over Netanyahu’s address to Congress was a riot.

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A city that probably has more law enforcement agencies than any other city in the US, and which had plenty of time to plan for Netanyahu’s visit, the response was an epic fail. An epic fail that may involve an effort to try and avoid losing votes from the Hamas wing of the Democrat Party.

They ought to give it back to Maryland, as was done in 1846 with the portion of D.C. south of the Potomac, and let Maryland deal with it. Having a separate political entity for the nation’s capital is a stupid idea, as was moving it from Philadelphia, which was a perfectly adequate location and historically more appropriate.

“The solution to a lot of problems is to just keep shooting.” — Lee Andersen

Associated Press.

“Move fast and break things,” a high-tech mantra popularized 20 years ago by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, was supposed to be a rallying cry for game-changing innovation. It now seems more like an elegy for a society perched on a digital foundation too fragile to withstand a defective software program that was supposed to help protect computers — not crash them.

The worldwide technology meltdown caused by a flawed update installed earlier this month on computers running on Microsoft’s dominant Windows software by cybersecurity specialist CrowdStrike was so serious that some affected businesses such as Delta Air Lines were still recovering from it days later.

It’s a tell-tale moment — one that illustrates the digital pitfalls looming in a culture that takes the magic of technology for granted until it implodes into a horror show that exposes our ignorance and vulnerability.

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Whenever I see an unusually coloured car, I stare. Especially if it is pink. Recently, one particular vehicle did not startle me simply due to its garish paint job, but the slogan plastered across its door: “Unleash my big vagina energy”.

That someone chose to adorn their most public belongings with nonsense I am embarrassed to even type, reveals a lot about how our culture’s boundaries are on life support. Equally does one of its new, likely fleeting heroes: the so-called “Hawk Tuah Girl”. 22-year-old American woman Haliey Welch was dubbed so after uttering the eponymous catchphrase to a YouTube vlogger, it being an onomatopoeia for expectoration on a man during oral sex. The clip later went viral on TikTok.

The people I feel sorry for are her parents.

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The so-called Extremism Commission (Ekstremismekommisjonen) was appointed by the Labour-led Støre government in Norway in June 2022. They published their report in the spring of 2024.[2]

The commission, which was supported by key figures in the Norwegian Labour Party, seems to conclude that people who disagree with the Social Democrats and their immigration policy are suspected extremists and possibly potential terrorists. This is perhaps not so surprising.

Washington Free Beacon.

When I entered Cornell University in 1964, I could not have imagined that given the thousands of future doctors, lawyers, scholars, engineers, architects, and executives in my class, the person destined to have possibly the greatest influence on America’s future would not be one of them. Instead, that role may have been achieved by a fellow member of Cornell’s debate association, a tall, loudmouthed Brooklynite who proudly bore the cognomen Rick “The Pr*ck” Mann.

Mann soon achieved a local notoriety when he and his partner/sidekick, chosen to represent Cornell at the prestigious Georgetown University debate tournament, stood up to issue a loud “Boo!” when the dinner speaker, a member of the House Un-American Activities Committee, was announced. For their misbehavior, Mann and partner were dismissed from the association, and I never encountered (nor expected to hear of) them again. Imagine my surprise, then, in 2020, when Patrisse Cullors, cofounder of the Black Lives Matter movement, which organized violent riots in many American cities following the George Floyd killing, described herself as a “trained Marxist” thanks to the tutelage of Mr. Mann.

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We can’t have any of this democracy nonsense! We’re Democrats!

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Remember: If you hear the dog-whistle, then you’re the dog.

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Many claim the problem with fractional reserve banking is that it loans money into existence. It does, but under normal circumstances the money created by commercial banks disappears when loans are repaid or defaulted on, which therefore doesn’t create a permanent inflation of the money supply.

Government intervention, however, converts temporary money into permanent money through bailouts like the Troubled Asset Relief Program. They purchase loans that would have been defaulted on, preventing the evaporation of credit. When banks hold loans that are at risk of default, they face having to write them off, which would remove this part of the money supply. Bailouts turn such disappearing credit into permanent money, in effect giving banks free money.

Inside JD Vance’s Blogger Days (William Kristol/The Bulwark)

Colbert Gushes Over ‘Truly Patriotic’ Biden, Urges The Spread Of Fake News About Vance

In his attacks on the ‘childless’ left, JD Vance once hyped a plan to give parents more votes (Ja’han Jones/MSNBC)

Baby Bust – On J.D. Vance and ‘childless cat ladies.’ – I have more in common with J.D. Vance than I’d like to admit. (Nick Catoggio/The Dispatch)

Democrat Scrambles Amid Calls to Boot Him From Committee Investigating Trump Assassination Attempt

Trump campaign plays defense amid Harris honeymoon (Zachary Basu/Axios)

NYU Prof: Trump, Like Hitler, Will Use Assassination Attempt For ‘Authoritarian’ Goals

Donald Trump Gets No Black Votes vs. Kamala Harris in New Michigan Poll (Khaleda Rahman/Newsweek)

The Unnerving Changeability of JD Vance (Michelle Goldberg/New York Times)

Seller On Amazon Sold Merch Reading “The Only Good Trump Is A Dead One”

Tenn. Man Accused of Saying Trump ‘Needs to Die’

Vance defends ‘sarcastic’ ‘childless cat ladies’ remarks amid blowback (Brett Samuels/The Hill)

Fact-Check: Liberal Media Have a Field Day LYING About JD Vance’s Parenthood Comments

Secret Service: We don’t need no steenking drones

Harris Campaign Trolls ’78-Year-Old Criminal’ Donald Trump After Fox News Appearance (Dan Ladden-Hall/The Daily Beast)

Harris Campaign Calls JD Vance ‘Weird and Creepy’ Like being called ugly by a frog.

Panicking Trump Loses It Over FBI Director’s Bullet Injury Testimony (Edith Olmsted/New Republic)

How Trump and Vance went from a ‘threat to democracy’ to ‘weird’ (Politico)

Doctor Familiar With Trump’s Wound Disputes FBI Director’s Questioning of Whether Bullet Caused It

Manhattan DA Argues Trump Case Not Affected By Supreme Court Immunity Ruling

J.D. Vance Said QAnon Shaman Would Be a ‘Fun Guy to Have a Beer With’ (Owen Lavine/The Daily Beast)  And he probably would.

Republicans are already souring on JD Vance (Politico)

JD Vance called for ‘federal response’ to block women from traveling for abortions (Carter Sherman/The Guardian)

Trump Cryptically Declares, ‘You Won’t Have to Vote Anymore’ If He Wins Second Term (Michael Luciano/Mediaite)

Trump calls Harris a ‘bum,’ complains about Biden’s withdrawal (Washington Post)

Why won’t the AP tell the truth about J.D. Vance and the couch?

Usha Vance told friends Trump appalled her. Now she’s working to elect him. (Washington Post)

Trump urges Christians to vote: ‘You won’t have to do it’ in four years (Ian Swanson/The Hill)

CNN’s Tapper Show Hypes Attacks on J.D. Vance by Taylor Swift Fans, Jennifer Aniston  Whose political expertise is bottomless….

Republicans Keep Trying to Copy Trump’s Humor – And Voters Keep Cringing (Calder McHugh/Politico)

ABC Claims Trump Is ‘Turning Personal,’ While Dems Look For ‘Moderate’ VP

As GOP Attacks Harris On ‘Defund The Police,’ It Defends A Criminal Who Honors Cop-Beaters (S.V. Date/HuffPost)

Playbook: The JD Vance remorse parade (Politico)

Trump Tells Christians They Won’t Have to Vote in Future: ‘We’ll Have It Fixed’ (Charisma Madarang/Rolling Stone)

‘Doctor Strange’ Director Compares Trump to Hitler, Stalin, Mao

Dems Go All-In on Blasting Trump and MAGA as ‘Sick Freaks Who Everyone Hates’ (Rolling Stone)

Trump tells supporters they won’t have to vote in the future: ‘It’ll be fixed!’ (Ramon Antonio Vargas/The Guardian)

Trump Says Americans ‘Won’t Have to Vote Anymore’ If He Wins (Brian Klaas/The Atlantic)

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A rocket attack on a soccer field in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights killed 11 people including children on Saturday, Israeli authorities said, blaming Hezbollah and vowing to respond against the Iran-backed Lebanese group.

UPDATE: Hezbollah rocket causes carnage at Druze soccer game in the Golan Heights

Bloomberg.

I would hardly call Vance a ‘reactionary’ — although he might be one from the perspective of a professor at Harvard Law.

The Other McCain.

One of the things every liberal must believe is Progress, a quasi-religious faith which G.K. Chesterton mocked as “people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday.” The apostles of Progress would have us believe that 1959 — the year I was born — was a nightmare dystopia, despite those snazy new Chevy station wagons, and that if Donald Trump gets elected in November, we are all going back to 1959.

I remember 1959. I prefer it to now.

Well, sonny, lemme tell you, it was plenty rough. Back in those days, people had to pay their own bills, so they worked what were called “full-time jobs,” instead of hustling as DoorDash drivers or peddling naked selfies on OnlyFans. Yes, I remember when gas was less than $3 a gallon and interest on the national debt was less than a trillion dollars a year . . .

Sometimes the old ways are best.

The Guardian.

In the Narrative Media, ‘mysogyny’ means ‘saying something disagreeable to some woman somewhere’.

Steve Graham.

A while back, I noted that demonic–meaning “caused by demons”–insanity had afflicted many people on Earth, and I said that in order to keep track of the progress of increasing insanity, it could be useful to watch Keith Olbermann, fired ESPN and MSNBC personality and dispenser of absurd theories that conflict with commonly-known facts. Not long ago, he claimed no one should believe Representative Dr. Ronny Jackson, MD, the former White House physician who is now Donald Trump’s primary care provider. Jackson described Trump’s bullet wound, and Olbermann made up two weird claims. He said Jackson was not a medical doctor, and then he said he had no license. Both libels originated either in hell or in Olbermann’s own disrupted psyche.

Olbermann has proven to be a pretty good barometer of lunacy. Recently, some baseball players mimicked Trump’s “Fight! Fight! Fight!” shooting response, and Olbermann said they should be banned from baseball and their stadium should be razed. He also said the franchise should be confiscated.

Nothing crazy there. Nope. And definitely nothing that would inspire arson or murder.

Leftists love confiscation. It’s like a fetish with them. Money. Guns. Land. You name it.

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Who did Amanpour & Co. invite on to discuss the supposed “Christian Nationalism” running rampant within Project 2025, the feared, loathed, seldom read presidential blueprint issued by the Heritage Foundation? Nobody but Kristin Kobes Du Mez, the author of something called Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation.

Bianna Golodryga was the fill-in host on Christiane Amanpour’s political talk show (whose episodes run on tax-funded PBS after first airing on CNN International) and set up the interview between liberal author Kristin Kobes Du Mez and liberal journalist Michel Martin by borrowing Du Mez’s subtitle: “Historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez tells Michel Martin how white evangelicals how white evangelicals have corrupted a faith and fractured a nation.”

Golodryga justified the show’s paranoid liberal focus on Project 2025 by noting “the contributors of the conservative playbook include some of [Trump’s closest political advisers, as well as organizations with Christian nationalist leanings.”

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If it’s one thing that Eurocrats can agree on, it’s to leave no fortune nnplundered nor any pocket unpicked.

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Once it was decided that Kamala Harris almost certainly would become the Democrats’ nominee in 2024, it’s been sadly amusing to see the MSM and the Democrats themselves fall in line. It’s not an easy job, because Harris has a great deal of history, involving baggage that requires heavy lifting. But the left is up to it.

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But you knew that.

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With the Paris Olympics set to begin on Friday, PBS’s Amanpour and Company devoted their entire show to the games on Thursday, including a wild history lesson on the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, where The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness and the Making of Modern Sports author Michael Waters tried to tie Nazism with opposition to transgender ideology.

As part of his history lesson, Waters touched on the Czech runner, Zdenek Koubek. Koubek was a champion female runner who would later identify as a man. It should be noted that Koubek was intersex, not transgender.

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Big Lots said in a June filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it plans to open three stores nationwide this year and close 35 to 40.

Prior to the announcement, Big Lots had 1,392 stores throughout the United States.

In its SEC filing, the Columbus, Ohio-headquartered company said the planned closures follow “macroeconomic challenges” within the U.S. economy, such as inflation, that had “adversely impacted” the buying power of its customers.

The retailer also warned in its SEC filing that, based on current cash and liquidity projections, it has “substantial doubts” about its ability to continue. It also cited a “significant likelihood” that Big Lots won’t meet the terms of a 2022 credit agreement.

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It’s been almost two months since an Afghan failed asylum seeker killed 29-year-old police officer Rouven Laur in Mannheim, Germany. The Islamist attacker—Sulaiman Ataee, 25—also stabbed and seriously injured five other people, including 59-year-old activist Michael Stürzenberger, who was scheduled to speak at the May 31st anti-Islamism event.

The GOP’s Secret Weapon for 2024? Bogus Lawsuits. (Abby Vesoulis/Mother Jones)  Like the ones against Trump?

Even as Biden Is Forced Out, Dishonest ‘Doonesbury’ Still Prefers to Ridicule Trump

Amazon Quickly Yanks Tee: ‘Only Good Trump Is a Dead One’

Trump botches Kamala Harris’s first name, again and again and again (Meryl Kornfield/Washington Post)

The Associated Press removes a fact-check claiming JD Vance has not had sex with a couch (Mia Sato/The Verge)

Finally Word from the FBI -About The Trump Story The Press Has Refused To Question (Talking Points Memo)

Republicans Really Wish Trump Hadn’t Picked J.D. Vance (Edith Olmsted/New Republic)  Yeah, a writer for New Republic really knows what Republicans wish.

How the press helped Trump sell himself as a strongman (Aaron Rupar/Public Notice)  Aaron Rupar is the guy who lent his name to the trick of selectively editing video to remove the parts that didn’t agree with proglodyte narratives.

J.D. Vance didn’t have sex with a couch. But he’s still extremely weird. (Rebecca Jennings/Vox)  Weirder than Vox? Can’t see how.

Trump’s second-term agenda plans a purge of the federal workforce (Joe Davidson/Washington Post)  They say that like it was a bad thing.

Speculation Swirls About What Hit Trump. An Analysis Suggests It was a Bullet (New York Times)  These guys are pretty sharp.

J. D. Vance’s Sad, Strange Politics of Family (Jessica Winter/New Yorker)

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Lufkin believes lifestyle is key to preventing chronic disease and writes about his advice in the new book, “Lies I Taught in Medical School: How Conventional Medicine Is Making You Sicker and What You Can Do to Save Your Own Life.”

He doesn’t believe they’re intentional lies since medical knowledge is always evolving and doctors have to constantly re-evaluate things they thought were true. But he’s critical of what he calls the “currently accepted dogma” in medical school, which is often presented without any alternative theories, he notes.

Lufkin says these are three of the “lies” he taught in medical school. TODAY.com also reached out to medical specialists in each field for their take on his views. The interviews were edited and condensed for clarity:

Yeah, I’ll rush right out to buy a book by somebody who admits to teaching lies in medical school.

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I was unsure what to do for a show this week. The nonstop firehose of craziness from the political class has fried my brain a bit. That and the events of the last week have broken the gauge on my clown meter. The absurdity of the Kamala Harris campaign on the heels of Nursing Home Joe getting bumped off in a midnight coup highlights the utter fakeness of our politics.

Instead of trying to make any sense of it, I just turned the mic on and started talking for an hour in a drug fueled stream of consciousness. Okay, there were no drugs involved, even though drugs would make it easier to follow the election. Instead, I meandered around from one topic to another, all revolving around the fact that our politics have been fake and gay for a long time.

In fact, I was going to call the show “Fake & Gay” but that ran into problems with the platforms I post this to, so I went with something less salty. That is, however, the prevailing sentiment of the show. It is not just that things are fake now, but they have been fake for a long time. What we are seeing now is the approach to peak fakeness, which most likely comes just before collapse.

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A recently arrived Algerian culture-enricher has engaged in a variety of less than salubrious activities in the German city of Freiburg, culminating in the alleged murder of a 77-year-old pensioner. The confused youth is now in the process of being extradited from Switzerland, whence he had fled.

It’s remarkable how busy this industrious New German has been since his arrival in Germany less than three months ago.

I’m certain that if the people who have been in Germany for a longer time had not been so racist towards him, this mixed-up youngster would never have engaged in all that ruthless criminal activity.