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Astonishing.

The actions the loader goes through are exactly the actions that a real tank loader would take: Get the shell from the back ammo rack, throw it into the breech until the breech block locks, wait for the shot and the casing to be ejected, and repeat.

Of course a tank round weighs quite a bit more than a soda bottle, but still….

(Don’t get me started on how tricky this is when there are expended shell casings rolling around on the floor of the turret.)

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that the Secret Service had a ‘Presidential armored bus’.

Maybe they got the idea from STRIPES.

ABC News Live Guest: Kamala ‘Trust[s] the Journalists to Explain These Policies’ for Her

Behind the Curtain: Biden’s bitter, sweet exit (Axios)

CNN’s Kasie Hunt Touts Peggy Noonan on Kamala: ‘Beautiful,’ ‘Radiance,’ & ‘Social Warmth’

WaPo Slams Harris’ Economic “Gimmicks” While NYT Says “A Coup Is Still A Coup”

Harris isn’t pushing Medicare for All anymore. Progressives say that’s OK. (Daniel Payne/Politico)

Democrats’ party platform doesn’t call for arms embargo on Israel (Washington Post)  What a shocking oversight….

Walz’s Healthcare Agenda in Minn. Called ‘Extreme’

Is Kamala Drunk? – There is a lot of chatter on Twitter/X regarding Kamala Harris’ bizarre word salads. (David Strom/HotAir)

Kamala Harris Suffers Triple Polling Blow Before DNC Starts (Newsweek) Gee, maybe the world isn’t turning to Kamala after all.

Gouging out the truth – In a speech on Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris fleshed … (Judd Legum/Popular Information)

Harris’s Early Campaign: Heavy on Buzz, Light on Policy (Reid J. Epstein/New York Times)  You go with what you’ve got.

STUDY: Networks Deliver Massive Media Honeymoon to Kamala Harris  Do tell.

The Populist Mantle Is Harris’s for the Taking (Tyler Austin Harper/The Atlantic)  And Democrats are great at taking.

House Concludes Biden “Actively Participated” In Impeachable Offenses – Except It’s Too Late To Impeach Him  If they were Democrats, of course, they’d impeach him as he was on his way out the door–as they did Trump.

Crime-filled Chicago displays all that’s wrong with Democrats in one failing city (Miranda Devine/New York Post)

Cue Laugh Track: NYT Says It ‘Strains Imagination’ That Dems Would Let Illegals Vote

In Chicago, the ghosts of 1968 are still haunting American democracy (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)  American Democracy isn’t getting a lot of sleep these days.

Why the Dem Convention Won’t Be All About Trump (Dan Pfeiffer/The Message Box)  Except that it will, since that’s all they’ve got.

DNC Bonus: Free Abortions and Vasectomies! (Jazz Shaw/HotAir)

Tim Walz Doesn’t Mention Trump or Vance as He Kicks Off DNC (The Daily Beast)  He doesn’t need to–the Daily Beast will do it for him. They’re dependable like that.

Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris: Inside Their Surprisingly Close Bond (New York Times)  Statists of a feather flock together.

Why Kamala Harris Is Succeeding as a Presidential Candidate in a Way Hillary Clinton Never Could (Steven Reisner/Slate)  She doesn’t have any ideas of her own getting in the way of the strings moving her mouth.

‘Honored Guests’: Democratic FEC Commissioners Attend DNC While Weighing Complaint Against Kamala’s Campaign  Conflict of interest? What conflict of interest?

Possible Harris-Walz Admin Fires Up House Democrats  I have no doubt. Perhaps they’ll hold a Reichstag Fire in celebration.

Stocks Extend Win-Streak Ahead Of J-Hole; Kam-unist Manifesto Accelerates Dollar-Collapse

Unlike Hillary, Kamala Not Playing Up Her Gender  Why would she? Unlike Hillary, Jambalaya has the entire Woman of Almost Color grift to work.

Oops! DNC Releases Official Party Platform Touting the Wrong Candidate

The Party Of Chaos Is “A Clique Of Scared-Stiff Tyrants Running Scams On Their Own People”

Walz administration awarded $100,000 contract to pro-defund police group (Gabe Kaminsky/Washington Examiner)

Bidenomics Back-to-School Costs Push Families Into Debt

Media Comes Full Circle? WaPo Columnist Has Choice Words for Kamala’s Inflation Scam

CNN Lefties EXPLODE When Scott Jennings Drops Facts on ‘Ornery’ Biden Being Forced Out

Kamala Harris Taps Disgraced Democratic Superlawyer for Campaign Legal Team

Kamala Harris Patronizes Convenience Store Her Admin Sued For Allegedly Racist Background Checks (Nick Pope/The Daily Caller)

The Californication of the Democratic Party

Trump’s carny act isn’t working anymore (Davidrlurie/Public Notice)

Conservatives Are Already Working to Enact Their Project 2025 Agenda (Andrew Perez/Rolling Stone)  Gee, I’ll bet nobody else saw that coming.

Trump Falls For AI-Generated Taylor Swift Fans In Kooky Endorsement Claim: ‘I Accept!’ (Ben Blanchet/HuffPost)  Apparently Trump has lost the Middle School Prank demographic.

Democrats Taunt Trump At Trump Tower Chicago Ahead of Convention (Tessa Stuart/Rolling Stone)  Apparently Trump has lost the Elementary School Nyahh-Nyahh demographic.

On Cat Ladies, Mama Bears and ‘Momala’ (Tressie McMillan Cottom/New York Times)

Trump Is Worried About the TV Ratings for Harris’ DNC Speech (Rolling Stone)

Democrats to highlight threat to democracy they say Trump poses, giving speaking roles to January 6 committee lawmakers (CNN)

Trump Proposes Ban on Criticizing Pro-Trump Judges (Jonathan Chait/New York Magazine)  No, he doesn’t.

DNC Projects ‘Weird’ Message on Trump Tower in Chicago

Trump’s unsettling new question: ‘Why are we having an election?’ (Steve Benen/MSNBC)  Yeah, the Democrats are just going to steal it anyway–what’s the point?

Project 2025 is ‘anti-American,’ spokesperson for Harris campaign says (Addy Bink/The Hill)  I like it already.

Evangelicals for Harris Unveil Second Trump Attack Ad  I guess they call themselves ‘evangelicals’ because ‘Christian’ is already taken and they don’t want anybody to be confused.

Trump to campaign in Michigan town with historic links to white extremism (Reuters)

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As demand for clean energy is increasing and countries are exploring alternatives for fossil fuels, a nuclear-powered container ship can help reduce cargo ship emissions.

In this arena, three companies have launched a study to assess multiple factors including regulatory feasibility.

Lloyd’s Register (LR), CORE POWER, and AP Moller – Maersk will research on frameworks needed to establish nuclear container ship using a fourth-generation reactor.

New York Times.

Three of the ads frame Biden-Harris policies in terms of their economic, rather than environmental, benefits.

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Commentator and filmmaker Robby Starbuck’s strategy to expose all the insane woke activism within mega-corporations with large conservative customer bases logged another win today. This comes on the heels of his successful campaign to pressure Tractor Supply into scrapping its diversity, equity, and inclusion program and forcing John Deere to scale back its DEI policies.

Nearly a month after Starbuck launched the anti-woke crusade against iconic motorcycle brand Harley-Davidson in an X post titled “It’s time to expose Harley Davidson,” Harley issued a press release explaining earlier today, “We are saddened by the negativity on social media over the last few weeks, designed to divide the Harley-Davidson community.”

In response to mounting social media backlash and boycotts at the 84th annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally earlier this month, Harley succumbed to Starbuck’s pressure by eliminating DEI functions at the company and woke spending goals. This is a victory for Harley riders, as the company now pledges to focus its sponsorships on motorcycling, first responders, active military, and veterans. Also, it said there would be no more woke training for employees.

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The California Senate Appropriations Committee advanced a bill that would allow illegal immigrants to participate in the state’s zero down, no payment home loan program despite saying it would create “significant cost pressures,”…

Nothing is too good for our ‘undocumented’!

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The Civil War tore America apart and left 600,000 dead. Still, despite its ferocity, it had at its heart only one big issue: whether the Constitution’s promise of individual liberty overrode states’ rights to govern themselves. Otherwise, Americans were much the same: the Bible, hard work, heterosexuality, the nuclear family, anti-crime, etc.

America today actually faces a more profound schism than it did then because we’ve become two entirely different people.

An opinion piece in the San Francisco Chronicle really hammers the point home, as a regular columnist looks at a county fair in the Heartland and sees a dystopian world.

Soleil Ho identifies herself a plural being who should be referred to as “they” and “them.” She is “an opinion columnist and cultural critic, focusing on gender, race, food policy and life in San Francisco.” She’s even made it to Joy Reid’s show for exposing the horror of parents who are opposed to the push to destroy their children’s biological reality with the lunacy of “transgenderism.”

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When President Joe Biden was deposed from his perch atop the Democratic ticket nearly one month ago, fellow Democrats and the corporate media were swift to take up arms for his endorsed successor, Vice President Kamala Harris.

Despite the rapid convergence behind Harris, though, some Democrats are not as keen on Kamala as former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.

Harris is scheduled to receive her party’s official nomination Monday night at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Yet, in six crucial races that may determine the balance of power in the House of Representatives, Democratic candidates are keeping their distance.

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Ten Percent For The Big Guy really adds up.

Newsbusters.

Brazil’s Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes and Musk had spent months battling over online free speech, with Musk refusing the justice’s aggressive and extensive censorship demands. On Saturday, X’s Global Government Affairs announced its decision to close the Brazil office due to De Moraes’s shocking threats to X staff over alleged “disinformation” on the platform. X is still available to Brazilians, however.

“The decision to close the ? office in Brazil was difficult, but, if we had agreed to @alexandre’s (illegal) secret censorship and private information handover demands, there was no way we could explain our actions without being ashamed,” Musk commented on X.

As shown in several MRC Free Speech America studies, X has suppressed some free speech, but not on the scale and harshness required by De Moraes.

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We’ve all seen and heard the auto extended warranties. Many of us have been bothered with robocalls and texts. You may have missed this news about Car Shield’s deceptive extended warranty advertising.

Great! Now do one on the Biden administration.

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PREPARE TO OBFUSCATE … EXECUTE!

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Do Columbia University administrators actually want a governable university where students can learn free of disruption and harassment from their own classmates?

Former university president Minouche Shafik threw in the towel last week rather than return to campus. She presided over a period last spring in which Columbia became ground zero for student radicals. Shafik coddled them for weeks, beseeching them to get off her lawn, please, if it wouldn’t inconvenience them too much, until they stormed a university building.

On Monday, we learned how the university has dealt with the criminals in its midst. The House Committee on Education and the Workforce released information obtained from Columbia indicating how the university has meted out discipline in an array of cases. They range from protesters who participated in the unlawful encampment to those who broke into Hamilton Hall to students who disrupted the school’s alumni weekend in late May, plastering cardboard rockets with the photographs of Columbia trustees and other university leaders.

INTERVIEWER: I see that you have a degree from an Ivy League University.

CANDIDATE: Yes, I do.

INTERVIEWER: Well, I’m sorry to hear that. I’m afraid we’re looking for somebody with an education.

UK Daily Mail.

Blake Lively is yet again under fire after internet sleuths unearthed a series of noughties interviews where she repeatedly used the transphobic slur ‘tranny.’

Confirming the undoubtable truth that proglodytes have no sense of humor.

PREPARE TO CANCEL … ACTIVATE!

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Rather that than have them be mutilated into a ‘trans’.

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Former Texas Children’s Hospital nurse Vanessa Sivadge says that she has been terminated after blowing the whistle on the hospital’s alleged use of Texas Medicaid to cover attempted sex changes for children.

Texas Children’s has denied that it used Texas Medicaid to cover cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers for minors, as Sivadge has alleged. The hospital did not immediately respond to The Daily Signal’s multiple requests for comment about the alleged termination on Monday afternoon.

In a written statement to journalist Chris Rufo, Sivadge shared that she submitted a religious accommodation request to her supervisor at the hospital on May 31, asking to be transferred out of the endocrinology clinic.

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Two New Hampshire teenagers and their families have filed a lawsuit against state education officials over a law forbidding them from participating in female sports teams at their public high schools, CNN has reported.

Live Trans Or Die.

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Gee, you’d almost think that Democrats hated Jews or something.

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Trayon White, the liberal Washington, D.C., council member who said Jews manipulate the weather in a scheme to “own” American cities, was arrested by the FBI on Sunday for taking part in a $156,000 bribery scheme.

White, who appeared poised to secure a third term on the council this November prior to the arrest, was detained by federal authorities at his “luxury high-rise apartment building” in D.C.’s Navy Yard neighborhood, according to the Washington Post. White allegedly took “thousands of dollars in cash” and other gifts in exchange for ensuring city contracts went to a local businessman, according to CNN, which said the Democrat “agreed to take $156,000 in cash for his work—or 3 percent of the contracts’ value.”

White was reportedly caught asking for cash on in taped conversations with the unnamed businessman who was acting as an informant after pleading guilty to separate federal bribery charges.

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The corpses are stacking up!  Oh, wait a minute….

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Incident confirmed as intended terror attack, dead bomber’s identity unknown; reports suggest he came from Nablus area in West Bank; Tel Aviv police steps up operational activity

A reminder that, yes, there are still real terrorists out there and, yes, they are Muslims.

UPDATE: Suicide-Bombing Strikes Tel Aviv For 1st Time In Many Years, Hamas Vows More To Come

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U.S. and South Korean troops kicked off a large-scale exercise Monday aimed at strengthening their combined defense capabilities against nuclear-armed North Korea, which again accused the allies of practicing an invasion.

If only that were true….

ProPublica.

With millions in expanded tax credits and direct state funding going to anti-abortion groups, the nonprofit Coalition Life has expanded its operations beyond Missouri and into states where the procedure is still legal.

How extraordinary–wonder where they got that plan?

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Tells you everything you need to know about Democrat Security.

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China appears to have installed a laser directed energy weapon on one of its Type 071 amphibious assault ships, mirroring U.S. and other nations’ expanding activities in the same arena. Recent actions against Houthi drones in the Red Sea have helped to spur further interest in fitting warships with directed energy weapons of various types, although most of China’s activities with laser weapons have, so far, been conducted on land.

A photo that recently appeared on social media shows an apparently newly installed laser weapon on a People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) Type 071 amphibious transport dock, the vessel having reportedly just emerged from a refit. The system is mounted immediately aft of the 76mm dual-purpose gun on the ship’s bow. When not in use, the weapon is concealed under a relatively large dome-like cover.

Kamala shoots the moon

Hurricane-Force Media Hype

What Worries Me Most About Election Night (Rachel Maddow/New York Times)

Activists Descend on Chicago, Rekindling 1968 Memories

Biden’s DNC Wave an Opening Act in Week of Coronating Harris

Inside Kamala Harris’s Enormous Fundraising Drive (Maggie Severns/Wall Street Journal)

Walz Praised Chinese Communism as a System Where ‘Everyone Shares’

Mindy Kaling and Kerry Washington Among Celebrity Hosts of This Week’s DNC (Matt Young/The Daily Beast)

Numbers Don’t Lie: Women Thrived Under Trump, Suffered Under Harris

CBS Debate Moderator Comes Unglued, Defends Harris Price Controls

Harris’ momentum is growing. Our polling expert explains whether it’ll last. (Steven Shepard/Politico)

Democrats’ Unity Convention Has One Giant Exception: The Gaza War (Jonathan Weisman/New York Times)

As Democrats gather in Chicago, the spirit of ’68 is a painful memory (Joel Achenbach/Washington Post)

Harris should talk to journalists more. Particularly the wonky ones. (Perry Bacon Jr/Washington Post)

Biden committed ‘impeachable conduct,’ ‘defrauded United States to enrich his family’: House GOP report (Fox)

GOP-led House committees release lengthy report alleging President Biden committed impeachable offenses (NBC News)

Read: Republican report accusing Biden of impeachable conduct (The Hill)

GOP-led committees release Biden impeachment report without formally recommending the House move forward with impeachment (CNN) What would be the point?

Harris Is Sailing, Trump Is Flailing, and the Right Is Bailing. Wow. (The New Republic)

‘Dramatic turnaround’: Harris leads Trump among likely voters in new polling (MSNBC)

Harris tops Trump by 3 points nationally; candidates tied in swing states: Survey (The Hill)

Kamala Harris Erases Donald Trump’s Significant Lead On Mental Sharpness (Flynn Nicholls/Newsweek)

Election Deniers Secretly Pushed Rule That Would Make It Easier to Delay Certification of Georgia’s Election Results (Doug Bock Clark/ProPublica)

CBS Poll: Trump-Harris Race Dead Heat in Battlegrounds

Could Democrats Make Kamala Harris President Before Election?

NY Times Columnist Maureen Dowd Dishes on Biden ‘Coup’ — ‘A Jaw-Dropping Putsch’

Sunday Shows Give Scant Mention of Various Walz Scandals

The 47 Seconds That Saved Kamala Harris’s Political Career (Shane Goldmacher/New York Times)

The Most Dangerous Question Of 2024 – What If Kamala Harris Isn’t An Idiot?  I think you’re safe there.

FBI arrests D.C. Council member Trayon White (Washington Post)

MAGA Pastor Hates Democracy Because It Allows Women To Vote (NewsHound Ellen/Crooks and Liars)

JD Vance isn’t helping Trump’s ticket. Removing him would be even worse. (Julia Azari/MSNBC)

Sunday Snapshot: Republicans admit Trump the “provocateur” could lose (Avery Lotz/Axios)

Tammy Duckworth rips Trump over remarks about medal-winning soldiers (David Cohen/Politico)

Secret Service finds protecting Trump is extraordinarily challenging (Washington Post)  When they can be troubled to do it.

Trump’s new absurdity: ‘Kamala price hikes’ cost a typical family $28,000 (Glenn Kessler/Washington Post)

Trump ‘might win, but he’s not a majority candidate’: Brit Hume (Miranda Nazzaro/The Hill)

Pennsylvania conservatives panicked Trump is ‘not even trying’ to win key voting bloc (Tom Boggioni/Raw Story)

Harris implies Trump a ‘coward’ during Pennsylvania campaign appearance (Jeff Mason/Reuters)

Republicans flood TV with misleading ads about immigration, border (Washington Post)

Sunday Meltdown: Trump Floods Truth Social With Photos of Swifties and Communists (AJ McDougall/The Daily Beast)

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Illegal immigration into Spain’s Canary Islands “remains at extreme levels” and will almost certainly get worse in the second half of August, a Civil Guard report has said.

The number of arrivals is on the verge of breaking the all-time record, and will soon likely pass 30,000 so far this year. The report, seen by Spanish outlet La Gaceta, says this could happen in the coming weeks after 2,200 illegal migrants arrived in July.

That number was the highest total for a July since 2006, when 2,260 arrived.

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An Afghan culture-enricher in Austria expressed his disagreement with the Chancellor by threatening to behead him in Parliament — the traditional Afghan method of political dissent.

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Yet another pride organization founder gets arrested on suspicion of being a child predator, proving once again that when LGBT activists focus on children and gender ideology it’s okay to be suspicious.

Stephen Ireland, the 40-year-old founder and former director of LGBT activist charity ‘Pride in Surrey’, has been arrested on a total of 37 charges involving child sexual abuse. Ireland is an avid proponent of child indoctrination into gender ideology and was a patron of a charity called ‘Educate And Celebrate.’ The charity ran Pride workshops for primary and secondary school pupils, which included “How to break the binary and be gender inclusive”.

In 2022 trans activist Jordan Gray, another patron of Educate And Celebrate, prompted nearly 1,500 complaints when the performer stripped-off during a live Channel 4 show before appearing to play a piano with his penis. The comedian had previously described going into schools to “talk about gender” on behalf of the charity, adding that “toddlers kind of get it straight away”.

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There is nothing abnormal about deviance. This is a lesson I learned growing up during the 1950s and early 1960s in an Italian American neighborhood called Collinwood on the east side of Cleveland, Ohio. While the neighborhood had plenty of conformity, there was also sufficient forbearance for enough deviance to make life interesting and educational.

Years later in the early to mid-1970s, I found myself a Ph.D. student in a seminar on the works of the French sociologist Emile Durkheim. I was pleasantly surprised that the lesson I learned growing up was one of Durkheim’s important sociological insights into our common life.

Durkheim showed that deviance performs at least four important functions in society. It affirms our cultural values and norms; clarifies our moral boundaries; brings us together; and encourages social change by challenging our views. Moreover, our neighborhood was a good example of what’s called the Durkheim Constant: there is a limit to the amount of deviant behavior that a community will tolerate since deviant behavior causes conflict.

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You can’t make this stuff up.

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The pursuit of a cure for Alzheimer’s disease is becoming an increasingly competitive and contentious quest with recent years witnessing several important controversies.

In July 2022, Science magazine reported that a key 2006 research paper, published in the prestigious journal Nature, which identified a subtype of brain protein called beta-amyloid as the cause of Alzheimer’s, may have been based on fabricated data.

One year earlier, in June 2021, the US Food and Drug Administration had approved aducanumab, an antibody-targeting beta-amyloid, as a treatment for Alzheimer’s, even though the data supporting its use were incomplete and contradictory.

Some physicians believe aducanumab never should have been approved, while others maintain it should be given a chance.

With millions of people needing an effective treatment, why are researchers still fumbling in this quest for a cure for what is arguably one of the most important diseases confronting humankind?

Left-Wing Wash Post Slams Harris’ Price Controls

VP Kamala Harris’ stepdaughter Ella Emhoff pushes ketamine, ‘shorter work days’ in ‘pain management’ rant (New York Post)

Harris’ plan to stop price gouging could create more problems than it solves (Elisabeth Buchwald/CNN)

NPR Furiously Spins Right Past ‘Second Gentleman’ Doug Emhoff Cheating with Nanny

Food Costs and Price Controls: Kamala’s Bread Lines Ahead?

FBI investigate harassment of ‘White Women For Kamala’ speaker, ‘Mrs Frazzled’ comic Arielle Fodor over ‘dystopian’ speech

Six Takeaways From the Magazine’s Profile of Joe Biden (Robert Draper/New York Times) Spin, spin, spin….

U.S. Intelligence Community Now Prioritizes ‘Hurt Feelings’ Over Counterterrorism

Watch: Neil deGrasse Tyson Says Chromosomes Don’t Determine Biological Sex

Facing setbacks, progressives focus on pragmatic goals for a Harris presidency (NBC News)  Price controls are ‘pragmatic’?

FLASHBACK: Liberal Reporters Are Always Democrats’ Biggest Fans

Black Men Vote PAC ramps up investment in turnout for Harris (Brakkton Booker/Politico)  The Democrat Plantation is strong in this one….

Protesters paused to reconsider opposing Harris at the DNC. They decided on full steam ahead. (Shia Kapos/Politico)

Black Women Say Migrants Make Pa. ‘Unsafe, Unsanitary’  Gee, I wonder who allowed in all of those migrants? That’s a real head-scratcher.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker Promises to Arrest ‘Troublemaker’ DNC Protesters (Corbin Bolies/The Daily Beast)  And if you believe that one, he’ll tell you another one.

“Make It Great Like ’68”: Chicago Businesses Board Up As Protesters Threaten To Shut Down DNC    Funny how people don’t board up their businesses when the Republicans come to town.

Protests planned for Democrats’ convention spark safety, speech worries (Molly Hennessy-Fiske/Washington Post)

Kamala Harris Wants to Build 3 Million Houses. Is That Enough? (Kevin T. Dugan/New York Magazine)  Depends on whether they can steal enough other people’s money.

You Should Know – I flagged this on social media. But I wanted to make sure you knew. (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo)  Because you’re all waiting with bated breath for what I have to say about Trump.

Media Sends Possible Trump Manhattan Trial Jury Tampering Incident Down Memory Hole

Harris Campaign Tries to Fact Check Trump, Fails

Ohio lawmaker: Vance ‘not good for Ohio’ and ‘not good for America’ (Tara Suter/The Hill)

‘Things I Trust More Than Donald Trump’ List Goes Viral: ‘Dinner with Jeffrey Dahmer’ (Emell Derra Adolphus/The Daily Beast)

Trump tries to undermine Harris’ legitimacy as a candidate (Meridith McGraw/Politico)

Trump campaign attempts to reset with candidate who sometimes has his own plans (Washington Post)

Trump escalates gendered personal insults against Harris, defying GOP pressure (Washington Post)

VFW Condemns Donald Trump’s ‘Asinine’ Comments About Medal of Honor (Daniel Kreps/Rolling Stone)

Inciting rioters in Britain was a test run for Elon Musk. Just see what he plans for America (Carole Cadwalladr/The Guardian)  Talking to Trump without spitting on him apparently puts Musk in the same NeoNigger category. Good to know.

Behind the Curtain: Trump’s devil-in-Georgia problem (Axios)

Trump Has Turned Over an Old Leaf (David A. Graham/The Atlantic)  Glad to hear it.

Far-right influencers turn against Trump campaign (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)  Sure, I believe that.

Trump continues personal attacks against Harris: ‘I’m a better looking person’ (Julia Manchester/The Hill)

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A few weeks ago, I was just like you, taking a summer vacation to the beach, anxiously waiting for new episodes of “Presumed Innocent.” Then, after reading too many stories about fast furniture, Chipotle’s shrinking burritos, and other examples of corporations diluting the size and quality of their products, I fell down the wrong rabbit hole.

Next thing I knew, I was in touch with a secret source on a black market called eBay. She goes by MrsFreeThinker and frequents estate sales, where she’d found the contraband I needed. Somebody had kept this secret to the grave.

Inside my house, I draw the blinds and rip into a gray plastic bag. It’s everything I hoped for: a factory-sealed four-pack of regular Charmin Ultra toilet paper produced in 1992.

I look at the fine print and gasp…170 sheets per roll!

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that was a thing.

The Fourth Amendment’s protection against unreasonable searches and seizures extends to the length of a seizure, a federal court ruled last week, significantly restricting how long law enforcement can retain private property after an arrest.

“When the government seizes property incident to a lawful arrest, the Fourth Amendment requires that any continued possession of the property must be reasonable,” wrote Judge Gregory Katsas of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in a unanimous ruling.

Most courts of appeal to pass judgment on the issue—namely, the 1st, 2nd, 6th, 7th, and 11th circuits—have held that, once an item is seized, law enforcement can retain the item indefinitely without violating the Fourth Amendment. These precedents have allowed police to retain personal property without clear legal grounds, effectively stripping people of their property rights merely because they were arrested. The D.C. Court of Appeals’ ruling complicates this general consensus.

Your tax dollars at work. Quiet, slaves!

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Sow the wind, reap the tornato.

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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Legacy media outlets and left-leaning nonprofits may seek to distance themselves from the anti-Israel protests on college campuses and in Washington, D.C., many of which have devolved into outright antisemitism. Yet influential outlets and activist groups have at least one key tie to a notorious group supporting the anti-Israel protests, and an organization that represents more than 2,500 Orthodox Jewish rabbis is sounding the alarm.

Despite its anodyne name, Jewish Voice for Peace enflames anti-Israel sentiment. On the very day that Hamas terrorists raped, murdered, and took hostages in Israel (Oct. 7, 2023), JVP leaders blamed “Israeli apartheid and occupation” as “the source of all this violence.”

In the weeks afterward, Jewish Voice for Peace rallygoers in Providence, Rhode Island, chanted, “Hey hey, ho ho, the Yahudi [Jews] have got to go!” JVP speakers in Philadelphia stated: “The anticolonial armed resistance out of the Gaza Strip was provoked by decades of Israeli state-sanctioned violence and to report it otherwise is false and misleading.”

This underscores my suspicion that Islam is a deliberate attempt by Satan to extirpate the Chosen People of God. Prove me wrong.

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An Idaho man has been arrested in connection with the shooting death of a woman in California more than 50 years ago, authorities said.

DNA evidence led investigators to identify Michael Eugene Mullen, 75, as a suspect in the death of Nina “Nadine” Fischer in 1973, the Marin County Sheriff’s Office said. Mullen was arrested near Salmon, Idaho, on Wednesday, and he is being held in jail while awaiting extradition to California.

You can run, but you can’t hide, apparently.

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A Tunisian culture-enricher strolled down the Champs-Élysées last night to enjoy his favorite pastime: gropin’ and rapin’ foreign teenage girls.

The Spectator.

“I’m looking for a man in finance/Trust fund/6’5”/Blue eyes.” When Megan Boni posted this ditty on her TikTok account a few months ago, it was meant as a joke. She wanted to poke fun at the wish-list mentality of single women, herself included.

She couldn’t have predicted that her 19-second video would be viewed 26 million times and remixed into one of the summer’s viral hits. Women are now whispering to each other that maybe they really are looking for a man in finance, rather than an impoverished creative type still living with his parents at the age of 30.

Boni has since reiterated that she’s “not actually looking for a man in finance,” and perhaps she needn’t bother given that she’s landed herself a record deal. But the damage is done. “Men in finance are hot again,” says Vogue.

The Spectator.

I predict that Frank Zappa’s descendants will die out with, at most, his grandchildren. Evolution works whether you want it to or not.

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At critical moments over the past 25 years, the New York Times has aided the interests of a power faction within the Chinese Communist Party responsible for atrocities against practitioners of the spiritual discipline Falun Gong.

On top of implicating itself ethically, the paper has also, as a result, distorted its China coverage and misled its readers, as revealed by an analysis of The New York Times’ China coverage as well as interviews with half a dozen experts on Chinese Communist Party (CCP) politics and geopolitics.