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For many Europeans, the American mind is a hard thing to fathom. Considering the cultural influence the United States have exercised over the Mother Continent since 1918, and their political dominance since 1945, it is an important question. Nor are the Americans one is likely to meet in Europe much help—we are hardly representative of our countrymen. Less than 20% of Americans own passports, and a minority of that number actually use them beyond Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean. We Americans abroad may be very pro- or anti-European, well-informed or ignorant, but we are not typical.

Even if we were, as a whole, Americans tend not to be very introspective. We may seek the self-affirmation of American Exceptionalism or the self-hatred of Wokery, but the calm pursuit of self-knowledge is not usually in our purview. This, of course, is not uncommon amongst either Imperial or Calvinist peoples; we are both—the latter in a strange, secularised sense peculiar to ourselves. So it is that probing the American mind presents unique challenges even to natives—let alone Europeans.

It has been observed that at the bottom of American differences from Europe lie two qualities: race and space. Certainly, the Indian and Black issues on the one hand, and the sheer immensity of our country on the other, make for a very great difference. So does the great divorce between rulers and ruled, despite the need of the former to corral the latter into election booths every so often. I often tell foreigners that if they want to love my country, they need to take a long road trip through it; if they wish to hate it, they need only to read the history of its foreign policy. The dissonance between the two experiences is astonishing.

Off-Guardian.

That’s how it is now, the world we are allowed to see is largely fake, and as technology masters the art of deception, it will only get worse.

Of course, we can blame a lot of things for this, first on that list is AI. But now not just AI art, but AI video, AI news, AI novels, AI everything. We can also obviously blame marketing and advertising for much of this fakery that hits us in the face every day.

Commercial marketing has always done that, certainly since the days of Bernays, the psychological wizard-mind of brainwashing and propaganda. A relative of Sigmund Freud no less.

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For many humans, plants might seem stationary and even a little dull. But green things actually move a lot. If you watch a timelapse video of a sunflower seedling poking up from the soil, for example, it doesn’t just shoot straight up. Instead, as the sunflower grows, its crown spins in circles, twists into corkscrews and, in general, wiggles around—albeit very slowly.

Now, researchers co-led by Orit Peleg at CU Boulder and Yasmine Meroz at Tel Aviv University have discovered one role for these chaotic movements, also known as “circumnutations.” In greenhouse experiments and computer simulations, the group showed that sunflowers take advantage of circumnutations to search the environment around them for patches of sunlight.

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What were they thinking? How did they eat this bilge? Good questions, but you won’t find them answered here. This is a simple introduction to poorly photographed foodstuffs and horrid recipes. It’s a wonder anyone in the 40s, 50s and 60s gained any weight; it’s a miracle that people didn’t put down their issue of Life magazine with a slight queasy list to their gut, and decide to sup on a nice bowl of shredded wheat and nothing else. It wasn’t that the food was inedible; it was merely dull. Everything was geared for a timid palate fearful of spice. It wasn’t non- nutritious – no, between the limp boiled vegetables, fat-choked meat cylinders and pink-whipped-jello dessert, you were bound to find a few calories that would drag you into the next day. It’s that the pictures are so hideously unappealing.

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Although Apple makes it sound like Californians will be able to ditch their physical driver’s licenses and state IDs in favor of digital versions in the Wallet app, California and the other states supporting digital IDs in Wallet require that you continue to carry your physical ID.

So what’s the point? I remember my father talking about World War II where one of his commanders wanted to destroy a bunch of obsolete and useless documents, and his superiors in the War Department would only let him do that if he made copies of them in triplicate.

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Whatever the motivations, spending trillions of dollars to replace fossil fuels with expensive and unreliable wind and solar sources is foolish, futile and dangerous.

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This week, the Wall Street Journal published some good news for proponents of Social Security, the socialist program that President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law in 1935. The Journal reported that the Millennial generation — those whose age range is between 27 and 44 — have experienced a “dramatic turnaround” in finances. The Journal states:

The median household net worth of older millennials, born in the 1980s, rose to $130,000 in 2022 from $60,000 in 2019…. Median wealth more than quadrupled to $41,000 for Americans born in the 1990s, which includes the generation’s youngest members, born in 1996. In early 2024, millennials and older members of Gen Z had, on average and adjusting for inflation, about 25% more wealth than Gen Xers and baby boomers did at a similar age, according to a St. Louis Fed analysis.”

Why is that good news for proponents of Social Security? It assures them that there is more wealth that the IRS can confiscate to support and maybe even expand the program.

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More high-income households have left California and New York than moved in, but some states saw the opposite.

Florida had the biggest net gain of high-earning households, according to a recent SmartAsset study. SmartAsset analyzed the latest available IRS data from the 2021-2022 tax year. Using $200,000 of adjusted gross income as a threshold, the study examined the number of high-income households moving into and out of each state to determine the net inflow.

Texas came in second in terms of net inflow, followed by North and South Carolina and Arizona.

UPDATE: Map Shows Most Popular States for High Earners (Newsweek)

UPDATE: Here’s where the young and rich are moving – and it’s not New York or California (Fox)

UPDATE: California and New York are losing rich Americans at the highest rate in America — here’s where the money’s moving instead (MoneyWise)

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According to police, the 21-year-old perpetrator got into an argument with a visitor and hit him as well as a security guard. The Algerian then fled the scene, but appeared in a courtyard of the asylum center where he punched and stabbed several residents.

The attack was treated by Berlin police as a “mass casualty event,” meaning a large deployment of law enforcement and paramedics, as well as a helicopter to transport the injured.

Two of the victims were admitted to hospital with stab wounds, one reportedly in life threatening condition, while another five were treated on an outpatient basis. Several of the injured are Moldovan.

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The new guidelines were issued following an incident where a pregnant woman who presented as a man underwent a CT scan, the Telegraph reports. Radiology procedures such as X-rays and CT scans can be harmful to unborn babies.

The guidelines instruct radiology operators to ask all patients between the ages of 12 and 55 if they are pregnant before proceeding with the scans. They also include admonitions to staff to be sensitive to transgender, non-binary, and intersex patients. Patients are also required to fill out new forms asking about their gender at birth and their preferred pronouns.

However, radiographers have described incidents in which the new protocols made some men so angry they stormed out of appointments without getting their scans done. Women, too, have had strong reactions, with some crying because of the “invasive” fertility questions on the forms that ask them to explain why they could not be pregnant, forcing some to recall miscarriages or other incidents that have left them infertile. Previously, it was enough for women simply to state that they were not pregnant.

Kamala Harris Finally Has a Policy Proposal, and It’d Make the Soviets Blush (Bonchie/RedState)

The Harris Campaign Will Base Its Platform On Biden’s Fake Economic Accomplishments

Harris’ great idea: price controls

Tim Walz previously faced criticism over the way he characterized his military service, records show (ABC News)

Harris has opened up a second path to victory, according to The Post’s polling model (Lenny Bronner/Washington Post)

Exclusive: Biden channels $50 million to help auto suppliers on EVs (Ben Geman/Axios)

Turns Out People (Including Republicans) Really Like Biden’s Clean Energy Tax Credits (Anna Kramer/NOTUS)  Buy those votes! Buy those votes!

Kamala Harris shares blame for Afghanistan debacle (Michael Lucchese/Washington Examiner)

Trump has the inklings of a plan to take on Harris, but he seems unable to implement it (Stephen Collinson/CNN)

Wagner Claims Biden Dropping Out Helped Country Heal After Trump Assassination Attempt

Tim Walz’s 2006 campaign falsely described details about his arrest for DWI in 1995 (Andrew Kaczynski/CNN)

Dems Attack X for Alleged AI Mistake Despite Shrugging Off Google’s Election Interference

Disorganized NY Dem rally to endorse Harris infiltrated by anti-Israel protesters who clashed with cops at afterparty (New York Post)

Harris to call for federal ban on price-gouging in Friday speech (Brett Samuels/The Hill)  ‘Price gouging’ is a leftist smear that means ‘charging more that we want to pay’, and is totally subjective.

Kamala Harris Stonewalls Congressional Probe Into NatSec Adviser’s Ties to Iran Influence Network

Kamala Harris Finally Has an Economic Plan: Price Controls on Food

Missouri Delegate Arrested for Involvement in Violent Protest Withdraws from DNC

Reid: Christians For Harris Are Akin To Those Who ‘Led The Civil Rights Movement’

Democrats Lean Into Liberty and the Language of Republicans (Katie Glueck/New York Times)

A Trump official criticized the media for talking “about Project 2025, which has nothing to do with our campaign.” She worked on Project 2025. (Eric Hananoki/Media Matters for America) So she should know.

Aides not telling Trump red states “looking worse than they should” to avoid upsetting him: report (Nicholas Liu/Salon)

NBC Decries Vance for Saying… It’s Good for Kids to Know Their Grandparents?

Trump watches himself get shot ‘over and over’ and campaign staff fear he has PTSD: report (Mike Bedigan/The Independent)

Trump VP pick JD Vance is seen posing with three female classmates at boys’ urinals in unearthed high school photo (Daily Mail)

Trump Will Try to Drag Kamala Into the Mud With Him (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)

What Are Females For? – Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance really does love to run his mouth on podcasts. (Jill Filipovic)

Leftist Slant of NPR Exposed Again by Trump Speech ‘Fact-Check’

Trump Immediately Derails Press Conference With Weirdest Comments (The New Republic) Back we go to the ‘weird’ schtick.

Fact check: Trump makes more than 20 false claims at news conference (CNN)

Playbook: Look who’s pushing for a Trump reset (Politico)

How Elon Musk is using his wealth, reach to support Trump’s campaign (The Hill)

JD Vance: Amazon funded Black Lives Matter so riots would destroy rival retailers (Cameron Joseph/Christian Science Monitor)

The Saudi Payments to Trump Are More Important than the Suspected Egyptian One (emptywheel)

Donald Trump Needs a Course Correction

Trump’s Luck Is Running Out, and He Isn’t Taking It Well

JD Vance: ‘Whole Purpose Of The Postmenopausal Female’ Is To Care For Grandkids (Brooke Seipel/International Business …)  If that.

Hidden-camera video shows Project 2025 co-author discussing his secret work preparing for a second Trump term (CNN)  Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

Report: Secret Service Agent Leaves Trump Post to Breastfeed

With JD Vance, Things Just Get Weirder And Weirder (David Kurtz/Talking Points Memo)  Again with the ‘weird’ schtick.

Top Trump advisers in turmoil after campaign’s worst month of 2024 (Hugo Lowell/The Guardian)

The Trump Campaign Endorses a Racist Theory (Charles Sykes/The Atlantic)

Republicans practically beg Trump to change it up. He’s not listening. (Aaron Blake/Washington Post)

Tic Tacs, tampons, turmoil: What Trump’s ‘economy’ speech actually covered (Philip Bump/Washington Post)

Trump’s Crocodile Tears for the Jews (Yair Rosenberg/The Atlantic)

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A Los Angeles County school district offers an ethnic studies course covering the “intersectionality” of “identity markers” such as race, gender, and sexual orientation.

“Ethnic Studies aims to educate students on social justice themes related to ethnicity, identity, and the historical element that is the common denominator, while providing students with a democratic toolkit intended to support student’s project-based learning needs,” according to a course overview obtained through a public records request by the Center for American Liberty and shared with The Daily Signal.

The class, offered to seniors at Clark Magnet High School in the Glendale Unified School District, encourages “social activism” by “building on the district’s social justice standards while incorporating the new history social science framework.”

California Assembly Bill 101 made ethnic studies a high school graduation requirement in 2021.

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Thank you, Joe Biden.

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The new system, “Grading for Equity,” seeks to remove non-academic factors such as attendance, participation, and timely submission of assignments from students’ grades, focusing solely on mastery of content.

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University of Cambridge leaders have agreed to a list of concessions to convince pro-Palestinian demonstrators to end a three-month-old encampment set up at a high-profile zone along the prestigious British institution, including a pledge to fully fund Palestinian scholars and students.

Newsbusters.

In normal years, which were not that long ago, students would look forward to returning to or entering college as freshmen. After violent anti-Israel and antisemitic demonstrations on some college campuses, many fear this semester might see a repeat of the prior ugliness.

This is how bad it has gotten. Police in Montgomery County, Maryland, are investigating after antisemitic and pro-Palestinian graffiti was discovered outside Bethesda Elementary School Sunday morning. An elementary school! Rather than condemning the incident, the pro-Hamas lobby group known as CAIR issued a statement that sounded like “what can you expect,” given Israel’s justifiable attempt to wipe out the terrorist group in Gaza.

Columbia University in New York, where some of the worst rioting occurred last semester, is reportedly considering granting arrest powers to campus police, hoping it will curb the demonstrations. That’s fine, but it’s not just about the arrests, most of which have resulted in quick releases, it’s about prosecuting lawbreakers. In liberal New York that has become nearly impossible to do thanks to District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who often releases and fails to prosecute even violent offenders.

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This week, alleged comedian Stephen Colbert had on CNN’s Kaitlan Collins to discuss the 2024 presidential election. In the middle of the interview, Colbert began to ask Collins a question, in all sincerity: “I know you guys are objective over (at CNN), you just report the news as it is.” Colbert, presumably, expected his audience — all Kamala Harris fans, since Colbert is the most left-leaning host on late night television — to nod along. Instead, they laughed.

They laughed because everyone in America knows, at this point, that the media have become stenographers for the Democratic Party.

CNN.

A Russian court has sentenced a Russian-American woman to 12 years in prison for treason after she made a donation of just over $50 to a US-based charity supporting Ukraine.

Ksenia Karelina, 33, had pleaded guilty to the charges. She was detained in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg earlier this year while visiting her grandparents.

The verdict was announced Thursday after a closed-doors trial at Sverdlovsk regional court that ended last week. Investigators said Karelina had sent money to purchase equipment and ammunition for the Ukrainian army, RIA Novosti reported.

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Can’t have that.

New York Post.

Washington, D.C. has once again earned the dubious distinction of being the least desirable city in America, according to a new poll.

For the second year running, the nation’s capital has topped the list of places where Americans would least want to live, with a whopping 33% of survey respondents ranking it among the top five worst cities.

Harris to call for federal ban on price-gouging in Friday speech (The Hill) ‘Price gouging’ is one of those smears used by politicians who think you’re charging too much. It’s never applied to government programs, of course.

CNN Blames ‘Gender Roles,’ ‘Colonialism’ For Black Men Not Backing Harris  Apparently black men have preferences not dictated by the Wokerati, the swine.

Kamala Harris is taking power back from the press corps (John Stoehr/The Editorial Board)  And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

The Shiny New Kamala Harris That Propaganda Built

Where Harris has improved the most on Biden (Nate Silver/Silver Bulletin)  She can walk and cackle at the same time. Barely.

The selling of Kamala: Part I – the happy warrior

Misinformation? Harris Campaign Pushes Fake News in Google Search Ads

Tim Walz Gave Almost $100K in COVID-19 Funds to ‘Abortion Doula’ Trainers

WATCH: Taliban Parades Stolen US Military Equipment From Biden’s Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal in Anniversary Celebration  Thank you, Joe Biden.

“Would It Kill You Guys?” CNN Gets Confrontational With Harris SPOX For Avoiding Interviews, Press Conferences  Yes. Yes, it would.

Teacher says contract wasn’t renewed because he wouldn’t use trans students’ preferred names (Dennis Romero/NBC News)

California Sheriff Blasts Harris For Using His Image In “Misleading” Campaign Ad, Says He Supports Trump

The case for Harris embracing nationwide free school meals (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)  Buy those votes! Buy those votes!

“It’s Communism”: Kamala’s First Economic Plan Proposes Price Controls To “Combat Inflation”

Tim Walz says he has no personal relationship with imam who shared pro-Hitler video  “Nothing personal; it’s just business. I always liked him.” “He knows that, Sal.”

Trump’s Weird “Nuclear” Moment With Elon Musk Gives Kamala an Opening (The New Republic)

CNN fact-checks Trump’s conversation with Musk (CNN) Getcher Narrative, right here!

Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s rambling softball interview embody a campaign in disarray (MSNBC)

Trump Mocked For Calling Good Inflation Report ‘Kamalanomics’ (David Moye/HuffPost)

Former Trump aides claim Donald is in ‘meltdown’ and ‘feels the election is slipping from him’… so is ‘lighting up the campaign’ (Martha Williams/Daily Mail)

Project 2025’s Climate Cuts Would Cost Americans Billions Of Dollars Per Year (Alexander C. Kaufman/HuffPost)

Trump Allies Fear He’s Sabotaging His Own Campaign (Gabriel Sherman/Vanity Fair)  As if Vanity Fair would know.

End Citizens United Files FEC Complaint Against Trump Campaign and X Over Illegal Corporate Contribution (End Citizens United)  Take a number. Line forms over there.

JD Vance in 2020 agreed grandmothers raising children is ‘whole purpose of the postmenopausal female’ (Clare Olson/Heartland Signal)

J.D. Vance’s Weird Thoughts on Older Women Exposed in New Audio (Hafiz Rashid/New Republic)

Trump Keeps Watching Clip of Himself Being Shot at: ‘May Legit Have PTSD’ (Josh Fiallo/The Daily Beast)

Trump Derangement Syndrome and the Media’s ‘Misinformation’ Obsession  The Other McCain.

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The Beehome is a solar-powered, converted container that brings together robotics, artificial intelligence, imaging, a software platform, and a mobile application to monitor and care for honeybees around the clock. The device can house up to 24 bee colonies and automatically controls for climate and humidity conditions, detects and eliminates pests and parasites, identifies when a colony is preparing to swarm, sends alerts when human intervention is needed, and even harvests the honey the bees produce.

“The Beehome works with 24 colonies, 12 on each side. And in the center, there’s a robotic system that moves and monitors [the colonies] 24/7 using computer vision, machine learning and neural networks. It dispenses food, water, medicine if there is a disease or pest, it knows if it’s too hot or cold — the robot can treat all of this,” Safra said.

Controlling and monitoring all these conditions in real-time ensures that yields improve, pollination occurs more efficiently, and honeybee populations are protected, he explained.

Reminds me of the classic George Carlin routine:

Save the whales!

Save the snails!

Save the trees!

Save the bees….

UK Daily Mail.

Time to leave.

Steve Sailer.

Kamala Harris’ fabulous career has of course benefited extraordinarily from her being roughly one-quarter black, but few have offered much of an opinion on her being one-half Tamil Brahmin (besides her fellow South Asians, of course), other than it reduces her despised white component.

And yet, the rise of South Asians to positions of immense power across the Anglosphere is one of the big stories of the 21st century.

But few Americans have much of an opinion on Kamala’s Indianness, because Americans don’t traditionally think much about South Asians, who have minimal history in this country.

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Nonprofit leaders devoted to DEI led a discussion on Tuesday about how to continue making race-based decisions while staying “under the radar” and avoiding anti-discrimination lawsuits, even after the 2023 Supreme Court ruling outlawed affirmative action.

Hosted by Fluxx, a grants management platform whose clients include the left-wing Ford and MacArthur foundations, the webinar was advertised as a discussion of “recent efforts to stymie diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in the United States.”

Representatives from the left-wing philanthropies Hello Alice and the Kresge Foundation instructed participants how to dodge discrimination lawsuits best—not by adhering to the law but rather, according to Hello Alice grants director LaToya Ratlieff, by making “little tweaks in the language” on websites and marketing materials. By way of example, she said that instead of describing a grant “as only open to black entrepreneurs,” Hello Alice now indicates that “preference will be given to black entrepreneurs.”

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As reported by the Daily Caller, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has filed over 44,000 deportation cases in Massachusetts in the first nine months of fiscal year 2024. If new cases continue at this pace, then the end of the fiscal year could see as many as 59,000 deportation cases. The previous record was 54,000 in fiscal year 2023, which previously set the record for the highest number of cases in about 25 years.

Despite previously voicing her support for open borders and vowing to keep the state a “sanctuary” for illegals, Governor Maura Healey (D-Mass.) declared in July that the state would limit the length of time that an illegal could stay at state-run overflow shelters, bringing it down to just five days per illegal.

This rule was implemented at all four overflow shelters, located in Cambridge, Chelsea, Lexington, and Norfolk. These shelters previously allowed illegals to stay for up to 30 days, with the option to simply re-apply for another 30 days indefinitely.

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Welcome to Londonistan. Be careful not to step in the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

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Social media influencers are being paid thousands of dollars to post liberal propaganda, one such influencer confirmed to CBS News.

This is news?

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My understanding that the only people threatened by Monkeypox are monkeys and homosexuals. Now I can understand why that represents a Global Health Emergency for the WHO, but I don’t see how it affects normal people.

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

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Paging Buford Pusser.

The Hill.

Oh, yeah, the terrorists will get right on that. Can’t disappoint Creepy Joe.

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The problem Democrats have is that criminals are a large part of their base.

Pick a prison: Are the inhabitants Democrats or Republicans?

Pick some illegal immigrants: Are they going to vote Democrat or Republican? (Don’t pretend that none of them vote.)

Pick some convicted felons: Are they going to vote Democrat or Republican?

Pick some Latin American drug traffickers: Democrat or Republican?

Pick some in-the-‘hood gang bangers: Democrat or Republican?

The questions answer themselves.

CNBC.

As if anybody will pay any attention. The Federal Trade Commission vies with the Federal Election Commission as being the single most useless government agency.

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Criminals just love the COVID face-diaper.

CNN.

I guess they don’t like the competition.

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Economists are easily shocked. They think of their field as a ‘science’, whereas it’s just as much witch-doctory as psychiatry, only with computers.

Paul Krugman is living proof that one can be a Nobel Laureate in Economics while being wrong about pretty much everything.

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Anti-Israel, pro-Palestine protesters arrived at Columbus Circle in front of the historic train station after first marching to the nearby U.S. Capitol. They were supposed to demonstrate peacefully and then disperse.

They didn’t do that.

In defiance of a permit granted to the ANSWER Coalition and obtained by the Washington Examiner, the protesters defaced the Columbus Fountain and other property and burned American flags shortly after arriving at Columbus Circle about 2:30 p.m. July 24.

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Apparently not much.

Complaint is made that the Gates foundation is accountable only to the Gates (duh) and that ‘family offices are unregulated entities’. The statism is strong in this one.

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Researchers assessed many thousands of different molecules in people from age 25 to 75, as well as their microbiomes—the bacteria, viruses and fungi that live inside us and on our skin—and found that the abundance of most molecules and microbes do not shift in a gradual, chronological fashion. Rather, we undergo two periods of rapid change during our life span, averaging around age 44 and age 60. A paper describing these findings appears in Nature Aging.

“We’re not just changing gradually over time; there are some really dramatic changes,” said Michael Snyder, Ph.D., chair of genetics and the study’s senior author. “It turns out the mid-40s is a time of dramatic change, as is the early 60s. And that’s true no matter what class of molecules you look at.”

Xiaotao Shen, Ph.D., a former Stanford Medicine postdoctoral scholar, was the first author of the study. Shen is now an assistant professor at Nanyang Technological University Singapore.

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Well, maybe to the people who are easily terrified. *yawn*

So young, and already a Democrat….

NYT: By Golly, Hunter Did Try to Sell Influence – And White House Covered It Up! (Ed Morrissey/HotAir)

The K-Hive Media Are Trying to Make Walz’s Stolen Valor Scandal Go Away

The big question touching a nerve this election: “Can my husband find out who I am voting for?” (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)

ABC’s Biden Propaganda on Cancer Moonshot Is Stuff Putin, Xi Could Only Dream of

Reid Warns GOP Is Trying To Rig The Election… In Wyoming

Va. Lt. Gov., a Marine, Rips Walz on Combat Claim

Harris Campaign Busted Spoofing News Outlets In Headline-Altering Ad Scheme

Biden: Harris Is Not Progressive

In Pennsylvania, Harris can’t shake her anti-fracking past (Evan Halper/Washington Post)

The DNC Is Coming To Chicago, The Nation’s Homicide Capital 13 Years Running  Perhaps nature will take its course. Think of it as evolution in action.

Dan Schneider Rips ‘Soros Machine’ After MRC Exposes Criminal Justice Scheme

Hunter Biden Lied About Lobbying for Foreign Agent to Protect His Father, Prosecutor Says

Muslim Dem Delegate Says Harris Can’t Win Without Appeasing Anti-Israel Voters with Arms Embargo  I don’t know of any Muslim Republicans. Do you?

Harris campaign’s Google ads rewrite news headlines (Sara Fischer/Axios)

Sheriffs Decry Biden, Harris for Letting Gangs into US

Colbert’s Own Audience Laughs At Him Seriously Stating CNN Is “Objective”

Teamsters’ Black caucus defies leadership with Harris endorsement (Brittany Gibson/Politico)

Goldman Sachs says voters are shifting to Kamala Harris–and the odds of a blue wave are swelling (Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez/Fortune)

Here’s What Scares Republicans Most About a Harris Win (Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling/New Republic)

Kamala Harris’ Record on 3 Big Issues Women Care About

Team Trump Fumes After Trainwreck Elon Musk Interview (The New Republic)

CNN fact-checks Trump’s conversation with Musk (CNN) Never Harris, just Trump.

UAW Files Charges Against Trump, Musk For ‘Strike’ Comments During X Conversation

Top Republicans call on Trump to stop insulting Harris, refocus on policy (Rebecca Picciotto/CNBC)

MELTDOWN: ABC Loses Its Noodle Over Elon Musk’s Donald Trump Interview

After Trump’s Disastrous Musk Interview, Harris Mocks ‘Rich Guys’ Who Can’t Run a Livestream (Rolling Stone)

So Donald chatted with Elon, and here’s the future as they see it – losers win, incompetence rules (Marina Hyde/The Guardian) Narrative ‘journalists’ spread smears. Same old shit.

Why newsrooms haven’t published leaked Trump campaign documents (Washington Post)

MAGA Election Official Immediately Spews Conspiracies After Conviction (William Vaillancourt/The Daily Beast)

NPR Proves They Despise Trump 162 Times

How Trump’s infatuation with a racist conspiracy theorist is impacting the campaign (Popular Information)

Morning Hate Speech: David Frum Compares Trump To Mass Murderer Charles Manson

J.D. Vance Is Bombing His Audition As Trump Heir Apparent (Ed Kilgore/New York Magazine)

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As of June, the Dallas Area not-so-Rapid Transit (DART) was carrying 80 percent of pre-pandemic riders, a little more than the national average of 75 percent. The decrease in ridership has minimal effect on its budget, since in 2019 fares covered less than 12 percent of operating costs. Still, officials of several cities in the region whose taxpayers are supporting DART are beginning to wonder why they are spending so much money and getting so little.

DART is basically a jobs program for Dallas county black people.

DART is primarily funded out of a 1 percent sales tax levied on residents of 13 cities served by the agency. Since early July, the city councils of six of those cities have voted to reduce the sales tax going to DART by 25 percent, and the city councils of Dallas and at least one other city are considering similar resolutions. The tax is levied by DART, not the cities, so the votes are more symbolic of general dissatisfaction with how DART is run. To actually reduce the tax, the DART board would have to put a measure on the ballot and residents of each of the 13 cities would decide.

The councillors who voted to reduce DART subsidies are “not against public transportation,” says the mayor of one of those cities. Instead, they want ” efficient system that does not over-rely on taxpayer dollars to service approximately 4% of individuals in DFW.”

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Thank you,  Joe Biden.