The Foundry.

Last November, Donald Trump soundly defeated Kamala Harris among young men 18 to 29 years old, racking up about 56% of their votes according to the Associated Press. That represents a huge decline from 2008, the climax of the Barack Obama coalition, when the Democrat candidate won 62% of the young male vote against GOP challenger John McCain.

Clearly, Democrats have a young man problem—and they’ve vowed to do something about it. Accordingly, the party is spending $20 million on a special multiyear effort called “Speaking With American Men: A Strategic Plan.” The project, The New York Times recently reported, will “study the syntax, language and content that gains attention and virality in these spaces.”

Yes, really. Hold your laughter.

They could start by quitting trying to turn young men into defective girls.

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The latest report on Jew-hatred concerns a violent incident that occurred last week in France.

It has become quite risky to be “visibly Jewish” in most Western countries, at least in urban areas that enjoy the benefits of cultural enrichment. A few weeks ago the Israeli government warned Israelis who were travelling to or lived in Canada not to wear any symbols or garments that would identify them as Jewish, for their own safety.

It used to be that it was far less likely to see such kinetic manifestations of Jew-hatred in the USA, but that has been changing recently, especially on university campuses. I haven’t seen any statistics on violent incidents targeting Jews in public, but I assume that the vast majority of the perpetrators have a “migration background” and are of the Muslim persuasion.

Hungary seems to be an exception, possibly because of its sane immigration policies. I think Jews are actually safer now in Budapest than they are in Tel Aviv.

Colleges Unite With Harvard in Fight With Trump

Wake Up and Smell the Corruption (Paul Krugman)  A smell that Krugman must be quite accustomed to.

The Alarming Part of the Musk-Trump Dispute (Michelle Goldberg/New York Times)

The Real Reason for the Trump-Musk Feud is Uglier Than You Think (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Mind-reader Greg Sargent loses his shit.

Judge Halts Trump Ban on Foreign Harvard Students

GOP Rep. Calls Out CNN for Hyping Trump/Musk Feud Over Real Problems

Wrongly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia returning to U.S. (Philip Wang/Axios)  ‘Wrongly deported’? He was illegal.

Why Trump probably can’t cut Musk loose (Joshua Keating/Vox)  More mind-reading from a clueless scribbler.

House passes bill to restrict SBA loans for noncitizens (Maia Nehme/Politico)  The horror!

Trump Can Bar AP from Some White House Events for Now, US Appeals Court Says

The latest personnel purge at the FBI adds to a destabilizing problem (Steve Benen/MSNBC)  The problem of not having enough Demcorat apparatchiks available.

Teacher Resigns After Wearing ‘8647’ Shirt to WH

Abrego Garcia indictment led top federal prosecutor in Tennessee to resign: Sources (ABC News)  Getting rid of the moles.

CNN This Morning Guests Compete for Worst Take on Trump and Musk Feud

Appeals court largely reinstates Trump’s ban on AP’s access to White House (Politico)

Jeanine Pirro Moves To Jail Leftist Who Spit On Ed Martin For Violating Conditions Of Release (Luke Rosiak/The Daily Wire)

SEIU California President David Huerta Injured, Detained at ICE Raid in Los Angeles (SEIU California)

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is back in US custody after being illegally deported and will now face criminal charges (Politico)  Because he’s illegal. Apparently nobody at Politico can use a dictionary.

Buyer With Ties to Chinese Communist Party Got V.I.P. Treatment at Trump Crypto Dinner (New York Times) “Ties to” mean “we can’t prove any connection so we’ll go with making one up”.

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The liberal media viscerally hate anything the Donald Trump administration is doing to defund the federal government pushing leftist ideology and squashing conservative counterpoints. One major field has been “misinformation research,” in which professors equate conservative arguments with falsehoods.

In the Joe Biden years, “misinformation” experts at major universities worked with the federal government and Big Tech platforms to prevent apparently under-educated Americans from accepting conservative arguments. The National Science Foundation issued hundreds of grants in this field, and now that they’re being canceled, the leftist media are freaking out.

On “CBS Mornings Plus” June 4, co-host Adriana Diaz sounded the alarm: “The fight against misinformation just got a lot more difficult as the U.S. government slashes funding for programs meant to fight it.”

They brought on as their expert Todd Wolfson, a Rutgers University professor and president of the American Association of University Professors. They presented him as some kind of objective expert, which he is not.

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This week, the Supreme Court tossed out the Mexican government’s lawsuit against seven major U.S. gun manufacturers, holding that a federal statute called the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act barred Mexico from filing the lawsuit in the first place.

In the suit in question, Mexico alleged the gun companies were civilly liable for billions of dollars in damages for violence committed in Mexico by Mexican drug cartels, on the theory that the companies aided and abetted unlawful sales of firearms to Mexican traffickers.

The Court’s unanimous opinion in the case, Smith & Wesson v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos, is a resounding victory for America’s lawful gun industry. Among other things, it ensures that foreign governments can’t use abusive litigation to dictate America’s national gun policy or compel American gun companies to undermine the constitutional rights of American citizens.

The ruling also underscores some inconvenient truths for the Mexican government about the reality of gun violence in that nation. Try as it might to cast one of America’s most regulated industries as the villain orchestrating with drug cartels to keep Mexico awash in violence, the Mexican government’s claims have always been little more than disingenuous attempts to blame anyone but itself for the nation’s cartel-driven and corruption-fueled violence woes.

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For shame!

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Some excellent thoughts on what is going on in the world today.

Epoch Times.

Do we really need fewer routines and more excuses to sit and stare at our computers while machines do even more work for us?

Count me among the skeptics. We have been replacing household routines with machines for a century. Some have merit because the manual way is too arduous. I would rather have a vacuum cleaner than beat out rugs, even if the latter method is better in the long run. Same with dishwashers and washing machines. I get that they save time.

But there comes a point when it is all too much. The trigger for me was the “smart” lightbulb. That’s where I drew the line. I would rather stand up and turn it off and on than become nothing but a couch potato with a smartphone. There are reasons perhaps for the ability to remotely manage household temperature, but if I were building today, I would look long and hard for analog over digital thermostats.

Need? No. Want? Almost certainly yes. The point this author ignores is that you can do things the Old Fashioned Way if you want to (sometimes the old ways are best) but you won’t need to. No one is forcing you to sit on the couch rather than getting up to turn off the light You’ll have the power to choose.

Yes, a portion of the population will choose to be ‘couch potatoes’ rather than Amish. That’s their choice. And that’s a choice that they ought to have.

But natural selection works. In a hundred years, we will know which method is ‘better’ – assuming that both don’t survive as being most appropriate for different types of people.

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Examples of decentralized society in history are often hidden. They are hidden because those in decentralized societies never bothered to keep records. They are also hidden for the purposes of the current state. I have previously written about anarchy in the Southeast Asian Highlands as one example. Here, I will present the time of the Middle Ages as another.

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All this while, we have been fixated on different manifestations of life as we find it on Earth. We see bacteria, zebra fish, or fruit fly and start wondering whether we got lucky here on Earth, or whether our universe contains many more similar instances of life.

But, is this even the right question to ask? If we’re identifying life as we know it on Earth, we’re blinding ourselves to the only instance of life as we know it (with self-replication, cells, DNA, etc.). But, why should we expect life to be the same way in the rest of the universe?

Are cells fundamental? Does life have to be necessarily carbon-based? Sure, we can define life as anything. It’s an overloaded term. But if we keep defining it with traits we observe on Earth, we will be like that guy who only searches for his keys under the street light because that’s the only thing he can see.

Of course, to discover alien life, we need to first know what we’re looking for. But defining all life as being Earth-like is too myopic. What should we do?

Paul Graham.

An essay has to tell people something they don’t already know. But there are three different reasons people might not know something, and they yield three very different kinds of essays.

…

The impact of an essay is how much it changes readers’ thinking multiplied by the importance of the topic. But it’s hard to do well at both. It’s hard to have big new ideas about important topics. So in practice there’s a tradeoff: you can change readers’ thinking a lot about moderately important things, or change it a little about very important ones. But with younger readers the tradeoff shifts. There’s more room to change their thinking, so there’s a bigger payoff for writing about important things.

The Atlantic, a Voice of the Crust.

He was gathering data at another slaughterhouse in 2010 when, late one evening, he spotted two carcasses resembling the outlier he’d seen years before. Lawrence—by then an animal-science professor at West Texas A&M University—immediately called the head of his department. It was nearly 11 p.m. and his boss was already in bed, but Lawrence made his pitch anyway: He wanted to reverse engineer an outstanding steak by bringing superior cuts of meat back to life. He would clone the dead animals, and then mate the clones. “Think of our project as one in which you’re crossbreeding carcasses,” he told me.
A few years later, Lawrence and his team turned two tiny cubes of meat, sliced off exceptional beef carcasses at a packing plant, into one cloned bull and three cloned heifers. After breeding the bull with the heifers, Lawrence slaughtered the offspring to assess the quality of the meat, and found it to be just as terrific as the originals’. The next generation’s meat was even better than that—superior, even, to that of animals bred from the cattle industry’s top bulls.

The New Yorker, a Voice of the Crust.

The New Yorker once was an elegantly written mag about life in New York. Now it’s just another donkey bray in the Woke mob.

Curtis Yarvin wrote for a long time under the name Mencius Moldbug, and he was far more entertaining than anybody who now writes for the New Yorker. Just sayin’.

Funny how the Narrative Media keep running in circles and jumping up and down about ‘right-wing conspiracy theories’ while being the primary pusher of their own ‘conspiracy theories’, from Trump+Russia down to minutiae like this one.

George Clooney predicts what will happen to ‘Trumpism’ after Trump’s term (Ellen Rittiner/CNN)  Well, first, there is no such thing as “Trumpism”, other than the straw-men that his enemies like to construct and then pummel. Second, George Clooney wouldn’t have clue as to its future.

Steve Bannon Says He Told Trump to Investigate Musk as an ‘Illegal Alien’ (Tyler Pager/New York Times)  *sigh* The only people who pay any attention to Bannon are the Narrative Media, when they can use him as a stick to beat Trump.

Steve Bannon Calls to Deport Musk Amid Messy Trump Breakup (Kenneal Patterson/The Daily Beast)  Case in point.

House Democrat Accuses Pam Bondi of Hiding Epstein Files to Save Trump: ‘My Suspicion Has Been Confirmed’ (Ahmad Austin Jr/Mediaite)

A Harvard acceptance fulfilled a dream for a student in Ethiopia. Trump’s order stands in his way (Associated Press)  Life is full of hardship. Nobody owes some random kid in Ethiopia a place at Harvard.

Trump threatens Musk the same way he did Harvard (Steve Inskeep/Differ We Must)  So I guess Musk can’t admit foreign students either. I’m sure he feels the pain.

The MAGA faithful celebrate the end of the Trump-Musk bromance (Washington Post)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

Elon Musk goes on a warpath against Trump and the GOP (Politico)

Trump Says Germany Being Liberated From Nazis Was “Not a Great Day” (Edith Olmsted/New Republic)

From 1,300 to 81 workers: Trump official plans to cut Voice of America to the bone (David Folkenflik/NPR)  They disapprove, of course.

Judge Blocks Trump Proclamation Banning International Students From Entering U.S. on Harvard Visas (E. Matteo Diaz/The Harvard Crimson)

The Trump admin’s quiet (but deadly) attack on repro rights (Lisa Needham/Public Notice)  Of course, ‘repro rights’ includes the right to kill your child, which is like classifying slitting your wrists as health care.

Last day to weigh in on Trump’s plan to politicize the civil service (Don Moynihan/Can We Still Govern?)

Inside the Billion-Dollar Effort to Make Trump Feel Good About Himself (Rolling Stone)

Trump and Epstein: the history of their messy friendship (Telegraph)

Trump’s fight with Musk reveals MAGA’s biggest delusion (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)  Amanda Marcotte loses her shit.

They are not good at this — Nearly five months into Trump’s new reign of error, his administration’s mistakes are multiplying. (Dana Milbank/Washington Post)

Here are the people Trump doesn’t want to exist (Washington Post)  Start with Democrats. That would be a blessing.

Secretary Noem Ends Politicized TSA Watchlist Program That Has Failed to Prevent a Single Terrorist Attack in its Existence; Calls for Congressional Investigation (Department of Homeland Security)

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The Autopen machine is a mechanical device used to automatically recreate genuine-looking signatures of a given person. These machines were first developed around the beginning of the 20th century but only became widely used in the last 60 years or so.

Although most people are unaware of their existence, Autopen machines are widely used by government institutions, businesses and celebrities. Certainly all U.S. presidents since Eisenhower have used them at one time or another (JFK was one of the first big users). In the context of this site obviously the most important users are the NASA astronauts, all of whom were (and still are) given access to these machines and encouraged to use them.

The use of Autopens machines is generally justified by the fact that they allow the signee to spend their time on their job rather than signing autographs or routine documents. In the case of NASA there was no way that the Apollo astronauts could have routinely signed all autograph requests and still done their jobs so NASA had to choose between refusing all requests or sending out Autopenned signatures.

Choosing the latter option probably made a lot of people happy at the time as the vast majority of recipients would have been unaware that the signatures were not genuine. Even some astronauts unknowingly ended up with Autopen signatures of their fellow astronauts in their own personal collections.

Fake it ’til you make it.

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Many trainee teachers in Belgium—who may stand before classrooms in the near future—are failing primary-level tests for mathematics, French, and Dutch.

That is according to the results of teacher training starting tests, seen by Flemish daily De Standaard. The paper revealed that one in three trainees score less than 50% in maths tests designed for 12-year-olds. An even higher 43% score less than half marks in French tests, and 27% are ‘advised’ to take extra lessons. (But who will teach them?)

Perhaps even more concerning is that just 2.91% of the almost 7,000 participants scored between 85 and 100%.

Researcher Wim Van den Broeck said there has been a “silence” around this issue for some time, adding that “the drop in level is a massive and widespread problem, also at colleges and universities.” It is also by no means limited to Belgium.

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I scarcely think that they wanted to go to Gaza. Quite the contrary.

(In)famous Swedish climate and pro-Palestine activist Greta Thunberg and her fellow “siege-breakers” picked up four, apparently Sundanese migrants who jumped into the sea from a dinghy being escorted back to the shore by a vessel of the Lybian coastguard.

The group of activists sailing on the Madleen (which also has a diesel engine to enable the amateur sailers to actually move) are headed to Gaza, allegedly to deliver aid to the ‘starved’ Palestinian population.

MEP Rima Hassan (The Left), one of the 12 activists on the ship, said on X they had received a distress call from a boat, most likely leaving Libya for Italy.

Hassan urged her followers on X to help convince the Greek Coast Guard to transfer the four they picked up to Greece by sharing her story widely and tagging Vassilis Kikilias, the Greek minister of maritime affairs. She then reported that Frontex came to pick up the ‘rescued’ migrants.

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Yet Another Corrupt Black Female Politician.

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Yesterday, the Supreme Court handed down three major cases with unanimous decisions. One, Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services, raises additional questions over diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs that have been widely used in higher education and businesses. There is no reason to believe that DEI measures are DOA, but the decision is likely to accelerate challenges based reverse discrimination after the Court rejected the imposition of an added burden for members of any “majority group” including straight, white males.

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A radical group that helped organize anti-Israel protests at Columbia University is part of the same anti-American propaganda network behind a new documentary on Apple’s streaming platform that portrays those protests in a positive light and glosses over students’ support for Hamas and other terrorist groups.

The Encampments, produced by the nonprofit BreakThrough Media, tracks the Columbia University students who orchestrated anti-Israel protests at the school last April. Apple TV+, which offers the film to rent for $9.99, bills it as an “insider” look into a “historic moment that continues to reverberate across the globe.”

But it may actually serve as a propaganda coup for a sophisticated network of nonprofit groups funded by pro-CCP tech mogul Neville Roy Singham.

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Yet another reason not to take public transportation.

New York Times, a Voice of the Crust.

The domestic policy bill passed by the House raises the maximum child tax credit to $2,500. But about a third of children would not receive the full credit because their parents have low wages or lack jobs.

If you have low wages or lack a job, you don’t pay taxes. (Never mind the non-taxable value of public assistance that most such people get.)

If you don’t pay taxes, a tax credit does you no good. Duh. Even so dim a bulb as a writer for the NYT ought to be able to figure that out.

They actually pay people to write this nonsense.

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A federal judge issued an order on June 3 preserving a previous preliminary injunction that had blocked the Department of Education from rescinding extensions given to states for accessing COVID-19-related funds for school districts.

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The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously tossed out Mexico’s 2021 lawsuit against seven U.S. gunmakers and one wholesaler, ruling that firms like Smith & Wesson and Glock are shielded from liability under the federal Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA).

Mexico’s lawsuit accused U.S. gunmakers of knowingly enabling illegal firearm sales to dealers linked to drug cartels, fueling cartel violence. The government sought $10 billion in damages and a court order imposing stricter rules on the marketing and distribution of firearms.

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No situation is so bad that the government of California can’t make it worse.

Time to leave.

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FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino appeared on Hannity Wednesday night to outline the Bureau’s current priorities and address concerns around national security, immigration, and public health transparency.

The interview offered a detailed look into how the FBI, under the direction of Bongino and Director Kash Patel, is approaching both domestic and international threats during the early stages of a second Trump administration.

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Clueless in Cambridge.

NavyMatters.

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) is a reserve inventory of crude oil intended for use in the event of war or extreme emergencies. Oil is stored in 62 salt caverns at four sites along the Gulf of Mexico and holds a total of 714 million barrels of crude oil. In the event of war, the reserve could be used not only for direct military oil needs but also to supply defense industries. To give an idea of the practical impact of the SPR, as of Jan 2022, the SPR represented around 1450 days of total U.S. petroleum net imports at the usage rates at that time.

As an emergency supply, the importance of maintaining the supply at full capacity is self-evident. Unfortunately, President Biden drew down the storage levels for political gain in violation of the intent of the reserve.

As they do.

US Judge Halts Deportation of Boulder Firebombing Suspect’s Family

Judge temporarily blocks Trump administration from deporting family of suspect in Boulder attack (Melissa Quinn/CBS News)

Judge bars Trump administration from deporting family of Boulder attack suspect (Washington Post)

Judge blocks deportation of Boulder suspect’s family as DHS prepares removal (The Hill)

Dustin Lance Black, Sean Penn Hit Back as Navy Ship Is Stripped of Harvey Milk’s Name: “These Guys Are Idiots” (Exclusive) (Seth Abramovitch/The Hollywood Reporter)

Federal Judge Dismisses DNC ‘Election Interference’ Lawsuit Against Trump Admin

Trump administration ends emergency abortion requirement for hospitals (Praveena Somasundaram/Washington Post)  The Washington Poop, of course, thinks this is a bad thing.

Keith Olbermann’s CRAZY Claim: Boulder’s Blood is on Trump’s Hands

The Myth of Trumpian Deterrence (Will Saletan/The Bulwark)

Judge Boasberg: Illegals Can Contest Removal to El Salvador

Trump Is Losing Patience With Musk’s Outbursts Over Megabill (Wall Street Journal)  More mind-reading from the Narrative Media. They have no knowledge of what Trump feels; all they have is supposition based on observation, and quite often not even that, mere fantasy imaginings on their part.

San Francisco leaders blast Trump for trying to erase gay rights icon Harvey Milk’s name from ship (Janie Har/Associated Press)  Of course they do.

“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention (Hannah Allam/ProPublica)

Top CDC covid vaccine adviser quits after RFK Jr. ended recommendations (Lena H. Sun/Washington Post)

Judge Blocks Trump Administration’s Effort to Eliminate Job Corps  Because, as we all know, job training is TOTALLY the responsibility of  the Federal government – and the Federal taxpayer.

Biden’s HHS Secretary condemns Trump admin: ‘This is how public health collapses’ (Joseph Choi/The Hill)  This is news?

MAGA Policies Would Make America Mediocre (Alan S. Blinder/Wall Street Journal)  Which is a step up from the hell-hole that Democrat policies would produce.

The Ugly Truth About Trump’s ‘Appalling’ Hair: Biographer (Josephine Harvey/The Daily Beast)  When these kids hit puberty it’s going to be stunning.

The Trump Administration Is Spending $2 Million to Figure Out Whether DEI Causes Plane Crashes (Isaac Stanley-Becker/The Atlantic)

Elon Musk is a Disgusting Abomination (Paul Krugman)

Don’t Drink and Write! NYT’s Goldberg WAILS Musk’s ‘Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death’

Trump’s Beautiful Bill Will Kick 11 Million People Off Their Health Insurance (Ryan Cooper/American Prospect)  Because, as we all know, health insurance is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government – and the Federal taxpayer.

The GOP doesn’t really care how the pardons were signed (Philip Bump/Washington Post)  Philip Bump loses his shit.

When Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon Tenure Started Going Sideways (The Atlantic)

Ukraine Got a Major Battle Victory. Trump Is Not Happy. (Jonathan Lemire/The Atlantic)  More Narrative Media mind-reading. Lemire has no clue as to whether Trump is happy or not.

Legacy News Suddenly Uninterested in Judges Blocking Trump Deportations

Florida Bar complaint accuses Bondi of ‘misconduct’ as U.S. Attorney General (Jay Weaver/Miami Herald)

Trump’s Empire of Control Is Crumbling (Adam Kinzinger)

Trump Appoints 22-Year-Old Ex-Gardener and Grocery Store Assistant to Lead U.S. Terror Prevention (Tom Latchem/The Daily Beast)

Rising prices, war rooms and layoffs: The cost of Trump’s tariffs is coming (Taylor Telford/Washington Post)

Trans US Woman Seeks Asylum in Canada Citing Trump  Win-win.

Babylon Bee.

Sounds about right to me.

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A massive American financial institution publicly renounced debanking customers for their political views.

Citigroup Inc. promised not to discriminate against people based on their political views in a statement on Tuesday. Citi also committed to abolishing a 2018 policy that forced customer and product restrictions on gun manufacturers wanting to work with the bank. Citi specifically referenced “recent executive orders” and “regulatory developments” in their statement, likely in response to President Donald Trump’s opposition to debanking.

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We’re six weeks out from the Northern Hemisphere’s annual temperature cycle peak — and, as predictably as ever, the leftist corporate media, climate alarmists, and the usual “trust the science” suspects are likely preparing to ramp up their annual screamfest, warning that the planet is melting into an irreversible hellish state.

 

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Once hailed as a fast-track solution to California’s homelessness crisis, Project Homekey now looks like a billion-dollar boondoggle littered with empty buildings and broken promises.

In Los Angeles County, shuttered motels meant to house the unhoused stand lifeless—fenced-off, vacant, and increasingly resembling abandoned movie sets rather than havens for the vulnerable, according to Westside Current.

Meanwhile, a stone’s throw away, other properties funded by Homekey have become de facto homeless encampments, complete with tents and makeshift fire pits. Out of 2,157 rooms the county bought with $550 million, a staggering 71% sit empty. The city’s record is only slightly better, with 44% of its 1,237 units still unoccupied despite spending $820 million.

The problem? Bureaucratic delays, ballooning costs, and questionable deals—like a luxury Mid-City apartment building the city bought for $36.5 million despite contractor liens, or a facility flipped for twice the price just days after a private buyer snagged it.

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The strains on America’s power grids are easy to explain. After remaining relatively flat for a decade, electricity demand is now projected to jump 50% over the next 10 years. Investments in server farms, artificial intelligence, crypto-mining, and a revival of manufacturing activity account for most of this growth. For example, a recent study by the Berkeley National Laboratory found that data centers consumed 4% of total U.S. electricity in 2023 but will account for 12% of power demand by 2028.

At the same time, construction of new base-load power plants—natural gas, nuclear, and coal—has plummeted. Driven by federal, state, and local tax incentives, wind and solar have accounted for the lion’s share of new installed generation in recent years. The problem, of course, is that these power sources are intermittent, which is why New Orleans lost electricity in May and why the Iberian Peninsula suffered a blackout in April.

Although several states—most notably Texas—have adopted programs to encourage new construction of natural gas plants, for the near term it’s critical to keep the nation’s remaining coal plants online.

Since 2010, 300 “always on” coal-fired power plants have been closed, reducing its share of generation from 45% to 16% nationwide. Only about 200 remain on the regional grids today.

The Trump administration has taken several steps to enhance power grid reliability and resiliency by keeping these coal plants on-line, including a series of executive orders signed by the President in early April. One of these orders allows a number of aging coal plants slated for closure to continue producing power.

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U.S. District Court Judge Gordon Gallagher on Wednesday issued a temporary block on the planned deportation of the family of the illegal immigrant charged in the terrorist attack on pro-Israel demonstrators in Boulder, Colorado, on Sunday. Gallagher is an appointee of former President Joe Biden.

Daily Signal White House correspondent Elizabeth Mitchell joins us for a quick update on White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt and her predecessor, Biden administration press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer makes a fool out of himself, again, as Elon Musk and President Donald Trump disagree over the “Big, Beautiful Bill.”

Filmmaker Ralf Augstroze joins us in an exclusive interview to discuss the release of “The American Miracle: Our Nation is No Accident.” Check out more at www.americanmiraclemovie.com to see it in a theater near you!

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The Democratic Party’s widely ridiculed campaign to spend $20 million on a “strategic plan” to “study young men” was spearheaded by the former president of a left-wing activist group that supported efforts to “defund the police,” denounced the Supreme Court nomination of “frat boy” Brett Kavanaugh, and attacked “white women” for upholding “the patriarchy.”

Politico reports that Ilyse Hogue, former president of NARAL Pro-Choice America (now known as Reproductive Freedom for All), cofounded the Speaking with American Men project, or SAM for short, along with MSNBC contributor John Della Volpe and former Democratic congressman Colin Allred. In an interview with the Virginia-based news blog, Hogue argued the widespread mockery of the group’s efforts, which include “super charg[ing] social listening” and analyzing the “syntax, language and content that gains attention and virality” in male online communities, proved that they were on the right track.

“Democrats are seen as weak, whereas Republicans are seen as strong,” Hogue said. “Young men also spoke of being invisible to the Democratic coalition, and so you’ve got this weak problem and then you’ve got this ‘I don’t think they care about me’ problem, and I think the combination is kind of a killer.”

She is not, of course, a man, so this will be as fruitless as a transgender female.

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No, it’s to prevent crooked black women from getting fat at taxpayer expense, a cause to which Jasmin Crockett has devoted her life.

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Ukraine’s unprecedented drone assault on Russian airfields is sending shock waves through Washington, exposing vulnerabilities in U.S. military infrastructure and prompting urgent calls from lawmakers and defense officials for enhanced base protection.

Wakey-wakey.

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Sometimes the old ways are best.

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Discovered by scientists in 2000, more than 700 meters (2,300 feet) beneath the surface, the Lost City Hydrothermal Field is the longest-lived venting environment known in the ocean. Nothing else like it has ever been found.

For at least 120,000 years and maybe longer, the upthrusting mantle in this part of the world has reacted with seawater to puff hydrogen, methane, and other dissolved gases out into the ocean.

In the cracks and crevices of the field’s vents, hydrocarbons feed novel microbial communities even without the presence of oxygen.

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The Trump administration is weaponizing the Democrat playbook against the Wokerati.

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On Tuesday, the Morning Midas—a roll-on/roll-off (RoRo) vehicle carrier—was abandoned by its crew in the central Pacific Ocean following an onboard fire, according to a Bloomberg report.

The vessel was transporting approximately 3,000 vehicles, including an estimated 800 electric vehicles (EVs). The fire’s origin has not been confirmed, though lithium-ion battery ignition remains a possible cause given the cargo profile and previous mid-sea incidents involving EVs (see here & here).

Morning Midas had departed China in late May with a scheduled port call in Mexico, according to Bloomberg data.

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Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen signed into law Wednesday a measure banning transgender students from girls’ athletic events, making the state the latest to keep transgender athletes from competing on women’s and girls’ teams.

Telegraph (UK).

Now, it has been revealed that a catalogue of surgical errors, doctor in-fighting and omissions from death certificates has led police to investigate the deaths of 11 patients who had the same procedure at Castle Hill’s cardiology department between 2019 and 2023.

Documents seen by The Telegraph reveal how “a rolling power struggle” between consultants charged with running the cardiac unit distracted from caring for patients, while hospital executives alleged that doctors’ abuse of the whistleblowing system had been a “weapon of mass destruction that has harmed patients”.

All of the 11 patients were having a TAVI installed. It involves doctors replacing a damaged valve by accessing an artery, often in the upper leg, and feeding a new valve through a wire all the way to the heart, where it will sit inside the old valve and restore normal function.

Don’t you just love that government-provided ‘health care’ in the UK? Don’t you just wish the U.S. had a similar program?

This is what Democrats want to do to us.

Telegraph (UK).

European countries have blamed the EU’s environmental regulations for hindering their preparations for defending against a possible Russian invasion.

In a leaked letter obtained by The Telegraph, the nations’ defence ministers argued the rules had stopped the expansion of military bases and prevented fighter jet pilots from training.

“EU legislation may not prevent member states’ armed forces from carrying out necessary activities to become operationally ready. But right now, it does,” they wrote in a letter to Andrius Kubilius, the defence commissioner.

“Mainly (but not exclusively) in the areas of procurement legislation, nature conservation and environmental protection, and more generally the administrative burden on defence organisations deriving from various EU legal acts.”

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The U.S. Air Force says it has tested a modified 500-pound-class GBU-38 Joint Direct Attack Munition, or JDAM, optimized for use as an anti-ship munition as part of its Quicksink program. The service has already demonstrated a 2,000-pound-class Quicksink bomb, and the new version could offer a valuable lower-cost anti-ship weapon that bombers and tactical jets could also carry more of on a single sortie. At the same time, there are questions about the exact scope of maritime targets that a Quicksink GBU-38 might be effective against.

The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) announced the test of the GBU-38-based Quicksink munition today, but did not say when exactly it had occurred. A B-2 Spirit stealth bomber dropped the weapon over the Gulf Test Range, which the 96th Test Wing at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida manages. The Air Force first unveiled the Quicksink program in 2021 after a test of the 2,000-pound-class type, which is a modified GBU-31/B JDAM.

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At least when it comes to the 2,000-pound-class version, the Quicksink bomb combines the JDAM kit with a new imaging infrared seeker fitted to the nose. The Air Force has said in the past that the resulting munition, which is capable of engaging moving targets, navigates to a designated area first via GPS-assisted INS before switching over to the seeker. The weapon then finds and categorizes the target by checking its length against a detailed internal reference database. The seeker then provides additional course correction data to put the bomb on a path where it is intended to detonate right next to the target ship’s hull, just below the waterline. Initial cueing to the target, which the launch platform or offboard sources could provide, is required. The computer-generated video below depicts a full engagement cycle.

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As long as Islam exists, ‘jihadis’ will be a problem. It’s been that way for 1400 years, and there is no indication that it will change. Whether our Ruling Class will continue prating how ‘peaceful’ Muslims are while ignoring the mass murder, or whether they will wake up and decide to do something about it, is an exercise left for the reader.