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That call is made in a new campaign sponsored by the American Association of University Professors to force “colleges to drop their contracts with ICE’s key corporate enablers.”

Despite years of criticism over the purging of faculty ranks of conservatives and libertarians, university professors continue to double down on far-left ideology that is now an orthodoxy in higher education.

I previously wrote about the AAUP’s ideological shift in my book, The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage. After that book, the AAUP then selected Todd Wolfson, a far-left activist, as its new president.

Wolfson ran on the pledge to make AAUP a “fighting organization” for social change.

After his selection, Wolfson has called Trump supporters “fascists” and demanded boycotts of Israel.

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Massachusetts lawmakers are barreling ahead with a bill that would force the state to slash the total miles residents drive, all under the banner of cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

The proposal, Senate Bill S.2246, doesn’t slap a hard cap on your daily commute… yet – but it orders the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) to set binding goals for reducing statewide vehicle miles traveled (VMT). It also creates a new government council tasked with pushing people onto public transit whether they like it or not.

Time to leave.

Babylon Bee.

As you’ve probably heard, there is a chimpanzee civil war in Uganda.

The Babylon Bee is here with what you need to know so you sound educated when the chimp civil war comes up in daily conversation.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

The Trump administration on Friday fired two judges who blocked the deportations of international students involved in pro-Palestinian activism.

One of the judges, Roopal Patel, a Boston immigration court judge, oversaw the Trump administration’s immigration case against Rümeysa Öztürk, a Turkish Tufts University doctoral student who was detained by ICE agents on the street in Somerville last March.

In February, Patel found there were no grounds to deport her, following a months-long legal battle with the Trump administration and opposition to her arrest from Jewish students and groups.

The other judge fired on Friday, Nina Froes of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, blocked the deportation of Mohsen Mahdawi, a pro-Palestinian student activist at Columbia University and green card holder from the West Bank, in February.

To be clear, these aren’t real judges, i.e. appointed and confirmed under Article III of the Constitution. The immigration ‘courts’ are administrative civil courts within the Department of Justice.

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Well, not much demand for Grievance Studies majors.

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As indeed it is.

Jamall Bowman, Yet Another Corrupt Black Democrat Politician, famously was caught on camera pulling a fire alarm to  block a vote in the House of Representatives that appeared to be going against his side.

Perhaps he might try reading (if he can read) a history book.

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Where would we be without them?

BBC, a Voice of the Crust.

Ancient grains are those that have barely changed for hundreds of years. Unlike commonly farmed crops like wheat, which humans have selectively bred over millennia, ancient grains have maintained genetic properties from their wild ancestors. And today they enjoying something of a resurgence in popularity.

They’re linked to many health claims, including that they contain more nutrients than their modern counterparts.

But are they really any better than more modern grains, which have been shaped and moulded by agricultural practices since the Stone Age?

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Back in 2017, when I started working in venture capital, AVs were one of the hottest themes in “tech”. Perhaps this had something to do with Elon Musk proclaiming in December 2015 that Tesla would deliver “full autonomy” within two years. (Musk has earned himself a reputation for repeatedly jumping the gun on this topic.) This frenzy was also fueled by Uber, which was flying high at the time, and talking a big game about self-driving cars. In any case, a substantial share of the tech community was convinced that AVs were right around the corner.

In hindsight, this level of excitement was clearly premature. Tech leaders were generally way too bullish about the prospect for AV commercialization in 2017, and 2018, and 2019 (and 2020, and 2021…) Yet, in the scheme of human history, it turns out that AVs were, in fact, approximately “right around the corner”. AVs are finally real now, and most people I know have not yet fully contended with the transformational potential of this technology.

That’s partially because of the way that Waymo, the leading American AV company, has rolled out its services: gradually, and then all at once… one city at a time. This initial approach to the market was driven by the need to train machine learning models on real city streets, and establish a track record of safety in order to earn public acceptance. If you haven’t spent time recently in either of the company’s launch markets — Phoenix or San Francisco — you may not be aware of just how rapidly Waymo has made progress towards both of those objectives.

The Register:

A simple equation has reached a critical point, and it may be irreversible. Every year of Apple Silicon, the experience of using a Mac has gotten better. Every year of Windows 11, the experience of using a PC has gotten worse.

The Foundry.

On July 4, American taxpayers are set to resume funding one of the nation’s largest providers of so-called gender-affirming care for children, which also just happens to be the nation’s largest provider of abortion. If that’s not a killjoy for America’s 250th birthday, I don’t know what is.

Last year, President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act defunded Big Abortion providers like Planned Parenthood of almost $800 million in taxpayer-funded Medicaid reimbursements, dealing a significant blow to the nation’s largest abortion franchise.

In July 2025 alone, Planned Parenthood shuttered 25 clinics across the country, and the total number of closures has reached 47. Planned Parenthood cannot seem to survive on its own without a $792.2 million crutch from hard-working Americans who, by and large, do not want to be complicit in its practices.

While the one-year defunding of Big Abortion businesses in the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” demonstrated one of the largest legislative wins in pro-life history, the defunding is set to expire on July 4, 2026. Come America’s 250th, taxpayers will be footing the bill for the nation’s largest abortion franchise once again.

Little do many realize, however, that funding Planned Parenthood also means propping up one of the nation’s leading providers of so-called gender-affirming care: cross-sex hormones, puberty blockers, and referrals for mastectomies and other sex-rejecting procedures.

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One of the main organizations behind the recent protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations is encouraging children to walk out of class en masse next month to help promote its agenda, which includes achieving what it said are “Eco-socialism, [a] multi-racial democracy, and Green New Deal legislation,” according to a April 8 report by representatives of parent group Defending Education.

I’ve never heard of ‘eco-socialism’. Is that another one of the Left’s made-up mouth-wrangles, like ‘social justice’?

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For the record, as Jim Treacher helpfully points out, it stands for “Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, and “additional identities (“+”).

The excitement was started by a Canadian New Democratic Party member of parliament, Leah Gazan, who complained that not enough money was being spent to “deal with the ongoing genocide of MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+.”

I didn’t know that MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ was a ethnic group. Perhaps someone might lend her a dictionary and point out that ‘genocide’ doesn’t mean what she apparently thinks it means.

Treacher tried and failed to keep a straight face in reporting on this phenomenon.

I’ll bet.

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Thousands of migrants from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East have entered the United Kingdom under a visa scheme originally designed to support Ukrainian refugees fleeing from the war.

According to Home Office data analysed by The Telegraph, nearly 3,500 visas have been granted to people from 112 countries, including Iran, Iraq, India, Afghanistan, Nigeria, and the Palestinian territories.

The figures relate to two UK programmes created to allow Ukrainians to enter Britain either through family connections or through sponsorship under the Homes for Ukraine scheme.

In total, non-Ukrainians account for almost one in every 80 of the 279,223 visas issued under the Ukrainian visa routes. Russians represent the largest group among these applicants, with 588 individuals granted entry, followed by Nigerians, Afghans, Iraqis, Moldovans, Turks, Indians, Belarusians, Iranians, and Egyptians. Smaller numbers were also recorded from countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

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Raymond Ibrahim reminds us (yet again) that Islam is an existential threat to the West.

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The field of economics fully developed scientifically in the 20th century. The names John Maynard Keynes, Milton Friedman, and Friedrich Hayek come to mind. However, one additional man became the one most referenced in the last part of the 20th century and continues as such today. That man is Arthur Laffer. The Joint Committee on Taxation of the U.S. Congress recently released a report telling us Laffer is even more accurate than previously thought.

His nephew Bill was a friend of mine at Yale—as was Robert Bork’s son Charlie.

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An “Italian” imam named Ali Kashif went on TV and announced that girls who have reached nine years of age may be considered women, and are appropriate marriage material. The Italian government reacted in an sensible manner and expelled him from the country, putting him on a flight to his native Pakistan.

This is based on the fact that Mohammed married his last ‘wife’ when she was 9 years old.

So far as I am aware, Islam is the only religion founded by a pedophile.

The American Mind.

The administration’s prioritization of the “worst first” has unintentionally created a de facto enforcement amnesty for aliens unlawfully present in the United States who have not committed a subsequent crime. DHS data indicate that in 2025, ICE deported fewer than 350,000 illegal aliens. This is not the mass deportation agenda the American people voted for.

President Trump deserves credit for securing the southwest border and all but stopping the flow of illegal aliens into the United States. But much more needs to be done on interior enforcement to effectuate an actual mass deportation agenda that the president promised on the campaign trail.

Enter the Mass Deportation Coalition. This coalition was organized in February 2026 in response to political, operational, legal, and physical attacks on deportation operations. Our purpose is to support President Trump’s signature campaign promise to carry out the largest deportation operation in American history. The Mass Deportation Coalition is composed of immigration law and policy experts (including those affiliated with The Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life), former senior and rank-and-file law enforcement officials, advocates, and supporters of immigration enforcement. We are growing and regularly adding new members to the coalition.

The Foundry.

he days of peak DOGE may be over, but Trump’s quiet transformation of the federal bureaucracy continues.

The Trump administration shrank the federal workforce to its smallest number since the launch of LBJ’s Great Society. This incredible stat, little remarked upon by the media, was dredged up by X user Christian Heiens.

“Since Trump took office, over 352,000 Federal employees have been fired, resigned, or retired and were not replaced,” Heiens wrote on X. “The Federal workforce is smaller today than at any point since 1966.”

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The European Commission is moving toward a historic revival of emergency energy taxes as the 2026 Iran War sends fuel prices into a vertical climb.

Under intense pressure from a coalition of five member states—Austria, Germany, Italy, Portugal, and Spain—Brussels is currently assessing a new bloc-wide “windfall profit tax” on the oil and gas industry.

The move mirrors the 2022 “solidarity contribution” sparked by the Russia-Ukraine war, but with a critical new dimension: ministers are now demanding that the tax also capture the foreign profits of multinational energy giants.

Times are good? Raise taxes! Times are bad? Raise taxes!

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The first woman to serve as a Chancery judge was appointed in 1984.when the court expended to four judges. She retired in 1994. A second female judge served from 2015-2019. There are now seven judges, four of them women, including the first woman to serve as Chancellor, Kathleen St. Jude McCormick appointed in 2021.

Delaware has been well-known for being a jurisdiction with laws favorable to those entrusted with corporate governance. One of the significant advantages of Delaware incorporation has been the highly professional, predictable, jury-free work of the Chancery Court staffed with highly qualified specialists in corporate law. It is still the case that the judges and magistrates on the Chancery Court have impeccable credentials.

There is no corporate tax in Delaware. There have been no significant adverse legislative changes. So why have a significant number of big firms such as Tesla, Dropbox, Coinbase, the Trump Media Group and other tech firms suddenly re-incorporated in Nevada, Florida or Texas? It is understandable that firms would flee California’s tax and regulatory predation, but what has changed in Delaware?

In a controversial and apparently diagnostic ruling, Chancellor McCormick agreed with a plaintiff shareholder that Elon Musk’s Tesla compensation package violated a fairness standard even though it had been approved by the board in accordance with company rules and procedures. The Delaware Supreme Court overruled her and found her assumption that Musk must have exerted undo influence violated the rather basic principle of law that the plaintiff must prove his case and by implication that the defendant is not required to overcome the inclinations of the judge.

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Lot of that going around these days.

To point out that the “FT is nothing more than the Guardian with stock prices these days”, a “once mighty publications fallen into the abyss of wokery” would be only to shoot the messenger bearing the familiar pink newsprint. Let’s now turn to the message itself, lest one stand accused of employing ad hominem tactics.

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As much as many centrists and libertarians are opposed to Donald Trump’s ongoing strikes against Iran, I have to say, the downstream result might end up becoming one of the most libertarian results I have ever seen. For decades, small government activists like those in the Ron Paul movement have been calling for a comprehensive US divorce from NATO and the shutdown of America’s military bases overseas. Trump has, either deliberately or inadvertently, set this very process in motion.

The refusal of most of Europe (and Australia) to provide support in the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz might seem like geopolitical orbiting – In other words, getting involved could hurt them more than it would help them. Of course, these nations are far more exposed to the Hormuz closure and the slowdown in energy exports than the US. You would think their interests would demand a securing of the strait.

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Of course, you all remember the Party of Socialism & Liberation, right? Right?

Geez, guys, get over yourselves….

Newsbusters.

The same feminist rag encouraging mothers to publicly reject their children has another totally not life-ruining word of advice for married couples: Cheat on your spouse!

It will save your marriage, according to New York Magazine’s lonely and childless cat ladies at The CUT.

John Stossel.

Don’t these politicians realize that in America, people can move?

The same day Washington’s House passed its millionaire’s tax, Starbucks billionaire Howard Schultz announced that he’s leaving Washington for Florida.

Billionaires Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, Steven Spielberg, Peter Thiel and now Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have left California.

For 170 years, California brought in more people than any other state. It’s clear why — the weather is awesome. There were growing opportunities and jobs.

But now regulation and taxes have changed that.

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Fox News host Laura Ingraham dismantled Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) on live television for co-sponsoring the DIGNIDAD (Dignity) Act, a bipartisan bill critics slam as mass amnesty for illegal aliens.

They even made the acronym a Spanish word, so you couldn’t miss the intent.

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Hezbollah has fired approximately 3,000 rockets from an area where the Lebanese Army claimed to have disarmed the terror group, the Israeli military said, casting serious doubt on Beirut’s ability to control the Iranian-backed militia and raising fresh security concerns for Israel and the region.

According to the Israel Defense Forces, the projectiles were launched from territory south of the Litani River — a zone Lebanese officials had declared cleared of Hezbollah weapons earlier this year, The Times of Israel reported.

Israeli military spokesman Col. Avichay Adraee said those assurances have now been proven false.

“Today, it is clear that this announcement was nothing but an outright lie,” Adraee said, pointing to the thousands of rockets fired since fighting intensified on March 2.

Unlike Christians and Jews, Muslims have no problem with lying if it benefits Islam. Never did.

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Housing costs in New York City have reached a level that many people can no longer afford. The response has been to push for more control—limits on rent increases and expanded tenant protections. The intention is clear. However, housing markets respond to incentives, not intentions.

Under Zohran Mamdani, New York City is moving further in that direction.

The focus is on limiting rent increases, expanding tenant protections, and increasing the role of government in the housing market.

The policy has not fully taken effect yet. Once these rules interact with rising costs, the housing market will respond to the incentives.

Rent control keeps rents down, but it does not keep costs down for the landlord.

There is no cap on insurance premiums. Property taxes can still rise year after year. Maintenance and labor costs continue to climb as well. As those costs rise, landlords are forced to adjust. Some delay maintenance. Others see their margins get too thin to justify the risk.

Economics 101: Leftists need not apply.

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It is with deep regret that I must shatter long held illusions about the structure of our world. The seasons don’t make sense. Our calendar is wrong. The things you believe to be summer, winter, spring, and fall are not as they seem. The “first day” of any season, the most broken concept of all, has misled untold billions.

In the Good Old Days, the seasons switched at the Quarter Days: May 1, August 1, November 1, and February 1. (Beltane, Lammas, Samhain, and Imbolg, for those of us Celtically minded.)

Sometimes the oldest ways are best.

New York Times, Paper of Record of the Crust.

The device burned an exterior gate of the house, in San Francisco, the police said, and it was unclear whether the artificial intelligence executive was home. The authorities arrested a suspect.

This is why rich people have so much security. Any random psychotic can be your enemy without you knowing it.

Remember, even Gandhi was assassinated.

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For many years the US government maintained a strategic helium reserve, but this was sold off in 2024.

In June, before the election, by the Biden Administration.

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This dweeb participated in some anti-Israel protests at Columbia that got VERY antisemitic and caused a lot of damage.

The Trump admin wanted to send him home, but judges said it was unconstitutional to send a foreign Arab student back to his own country so here we are.

Now that he’s lost again in court, he’s STILL not going to be removed from the country anytime soon.

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Zul Mirza Mohamed, according to the media, is a “Texas man” who was convicted of mail-in fraud in the 2020 election while he was running for mayor of the town of Carrolton.

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If you don’t know, there are huge numbers of migrants being pumped into Denton, just north of Dallas, and the surrounding towns.

Mohamed pled guilty to the crime and was sentenced to four years in prison and 10 years probation in December 2024.

HOWEVER, Mohamed then filed for appeal one month later.

Instead of making him wait in jail, a judge allowed him out on bond. More than a year later, he’s still out on bond, living as free as a bird. All a man named “Mohamed” has to do to get out of jail is say the American Constitution protects him from the consequences of his own crimes, I guess.

This allowed him to register for the 2026 mayoral election

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Those Brits, am I right?

4 chaps from jolly old England sauntered upon “the Golden Road” in Maine after illegally crossing the Canadian border into the United States, probably looking for a cup o’ tea.

The Brits’ names?

Ali Mohammed Ali Abdullah, Hameed Mohammed Nagi, Ibrahim Ayyub Khan, and Mohammed Sultan Saleh.

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How long have we heard that microplastics are everywhere and probably responsible for all kinds of physical ills?

Even RFK Jr. and Trump’s EPA are hitting the microplastics hard, to the tune of $144 million in research grants over the next five years.

However, some scientists at the University of Michigan may have just thrown a big wrinkle into that particular money machine.

The Times (UK).

Hundreds of NHS staff spend the majority of their time at work on trade union-related activities, data reveals.

Taxpayers have footed a £100 million bill for so-called facility time across the NHS since 2020 to allow union officials paid time off work for union activities.

Some 305 NHS employees had permission to spend more than half of their working hours on union-related activity, including 172 people who are full-time trade union organisers paid by a hospital or ambulance service.

Overall, 2,978 NHS staff received permission to spend at least some of their working hours on so-called facility time in the year ending March 2025, according to the latest available data published by the Cabinet Office.

U.S. government unions work the same scam.

The War Zone.

The U.S. Navy has abandoned plans to return the Los Angeles class attack submarine USS Boise to active duty. This brings an end to the saga of a still-incomplete major overhaul of the boat, which has lasted more than a decade now. In that time, it has become a poster child for the Navy’s worrisome struggles to tackle huge maintenance backlogs, as well as larger concerns about the availability, or lack thereof, of naval shipyard capacity in the United States.

The Navy announced its decision to inactivate Boise, which was first commissioned into service in 1992, earlier today.

“After a rigorous, data-driven analysis, we’ve made the tough but necessary decision to inactivate the USS Boise,” Navy Adm. Daryl Caudle, Chief of Naval Operations, the service’s top officer, said in a statement. “This strategic move allows us to reallocate America’s highly-skilled workforce to our highest priorities: delivering new Virginia and Columbia class submarines and improving the readiness of the current fleet. We owe it to our Sailors and the nation to make these tough calls to build a more capable and ready Navy.”

UPDATE: Criminal Negligence – USS Boise

I know how he feels.

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Two migrants in a Berlin suburb, one from Afghanistan and the other from Syria, got a bit frisky on Tuesday night, as culture-enrichers are wont to do when they are far from home in a racist and Islamophobic country. In the resulting knife fight, the Syrian was killed.

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We’ve all become numb to the way the LGBT acronym has slowly expanded over the years until it’s hard to remember what all the letters mean, but an activist in Canada decided to prove once and for all that no one will ever rival our northern neighbor in the woke Olympics.

Get ready for “MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+.” It’s the supercalifragilisticexpialidocious of identity politics, one long string of oppression that uses 10 of the 26 letters of the alphabet (including several it uses twice).

Fortunately, I don’t have to use AI to try to parse this because a Canadian editor for Quillette jumped in to explain.

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A woman who lived with three life-threatening autoimmune diseases for more than a decade has returned to a near-normal life after a cell therapy reset her wayward immune system.

The 47-year-old had had nine different treatments, none of which had a lasting impact, before receiving the therapy last year at University Hospital Erlangen in Germany. At the time, she required daily blood transfusions and permanent blood thinning medication to control her illness.

Within weeks of having the cell therapy, doctors noticed that all three diseases had responded, marking a world first and a striking improvement in the woman’s condition. For the past 14 months she has been in treatment-free remission and largely able to return to normal life.

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Jermaine Grant, 43, of no fixed abode, is accused of directing the activities of Al-Shabaab between December 31st, 2007, and January 1st, 2010.

Grant also faces three counts of attending an Al-Shabaab commando training camp in Kismayu, Somalia—contrary to Section 8 of the Terrorism Act 2006. In addition, he has been charged with two counts of possession of an article, namely an AK-47 assault rifle, for terrorist purposes under Section 57 of the Terrorism Act 2000. The charges follow an investigation by Counter Terrorism Policing London.

He is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court, where the case will proceed. Frank Ferguson, head of the Crown Prosecution Service’s special crime and counter terrorism division, stated that prosecutors determined there is sufficient evidence and that pursuing the case is in the public interest. He added that the charges relate to Grant’s alleged involvement with Al-Shabaab during 2008 and 2009.

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In late 2024 I was shopping for milk when I started wondering how many cows — or how many days — it would take to produce my 1.5L bottle. I looked it up and found that the most productive dairy cows can yield fifty litres per day at their peak. Which means my bottle took roughly 43 minutes to produce. 43 minutes!!

My first reaction was that milk must be absurdly overpriced. If one cow can produce fifty litres a day, how is supply ever a problem? But that question quickly got overtaken by a different one. I was standing in the dairy aisle looking at the yoghurt, the cheese, the butter, the cream, the condensed milk, the powder, the ghee.. and it hit me — hold on. This is all from milk? ALL of it? The same white liquid? How?

So I spent a few weekends Googling, and the answer was way more complicated than I expected. This post is me documenting that rabbit hole.

 

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Moore literally took a bullet to the leg to stop a student who hoped to enact another Columbine-style mass shooting.

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This is not satire. This is the new LGBT acronym, apparently.

Sounds to me as if someone can’t be bothered to use a dictionary.

UPDATE: MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+

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Sodom and Gomorrah are starting to feel embarrassed about the Twin Cities.