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The Nation: A Federal Ruling Restricts Oversight of Social Media. A Trump-appointed judge imposed limits on the Biden administration’s contact with online platforms, potentially opening the floodgates for unregulated misinformation.

Sheesh, they are serious. 

Researchers have studied how much of our personality is set from childhood, but what you’re like isn’t who you are.

Guy rescues sea turtle 

Nurse Fired for Not Calling for Help After Having Sex with Dialysis Patient in Her Car

 Self-esteem: good or bad?

 The sexual harassment rules keep changing. Am I too old to understand?

TGIF:  TGIF: Hocus SCOTUS - The left hits out at Asians. The gays turn away from DeSantis. Biden’s Big Tech romance is suddenly on the rocks. Plus, MTG, NFTs, and TMI from the de Blasios.

 Lancet Study on Covid Vaccine Autopsies Finds 74% Were Caused by Vaccine – Journal Removes Study Within 24 Hours

 Mothers Swing at CDC for Equating Male Nipple Secretions to Breast Milk

 The green mafia loses its collective mind. Despite crazy predictions that have failed to come true, the insanity around climate policies keeps getting more extreme

 TAKE THESE CHAINS FROM MY HEART

... lefties and their media claimed that barring the government from advocating censorship was interfering in its free speech.

Deep thoughts from Kamala Harris 

 Meta Launches Data-Harvesting Twitter Clone, Immediately Starts Censoring

Guardian:  Twitter was locked in a chaotic doom loop. Now it’s on the verge of collapse

US  Army exempts trans service members from physical fitness standards

I feel that drug abuse is a terrible life plan, but what good does enforcement do? It's a serious question.

After 50 Years, the DEA Is Still Losing the War on Drugs

Seems to me that all massive enforcement could ever do is to raise the prices. There are always customers. As I have said before, I had fentanyl once, for a routine colonoscopy. Sheesh, it was pleasant. 

What's your plan for drug abuse in the US, given that most abusers reject treatment?

Well, I have had good Wagyu a couple of times. It's like foie gras, but to make a regular prime thick ribeye even better, use plenty of butter. And don't grill it.

How to get blocked by @PETA 

 Do you belong to a sex club?  If so, do you claim your sex club dues as an expense on your income tax? 

 Ben & Jerry’s ugly 4th of July tweet shows why woke brands fail

 Reports on judge halting Biden admin's ability to censor Americans go full state media

Should be a big deal. Governments have little incentive for truth.

 Chris Hedges: They Lied About Afghanistan. They Lied About Iraq. And They Are Lying About Ukraine.

 MSNBC hopes to Make Fascism Great Again with full-throated advocacy for government censoring Americans

 "Orwellian Ministry Of Truth" Busted - Judge Bars Biden Officials, Agencies From Contacting Social Media Companies

 "It doesn’t quite have the ring of driving Miss Daisy, but on Independence Day a federal judge enjoined the Biden administration’s communications with social media companies. You can tell this is good news by the dyspepsia of the New York Times..."

Say Farewell To The "Diversity Benefits" Rationale For Affirmative Action

 The Downside of Diversity

Heather:   A Battle for Cultural Survival - In the face of the Left’s hyper-aggressive transgender ideology, conservatives must reassert the legitimacy of bourgeois norms.

 America traditionally had few immigration restrictions, but since the 1920s, the law has banned most aspiring immigrants. Today, fewer than 1 percent of people who want to move permanently to the United States can do so legally...

 After years of hearing immigration downplayed by official apologists, the French now realize just how much mass migration has changed the country...

I would never boat in fog on purpose. Commercial fisherman do it all the time - no choice. Furthermore, they know their waters by heart.

Got stuck in a fog bank this morning for an hour or so. Not fun. Where would recreational boaters be without GPS? I do have radar but not expert with it. I am a fair-weather boater. Not in the past, but now.

 Navigating In The Fog - When the heat of summer rolls in, humid air and cold water create a dense fog that blankets the coastline.

 Scientists find that the boost you get from a morning coffee can’t be replicated with plain caffeine.

 Great White Sharks Are Surging off Cape Cod. Cape Cod has quickly become one of the largest white shark hotspots in the world and the first ever in the North Atlantic

 Elizabeth Warren Says Without Affirmative Action, A Native American Girl Like Herself Would Never Have Been Accepted To Rutgers

 No One Is Happy About Diversity Efforts at Work. The Supreme Court’s decision to eliminate affirmative action hits workplaces as diversity initiatives face pressure from supporters and skeptics; ‘Stop being so woke’

 Don't Get The Idea That Internet Censorship Is Diminishing

 Michigan Hate Speech Bill Would Make Using Wrong Pronouns A Felony With $10K Fine, Prison Time

Your microwave is a Faraday Cage, and other good advice.

I've been boating in thunderstorms. Not recommended.

We are lucky to have readers all over the world. To all of our American readers, Happy 4th of July.

I blame climate change.

Even in theory? Much less a marine alternator...Yeah, we had to make a little one in Jr. High School Science. Fun with wires and magnets and stuff. But a functional explosion-proof marine one? God forbid. A/C current is cool.

The people who design and make such things are smarter than I am. 

That Pompeii fresco could never have been pizza as we think of it. Sure, humans have put stuff on breads since bread was first made because bread alone is boring. It probably was like focaccia with stuff on it. No tomato or mozzarella though. Maybe fruit, oil, herbs.

Pastry stuff less boring, as in our galette post yesterday. Looks like a pizza.

While the typical Italian-American "tomato pie" is what Americans tend to think of, pretty much anything can be cooked on a pizza crust. In Southern Italy and Sicily, the menu will have 40-50 choices, most without tomato. Consider figs with goat cheese.

Or, in my photo from Sicily, egg and olive with pureed red pepper. 

 Some US cities are replacing 4th of July fireworks with environmentally friendly drones

Isn't the noise the thrill? 

 Success Academy smashes Regents AND lefty lies on standardized testing

Wow. Do NYC charter schools admit any white kids?

 RFK Jr. denounces Supreme Court ruling striking down affirmative action

Hmmm 

 Musk's Tweet-Limiting Move Is To Prevent The Completion Of The "AI-Censorship-Death-Star"

 And Just Like That, Sex Talk Comes to Work. Younger workers have less sex, but they talk about it at the office

 I'm Afraid We Have To Talk About "Her Penis"

 The trans revolution, the most startling and unforeseeable in human history, is all the more remarkable for its scientific illiteracy and philosophical incoherence. 

 Defiant Harvard vows to continue to use race in admissions decisions

Of course. They do not want to be an all-Asian school 

 The shoplifting epidemic taking over America with a $100B annual price tag

 Asian Americans Celebrate Affirmative Action Ruling With 5-Minute Study Break

 More gloomy news from Biden! White House backs plan to BLOCK sunlight from hitting surface of the Earth in bid to limit global warming

 Bill Gates wants to spray millions of tonnes of CHALK into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight and slow global warming 

EVs pay no gas taxes 

 LIBERALS BECLOWN THEMSELVES IN REACTION TO SCOTUS DECISIONS

 Winsome Sears Nukes Ketanji Brown Jackson's Dissent: ‘Chosen Because She’s Black’

 Michelle Obama rage-tweets about blacks being oppressed -- from a fancy Greek yacht vacay out in the Mediterranean

THE FRENCH RIOTS: WHAT HAPPENED?

 France Has Fallen: Migrant Mob Torch Mayor’s Home, Wife and Kids Injured Escaping

 The Wagner 'Coup' Was Staged by Putin—and the West Fell for It | Opinion

It's like a fruit pizza, with pastry dough.

As reader commented, "easier than pie." 

Recipes here. 

It's not a law, it's a rule of thumb. What is the Pareto Principle?

Politics has made me more aware of race. The crazy thing is that in my life (say, in my gym or walking down a street in NYC), it's often difficult to identify many peoples' races. Lots of mixing. Given centuries, how many American-born "blacks" are pure genetically southern African? It's rare, but I think Clarence Thomas is one. And I don't know what "Hispanic" means, but I have known a guy whose father was a Spanish aristocrat who got into Princeton, in part, as a Hispanic. Impressive person.

People, especially those with resources, often game college admissions for the most competitive and well-known names.  That's how people tend to be. Despite the Supremes, very few colleges are highly-competitive. America has thousands of colleges, and most will give almost anybody a try. They need warm seats, and can be excellent for motivated young men and women.

What is the history of the Racial Diversity ethic?  The always thoughtful Peter Wood: Why the Supreme Court’s Harvard decision matters

8 Surefire Ways To Get Your Wife To Stop Being Mad At You

 Glorious Renée Fleming on her Kennedy Center honor and wild, globe-hopping tour

 Feminists have a greater preference for premium beauty products, study finds

 Why do people think conservatives are mean?

WSJ: Why K-12 education is in decline 

 Rochelle Walensky: America needs more despair

How Higher Ed operates as a cut-throat business 

TGIF:  Affirmative action is illegal. Hunter Biden is unlawful. D.C. murders are up. Media profits are down. Plus, DeSantis reminds us he’s running for president.

 Yesterday, Public reported on the new House Judiciary Commiteee report on how the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has been engaged in an effort with big tech companies to censor American citizens.

 Traumatized DeSantis Venezuelans: Martha's Vineyard ROCKS!

Powerline:  Disparate treatment on the basis of race is wrong. Racial discrimination is wrong. Today is a great day for the United States.

 ‘Affirmative Action’ Was Racist from Day One — And It Will Continue

Harsanyi:  Justice Jackson is free to make the case that our history has robbed black Americans of their agency, and so the Fourteenth Amendment should be rewritten. She is free to believe that Asian Americans and whites, and perhaps others, do not deserve equal protection under the law. But those arguments belong in the editorial pages of The Atlantic or The New York Times, not in the Supreme Court.

Tucker on RFK Jr and Covid

Yes, politics is entertainment. It's fun the way the Dems now term RFK "the threat to democracy and science." Sheesh - I thought Trump was. All he does is ask questions, but not too medically-sophisticated. Not dangerous. True, he has an allegedly ugly Kennedy-esque past which will all come to light (not just the drugs) but nobody's perfect.

Tucker is wrong about autism. There is an explanation for the diagnosis rise: the diagnostic criteria changed to include many people who had been called Asperger's or other sort-off odd and eccentric things. 

Tucker is right about upspeak/uptalk. It is awful. 

Is Bobby Kennedy now the most censored person in the US? 

The Supremes' decision on affirmative action, I think, will make no practical difference. It's very American, though, to say that nobody is special. 

His comment on Justice Roberts' majority decision: