Maggie's Farm

Why do so many people appear to want a government to determine what is true?  Strange, especially in the USA.

As American-bred, I never trust government. Government is another special interest group. Government people lie all the time, for their greater good.

What is an NPC? 

 Woman Found Dead After Grizzly Bear Encounter Near Yellowstone

 Bidens’ dog Commander involved in biting incidents as White House says he’s getting more training

  "Gluttony had a good run as a cardinal sin, but it's just not that big of a deal anymore," 

 What could possibly cause a teen athlete’s heart to stop? Bronny James’s heart reportedly stopped during practice. Incidents like this are rare but explainable.

 As evidence mounts against their position, how long will proponents of “gender-affirming care” for minors hold out?

Why journalists should be skeptical of scientists

 Anthony Fauci Behind Covid Origins Disinformation, Evidence Suggests. Communications between scientists show pressure from “higher ups” to dismiss the lab leak theory of Covid origins

 Harvard ethics professor allegedly fabricated multiple behavioral science studies

NYC to illegals:  We're kicking you out. Find somewhere to go.

 “Western Military Officials Knew Kiev Didn’t Have the Training or Weapons to Dislodge Russian Forces”

 China abandons Paris Climate Accords

Oppenheimer, from 1948

 Burn Some Witches; Save the Planet

 Retract "Proximal Origin?" No, says Nature Medicine editor

 Our society’s ‘top brains’ have gone mad — and dysfunctional politics is the result

 The subways are an insane asylum on wheels — we must get the mentally ill off the trains

 Fed-up NYC businesses sound off as migrant crisis causes chaos in the streets, hits shops’ wallets: ‘Enough is enough’ 

 China is counting on America’s suicidal immigration policy

 Stories like Russiagate and the Hunter Biden affair play into the paranoid underbelly of American politics. For those Americans that look for the hidden hand of a deep state, these scandals are proof that the system itself is rigged.

 Hanania, Rufo, and Conservative Strategy - Going after the Deep Left

 The Jaw-Dropping Hunter Biden–Investigation Revelations

 "We Need A Real Investigation" Of Biden Bribery & Burisma; RFK Jr Says Mainstream Media Criticizing Him More Than Trump

Austria: Ukraine is a bottomless pit 

 Couples in which the woman is the only earner report lower life satisfaction

Doubt it's a problem if the guy has bigger assets 

Solve for X 

I have never used social media 

Re  Bring Back the Asylums

Stuart's Miscellany 

Liberal Faculty Members Flee Florida’s New College Following DeSantis Takeover

 Rethinking Higher Ed with Harvard’s Former President. Larry Summers reveals why universities should ban legacy admissions, scrap elite sports, and make a first-rate education more available to all.

"All"? 

 Many U.S. women’s soccer players refused to acknowledge the national anthem

 Nobel Prize winner SILENCED by IMF after saying ‘I don’t believe there is a climate crisis'

 How California’s weather catastrophe turned into a miracle

 Another offshore wind project goes blade tips up

  'Miss Italy' Bans Biological Males From Beauty Pageant

 DEI and the End of the Constitutional Order - Christopher Rufo

 When a colon just won't work as a vagina

 Trans surgery nightmares revealed: 81% endure pain in the five years after gender-change procedures, more than half say having sex is painful - and a third are left incontinent

 Concerns Raised Over Number Of Students Identifying As LGBT

I am not concerned 

 Biden Overrules Pentagon and Names a Female Admiral to Head the Navy

 The Total Number of Illegal Aliens Who Entered US Under Joe Biden Is More than the Population of 35 States

 Biden Regime Escalates War on American Consumers in the Name of ‘Climate Change’ — Announces New Scheme to Eliminate ‘Outdated’ Water Heaters

 Baltimore experiencing "a new type of violence"

 Why is Mexico’s president Lopez-Obrador sticking his nose in US elections?

 Zelensky Blames Failing Counteroffensive On Lack Of Munitions From West, Delayed Training

 Russia: 15 Leopards, 20 Bradleys Destroyed in 24 Hours, Large Number of Western Mercenaries Eliminated

 The Coyotes Are Not What They Seem. On Hybrid Vigor

 Bob Ross, Populist Artist - A Netflix documentary and a new film about the beloved American TV painter explore a life marked by popular success and personal betrayal.

 NYC to pay 2020 rioters about $10,000 each

 Sadly, Many Happiness Studies Are Flawed. New research concludes that older practices in psychology allowed scientists to find results when in truth there were none

 "Just Stop Pissing Everyone Off": Citizen Heroes Confront Environmentalists' Traffic-Blocking Bull$hit

 Welcome to the 'Climate' Nut House

 Mental Health Round-Ups: The Next Phase Of The Government's War On Thought-Crimes

WSJ:  It’s Time to Bring Back Asylums. Recent cases of violence by the mentally ill highlight the need to reconsider a long-maligned institution that now offers a promising solution.

Another Week, Another Layer in the Hunter Biden Story

 Why Ukraine’s counter-offensive is failing

 I tried to teach for America, and I failed

 The Dark Side of Self-Making - The gospel of radical self-creation distances us from our true selves.

 Ivy League LGBTQ+ numbers soar and students point to identity politics

 Texas professor fired after teaching sex is determined by chromosomes

 "Go Somewhere That Understands Your Worth" - Los Angeles Police Union Boss Tells Cops Leaving City

 TGIF: Swifties Save the Economy. Skims save lives. Bipartisan psychedelics. California’s war against algebra. Queer water (yep). And much more from Nellie Bowles.

The Southern Poverty Law Center Makes Millions Trafficking Hate

 House Dems attempt to censor RFK Jr on censorship -- and he erupts

 Why DeSantis Entering the Primaries Was a Big Mistake

 Strange Increase In Volume Of Congregational Singing Noted When Worship Leader Slips In Old Hymn

 The media is spreading bad trans science. Misleading studies are being taken as gospel

 Where Johnny Cash Came From

 Norman Mailer Was an Out-and-Out Psychopath

 Welcome to the MAGA Hamptons! Every summer, the haute bourgeoisie of Middle America descend on Lake of the Ozarks to jet ski, barbecue ribs, and (until 2023) drink a shit-ton of Budweiser.

Click bait:  Popular "all-American" Companies That Are Now Internationally-Owned

 Welcome To Canada — The Doctor Won’t See You Now, But The Undertaker Will

 Scotland Cuts Down Forest to Make Room for Windmills

 Biden DoD Lets Transgender Service Members Skip Deployments, Receive Indefinite Physical Fitness Waivers

 The Left’s Social Contract Is Broken. Here’s How to Fix It. A relentless focus on dubious forms of ‘oppression’ is alienating traditional leftists. Saving the progressive movement means returning it to its liberal roots

Stanford Law refuses comment on fate of DEI dean who helped shout down judge

 Stuart's miscellany

I have no hate for the guy, but he is in bad shape 

 Jack Smith bought a sandwich at Subway and CNN lost its mind

 Massachusetts asks homeowners to take in illegal migrants

 NYT casually drops a truth bomb: about 30% of "COVID deaths" weren't from COVID

 Top Scientists Misled Congress About Covid Origins, Newly Released Emails And Messages Show

Science begins with observation. Is observation Science? 

 America the Stoned - More states are legalizing weed every year. An estimated 13.2 million Americans use the drug every day. So why is it starting to feel like a bad idea?

 WOKE KINDERGARTEN

 The Comely Face of Western Self-Cancellation - Miss Netherlands is a Mister.

 9th Circuit Shuts Down Bid To Block Lithium Mine

 NYC Restaurants to Be Fined for Providing Forks

 Diversity officers’ exits fuel racial equity con­cerns. Evid­ence grows of cur­tailed invest­ment in schemes three years after Floyd’s murder

 Nearly Three-Quarters of French Public Wants to Strip Migrant Rioters of Citizenship

The fast metabolism myth: Here’s what actually determines how slim you are

 What is the audience for a woke, live-action “Snow White”?

 There’s always something new to report on New York’s housing follies.

 Dumbing America Down

City Journal on The New Censorship:

Only a powerful, watchful government, in the hands of the Party of Truth, can impose democracy on a troubled society by controlling the words said, as well as the means of communication that convey them, to the public. A wise guardian class, advised by specialists, must be mobilized to assume control of politics and culture. In this framework, opposition can never be legitimate—it belongs to the Party of Lies. Those who follow Savio’s exhortation and throw themselves on the gears of the great institutions will be ground to pulp—for their own good.

News That's Not Fit To Print - New York Times & LA Times Dump Sports Reporting

 CDC Used Journal To Promote Masks Despite 'Unreliable' And 'Unsupported Data': New Analysis

Yonkers’ only charter school illustrates just how broken the system is

 Without Affirmative Action Everyone Will Die. "All Americans will bear the burden of a less diverse health care field"

 NYC To Pay Minority Teachers Who Failed Teaching Exam Up To $2M. Each.

 Parents slam woke Massachusetts school district for axing advanced math classes to boost 'equity', after they attracted too many white and Asian students - with families now forced to hire private tutors instead

 California Approves New Math Guidelines That Emphasize 'Social Justice'

 The Fact-Check Racket Finally Unravels

 Biden forgives $39 billion in student loan debt via administrative tweaks

Suckers paid their debts 

 Imploding Cities Will Drag All of Us Down — Even if You Don't Live Anywhere Near One

 The War On Poverty Hasn’t Just Failed, It’s Failed Abysmally

 Jennifer Rubin humiliates herself using data from retracted story

VDH:  Illegal Immigration and Western Spiritual Sickness

 The Incredible Shrinking NATO

 Europe's Muslim Migrant Problem

' Arabs… Chechens’: German Swimming Baths Terrorised by ‘Migration Background’ Men

Re Kevin Spacey: Handsiness or assault? Fondling in the post-#MeToo era. Meet the new Italian defense for crotch-grabbing: if it’s under ten seconds it doesn’t count

New 'victim studies' is a fake discipline

 University puts trigger warning on Hemingway’s ‘Old Man and the Sea’: ‘graphic fishing scenes’

What about Moby Dick? 

  Youth Gender Transition Is Pushed Without Evidence, Psychotherapy, not hormones and surgery, is increasingly the first line of treatment abroad.

 When Ideology Corrupts Medicine—and How One Reporter Exposed it, A conversation with Hannah Barnes about the medical scandal at Tavistock, the UK’s only youth gender clinic.

 Budgets blown: Wind not exactly the net bargain they advertised

 TGIF: Hollywood Shutdown - Actors join the picket line. Zuck puts Musk on Thread alert. Tucker cozies up to Andrew Tate. Plus: Kamala, DeSantis, and Jonah Hill.

Stuart's Saturday Miscellany 

 Gov’t Can Continue Colluding With Big Tech, 5th Circuit Grants “Administrative Stay” of Injunction

 Loophole: Biden Admin Forgives $39 Billion In Student Debt For Over 800,000 Borrowers

Summer Camps For Children Identifying As Transgender Open Across US

 The Russians Planted Cocaine in the White House to Frame Hunter Biden. Any other explanation is misinformation and threatens democracy.

 Scientists Agreed To Downplay Chinese Lab Leak Theory For Fear Of ‘S*** Show’, Messages Indicate

 A new memoir by Martin Peretz, the former owner and editor-in-chief of The New Republic, provides a timely reminder of what American journalism has lost.

I was a reader for decades 

 The Test Isn’t the Problem. Scrapping exam requirements at New York’s elite public schools won’t help black and Hispanic students.

 CHECC Has Petitioned The DC Circuit For Rehearing As To Its Standing To Challenge The Endangerment Finding

 Budgets blown: Wind not exactly the net bargain they advertised

 George Soros’s Bad Bet - The billionaire funded a series of experiments in the U.S. criminal-justice system—with disastrous results.

All of my saved morning links got erased by some glitch. Here are some new ones:

 Professor made student ‘uncomfortable’ with open debate, gets fired

 Rage Against the Machine - Technology is our new god. What would a refusal to worship look like? Paul Kingsnorth offers a vision of resistance

 Bored with The Hamptons yet?

 The Rise and Fall of the Mail-Order Home

A culture without "shoulds"

 Where Does Your Department (Or Law School) Stand On Abortion? Antiracism? Immigration?

Asians confuse Goodwhites 

 Bosses Push Back on WFH Die-Hards: ‘They Will Need to Show Up’.. Managers say team productivity has taken a hit as employees stay remote

 Zuck's Threads Already Throwing the Ban Hammer Around

 US students need nearly 4 months of extra school to fix post-COVID 'achievement gaps' in reading, math: Study

Do you believe Gal Luft? 

 Vivek Ramaswamy Has Terrific Response to Disruptive Woman at Town Hall

Why AI will save the world

What does marriage have to do with capitalism? 

 Congratulations, a Man Just Won Miss Netherlands

 Lobsters likely feel pain. Should we get them high before eating them?

 It is pure statistical garbage when we are told what the average global temperature is and that it is a heat record

 California Bans Spanish Over Nouns Having Only Two Gender Options

 Why People Stop Using Drugs Like Ozempic. Drugs like semaglutide—better known as Ozempic or Wegovy—could be lifelong treatments for obesity, but what little data scientists have suggests that people don't stick with them for long.

 LinkedIn Should End ‘Diversity in Recruiting’ Feature: “Discrimination by algorithm is still discrimination”

 The drug war has been a failure, but is decriminalizing drugs even worse?

What is "meaningful work" anyway? Work is work. 

 'Pay your bills like adults!': Protesters take to White House after student debt ruling

 Why Diversity Programs Fail, And what works better

 Trainers tell us that people often respond to compulsory courses with anger and resistance—and many participants actually report more animosity toward other groups afterward.

VDH: Illegal Immigration and Western Spiritual Sickness - Enforcing the Law Has Become Abnormal

Israel:  Civilians who shoot terrorists will no longer face interrogation, gun seizure

 Bye Bye Paris: Chinese CO2 Emissions are Skyrocketing

 A Stronger NATO for a More Dangerous World

I don't buy it 

 Pence says some 'just don't understand' why we must endlessly support Ukraine

 Putin Held 3-Hour Meeting With Wagner Chief Days After Revolt

"Revolt"? 

Looks like Indian leaders would like a word with Ben & Jerry's..

 Anglican Leader Says Opening Of Lord’s Prayer Is ‘Problematic’ For Some

Not from the Babylon Bee 

 IS HOLLYWOOD WAKING UP?

Who cares? 

 Forty percent of Brown University students say they are LGBT, suggesting social contagion

No, people are bonobos 

 My Research on Gender Dysphoria Was Censored. But I Won’t Be.. Trans activists forced the retraction of my paper. Their efforts have redoubled my commitment to the truth.

 “Domestic Abuse is a Severe Crime”: British Parents Could Be Prosecuted for Refusing to Pay for Transgender Treatments

 Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?

 Destroyed Solar Panels In Hailstorm Will End Up In Landfills Because Recycling Isn’t Economical

 New York Times Columnist: It’s A ‘Problem’ For U.S. If ‘Elites’ Censor Speech

 The Infantilism Of Totalitarianism - Why the Meta-Facebook-Threads effort to make language safe is so dangerous

 Biden Has Spent Nearly 40% of His Presidency on Vacation

It's for the best 

 Los Angeles’ anti-homelessness drive is doomed to fail just like NYC’s

Cuz it's not about housing 

 Narrative Collapse: Tucker Carlson Says Capitol Police Chief Admitted 'Jan6 Crowd Was Filled With Feds'

 A Showdown Is Coming Over Freedom of Expression in Europe

 The EU's Mass Censorship Regime Is Almost Fully Operational. Will It Go Global?

 Biden's Ukraine policy is a cluster, alright

 Biden admin: Child-killing cluster bombs are only used by ‘war criminals,’ until they’re used by us

 French Riots Show That Decades Of Mass "Colonizing Immigration" Could Lead To "Collapse", Says Former Head Of French Counter-Intel Agency

 French President Blames ‘Video Games’ Instead of ‘Islam’ for Riots

Quote via Moonbattery

 Humanity Should Split More Atoms. The cure for poverty and climate change is nuclear.

 Oregon’s Castration Machine - A public hospital in Portland is using a robot to create artificial genitalia.

 Once hailed for decriminalizing drugs, Portugal is now having doubts

 American Wokeness Invades Britain’s Schools. Katharine Birbalsingh, principal of a ‘free school,’ says identity politics makes it hard to educate minority youths.

Stuart's  Saturday Miscellany

Of course DOJ meddled with Biden foreign money 

Banned books? 

All I know that is banned is porn in grade schools 

 Karine Jean-Pierre: Racial preferences are an ‘important constitutional right’

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

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...

 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

 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

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.