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Besides coffee and beer? 

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 Breakthrough: Ignition confirmed at California fusion reactor

 San Francisco's $20K trash cans

 Now it's 'mega-floods' that will destroy the whole world

 Episcopal Church Endorses Sex Change for Children

 Boston Children’s Hospital Creates Bizarre Video Promoting ‘Gender Affirming’ Hysterectomies for Kids

 Monkeypox is getting a new name because the WHO says the name is racist

 AG Merrick Garland’s raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago is a farce of law

 Thomas Piketty Wants To Bring Back Communism In The Guise Of Democratic Socialism

 Great Barrington Declaration Scientists Join Missouri, Louisiana in Lawsuit Against Biden Administration For Censoring Covid Facts

 Go Woke, Go Broke: Fitness Company Peloton Announces Massive Layoffs Amid Cratering Stock Price

 Education System Produces Staggering Ignorance

 Pelosi and Democrats Cheer After They Pass Massive ‘Bidenflation’ Bill – Will Raise Taxes on Middle Class During Recession – Create 87,000 IRS Jobs to Harass American Families

 I once hated America, but now I can’t wait to be an American

The FBI and its media allies scramble to justify the Mar-a-Lago FBI raid

 Nancy Pelosi's Son a Major Investor in Chinese Telecoms Company

 An Education in Price Discrimination- colleges charge more to those most willing to pay

Atlantic:  Trump’s Scandals Are Never Done

But aren't they all hoaxes and smears? 

 FBI Agents Involved in Trump Raid are Under Criminal Investigation by Durham For Abusing Their Power in Trump-Russia Probe

 Salman Rushdie Off Ventilator and Condition Improving, Agent Says

 The Rushdie Attack. He was assaulted by an enemy of free speech while about to speak in defense of free speech, a principle of which he has been a staunch and brave supporter.

 We Ignored Salman Rushdie's Warning. Words are not violence. Violence is violence.

 Liberté, égalité, nudité: France’s new sexual politics. Are perverts ruining the country’s proud tradition of naturism?

 "Nothing Left In Pipes": French Towns Rely on Water Truck Deliveries For Survival

 German Shipper To Halt Rhine Operations As Water Level Drops Below Critical

 UN official fired after condemning Palestinian rocket attacks on Israeli civilians

 The best hobbies for warding off dementia revealed

I am skeptical, but all are good for life 

 Florida Board Of Medicine Moves To Ban Transgender Treatments For Minors

 South America's 'lithium fields' reveal the dark side of our electric future

 Israeli students accuse Ben & Jerry’s of ‘illegally occupying’ Native American land

New York bans the word "inmate" to describe people in prison

 When high-school students can’t tolerate hearing the name of a book title, we know there’s a problem in education.

 Glenn Greenwald Goes to Town on Why Dick and Liz Cheney Hate Trump so Much

 If Dems’ DOJ doesn’t have enough to convict, Trump will be back in Oval Office

Convict about what? 

 The FBI Raids Mar-a-Lago, and I Have Questions

The NYS AG still persecuting Trump 

 Four freight ships leave Ukrainian ports carrying nearly 170,000 tonnes of vital corn and oil as export deal aims to prevent global food crisis

 Exercise Like Your Life Depends On It. Because It Does. Exercise is likely to be the single best way to extend lifespan

How Does Age Affect Sexual Desire?

 The Dismantlers - San Diego public schools want to overthrow “heteronormativity” and promote “genderqueer,” “non-binary,” “pansexual,” and “two-spirit” identities.

 French Scientist's Photo of ‘Distant Star’ Was Actually Chorizo. Étienne Klein’s tweet was liked and retweeted thousands of times before he revealed he was trolling and the photo showed a slice of sausage, not Proxima Centauri.

 Despite Climate-Doomsaying, Great Barrier Reef's Coral Growth Soars To Record

Spectator:  I apologize for my white baby. How can I extol the virtues of anti-racism while birthing another white person?

 Alan Dershowitz Rips FBI Raid on Trump, Raises Legal Questions About How It Was Conducted

 Quiet quitting: why doing the bare minimum at work has gone global. The meaninglessness of modern work – and the pandemic – has led many to question their approach to their jobs

 "Revolution Has Begun": 75,000 Brits To Stop Paying Power Bills Amid Inflation Storm

 Chief of the United Nations chastises oil companies for their ‘grotesque greed’

 Chinese Fascism

The Sublime Danielle Steel: For the Love of Supermarket Schlock

 This Is What Your United Flight Could Look Like in the Near Future. Production for Boom Supersonic's Overture passenger jet is set to begin in 2024

 University in the UK Puts Trigger Warning on 800 Year-Old Religious Text. “Staff also flagged ‘outdated’ language in the 1970s translation from Latin”

  Naked 80-Year-Old Protests a Biological Male in Her YMCA Shower, Gets Banned for Bigotry

 A NYC school diploma isn’t worth the paper it’s written on

Biden Regime Plans to Extend Covid-19 Public Health Emergency Once Again Beyond the Midterm Elections

 Pennsylvania Department of Education says three-year-olds should have their preferred pronouns honored

This Harvard Professor Was Exonerated. Students and Professors Are Still Demanding the School Cancel His Classes.

 Airline Passenger Fined Over $1,800 Over a Couple of McMuffins in His Luggage

 Miners Explore Amazon Basin To Support "Green" Energy; New York Times Horrified

 WaPo wonders: Why aren't health officials urging a certain kind of "social distancing" in monkeypox outbreak?

 President Biden's Paxlovid & the Problem with Overtreatment - "It might just help" is not a good enough reason to prescribe a medication.

 After Covid - Pandemic restrictions stumble on like zombies

 The Results Are In: Red States Won The COVID Fight, Hands Down

 Building on reclaimed land - How soil settlement may affect our ability to capitalize on reclaimed land.

 Democrat Digital Dictatorship: Facebook censors top economist for defining recession

 The Decline and Fall of Newspapers

 Woke Medical Organizations Are Hazardous to Your Health. If physicians are trained to combat ‘systemic racism,’ their ability to treat disease will suffer.

 Protesters Declare 'Housing Is a Human Right' While Marching Against New Housing Construction

 Why the Old Elite Spend So Much Time at Work. In practically every field of human endeavor, the average age of achievement and power is rising.

 Texas Begins Busing Migrants to New York City

 Democrats suddenly realize open borders are a disaster

 Pentagon to DC mayor: You're on your own with the migrant caravans

TGIF: They/Them/She/Her

 "Earlier this year, Demi Lovato updated their pronouns on Instagram... 'I’m such a fluid person... Recently, I’ve been feeling more feminine, and so I’ve adopted she/her again.'"

Who is that, and why should I care? 

Quillette Podcast # 194: Canada’s Unmarked-Graves Social Panic: How Did the Media Get This Blockbuster Story So Wrong?

 NY Times: Say, this influx of migrants to Washington, DC is quite taxing

 Suicide Rates Among US Army Soldiers Highest In More Than 80 Years

 Seattle Public Schools: Math Is Oppressive…

VDH:  Why We Lost Trust in the Expert Class. Elite experts and degreed professionals massaged and warped their knowledge to serve ideological masters rather than the truth. 

 Gillibrand Wants Biden To Invoke Production Act For Monkeypox Vaccine

 Germany: On second thought, about those nuclear reactors ...

 Europe’s Gas Crisis: After Germany, Now Spain Limits Heating, Turns Off Lights

 DeSantis won't let Florida farmland go to 'rogue states' like China without a fight (video)

 Swedish Migration Minister Wants To Limit Non-Nordic Population In Troubled Areas

 Dr. Gustav Zander's Victorian-Era Exercise Machines

 The Earth Just Started Spinning Faster Than Ever Before And Scientists Don't Know Why

Constitution Grove — the Navy’s White Oak Forest on a High Tech Base

 Court Documents Reveal Canada’s Travel Ban Had No Scientific Basis

 NY Times: Democrats Should Be Afraid of Parents, Very Afraid. “The @nytimes is so afraid of parents and how we will vote this November they decided to write a hit piece on us. Great sign.”

 “GREEN” IS UNSUSTAINABLE

 A CLOWN-CAR ADMINISTRATION

 Victor Davis Hanson: Does GOP Get To Play By Radical Left's New Rules?

Should We Consider Aging a Disease?

 THE TRANS FIASCO: WILL THERE BE AN ACCOUNTING?

 Why is Critical Race Theory so threatening to white people?

 Federal Lawsuit Accuses Sesame Place Philadelphia of 'Appalling' Discrimination

 Baby formula crisis WORSENS as out-of-stock levels hit 70%: Parents accuse Biden of forgetting about them and mom struggling to feed twins says 'I'm sure these politicians' babies eat'

Imagine if Trump were Pres. now 

Dalrymple: How much to care about public affairs? 

 Not a National Model—a National Warning. Gavin Newsom’s bravado about California is undermined by reality.

Spectator: Bring on the Democrats’ ‘ultra MAGA’ strategy, If they want to back right-wing candidates, have at it

 UKRAINE WAR: The (Not Quite) God's-Eye View, Five Months In

 Germany darkens cities, turn down thermostats and considers shutting down breweries to deal with energy shortage

Trump was right - they are too dependant on Russia. Not to worry because they will never shut down breweries. 

CNN'S 'Climate Correspondent' Predicts All Life on Earth Is About to End

Studies Show The Electric Vehicles Democrats Insist You Buy Are Worse For The Environment And Lower Quality

 Environmentalism is an Environmental Hazard. Solar panel lead in the groundwater and wind turbine fiberglass in your lungs.

 What The Future Holds For Our Climate Leaders

 WTH happened to an objective news media?

 House Democrats pour cold water on proposed stock trading ban

Why is trading on insider info legal for congress? 

 Association of American Medical Colleges Criticized for Pushing Critical Race Theory “recently released standards that force students to study and apply ideology typically pushed by the far-left”

 FDA admits puberty blockers can cause serious harm to children

 DC Mayor Muriel Bowser requests National Guard help after busloads of migrants cause ‘crisis’

 “FAR RIGHT” FAVORED TO WIN ITALIAN ELECTION

"Far right" means not Communist 

By the way, where did all of the Ukraine news go? 

Nellie Bowles' TGIF links. She is good at this job.

 IQ and genetic background 

 NHS will SHUT its controversial Tavistock transgender clinic for children after damning report warned it was 'not safe'

 Green Dreams, Inflationary Realities. We must find ways to combat climate change without incurring devastating inflation, greater class division, the immiseration of the middle class, and the destitution of the poor.

Really? 

 Connecticut Steps Up To Save The Planet

WSJ:  Public Life Is Crazy, but Americans Aren’t. Politics and media are co-producers of the immense 21st-century moral circus.

 Cassidy Hutchinson's story certainly changed from what she said in private

Arms and a (Free) Man

 No, Science Isn’t a “Social Construct”

 Chicago Mother Loses Custody of Her Daughter—For Insisting That Her Daughter Is A Girl

Czech police car

 Putting "Long COVID" in Perspective

I am skeptical 

 EVERYTHING You Need to Know About the Monkeypox that the Fake News Won’t Tell You — Maybe Skip the Gay Orgy This Coming Weekend for Starters 

 Mental, physical activities benefit men's, women's brains differently

 The Media is Starting to Fire Its Own Woke Activists

  ‘You Will Own Nothing, And Like It’ — The Real ‘Clean Energy’ Future

 Joe Biden Must Step Aside While He Has COVID to Rid Us of the Curse of White Supremacy

 Rasexism and Kamala Harris

 "It looks terrible": Dems prepare big tax cut for corporations as midterm pitch

 Here We Go: WHO Declares Monkeypox Outbreak a Global Health Emergency

 New Jersey Breweries Push Back Against Crushing New Rules. New rules from the state alcohol control board could grind breweries into insolvency.

 A Media-Fueled Social Panic Over Unmarked Graves. Not a single body has been unearthed. But Canadians wouldn’t know it from the false information reported in The New York Times.

Reminds me of Clinton's church fires hoax. So many hoaxes.

 Get Ready For The 100 Year Long Climate "Emergency"

 Progressives Against Mining. Though it’s a critical part of any strategy to reduce carbon emissions, mining tends to meet with opposition from environmentalists.

 Academia Neglects Its Most Important Function: A Free Marketplace of Ideas

LI: Dispatches From the Faculty Lounge Week in Education - Your weekly report on education news.

Donors annoyed with Edinburgh University

Re Pete Seeger:

"...there are plenty of writers, actors, musicians, etc., whose politics I deplore but whose talents I enjoy. Erasing them from history doesn’t serve much of a purpose." 

Yes, Things Are Really As Bad As You've Heard. A Leftist Schoolteacher Struggles To Say Aloud the Things He Regularly Witnesses That Are So Outlandish They Sound Made Up By Right-Wing Provocateurs

NR: With courses such as ‘Queer Dance’ and events featuring the drag queen ‘LaWhore Vagistan,’ campus life today is steeped in gender and sexuality.

 J.K. Rowling is canceled again. This time it's by a posh private girl's school

 Activision employees walk off the job seeking abortion, LGBTQ support

This is harsh:  "Nobody wants to impregnate you"

 Yale professor: Biden not taking time off due to COVID ‘epitomizes white supremacy’

 Biden and Trump Repulse Voters as GOP Shows Signs of Becoming Normal Again

 Victor Davis Hanson: The Left Should Be Happy With Biden

 We Starve Babies, Don't We?

Imagine this, with Trump 

 Justice Elena Kagan: SCOTUS Losing ‘All Connection … With Public Sentiment’ Is ‘Dangerous’ for America

She forgot her job description 

 The only people who think "democracy is broken" want to eliminate it.

 Swedish Rent Control Exposes The Problem With Government Price Controls

Yeah - people turn it into pure capitalism 

 England’s New Conservative Superstar. Kemi Badenoch used to work at McDonalds. Now she’s become the breakout star of the Tory Party.

 Billions Keep Flowing To Afghanistan

Why? My taxes

 How and why the Thomas Jefferson Foundation trashes its own namesake

 Wrong, Legacy Media, Climate Change Is Not Causing Summer Heatwaves in the U.S. and Europe

Minneapolis Residents Crowdfunding For More Police Two Years After “Defund” Movement

 NY Times columnist admits he was 'wrong' about Trump's supporters, says Russian collusion story was a 'hoax

 Kagan: SCOTUS must reflect public sentiment for credibility

What?