Maggie's Farm

 The Unexpected Name Brands Behind Costco’s Store Label Products

" I’m a forty-year-old male Swiftie. No, I’m not ashamed. Taylor Swift is the finest tune crafter of the last generation — maybe even the last two"

Mel Brooks turns 97 

In the UK, keep kids away from pizza

Lab-grown meat 

 Death of the professions

Telegraph: Schoolgirl identifies as a cat 

 Hail to the Brave Parents Who've Had Enough of the Sexualization of Children

 NYC private schools teaching ‘sexuality curriculum’ in woke kindergarten classes

 Charter schools outperform public schools in US, with NY results ‘among the best in the country’

 Paranoia in the Paper - A New York Times article inadvertently helps show why black Americans distrust the police.

It's always been Get Trump 

 Maddow Admits It's Really About Getting Trump Out of Race

 Thoughts On The Federal Trump Indictment: It's Shockingly Weak

 China To Build Spy Base In Cuba Focused On Intercepting Communications Within U.S.: Report

 Our China Self‐​Own - Failing to improve our immigration policy gives our biggest competitor a leg up on skilled labor.

 What's Wrong with Latin America?

 This New Mega Virus Is Actually Good for the Future of Humanity. Promise. It carries a whopping 171,000 strands of DNA.

 This Is Catfishing on an Industrial Scale. Hired as customer service reps, these freelancers were instead tasked with luring in the lonely and lovestruck through a network of dating and hookup sites.

Edication: There is something so banal, even embarrassing, in the aggressive positivity and predictable cant ...

 The End of Progressive Intellectual Life - How the Foundation-NGO complex quashed innovative thinking and open debate, first on the American right and now on the center-left

 Nearly one in three Gen Zers want the government to install surveillance cameras in everyone's homes

 Government control and over-regulation are driving insurers out of California

The End Of Easy Money: Bankruptcy Filings Pile Up At Fastest Rate Since 2010

 New York City’s Democrat Mayor Eric Adams is attempting to sue rural counties in New York state for refusing to accept the illegal immigrants he wants to send them.

 Taibbi: Does Anyone Believe American Propaganda Anymore?

 Swedish Prime Minister: “Massive  Immigration Just Doesn’t Work”. Announces new measures to make border policy strictest in Europe.

 Washingtons State's 'Equity' Director Pink-Slipped Over Allegations of Racism

 Red Sox Pitcher Cut Loose After Offending the Thought Police

Dershowitz:  The most dangerous indictment in US history

 National Health Service in Great Britain bans puberty blockers

 Gender’s Truth-Distortion Field - Across the English-speaking world, the discussion of trans rights is governed by taboos, sacred myths, and, in some cases, outright lies.

Trump indictment seems OK if appliced equally 

Back from a lengthy sabbatical, our pal in Maine at Sippican Cottage 

Fires:  In a 2020 ProPublica article, journalist Elizabeth Weil pointed out that California officials have turned the state into a tinderbox through years of fire suppression.

I am against fire suppression. It is unnatural. 

 Climate change didn’t cause Canada’s wildfires - Lightning has been starting forest fires for millennia

Had the wind been different, nobody would have noticed. Canada always has fires. 

 Rigorous new study of studies finds that lockdowns, not COVID, caused the destruction

 INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS SAY U.S. HAS RETRIEVED CRAFT OF NON-HUMAN ORIGIN

Really? 

$60,000 orgasms 

Well, it does tend to take your mind off other things... 

 After Affirmative Action, Meritocracy?

What is merit? 

WSJ: Is Religion Good for Your Health? Studying the health benefits of religious activity involves special challenges, and researchers are developing new methods to meet them

Not what it's for 

 Is Remote Work Really the Future? Workers may be heading back to the office for five days a week sooner than they think.

 Is Remote Work Here to Stay?

You May Not Need an Electric Vehicle After All

 Liberals Try to Undermine Tucker Carlson's First Successful Twitter Show, But It Backfires

Why the hate? I don't know his politics, but he is entertaining and clever

 Trump Attorney Alina Habba Reacts to Indictment: “It’s Just Another Normal Day in Trump World..."

It is obviously political lawfare. 

 The Leftist Knives Are Already Coming Out for Potential Democrat Spoiler Cornel West

That's racist 

 California Takes a Big Step Towards Legalizing Shoplifting

 Armed employee shoots woman who was pistol-whipping coworker

  San Francisco Police Record Viral Video Saluting the Pride Flag

 Why Are So Many Younger Americans Okay with Big Brother Monitoring Their Homes?

Sanctuary Cities Seethe as Illegal Immigrants Actually Arrive 

 MOMS FOR HATE?

 Kids subjected to bizarre nude performance at 'all ages' Oregon State drag event. The event included a demonstration of 't*tty weight lifting.'

 Leftist Agitators Attack Armenian Parents Protesting “LGBTQ+” Activities in Glendale, CA Schools

CNN:  LGBTQ Americans are in a state of emergency

 Professor labels Target boycotters ‘domestic terrorists’

 STATE DEPT PUSHES LGBTQ ‘PRIDE’ EVERYWHERE EXCEPT MUSLIM WORLD

 Maryland Democrat Says Muslim Families Sided with ‘White Supremacists’ for Flagging Sexual Material in Class

 A Church Grows in Brooklyn - People say immigrants like my parents do the jobs native-born Americans don’t want to do. Keeping the faith is one of them.

 Mayor: Why should my town bail out failure of Dems on illegal migrants?

Academic journal editor faces cancel attempt for allowing debate on transgenderism 

Ukraine:  How Does This End Well?

I could do it 

What caused Canada's wildfires? Huge blazes that engulfed the US East Coast in smoke were sparked by 'bad forest management' as woodlands are left to turn into tinderboxes... 

I doubt that. Forest fires are natural. Should make great habitat for Ruffed Grouse in a year. 

 US Has 12 Or More Alien Spacecraft, Say Military And Intelligence Contractors

Prove it 

 Microaggressions

 Lululemon Fires Employee For Not Offering To Help Looters Bag Clothes And Load Them Into Their Car

 High Hopes, Deep Despair - San Francisco will break your heart.

WSJ:  The Truth About ‘Puberty Blockers’ - The FDA hasn’t approved them for gender dysphoria, and their effects are serious and permanent.

 Who’s Up For Greening The Health System?

 The Federal War Against Your Lifestyle

 The Religion of the Left - Sacred destruction and the search for lost gods.

 Taylor Lorenz slams Tucker Carlson’s first Twitter segment and couldn’t be more WILDLY wrong

Why do I care what she says? 

 ‘Most Damning’ About FBI: New Twitter Files Expose FBI-Ukraine Plot to Censor Users

Liars 

 INSIDE THE MELTDOWN AT CNN - CEO Chris Licht felt he was on a mission to restore the network’s reputation for serious journalism. How did it all go wrong?

 Now that the election season is gearing up, the smear merchants on the left will be flooding the airways with denunciations of Republicans as Nazis. 

 NYC landmarks are blanketed in smoke pouring across the Northeast from Canadian wildfires sparking 'code red' warning for residents with breathing issues... and it could be WORSE tomorrow

Purple haze. It's blocking out the sunshine, and causing itchy eyes 

 When Not to Treat Cancer - Taking a rational and statistical approach to a diagnosis can lead to better choices about treatment—which in some cases might mean not treating cancer at all.

 Southern Poverty Law Center Adds Parental Rights Groups to ‘Hate Map’

 When and How to Respond to Microaggressions

 Judge Says ‘GenderIdentity Is Real,’ Blocks Florida Law Banning Minors’ Transitions

 NYT goes after ethanol

 Irish Farmers Raise Alarm Over Government's Proposal To Kill Off 200,000 Cows

 Potential For Catastrophic US Electric Grid Failures This Summer A Reality - A reliability assessment of the nation’s electrical grid shows increasing potential for blackouts during heat waves. Coal-fired power plants, the report states, are being retired before enough new generation sources are being put on the grid. 

 Divesting from Big Oil Is an Empty Gesture. California lawmakers want the state’s public pensions to get rid of fossil fuel stocks, claiming that will help save the planet. Who are they trying to kid?

Two of San Fran's largest hotels are bailing out

 Target has been funding woke group that wants to close 'symbol of white supremacy' Mount Rushmore, demilitarize the US military and impose sanctions on Israel

 Killer MS-13 gangsters are being bused into our communities as ‘minors’

 Karine Jean-Pierre mocked for complaining migrant bussing puts strain on cities: 'Weapons-grade hypocrisy'

Patrick Deneen on Regime Change for America

It's a good essay. 

 June 6, 1944, D-Day: The Day That Saved The World

 Mike Rowe Is on a Mission to Reverse the ‘Unspeakable Stupidity’ of Devaluing Work

 What You Should Follow Instead of Your Passion

It depends... 

Why Is Corporate America Destroying Itself?

Theory is that they are doing their masters' bidding (mutual funds) 

 Gender madness in IDAHO

 Lawsuit: Academia’s DEI Hiring Statements are “Modern-Day Loyalty Oaths”

 Bill to Stop Employees Confronting Shoplifters Passed by California Senate

 MAYOR ADAMS HAS A GOOD IDEA

 Will You Take $100 Bucks a Day to House an Illegal Migrant? What happens when he refuses to leave?

 The Liberal Ladies of The View Send in White Crew Member to Shut Down Tim Scott During their Discussion on Race

 The Revelations Of Government Censorship Keep Coming In Missouri v. Biden

 Nearly 30% of people under 30 support government surveillance cameras in every home

 The totalitarian roots of the anti-human environmentalist cult

Allstate stops writing new homeowner policies in CA, too

 ‘Pride’ is Nothing to Celebrate

Well, in the LGBTQ+ world, it's a socio-cultural revolt against shame and embarassment.  Not real pride.

 School district presses phys-ed teachers to don LGBTQ pride apparel

 Kay S. Hymowitz joins Brian Anderson to discuss how gender-identity ideology is influencing vulnerable young people and attempting to overturn all that we know about child development.

 Misgendering is an ‘act of violence,' university argues

 Hospital Official Bemoans “Heart-Wrenching” Decision to Discontinue Child Gender Transition Services - The decision came after the Texas Legislature approved a bill barring gender transitioning procedures and treatments for children.

 Georgetown University developing ‘adultification bias’ trainings

Let's try infantilizing college students. 

VDH:  Is the Sleeping Conservative Dragon Finally Waking Up? Conservatives often slept through the woke revolution only to awaken to a country their apathy allowed to transform into one they no longer recognize. Can they finally breathe fire? 

 Chicago Democrats Divided Over Spending $50 Million On Illegals

 Due To High Crime, Mafia Closes Its Chicago Office

" Target CEO Brian Cornell responded to the BLM race riots with a memo claiming that, “the murder of George Floyd has unleashed the pent-up pain of years, as have the killings of Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor.” Much of that pain was directed at robbing Target."

 Chris Wray Did Not Admit FBI Had Damning Biden China Bribery Document – Until James Comer Notified Him He Already Had Seen the Filing 

Government and media have a license to lie. 

 Are There Any Democrats Left Who Are Not Fully On Board With The Agenda Of The Radical Left?

 Trump’s cruel attack on Kayleigh McEnany is the final straw in his false loyalty schtick

 Trump's Truth Social Ramblings Are Reaching Kamala Harris Levels of Incoherence

 Trump's Waterloo?

Trump is a jerk at heart. Good in many ways, but a jerk. 

 China Today

Why is China an enemy? 

 Women show higher levels of intrasexual competition than men

Welcome To Major League Baseball’s Struggle Sessions

 ‘Fastest girl in Connecticut’ Chelsea Mitchell suing state after losing to trans athletes

 The threat to German sausages is real

 17 Deaths On Mt. Everest Blamed On ‘Climate Change’

 In California: Kill the goats, keep the union hogs happy.

 Hundreds of UFOs have been spotted 'all over the world', Pentagon chief admits as NASA unveils findings into first ever study of unexplained phenomena in the skies

I blame climate change 

 EVEN LIBERALS HATE CRIME

 WSJ: Your Next Big Move Should Scare You. Your gut says no. Here’s why you shouldn’t always listen to it.

 AI MAKES S**T UP

 Marc Andreessen on A.I., Bitcoin, and Billionaires - Is the A.I. breakthrough for real this time?

 Climate activists were in for a surprise after they tried to hurl orange powder at London's famed flower show

 Plants cause global warming now

 UMich botanical garden employs DEI manager, hosts ‘confronting racism’ training

 200,000 cows to be culled in Ireland in order to meet climate targets

 Canadian PM Justin Trudeau Says American Pushback Against Woke Politics Is "Scary"

 “We Have a Captive Audience”: Boston University to Require Students to Take Social Justice Writing Courses

About Chomsky:  Manufacturing Dissent - Activists and opinion-formers on the Left and Right have been persuaded that living under anything besides the kind of governance they want means they’ve been cheated.

 Elon Musk Pulls Twitter from European Union’s ‘Anti-Disinformation’ Agreement - French Digital Minister threatens to ban Twitter if it doesn’t follow EU rules.

 Randi Weingarten Has Zero Credibility

Dethroned. The apparent impending demise of The King’s College is instructive about the pitfalls lying in wait for even the best-intentioned institutions of higher education.

Chronicle: Higher-Ed received billions in Covid-Relief funds. Where did it go?

 The Great Student Loan Nonpayment Boondoggle Is Over

"A little more than a year ago, I attended a virtual symposium on “Nudges in Health Care...” 

 Why The Media Is Attacking Free Speech

Ann Colter not loving Trump: How not to be President 

A New World Order:

 Countries around the world have tired of feeling pushed around by America, of having the terms of their relationship imposed from Washington. Ironically, in a war that is supposed for democracy, these countries want to have a say in their own foreign policies. And we should not ignore the increasing economic power of China..

 The Most Honored Photograph of WW2

10 Years after Sheryl Sandberg’s book ‘Lean In,’ women are on the outs

 No Laughing Matter: John Cleese Holds Line Against Calls To Cancel Scene In 'Life Of Brian'

 When will the lawsuit come? For doctors, it’s a matter of time

 The Futility of School Reform

 America’s Dangerous Shortage Of Free Thinkers

 Memory-Holing of COVID False Narratives Picks Up Steam

 Gorsuch rightly slams freedom-crushing ‘rule by indefinite emergency edict’

 CNN: Work Requirements Are “Offensive To Poor People”…

The Nation:  Biden Must Remake His Candidacy

 Ukraine war is an existential struggle — for the West

What? 

1895:  The Soldier’s Faith - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. brings the song of the sword to Harvard’s graduating class.

ANTI-COVID POLICIES WERE A DISASTER

 Jordan Peterson Considers Every Possible Meaning Of Bible Story Except That It Might Mean Exactly What It Says

Funny 

 ENVIRONMENTALISTS ARE WHY WE CAN’T HAVE INFRASTRUCTURE

They aren't "environmentalists" 

  Is America's falling fertility rate caused by the over-prescription of antidepressants? One in FIVE adults are on mood-busting drugs which sap libido and sperm counts

 My cheating boyfriend told me he was a sex addict. Was it a disorder – or just an excuse?

Gee, that's a hard question 

 The Encampment State - Billions in spending have failed to solve California’s massive—and worsening—homelessness crisis.

"Homeless" is not the problem 

Musk won't play the EU game 

Good 

 'This place deserves to be shut down': Migrant hotel employee reveals the 'free for all' of drugs, sex and violence inside New York City's The Row since it was closed to tourists to make room for border crossers

  'Bike Karen' Race-Hoaxers Flee Like Hunted Rats to Avoid Lawsuit

 Microsoft kicks Vivek Ramaswamy off LinkedIn

 Citywide Youth Curfew Begins In Baltimore As Mayor Strives To Restore Law And Order

 Georgia GOP flat earther raises eyebrows

 Presto-Chango, See Which Democrat Attack Transforms Into 'Republicans Pounce!'

 The disinformation campaign against Ron DeSantis - So much fake news and woke hysteria is being spread about the presidential hopeful.

 Biden keeps turning his political enemies into ‘terrorists’

 Photo: Our Siberian Irises are in bloom

Daily flights, NY to the Faroe Islands

Mrs.BD would love that 

 At High School Debates, Debate Is No Longer Allowed. At national tournaments, judges are making their stances clear: students who argue ‘capitalism can reduce poverty’ or ‘Israel has a right to defend itself’ will lose—no questions asked.

Kotkin:  Can California Be Saved? Though the state retains great advantages, bad policies accelerate its decline.

 TGIF: Cruising for a Bruising - Canadians say yes to death. South Koreans say no to birth. Plus: DeSantis, flat-earthers, a Citi Bike Karen—and Bezos’s amazing love boat.

VDH:  The Left Has Pushed the Envelope. Why are our government, corporations, and popular culture colluding in mass suicide—to the delight of our enemies like Communist China?

OK, but I don't think China is an enemy 

 U.S. NEWSGreenwald: Regime Journalists Promote The ‘Right’ Conspiracy Theories To Be Successful “Journalists who spread conspiracy theories that the CIA wants them to spread get promoted, and the journalists who question the conspiracy theories of the CIA get destroyed.”

We all live in a world of lies 

 Want to be a Seattle firefighter Lt.? Best know your woke reading list!:

...  in 2021, local officials including Scoggins commissioned a report on diversity in the fire service. One of its recommendations: avoid tests that “rely heavily on knowledge of firefighting.”

“[T]ests that focus on how well applicants know the system and the job tend to favor those who make up the overwhelming majority of the fire service workforce, white men,” the report says. “Questions that ask more about the candidate’s character and values, rather than knowing the ins and outs of the job, can be beneficial in advancing more women and people of color.”

NY:  ‘Right-to-shelter’ off-ramp is long overdue

 Why no one will learn the lessons from "Citi Bike Karen" fiasco

5 black kids tried to steal her Citibike. Wrong narrative 

 New York Office Buildings Emptying Out

But rentals are high, along with tourism 

 Germany Is Turning Against The EU's Green New Deal, Common Sense To The Forefront

 The World Realigns

Solar storms have dramatically increased this year.

I blame climate change 

 Early Apes Lived on Savannahs, Not in Forests. Two new studies suggest that 21 million years ago African primates frequented edge habitat and fed on leaves

 Scientific American is Now the Bud Light of Science Journals

 Plastic Recycling Now Contributing to Microplastics Pollution Mania

 Nebraska Becomes 18th State To Ban Transgender Surgeries On Children…

What Banks Do

 Leftist Cancellation is the New Rite of Passage

 Trump’s ‘Hush Payment’ Trial to Begin Months Before 2024 Presidential Election

Why my GOP competitors should take my lead and visit America’s inner cities: Ramaswamy

 Joe Biden Keeps Lying That His Son Died in Iraq. In fact, he lies about an assortment of his dead relatives.

 Contrary To Popular Myth, Brexit Was Not A Bad Decision And Did Not Fail

 Scotland moves toward removing trial by jury

 The Ukraine War Was Provoked - & Why That Matters To Achieve Peace

A Wall Street accountant turned professional escort says she's a psychopath – and swears it's the key to making 6 figures

 Democrats to parents everywhere: Your kids belong to US, not you!

 Social Justice™ Now Claims Waking Up Early Is White Supremacy

 Now, It’s Time to ‘Cancel’ Problematic ‘Three’s Company’. Collider dissects beloved '70s sitcom in a pitch-perfect woke parody

 First they came for Roald Dahl, then they came for Monty Python

 California High School's Female 'Teacher of the Year' Busted for Allegedly Having Sex with 16-Year-Old Student

Inappropriate, but a crime? 

The guy who issued the Florida warning lives in Florida 

 The Encampment State - Billions in spending have failed to solve California’s massive—and worsening—homelessness crisis.

 Poll Shows How Radically Different Americans' Opinions Are From Liberal Corporate Media Narratives

 The FBI is a danger to democracy

Not meant to be the KGB 

 Uber’s DEI Chief on Leave After Complaints Over ‘Don’t Call Me Karen’ Seminar - “We have heard that many of you are in pain and upset by yesterday’s Moving Forward session.”

 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Media Malpractice: Russian Hoax Confirmed by the Durham Report

 More upstate NY counties declare a migrant state of emergency

 Musk is right about Soros, libs’ trouble with truth and other commentary

Spectator:  Umbria: Italy’s underrated gem. The region is so much more than the ‘poor cousin of Tuscany’

Yep 

 Gold­man struggles to close gender divide after dis­crim­in­a­tion pay­out. US bank com­mits to boost­ing female staff in wake of $215mn set­tle­ment but some remain scep­tical

 1 in 3 Female Recruits Injured in Army Basic Training - "Nearly 30% of female recruits were injured on average each month"

 UT Austin tells students to use 'wimmin' instead of the word 'women'

 Because It Worked Out So Well For Bud Light, Fords Unveils Its “Very Gay” Truck…

 Down With Pickleball! Long Live Tennis. Plus: The Great Light Beer War of 2023 in today’s culture war double feature.

 A history of Dunkin’ Donuts

Yeah, not good coffee but it's my daily ritual en route to the gym

The rise of geopolitical swing states

 The FBI Didn’t Persecute Hillary. It Protected Her. That’s the big reveal in the 306-page Durham report.

 Mystery At The Midterms: What Really Happened To The Red Wave?

 "Do you want Ukraine to win or not?"

What is "win" in this context? 

 TGIF: The Suburbs Are Back! Polygamy is in. DeSantis and #MeToo are out. Plus, conservatives save an anarchist coffee shop.

 Chicago’s Brandon Johnson: ‘Wicked,’ ‘Unconscionable’ for Texas to Send Border Crossers to Sanctuary Cities

  The Stupidest, Most-Ill-Educated Group In America -- the Corporate Leadership Class -- Begins to Realize That "Diversity Training," Far From Healing Racial Rifts, Actually Causes Racial Division

 Diversity Is Campus Jew-Hatred. How DEI is openly attempting to marginalize and silence Jewish students

 Van Gogh’s Cypresses Take Root at Manhattan, And star in some of Western art’s most incandescently bendy landscapes.

 Loneli­ness threatens health as well as hap­pi­ness

 The Left and Right Live in Two Different Worlds

 Critical Race Theory Has a Scholarship Problem

 CRT has infected veterinary schools

 Sean Hannity Replaces Tucker Carlson at 8 PM- Fox News Channel Makes Multiple Changes to Primetime Line-Up

 EU AI Act To Target US Open Source Software

 No Room at the Inn—Except in New York! The city is unique in the country, and in the Western world, in that it guarantees all comers shelter immediately, no questions asked. And they keep coming.

 Who Wants to Help Me Watch Chicago Commit Suicide?

 "Damn, That's Thin", "I Know", "It Sucks": The Untold Story Of The Trump-Russia Investigation

  61 Hacks Who Peddled Russian Collusion And Should Never Be Trusted Again

Adam Schiff STILL Insists Trump Colluded With Russia Despite Durham Report

 "Why the Durham Report Matters/It is a damning account of the corruption of the FBI and its accomplices" 

 Durham Report proves “what a destructive, vicious, damaging person Hillary Clinton is to our political process”

Also,  FBI Leadership Sabotaged Clinton Foundation Investigations: Durham Report

 John Kerry Would Love For Farmers To Stop Farming

 DEI Goes Wobbly

 How Therapists Became Social Justice Warriors

Greg Gutfeld Hits It Out of the Park on the Durham Report and What It Means

 The silence is deafening: Flagship CNN shows Anderson Cooper 360 and Primetime make NO mention of discredited FBI probe into baseless Trump-Russia claims network previously claimed were 'corroborated'

 The war against Trump was cooked up by Hillary Clinton’s campaign, revealed to the Obama Administration, and executed by the FBI and Justice Department. 

 Never Forget the Misinformation and Collusion by the Mockingbird Media Regarding “Russia, Russia, Russia” – And Remember Who Had it Right from the Beginning

 FBI Offered To Pay Steele $1 Million For Anti-Trump Evidence…

For the Dems, it was usual dirty tricks. The FBI was involved with treason, it seems to me.