Maggie's Farm

Behavior predicts how people end up with dysfunctional lives 

 San Francisco’s “Housing First” Nightmare. Stuffing people who need drug or mental-health treatment into free or low-cost housing has proved disastrous.

 Gov. Newsom: Maybe it was a mistake to shut down California's last nuclear plant

The lady given head job at the disinformation department

 Democrats May Demand Elon Musk Testify About Twitter Reforms

 Elon Musk’s right: The left has gone insane

 Washington Post: Are Democrats headed for long-term catastrophe in the Senate?

 She came out as conservative at Harvard. It went better than expected.

 Pharmaceutical Ads Give Me Hives. How ads help to create a nation of querulous hypochondriacs.

Democrat Legislators Want Children Taught Sex, Specifically 'Pleasure-Based Sexual Relations

 Twitter's Woke Tyrant Cries Over Fear She Won't Be Able to Censor as Many People

 CALIFORNIA’S ONGOING SUICIDE ATTEMPT

 Here Comes the ‘DeSantis is Worse Than Trump’ Narrative. “DeSantis presents an even clearer present and future danger than Trump does”

 Brace yourself for what’s coming to American libraries

 Facing Parental Wrath, San Diego Area High School Reverses Plans to End Honors Courses

 The War for Workers - Employee shortages are sparking increasingly aggressive efforts by regions and employers to lure talented people.

BLM New York leader: Eric Adams is a "white man in blackface," you know

 Biden’s decline is obvious to everyone but the press

Kimball:  Who Is Running This Show, Anyway?

 Hey Look, Child Separations at the Border Are Okay Again!

 Biden’s worsening border policies

 Italy Announces Rollout of Dystopian ‘Social Credit System’ to “Conserve Resources” – First of its Kind in the EU – Compliant Citizens Will Be Rewarded for “Good Behavior”

The price of Silicon Valley’s obsession with immortality. After mammoth investments and two decades of anti-aging research, what do immortality proponents have to show for it?

Facing Fauci's Fury: Q&A with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya

WSJ:  A Crime Scene Where the Victims Wore Masks. The image of last week’s Brooklyn subway attack was emblematic of the failure of American government at all levels.

... how does one explain the stampede of two million people – mainly “of color” - massing at our border to get into a country, which is said to oppress them?[4] How would an estimated two million people, 90% of them “people of color,” decide to risk their lives this year alone to break into a white supremacist country that will marginalize, underserve and oppress them.

Biden to Dems: We're ending Title 42 no matter how much you complain

Is there a US national interest in Ukraine? 

Robert Morse, ‘Mad Men’ and Broadway Star, Dies at 90

Not nice doggies

 Disappointing photos show what Coachella is like in real life

 Mother Tells How Her Daughter and Every One of Her Friends Are Suddenly Trans

 Climate Cult Says You May No Longer Have Your Wood Fireplace

 Black Student Union says it’s traumatized by black speaker’s ‘America is Not Racist’ speech

 Piers Morgan Stabbed Trump in the Back, Deceptively Edited Interview

TGIF at Common Sense:  CNN+ Goes Belly Up. Libs of TikTok Soars. Plus: Obama on disinformation. Jared Kushner’s suspicious Saudi deal. Testicle tanning. And more.

 Weed’s Journey through Conservative Politics

Some Sissies Still Wearing Masks Everywhere…

This guy is still afraid 

WSJ:   Libs of WaPo. If you thought the TikTok story was bizarre, check out the Covid coverage.

BLM WAS ALWAYS A FRAUD

 Here's the Tweet Clinton's Lawyer Doesn't Want Admitted as Evidence in Durham Case

" Now, of course, it is the job of the political class to sell the war to the public, which they have been happy to do. . ."

"  Taleb joins those who are indulging wishful thinking. I think it better not to fight to the last Ukrainian and still, despite it all, to give peace a chance."

One more view:  America’s Interest in Ukrainian Victory. A Russian defeat could reshape the security landscape to U.S. advantage in Europe and beyond.

Why didn't our ancient ancestors get cavities?

 Disney Labels Captain Hook, Peter Pan And Tinker Bell As “Problematic”…

How nutty was Kate Millett? 

The 5 Most Unhinged Responses to the End of the Travel Mask Mandate

 Maskaholics

 Global Rice Production Set To Plunge 10%, Threatening Half Of Humanity

Where does most fertilizer come from? Russia? 

 The Threat of ‘Required Introspection’

 Durham Wants to Use Hillary Clinton’s Tweet Accusing Trump of Having a Secret Line of Communication with Russian Alfa Bank as Evidence in Sussmann Trial

 Carville: Majority of Republicans Are ‘Weirdos’ in The ‘Twilight Zone’

 Record Number Of Illegal Immigrants Waiting In Mexico For "Magic Day": Immigration Expert

 IPCC Scientists: Climate Change Doom is Doomier than People Realise

 WHERE HAS ALL THE ARCTIC ICE GONE?

He always loved Russia. Now has doubts.

 Drop the Useless Mask Mandates and Leave Us Alone. Revived mandates remind everyone that governments have done far more harm than good in the pandemic.

 Oops! Diversity officials complain about a DJ in ‘blackface’ only to be informed he actually is African American

Hillary was behind all of the Trump-Russia hoaxes 

 The Sad Truth: America Has No Energy Policy

 Why Hispanics gave up on the Left. Can conservatives win Latino support without Trump?

 New York Times Op-ed on Holy Weekend: Let’s Get Rid of God

 Clothes Dryers Denounced as Offensive to Environment

 This is how one university event encouraged 'littles' to 'explore' their gender identity

 Mask mandates are back on campus. But they go against CDC guidance.

Can Elon Musk be stopped from taking over Twitter?

Charles Murray revisits IQ 

I understand his stats, but am not sure about innate/genetic.

 Mexican Drug Cartels Launched 9,000 Drone Incursions Into US Airspace 

 Where Did Paul Ryan’s Roadmap Go Wrong? And why it’s more important than ever to understand the challenges and complexities of entitlement reform

Photo via this piece at American Digest 

Media: Who do you trust? 

‘Censorship is free speech’ is the establishment’s Orwellian line on Elon Musk’s Twitter crusade

 Is There Anyone Taking This Green Energy Transition Thing Seriously?

From MacDonald's Averting our Eyes:

 Frank James’s subway massacre undoubtedly has roots in untreated mental illness. But it was set in motion by America’s relentless focus on phantom white racism and by the unchecked urban anarchy of the last two years.

 Yet Another Conspiracy Theory Comes True: 'At Least 20' Feds Embedded at Capitol on Jan. 6

Chicago Rolls Out Lottery System Giving $500 Monthly Payments To Residents To Promote ‘Equitable Recovery’

 New Jersey politicians want to teach children the wrong lessons about 9/11

 The Costs and Benefits of Tribalism—A Roundtable

People are better at "reading" tribal members 

Chronicle:  What’s Going On at Yale Law School? A Lot of Drama

 Study Finds Florida Handled COVID Lockdowns Better Than New York And California

 Masking Is Back, and Democrats Will Regret It

 CNN+: A BOMB OF EPIC PROPORTIONS

Bill Maher: Dems are going to get their asses kicked because they've given up on common sense

 Biden's next plan for high fuel prices: Crappy gas

Made of food 

 Finland's official finding: NATO membership would enhance our security

On my nickel 

 This Is the War’s Decisive Moment. The United States and its allies can tip the balance between a costly success and a calamity.

 US government confirms an interstellar object has crashed into Earth. The US government has confirmed the suspicions of Harvard researchers that an interstellar object has crashed into Earth.

Cool 

From 2014, 120 years of climate scares

 A Warning From Shanghai. A new California bill threatens to strip doctors of their medical licenses for saying things the state doesn’t like. We don't have to imagine what that would look like.

Santa Monica:  The neighborhood that was too violent even for the Post Office

 Questions Loom After Verdicts in Whitmer ‘Kidnapping’ Trial. What did top government officials know and when did they know it?

Why did the FBI pull this scam? 

 Capitol Police ALLOWED Protesters to Enter Side Door – WILL BE USED IN COURT – “Dream Team” of Lawyers Including Alan Dershowitz Set to Defend January 6’ers

Wow. Some insurrection 

 NYT Report Reveals White House in Chaos Over Border Crisis

 Why Ukraine Is Winning. Ukraine’s success illuminates a strategy that has allowed a smaller state to—so far—outlast a larger and much more powerful one

 Americans Are “In Charge” of the War Says French Journalist Who Returned From Ukraine. “I found myself facing the Pentagon.”

Gee. No kidding 

 Microdosing psychedelics: Untapped potential in psychiatry?

Is a tiny bit of psychosis good for some? 

SNOWFALLS ARE NOW JUST A THING OF THE PAST

 Climate Cult Scientists Are Unhappy About This Whole Debate Thing

Check this out:  Nationalize the U.S. Fossil Fuel Industry to Save the Planet. Turning the biggest oil companies over to public ownership would serve several goals at once, including climate resilience.

 How Shops Use Psychology to Influence Your Buying Decisions

It is obvious 

 Lockdown States Pursued a Failed Policy, Study Finds

 Biden COVID czar: Sure, we may extend mask mandates on air travel

Insane 

 Philly Reinstates Mask Mandate After 46 Hospitalized Cases

Insane 

California looks to shorten work week, but not for everyone

 Citing ‘equity,’ nation’s largest four-year university system drops SAT, ACT admissions requirement

 San Diego's largest high school cut honors classes for equity

Just more dumbing down

 Twitter employees enjoy 'day of rest' after getting 'super stressed' by Elon Musk

Snowflakes, but it is California 

 HuffPo: Sure looks like Black Lives Matter was a racket, eh? Update: BLM responds

Allen West: Race and American Exceptionalism 

 Obamacare’s Hollow Celebration. Twelve years after its passage, the landmark law has expanded health coverage only modestly—while raising costs, reducing choice, and doing little to improve outcomes.

 China Taking Over Africa: 'China's Second Continent'

Yes, everybody talks about that. Africa is for sale.

 A big beautiful new spider for the eastern US

 Why the experts keep getting it wrong. Too many in academia and journalism are trapped by unquestioning groupthink.

 COVID, Gender, Climate, and the Collapse of Science. As many scientists have behaved like fools, the discipline itself is in jeopardy of being thought stained and unreliable.

 Elon Musk declines invite to join Twitter board; get the popcorn, Twitter memo kicks off fun!

 Elon Musk would like to share some of his mind-blowing plans with the folks working at Giga Texas

New Jersey To Teach Second Graders Gender Identity…

 Disney’s Demographic Fantasia and the ‘Underrepresentation’ Con

 Explaining the LGBT Explosion

 Jussie Smollett Releases Song After Being Freed from Jail, Blames ‘Race and Trans and Homophobia’

 U. Wisconsin Student Activists Celebrate Delay of Campus Free Speech Survey

 NPR Reporter Blasts Own Newsroom, Says Hunter Biden Story Merits Attention

 Judge: No, you can't cancel Trump's NYC golf course contract

 Fed Study: Stimulus Checks Worsened Inflation

 I Really Do Hate These Leftists

I don't, but I am confused by their logic. 

 Biden’s Energy Strategery

 BIDEN SENDS NEARLY $1 BILLION TO AFGHANISTAN SINCE TALIBAN TAKEOVER

 Escobar: Sit Back & Watch Europe Commit Suicide

Russia warns of 'direct military confrontation' with US as Ukraine forces retreat. Live updates.

 Why Are Biden and NATO Suddenly Willing to Provide Ukraine w/Heavy Weapons and Air Defense Systems?

 Head of Russia's Orthodox Church Calls on People to Rally Around Putin, Authorities

 Major move: Finland and Sweden to join NATO?

 Larry C. Johnson: "The Ukrainian Army Has Been Defeated. What's Left Is Mop-Up"

VDH:  Can Ukraine Ever Win?

Why does aluminum foil have a bright side and a dull side?

 Struggling Communities and Their Prospects - A new academic collection focuses much-needed attention on the challenges facing America’s small cities and towns.

Wind farms fined for killing eagles 

 Yes, The Dunning-Kruger Effect Really Is Real

 Jen Psaki Says Sex Reassignment Surgery, Puberty Blockers For KIDS Is “Best Practice”…

 Not a 'Kitchen Table Issue,' Jen Psaki? Actually, Our Kids Are All We're Thinking About

 I’m Being Investigated by the British Columbia College of Nurses Because I Believe Biological Sex Is Real

WaPo: Musk threatens free speech 

 Biden’s Ponderous Pandering on Student Loans