The Morning Report — 6/23/23

Good morning kids. With all due respect to their families and friends, it's amazing how the story of five poor devils who mercifully seemed to have died almost instantaneously two miles deep manages to suck all the oxygen out of the implosion of our nation and society.

And speaking of which, while our attention is justifiably riveted to the revelations about this illegitimate, ever more repulsive junta and its Stasi/Gestapo enforcement apparatus, things like this fly virtually undetected under the radar:

Offices at the capitol have been shut down as the packages, which were dropped off at the Cordell Hull State Office Building, are investigated, according to House Speaker Cameron Sexton. The Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security deflected all questions to the FBI, which it said was the lead on the investigation. 

“I am aware of a possible issue involving the legislative offices of some members of House Republican leadership receiving in the mail a white powder substance,” Sexton said. “The sixth floor has been placed on lockdown out of an abundance of caution, and hazmat teams are on scene assessing the situation.”

A source familiar with the investigation told The Daily Wire that the letter mirrored very closely the threatening letters received by Kansas Republican lawmakers. Both were signed by “your secret despiser” and the return address was listed for a transgender activist who died several years ago. . .

. . . Days ago, Republican legislators and officials in Kansas have reported receiving “cryptic” letters containing white powder since Friday, with some officials speculating they are politically motivated.

The Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI), which is working alongside the FBI on the investigation, confirmed over the weekend that roughly 100 letters have been sent. So far, it appears the letters have been sent exclusively to Republicans, and one Republican lawmaker suspects it could be connected to Republicans overriding the Democratic governor’s vetoes.

And the manifesto/tranny-festo of the Democrat-approved transexual terrorist is still being hidden from the public view. You know, with terrorists like these, who needs al-Qaeda? Kind of ironic the reaction to the attempted forcing of homosexual deviance on places like Hamtramck, Michigan which is not standing for it. You know, it's easy for these sickos to go shoot up a church, synagogue or a pregnancy crisis center. Yet, despite what can be easily considered virulently, bust-out "transphobia" and "homophobia" coming from that Michigan town, if you're waiting for one of these gun-toting psychos in drag to shoot up a mosque there, you'll have a long wait indeed.

Not long ago, the media was hailing Hamtramck as a model with its first all-Muslim city government. Now it’s shocked when the Michigan city banned pride flags on public property.

“There’s a sense of betrayal,” former mayor Karen Majewski complained. “We supported you when you were threatened, and now our rights are threatened, and you’re the one doing the threatening.”

Majewski has no reason to be surprised. Neither does the media. She broke a city council tie in 2021 between Muslim and non-Muslim city council members in support of the LGBTQ flag.

Asm Kamal Rahman, the president of the local NAACP and a member of the Michigan Coalition for Human Rights, had compared homosexuality to bestiality and pedophilia.

After hailing the all-Muslim council in a city overrun by Yemenis and Bangladeshis as a sign of progress, the realization has arrived that Democrats can have Islam or LGBT, but not both.

How is a party based around building coalitions of minorities supposed to choose? . . .

. . . When Omar Mateen, an Afghan Muslim terrorist opened fire at a gay nightclub in Orlando, a cover-up was launched that persists to this day in which the annual anniversary of the Pulse massacre is marked each year as a testament to homophobia, not Islamic terrorism.

While Omar may not have even known that he was in a gay nightclub before he began killing people, other Islamic terrorists have set out to target gay pride events in the United States.

Elvin Hunter Bgorn Williams, a Muslim convert who joined ISIS, discussed driving a “semi-truck” through “the gay pride parade in downtown Seattle”. Amer Alhaggagi, a Berkeley High School graduate, a Yemeni Jihadi whose lawyer called him an “all-American boy”, had declared, “I’m going to place a bomb in a gay club, Wallah or by Allah.”

The media treats Muslim terror attacks as meaningless outliers, but it’s harder to dismiss events in Dearborn and Hamtramck the same way. Or to ignore the fact that Muslims and the LGBT movement have incompatible values and agendas. And the Left can’t claim to champion both. . .

. . . Immigrants, once seen as a vanguard of demographic transformation, are securing cities and states for the Democrats, but those groups whether Latino, Muslim, Asian or even African, are proving to have their own agendas that are at odds with a party that claims to be diverse, yet has become politically monocultural, imposing a ruthless ideological discipline that has purged non-black religious conservatives, traditional feminists, immigration restrictionist environmentalists and working class whites in pursuit of the ideal leftist collective.

But the new immigrants are much more likely to hold traditional values on matters of sexual morality: to be opposed to abortion, pride parades and everything white lefties love so much.

Muslim Democrats, like Rep. Omar and Rep. Tlaib, who built their national political power to implement an anti-American agenda based on this big intersectional lie, are caught in the middle. . .

. . . A leftist majority will force pride flags and LGBT pornography in schools on everyone. A Muslim majority will force sharia on everyone. That is what happens in a country that has abandoned both its traditional consensus on values and its respect for individual beliefs leaving regions with a choice between female genital mutilation and transgender mastectomies, between marrying 7-year-old girls and grooming first graders.

That there is the money quote from the estimable Daniel Greenfield. While in a recent editorial when I highlighted a rather curiously and uncharacteristically patriotic quote from a Hamtramck citizen, as opposed to quoting the Koran vis a vis the imposition of this filth, it was with the caveat about taqqiya.

Still, from a temporary political standpoint, any loud opposition to this intentional degeneracy regardless of where it comes from is to be supported. Think Joe Stalin circa 6/22/41 to 5/8/45. "Beyond that, I make no guarantees, " as Admiral Yamamoto once stated, sticking to the WW2 theme. Intersectionality, while as we have witnessed to our horror over the past several years may be an incredibly potent political weapon, it is proving ultimately to be ephemeral. The big question is can it and will it succeed in doing us in before the tenuous ties of its disparate coalition break apart?

The irony of course is, despite some of the more, er, "colorful" characters like Bro-Fo Omar or Evita-tas Cortez or LoPecia Pressley or Pete Buttocks, it's all white on the inside – and mostly over the age of 70. And along with the complete debasement of the concept of the rule of a just and stable law here at home, the Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants junta is going after its enemies abroad. In this case, one of Donald Trump's biggest international allies.

The explosive revelations of a high-level, U.S-led, foreign intervention in Brazil’s election process and the ensuing aftermath will raise concerns, especially with America’s own presidential plebiscite looming.

“The Financial Times has spoken to six former or current US officials involved in the effort, as well as to several key Brazilian institutional figures, to piece together the story of how the Biden administration engaged in what one former top state department official calls a “very unusual” messaging campaign in the months leading up to the vote, using both public and private channels.”

This culminated in Lula breaking with the U.S. over sanctions against China, and with Brazil even supporting China-led efforts to move the global trade system off the U.S. dollar.

The Times reports the U.S. had “a more direct motivation,” specifically noting “the January 6 insurrection by Trump supporters at the Capitol in Washington,” as a driving factor behind [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden’s strong feelings on intervening in Brazil.

Behind the scenes, the Brazilian military was also warned of consequences if it supported Bolsonaro. When the former president’s supporters stormed the Brazilian capitol demanding military intervention after Lula’s narrow victory, they declined to step in. Biden and the far-left leaders of Canada and Mexico then issued a joint statement in Lula’s support.

It's funny, in the bitterly horrific ironic sense that for years the Left has been screaming how the USA was a racist, imperialist, fascistic tyranny imposing its illegitimate will both here and abroad. Well, they were right! At least insofar as the Deep State subsuming our legitimate national and domestic security interests in support of the globalist goal of some sort of one world government. And now, many of these same Leftists and their proteges are the ones that are giving the orders!

Closer to home, just look at that Biden Crime Family section. Almost every link is at least a double if not triple flaming skull. The FBI and DOJ knew Hunter's laptop was legitimate a year before the election, Merrick Garland and the IRS squashed the investigation into Hunter to protect Dear Leader the Brain Bleeder, and so on. I had to laugh at the Free Beacon link that describes Hunter as "the embattled First Son."

Embattled? Really?! (NY Post link alert)

Attorney General Merrick Garland and Hunter Biden attended the White House state dinner Thursday with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi hours after new evidence emerged of an alleged Justice Department coverup in the tax fraud case against the first son.

The roughly 400-person guest list included Hunter, 53, and his uncle James Biden, with whom the first son partnered on some of his lucrative foreign dealings, including in China.

America’s top law enforcement official has claimed that he was not involved in the investigation of [so-called quote-unquote"president"] Biden’s son, which concluded Tuesday with the announcement of a probation-only plea deal.

Garland and the Biden clan celebrated Modi’s presence with a number of prominent cultural and political figures, including filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan, Apple CEO Tim Cook, fashion designer Ralph Lauren, former Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).

The House speaker dodged a reporter’s question about how he feels about Hunter and Garland both being on the guest list, simply saying, “I look forward to taking my daughter-in-law for the very first time to the White House.”

“Every state dinner I brought another member of my family,” McCarthy added. 

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) also avoided the same question, saying, “It should be an interesting dinner. Obviously, Prime Minister Modi just gave a great address to a joint session of Congress.”

I don't know what gets me infuriated more; that piece-of-shit bastard-maker of a son of a bitch pervert rubbing our noses in it or McCarthy and Scalise actually attending this revolting debasement in the White House. A once revered national edifice turned into a figurative and quite literal whorehouse. Just like the country it represents.

Have a good weekend. See you mañana for the hobby thread. Be there. Aloha.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Daniel Greenfield: "The Democrat coalition is falling apart."
  The Left Can Have Islam or LGBTQA+. Not Both
  
• Daniel Pipes: "Reflections on how a gigantic biographical inconvenience was successfully hidden and denied."
  How Obama’s Muslim Childhood Became a Taboo Topic
  
• Kurt Schlichter: "Can we get the winning attitude back?"
  Our Next President Must Fix Our Military First
  
• "If the law is king in the U.S., as Thomas Paine once said, our anarchist friends may well be cheering the death of that king. We have entered a strange no-law zone in which it feels as if hypocrites and madmen in our government have been officially tasked with pretending laws don’t exist."
  The IRS, FBI, and DOJ Owe Al Capone an Apology

BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
• "The bombshell disclosure comes days after federal prosecutors in Delaware struck a plea deal with Biden on two misdemeanor tax charges and a felony gun charge that will be dropped after he completes a diversionary program."
  Biden Bombshell: Whistleblowers Say IRS Recommended Felony Tax Charges Against Hunter Biden. The DOJ Balked.
  
• "Hunter should have been charged with several tax felonies and misdemeanors for evading taxes on millions of dollars of his income."
  IRS Whistleblower Docs Show DOJ Obstructed Hunter Biden Probe To Protect So-Called Quote-Unquote "president"
  
• Let them eat cake insects . . . (link is to NY Post - jjs)
  Hunter Biden Beams at WH State Dinner Also Attended by Merrick Garland Amid Alleged DOJ Coverup in Tax Fraud Case
  
• "The full message . . . certainly looks on the face of it to be evidence of Hunter and Joe’s influence peddling scheme. The text was sent from Biden’s Delaware home, where the then-former VP held classified documents in his garage without retribution from the U.S. government."
  Hunter Sent Payment Demand, Invoking Dad Joe, to Chinese Communist Official
  
• "'I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father,' Hunter stated before issuing threat."
  Photos Place Hunter Biden at Father's House the Day He Invoked Dad’s Name to Chinese Business Partner
  
• "His testimony confirms the account of Twitter Files reporter Michael Shellenberger, who told then-Fox News host and Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson in December 2022 that the FBI knew the laptop was authentic."
  IRS Whistleblower Confirms FBI Knew Hunter’s Laptop Was Real In 2019
  
• "Gary Shapley and another whistleblower both testified before Ways and Means Committee attorneys for more than seven hours. . . the testimony implicates both Garland and IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel in lying to Congress about political interference in the Biden probe. Ways and Means voted Thursday in a closed-door hearing to release their transcripts."
  Whistleblowers Show Merrick Garland and IRS Commissioner Lied to Congress About Hunter Biden, GOP Reps Say
  
• "The embattled first son, who carried on an affair with his late brother's wife following his own divorce, has admitted to his frequent use of prostitutes and is known as a regular at strip clubs. Though the sex club in question is not identified, the owner of the Los Angeles club Snctm recently revealed that Biden was a client." ("Embattled?" Comedy gold! - jjs)
  Hunter Biden Deducted Payments to Hooker and Sex Club From His Taxes, Whistleblower Says
  
• Gary Shapley, a longtime IRS agent with the agency since 2009, told House investigators the probe into Hunter Biden began in November 2018. Code-named “Sportsman,” the IRS launched the investigation “as an offshoot of an investigation the IRS was conducting into a foreign-based amateur online pornography platform.”
  IRS Investigation Into Hunter Biden Started As Probe Into Foreign Pornography Ring
  
• Peter Schweizer: “I think it’s essentially over. Usually, when you get a sweetheart plea deal like that, part of the agreement is that you, as the defendant, agree to cooperate with the prosecution on other issues.”
  Experts, Lawmakers: Hunter Biden Plea Deal Could Allow Congress to Dig Deeper into Biden Family Business

  SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION

• "They reward the representative with a standing ovation after he is censured for Russiagate lies."
  With Schiff-for-Brains, House Democrats Declare Moral Bankruptcy
  
• "Hatred for Trump has been used, often cynically by people who should know better, to justify all kinds of wrongs by the haters."
  The California Bar is on Trial in its Persecution of Trump Campaign Lawyer John Eastman
  
• "The grand jury indictment process must be reevaluated to minimize abuses, especially now that the lead Republican presidential candidate has been indicted."
  Trump Indictment Demonstrates Manipulation of Grand Jury Indictments by Prosecutors

  CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

• "Days ago, Republican legislators and officials in Kansas have reported receiving 'cryptic' letters containing white powder since Friday, with some officials speculating they are politically motivated."
  Top Tennessee Republicans Receive Suspicious Packages, Radical Trans Activism Suspected
  
• "Even if Black Lives Matter Global Network were to go bankrupt, other well-off organizations at the heart of the BLM movement would live on."
  A Closer Look at Black Lives Matter’s ‘Bankruptcy’ Shows Radical Leftists Still Have Millions in Their Coffers

  FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• Robert Spencer: "Removes Jordan Peterson's interview of RFK Jr."
  YouTube Goes to Bat for Joe Biden
  
• “You have to be willing to notice the obvious and when they tell you you’re not allowed to notice the obvious, you should be concerned.” (we can't have that now can we? - jjs)
  "He’s Curious": Tucker Carlson Reveals Why He Thinks The Media Hates RFK Jr.
  
• "There could be daily fines of $700,000 AUD ($475,000 USD) for noncompliance."
  Australia’s Ultimatum: Elon Musk’s Twitter Has 28 Days to Combat ‘Online Hate’ or Face Hefty Fines
  
• "Patricia Stonesifer, who has praised the Post’s coverage of Trump, sent six-figures to Biden campaign alone." (shocking, right? - jjs)
  Washington Post CEO Has Funneled Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars To Democrats
  
• Zucker allegedly “holds a grudge,” and wants to find a way to “be back on top” after he was ousted from the network more than one year ago, a source close to Zucker told the Post.
  Report: CNN Could Be Put Up for Sale, Former CEO Jeff Zucker ‘Likely’ to Make a Bid 
  
• "Justice and Ginni Thomas stand boldly in the way of the left’s 150-year campaign to turn Americans into the serfs of an almighty bureaucracy."
  New York Magazine Hates That Uppity Clarence Thomas and His White Wife
  
• "The public, undoubtedly, is on the edge of their seats, eager to see how this tech titan showdown will play out. Regardless of the outcome, the war between Meta and Musk’s Twitter promises to be a spectacle, both online and in the Octagon. One thing is for sure: in the world of tech giants, no battle is too big, no challenge too outlandish."
  When Tech Titans Clash: Zuckerberg and Musk Gear Up for a Cage Match
  
• "Presenting Islamic Republic as the victim."
  The Irish Times Goes Easy on Iran, But Hard on Israel
  
• "Did this individual experience racial discrimination to the degree that he describes after coming to England? It’s possible. But anyone who has any international experience knows well that the West is the least racist of all human civilizations in world history."
  BBC Propaganda: Migrant Welcomed Into England, Learns What Racism Is

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM

• "South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem is silent as out-of-state corporations seize constituent land by eminent domain."
  Where Is Kristi Noem as Her Corporate Sponsors Take Over Constituents’ Land?
  
• "New York City comptroller Brad Lander pressures Toyota to change its strategy while ignoring city pension funds’ entanglement with China."
  Selective Meddling
  
• "Climate change alarmism has been a convenient fraud for governments to increase their power and control, even while their demands hurt the economy, create power grid crises (as in Texas and California), and seem likely to make people poorer. It’s all about control, not about science. 'Science' is just the propaganda cudgel used to shut down any debate."
  Science v. Ideology: 36 Climate Models Overestimated Warming in U.S. Corn Belt

  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• "In contrast, American security assistance to Ukraine since the February 2022 invasion by Russia comes in at around $40 billion – give or take a few billion, depending on the accounting tricks deployed by the Pentagon."

  16.8 Million Illegals Under Biden, Costing $150.6 Billion Per Year

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• "Griffin, 46, himself a father of three, paid the girl’s mother $3,000 to fly from Nevada to Vermont so he could sexually abuse her daughter." (Now THIS is CNN. For real - jjs)
  CNN Producer Sentenced to 19 Years for Sexually Abusing 9-Year-Old

  AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS

• "The law required Biden to declassify any and all information regarding the connection between a Wuhan-based laboratory and the origins of the novel [Chinese] coronavirus by June 18, a day that has come and gone with no announcement from the White House. A number of Republicans took to social media in the last week to remind Biden that the deadline was approaching and then that it had passed." (Fauci's name must be in every other sentence - jjs)
  Biden Signed Off on Declassifying Chinese COVID Origins by June 18. He Didn’t Do It.
  
• "A great, first step in the long walk back to sanity."
  House GOP Looks to Reinstate Troops Booted After Rejecting Biden’s Chinese COVID Vaccine Mandate
  
• "The excess deaths due to cardiovascular diseases were initially linked to [Chinese] COVID infections, yet numbers have remained high, even after [Chinese] COVID deaths declined.
  Heart Deaths Surge to More Than 500 a Week Since Pandemic

  SECOND AMENDMENT

• "It’s the new theater in the messaging war."
  An Anti-Gun Pledge for Law Students

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• “Biologically, that’s not true! Scientifically, that’s not true.”
  Video: Washington Students Marched To Principal’s Office And Lectured For Wearing ‘There Are Only Two Genders’ Shirts
  
• If the bill becomes law, school board members who propose ideas that run counter to California’s diversity mandates could be removed by their colleagues with a two-thirds vote—a prospect that "creates a specter of retribution" against dissenters, according to Lance Christensen, vice president of education policy and government affairs for the California Policy Center.
  ‘Tin-Pot Tyranny’: California Dem Moves To Purge School Boards of Members Who Dissent From 'Inclusive' Regime
  
• "To recap, a number of public school teachers have admitted to breaking state laws and are using federal funds to teach their colleagues how to violate laws protecting children. The Department of Education appears content in funding criminal activity, and the DOJ is too busy prosecuting Trump, covering up the Biden bribery scandal, targeting peaceful pro-lifers, and investigating “terrorist” parents at school board meetings to care."
  DOJ And Ed Department Silent After Teachers Use Taxpayer Money To Criminally Push Gender Ideology On Students
  
• Robert Zimmerman: "It seems plain common sense and basic decency to be disgusted immediately by these facts, and want to move quickly to remove these books from school libraries where little children can read them. Such removal isn’t book banning, it is simply applying the same standards the movie rating system applies to movies, keeping inappropriate material away from children. We should have been seeing school boards routinely respond in this manner to quickly and without protest move to remove such pornography from their libraries."
  Why is this rare? School board members react in horror when hearing the porn they allow in schools
  
• "Past efforts to curtail racial preferences whether by elections or judicial decrees have fallen short, and current efforts in the courts will similarly fail."
  What Happens if the Supreme Court Bans Racial Preferences?

  ABORTION

• "The coup against the court continues because Democrats, the Biden White House, and the DOJ gave it permission to."
  One Year After the Dobbs Decision, the Supreme Court is Still Under Attack

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY

• Robert Spencer: "They hired a former Nation of Islam gang member. What could go wrong?"
  Massachusetts DA’s Office Suspends Allah for Anti-Semitism
  
• "I would say it louder." (man, who clipped her joy buzzer? - jjs)
  Fatima Mohammed "Would Not Change" CUNY Law "Hate Speech" Commencement Address:

  POLITICS

• "A full seventeen seconds went by before the president realized he had put his hand on his heart for the wrong song and slowly slid his hand down his body until it reached his side, presumably hoping no one would notice." (meh, Democrats don't even rise when it's played, and slightly more than 50% aren't geriatric dementia cases - jjs)
  Biden Caught Slowly Removing Hand From Heart When He Realizes Song Playing Isn’t National Anthem
  
• A meaningless gesture but I suppose it's one of those things that you just are compelled to do regardless.
  House Sends Biden Impeachment Articles To Committees
  
• "DeSantis, however, initially refused to overtly state if he would personally support Trump. Rather, he first criticized Trump’s line of attack, particularly on DeSantis’s handling of the coronavirus, only later adding that the process — people’s final decision — should be respected."
  Ron DeSantis on if He Would Support Donald Trump: "I Don’t Think It’s Going to Ultimately Matter"
  
• "As the kids say, we have the receipts."
  The Toughest Job In D.C. — Transcribing Biden’s Remarks
  
• "It is in everyone’s best interest to unite against a government at war with its citizenry — even if you don’t 'like' President Trump."
  President Trump Did What Ross Perot Could Not
  
• The fierce Never-Trumper is portraying himself as a “common-sense Republican” as he prepares to go up against an already overcrowded Republican primary race. He even attacked the Republican Party on Twitter last year. (Hurd, rhymes with . . . Christie - jjs)
  CIA Agent Runs for President

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• "However, officials have stated that it is still in the early stages of the counteroffensive. The US and its allies reportedly believe that Ukraine can make substantial gains over time. The report suggested that it would not be until July before a clearer picture of the effectiveness of the counteroffensive could be seen."
  Western officials say Ukrainian counteroffensive 'not meeting expectations': report
  
• "Ukraine’s results are a test case for the American way of war against a conventional opponent. How is that going?"
  The End of Offensive Warfare
  
• "Would Europeans fight if NATO ends up in a real war with Russia?"
  Russia’s Crawling Neighbor
  
• "Zaporizhzhia is currently under Russian control. Zelensky accused Russia of blowing up a hydroelectric dam that was also under Russian control and had been since early in the war in 2022. The Nova Kakhovka dam failure led to severe flooding and evacuations and came shortly after Ukraine began their long-anticipated counter offensive against Russia. Russia staged an invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and the US has been backing the nation with billions of dollars as well as arms and other aid."
  Zelensky claims he has intelligence that Putin is now planning a 'terrorist attack' on Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• "The explosive revelations of a high-level, U.S-led, foreign intervention in Brazil’s election process and the ensuing aftermath will raise concerns, especially with America’s own presidential plebiscite looming."
  Biden Launched a CIA, Military, State Dept. Campaign Against Bolsonaro in Brazil
  
• The Associated Press: Biden’s remarks “opens new rift just after Blinken’s tensions-easing trip.” (what is known in the trade as "insanity" - jjs)
  Biden Calls Xi a ‘Dictator’ a Day After Blinken’s China Trip
  
• "Its desire for control exposes its insecurity."
  China Betrays Its True Weakness — Despite Blinken’s Obeisance
  
• "New Zealand has also taken a harder line against China in recent months after decades of fairly close cooperation with Beijing. Then-Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern raised concerns about human rights violations and aggression in the South China Sea and Taiwan Strait during a meeting with Xi in December 2022."
  New Zealand Prime Minister Directly Undermines Biden On China
  
• "Today the PRC is the most formidable peer competitor the United States has faced in its history."
  The PRC’s Rise Is a Failure of American Presidential Leadership
  
• "Biden's diplomats are trying to unlawfully implement a secret deal with the Iranian terrorist regime to give them tens of billions of dollars. They do not want Congress or the American people to know what's in the Biden Iran deal or how much money they will send the Ayatollah."
  Congress Pushes to Subpoena the Biden Junta's Iran Deal Ringleaders
  
• Daniel Greenfield: "We send money to Iraq. Iraq funds Iran’s Jihadists attacking our embassy."
  How U.S. Foreign Aid to Iraq Funds Terrorism Against Americans
  
• "Does Israel have a response ready?" (wasn't there an article in the past few days about Israel having developed a hypersonic interceptor? - jjs)
  Iran’s ‘Hypersonic’ Missile Announced With Great Fanfare
  
• "In essence, De Jonge has decided that homeowners’ individual freedom — the right to decide for themselves to whom they want to sell their homes — should be an artifact of the past. The government, in its infinite wisdom, now aims to dictate market value and access to homes."
  Totalitarian Dutch Government Prepares to Dictate Home Sales
  
• "The UN and the Vatican verified the six-month deal."
  Colombian Ceasefire: Bogotá and Rebels Sign an Agreement

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• In addition to their Chinese intelligence ties, OCSC officials from the U.S. traveled to Beijing in January 2018 for a “work conference,” according to Chinese state-run media outlet Qiaowang. During the 2018 trip, OCSC officials met with Ministry of Public Security (MPS) officers at a police station in China’s Zhejiang province. It was there that state security officials demonstrated how they’re leveraging new technology to conduct “cross-border remote justice services” overseas, the DCNF reported.
  GOP Lawmakers Alert FBI, State AG To ‘Service Centers’ Operated By Chinese Intel Arm In US Cities
  
• While legacy media’s coverage has largely focused on the “history-making” nature of Brown’s nomination, such coverage has ignored the Air Force general’s previously disclosed support for the same DEI ideology currently wreaking havoc on the U.S. military.
  Revisiting The Racialist Nonsense Espoused By Biden’s Pick For Joint Chiefs Of Staff Chair

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• "The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Thursday that the federal government does not need to take affirmative steps to secure water for the Navajo Nation, reversing the Ninth Circuit’s decision."
  Supreme Court Rules Against Navajo Nation In Dispute Over Water Rights
  
• "In bailing out failing transit systems, the state is intent on providing us with the transportation that planners — rather than customers — want."
  California Chooses Social Over Civil Engineering
  
• "Republicans have realized that Housing First is not about housing."
  The Fall of Housing First

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• "Those who practice end-of-life medicine, especially the few who go above and beyond for patients and their families, are genuine heroes."
  UCLA’s ‘3 Wishes Program’ Captures the True Meaning of Serving Patients

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• "This slow down is probably because NASA has forbidden Starship/Superheavy launches from this launchpad because it is near the launchpad SpaceX uses for NASA’s manned missions."
  Update on SpaceX’s work leading to next Starship/Superheavy test launch
  
• Robert Zimmerman: "In the end, however, these are politicians, whose only real purpose in life is the wielding of power. It would be wise to watch them very closely, and expect the worst from them."
  Biden Junta announces India will sign Artemis Accords

  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY

• "I pray that there is a change."
  Whistleblower Doctor Reveals How Gender Ideology Has Corrupted Medicine
  
• “If nothing else, I truly hope you-all, you can see this is a violation of our right to privacy and how some of us have felt uncomfortable, embarrassed, and even traumatized by this experience.”
  Riley Gaines Testifies Before Senate About Competing Against Biological Male Lia Thomas
  
• A restroom and locker-room policy offered by the school district calls for considering the requests of trans students “on a case-by-case basis.”
  Title IX Complaint: Wisconsin School Failed to Act After ‘Trans Female’ Student Exposed Himself to Female Students in Locker Room Shower
  
• "The former Ellen Page tells her trans tale."
  Pageboy: A Memoir by Elliot Page

  TITANIC TOURIST SUB TRAGEDY

• "The Navy heard an implosion or explosion noise around the time when the sub lost communication with the surface on Sunday, according to U.S. defense officials who spoke to the Journal."
  Report: U.S. Navy Believes It Detected Titanic Sub’s Implosion Days Ago
  
• According to [former showrunner of The Simpsons Mike] Reiss, the submersible lost contact with the surface during all four of the dives he was part of. Reiss also discussed the ominous waiver that tourists sign, which mentions “death three times on the first page.”
  Simpsons Writer: Titanic Sub Suffered Communication Failures During All 4 of His Dives
  
• The submersible was traveling through international waters, Posobiec said, asking Kohnen if it would have been permitted to operate in US- or Canadian-owned waters. Kohnen responded: "No, not the Coast Guard, in its jurisdictional authority, which is basically the people in charge of the coastal waters."
  REVEALED: Titan would not have been permitted to operate in US waters

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• Bud Light stepped in it so deep that they might be in a black hole of marketing, where no matter what they do — even remaining silent — will be read negatively. But it didn’t have to be that way, and today’s new ad won’t make anything, anywhere “easy to enjoy” for the brand’s hapless management.
  Bud Light: "Please Drink Our Beer Again, You Oafish Hicks"
  
• "True to the team’s name, many of the concessions available at games prominently feature bacon, and the mascot is a seven-foot-tall slice of bacon named — you guessed it — Kevin."
  Vegan Activist Group Goes After Minor League Baseball Team
  
• “These days, it’s more Splash Mountain than the Stone Mountain of old.”
  The New Gods of Stone Mountain
  
• "When a man and a woman join together for life with the intention of raising children and working toward a secure retirement, he State loses much of its control over them."
  Marriage Stands in the Way of the State
  
• "When you drum all religious sensibility out of the public sphere, most of the classics of your own literary and artistic heritage must inevitably follow."
  No God, No Culture

  HITHER & YON

• Christian Toto: "Wes Anderson focuses his signature style on story with ties to virus mania."
  Is Asteroid City a Sly Take on Pandemic Lockdowns?
  
• "If you’re instinctively bothered by betting on the Special Olympics, you should pay attention."
  Handicapping the Handicapped
  
• "Rule by 'Virtuals' leads to constant disruption."
  Change Merchants

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