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I’M GLAD THEY’RE STILL ASHAMED TO OPENLY SUPPORT COMMIES AGAINST THE PEOPLE: Cuban Regime’s Biggest Defenders in Congress Silent on Pro-Democracy Protests.

Maybe they’re afraid of heroic figures like this kid:

NEWS YOU CAN USE: The Worst and Best Republican Governors on COVID-19.

THE UGLY FACE OF BIGOTRY:

WHO YOU GONNA BELIEVE, THE PENTAGON OR YOUR OWN LYIN’ EYES? Pentagon insists race theory isn’t taught, Air Force Academy instructor brags it is.

CANCEL CULTURE IS ALL IN YOUR MIND: A lawyer was forced out of her Legal Aid Society job after criticizing CRT.

DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS: Texas Senate Passes Republican-Backed Voting Bill after Dems Flee to Block Final Vote.

OUT: LISTEN TO THE SCIENCE. IN: LISTEN TO THE KARENS. De Blasio ignores CDC. All NYC students to wear masks this fall.

NARRATIVES DON’T ESTABLISH THEMSELVES, YOU KNOW: Megyn Kelly Says Media Ratcheted Up Jan. 6 Riot Coverage, Making It ‘Worse Than It Actually Was.’

FLASHBACK: The Voter Suppression Lie.

BIDEN CHANNELS STALIN:

Related: Stalin: “Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”

THIS IS BIG, IF TRUE: The Cuban regime police decide to move away and allow the passage of a demonstration in Camagüey. “A video that is being disseminated on social networks, one of the few that manages to circumvent the internet blockade installed in Cuba, shows a manifestation against the communist regime passing the police cordon that tried to stop them. A crowd advances down one of the main streets of Camagüey. While supporters of the Castro regime, next to a police cordon with several agents, make gestures to them not to continue, the hundreds of people who are advancing do not back down and continue on their way shouting ‘yes, we can!’ At the moment in which the head of the demonstration reaches the line of police agents, when the worst is feared given the history of violent repression that the Cuban security forces have, it is possible to observe how the agents step aside to let them pass. Something that the protesters celebrate with glee. Various testimonies on Twitter speak of some police stations that have abandoned the defense of the regime to join the people.”

If so, let’s hope this spreads, like the Cossacks who let protesters escape under their horses.

THE FBI CLOWN SHOW CONTINUES: FBI Calls for People to Rat Out Friends and Family, Gets Clown-Slapped on Twitter. The Lego jokes are my favorites. Though the actual clown car video was a nice touch.

THAT’S BECAUSE IT’S 100% SOPHOMORICALLY POLITICAL BULLSHIT: Critical Race Theory has no idea what to do with Asian-Americans.

DON’T WORRY, WITH BIDEN’S ECONOMIC POLICIES SOON $200 FRIES WILL BE NORMAL: New York restaurant’s $200 fries certified as the world’s most expensive.

OPEN THREAD: The pay’s okay, the benefits are great, I get to shoot the bull with the world’s smartest ape.

LAUNCHING IN A WEEK: With Virgin Galactic’s launch of Richard Branson in the books, all eyes are on Blue Origin and Jeff Bezos.

I wish them both well, and want to see competition in this field grow. But really, they’re so far behind SpaceX that it’s hard for me to get as excited about this as I would have a decade ago.

NOW OUT FROM MARK LEVIN: American Marxism. #1 on Amazon.

#JOURNALISM:

Related: Other States Look To Texas For Advice On How To Get Democrats To Leave.

HMM: “Low testosterone levels in men with symptomatic COVID-19 were associated with a greater risk of severe illness or death, according to Italian researchers.”

UNREST: ‘It’s a Total Mess’: Shops Ransacked in Johannesburg Suburb Amid Deadly Unrest in South Africa.

RICHARD FERNANDEZ: The Crumbling Global Tower:

The “international community”, already hard-pressed by their own domestic concerns, is in no mood to donate more aid, send troops or accept more refugees from the Caribbean, the Middle East, North Africa, or Afghanistan. The well is running dry. Even before the latest trouble, the left-wing Nation wrote: “Haiti Has Been Abandoned—by the Media, the US, and the World.” It underscores how deep the fatigue is: when the media gives up who’s left?

It’s hard to say who wanted it to happen, but now it’s been decided nobody minds.

Plus: “More likely this could be the end of the old global world, the vanished landscape of old norms that Joe Biden was supposed to restore. Not all of social media nor Hollywood could save it. It died under the rise of China, the corruption of Washington, the stasis of Europe, and the madness of Woke culture. Covid when it came was simply the coup de grace for the whole teetering edifice.”

It turns out that a ruling class that doesn’t much like the countries it rules doesn’t do a very good job. This is a problem in the United States, and throughout most of the West.

ANOTHER BOGUS “RACIST” INCIDENT: The Thompson Bodycam.

St. Paul police have released the bodycam footage of the July 4 traffic stop of state representative John Thompson. I have embedded it below. The first minute and the last minute. He was driving with a Wisconsin driver’s license at a time when his driving privileges had been suspended as a result of an unmet child support payment.

The officer asks him “Why in such a hurry?” Thompson responds: “I don’t think I took off like a bot out of hell. I just drove off.”

Thompson tells him he’s “a state representative in this district right here, man.” The officer responds: “With a Wisconsin license?” Good question!

Thompson puts his racial hustle into overdrive when the officer returns with a ticket for driving with a suspended license. Tom Hauser adds that he has Minnesota addresses outside his legislative district (tweet at bottom). R-a-a-a-cism!

As predicted, bodycams work in favor of cops at least as often as against them.

MICROBIOME NEWS: People given ‘friendly’ bacteria in nose drops protected against meningitis.

HMM: FDA adds warning to J&J COVID-19 vaccine over links to rare autoimmune disorder. “The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced a new warning for the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine over its association with an increased risk of Guillain-Barre syndrome, a rare autoimmune disorder where the immune system damages the nerve cells.”

This is a well-known (though generally rare) side effect of many vaccines. The rushed Swine Flu vaccine of the 1970s had a higher rate than most, if I recall correctly. And, doing the search, it turns out that I do remember correctly, though the rate was still low: “The vaccine caused roughly one extra case of Guillain-Barré for every 100,000 people vaccinated. The seasonal flu shot is associated with roughly one to two additional cases for every 1 million vaccines administered.”