SAY ANYTHING: DHS sued over border horsemen ‘falsely accused’ of whipping.

OUT WITH “BREASTFEEDING,” IN WITH “CHESTFEEDING”:  It’s the new, inclusive way to talk about the thing that “birthing people” do for babies.  A new bill in the Massachusetts legislature, which will fund “doulas” for pregnant Medicaid recipients, uses that term.

The Massachusetts bill appears to be a response to the whole “maternal health crisis” that the Left keeps talking about.  As far as I can tell, the response to the “crisis” is all about getting government jobs for “doulas” who can then be expected to join the SEIU.  A lot of what I have to deal with in the world seems to be about that.

HE’S RIGHT, OF COURSE: Goya CEO Slams Biden: ‘Idiotic War on Fossil Fuel’ Driving Food Costs.

NEVER LET A CRISIS YOUR OWN PEOPLE GINNED UP GO TO WASTE: Hopeless Hochul and Westchester County Attack Pregnancy Centers. “Joining her in her ham-fisted attempt to ensure that New York State remains at the bottom of desirable places to live in the U.S. is a Democrat-controlled state legislature. It is so obsessed with abortion, so blind to the reality of violence against pro-life pregnancy centers, that in the wake of a firebombing of one of these centers, CompassCare Community medical in Amherst, N.Y., they — wait for it — increased funding to protect abortion clinics.”

Just to reiterate: Pregnancy centers meant to help women who want to deliver their babies are under attack.

Over the last 20 years Left has gone from pro-choice to pro-abortion to anti-life.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Biden USAID Nominee Lavished Praise on Saudi Arabia—Until It Stopped Funding Her Think Tank.

DO TELL: WaPo: Investor response to Biden’s anti-oil policies is why we can’t get more gasoline, you know.

DEAL OF THE DAY: Timberland Men’s 4-Pack Half Cushioned Ankle Socks. #CommissionEarned

TRUE:

Also, it’s a literal gerontocracy, as well as a kakistocracy.

IT’S A VERY WELL-ARMED ENCLAVE: Lithuania Blocks Russian Rail To Kaliningrad. “EU and NATO member Lithuania has announced that they’re applying international sanctions to rail traffic that crosses their territory from Russia (via Belarus) to the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad.”

THAT MEANS MORE PEOPLE THAT NEED KILLIN’ ARE GETTING KILLED: Shocker: Rise in Philly carry permits leads to rise in justified homicides.

KAROL MARKOWICZ: Cheers to Elon Musk for finally saying ‘no’ to whiny, entitled millennial babies.

A few days ago, employees of spaceflight company SpaceX released an open letter criticizing their CEO Elon Musk. Less than 48 hours later, at least five employees who orchestrated the letter were fired.

Good.

The dam is breaking. The “listen to meeeeee” millennials, who have had an overblown influence on corporations, and on our culture, are finally being told to sit down and be quiet. It is very much overdue.

Yes.

OVER 20 YEARS AGO, THEY CIRCLED THE WAGONS AROUND MICHAEL BELLESILES, TOO: When activist historians redefine ‘plagiarism’ to protect their own. Now it’s Kevin Kruse.

The discoveries about Kruse’s dissertation came as a shock to the political activist wing of the history profession, where Kruse is a well-known social media star famous for his “Historian here…” twitter threads that purport to correct both real and imagined errors of fact and interpretation by conservative-leaning political commentators. Most conceded that the evidence looked very bad for Kruse, but more than a few of his online fans redirected their ire at me personally for having discovered the similarities. Unfortunately, their decision to “shoot the messenger” was expected. In today’s hyper-politicized academy, evidence is almost wholly subordinate to a far-left ideological narrative.

The same pattern played out a few years ago when I drew attention to a long list of serious historical errors and misrepresentations in Nancy MacLean’s book Democracy in Chains. True to form, several of the exact same parties that lashed out against me over MacLean’s book are now on the warpath over the plagiarism revelations about Kruse.

Much more here.

I’m not a particular stickler on some things people call plagiarism — there’s no such thing as “self-plagiarism,” for example, any more than you can kidnap yourself — but the wagon-circling here is notable. As is the changing of standards to fit the needs of the moment.

A ONCE-GREAT COUNTRY IS NOW AN EPISODE OF ‘VEEP’: Is Kamala Harris Planning a Coup to Oust Biden? “We’ve known about tensions between Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for some time now, but former President Bill Clinton strategist Dick Morris believes Biden’s aides are now leaking damaging stories on Harris out of concern that she will attempt to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Biden from office.”

ICYMI, YOU DON’T NEED A GUN, THE POLICE WILL PROTECT YOU: ‘Abject failure’ | Uvalde school massacre could have been stopped in 3 minutes, DPS says.

THE HYSTERICAL STYLE IN THE AMERICAN HUMANITIES:

Perhaps the most prominent representative of this tendency today is one Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, Jason Stanley. Trained in epistemology and the philosophy of language, Stanley turned to politics in 2015 with his book How Propaganda Works. He completed his metamorphosis into a political theorist in 2018 with the best-selling follow-up, How Fascism Works. His books were perfectly of the age: American liberals, horrified by the Trump revolt and desperate to find a definitive tie between Trumpism and the kind of movements that installed Hitler and Mussolini, devoured them. There are fascists on the prowl, and they’re all the people Jason Stanley doesn’t like.

Stanley claims that the goal of his book was not to describe fascist regimes, but rather to delimit the essential characteristics of fascist politics — distilled into a checklist of 10 essential qualities — which may or may not congeal into a regime down the line. This distinction allows him to avoid any mention whatever of Spain’s Franco, Austria’s Dollfuss, Romania’s Antonescu, or Portugal’s Salazar, while every single chapter contains at least one instance of the word “Trump.” But as Samuel Moyn observed in an essay for The New York Review of Books, “If Stanley is right, most of modern political history is fascist, latently or openly.” His definition is gravely overbroad. A vast majority of politics as such — for decades if not centuries, whether left- or right-coded, in America or beyond — contains most if not all of what Stanley believes to be characteristic of fascism.

The professors of “academic Twitter” have subordinated their work as professional intellectuals to the news cycle, yoking their reputations to the delirious churn of outrage media.

Twitter is the mind-killer. You could write a book on it.

FROM KAL SPRIGGS:  Valor’s Inheritance.  #CommissionEarned

Her home world and most of its people have been captured by alien invaders. All too many of the cadets and personnel she served with have been killed in the defense of their planet. The Century Planetary Militia’s starships and fighters thrown away by Admiral Drien to cover his cowardly retreat.

All that is left is a meager inheritance for the survivors: a handful of ships, off-world accounts, and refugees willing to give all they have to save their homeworld. Multiple factions of survivors compete to control those resources. Some, like Jiden’s grandmother, want to build up a force to liberate their planet. Others, like Admiral Drien, want to gain the support of a stronger power and let others do the bleeding to save Century.

Jiden, as before, is in the middle of it all. She will have to manage meager resources while she trains up new recruits to save Century. Because whether they can acquire more resources or not, the Centurions are going to save their people. Jiden knows that in the end: all the wealth and power of Century doesn’t matter; the true inheritance of Century is the willingness to shed blood to save it.

OH, PLEASE, WHEN I WAS A KID EVERY PROPER YOUNG LADY* LEARNED TO PLAY ACCORDION:  The surprising musical instrument many parents want their kids to learn.

*I was a proper tone-deaf young lady. Having been admitted to the pleasure of my singing, they knew better than buy me instruments to torture them with.

HOW’S THAT FARADAY CAGE COMING?   Giant sunspot has doubled in size and could send solar flare Earth’s way.

FOR THEM, TOLERANCE IS A ONE-WAY STREET:  Olympian Sharron Davies reveals death threats during ‘toxic debate’ with trans activists.

I THINK IT IS, AT BEST, FOURTH IN LINE:  Elon Musk: ‘Is TikTok destroying civilization’ with ‘next level’ ADD?

Behind the Democrats, the Greens, Putin and Xi the Pooh.

ONLY THING THEY’RE AHEAD IN:  Biden Ahead of Schedule in Destroying US Offshore Oil Production.

ANTI-RACISM IS BEING RACIST AGAINST THE MAJORITY:  NIH to discriminate against whites in awarding research grants.

ABOUT TIME:  ‘Stop Giving In’: Customers Blast Grocery Store Pulling Pro-American Items.

BIG TALK FROM SOMEONE WHO LOST TO MIDDLE SCHOOL BOYS:  Soccer Star Megan Rapinoe Dismisses Parents’ Concerns Over Trans Athletes: ‘Your Kid’s Volleyball Team Just Isn’t That Important’.

SURE. BECAUSE, UNLIKE POT, NICOTINE IS TRULY TERRIBLE:  Biden Administration Proposing to Reduce Nicotine Levels in Cigarettes.