DEAL OF THE DAY: Tactical Portable LED Flashlight. #CommissionEarned

SOMEONE STEAL HER CAR, THEN: Boston University professor: Property is ‘racist.’

WOKE DIET AND FITNESS: ‘Fat Sex Therapist’ compares fitness trainers to Nazis, children’s dieting to sexual assault.

Just remember that “woke” is a synonym for “stupid and crazy” and you won’t go far wrong.

UPDATE: “The woke left is composed of ugly people who want to be treated as beautiful people, bad people who want to be treated as good people, stupid people who want to be treated as smart people, and the grifters who profit from the above.”

2022 IN A NUTSHELL: “Two blazes that grew into New Mexico’s largest ever wildfire were both started by the U.S. Forest Service.”

“A disaster and a metaphor. What is presented by the government as ‘controlled’ goes wildly out of control.”

DEMENTIA OR DISHONESTY? WHO CAN TELL ANYMORE? Did Lyin’ Biden do it again? Story told to Naval Academy grads stuns reporters. “Biden told the midshipmen that he applied to the Naval Academy in 1965. He told a tale of applying to the Academy with a letter from then-Delaware Senator J. Caleb Boggs. However, in 1965, Biden graduated from the University of Delaware. He wouldn’t have been applying for graduate courses at the Naval Academy because there were none. The tale was an odd one, mixing his dream of playing football with his interest in the Naval Academy.”

But that wasn’t the only creepy thing: Joe Biden’s Whispered Remark During Naval Academy Grad Speech Is Raising Eyebrows.

He went off speech at the end of his time up at the podium, going as far as to whisper a one-liner into the microphone. “And, by the way, once you’re commissioned, remember: I’m your Commander-in-Chief,” Biden whispered into the microphone after his speech. “So don’t ask me too tough a question, okay?” . . .

While President Joe Biden has been known for making a gaffe or two during his speeches, some people online reacted to his whispered comments during the graduation ceremony, with some going as far to say that it was “creepy.”

Joe’s a creepy guy. The dementia just lets it shine through a bit more.

WE CAN HOPE! The Collateral Damage in China’s COVID War: Are Beijing’s Harsh Measures Undermining Its Hold on Power? “Two and a half years into the pandemic, China is rapidly losing its battle to maintain its ‘zero COVID’ goal. The government’s total lockdown of Shanghai, its largest city and financial hub, has created economic chaos and engendered social backlash from tens of millions of residents who have been prevented from going outside, even to obtain food or to seek health care. Despite such protocols, the government was unable to prevent hundreds of thousands of new cases from emerging in the city during the lockdown, while causing much unnecessary hardship and suffering. Now a similar problem threatens the capital.”

A FAILED PRESIDENCY WITH OVER TWO YEARS LEFT: White House Report Card: Helpless, unpopular Joe.

SCENES FROM A GREEN FUTURE: The Day The Electricity Died.

DEAL OF THE DAY: WORKPRO 20V Cordless Impact Wrench. #CommissionEarned

WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING? Failures up at school after merit-based admissions ended.

DISPATCHES FROM THE MEMORY HOLE: His Name Was Seth Smith.

There is no greater injustice in economics than Seth Smith; just hearing his name makes me boil with anger and depression and nihilism. It is so sad. Now that his killer’s court case came to a conclusion this week, and we have ostensibly obtained some semblance of closure, I am sadder than ever.

Seth Smith was a double major in economics and history at UC Berkeley. He was only 19 but a third-year student, scheduled to graduate next spring at the age of 20… he must have been very smart. He was a beautiful and brilliant young guy who had everything going for him. His dream was to attend graduate school at the London School of Economics.

At ~10 pm on June 15th, 2020 — almost exactly two years ago — Seth went out for a walk. On this walk he was shot in the back of the head, execution-style. His body was found half an hour later by a man walking his dog, sprawled on his back with one of his earbuds still in his ear, indicating he was listening to music. Here is a picture of the bus stop where Seth’s body was found.

Unfortunately for Seth, nobody cared about his murder, except for his mom, who was tweeting about it. It was not a national news story.

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Here is how Berkeley administrators reacted to Seth’s death, in probably the most evil fashion I could imagine. Let’s linger on this statement for a bit because it deserves a rant of its own.

Many of you may have had a close relationship with Seth and are feeling a sense of loss and disbelief.

Others, like many of us, are experiencing stress, grief and anxiety related to the coronavirus pandemic and the recent murders of George Floyd, Riah Milton, and other Black Americans.

Sincerely,

Carol Christ
Chancellor

Stephen C. Sutton
Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs

Sunny Lee
Assistant Vice Chancellor and Dean of Students”

First and foremost: they made Seth Smith an “also-ran” in his own obituary… they may as well have acknowledged that people should be grieving over climate change or the plight of indigenous women. This email says nothing about the search for the murderer, about the cooperation with authorities or any important information that may make students feel more secure. Instead they chose to blithely pander to partisan twitter talking points. What a disgrace. When confronted by a producer for Fox News, Berkeley admins sassily doubled down on their virtue signaling.

Read the whole thing.

LIFE IN THE BLUE ZONES: LaGuardia High School in NYC in uproar over ‘equitable’ academics.

At this rate it’ll become infamous.

The academic debasement of LaGuardia High School — Manhattan’s renowned “Fame school” — is accelerating, parents fear, as woke principal Yeou-Jey Vasconcelos makes plans to slash its demanding 10-period schedule down to eight periods a day for most students.

“It’s just another example of this principal’s attack on academic excellence,” one parent raged. “She’s big on equity — which in practice tends to mean bringing everyone down rather than helping some students rise up.”

The new “equitable” schedule will force the city’s best and brightest artsy scholars — who take at least three periods of dance, music, visual art, or theater classes every day — to miss out on core college-prep classes such as science and math, simply for lack of time.

“Teachers have been warning students and parents that the eight-period day will decimate academics at LaGuardia,” a furious mom told The Post. “Not just advanced academics, but all academics.”

Actually it will double-decimate them, since it will reduce them not by 1/10, but by 2/10.

ENDING THE CIVIL WAR over the future of the Marine Corps.

OPEN THREAD: But you better not kill this groove.

GOOD LUCK: NASA targeting June 19 for crucial test of Artemis 1 moon rocket.

JEFFREY CARTER: No One Is Talking About This. “I have been looking for some good data on food. Frankly, I have seen my grocery bill go up quite a bit and I am trying to figure out if I should stockpile foodstuffs or not.”

Plus: “I used to trade Lean Hogs, so I watched the food supply stuff relatively closely. I have heard that if you want a slot at the slaughterhouse this year, you are out of luck if you don’t have one. It’s hearsay for me as I don’t have good data on anything but my guess is that livestock farmers are going to really cull their herds this year. It’s just too expensive to feed them. Short term, that might drive meat prices down. Long term, they will skyrocket. If you look at futures prices for lean hogs, that’s what they are telling you.”

BECAUSE THE DEMOCRATS DON’T WANT TO: Why can’t the US stop soaring oil and gas prices?

Related: Why Team Biden might be purposefully grinding down the middle class.

SLEEP: Tinnitus Seems to Be Somehow Linked to a Crucial Bodily Function, Studies Hint.

DAVOS: The Left Didn’t Eat the Rich. The Rich Ate the Left. “More importantly, the Left decided that the world was, in fact, for sale. With great corporate greed came great corporate largesse—which meant a reprieve for those willing to pipe down, and cash for those willing to become complicit in corporate globalism.”

I HAD A SECTION ON THIS IN ARMY OF DAVIDS YEARS AGO: Vigilant amateur asteroid hunters keep watch for menacing space rocks.

DEMS ARE ABUSING THEIR MAJORITY IN A DANGEROUSLY DIVISIVE AND UNAMERICAN WAY: Leader McCarthy and Rep. Jim Jordan Address Subpoena from Jan. 6 Select Committee in Blistering Op-Ed. “As the op-ed expressed concerns over, at issue is not just legitimacy but constitutional rights, not helped by the shadowy manner in which the select committee is conducting its affairs.”

“DEMOCRATS BEFORE AND AFTER SEEING POLLS:”

Flashback: Obama pollster to Dems: ‘Latinx’ is still not a thing despite your wokest efforts. “This is hardly the first poll to show that “Latinx” is not just a fringe construct but actively annoying to Hispanic voters. Bendixen & Amandi pollster Fernand Amandi wonders why Democrats keep insisting on promoting its usage. . . . The answer is simple — Democrats have invested themselves far more into the faculty lounge and activist donor base than they have with Hispanic voters. This isn’t the only reason why Hispanics are moving to the GOP in the last couple of cycles, but this disconnect certainly doesn’t help matters.”

DAVID BARON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Dramatic moment Seattle mom saves excited toddler daughter who saw bear in their garden and excitedly ran TOWARD the apex predator.

BE PREPARED: Augason Farms Emergency Food Supply. #CommissionEarned

SOMEBODY SET UP US THE BOMB: Uvalde police response proves need to abolish the police, says MSNBC guest.

During the latest episode of MSNBC’s The Cross Connection with Tiffany Cross on Saturday, leftist police reform activist Brittany Packnett Cunningham claimed the recent Texas school shooting is further proof that America must abolish the police.

Cunningham told Cross she believed that law enforcement’s mistakes during the Uvalde, Texas school shooting – namely, reports that officers waited outside the classroom as the shooter committed his massacre – means policing as it currently stands needs to be gutted.

For the guest commentator, the Uvalde shooting essentially bolstered the Black Lives Matter “defund the police” narrative progressives adopted in the wake of the death of George Floyd in May 2020.

Cunningham stated, “I think, sadly, Uvalde is a terrible and tragic example of just how – not incompetent – but problematic the entire institution is.”

She then combined Black Lives Matter rhetoric with the Uvalde shooting to construct her new anti-police narrative. “If the police kill, taze and maim unarmed people because they fear for their lives and they won’t stop armed people from slaughtering children, then clearly the institution itself is not sound,” she declared.

Fine, let’s go with plan B: Major New Research on School Safety: Schools that Allow Teachers to Carry Guns haven’t seen school shootings during school hours.