GUN CONTROL LAWS TEND TO BE RACIST: Public Defenders Back Bruen Decision’s Elimination of a Racist Gun Control Law.

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‘I LOST FRIENDS:’ Former Rolling Stone Journalist Talks Reaction To Him Reviewing What Is A Woman.

“[T]he movie shows academic after academic and activist after activist seething at the mere implication that they should have to explain themselves,” he wrote. “Their attitude is positively medieval: ‘We keep the Bible in Latin for a reason!’”

In the same review, Taibbi applauded the humor in “What is a Woman?”, something the journalist told Shapiro had been completely lost on the Left.

“It’s done with a sense of humor and satirical bend that’s taboo on our side of the aisle now, which I find really strange, because that shift happened almost overnight and imperceptibly,” he said.

Well, not quite overnight; we’ve been exploring how the left lost its edge on comedy for almost 20 years now.

SO AN ALL-MALE COURT GAVE US ROE V. WADE, but the most diverse Supreme Court ever overturned it. If you’re complaining, I guess you hate diversity.

SETTING AGGRESSIVE SCHEDULES, BUT TAKING THE NECESSARY TIME TO GET IT RIGHT, IS A MUSK TRADEMARK: Elon Musk wants SpaceX’s biggest rocket ready to launch in July, but experts say he may not get his wish.

LET ME JUST GET OUT AHEAD OF THE STORY AND SAY THAT GHISLAINE MAXWELL DID NOT COMMIT SUICIDE: Ghislaine Maxwell, ex-lover of Jeffrey Epstein, placed on suicide watch ahead of sentencing.

I HOOKED A CATFISH BIGGER THAN THAT ONCE IN LAY LAKE, ALABAMA, BUT IT GOT AWAY. SUCKER WAS THIS BIG. . . This is the largest freshwater fish ever caught.

SUICIDE WATCH. THAT’S WHERE THEY TURN OFF THE CAMERAS AND SEND THE GUARDS ON BREAK, RIGHT? Ghislaine Maxwell has been placed on suicide watch just days before her sentencing, her lawyer says.

“AS SUN TZU SAID IN THE ART OF WAR, ‘DON’T MESS WITH THE REDNECKS.’” LOL! Lefties want to burn down the homes of the “defenseless” country boys now.

SHOCKER: CBD marketing for dogs way ahead of the science, experts say.

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NBA AND WNBA ISSUE STATEMENT REGARDING ROE V. WADE DECISION:

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I THINK FOR MOST BUYERS THAT’S NOT A BUG, BUT A FEATURE: Study finds THC in 60% of CBD products tested.

THE HILL IS SUDDENLY COOL WITH NATIONALIZING SOCIALISM: Why we must nationalize Big Oil.

In one scenario, the federal government could buy a controlling interest in the three most dominant oil companies, ExxonMobil, Chevron and Conoco. The cost would be around $350 billion, a trivial amount compared with unmitigated climate change or the $5 trillion the government spent on COVID-19 relief, the nation’s defense budget this year ($778 billion), or fossil fuels’ $630.5 billion annual damages to public health and the environment.

The federal government typically nationalizes companies to save them. In this case, it must nationalize Big Oil to save us all from a future we don’t want.

Why has The Hill started working Salon.com’s side of the far left aisle?

● “Let’s nationalize Fox News: Imagining a very different media…Excerpted from ‘Imagine: Living in a Socialist USA.’

—Salon.com, January 18, 2014.

● Like [the late communist Pete] Seeger and the FDR cargo cult, Salon also harbors turn-the-clock-back fantasies of their own: Last month, the publication called for the nationalization of the news media because it was uncomfortable with the glut of right-leaning news and opinion led by — you guessed it! — Fox News. (Hmmm — I wonder if someone in the FCC read that article?) Now the Website wishes to turn the clock back on the film industry because of a perceived glut of independent films.

—Easy Riders, Raging Stasists, Ed Driscoll.com, February 22, 2014.

● “Let’s nationalize Amazon and Google: Publicly funded technology built Big Tech. They’re huge and ruthless and define our lives. They’re close to monopolies. Let’s make them public utilities.”

—Salon.com, July 8, 2014.

In any case, as Charles Cooke asked in 2016, “Herewith, an under-asked question for our friends on the progressive left: ‘Has Donald Trump’s remarkable rise done anything to change your mind as to the ideal strength of the State?’”

BRUCE BAWER: Wokesters Take On Classic Movies.

And in the end? They got it. They loved it. “What a great film!” cheered Mia Tiffany, the smart, charismatic young black woman at “Movies with Mia.” And they all zeroed in on what mattered: Rick’s moral choice and the message it sends. “He loves her enough to let her go,” said one of the blonde sisters with admiration. “He’s a good guy. He’s selfless.” “Beautiful. What a great man, Rick,” growled the Portuguese guy. “I love this finale. Incredible…. What a great, great movie.” “This guy is pure man!” exulted George. “I’m overwhelmed.… There is no way this kind of movie will ever be made again…. I’ve still got chills.” “What’s not to love here?” asked Shaneel (who’s apparently Indian) of “Shan Watches Movies.” “No jealousy. No pettiness,” pronounced the young Dan Bongino type at “Flix Talk,” who’d never seen a movie from the 1940s. “I loved everything about this film. I fell in love with the passion of it, the message behind it.” “I love the last half hour of this movie,” said the Canadian boy, calling it “a movie with magic in it,” pondering what it must have been like to watch it in 1942, when the war’s outcome was uncertain, and, reacting to Rick’s statement that “the lives of three little people don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world,” commented intelligently that the whole point of the movie is that three people can make a very big difference indeed.

Of course, this isn’t a scientific sample. Far from it. These are young people who love film and who founded their YouTube channels precisely because they’re open to checking out a wide variety of movies. If anybody of their generation is going to give something like Casablanca a chance, it’s going to be them. Nonetheless, these YouTubers are children of their time. Like everyone else their age, they’ve been brought up in a society and a culture with values far removed in a number of ways from the values that inform a movie like Casablanca. And yet, watching it, they’re wrapped up in the intrigue, amused by the humor, affected by the music, touched by the love story, and, above all, stirred and deeply impressed by the selfless and noble courage of Victor Laszlo and, in that final scene at the airport, of Rick and Ilsa.

Hard as it is to believe in 2022, but maybe the fundamental things really do apply, as time goes by.

VIA A FRIEND: “We went from men can get pregnant – pride month – to men should have no say in pregnancy, really fast.”

As I mentioned earlier, all the man-hate I’ve seen in response to thie Dobbs opinion seems politically stupid. The issue has gone from the Supreme Court to the political realm. Calling for castration of half the electorate seems like a losing political strategy. And yet.

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CHRISTIAN TOTO: Unwoke Beavis and Butt-head’s Universe Shreds White Privilege. ’90s relics roar back by mocking Antifa and soft on crime policies.

COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Companies promoting diversity as a corporate strategy turn off minorities, business schools find.

NO ENEMIES TO THE LEFT: Corrupt Networks Refuse to Say the Name of Radical Pro-Abortion Terrorists ‘Jane’s Revenge.’

JEFFREY CARTER: Big Week at SCOTUS: The Left Isn’t Civil About It.

To be fair, they go batshit crazy whenever they lose on anything at all. That’s because they’re too mentally unstable to live in a democracy. Which is a problem.

Related: Why a Gun Control Activist Deleted His Tweet About the Supreme Court’s Abortion Ruling.

SCOTT JOHNSON: THE O’KEEFE PROJECT: UNSEAL ME HERE.

I’ve followed the government’s investigation of James O’Keefe and Ashley Biden’s diary since the New York Times broke the story with a little help from its friends in the national security establishment. What did O’Keefe do wrong? What makes it a federal case? This much is clear to me: the Biden Justice Department is out to get James O’Keefe.

Pending before the court that signed off on the search warrants executed on O’Keefe et al. is a motion to unseal the “search warrant materials” (i.e., “the search warrant application, supporting affidavit, return, and any other related judicial documents filed in connection with the Search Warrant” that was “executed at the residence of James E. O’Keefe, III, the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Project Veritas, in connection with an ongoing federal grand jury investigation”).

The motion has been brought by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. The ACLU supports the motion as an amicus. The RCFP has set up a page devoted to its efforts to unseal the records here. SDNY prosecutors resist it.

It’s not a prosecution, it’s a political persecution.

CHRISTOPHER EISGRUBER SHOULD BE ASHAMED: Inside the Investigation of Axed Princeton Prof Joshua Katz: Princeton University ignored evidence that cut against its conclusion that the tenured professor had committed fireable offenses.

LOL, AVENATTI. ALSO, LOL, CNN. Ari Fleischer rips CNN bias, Avenatti featured more than Trump COVID-19 team.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: California AG Cancels “Good Cause” for Concealed Carry.