MATT TAIBBI: Are Black 2nd Amendment Advocates the Ultimate Taboo?

They’re right up there. “Perhaps the most dependable taboo in American media, however, involves black Second Amendment advocates. As Ford and News2Share have documented over the years, there are many such groups, and they sometimes march in conjunction with groups like the Boogaloo Boys. In fact, the biggest taboo of all might be showing such groups demonstrating together. . . . Whatever your feelings about guns — I personally am not a fan — the psychology of the contrasting coverage of pro-gun demonstrations is fascinating. News audiences are clearly meant to associate white pro-gun protesters with a dangerous and probably organized national race-hatred movement, while black pro-gun protesters either don’t exist or are a fringe movement not worth covering. Under no circumstance must such groups be shown together, even when they organize co-demonstrations.”

That sort of cooperation is the establishment’s worst nightmare.

EVEN GREENS SEE THE LIGHT SOMETIMES: Chasing Utopian Energy: How I Wasted 20 Years of My Life.

I started to realize that I had accepted as true certain claims about energy and our environment. Now I began to see those claims were false. For example:

I used to think solar and wind power were the best ways to reduce CO2 emissions. But the biggest reduction in CO2 emissions during the past 15 years (over 60%) has come from switching from coal to natural gas.

I used to think that the world was transitioning to solar, wind, and batteries. This, too, was false. Trillions of dollars were spent on wind and solar projects over the last 20 years, yet the world’s dependence on fossil fuels declined only 3 percentage points, from 87% to 84%.

I used to believe nuclear energy was dangerous and nuclear waste was a big problem. In fact, nuclear is the safest and most reliable way to generate low-emission electricity, and it provides the best chance of reducing CO2 emissions.

It’s now clear I was chasing utopian energy. I was using green energy myths as moral camouflage, and I was able to believe those myths as long as I remained ignorant about the real costs and benefits of different energy sources.

Ignorance is the key to green policy. So is moral camouflage.

REVISED DOWNWARD: U.S. Economy Shrank Worse-Than-Expected 1.6% Last Quarter As Recession Fears Grow.

YEAH, THAT’S NOT GONNA FLY: S.C. Bill Would Apparently Outlaw News Sites’ Writing About Legal Abortion Clinics in Neighboring States.

THREAD:

BIDEN’S RETURN TO NORMALCY: America’s nuke waste chief: 2 MIT degrees, ‘genderfluid,’ role plays dogs.

GOOD: Hardball: GOP won’t support semiconductor legislation if Dems push partisan reconciliation bill, says McConnell.

I HAD BEEN TOLD BY ALL THE BEST PEOPLE THAT PLANNED PARENTHOOD DID HEALTH CARE: Planned Parenthood Admits on Tape That Their Abortion Butchers Cannot Help With Your Ectopic Pregnancy.

SO MUCH DECLINE:

DEAL OF THE DAY: ENERGIZER LED Headlamp PRO. #CommissionEarned

MAYBE THEY HAVE HILLARY LEADING THIS BECAUSE THEY SEE HER AS EXPENDABLE: The Vicious, Racially Charged Assault on Clarence Thomas: Hillary Clinton invokes racist trope to attack Supreme Court’s only black justice.

MAJOR, BUT ALAS NOT FATAL: The Supreme Court Just Dealt a Major Blow to the Green Left—and a Major Win for Democracy.

IT’S COMPLICATED: The One China Policy Is A Lie.

Seeking to both assuage China and to clarify confusion left by President Joe Biden’s off-the-cuff remarks about Taiwan, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan earlier this month reiterated America’s “One China” policy while speaking at a Washington think tank. He should not have.

Put aside the unseemliness of unelected, unconfirmed staffers correcting a sitting president – an action that only reinforces the notion among foreigners that Biden is senile and not in control of his own administration. The reality is that the One China notion was born from the ambition of Mao Zedong, chairman of China’s Communist Party, and Henry Kissinger, who as national security advisor helped broker détente with Beijing.

Four years before Sullivan was born, President Richard Nixon acquiesced to the One China idea in the Shanghai Communique. But Nixon’s agreement was never as clear as Beijing claims. Rather than unequivocally endorse Mao’s statement that “the Government of the People’s Republic of China is the sole legal government of China; Taiwan is a province of China,” Nixon said the “United States Government does not challenge that position” but instead “reaffirms its interest in a peaceful settlement of the Taiwan question by the Chinese themselves.”

Don’t believe anything the CCP claims, or their mouthpieces in the United States government.

PARENT OF MURDER VICTIM TURNS ON PROSECUTORS: “Take that restorative justice bull**** and shove it up your ***es!”

SARAH HOYT: It is us at the gate.

ICYMI: EXCLUSIVE FROM J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS: FOIAs Reveal Progressive Money Fueling FBI, DOJ, Leftist Activist and Election Official Coordination

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Biden lashed on rising crime, and 86% warn it’s a top election issue.

WHEN A NEGATIVE IS A NET POSITIVE: Dobbs Ruling Triggers Not-Real-Men to Get Vasectomies.

POT, KETTLE: Hillary Clinton calls Clarence Thomas a “Person of Grievance.”

Of course, the idea that that’s somehow disqualifying undercuts the entire Democratic platform.

FROM C. CHANCY:  Tell No Tales. 

#CommissionEarned

Some nights it just doesn’t pay to rise from the grave….Corbin wants to uncover the truth behind her death at a demon’s hands. But her memories have been shattered by the grave, and even with footloose Sighted mechanic Devon Fortunato helping her search for answers, a restless ghost is up against the darkest spells and lies of the living. If they can’t unravel who sabotaged the Cunning Folk circle’s spellcast defenses, the child Corbin meant to protect will suffer a fate worse than death. Corbin’s notes hold clues, but the broken circle would rather die than admit the truth….

IT NEEDED ONLY THIS NOW:  Solar explosion projected to shoot toward Earth today, disrupt magnetic field.

IN AMERICA WE TREAT MENTAL PATIENTS VERY WELL:  ‘The View’ hosts face backlash for $14K a night luxury Bahamas getaway.

IT’S NOTHING COMPARED WITH HAVING TO WATCH IT:   Meredith Vieira says returning to ‘The View’ sounds like ‘a prison term’.

MAOIST? STALINIST?  ROTTEN IS WHAT IT IS:  Tucker puts together the long list of political arrests in Biden’s America.

POSSIBLY THE ONLY WOMAN MORE REPULSIVE THAN HILARY AND MORE VAPID THAN KAMALA:  Michelle Obama Is Running for President in 2024.