WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING?

Liberals were left stunned as Muslims & Islamists gathered on Tuesday to protest the Montgomery County (Maryland) School Board over its LGBTQ+ curriculum. The Muslims want to be able to remove their children from the classroom when that material is taught. pic.twitter.com/vgTai9erXQ

— Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) June 7, 2023

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Breaking: Glendale (CA) Police beat back the Armenian-American men who want to fight #Antifa outside the school board meeting. The immigrant families oppose pride celebrations in schools. Antifa, communists & far-left protesters gathered to support that. pic.twitter.com/QTMmKeNR95

— Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) June 7, 2023

Remind me when police last “beat back” Antifa.

MATT TAIBBI: Twitter Files Extra: How the World’s “No-Kidding Decision Makers” Got Organized. “The Atlantic Council is hosting its 360/0S Summit at RightsCon this week, and Twitter Files documents tell us more about how this VIP-room-within-a-VIP-room was formed.”

OPEN THREAD: Display positive team dynamics.

HMM: Should future Mars missions have all-female crews? Team dynamics will be essential to future missions to the Red Planet.

There’s a centuries-long history of all-male crews carrying out missions in harsh conditions over long periods of isolation, and no similar history for all-female crews. So I don’t know about the “team dynamics” argument.

DISPATCHES FROM SANCTUARY CITY NEW YORK: Irate asylum-seeker bludgeons hotel worker over the head with ‘No Parking’ sign after being booted from shelter for disorderly conduct — then dodges arrest by fleeing scene on foot.

JOHN KERRY, REPORTING FOR DOODY: Kerry compares climate battle to D-Day.

While Kerry said there were key differences between the fight against Nazi Germany and the battle to ease global warming, there are similarities.

“Make no mistake, just as that was a fight for the future as much as anything we have ever faced, what we are seeing now is the same,” he said.

Kerry said the world was now in a decisive decade and the price of failure could carry greater consequences than those faced during the D-Day landings if the right choices are not made.

“What is also clear right now is we can also win this fight, but it requires the same level of innovation and mobilisation that was required back then by those in the greatest generation,” he said.

Unlike the fight against Hitler’s forces, the climate battle is not one against a single enemy, Kerry reasoned. “Today’s threat comes from all of us. It comes from the result of the things we do or avoid doing,” he said.

The moral equivalent of war has been the organizing principle of the left since the start of the 20th century, trapping them in the moral equivalent of a quagmire, with no sign of an exit strategy in sight. In response, Tim Blair is succinct: If radical environmentalism is refighting WWII, “Fair enough. Nuking Hiroshima it is, then.”

Barring that, when does Kerry demand his fellow elites curtail their private plane usage? And when does he order DC to give up its air conditioning?

RIP: Astrud Gilberto, ‘The Girl From Ipanema’ Singer, Dead at 83.

2023, MAN:

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OKAY, GROOMERS: Beware the New York Times kids section.

“Stinky. Sweaty. Hairy. Pimply. Totally Normal.”

That’s the seemingly innocent tagline of the “Puberty Issue” of the New York Times for Kids, which appears in the print newspaper on the last Sunday of every month.

The kids section, which was started in March 2017 as a part of the New York Times magazine department, often looks harmless at first glance. The cover typically boasts colorful and engaging artwork, while inside, children are greeted with cartoons, games, puzzles and mini articles about cool accomplishments by other kids. Past issues covered how kids could spend their summer vacations, interesting facts about bugs and other creepy critters, and how to start growing a garden.

The “Puberty Issue,” which ran in print on April 30, is no exception — it contains tons of useful information kids might need to know about their changing bodies and assures them that being uncomfortable throughout the process is normal.

It’s also filled with radical ideas of gender, dismisses attempts by parents to remove pornographic content from school libraries as anti-LGBTQ “book bans” and falsely claims that “medical care” for children experiencing gender dysphoria “saves lives.”

The Weimar Republic called and said that the American left might want to dial it back a notch or 20.

IT SURE SOUNDS LIKE IT: Did Ellen ‘Elliot’ Page Just Pull a Jussie Smollett?

As per Page’s account in the Sunday Los Angeles Times, she was at the intersection of Sunset and La Cienega, simply walking to the Pink Dot convenience store, when a stranger approached her.

And yet here, downstairs at his Sunset Strip hotel, he [sic] is less than a mile from the spot where a man on the street threatened to assault him just last year. As he describes in his book, Page, who lives in New York, was standing at the corner of Sunset and La Cienega, taking a quick walk to the Pink Dot convenience store, when a stranger approached.

“I’m going to f—ing gay bash you, f—t,” the man threatened. Terrified, Page began running toward the Pink Dot, where employees ushered him inside. From the other side of the door, the man yelled: “This is why I need a gun!”

“Now when I’m in Los Angeles, I don’t feel comfortable like I used to going for walks,” Page says.

Right… because “I’m going to gay bash you,” is something someone would actually say? For real?

Exit quote: “Hey, at least she didn’t say the man chanted, ‘This is MAGA country!’”

SARCOPENIA NEWS: Defying the Aging Process: Groundbreaking Research Reveals That Our Muscles Reverse to an “Early-Life” State. “Importantly, the late-life stage during which we observed improved muscle health perfectly coincides with a stage when mortality rates decline. We, therefore, postulate that the improvement in muscle health may be a critical factor contributing to the extension of life span in extremely old individuals.”

You can also delay sarcopenia by lifting weights.

AND WHICH DISPROPORTIONATELY AFFECTS BLACK PEOPLE, HUNTER BIDEN NOTWITHSTANDING: Bob McManus: Giving out free crack pipes is government-assisted suicide.

New York averages eight drug-overdose deaths every day, and City Hall’s response is free crack pipes.

The pipes are being distributed from no-charge-to-addicts vending machines plunked down in already drug-plagued city neighborhoods.

And the machines have been placed near previously established, government-sponsored drug shooting galleries — oops, make that “safe-injection” sites — which are the last big anti-overdose idea.

That obviously didn’t work; overdose fatalities are up 78% since 2019. So who’s the genius who thinks free drug paraphernalia — apparently syringes are soon to be added — will make it all better?

That would be City Health and Mental Hygiene Commissioner Ashwin Vasan, who calls the initiative “an important arrow in our quiver.”

Arrows are lethal weapons.

ILYA SOMIN: How School Choice Can Mitigate Harmful Culture War Policies in Public Education:. “Current culture wars are just one more manifestation of the reality that public education routinely devolves into indoctrination and imposition of majoritarian ideology on dissenters. But school choice can help mitigate that problem. . . . By its very nature, public education creates opportunities for the politically powerful to indoctrinate children in their preferred ideology, while locking out or severely restricting alternative viewpoints. . . . The danger of such indoctrination is the main reason why John Stuart Mill opposed state control of schools, even though he favored public subsidization of education for those unable to afford it.”

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Men are scared to talk to me — because I look like Kylie Jenner. Okay, I looked at the photo and (1) you don’t look like Kylie Jenner; and (2) I can see why they don’t want to talk to you.

Oh, and for someone who can’t get a date, a long list of demands in terms of height, career success, etc. is just sad. But not surprising. But hey, $100K/month on OnlyFans is kinda impressive.

LOS ANGELES IS MAGA COUNTRY: Did Ellen ‘Elliot’ Page Just Pull a Jussie Smollett?

QUESTION ASKED AND UNANSWERED: “What privileges do straight white men have that you don’t have?”

WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY: Southern Poverty Law Center Adds Parental Rights Groups to ‘Hate Map.’

THE 21ST CENTURY IS NOT TURNING OUT AS I’D HOPED: Stunned nurse: I caught ‘witches holding a carcass-eating ritual’ on my security camera.

IT’S SOCIALLY MEDIATED LOW TESTOSTERONE: Why more US men are falling victim to Japan’s anti-social hikikomori trend. “Work carried out by academics at Kyushu University in Japan has found that a low testosterone level is one of the common metabolic signatures of hikikomori in young social recluses — which is important to note because testosterone levels among young American men are plummeting and have been for years. The drop now reportedly affects 1 in 4 men in the US.”

You know, giving these guys testosterone would actually be “gender-affirming care,” but somehow it’s socially disfavored.

SOMEBODY SET UP US THE BOMB: Hot take: We should take our Pride cues from Muhammad, who was an OG ally to the LGBTQ+ community.

QUESTION ASKED: No sex shows for kids in Texas: Why is this controversial?

DISPATCHES FROM WEIMAR AMERICA: New York City just introduced crack pipe vending machines. Really.

Hey, you never know when Hunter will be in town.

I HAD ONE OF THESE, IT WAS A GOOD CAR WITH A GREAT SOUND SYSTEM: 1999 Volkswagen Passat GLS Wagon: The Revival of Cool.

FALLOUT: Bud Light only has a few months to prevent sustained market share loss, warns former Anheuser-Busch sales exec.

Come September, retailers are expected to begin reallocating the limited shelf space by relying on sales data from the preceding months.

In Bud Light’s case, that could mean a diminished presence going forward following the controversy over its brief partnership with a transgender influencer, according to Anson Frericks.

A president of sales and distribution at Budweiser’s U.S. parent Anheuser-Busch until his departure in April 2022, he told the Daily Mail that rivals like Coors Lite and Yuengling could then remain a more prominent fixture in stores following this “reset.”

“Those brands will have a better likelihood to succeed long term because they have more shelf space, they have more inventory, they have more back-stock, and they have more availability for consumers,” he said.

Soda and beer companies spend so much on marketing because beverage sales are basically a zero-sum game and, once lost, market share is very difficult to regain.

BE PREPARED: Kidde Fire Escape 2-Story Ladder. #CommissionEarned