BOMB CANADA, THE CASE FOR WAR: This guy came up with a VERY detailed plan to conquer Canada and people are loving it in the replies 🤣.

K12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: California bill would make questioning school board members a crime.

You can totally trust us. Also, we won’t let anyone question anything we do.

CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT: No Right to In-Person Cross-Examination of Accuser During Campus Sexual Assault Proceedings.

(Via Small Dead Animals.)

LOL: Prof claims that violence against Asians from non-white people is still caused by ‘white supremacy.’

Profs “claim” a lot of things about race and racism. Most of the claims are nonsense, when they’re not outright vicious.

WAIT, WHAT? ‘It’s All Very Suspicious!’ CNN’s Jake Tapper and Crew Have ‘So Many Questions’ About Hunter Biden Special Counsel David Weiss.

Is that even allowed?

Related: Merrick Garland’s latest dirty trick to protect the Bidens. “Attorney General Merrick Garland may have just played his last trick card to save Joe Biden: appointing a special counsel to delay prosecution of his son Hunter. With any luck, the official Justice Department final report on Biden family shenanigans will be released in December 2024, one month after the presidential election. Perpetuating an investigation is the most respectable Washington cover-up scam.”

THESE CLOSE CALLS SEEM TO BE HAPPENING MORE OFTEN: Near Collision Between Boeing 737 and Cessna Citation Under Investigation by FAA: What We Know.

THAT WILL WORK WELL: Biden sticking with VP Harris: ‘The perfect choice.’

MILTON FRIEDMAN ISN’T RUNNING THE SHOW ANYMORE: Economic Expert: ‘Transitory’ Inflation Enters 31st Month, and It’s Not Going Away.

OUCH: Kamala Harris Gets Brutally Fact Checked for Claiming People Like Her.

DEAL OF THE DAY: Military Smartwatch with Bluetooth Call. #CommissionEarned

COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Roseanne says Whoopi wrote the blackface jokes for Ted Danson and then “turned on him” for them.

IT’S A CRAZY, CORRUPT ADMINISTRATION: Biden DOJ’s Threats to Pro-Lifers and Catholics Are Unhinged.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Inflation “easing”: Americans spending $709 more a month than 2 years ago.

NTTAWWT: Barack Obama told ex, ‘I make love to men daily, but in the imagination,’ letter shows.

JEFFREY CARTER: “I think to this day the card-carrying elites and the Deep State along with Democrats who aren’t card-carrying elites have nary a clue why Trump came to power.” “Watch the actions of people around the actions of January 6th compared to the riots in 2020. Watch the way you are treated under the law compared to Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul, or Hunter Biden, or Hillary Clinton. When Congresspeople make millions in stock trading and you can’t, how do you think people feel? When Eric Sawell can sleep with a Chinese spy and still command respect and his positions of power within the Democratic Party, what do you think people feel? When people like Mitt Romney are elected using one platform and then act on another, how do you think voters feel?”

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: How we stopped inflation without a recession (hint: by not stopping inflation). “Do we really have no hangover after the largest economic orgy in history – more than $10 trillion in fiscal and monetary stimulus in 2020 and 2021? The charts below suggest we’re still just drunk.”

ICYMI: MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: Vivek Ramaswamy Channels Robert Heinlein, and Me.

If you like my Substack — heck, even if you don’t, really — please subscribe! (Bumped).

OPEN THREAD: Party like it’s Saturday night.

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Garland Appoints Special Counsel To Cover Up Biden’s Crimes.

A NEARLY EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: The largest known asteroid impact structure on Earth is buried in southeast Australia, new evidence suggests: The Deniliquin structure could be up to 520 kilometers wide. How’s that space program coming along?

OH, TO BE IN ENGLAND: Is it a crime to call a police officer a lesbian?

Is it a crime to call a police officer a lesbian? Now there’s a question I never thought I’d have to pose. But following the release of shocking footage, showing a 16-year-old autistic girl being arrested by seven police officers over a ‘homophobic public-order offence’, it’s one that desperately needs to be answered.

Over the past 48 hours, a TikTok video has gone viral showing a distressed girl from Leeds being manhandled and taken away by police. In the clip, the child’s mother, who filmed and released the video, is heard arguing with the officers who have entered her home, pleading with them to leave her daughter alone, who she says is both autistic and suffers with scoliosis.

The mother claims that her daughter said to one of the officers, a blonde woman with short hair, that she ‘looked like her lesbian nana’. ‘You’re going to remove her for what, she said the word lesbian? Her nana is a lesbian, she’s married to a woman. She’s not homophobic’, the mother says in the clip.

The London Telegraph is reporting that “A 16-year-old girl arrested in Leeds after being accused of making a homophobic remark to a police officer will face no further action, West Yorkshire Police said.” But why was she arrested in the first place?

Flashbacks:

● West Midlands Police in England arrest 12-year-old for racist online messages sent to Black soccer player.

● “Police officers were forced to break up barbecues being held in different parts of Britain today as people flouted new draconian powers to disperse crowds of more than two to halt the spread of coronavirus. West Midlands Police officers had to step in to disperse a large group of people having a barbecue in the Foleshill area of Coventry, while another group were doing the same in West Hampstead, North West London.”

● UK Teen Fined, Under House Arrest for Asking Trans Police Officer’s Gender.

● British Cops, on the Lookout for Trolls, Ask Public to Report ‘Non-Crime Hate Incidents.’

In 2018, when British cops were threatening social media critics after the NHS banished 23-month-old Alfie Evans to the Spartan hillside, British ex-pat Charles Cooke tweeted, “Michael Brendan Dougherty pointed out to me that police in the U.K. spend all their time on Twitter threatening people with jail time for frivolous things, and now I can’t stop seeing it.”

As a wise woman once wrote, “There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them.”

UPDATE: West Yorkshire Police issue non-apology apology:

(Updated and bumped.)

JAMES BOVARD: Merrick Garland’s latest dirty trick to protect the Bidens. “Attorney General Merrick Garland may have just played his last trick card to save Joe Biden: appointing a special counsel to delay prosecution of his son Hunter. With any luck, the official Justice Department final report on Biden family shenanigans will be released in December 2024, one month after the presidential election. Perpetuating an investigation is the most respectable Washington cover-up scam.”

SELENA ZITO: The fall of a great American city: The societal and political decay that has upended Pittsburgh.

Larry Ceisler, a Washington County native who has offices in both Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, was staying at the Even Hotel and came upon the scene moments after the police arrived.

Ceisler said he had just left dinner down the street when he attempted to enter the hotel and found out quickly why he could not immediately do so. He penned a letter to the editor at the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, writing that what he saw happening at the hotel was an extension of a city he saw in decay after spending the week doing business.

“In all my years of living in and visiting Pittsburgh, I have never seen the Downtown look so bad. Empty, dirty, and unsafe. Personally, I experienced an attempted homicide in the lobby of my hotel on Forbes Avenue and was accosted twice walking to my office in Gateway Center,” he wrote.

In an interview with me Thursday, it was clear the respected media pro and prominent Democrat was rattled by the city’s descent, particularly because it was upending its very heart — “A city is only as strong its core.”

A drive throughout the city in mid-morning, mid-afternoon, and in the evening found a city in decay. Homelessness isn’t hidden; it is prevalent. Patches of open-air drug markets are brazenly conducted, the smell of urine and feces is prevalent, and reports of small businesses calling it quits grow in frequency.

Two weeks ago the once acclaimed women’s clothing boutique Peter Lawrence, a hopeful anchor for what city officials hoped would be a women’s shopping district along Wood Street, announced it is closing five years after it opened, with the owner telling the Pittsburgh Post Gazette his workers were “scared to work there a little bit” because of the frequent homelessness and drug trafficking.

The businesses that are not fleeing, yet, are not requiring their workers to come into the city to do their jobs, which has led to a whopping historic high 22.5% vacancy rate, according to a report conducted by real estate firm Jones Lang LaSalle.

At the center of this collapse is Mayor Ed Gainey, who after taking office in January of 2022 has done little to nothing to address the city’s collapse. He is surrounded by people who are so wedded to ideology and the social justice movement that they failed to realize that you actually have to govern to run a city.

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Campaign finance filings show the SEIU spent over $350,000 to elect Gainey, more than all of the other contributors to his campaign combined.

Gainey has steadfastly refused to meet with the largest employer in the city, UPMC, unless they agree to allow the SEIU to represent hospital workers, according to a detailed report done by KDKA investigative reporter Andy Sheehan. It is a curious decision to refuse to meet with the largest employer in the city and makes you wonder if he is the mayor of Pittsburgh or the mayor of SEIU.

To ask the question is to answer it. Incidentally, Pittsburgh’s last Republican mayor left office in 1934.

NIFONG IS GONE FROM THE DURHAM D.A.’S OFFICE, BUT HIS SPIRIT REMAINS: Durham DA employee charged with DWI, resisting officer.

INTERESTING, BUT I’M NOT DROPPING MY GYM MEMBERSHIP JUST YET: Shortest Workout Ever: 3 Seconds of Exercise 3 Times a Week Grows Muscle. “After a minute of accumulative exercise, spread across four weeks, participants in the eccentric training group improved their muscle strength by 11.5 percent.”