A SUCCESSFUL LAUNCH FOR SPACEX’S STARSHIP: The Super Heavy booster broke apart shortly after separation, but everything else has gone well.
UPDATE: Starship made it to space but then telemetry was lost. Looks like auto-termination because something went wrong. Jeff Foust writes it up.
ANOTHER INSTITUTION INFILTRATED AND DESTROYED BY THE LEFT: Girl Scouts To Host Training Sessions On ‘Internalized Racism,’ ‘White Supremacy Culture:’ The four-part training will be administered by a diversity consulting firm that embraces Critical Race Theory.
HE’S A CHINESE SATRAP, MORE OR LESS: Newsom Is Mandating Education in Disinformation—While Spreading It Online: California gov falsely claims Tennessee town bans ‘being gay in public.’
I’m disturbed that he thinks “being gay” is the same as “public lewdness.”
NEW CIVILITY WATCH: LeVar Burton Threatened ‘Physical Violence’ Against Moms for Liberty at Book Ceremony.
In other recent news of former Star Trek: Next Generation cast members who have lost the plot: Actor Wil Wheaton Explains Why He Still Wears A Mask In Public: ‘Covid Is Very Much Still A Thing.’
He continued, “It’s such a tiny, simple, thing and it makes a huge difference for me. It’s too bad that so many people have decided to make another personal health choice that is none of their business, that doesn’t affect them at all, just another part of their culture war. And it tells you everything you need to know about a person when they are a d*ck about it.”
To be fair, over the years, Wheaton has proven to be an expert in the latter department.
MIA. AS THEY ALWAYS ARE WHEN WOMEN ARE VICTIMIZED BY MARXISTS’ PETS: Where Are the International Women’s Organizations as the Shocking Scale of Hamas’s Sexual Violence Against Israeli Women on October 7 Becomes Horrifyingly Clear?
WITHOUT THE GOVERNMENT, WHO WOULD SPEND TAX DOLLARS ON BOOZE AND STRIPPERS? FDIC chief under bipartisan fire.
Related: Heavy Drinking, Strip Clubs, And Lewd Photos: Inside The Federal Government’s Wildest Office.
To be honest, spending on booze and strippers is less destructive than what they do with most of my tax money.
AYN RAND DIDN’T WRITE THE RETURN OF THE PRIMITIVE AS A HOW-TO GUIDE: White House Denounces ‘Repugnant’ Osama bin Laden TikTok Trend.
The trend, which emerged on the Chinese short-form video app TikTok in recent days, is driven largely by anti-Israel users who have praised bin Laden’s letter for the accuracy of its antisemitic diagnosis of America’s problems.
“There is never a justification for spreading the repugnant, evil, and antisemitic lies that the leader of al Qaeda issued just after committing the worst terrorist attack in American history – highlighting them as his direct motivation for murdering 2,977 innocent Americans,” White House spokesman Andrew Bates said in a Thursday statement. “And no one should ever insult the 2,977 American families still mourning loved ones by associating themselves with vile words of Osama bin Laden.”
“Particularly now, at a time of rising antisemitic violence in the world, and just after Hamas terrorists carried out the worst slaughter of the Jewish people since the Holocaust in the name of the same conspiracy theories,” Bates continued. “Like President Biden said this year in remembrance of the Americans who lost their lives because of Osama bin Laden, ‘it’s more important now than ever that we come together’ against a rising tide of hatred and extremism.”
Why on earth are young impressionable leftists discovering Osama bin Laden on TikTok? They should be supporting the mullahs of Iran and Hamas like normal college-educated Democrats!
Or perhaps the Unabomber. As this 2021 article notes, TikTok users discovering murderous primitives for the first time isn’t all that new a development: Influencer Society and Its Future. Swallow the Ted pill on Unabomber stan TikTok.
(I’d mention, “Wait until the TikTokers start thinking how totally cool and dreamy Charles Manson was,” but according to his biographer, Jann Wenner was already there for a time in 1970, as were the Weather Underground.)
In any case, there’s no excuse left for anyone to say, “I don’t know how millions supported the Nazis before and during WWII,” when we can see in real-time today, how millions began praising Hamas, OBL, and other murderous ideologies.
Related: The husk that is Wired magazine in 2023 declares: The Bin Laden Letter Is Being Weaponized by the Far-Right.
I’m not sure if “weaponized” is the right term to describe punching back against the ideas of a man whose sycophants blew up a US Navy destroyer and crashed three airliners into buildings on 9/11. But in any case, I’m so old, I can remember when Wired was a fairly sensible, libertarian-themed techno-publication, and was as far from being pro-Luddite (and pro-terrorist) as imaginable.
Finally, this is satire — for now:
FLASHBACK:
It's wild but the whole disinformation concept arose as a cope from the Clinton campaign in 2016 as to why they lost.
And in 7 years it has spawned a whole complex of gov't agencies, academic disciplines, think tanks, and news divisions.
— Jimmy Gandhi (@jimmygandhi) July 6, 2023
#COMMISSIONEARNED
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MOST, IF NOT ALL, ARE DEAD: IDF Recovers Body of Hamas Hostage CPL Noa Marciano in Gaza.
OF COURSE IT DOES. HE WAS A MORALLY REPREHENSIBLE SAVAGE. YOU KNOW, LIKE CHE GUEVARA: Ghost of Bin Laden Emerges as Newest Hero of Leftist Youths.
DON’T THOSE @!#$% PROTESTORS KNOW THEY’RE ONLY ALLOWED TO PROTEST THE RIGHT? Bipartisan Condemnation Pours in Following Violent Clashes Between Capitol Police and Anti-Israel Protesters Outside DNC Headquarters.
WOULDN’T IT BE SIMPLER TO JUST STOP PAYING A BONUS TO SERVICEWOMEN WHO ABORT THE NEXT GEN? Tuberville Looks for Next Steps as Schumer Lays Groundwork To End Blockade.
OUR DUAL JUSTICE SYSTEM, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: No Charges Expected in Special Counsel Probe of Biden’s Handling of Classified Documents: Report.
ALLOWING ACADEMIC FREEDOM AT A MEDICAL CLINIC MIGHT UNSETTLE SCIENCE: In a Lawsuit Against Mayo Clinic, a Doctor Is Fighting for ‘Academic Freedom’.
IS A FORCED APOLOGY A REAL APOLOGY? (WHAT’S WRONG WITH OUR ELITES, ENTRY #49,632): Yale Ballerinas Forced To Apologize After Raising Money for Hamas Terrorists.
THERE IS A BOOM IN PRIVATE SPACE EXPLORATION. YOUR GOVERNMENT IS WORKING TO STOP IT: House committee delays vote on commercial space bill due to new White House proposal.
IT’S AS IF THE MILITARY HAS A PURPOSE BEYOND DEMS’ SOCIAL AGENDA: The One Thing Senator Schumer Refuses To Do In the Face of Senator Tuberville’s Point on Abortion.
WHEN DID CALIFORNIA BECOME A MAGA HOTBED? California Grand Jury Investigation Into Hunter Biden, Subpoena of President’s Brother Point to Criminal Probe of Foreign Business Dealings.
OBVIOUSLY CURING CANCER MATTERS LESS THAN MAKING SURE THAT ANTI-SEMITES FEEL GOOD ABOUT THEMSELVES: New York University Fires Jewish Head of Prestigious Cancer Center, Is Sued, After the Doctor Reposts Pro-Israel Cartoons on Social Media.
AND HUMANS ARE ALLOWED TO BE IDIOTS: A Symptom Of Being Human.
I guess…
MAORIS AREN’T INTO TURNING THE OTHER CHEEK: Israelis Find Strong Support in an Unexpected Corner of the World, New Zealand, From an Unexpected Source, the Māoris.
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