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May 23, 2021

OPEN THREAD: Come now and try to understand.

NEWS YOU HOPEFULLY CAN’T USE:

SPACE: Firefly Aerospace picks SpaceX rocket to launch Blue Ghost moon lander in 2023.

No word yet if this type of ammunition can be used as well:

Or if it can be fitted with this popular accessory:

David Chiu “is an American politician currently serving in the California State Assembly. He is a Democrat representing the 17th Assembly District, which encompasses the eastern half of San Francisco.

UPDATE: California assemblyman gets massively triggered by BB gun packaging.

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‘DEELY NUTS, BEEFY KING:’ Hundreds of Fake Farms Received Fraudulent Stimulus Loans, Exposé Reveals.

Exit quote: “‘There’s no farming here: We’re a sandbar, for Christ’s sake,’ said the Mayor of Long Beach Township, whose address was fraudulently used as the supposed location of a ‘farm’ that received a stimulus loan.”

TIM BLAIR: When the Going Gets Tough, the Electric go Petrol. Electric car-maker Tesla isn’t taking any range risks in Australia with their support vehicles. When they need to repair their breakdown-prone plug buggies, Tesla use reliable, petrol-powered Mitsubishis.

Plus some thoughts on Ford’s new coal-powered F-150 pickup.

WAIT, I THOUGHT THIS WAS ALL SOCIALLY CONSTRUCTED: Young orangutans have sex-specific role models.

I’M CONCERNED ABOUT THE PRIVACY ISSUES INVOLVED IN WHAT OTHERWISE MIGHT BE AN EXCELLENT TECHNOLOGY: Smart toilet may soon analyze stool for health problems.

TOM COTTON: “Fauci Is Playing Word Games” About Gain-of-Function Research In Wuhan (video).

UPDATE: Intelligence on Sick Staff at Wuhan Lab Fuels Debate On Covid-19 Origin: Report says researchers went to hospital in November 2019, shortly before confirmed outbreak; Adds to calls for probe of whether virus escaped lab.

Flashback:

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PUTIN PUPPET: Team Biden bends the knee to Russia on Nord Stream 2 pipeline.

Flashback:

Ted Cruz notes, “[B]asically what Joe Biden has decided is pipelines in America, bad. Jobs in America, bad. Pipelines in Russia, good. Jobs in Russia, good. And this is exactly backward. It is asinine. And four months into it, Joe Biden is crawling in bed with Putin and Russia and the enemies of America. It doesn’t make any sense.”

Flashback: So is it fair to ask if Biden is on the payroll of Putin? As Walter Russell Mead wrote in 2017:

If Trump were the Manchurian candidate that people keep wanting to believe that he is, here are some of the things he’d be doing:

Limiting fracking as much as he possibly could
Blocking oil and gas pipelines
Opening negotiations for major nuclear arms reductions
Cutting U.S. military spending
Trying to tamp down tensions with Russia’s ally Iran.

“Yep,” Glenn added in late 2019. “You know who did do these things? Obama. You know who supports these things now? Democrats.”

Yep.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. DeSantis on Critical Race Theory: ‘Offensive’ to Expect Taxpayers to Pay to Teach Kids to ‘Hate Their Country.’

The curriculum currently being foisted off on America is like something you’d impose upon a conquered population to break its will.

BIDEN’S HANDLERS AREN’T THE ONLY ONES PUTTING THE BAND BACK TOGETHER AGAIN: Trump 1776 Commission to meet despite being abolished by Biden.

The education advisory commission set up by former President Donald Trump will resume operations despite being disbanded by President Joe Biden, aiming to undermine the acceptance and teaching of critical race theory in schools.

The 1776 Commission is scheduled to convene on Monday in Washington on the annex campus of Hillsdale College to plot its next steps. An agenda for the private meeting, which is closed to the media, was not available. But in an interview with the Washington Examiner, Matthew Spalding, the 1776 Commission’s executive director, said the group sees a major role for itself in the explosive debate over the teaching of the history of the United States in public and private schools.

On one side is critical race theory. The decades-old academic study of U.S. history, more prevalent recently, argues that racism remains deeply embedded in all aspects of American life. According to the concept, the only way to unravel this systemic racism and bring about a just society is for institutions, public and private, to place race and ethnicity at the center of policymaking, hiring, and how people are treated generally.

On the other side are traditionalists who believe in de-emphasizing race and ethnicity. The 1776 Commission does not intend to whitewash the nation’s history of racism, Spalding said. Rather, the group wants to promote a history curriculum that defines racial equality as an American tenet, from the founding creed of the Declaration of Independence — “all men are created equal” — to Martin Luther King’s dream of a colorblind nation and beyond.