COMMUNIST IS AS COMMUNIST DOES:  China: Shut Up And Get On The Cart.

THEY SUBSEQUENTLY DELETED THE POSTS, BUT SERIOUSLY?  Honest question for the Anthropic team: HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MINDS?

AND:  For the Xless.

I DON’T LIKE MORE AMENDMENTS, BUT–   Proposed 28th Amendment.

DYSTOPIA IS EXPENSIVE, YO:  $100K is ‘low income’ in even more CA counties.

AS MUCH MONEY AS THEY HANDED ILLEGALS?   Analysis: House GOP budget could cost Medi-Cal nearly $40 billion per year, bankrupt CA.

WEIRD ANCIENT HISTORY:  Quick Take: the Fake Roman Financial Panic.

IT TAKES A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH LIKE AN HYENA:   A Fired Government Worker Later Sobbed but Couldn’t Call His Parents Because of This Hilarious Reason.

THEY’RE PROGRESSIVES: THEY’RE FOREVER HITTING THE SNOOZE BUTTON:  What Happened in This Democratic Primary Is Another Wake-Up Call for Progressives.

THERE’S A WORD FOR NATIONS THAT RELY ON OTHERS FOR THEIR DEFENSE: COLONIES:  Brexit undone for a defence deal we don’t need.

TAKE A LESSON FROM HER EXPERIENCE: WATCH YOUR MOUTH AND MIND WHAT YOU TWEET:  The appalling treatment of Lucy Connolly.

Or if you prefer: Great Britain has fallen in all but name.

CHASER:  Lucy Connolly appeal denied. Her barbaric two year seven month sentence stands.

BECAUSE NOW WE CAN JUST DO THINGS:  Trump Shows South African President Video of Officials Calling for Murder of White Farmers.

SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SO SHOCKED:  Buffalo Public Schools Continues to Cover Itself in Infamy.

YEP. “SCIENTIFIC GOVERNANCE”:  What Nobody Tells You About Apartheid and Jim Crow: The Policies of South Africa and of the USA’s Southern States Were Neither Rightist Nor (Primarily) Racist; What They Were Was “Socialism with a Racist Face”.

THEY’RE THE CULT OF ORANGE MAN BAD:  Three National Wins that Reveal the Extent of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

POINT:  There’s a Difference Between Being Pro-2A and Anti-Gun Control.

CBS FAILS AT ECONOMICS:  “Most Americans Don’t Earn Enough To Afford Basic Costs Of Living”.

THEY’RE COLLEGE PROFESSORS, FROM YALE; THEY’RE SMARTER AND BETTER THAN YOU:  Even Nate Silver Couldn’t Take What These Yale Professors Did Seriously in Response to Trump.

YEAH. BEHOLD MY SHOCKED FACE:  House Republicans investigate Harvard’s ties to Chinese and Iranian governments.

BEST SERVED COLD. AND HARD:   South Africa courts Starlink; Musk says no.

IT’S HARD TO TAKE THE “ALLEGED” SERIOUSLY WHEN THERE ARE RECORDINGS:  Trump admin terminates $60 million in Harvard grants over alleged antisemitism.

SOME OF US RECOGNIZED THAT FROM THE START:  Net Zero: Unachievable, dangerous and pointless.

WHAT CAN BLUE DO TO YOU?  Welcome to the State of Taxington.

IF THE WORLD ENDS IN AI, IT’S THE STUPIDEST OF ALL THE PREDICTED ENDS: AI Thievery and the End of Humanity by Ing.

Like dying from a pinprick.

THIS CAN’T STAND:  Fish & Wildlife has expanded its regulatory rule to every tree in much of the U.S..

I’VE DISAGREED WITH HIM OFTEN, BUT ON THE WHOLE, MAY WE ALL DO AS WELL:  A Eulogy for Scott Adams.