GO READ:  What Is There to Be Afraid Of? A Look At the Anti-Gun Boogieman and Cold, Hard Facts.

COMPARE AND CONTRAST THE REACTIONS TO THE DEATH OF GEORGE FLOYD:  The Martyrdom of Henry Nowak. And the parallels with St George of Fentanyl.

A FAILURE OF THE BRITISH MORALITY. UTTER AND COMPLETE:  The murder of Henry Nowak and the failure of British policing.

MEANWHILE IN FORMERLY GREAT BRITAIN: The Hampshire police have bravely decided to hide their entire website for foreigners. This includes the “Race Action PLan 2024-2026” which seems to have some bearing on the Henry Nowak case.

Fortunately A FRIEND saved a copy yesterday that lost all the formatting but otherwise contains everything relevant. Click here to read the PDF and shine a light on these “brave” people.

WE KNOW. THAT HAS BEEN OBVIOUS FOR A WHILE NOW:  I’m Ohio’s state auditor — Medicaid fraud is not just a Washington problem. Audits found payments to dead people, prison inmates and residents enrolled in multiple states.

IT JUST KEEPS GETTING MORE DISTURBING:  Hundreds flee as South Africa anti-migrant mobs go door-to-door. Hundreds of foreigners fearing for their lives have taken shelter in community halls along South Africa’s coast.

I’m all for countries defending their sovereignty but “mobs” and “South Africa” are a dangerous combination. To be fair, something for the left (and illegals in the US) to consider is that if they succeed in stopping the deportations and re-opening the borders, this is how it ends. Or worse.

I PREFER REASON OVER FEELINGS, BUT SOMETIMES FEELINGS MAKE THEMSELVES HEARD:  A Lump of Feelings.

FROM CEDAR SANDERSON:  Child of Crows: Wings of Broken Magic.

Some ghosts refuse to stay buried.

Fresh from the cursed hollows of Possum Creek, Special Agent Amaya Lombard is yanked back to the one place she swore she’d never return: Nesika House, the coastal coven that once cost her everything. When the high priestess who nearly destroyed her demands help recovering a stolen ritual chalice, Amaya has no choice but to walk through those familiar, poisonous wards — this time with a badge, a partner, and fourteen years of hard-won scars.

What she finds inside is far more dangerous than any illusion.

Child of Crows — a Witchward novella.

A POX ON THE APOCALYPSE SCREAMERS:  Quote Of The Day.

YEP:  Doxxing & Double Standards: In Case You Are Wondering, Here Is the Real Reason Why ICE Officers Are Masked.

THESE ARE NOT SERIOUS PEOPLE:  House Democrat Clowns Are Fixated On Marco Rubio’s … SHOES .

GOOD:  HHS Launches Sweeping Plan to Combat Lyme Disease as Tick-Borne Illnesses Surge.

GOOD: Japan Approves Bills To Raise Visa Fees And Introduce Online Pre-Entry Screening.

THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE:  South African company debuts vehicle “gunport” for mostly peaceful trips to the grocery store.

YOU DON’T SAY:  NIH Monkeypox Scientists Accused of Smuggling Virus Samples through Detroit Metro Airport.

HE’S NOT THE ONLY ONE SEEING IT:  Because of that Red Curtain of Blood thing,

HISTORY HAS BEEN RHYMING A LOT LATELY:  QotD: Rhodesia and the suicide of the West.

DATA REPUBLICAN’S PRICE IS BEYOND RUBIES:  Which NGOs Are Organizing the Newark Protests, and How. How a six-word Signal message shut down a thousand-person protest.

FRIENDS OF MINE ARE GETTING BANNED ON SUSPICION OF BEING BOTS ON X:  Recent algorithm changes on X may be unfairly hammering Brave users. And there’s a larger issue here about bad interactions between robots and privacy measures.

X-cancel.

NO UNIFYING THEME, BUT SOME GOOD STUFF:  Another Target Rich Environment.

SOCIALISM IS BASED ON ENVY:  Make of this what you will.

And Tilting at Windmills sale for instapundit readers ends tonight.

FROM JEFF DUNTEMANN:  Cold Hands and Other Stories.

#CommissionEarned

Veteran computer author Jeff Duntemann’s second collection of short fiction runs the gamut from spaceflight to mathematically rigorous witchcraft. The volume includes “Cold Hands,” (nominated for the Hugo Award) “Our Lady of the Endless Sky,” “Inevitability Sphere,” “Whale Meat,” “Born Again, With Water,” “Drumlin Boiler,” “Drumlin Wheel,” and “Roddie,” plus a new excerpt from his hard SF nanotech adventure novel, The Cunning Blood.

MILESTONES:  I Sold the Baby Crib.

SAY HIS NAME:  The sickening footage of dying Henry Nowak that shows how twisted the police have become.

IT WASN’T SUICIDE, IT WAS MURDER BY THOSE CHARGED WITH ITS PRESERVATION:  The figures that reveal the suicide of Western civilization.