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.

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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.

HUNTER ISN’T GETTING THOSE LUCRATIVE BOARD MEMBERSHIPS, SOMEBODY HAS TO MONETIZE THE FAMILY NAME:  So, That’s Why Jill Biden’s Book Is Coming Out Now.

THIS NEEDS TO STOP:  Chinese Bus Driver Involved in Crash that Killed 5 in VA Couldn’t Speak English, Got CDL in NY.

IT SURE DOES:  Henry Nowak Killing Highlights Two-Tier Standard on Identity, Policing, and Justice in Britain.

OH I’M SURE THOUSANDS DID:  Illegal Immigrant Accused Of Faking Homosexuality To Get Asylum.

HOW TO LIE WITH STATISTICS:
Community noted original:  According to data from the World Bank, the share of the population living in extreme poverty ($3/day PPP) is now higher in the United States than in China. 

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The Corrected Chart:  This Y-axis is a chart crime. I have revised the chart so the Y-axes are normalized and comparable.

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YOU DON’T HATE THE PRESS ENOUGH:  Guardian Published 26 Articles on George Floyd in a Month Compared to Three on Henry Nowak.

HE’S NOT WRONG:  The 6th anniversary of Fracture Day approaches.

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IMPORTANT:  I would like to offer a helpful public-relations tip to institutions that are concerned about “harmful speculation.” The tip is: Stop creating a thriving ecosystem for (HARMFUL) speculation.

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YEP:  11 Ways International Law Supports Israel.

THE PROBLEM IS COMING FROM INSIDE THEIR HEADS: Nantucket church cancels Fourth of July celebration in ‘political protest’ because of its ‘own whiteness’.

WHAT ALWAYS HAPPENS WHEN GOVERNMENT IS GIVEN CARTE BLANCHE TO KILL CITIZENS:  The Peculiar Institution. What happens when a state builds a medical system it can’t afford and a killing mechanism it can’t stop. A 40-year projection.

NO ONE. IT WAS ALWAYS THE MARXIST NOSE UNDER THE TENT:  Who Surrendered Feminism?