IT’S THE IRANIAN MONEY, STUPID:  This fact: “Oil revenue collapsed to roughly 5% of the national budget, down from 32% the prior year. Taxes increased over 60%. Food prices climbed at least 50%. ATMs across major cities are running out of cash.” Underlines a major point of mine.

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FASCINATING:  Ok, long legal autism explanation time, strap in this is going to be a wild ride: In 1934 the National Firearms Act was passed. The primary goals were to ban machine guns (especially the Thompson) and pistols (which could be concealed and used to ambush politicians), because FDR and his ilk were being wildly tyrannical at that time and certainly had cause to fear.

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BECAUSE IT’S TRUE:  America Points At Corruption Anew As Barrier To Trade And Investment With The Philippines.

FROM MARY CATELLI:  Spells in Secret.

Magical doors and other mischief mix badly with tales about murder, as young scholars return to Graytowers.

Kenneth, as prefect, thought he had his hands filled with the beginning of the new session, but when one magical door takes him and another scholar far past the bounds of a prank, they barely escape with their lives, and their escape means only that they are in graver danger. They must hide, leaving the school, and casting all their spells in secret.

2025 GUARDIAN AWARD FROM THE LIFEBOAT FOUNDATION:  2025 Guardian Award Winner coined the term “AI safety”.

THE NO KINGS CON:  “No Kings” explained to unwitting CCP dupes, and which kings they’re actually marching for.

OUR STAUNCHEST ALLIES: But idiomatically it should say “beside Israel” not “with”!  What is true is that the United States is going to war WITH Israel, not FOR it.

SIGH:  As Yale’s Jewish Population Declines to 1940s Quota Levels, University Leaders Say Jewish Community is ‘Thriving’ .

WHAT’S AT STAKE MIGHT WELL BE THE REPUBLIC:  Have you heard of the Chinese surrogate baby farms in California? Because it’s only going to get more so.  SCOTUS To Hear Birthright Citizenship Case: What’s At Stake .

GOOD:  Defanging the Mullahs.

IF IT HAD ANY CHANCE OF STANDING. PASS THE SAVE ACT!  Trump Signs Executive Order Limiting Mail-In Ballots.

OTHER PLACES THERE ARE WEIRD BOOMS. I’M SURE SOME NATURAL PHENOMENON, BUT…  Mysterious Nighttime Hum Haunts Communities in New Jersey, Ohio, and Connecticut.

CHINA IS A’HOLE:  For example, did you know that there may have been Chinese people posing as Americans shaming the Japanese for Fukushima? Do I know it was the Chinese? No, but you’re an American.. have you ever, in your entire life, heard an American speak down to or about the Japanese in regards to Fukushima?

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IT’S TIME TO ENFORCE THE LAW:  Dem Senate candidate’s job listing invites applicants of any ‘citizenship status’ to apply for top role.  Under the IRCA of 1986, hiring an unauthorized alien is illegal and can carry penalties of up to $3,000 per worker.

NEW PROBLEMS REQUIRE NEW SOLUTIONS:  AI and Cyber Security.

VERY FEW PEOPLE TALK ABOUT THIS:  Deadly Palm Sunday attack hits Nigeria, death toll uncertain.

IT’S A LIE:  Data centers’ heat exhaust is not raising the land temperature around where they’re built.  A terrible paper and even worse interpretation is threatening to become common wisdom.

HUMANS ARE NOT MERELY UNITS OF PRODUCTION:  It’s Not Logical.

FROM NATHAN C. BRINDLE:  I’m The Beautiful But Evil Space Princess Who Rules A Galactic Empire But Really Wants To Leave People Ruthlessly Alone!

Alice is the Imperial Princess Regnant of the Galactic Empire. At 22, she has been thrust into power after her father (the Emperor) and her two older brothers have all died in various ways. Her Imperial Chancellor, Lord Rupert, does everything he can to support her, but has somewhat different ideas about how the Empire should be run than did his late Emperor.

Alice has one major problem: She cannot be crowned Empress Regnant until she marries and produces an heir.

But Alice, being kept busy three days a week by interminable audiences with petitioners, and the rest of the week with what she terms “mostly busy work”, has no real way to meet young men — well, reasonably eligible young men, anyway, and of her own age — with whom she might eventually take up and form a household. And she chafes at the necessity of trying to rule, hands-on, an Empire so huge it cannot be truly ruled by any one person to begin with.

She just wants to leave people alone, as her father and his predecessors did for centuries.

Then, into her life walks the Crown Prince of a planet many, many parsecs away from the Capital Planet…and her life begins to take on a life of its own…

WHEREAS GEORGE FLOYD MURALS ARE UNIFYING? IF HOLDING POLITICAL AUTHORITY ACCOUNTABLE IS ‘DIVISIVE’ I’M PROUD TO BE DIVISIVE:  Providence mayor calls mural of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska ‘divisive’ after train stabbing death.

GOVERNMENT KNOWS WHAT THE PUBLIC THINKS OF IMMIGRANTS AND DOESN’T CARE:  City rides roughshod over migrant concerns.

KEEP THIS POLITICO STORY AROUND IN CASE YOU EVER ACCIDENTALLY INGEST POISON AND NEED TO INDUCE VOMIT:  Politico Embarasses Itself With Fawning Story About Rahm Emanuel’s Dietary Habits.

I DON’T THINK HE TAKES NONSENSE FROM ANYONE:  Tom Homan Wasn’t Taking Any Nonsense From These Sunday Talk Show Hosts.

WE NEED TO MAKE ‘MAYBE YOU NEED TO WRITE IT DOWN’ A THING:  HILARIOUS! Rubio to George Stephanopoulos: Maybe You Need to Write It Down.

MOCK THEM, MOCK THEM MERCILESSLY:  How These Patriots Responded to the Dems’ ‘No Kings’ Protests Was Fantastic.