TAKE OFF AND NUKE THE ENTIRE SITE FROM ORBIT: Mark Levin Goes Nuclear: ‘We Must Break the Back of the DOJ!’

JOANNE JACOBS: Universities talk ‘diversity,’ demand conformity. “Requiring would-be professors to swear allegiance to a political ideology is a free-speech violation, charges a lawsuit filed in May. John D. Haltigan applied to teach psychology at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He had to submit a ‘diversity, equity and inclusion’ (DEI) statement, which the suit compares to loyalty oaths required of faculty members during the Red Scare of the ’50s.”

ZERO CONCERN FOR THE HEALTH OF THE COUNTRY, ONLY FOR THE STRENGTH OF THE PARTY: Biden and Other Obama Officials Sought to ‘Torpedo’ Incoming Trump Admin, Docs Show.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: CDC admits not including diagnostic codes showing COVID vax as ’cause’ on some death certificates.

The Minnesota analysis is part of three years of questions about the reliability and integrity of federal and state governments’ COVID-related statistics.

The New York Times found up to 90% of COVID-positive tests officially recorded in Massachusetts, New York and Nevada in summer 2020 were based on SARS-CoV-2 viral loads too small to be infectious.

Oregon lawmakers similarly sought a federal grand jury investigation into COVID statistical manipulation nearly two years ago, claiming the Center for Disease Control and Prevention employed a “double-standard exclusively for COVID-19 data collection” that inflated cases and deaths starting early in the pandemic.

One of them told Just the News that Beaudoin is assisting their efforts, which are now pending before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. “I think this type of fraud is extended across all boundaries, all states,” Oregon state GOP Sen. Dennis Linthicum said.

They broke public trust, not caring what that will mean when a truly serious pandemic hits.

ANGER AND LOSS OF INHIBITIONS ARE COMMON SYMPTOMS OF DEMENTIA: Amiable Old Joe Biden Turns Out to Be Given to Foul-Mouthed Yelling.

CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER: Kremlin says Putin held post-mutiny talks with Wagner leader as top general resurfaces. “One of the biggest mysteries is why Prigozhin does not yet appear to have fulfilled the terms of the deal which ended the standoff, what his future plans and those of his fighters are, and why he does not appear to have been punished by the Kremlin.”

FINE, BUT ONLY BECAUSE ONCE THE RESULTS ARE IN SHE’LL DEMAND THE CAMERAS BE REMOVED AND THE VIDEOS DESTROYED: Woke Doctor Suggests Body Cams for Physicians Because of the Rampant Racism She Claims to See.

WHOSE PROPERTY IS IT, ANYWAY? Illinois Landlords Will Be Forced To Rent To Illegal Aliens As Rent Prices Remain Sky-High.

Landlords in Illinois will soon be required to rent properties to illegal aliens, opening the market to tens-of-thousands of potential renters as housing costs remain sky-high, particularly in major metro areas like Chicago.

Last month, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed SB 1817 into law, which will update the Illinois Human Rights Act to include “immigration status” as a protected class. Landlords across Illinois will not be able to refuse potential renters due to their immigration status alone, despite the fact that illegal aliens are eligible for deportation under U.S. law.

“This law sets clear boundaries, protecting the rights of immigrants and ensuring that financial institutions and service providers cannot engage in discriminatory practices,” State Senator Ann Gillespie, a Democrat, said in a statement. “Putting these protections in place will promote fairness to ensure people are not unjustly denied housing.”

The new requirements come as rent prices remain sky-high across the nation’s major metropolitan areas, including Chicago

There’s a word for political systems that maintain a veneer of property rights while actually giving the state broad decision-making power over what may be done with “private” property…

THE COST OF DOING BUSINESS WITH COMMUNIST CHINA IS ALWAYS TOO HIGH BUT NO ONE SEEMS TO NOTICE UNTIL IT’S TOO LATE: Elon Musk’s Tesla Pledged to Uphold CCP ‘Socialist Values.’

META: The ‘Threads’ App is FILLED With Deceptive Dark Design Patterns – We Spotted More Than TEN.

Aside from probably the launch of ChatGPT, I can’t ever recall a recent time in which the internet was THIS excited. While I personally believed that Zuckerberg’s new Threads app was doomed to be a hit and miss, it seems like I was dead wrong – the app saw more than 10 million users sign up in just 1.5 hours, with the number climbing up to 75 million as per a recent announcement from Zuckerberg. The reason? FOMO, along with the fact that the Threads app was designed to be incredibly intuitive. You didn’t need to make an account – if you were on Instagram, the account was already made for you. A simple click would import all your followers, your profile settings, and profile-picture and bio. However, veiled underneath that ease and convenience were a few patterns that designers and tech nerds were all too familiar with. These patterns, referred to as Dark Design Patterns, are known to manipulate and influence a user into doing something against their will.

As a user, you’ve probably encountered a whole bunch of dark design patterns in your life. If you’ve used the Uber app, you’re familiar with how notorious it is to cancel a ride while the app is searching for one. The ‘Cancel Ride’ button is greyed out, but the ‘Continue Searching’ is black and highly visible. Hit the Cancel button and Uber asks you at least twice if you’re sure you want to cancel. Amazon does the same thing with its Prime subscribers. Try canceling your Prime subscription and chances are you’ll just give up because Amazon’s made it so incredibly hard to cancel an active Prime membership.

The Threads app almost immediately displayed a whole bunch of dark patterns with its user interface. We spotted at least 11 of them, and we’re sure there are a lot more to come. Here are some highly evident dark tricks the Threads app is using to ensure you stay on the platform as long as you possibly can… and supply Meta with even more data than before.

There’s a simple way to avoid all that, of course.

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Indiana Jones’ B.O. Stinks. “Viewers like you and me — who loved the original trilogy precisely because those films relied on character, story, and low-tech filmmaking techniques — couldn’t even be bothered to show up for the opening week of this consequence-free CGI spectacle. The viewers who would bring down that 88% Rotten Tomatoes score didn’t and won’t watch it.”

JAW, JAW IS BETTER THAN WAR, WAR: Washington may deny it, but looks like someone wants to talk to Russia.

According to the NBC News story, which cites “people briefed on the discussions,” the talks focused on some of the most pressing questions concerning the conflict, including “the fate of Russian-held territory that Ukraine may never be able to liberate, and the search for an elusive diplomatic off-ramp that could be tolerable to both sides.”

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attended at least one of the meetings when he made a rare visit to New York City to chair the UN security council in April, according to the report. The former U.S. officials named in the article are Richard Haass, the outgoing president of the Council on Foreign Relations, Charles Kupchan, and Thomas Graham — all of whom previously worked in senior positions in the State Department, among other national-security agencies — as well as former Pentagon official Mary Beth Long.

The Biden administration reportedly was aware of the meetings, but did not organize them. There was no indication of whether or not the White House endorsed the discussions.

It’s at least a little reassuring that the Biden White House might not be actively involved in this off-the-books diplomatic effort, given that it was their diplomatic fecklessness that opened the door to Russia’s full-scale invasion.

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Metro Atlanta Mayor Arrested on Trespassing Charges Offers a Lame Excuse for His Crime.

#DEFUNDPRIVATESECURITY: Zuckerberg Spent $43 Million on Security, but $5.5 Million to Back Defund the Police.

Among the CZI donations to anti-policing activist groups, according to the report, are:

• $3 million to PolicyLink, the organization behind DefundPolice.org, which seeks to “diminish the role of policing in communities and empower alternative visions for public safety.”

• $2.5 million to Solidaire, which seeks to defund the police through its “Anti-Police Terror Project” and boasts it helped strip $18 million out of the Oakland Police Department’s budget.

Solidaire funds the Movement for Black Lives, a coalition of 150 activist groups, which said in a press release: “[T]he police do not keep us safe, and they do not prevent nor stop crime.

“Pouring more money into the system of policing only threatens the very lives they’re purported to protect.”

Meta/Facebook representatives and CZI did not respond to the Post’s requests for comment.

Meanwhile, Zuckerberg’s Meta is raising its private security spending pre-tax from $10 million for the past few years to $14 million in 2023, according to the report, citing February company filings.

That’s different because Zuckerberg is more important than those nasty city-dwellers.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: What if They’d Found Anthrax in the White House Instead of Cocaine? “We all know what would happen. The Secret Service would already know EXACTLY who left that little doggie bag in the White House, and the perp would be locked away, never to be seen again, along with the J6 protesters.”

Paula Bolyard is filling in for Kruiser today.

THE IDEAL TIME WAS IN 2019 BUT THE NEXT BEST TIME IS RIGHT NOW: When is the optimal time for Biden to drop out of the race? “If Biden does drop out of the race, will he wait too long to do so? And, should that be the case, will Vice President Kamala Harris — whom few Democrats truly have confidence in — get crushed in the general election by the Republican nominee?”

MEN REALLY ARE BETTER AT EVERYTHING: Congratulations, a Man Just Won Miss Netherlands.

THERE GOES THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION, RESTORING MORE OF THAT RESPECT ON THE WORLD STAGE: Yellen Commits Grave Error in Show of American Weakness in China.

As with Blinken, Yellen also got no red carpet, although one Chinese official did meet her when she arrived two days ago.

But then on Saturday, Yellen committed a grievous diplomatic error—she bowed repeatedly, at least three times, to Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng when she met him.

That’s a grave show of American weakness to the Chinese, particularly the repeated and deep nature of the bowing. If the Chinese didn’t already think they could step all over us, that’s the type of signal to them that they can, when Biden officials act that desperate to bend over for them. Lifeng even backed up a little to give her more room to kowtow to him, like she was a servant.

It was only a “grave error” if you believe that Yellen and the White House didn’t intend to indicate submission to Beijing.

HEH: Sen. John Kennedy Responds to Cocainegate in a Way Only He Can.

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: Fly the Psychotic Skies. “This week, we have the curious case of the airline passenger who wasn’t there even though he was, a genuine hero from Fort Lauderdale, and Colorado Man’s mysterious passion for stolen panties.”

NEWS YOU CAN USE? There’s Another Sriracha Shortage — Here Are The Best Dupes.

GIVE THE AUDIENCE WHAT THEY WANT: How the faith-based thriller ‘Sound of Freedom’ knocked out Indiana Jones at the box office.

GROOMING, STRAIGHT UP: ‘Majority Doesn’t Always Dictate’: Fairfax County School Board Ignores 84% Rejection of Gender Ideology.

THEN: “We Win; They Lose”: The Staggering Simplicity of Reagan’s Grand Strategy.

Now: Janet Yellen Says the U.S. Doesn’t Seek ‘Winner Take All’ Fight With China.

CHANGE: MTG Ousted From the House Freedom Caucus. “Depending on which source you access, Greene was given the gate for her support of Kevin McCarthy or for the issue with Boebert, during which Greene allegedly called Boebert a ‘little b***h’ on the House floor. Greene was irked that instead of supporting her original articles of impeachment against Biden, Boebert had filed her own, which made use of some procedural resources Greene had not accessed.”