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Now for your morning report on all the swell happenings over at the Southern Poverty Law Center. Try not to cry too much. So sad…
Today, @splcenter – an organization with nearly a billion dollars in reserves, given an F rating by CharityWatch for “hoarding” donations – gutted its staff by a quarter.
SPLC’s decision has a catastrophic impact on the organization’s work in support of immigrants seeking justice and its mission to dismantle white supremacy, strengthen intersectional movements and advance human rights through support of educators.
CEO and President Margaret Huang announced that the cuts would allow greater “focus” on racial justice, but failed to explain how eliminating immigrant justice work and anti-racist education work served that goal.
More than 60 SPLC Union members, including five Union stewards and our Union Chair, were informed that they would be losing their jobs. We are devastated for our Union and for our colleagues.
Functionally eliminating the Learning for Justice department leaves educators, students, and caregivers without resources and support in building curricula and orienting classrooms toward justice work.
The layoffs of all 16 staff in the Southern Immigrant Freedom Initiative and its office closure will decimate free legal representation to detained immigrants across Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi.
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If only they could win elections like they win baseball games.
team of Republican lawmakers won the Congressional Baseball Game on Wednesday night, securing their fourth win in a row, and earning their 46th total win since the game’s inception.
The baseball game, which is played for charity, has become a staple in Washington, D.C., and sees Democratic lawmakers face off against Republicans from both chambers. Republicans hold the highest amount of wins since the matchup’s inception in 1909 with 46 wins as of Wednesday, compared to Democrats’ 22 wins. The game was cancelled in 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The final score was 31-11, and the game concluded after the seventh inning, according to C-SPAN.
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Of course, Woke White House enforces ridiculous “equity” rules so half the EV charging stations have to be built in ghettos where no one can afford an electric car.
On top of that, the hot new theft item is EV car charging cables for the copper !
“These requirements are screwing everything up,” said one senior Department of Transportation staffer who spoke on the condition of anonymity. “It’s all a mess.”
President Joe Biden has reportedly expressed frustration with the pace at which his much-touted infrastructure projects are getting built. A “close ally” of the White House told CNN last December that Biden “wants this stuff now,” and a White House spokesman added that the president “constantly pushes his team to ensure we are moving as quickly as possible.”
But Biden may only have himself to blame.
Shortly after taking office, the president signed an executive order mandating that the beneficiaries of 40 percent of all federal climate and environmental programs should come from “underserved communities.”
The order also established the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council, which monitors agencies such as the Department of Transportation to ensure the “voices, perspectives, and lived realities of communities with environmental justice concerns are heard in the White House and reflected in federal policies, investments, and decisions.”
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They are following the Cloward and Piven model almost verbatim. The object is to not fix any problem and waste as much money as possible while maximizing virtue signaling their superior intentions. The unstated goal is to crash the system; hence opening the floodgates of illegal immigration and giving them more benefits than our own veterans.
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I’m getting a late start but I’m off and running. Oddly enough I woke up at 5:09 this morning, I almost never sleep that late.
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Morning Gang… yawn… seems the longer I go to Physical Therapy the earlier the appointments…I guess one has to earn the right to wake up with the chickens and flap your wings…
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FWIW; That reminded me of the Carolina Wren.
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The news around here is about the teenager from Mountain Home Alabama getting attacked by a shark in Walton County Florida. If you don’t know the details her right hand was bitten off and her left leg was almost severed between her knee and hip and had to be amputated. The details were slow coming over a few days and my first thought was how could she have survived with her femoral artery severed but now we find out that a doctor, nurse and a paramedic were vacationing and were on the scene quickly or she would have likely died, bled to death. The doctor said they they used 3 different makeshift tourniquets, including one belt before the paramedics got there with the proper medical supplies. I’ll add the the rescue teams were there in minutes but may not have been able to save the girl without the fast care from the medical folks on scene. Prayers to her and her family.
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That’s crazy, and she was quite lucky there were people there to save her life. Been seeing more and more shark incidents in the news over the last few weeks. Bull sharks? Regardless though, don’t go in the water! I’ve made it a point over the last decade or so to not go past knee deep when surf casting. A few years ago a buddy and I were surf casting and ended up catching probably a dozen or so small hammerheads (~2 footers) between us. I figure if there were that many in the shallows surely there were plenty of larger relatives in the deeper waters. Yikes.
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I won’t go in the beach water anymore. Why subject my immune system to E.coli and, potentially, various species of Vibrio bacteria, including the flesh-eating type?
Take me out a few miles and I’ll gladly jump in. 🙂
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In other news the Carolina Wren that hatched 5 little ones in the freezer room has successfully sent them all on their way. They flitted around inside the small room before taking flight and resting in the fig trees, then heading for the woods. All 5 were gone in the space of about 12 hours. Luckily, Damn Old Cat didn’t catch a single one. 😉
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With our little bluejay family, as soon as Chillin’ Chick took off, they were all out of the nest within a few minutes. It was like a small airport, as they hopped out of the makeshift nest holder and took off. Chillin’ Chick, the largest one, was making his hip-hop way down our fence line, not quite able to find a way high enough to find a perch. Sadly, I heard a lot of angry bird calls a few minutes later in the back alley, and I think one of the local feral cats found him.
His sibling managed to claw her way up a tree and perched on a limb. I guess that one made it. She made herself very small and hard to see.
I have no idea what happened to the others. Since I couldn’t see them I’m assuming that they also found safe places where Mom and Dad could finish their flight training.
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NEW: In leaked text messages obtained by the Free Beacon, top Columbia administrators—including the dean of the college—mocked and dismissed concerns about anti-Semitism on campus and even used vomit emojis to refer to a Columbia rabbi’s op-ed.
This is pretty shocking even to me. Someone in the audience during a panel discussion on antisemitism at Columbia University was sitting behind and taking photos of the dean’s text exchanges with other school officials.
It is almost unbelievable these people are so arrogant and brazen. These people are the senior administrators of Columbia. It is disgusting the American taxpayer funds these a**holes with millions and billions of dollars.
Throughout a Columbia panel, which unfolded over nearly two hours, Vice Dean Susan Chang-Kim was on her phone texting her colleagues about the proceedings—and they were replying to her in turn. As the panelists offered frank appraisals of the climate Jewish students have faced, Columbia’s top officials responded with mockery and vitriol, dismissing claims of anti-Semitism and suggesting, in Associate Dean Matthew Patashnick’s words, that Jewish figures on campus were exploiting the moment for “fundraising potential.”
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Disgusting. They should be fired and banned from any academic authority position in the future.
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How could anyone claim that what comes out of her mouth could in any way resemble music?
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Pachapapa releases a document that will destroy the papacy.
Synodality is not how Jesus established His Church. Relegating our faith to “just another” is not how the Catholic Church operates.
If we become a reflection of the secular world and not the spiritual world, why be Catholic? What PP is doing is similar to treason in the secular society.
Several saints have posited that as soon as a Pope promotes heretical views – which pp has done multiple times – he automatically loses his position. Unfortunately, the “smoke of Satan” has entered the Church and we have weak bishops and cardinals who are afraid to hold this Vicar of the Church (a title which pp dumped almost as soon as he took over, btw) responsible for him leading thousands of Catholics straight into Hell.
The bishops and priests that have spoken out have been canceled. They’ve either been evicted from their parishes without being reassigned, making them essentially homeless or dependent upon the kindness of others, or they’ve been sent to Siberia-type parishes. Cardinal Burke had his stipend that he used to pay for his apartment/office in Rome stripped from him. Housing in Rome is expensive, but I hear he has some benefactors helping him. He’s been remarkable quiet since his private conference with pp. I wonder what other threats were made. Bishop Vigano actually lives in hiding. He still speaks out for traditional orthodoxy against the Vatican, but he fears for his life.
Don’t even get me started on the traditionally minded convents and monasteries that are being seized and the property sold. Seriously, nuns are being told to go into nursing homes or just go away; or give up their charisms and become more secular.
PP is an evil tyrant. He and his minions need to go.
I pray for my Church. I cling to the message of Jesus during this troubling time. I’ve heard that the Church is going through Her own Passion. I wait for the resurrection, and hope I’m around to see it.
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Is the audio really that bad, or is there a problem on my end?
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I had no problem, though he operates out of Shawnee, OK and has had problems with his service there in the past. He still has glitches. It sounded better via my phone.
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I asked him the same question and he quickly responded…admitting to tech difficulties which have been resolved for tomorrow’s follow-up on the same subject.
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The thumb is slightly better today, after icing it down all last night and wearing a finger splint on it. Trying not to use it is making life challenging, especially since I’m a touch typist and the right thumb gets used a lot.
But not today. 🙁
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Good morning, C&C, it’s Thursday! As the week creeps along, here’s your quick from-the-road roundup of essential news: new Cuban Missile Crisis infests the Caribbean as Russian flotilla heckles U.S. fleet; Biden official threatens Chinese with “project hellscape”; House holds Merrick Garland in contempt, but the AG smugly started knitting another sweater; biggest post-pandemic study yet finds worldwide government response a washout; Republicans shoot for the moon with federal anti-DEI bill; and the extreme weather wave washes over Florida.
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From the C&C, after discussing recent developments/blustering regarding the escalation between us and Russia + China.
I’m only a lawyer, not a military expert. Maybe you can explain this to me: Does it make sense to press for Taiwan independence, threaten China with Hellscapes, and jettison decades of successful strategic ambiguity, at a time when we are simultaneously flirting with nuclear war with Russia, sinking all our air defense batteries into the Ukrainian mud, while simultaneously fending off Iran and its proxies in the Middle East? I’m just asking.
There must be a plan, surely, or at least part of a plan, even if it is so secret that nobody knows it. And I bet it’s packed with super top-secret weapons, too, that soon — just you wait! — we’ll deploy onto the barren hellscape of Biden’s diplomatic ignorance.
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News you can use – watermelon picking.
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Nice.
Thanks.
Saved.
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There’s gold in them thar hills ! Elon Musk moves Tesla Corporation to Texas and gets billions.
Elon Musk said late on Wednesday that Tesla shareholders have re-approved a pay package worth billions that was already thrown out by a Delaware judge earlier this year in a vote that also approved moving Tesla to Texas.
The two measures – Musk’s pay package from 2018 and moving the car company’s incorporation state – are due to formally take place at the company’s annual meeting set for 3:30 pm CT on Thursday. But Musk said in a tweet overnight that both measures had the support they need to pass.
“Both Tesla shareholder resolutions are currently passing by wide margins! Thanks for your support!!,” he tweeted, along with heart emojis. He also included graphs of the votes on the measures, showing that in recent days the measures got enough votes to guarantee a win.
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Smoke and Mirrors…Bread and Circuses…
Last Friday, the government published jobs data for May. The left-leaning media touted the report as good news, showing that the economy added 270,000 jobs. In fact, the data was terrible for ordinary Americans. It shows that fewer Americans were working in May than in April, and that those who were employed needed to work more jobs to make ends meet. These are substantive economic problems for Biden.
this also,
There are two different ways to view employment data. The first is to examine how many jobs people are working. The second is to look at how many people have jobs.
Take, for example, an economy that has three people and three jobs. Such an economy could have three people each with one job and no unemployed. Alternatively, such an economy could have one person working three jobs and two people unemployed. The May jobs report shows a trend moving toward the latter scenario instead of the former.
and this hot article…
Every first Friday of this year (here, here and here) we have spent hours deconstructing the glaring propaganda peddled by Biden’s Labor Department, meant to show just one thing – how “strong” the economy is under the current administration – and exposing just how ugly the underlying labor data truly is. Last Friday’s nonfarm payrolls was the most recent case in point: for those who didn’t read our extended analysis titled “Inside The Most Ridiculous Jobs Report In Years“, which dissected the laughable claim that the US added 272K payrolls (more than the highest estimate), here is what we found.
While the Establishment Survey did indeed report that 272K “jobs” were added, this number also included multiple job holders; stripping those out, we get that the actual number of “employed” workers plunged by 408K…
and get this confession by Fed Chair Powell,
In response to a question from a Bloomberg journalist during the post-FOMC presser, asking the Fed chair to comment on the state of the labor market, the Fed Chair said that two years ago the labor market was “overheated” and has since gotten back to “normal”, largely thanks to “supply from to immigration” – translation: illegal aliens have been the main reasons for the increase in employment and the drop in wages and thus, overall inflation, which as we discussed recently, is the narrative that is being pushed out to mitigate demands by most Americans to halt illegal immigration.
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This judge was having a hard time controlling himself.
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I had to watch the video. What an entitled POS! I wish the judge would have demanded that the mooching terd pay at least $500 to the redhead for the internet service he stole from her. A TRO was a very nice touch.
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A whirlwind brought us home from Wisconsin Saturday June 8. Unknown then but known now is we also brought Co-Vid with us and are working through kicking it out as fast as possible. We’re past the barely able to get out of bed stage for more than a few minutes and up to manage to slowly get around the house and start managing small meals.
Likely we caught it at the airports on the return where we were waiting forever for flights. Nothing like a busy airport to haul along germs and spread them around the thousands of travelers coming and going.
The hoo-rah about the supposed vaccine it was originally heralded to work has been exposed as not a vaccine at all because it does not result in long- term immunity with antibodies as vaccines do. Its flimsy attempts to produce antibodies, which real vaccines do for long periods and have been well testsed on humans, not only animals as was the pretender that flunked badly. The testing on people got dumpted in order to get it to market because…. Fill in the dots.
See Texpat’s treatises on the topic he recently published here. Expect there will be more info dragging itself in as time goes by and more studies are done. And more hit the public news.
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How freaking embarrassing is this?
Biden wanders away from G7.I can only imagine what is whispered about him – and us – behind his back.
Heck, probably right in front of him and out loud. It’s not like he’s gonna be able to process the comments anyway. I’m sure the big kids are just gonna do what they want and the U.S. will have no say in any big decisions. That, or the mentally competent will just stick their collective hand up his butt and make the meat puppet say what they want him to say.
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Wouldn’t it be just swell if the left recognizes what their lust for power has done to the country . . . .
Perhaps they are patting themselves on the back for the success at destruction.
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Cesar Humberto Lopez-Larios a/k/a “Grenas de Stoners” a/k/a “Oso de Stoners,” a top leader of La Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) got busted going through IAH a couple days ago. Dude’s apparently quite the little one-man crime wave.
They’re shipping him off to face charges in NYC, where his little enterprise has been causing a fair amount of chaos and mayhem.
He’ll likely wind up in a nice government apartment in Florence, CO in a couple years.
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We are still going after real bad guys? Who knew?
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What I don’t get is why he was flying commercial internationally. There are thousands of airfields he could sneak to and vanish before anyone noticed.
Or just drive across like tens of thousands of others have been doing recently.
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RE: Wagonburner’s MS-13 article
This is not a New York City story, it’s Long Island and they are Republican and conservative out there. I think all of their House reps are Republican now as well as local officials and they have been going after MS-13 hammer and tong – hard.
Long Island has busted them seriously and puts them in federal pens with serious sentences. I suspect this dude will be old and decrepit before he gets out, if ever. Hopefully, jailhouse justice will solve the problem anyway.
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I wonder if super Dave had to shake test this great prank Scott Kelley pulled on the ISS. Your tax money at work. BTW his brother Mark arranged the delivery of the prank.
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Must have been a helluva ride. Yeehaw!
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Shannon
As many ships that are sailing across the world from so many third world countries, many decades old, it is trully amazing there is any control at all of these vessel’s operating condition.
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No rain tonight or tomorrow to help the new flowers just planted in several beds yesterday. So the sprinkler system will do its thing overnight. G’Night All.
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