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Chicago Boyz

• The Invasion of Safe Spaces

  The most disgusting post on Twitter – among a whole library of disgusting posts created by the largely insane freaks who inhabit that archipelago of the Internet – was a picture of a hulking guy in a dress, boasting of his achievement as a...

  2 days ago

• The Dictatorship of Theory

  (Here’s something I wrote several years ago…I was reminded of it by a current post and discussion discussion at Quillette, so thought I”d post it here and link it there.  The references aren’t current, but the issues raised remain...

  2 days ago

• Nuclear Power: Has the Time Finally Come?

  Commercial nuclear power emerged in the mid-1950s, to great enthusiasm. The Eisenhower administration promoted it as a major part of its Atoms for Peace program.  There was talk about ‘electricity too cheap to meter,’ and about...

  8 days ago

Centinel2012

• The Fed & The Collapse of Socialism

  Armstrong Economics Blog/Basic Concepts Re-Posted May 6, 2022 by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: Been following Martin since 2008 (Gold ride) – he is the only one who has been right AU and AG top 2011.****Important question for Martin, pleaseHow...

  7 hours ago

• The REAL Insurrection – The Office of The President, The Executive Branch, Publicly Declared Support For the Political Targeting of the Judicial Branch

  Posted originally on the conservative tree house on May 5, 2022 | Sundance You might remember that ancient time in history when American civics discussions involved the separation of powers.  Apparently, those days are long gone in...

  8 hours ago

• Disinformation Panels, Control over Social Media Content and Now DOJ Environmental Justice, it is all One Long Continuum

  Posted originally on the conservativetree house on May 5, 2022 | Sundance Barack Obama and Eric Holder did not create a weaponized DOJ and FBI; instead, what they did was take the preexisting system and retool it, so the weapons only targeted...

  8 hours ago

The BRAD BLOG

• After 5 Republican Justices Lied About 'Roe', GOP Runs for Cover, Dems Try to Marshal Response: 'BradCast' 5/6/2022

  On today's BradCast: The five Republican Supreme Court Justices who were revealed this week to have voted to overturn the well-settled law of 1973's landmark 'Roe v. Wade' and the Constitutional freedoms it guaranteed for the right to privacy...

  an hour ago

• Not Everything Sucks. Organized Labor is Rising: 'BradCast' 5/5/2022

  It's been another rough week in these United States and, in turn, on The BradCast. The War in Ukraine, the corrupted Supreme Court stealing freedoms from Americans, the stock market roller coaster, COVID deaths topping 1 million and beginning...

  a day ago

• 'Green News Report' - May 5, 2022

  IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: European Union proposes official embargo on Russian oil; Plummeting water levels in major reservoirs prompt new, 'unprecedented' cutbacks, reveal grim secrets; PLUS: California A.G. launches probe into oil industry...

  a day ago

bluebird of bitterness

• Fractured mythology

  10 hours ago

• Friday happy dance

  14 hours ago

• Find the snake!

  A snake lurks among the watermelons. See if you can find it. The solution will appear in the comments section later today.

  a day ago

BlackListed News

• US Intelligence Has Helped Kill Multiple Russian Generals In Ukraine

  Last month Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin bluntly admitted of US policy aims in Ukraine: "we want to see Russia weakened to the degree it cannot do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine." He also sought to stress before the...

  a day ago

• Stock carnage: Dow drops 1,063 points, Nasdaq off 5%, S&P down 3.5%

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• Ukraine’s Forces Are Told To Hold The Line Where Russian Artillery Is Pulverizing Them

  The Russian military forces are grinding down Ukrainian ground forces by extensive use of heavy artillery. The Ukrainian artillery has been destroyed or lacks ammunition.The Ukrainian forces have orders to stay in their position and to...

  a day ago

Research Digest

• We unconsciously pay more attention to someone who has dilated pupils

  By Emma Young. Dilated pupils are a sign that someone is attending to us - which makes us pay more attention to them.

  3 days ago

Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places

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  A Once-Lost Dress from 'The Wizard of Oz' Goes to Auction—Maybe

  In December 1938, 16-year-old Judy Garland waited on the set of The Wizard of Oz, trying hard not to wrinkle her blue-and-white gingham dress. The scene they were filming that day—the moment where young Dorothy faces the Wicked Witch of the...

  7 hours ago
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  Ruins Of Sheffield Ski Village in Sheffield, England

  Once a site of Olympic dreams, Sheffield Ski Village is now more of a crumbling ruin filled with bits of old lifts, overgrown dry ski slopes, fresh tinnies dropped by local kids. It's a strange place, perfect for a picnic or to get a taste of what...

  8 hours ago
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  What the World's Largest Organism Reveals About Fires and Forest Health

  Under the Blue Mountains of Oregon lurks something massive and prehistoric. Yet the largest recorded organism on Earth, weighing more than 200 blue whales and dwarfing even Pando, Utah’s famous grove of quaking aspens, is nearly invisible...

  8 hours ago

Accidental Deliberations

• Musical interlude

  Shallou - Here

  4 hours ago

• #SKNDPLDR: Membership Deadline

  I'll be posting more about the Saskatchewan NDP's leadership race in the days to come, including putting together candidate profiles and updating my campaign reference page.For those interested in having a say, though, today is the last...

  11 hours ago

• Friday Morning Links

  Assorted content to end your week.- Vaibhav Upadhyay and Krishna Mallela discuss the development of new COVID-19 vaccines, and the hope that they'll offer more protection as variants continue to evolve. Ofra Amir et al. examine the effect...

  11 hours ago