“The use of violence is a tactic of how we keep our communities safe,” Milo said.
Antifa member
https://abcnews.go.com/US/year-protests-portland-residents-waning-patience-antifa/story?id=77511470
Treasury warns of need to deal with national debt limit
Treasury officials on Wednesday urged Congress to pass either a new borrowing limit or another suspension of the debt before a July 31 deadline. The Treasury will continue to initiate the types of bookkeeping maneuvers it has used in the past to keep the government from breaching a level that would trigger a default on the massive national debt.
AP
Seychelles brings back curbs despite vaccination success – BBC News
Many active cases in tourism reliant country despite Sinovac vaccination.
Something fishy
A town in Japan spent Covid relief funds on a giant squid statue.
A $230,000 statue is part of an effort to revive tourism in the fishing town of Noto. Critics call it a waste of money as Japan struggles to contain a new outbreak.
No good deed goes unpunished
Organized crime unhappy Prinsloo made them look like clowns.
Leo Prinsloo, who foiled heist in Pretoria, under protective guard after death threats | News24
Cash-in-transit driver Leo Prinsloo and his family have been placed under protective guard.
Gig workers
Biden Blocks Trump-Era Gig-Worker Rule
The Labor Department said it is nullifying a rule that sought to make it more difficult for a gig worker to be counted as an employee under federal law covered by federal minimum-wage and overtime regulations.
Justice or mob payback?
Scientists Found Evidence of Fungus Growing on Mars
Colonizing Mars with microorganisms
Caitlyn Jenner’s anti-Newsom ad previews big challenge for Dems
We’re not in Kansas anymore.
https://nypost.com/2021/05/06/caitlyn-jenners-anti-newsom-ad-previews-big-challenge-for-dems/
If you expect cheating what then?
Continue reading “If you expect cheating what then?”I won’t blow smoke up your exhaust pipe because 2022 will be one tough election.
Between a media that relishes lying, to a corrupt court afraid of being mobbed at home, to a Democrat Party that will ruthlessly churn out fake votes like confetti for a tickertape parade, the game is stacked against Republicans
Don Surber
Watch “Starship | SN15 | High-Altitude Flight Test” on YouTube
Starship lands successfully.
When does Woke get declared a public health hazard?
If political incorrectness is a disease it ought to ban itself.
The end of the day
The most important divorce in America today is not between Bill and Melinda Gates but within the political center. What held it together was the need to pay the national bills and the glue of residual shared culture.
Continue reading “The end of the day”Ethiopia ‘at a crossroads’ amid spiraling ethnic conflict
Identity politics in Africa.
https://nypost.com/2021/05/04/ethiopia-at-a-crossroads-amid-spiraling-ethnic-conflict/
Does Joe Biden actually exist
Bizarre photo showing giant Bidens beside miniature Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter keeps the Explainers busy.
Virtual graduation at Caltech
About 300 students will get to sit at the ceremony, while their families cheer them on virtually. According to the school’s ceremony plans, family members — even the parents who helped pay the tuition — will not be allowed to sit in the stands. …
While the students will be sitting about six feet apart for the ceremony, they will not be allowed to physically walk up to get their diploma.
School District Decides Asians Aren’t Students of Color – Reason.com
One school district in Washington state has evidently decided that Asians no longer qualify as persons of color.
https://reason.com/2020/11/16/equity-report-north-thurston-asian-students-of-color/
Why this ‘woke’ CIA recruitment video angered US conservatives | South China Morning Post
Will the electric guitar intro work?
A 36-year-old CIA employee also wants you to know how else she sees herself – that she is proudly a “woman of colour,” is “intersectional” and is a “cisgender millennial”.
Twitter cuts losses on report Elliott is buying post-earnings slide (NYSE:TWTR) | Seeking Alpha
Elliott is telling analysts that the sell-off is overdone – and comparing the decline to one following an advertiser pullback during Black Lives Matter protests last year – and when Twitter banned the account of former President Donald Trump, according to the report.