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Update on Texas abortion law - the Justice Department sued the entire state

UK government mulled bringing in the army to help ease supply disruption triggered by a shortage of truck drivers 

China negotiated with terrorists, releases Huawei exec in exchange for release of two Canadians. 

Reason on California math curriculum 

FDA declares war on America

Google & Apple both removed Navalny app from app stores, Irony meters everywhere have exploded

Telegram also shut down a bot that could text out Navalny’s picks

Judge said NY vaccine mandate for healthcare workers must have religious exemption

Online pastor immediately began selling religious exemptions

Relevant: wine during prohibition 

US, UK, and Australia formed military alliance

Govt is shutting down again? 

Border patrol horsemen! 

No more single-family zoning in California!

Terner Center estimates that  only 5.4% of single family lots (700,000) will be financially feasible to expand

Very little effect on San Francisco area since lots there are too small

GOP-backed “cyber ninjas” audit Arizona election, find more votes for Biden than original count. 

Review on trigger warnings finds that they are counterproductive

Central Park Karen speaks! 

Happy News!

Basel Soukaneh, a man who suffered abuse by a CT police officer, overcomes qualified immunity. 

Denmark has lifted all covid restrictions!

Rally to protest the treatment of suspects of participation in the Jan. 6 is apparently 90% undercover feds

L.A. County D.A. to dismiss 60,000 past marijuana convictions 

Petition for Jessica Watkins to be held in home detention pretrial, including descriptions of her abuse at the hands of the corrections officers

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“It’s like KFC saying, ‘We’re going to ban chicken.’ What does that even mean?”

OF was having trouble getting investors

OF Seeking a value of $1 billion

OF Launched a SFW app (“OFTV”) right before announcing the ban

Patronizing tweet from OF about sex workers

Aella:

“ I'm not too worried. There's other competitors ready to fill the gap.”

Aella’s collaboration site

Twitter survey suggesting sex trafficking is vanishingly rare

Manhattan prosecutor stopped prosecuting prostitution and unlicensed massage charges

Proposed California bill creating civil liability for online distributors

Aella’s Blog

Aella’s Twitter

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News discussed:

Biden orders OSHA to de-facto mandate vaccines

Lewis County General Hospital temporarily pausing maternity services later this month after dozens of staff quit rather than get a COVID-19 vaccine. 

Biden also activated the defense production act to increase testing capacity instead of just telling the FDA to unban rapid tests

SCOTUS refused to block Texas abortion law

Andrew Torrez says this means they’ve overturned Roe v. Wade

If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t you California Governor?

Biden Continues Trump Seizures of Private Land for Border Wall 

China may be on the brink of its Sept 2008 momentOscars establishing oppression quotas to win Best Picture

Democratic governor of NC vetoes bill which would repeal racist Jim Crow law supported by the KKK

Crazy ex kills a bunch of cryo patients that were preserved at KrioRus over a bad breakup 

Happy News!

Good guy with a gun stops a bad guy with gun in New York

The bad guy was added to a memorial for victims of gun violence

Dave Chipman nomination withdrawn 

Peter Singer wins $1 million Berggruen Prize for lifetime achievement in philosophy and culture, donates entire winnings to effective charity

No more roomba poop rooms! 

Afghanistan War was a success?

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Australia’s military is not enforcing lockdowns

But they are shooting dogs 

The Cuomo allegations are seriously dubious

News discussed:

New Taliban is bizarre. 

chad memes?? 

The median age in Afghanistan is 18 

Biden allegedly ignored warnings of Afghanistan’s collapse

Though actually, things are going pretty well

NASA declines to buy Bezos’ on-sale lunar landers and so he sued them

SF budgets $1 BILLION for an environmental review for a proposed new train line. What the s**t?

OnlyFans bans porn!?!?

MasterCard (and soon Visa) are basically not going to do business with porn sites

Pressure from the anti-woman and anti-sex lobbies

“fighting trafficking” as defined by these groups has also led to policies to defund AIDS programs that worked with sex workers 

Fake news story claims that Boba Fett’s ship name is the next victim of Disney’s Cancel Culture Crusade

Happy News!

Pfizer fully approved!

Most of Poly CryptoHack money returned, hacker offered security job by Poly

“Sex Trafficking” is good, actually 

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News discussed:

 

Farmers don't want to reuse GMO seeds

Cannibal! The Musical

Audacity has a new privacy policy

Blue Trump resigned

Anti-aging researcher Aubrey de Grey accused of sexual harassment by two colleagues

Bipartisan infrastructure bill passed the Senate!

Zvi estimates 2-3 weeks until it peaks 

American Academy of Pediatrics tells FDA to hurry the F up

WHO is still telling people covid is spread primarily by droplets and contact

New York tries vaccine passports, proves David right

France also tries vaccine passports, sparks massive protests

Around 8,600 people in Germany could have received the saline solution instead of the vaccine cuz of antivax nurse.

Australia’s FDA is even worse than ours 

Also, their lockdown seems inspired by their neighbors to the North

Biden extended eviction moratorium by 60 days 

A safe deposit box company in LA was the victim of a $85 million heist… perpetrated by the FBI

Democracy dead in Tunisia?

Noah Smith: “China just grabbed a random Canadian dude and threw him in prison as retaliation for Canada arresting a Chinese tech executive.”

Michael Spavor was convicted of espionage and sentenced to 11 years

UK supply chain faces collapse

Apple is replacing its industry-standard end-to-end encrypted messaging system with an infrastructure for surveillance and censorship, “for the children”

Teen suicide rates drop by 15-20% in summer months 

Hackers have stolen some $600 million in cryptocurrency from the decentralized finance platform Poly Network, in what it says is the largest theft in the industry's history.

 

Happy News!

Comic book creators moving to substack, worrying the big publishing houses (which is a good thing)! 

New book by Emily Oster! About early school aged kids! 

The percent of these households that had at least one homeschooled child was 5.4% in spring 2020, 11.1% during fall 2020, and 19.5% by May of 2021.

 

Unvaccinated to pay the full cost of their COVID hospitalizations?

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News discussed:

Farmers don't want to reuse GMO seeds

Cannibal! The Musical

Audacity has a new privacy policy

Blue Trump resigned

Anti-aging researcher Aubrey de Grey accused of sexual harassment by two colleagues

Bipartisan infrastructure bill passed the Senate!

Zvi estimates 2-3 weeks until it peaks 

American Academy of Pediatrics tells FDA to hurry the F up

WHO is still telling people covid is spread primarily by droplets and contact

New York tries vaccine passports, proves David right

France also tries vaccine passports, sparks massive protests

Around 8,600 people in Germany could have received the saline solution instead of the vaccine cuz of antivax nurse.

Australia’s FDA is even worse than ours

Also, their lockdown seems inspired by their neighbors to the North

Biden extended eviction moratorium by 60 days 

A safe deposit box company in LA was the victim of a $85 million heist… perpetrated by the FBI

Democracy dead in Tunisia?

Noah Smith: “China just grabbed a random Canadian dude and threw him in prison as retaliation for Canada arresting a Chinese tech executive.”

Michael Spavor was convicted of espionage and sentenced to 11 years

UK supply chain faces collapse

Apple is replacing its industry-standard end-to-end encrypted messaging system with an infrastructure for surveillance and censorship, “for the children”

Teen suicide rates drop by 15-20% in summer months

Hackers have stolen some $600 million in cryptocurrency from the decentralized finance platform Poly Network, in what it says is the largest theft in the industry's history.

Happy News!

Comic book creators moving to substack, worrying the big publishing houses (which is a good thing)! 

New book by Emily Oster! About early school aged kids! 

The percent of these households that had at least one homeschooled child was 5.4% in spring 2020, 11.1% during fall 2020, and 19.5% by May of 2021.

Unvaccinated to pay the full cost of their COVID hospitalizations?

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News discussed:

 

CDC (boooo) encourages indoor mask mandates in high-risk areas

Iraq is the new Afghanistan

China is building a whole lot of nukes

Maine constitutional referendum on a “right to food”

The fleeing Democratic congresspersons we discussed a few weeks ago had a small superspreader event

Facebook is censoring all mentions of Far-Right candidate in Hungary

Do you know what’s infrastructure? Regulating cryptocurrency into oblivion!
Sideline reporter tells the weeping gold medalist that he can connect with his family over microsoft teams

Shipping a 40 foot container cost jumped to 10kusd

Walmart to pay 100% of employee’s college costs

 

Happy News!

Bezos’ penis-based space expedition was successful, then offered NASA $2 billion to go to the moon with Blue Origin’s help

Researchers Find Way to Convert Type A Blood to Type O 

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News discussed:

 

Protests against the government in Cuba!

Cuban-Americans protesting in solidarity

Ron DeSantis had to backpedal after he passed an anti-BLM “anti-riot” law earlier this year which criminalizes much of the behavior the American protestors are engaging in. 

Cuban protests are embarrassing to the Left, and therefore an unconscionable COVID risk

Michael Avenatti sentenced to two years in jail for fraud

DACA was declared unconstitutional

Hunter Biden keeps embarrassing his dad

Delta variant is causing covid deaths to trend upward

French anti-vax protests destroy/damage 2 vaccine clinics 

Tennessee halted all vaccine outreach to kids, for all vaccines

The Guardian published “Kremlin” papers about how Trump was compromised

Joint Chiefs of Staff feared Trump would attempt a coup after election

Haiti’s president was assassinated

 

Happy News!

 

Virgin Galactic successfully reaches the bit of the galaxy which, by some definitions, could possibly be considered space

We’ve started the leaving Afghanistan process! And W is having a sad about it

Plastic Waste could replace up to 10% of the sand in cement!

 

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Inside the Battle Over the Soul of the Libertarian Party 

 

News discussed:

 

DC stopped Batman from performing oral sex on Catwoman

Redneck’s need practice at doing Burning Man stuff

Canada to Make Online Hate Speech a Crime Punishable by $16,000 Fine

Massive Kaseya Ransomware Attack 

Arizona bill SB 1840 to make teaching racism illegal?

Audacity will now share personal data with law enforcement and government agencies 

U.S. Supreme Court gutted most of what remains of the Voting Rights Act

The court struck down California's law requiring nonprofits to file a list of their large donors with the state

Supreme Court Limits Lawsuits By Those Wrongly Flagged As Terrorists 

Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal to a circuit court ruling that required a Virginia school to let a transgender student use the bathroom corresponding with his gender identity.

 

Happy News!

 

Flying Car Completes First-Ever Flight Between Airports (not in the US, of course)

China has been awarded a malaria-free certification from WHO

 

Steve Horwitz writing recommendations

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News discussed:

 

FDA approves questionable Alzheimer’s drug

SCOTUS says Philadelphia can’t require religious foster care agencies to give kids to gays

SCOTUS also threw out another b******t Obamacare challenge on “standing” grounds

SCOTUS says NCAA can’t keep f*****g college athletes

SCOTUS tightens leash on agri unions

Supreme Court Rules Teens 1st Amendment rights still exist in school

Satanic Temple gets involved in the “F**k Cheerleading” case

U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that police cannot always enter a home without a warrant when pursuing someone for a minor crime

The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to consider a challenge to the men-only military draft.

John McAfee found dead in his cell in Spanish prison pending extradition to the US 

He tweeted on Oct. 15 saying “I am content in here. I have friends. The food is good. All is well. Know that if I hang myself, a la Epstein, it will be no fault of mine.” 

Senate passed big corporate welfare bill to “compete with China”

The Left hates it 

The Right hates it

leaked documents from the late Trump White House reveal that The Perfidious Roman called down a miracle from the Heavens to steal the election for Joe Biden with the knowledge and assent of the CIA. 

Netanyahu ousted as Prime Minister by coalition of 8 different parties

French elections give losses to both Left and Far-Right parties, middle-Right surges

A battle for the soul of the Libertarian Party was fought and the good side lost. 

Yassine from r/themotte was interviewed on Blocked & Reported!

Colorado Gay Cake news

Inflation is spiking

 

Happy News!

Juneteenth is a federal holiday! 

After more than 20 years, California unbans cool-looking guns! 

Missouri declares itself a sanctuary state with respect to federal Gun laws 

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