"One by one..."

 

'Sesame Street' targets children for Pride Month ... again | Blaze Media

'Sesame Street' targets children for Pride Month ... again | Blaze Media: 

The PBS program has continuously pushed political and sexual storylines toward children. PBS' "Sesame Street" garnered a heap of negative reactions online after celebrating gay Pride Month for yet another year.

NSF projects cut by DOGE include dance-making in physics, computer science sister circles | The College Fix

Freaking NUTS!!! - Daniel Nuccio - Northern Illinois University 

Examples include projects that 

• sought to increase diversity in biological anthropology, 
• promote astrophysics in American Indian and Alaskan Native communities, understand how students from the rural Arctic engage with Polar science, 
• examine the experiences of undergraduate LGBTQ students in STEM, 
• study “the effects of gender composition on disruptive science,” and 
• further elucidate the roles of a growth mindset and other factors in the “development of an identity as an economist” among women and racial minorities.

Notably, some projects took rather unique approaches to these types of goals. 

• One $1.5 million project that was nominally about physics outreach intended to build on pilot work that is said to have demonstrated that “authentic inquiries into science through embodied learning approaches can provide rich opportunities for sense-making through kinesthetic experience, embodied imagining, and the representation of physics concepts for Black and Latinx teens when learning approaches focused on dance and dance-making.”
• Another $1.5 million project, which was previously covered by The Fix and highlighted in a 2024 Senate report concerning questionable NSF-funded DEI projects, attempted to leverage “Black feminist epistemologies and Black women[’]s ways of knowing, as critical frameworks” and utilize “the concept of sister circles to create counter spaces to build community and resist structural oppression” in computer science programs...

AM Fruitcake

 

History for June 4

History for June 4 - On-This-Day.com 

Dr. Ruth Westheimer 1928

• 1783 - A hot-air balloon was demonstrated by Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier. It reached a height of 1,500 feet.
• 1896 - Henry Ford made a successful test drive of his new car in Detroit, MI. He called the vehicle was called a "Quadricycle."
• 1939 - The first shopping cart was introduced by Sylvan Goldman in Oklahoma City, OK. It was actually a folding chair that had been mounted on wheels.
• 1940 - The British completed the evacuation of 300,000 troops at Dunkirk, France.
• 1942 - The Battle of Midway began. It was the first major victory for America over Japan during World War II. The battle ended on June 6 and ended Japanese expansion in the Pacific.
• 1974 - The Cleveland Indians had "Ten Cent Beer Night". Due to the drunken and unruly fans the Indians forfeited to the Texas Rangers.
• 1989 - In Beijing, Chinese army troops stormed Tiananmen Square to crush the pro-democracy movement. It is believed that hundreds, possibly thousands, of demonstrators were killed.

Marco Rubio to slash or consolidate more than 300 State Department offices * WorldNetDaily * by Bradley Devlin, The Daily Signal

Marco Rubio to slash or consolidate more than 300 State Department offices * WorldNetDaily * by Bradley Devlin, The Daily Signal: 

On Thursday, Rubio notified Congress of some of the plan's particulars. The elimination or consolidation of more than 300 department offices amounts to nearly 45% of the State Department's stateside offices, according to a document shared with The Daily Signal by a senior State Department official. The document outlines that these bureaus will focus on energy and technology, humanitarian affairs, internal operations, foreign assistance, strategy, and security, respectively.

The way we were-----Who Killed More? Mao, Stalin, or Hitler?

Oakland clears out massive homeless encampment near I-880 | KTVU

The Call is Coming From Inside the House!

Liberalism creates the very conditions it claims to overcome. Studies show that the more liberal/progressive you are, the more unhappy and mentally ill you become. - Michael Smith

Consider the following:
A terrorist (who is also here illegally) attacks innocent, non-violent, geriatric Jews using a homemade gasoline spray rig and Molotov cocktails and Democrats immediately jump into action.

• Jamie Raskin, the Snidely Whiplash of the House, sees the attack and immediately thinks, “This means we need to ban assault weapons!”
• Keith Olbermann, a guy too crazy for even MSNBC to employ, blames Trump for not deporting him fast enough – the guy was granted a visa by the Biden administration, overstayed it during the same administration and was rewarded with a work permit, which he also subsequently overstayed.
• Among the other non sequitur hot takes, CNN and the other usual suspects in the media can’t bring themselves to call this terrorism, to identify the perpetrator, or even identify the victims as Jews.

Democrats just can’t understand why young people, especially young men, are leaving their party in droves – even after years, decades actually, of telling them they are irredeemably racist (it is in their DNA), calling them rapists (and stripping due process rights from them in college settings) and telling them they have no chance at the American Dream because they will own nothing and be happy...

Two conservative students in Southern California...

...have filed a free speech lawsuit against their community college after they were told to soften and tame their comments regarding hot-button topics - The College Fix

• I left Iran to enjoy the amazing freedom that the United States offers. 
• Now I find myself threatened with punishment for expressing political opinions—because they happen to be opinions that administrators don’t like,' said one of the student plaintiffs.

US Education in Dire Straits: Cheating is Running Rampant in High Schools, Colleges

US Education in Dire Straits: Cheating is Running Rampant in High Schools, Colleges: 

Artificial intelligence is making it even easier for college and high school students to cheat.

As more and more students learn to use ChatGPT and other AI tools, teachers increasingly have to decide if an assignment was written by a human, according to Axios.

“I have to be a teacher and an AI detector at the same time,” Stephen Cicirelli, an English professor at St. Peter’s University in Jersey City, New Jersey, said.

Serious vaccine risks accepted by FDA

First Amendment question-Hypothetical: Washington Post hires a "stringer" in Gaza.

The editors know that the stringer is a member of Hamas, a designated foreign terrorist organization under federal law. - Clarice Feldman is with Washington Post.

• The stringer reports from Gaza, and the Post relies on his reporting, as they would any other employee, despite his membership in Hamas.
• The government indicts relevant actors for material support for terrorism. 

Would the First Amendment protect them from criminal charges?
Obviously, newspapers have had terrorist leaders write op-eds, and don't seem to fear criminal liability from that, and that seems correct. 

And media outlets can obviously quote statements from Hamas or Hezbollah.

• But it strikes me as at least potentially distinguishable to *hire* a known member of Hamas, allow that person to be "reporting" the news, and *not disclose* to readers that the individual is known to be a member of Hamas...

Lunch video-----"What’s Planned for the End of June Is Absolutely Evil..." – Victor Davis Hanson

Noon-toon

Democrats' $20 million 'manhood' plan backfires | Blaze Media

Democrats' $20 million 'manhood' plan backfires | Blaze Media: 

Democrats have a “man problem” — and now they’re spending $20 million on a study examining how to speak to their problem demographic after losing major ground with them during the 2024 election cycle.

According to the New York Times, "Speaking with American Men: A Strategic Plan” was created by the party to "study the syntax, language and content that gains attention and virality in these spaces" of male voters.

Says much about the disaster that is the democrat party!

 

China Can Cause Blackouts In US And Europe Through Solar Inverter Technology, Suggest Officials

Governments around the world are investigating and banning Chinese inverters after radio and backdoor kill switches discovered - Michael Shellenberger

It sounds like the far-fetched plot of a cheesy James Bond movie: 

the Chinese military causes civilization-crippling blackouts around the world, plunging cities from San Francisco to Berlin to Seoul into chaos, while invading Taiwan. Hospitals stall. Subways freeze. Data centers go dark.

But it’s not far-fetched. 

In fact, China just demonstrated that it has the power and may be willing to use it...

Remember the left's "...if we can save only one life..." lie??!!

 

I just finished reading Jon Krakauer’s book, Into Thin Air, about his climb on Everest - he was the only one who survived on his team that year.

K2 appears to be much harder to climb. - Ileana Johnson
Few bodies remain on K2, a pyramid with continual slopes. 

Most wind up at near the same place at the bottom, in ice which churns over against the rock. 

A writer for Outside Magazine visited and photographed the multitude of colors you see in the ice from hiker's clothing.

#1 This day 1960-----Everly Brothers - Cathy's Clown (1960)

Musta been the Amish?-----Vandalism of University of Michigan peonies was in support of Palestine, police confirm - mlive.com

“Plant lives don’t matter. Human lives do,” read the flyer - Jordyn Pair | jpair@mlive.com

ANN ARBOR, MI - Vandalism at the University of Michigan peony garden was done as a political protest, confirmed the university’s police.
Roughly 100 flyers calling for more support of Palestine amid the ongoing war with Israel in Gaza were found in the wake of vandalism that destroyed roughly one-third of the garden...

In the USPS/government mail today. From same company that is telling me I use too much LESS ELECTRICITY!

 

WATCH: Jasmine Crockett tries to describe Dem 'playbook' on the fly. It doesn't go well * WorldNetDaily * by Jason Cohen, Daily Caller News Foundation

WATCH: Jasmine Crockett tries to describe Dem 'playbook' on the fly. It doesn't go well * WorldNetDaily * by Jason Cohen, Daily Caller News Foundation: 

Crockett acknowledged in a March interview with "Lone Star Politics" that she was more focused on opposing President Donald Trump than passing legislation in Congress. In an interview with FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth, reporter Steven Dial asked Crockett what "the Democrat playbook for the midterms" was and whether the party would focus on denouncing Trump or discussing "kitchen table issues."