Last week, the NYT’s award-winning ‘bad flag’ desk reported Justice Alito flew a ‘bad flag,’ which was — their friends on air hysterically insisted — associated with insurrection. The symbol in question: an “Appeal to Heaven” flag, flown by George Washington during the Revolution, and small-c conservatives ever since. Until Saturday, it was also flown in front of notorious right wing stronghold San Francisco City Hall (embarrassing!), at which point it was removed in order to perpetuate the lie that Alito is a traitor. Obviously, this entire controversy was invented from nothing so Democrats, in their ongoing effort to jail the frontrunner presidential candidate, might pressure Alito into recusing himself from Jan 6th-related cases. Trump is a threat to democracy, you see, which must be saved at any cost — even if that means a total subversion of the concept. Idk, sounds a little strange to me. But who am I to argue with a flag reporter?

On Monday, Biden announced he’s releasing (desperately plundering) a million barrels of gas from the Northeast Gasoline Supply Reserve to “lower prices at the pump when folks need it most.” You’d think a guy fighting an inflation problem who ran on the promise he’d advocate for “no more subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, no more drilling on federal lands, no more drilling, including offshore, no ability for the oil industry to continue to drill, period” (real quote) would welcome the higher prices his degrowth policies helped create, but who am I kidding? The admin actually has no principles, and its back is against the wall. Expect the extraction — the cost of which will be borne by you, the taxpayer — to continue until Election Day, regardless of if morale improves. 

Arthur Grand Technologies, a Virginia-based tech company, was recently fined $7,500 by the Justice and Labor departments for their job posting that solicited applicants who were “only US Born Citizens [white].” In addition to the civil penalty, the minority-owned company (yes, they were literally trying to boost their diversity) also had to fork over $1,000 each to 31 different individuals who “complained” about the posting. If that sounds harsh, allow me to remind you that it pales in comparison to the punishment fallen on Harvard, Google, the NFL, Disney, and just about every single American company, university, and institution that discriminated by race through their DEI practices over the past few… oh wait a minute no. There were never any consequences for the giants. Sorry, Arthur Grand, guess your ARR wasn’t high enough to get away with being racist.

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