Day 45 in Portland, livestreaming.

Well, with the arrival of the sun, the fun is over, but here’s a happy followup: Antifa rioter was struck in the head with a tear gas canister in Portland.(It’s a touch graphic).

As they say on those TV infomercials, wait, there’s more……

Yep, Sophie got paid to go to a WE event, not as much as Maggie and Sasha but she got paid.

A 7-2 win at the Supreme Court;

For over 150 years, the Little Sisters have engaged in faithful service and sacrifice, motivated by a religious calling to surrender all for the sake of their brother. “[T]hey commit to constantly living out a witness that proclaims the unique, inviolable dignity of every person, particularly those whom others regard as weak or worthless.” But for the past seven years, they—like many other religious objectors who have participated in the litigation and rulemakings leading up to today’s decision— have had to fight for the ability to continue in their noble work without violating their sincerely held religious beliefs. After two decisions from this Court and multiple failed regulatory attempts, the Federal Government has arrived at a solution that exempts the Little Sisters from the source of their complicity-based concerns—the administratively imposed contraceptive mandate.
 
We hold today that the Departments had the statutory authority to craft that exemption, as well as the contemporaneously issued moral exemption. We further hold that the rules promulgating these exemptions are free from procedural defects.

New York Times contributor David Kaufman wants us to know that he’s rendered distraught by “subtle streams of everyday racism that course through our homes, our workplaces, and the outside world.” An endless assault that “bombards people of colour.” People such as himself. It is, we’re told, time for a “cultural reckoning.”

“For me, this reckoning begins with traffic signals.”

Needless to say, things take a strange turn.

Wishing our many American friends a Happy Independence Day and hoping the second half of this year will be somewhat more normal than the past six months!

Energy literacy has never been strong – as our society’s comfort grows, we take for granted all the industrial processes we can’t live without. With our dominant and critically vital energy sources under ferocious attack from armchair quarterbacks, where does energy education go from here? (And Happy Independence Day, American friends.) Read on…

At the moment protestors are blocking access to the rally site. … and it looks like they’re about to be unblocked.

Update. The road was finally cleared.

Including a daring daylight heist; an undersized drama; some kitchen incongruity; notable prangs and mishaps; and a man oppressed by pineapple.

All this and more.

Heh.

Oh Cann-a-bis,
Our home on Native land…

That Kielberger kid sure gets around.

h/t Mike, who writes: So an organization headed in part by someone who affects leadership debates
during elections just received a sole sourced 900 million dollar contract
from the Liberal government?

I’m sure it’s just a weird coincidence.

It’s no coincidence I’m speaking up about this during the latest wave of the Black Lives Matter movement. It’s hard to explain what racism feels like to someone who has never experienced it.

Her name was misspelled. It’s a racist “attack.”

Jan — I got message that 3 Gorges is overflowing. Working to confirm. https://t.co/zhoy1nRODK

— Michael Yon (@Michael_Yon) June 27, 2020

Background – Integrity of China’s Three Gorges Dam Called Into Question

UndergroundSilk has videos of flooding across China.

Now big green is targeting your toilet paper. Actually, they are after Americans to change toilet paper habits to shut down Canadian forestry jobs.

Including a very modern woe; what to do with one million begonias; Sowell on Marx; a notable parenting choice; and the sound of something in the woods.

All this and more.

Flynn case dismissed. Finally.

And now, new notes released.

🚨Peter Strzok notes from 1/4/17 released in Flynn case:

Discussion among Obama, Comey, Yates, Biden, and Susan Rice.

Biden: "Logan Act"

Obama: "Have the right people on" Flynn case.

Comey: The Flynn/Kislyak calls "appear legit." pic.twitter.com/20a3z46Z9Z

— Techno Fog (@Techno_Fog) June 24, 2020

I cannot remember the name of this plant and it’s driving me nuts. In that, I’ve wondered about it for years after having a terrible asthma-like reaction to it when I was a kid. Google was no help at all, so I grabbed a sprig this evening when I was out on my mountain flatlander bike. It grows wild in pastures and ditches, and has a pungent scent. Given I have access to the blogosphere’s top resource for expertise on prairie weeds, it just makes sense to ask here.

update: asked and answered, thanks all.

You see, by not fixating tediously on every person’s melanin levels and minor variations of physiognomy – by not endlessly categorising people by their brownness, and therefore presumed suffering, and therefore innate nobility and entitlement to favours – you are, it turns out, “perpetuating violence.”

A concerned parent, a white Slate reader, seeks counsel from the woke hive mind.