Some Stuff

Some Stuff

Two women were shot, and one of them was killed, in Pittsburgh's Brighton Heights neighborhood after a “youth fight” at the Jack Stack pool spilled out into the street Wednesday night, the city's police chief said.

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Sotomayor's net worth when she was nominated for the Supreme Court was about $80,000.
Since then, Sotomayor's net worth has skyrocketed, putting her among the ranks of the nation's millionaires. In 2021, her investments totaled somewhere between $1.5 million and $6.4 million, according to financial disclosure forms. Last year, investments were roughly the same, in between $1.6 million and $6.6 million.

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The global-warming industry has declared that July 3 and 4 were the two hottest days on Earth on record. The reported average global temperature on those days was 62.6 degrees Fahrenheit, supposedly the hottest in 125,000 years. The claimed temperature was derived from the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer, which relies on a mix of satellite temperature data and computer-model guesstimation to calculate estimates of temperature.

One obvious problem with the updated narrative is that there are no satellite data from 125,000 years ago. Calculated estimates of current temperatures can’t be fairly compared with guesses of global temperature from thousands of years ago.

A more likely alternative to the 62.6-degree estimate is something around 57.5 degrees. The latter is an average of actual surface temperature measurements taken around the world and processed on a minute-by-minute basis by a website called temperature.global. The numbers have been steady this year, with no spike in July.--Milloy

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This is the opening of a piece by Jacobs. It reflects a growing theme on the Left, the rise of fascism in the U.S., a vision that seems hallucinatory, generalizing a tiny minority as normal--a trend becoming characteristic of the country:

"Why do the journalists covering the biggest story of their career—the attempted overthrow of democracy—want to treat it like routine politics?
The ongoing rise of fascism in America is quite a story to tell. There’s been an attempted coup. The U.S. Capitol was overrun by a mob. Members of Congress pushed slates of fake electors to try to steal an election. Politicians plotted to call out the military to seize voting machines.
The stakes could not be higher. This is a story that affects the future of every American.
So why do so many journalists want to normalize the fascist threat? Why do they treat it as if it’s just the same old politics? It’s as if they're covering the flood of the century and want to save it for the regularly scheduled weather report."