Monday, May 1, 2023

Stuff For May Day

On a cool cloudy Monday which is also the first day of May, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the Supreme Court agrees to hear a case that could reign in federal government agencies.

From FrontpageMag, the whistleblower against First Son Hunter Biden.

From Townhall, even some Democrats are siding with Speaker McCarthy (R-Cal) on the debt ceiling.

From The Washington Free Beacon, how presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (D) introduced the notorious anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan to the anti-vax movement.

From the Washington Examiner, one of my Senators decides against running for reelection in 2024.

From The Federalist, President Biden believes that a "free press is a pillar of society", except for former Fox News host Tucker Carlson.

From American Thinker, the Associated Press conveniently redefines the term "insurrection".

From MRCTV, lame duck Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) asks Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) to stop sending illegal aliens to her city.

From NewsBusters, well, what do you know, the networks suddenly care (sort of) about the aforementioned Hunter Biden.

From Canada Free Press, the "15 minute city" concept is really a new lockdown strategy.

From TeleSUR, Paraguayan President-elect Santiago Peña promises to restore relations with Venezuela.

From TCW Defending Freedom, transplant surgeries show evidence of coronavirus vaccine-related deaths.

From Snouts in the Trough, the possible reason why left-wingers can't stand Israel.

From EuroNews, about a million people are expected to hit the streets for "historic" May Day rallies in France.

From Euractiv, Lviv, Ukraine looks toward a recovery as it hosts thousands of war refugees.  (Full disclosure:  Yours truly is descended from a woman who left Lviv in the late 1880s to settle in Pennsylvania.  At the time, the city was in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and called Lemburg.  Since she was Polish, she would have called it Lwów.)

From ReMix, can Poland fix its low birthrate?

From Balkan Insight, Bosnia and Herzegovina struggles to tackle its air pollution.

From The North Africa Post, the automotive industry again unseats phosphate production as Morocco's leading export sector.

From The New Arab, Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar is reportedly sending weapons and fuel to the anti-government Rapid Support Forces in Sudan.

From the Colombo Page, Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe unveils a new economic model that he claims would make his country a developed one by 2048.

From the Daily Mirror, 14 Sri Lankans evacuated from Sudan arrive back in Sri Lanka.

From Raajje, Maldivian President Ibrahim Solih urges business owners to ensure worker equality and human rights.

From the Bangkok Post, 93 alleged gamblers, including 83 Indians, are arrested at a hotel in Pattaya, Thailand.  (As I looked at the links posted at The Religion Of Peace for some stories, I ran across one from this source, and thought that the BP might be a good addition to my list.)

From The Straits Times, 25 crew members of a Gabon-registered Singapore-bound tanker which caught fire off the Malaysian coast are rescued, but three others are still missing.

From Tempo(dot)Co, a magnitude-5.7 earthquake strikes in and around Kaimana, West Papua, Indonesia.

From Free Malaysia Today, a farmer support group calls for higher government subsidies for farmers because climate change has increased their production costs.

From the Borneo Post, according to Malaysian Deputy Tourism Minister Datuk Snowdan Lawan, the indigenous people in the states of Sabah and Sarawak should explore the amalgamation of their cultures.

From Vietnam Plus, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam unlocks its resources for economic development.

From the Taipei Times, the Taiwanese company Geosat Aerospace & Technology Inc. and the French company Cavok UAS sign an agreement to develop "China-free" drones.

From The Korea Herald, South Korean exports decline for the seventh straight month amid a slump in chip production.

From The Mainichi, a woman is arrested for allegedly threatening on Twitter to disperse sarin gas at a train station near Tokyo.

From Gatestone Institute, the Biden administration has a vacuum of leadership.

From The Stream, a white male Republican city councilman in Delaware County, Indiana decides to identify as a lesbian Native American woman.

From The Daily Signal, the six mistakes in Biden's new emergency immigration plan.

From The American Conservative, Pope Francis goes to Hungary.

From The Western Journal, a case of Bud Light beer is gonna cost ya a lot less, pilgrim.

From BizPac Review, journalist Glenn Greenwald links the firing of the aforementioned Tucker Carlson from Fox News to a "blacklist" of "Kremlin assets" made by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

From The Daily Wire, the Biden administration hired an activist who once canceled a woman for wearing blackface at a Halloween party.  (I once wore blackface to a Halloween party in an attempt to look like a coal miner, which was the occupation of various men related to the aforementioned woman from Lwów/Lviv/Lemburg and thus also to myself.)

From the Daily Caller, former President Trump will participate in a presidential town hall hosted by CNN in New Hampshire.

From the New York Post, journalist Megyn Kelly blasts supermodel Chrissy Teigen for having three "serfs" hold her dress as she arrived at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.

From Breitbart, Trump arrives in Scotland, where his mother was born, for King Charles's coronation.

From Newsmax, the woman accusing Trump of rape in a civil trail returns to the witness stand.

And from The Babylon Bee, Disney executive are baffled at how The Super Mario Bros. Movie made a billion dollars worldwide without including any transgender goomba characters.

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