Tuesday, July 11, 2023

Tuesday Tidings

On a warm mostly sunny Tuesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Disney has brought about "a crisis of its own making".

From FrontpageMag, what then-Undersecretary of Labor (and later Senator, D-NY) Daniel Patrick Moynihan (and President Obama) understood but Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor does not.

From Townhall, the AP's latest report on Justice Sotomayor would have the left screaming if it were about Justice Clarence Thomas.

From The Washington Free Beacon, New York University holds an "anti-racism" workshop for the parents of public school students, but only allows white parents to attend.

From the Washington Examiner, when investigators won't investigate President Biden.

From The Federalist, the problem for Florida Governor (R) and presidential candidate Ron DeSantis isn't former President Trump, but election rigging by Democrats.

From American Thinker, non-discrimination and affirmative action are not the same thing.

From MRCTV, the media don't want people to see the movie Sound of Freedom.  (What does this say about people who appear to be more upset over a movie about human trafficking than over the human trafficking itself?)

From NewsBusters, The Washington Post apparently wants more election censorship.

From Canada Free Press, war materiel given to Ukraine often ends up either being destroyed by the Russian military or being sold to terrorists.

From TeleSUR, Brazilian President Lula Da Silva asks the country's Central Bank to lower interest rates.

From TCW Defending Freedom, does U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak know his arsenal from his elbow?

From EuroNews, who is Spanish prime ministerial candidate Alberto Núñez Feijóo?

From Voice Of Europe, Germany reveals a vessel that could have transported explosives which could have been used to attack the Nord Stream pipeline.

From ReMix, a Somali man is arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl on a train in the German state of Bavaria.

From Balkan Insight, protesters rally in support of a Serbian policeman who found an allegedly "state-protected" drug farm.

From The North Africa Post, Nigerien troops apprehend two senior members of the terror group Islamic State in the Greater Sahara near Niger's border with Burkina Faso.

From The New Arab, a "lifeline" aid route to a rebel-held area of Syria closes.

From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, a former official from the Iranian Ministry of Social Welfare warns about a looming "humanitarian catastrophe" due to malnutrition.

From IranWire, a 32-year-old Iranian Kurdish man mysteriously dies two months after being "arrested".

From Iran International, according to a whistleblower, an ayatollah based in Mashhad, Iran has been misappropriating charity money.

From Khaama Press, a Chinese company plans to invest $10 million to build a pharmaceutical factory in Afghanistan.

From Hasht e Subh, access to safe drinking water decreases every day in Afghanistan.

From the Afghanistan Times, according to the Norwegian Refugee Council, hundreds of people were evicted when a refugee camp in Kabul, Afghanistan was demolished by the Taliban.

From Dawn, the deadliest non-existent cyclone to hit Karachi, Pakistan.

From The Express Tribune, Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari condemns the burning of a Koran in Sweden.

From Pakistan Today, Pakistani Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif launches an initiative for women's empowerment.  (Hopefully, Pakistan will be less confused than the U.S. is about the class of people who would qualify for this program.)

From The Hans India, the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh hopes to set a new record for planting trees.

From the Hindustan Times, passengers jump out of a train in the Indian state of Odisha after it starts to smoke.

From ANI, a passenger is detained at India's Cochin International Airport when gold in his possession is found outside the reach of sunlight.

From India Today, the chief minister of the Indian state of Telangana will inaugurate a temple, a mosque and a church on the same day.

From the Dhaka Tribune, Bangladesh and India agree to conduct their bilateral trade in rupees.

From New Age, Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expects Myanmar to take back 1.2 million Rohingyas, who are now refugees in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.

From AllAfrica, Muslim clerics in Uganda warn against DNA testing.

From Gatestone Institute, is France on the verge of chaos?

From The Stream, British commentator Piers Morgan has become the voice of sanity against transgenderism.

From The Daily Signal, the Biden administration flags pro-Russian social media accounts and (wait for it, wait for it) itself as "Russian disinformation".

From The American Conservative, what Republicans should learn from efforts to forgive student loans.

From The Western Journal, media double standards about U.S. Presidents Trump and Biden walking in front of U.K. monarchs Elizabeth and Charles.

From BizPac Review, Bud Light just keeps on digging.

From The Daily Wire, the Chief Twit and podcaster Joe Rogan mock MSNBC for claiming that exercise is a far-right recruiting tool.

From the Daily Caller, congresscritter Jim Jordan (R-OH) lays out his demands to cut spending and to hold "radical" federal agencies accountable.

From the New York Post, an MS-13 thug gets 22 years in jail for the beating death of a teenager in Greenlawn, Long Island, New York.

From Breitbart, former congresscritter Mayra Flores (R-TX), who won a special election but lost the subsequent regular election after redistricting, launches her campaign to retake her seat.

From Newsmax, according to retired Lieutenant General Mark Hertling, Senator Tommy Tuberville's (R-AL) blocks on senior military promotions is "despicable" and "damaging to the national security of our nation".  (The general appears to be unleashing his inner Daffy Duck.)

And from Kidspot by News(dot)com(dot)au, at her school's end-of-the-year concert, a seven-year-old girl is kept behind a potted plant.  (via the New York Post)

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