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The region is suffering a record-breaking, early-summer heat wave with temperatures soaring as high as 40–44°C, the way the French reckon it, or 104–111°F in actual degrees. This is when Americans would set the thermostat to 68° (actual degrees) or maybe go see a movie at a theater where they keep it that temp all the time.
But at the École Primaire La Planette school in Nîmes, they have no air conditioning — naturellement — and according to Miss Jo on X and other sources, a child there "recently fainted because of the heat," even while "classes were being taught in corridors to get out of the heat."
Parents of the students there did what parents in America would almost certainly do in a similar situation, and they raised money to buy five portable air conditioning units for the school. The community got so involved that the parents needed just three days to raise the required €2,000.
So far, so good.
But Mayor Vincent Bouget is an actual member of the Parti communiste français (PCF), and if there's one thing Communists can't stand, it's the community doing stuff. Bouget ordered the school to remove the A/C because "it sets a precedent," and "in some neighborhoods, parents don’t have the means to act."
Over on X, snippy French response was thst Americans can't complain about this because we have a mass murder problem in our schools. But mass murder in schools in a problem in several European nations at higher rates per 1000,000 people as is mass murder
Although you all might question my sanity, I’m happy to report that I just graduated from THE Ohio State University for the third time…kind of. I got my bachelor’s and master’s degrees from OSU. When I finished my grad degree in 2003, I vowed I would never attend another university class. […]Mullin v. Doe (2026) ruled that the Administration has authority to end TPS as, in their opinion is warranted by changes in the conditions that justified TPS for those nations. TPS for Haitians started in 2010 because of the eathquake. It is no longer 2010. Syrian TPS is from 2012 when the Assad regime's brutal oppression and murders. Millions of Syrians have since returned home.
The TPS law also says that non-constitutional questions about TPS and the President's authority to grant TPS are not subject to judicial review. Clear enough?
By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief On a 6-3 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court has struck down Hawaii’s restrictive concealed carry statute requiring people with carry permits to first get permission from businesses before they enter their premises—referred to as the “default rule” or “Vampire rule” in a case known as Wolford v. Lopez. The Los Angeles […]
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It's Thursday and I realize that I haven't pasted anything since Sunday. The reason is simple. There ain't nothing happening worth commenting on.
The weather is confounding. Lots of rain, very little sunshine. The humidity is always at or above 90%. The ground is saturated. With this amount of rain, it is nearly impossible to keep the pool chemistry in balance. Abut the time I get it right, we get another deluge of fresh water, throwing everything out of balance.
Thankfully, the tropics are quiet. No identifiable hurricane threat.
It's just been a quiet week.
Officers were called to a home in the 3000 block of Wedgewood Drive on a reported shooting at about 9:06 a.m. after a caller told authorities that he had shot a man who had attacked him.
Police say that 44-year-old David R. Young of Columbus was treated at the scene but eventually died. He was identified by the Bartholomew County Coroner’s Office.
According to their investigation, police say that Young was known to the residents of the home. He drove himself to the home Monday morning. A fight broke out near the front door and Young was shot.
The incident remains under investigation. A forensic autopsy has been scheduled.
6/13/26 DOJ press release lists a dozen Antifa members sentenced to terms of 100, 70, 50, and 30 years.
Chief Judge O’ Connor said, “The defendants’ violence and terrorism is an assault on Democracy. The defendants’ planning, staging, and execution of the attack led to the attempted murder of an officer who ironically is not even involved in enforcing immigration law.”
Danger to democracy. Got that Biden. Your boys are the threat
By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon on Wednesday advised California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta that the government will sue the state and its Department of Justice if a new section of the state penal code, which bans the sale of Glock pistols and similar handguns, takes effect as […]
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6/10/26 Philadelphia Inquirer writes about grade inflation in Philadelphia schools. Teachers are upset because students who aeldom show up for classes are passing.
A fourth teacher who has worked in multiple types of schools in Philadelphia said the practice is not limited to the district.
She most recently taught at a city charter and said some of her middle-grades students were at kindergarten reading and math levels.
A combination of administration pressure to raise grades and sometimes administrators just altering the grades to a passing level means kids are moving up through the grades without acquiring the necessary skills or learning important life lessons, like showing up for classes.
I had my suspicions ad to what is driving this confirmed deeper in the article:
“The gap was huge,” the fourth teacher said. “The school’s explanation is that there’s a school-to-prison pipeline, and the older students are, the less likely they are to graduate. But they’re not meeting standards. The gaps are huge. It was very shocking to me how they would just pass the kids. I’m a parent, and I want my kids to be prepared properly.”
Everyone knows this whole "school-to-prison pipeline" idea was predicated on high discipline rates for black and Hispanic boys. That failure to learn self-discipline mostly prepares them for criminal behavior could not possibly be part of the pipeline, could it? This insistence on meeting standards of benefit is racist leads to unprepared kids going to at worst jail.
Are you prepared for when your dot stops working? Backup irons aren't the only option, and they might not even be the best option.6/23/26 Mountain States Policy Center points to reductions in the Montana state income tax rate and subsequent increases in total revenue. The Montana state tax agency's report seems to confirm this, showing a 211% increase in income tax revenue. However, CPI increased 43% from January 2014 to May 2026. There was a real inflation-adjusted increase in revenue. Why?
The Laffer Curve explanation is that increased business activity because of incentives to business activity. If you get to get keep more of your income, you are likely to take more risks. This increases gross profits and therefore taxable income.
Another explanation is that high-income people from other states (California, Washington, Colorado) are increasing taxable income. Even if this explains it, it is only a slight variation on Laffer Curve. High-income people choose states where they get to keep more of their income. Hence the influx to states without state income tax such as Tennessee (headed there Friday to buy a new home), Wyoming, Texas, Florida, and Texas.
Unless every state decides to go full Democrat and enact state income taxes at the same rate, lowering state income tax rates seems like a straightforward to increase revenues. Of course, that assumes this is the goal not the semisocialist "fairness" (envy) concept.
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- 2 oz Bourbon
- 1/2 oz Bénédictine
- 2 dashes Angostura bitters
- Lemon peel for garnish
Cheers!
Me: *spends literal decades on the internet trying to explain to people that there’s not a dial labeled ”GAS PRICES” on the Resolute desk*
POTUS, yesterday:
MPD responded to a reported burglary in progress Sunday night on the 800 block of Gilman Road in Medford. The reporting party told a dispatcher that the suspect was attempting to break into the residence and that a homeowner had fired shots.
After the family inside the home was able to exit the residence safely, officers established a perimeter around the home. With the help of drone operators, MPD was able to communicate with the suspect, 21-year-old Nathan Roberson, who was still located inside the residence.
Roberson was found to be suffering from a gunshot wound. He was subsequently taken into custody and transported to a local hospital to receive medical treatment. He is currently in police custody while receiving medical care.
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Today through June 26th are this year’s “Prime Days” on Amazon.com. For members of their excellent “prime” service, they are discounting thousands of items site wide. It’s kind of like the sales you would see on “Black Friday” or “Cyber Monday.” Some really good bargains are available. You have to be an Amazon Prime […]Washington — A federal judge on Monday ruled the Trump administration acted unlawfully when it created a centralized database that contains Americans' private information, which she said has since been used by some states to incorrectly remove U.S. citizens from their voter rolls.
U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan in Washington, D.C., sided with a voting rights group and nonprofit that works to protect privacy in finding that the administration violated three different laws with its new system that includes Americans' citizenship data. [emphasis added]
Yes. Sparkle. Aside from the question as to whether the Administration violated the law to allow states to verify citizenship, the name alone makes me giggle. Look, a lot of silly names came out of the 1960s and 1970s. A friend had a classmate who had to bring in his birth certificate to show that his middle name was
But I think I would have changed my name rather than sound like I forgot to stop using my stripper stage name. I speak as someone whose first and last names seem to be unspellable by some.
I have been using a GL.iNet GL-MT6000 (Flint 2) WiFi 6 router on my home network since last December and it's on sale for Prime Day. It's a good deal if you're in need of a new home or small business router for use behind a cable modem or similar connection.
The router supports WiFi 6 on the 2.4 and 5 Ghz bands, VLANs, and more than one WAN connection.
It has built in support for AdGuard but I'm running a Pi-hole VM on my Proxmox box for DNS-based filtering.
I've been very happy with it. Underneath it runs OpenWRT. GL.iNet provides a custom web GUI for it that allows you to handle most functions but you can also access the OpenWRT LuCI web GUI for more granular control. OpenWRT is extensible, which has allowed me to install extensions like fail2ban and also blacklist entire countries based on their IP blocks. E.g., any connection initiated from know hotspots for bad actors like Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, the PRC, Best Korea, and Iran are simply dropped by my firewall.
Give it a look if you want something more capable than the gateway provided to you by your ISP.
With the resignation of Sir Kier "Two Tier" Starmer, the UK is poised for its seventh Prime Minister in ten years. That's what happen in failed states.
[Homer Simpson] The seventh Prime Minister in ten years so far.[/Homer Simpson]
Busted Knuckles has an unimprovable sendoff for Sir Kier.
This month I shot what I believe will be the last of The Pin Shoots, my all-time favorite shooting match that began in the mid-1970s as the Second Chance Shoot. It was conceptualized and run by Richard Davis, “the man who bullet-proofed America’s police” when he became the first to use ballistic nylon and later Kevlar […]An unidentified man and woman were having a domestic dispute when the woman's son arrived at the house on Hickory Lane, fighting with his mom's boyfriend.
At some point, the son was pushed out of the home, while a member of the male homeowner's family approached the house. The door closed on the son's face when he started firing at the door, shooting the male homeowner through it twice.
The son was then shot by the approaching family member, sustaining multiple bullet wounds. Fultondale Police say that both men are now at UAB Hospital in stable condition.
The neighbor said he thinks someone was trying to steal Stout’s pickup truck.
“If anybody was messing with his truck I don’t blame him. I’d probably do the same thing I come out and somebody was trying to steal my truck,” the neighbor said.
Officers on the scene said they were responding to a shots fired call. First responders administered a blood transfusion to a victim before taking them away in an ambulance.
Huntsville police have not released the shooter’s identity or the condition of the person shot. According to jail records, Stout is behind bars, charged with murder.
This Week in History: On June 23, 1810, John Jacob Astor (born Johann Jakob Astor) organized the Pacific Fur Company in Astoria, Oregon. — 1931: American pilot Wiley Post and Australian navigator Harold Gatty took off from Roosevelt Field, New York, to attempt to set a new record circumnavigating the Earth. They successfully complete their series of flights in 8 days, 15 hours, and 51 minutes. — And on June 25, 1798, US President John Adams signed into law the Alien Friends Act, authorizing the president to deport any foreigner deemed “dangerous to the peace and safety of the United …
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In this article, I’ll describe how medicine and society will change, and why you should become a fitness nut and not just a prepper. There’s a stereotype of preppers, and it’s not kind: A middle aged or older man with a BMI that passed 30 before he was 30 and grew by 1% every year, a ton of guns, canned food, and a half-hearted vegetable garden. I know because I resemble that. As I’ve been struggling to recover my health, I’ve had a few realizations that have kept me on the path to fitness. Health is something money can’t buy. …
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Chambered in 5.7x28mm or in 9mm, the Dark Arms StowAway Rifle packs more punch than similar survival rifles chambered in .22LR or .22WMR. The StowAway is a single-shot, bolt-action rifle. It has a detachable, 16-inch, threaded barrel. It is 31.78 inches long when fully assembled. I found the rifle to be simple, reliable, and reasonably accurate during my testing. The rifle is light at only 2.8 pounds, easily breaks down into less than 17 inches in length, but is ruggedly built in spite of its feathery weight. A hollow pistol grip provides enough space to store many rounds of 5.7X28mm …
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This week’s graphic is a map that shows the population density of U.S. counties, as of 2026. Every prepper knows that in a crisis, fewer people generally means fewer problems. Note the low population density in the American Redoubt. There is only one county in the entire American Redoubt region that is shaded dark green. That is Ada County, Idaho, with 519,000 people. For perspective, that is just a bit more than Raleigh, North Carolina. Ada County’s population includes the roughly 236,000 residents inside the city limits of Boise. – JWR The thumbnail image below is click-expandable. (Graphic courtesy of …
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In Economics & Investing Media of the Week we feature photos, charts, graphs, maps, video links, and news items of interest to preppers. Economics & Investing Links of Interest The on-again, off-again war in Iran may be on again, as Israel continues to hit Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon. And ipso facto, the markets continue in turmoil. A recent headline: Vance lands in Switzerland as Iran says Strait of Hormuz is closed over ceasefire violations. Pictured above in the ancient fortress of Hormuz. JWR’s Comment: Unless the Iranian government stops treating the Lebanese Hezbollah Shiites as their kin, then there …
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SurvivalBlog presents another edition of The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods. This column is a collection of news bits and pieces that are relevant to the modern survivalist and prepper from JWR. Our goal is to educate our readers, to help them to recognize emerging threats, and to be better prepared for both disasters and negative societal trends. You can’t mitigate a risk if you haven’t first identified a risk. In today’s column, some more technological advances with negative consequences. An AI Camera Put Another Wrong Man in Jail Over at The Liberty Daily: How a Bad AI Camera Hit Put …
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Our weekly Snippets column is a collection of short items: responses to posted articles, practical self-sufficiency items, how-tos, lessons learned, tips and tricks, and news items — both from readers and from SurvivalBlog’s editors. Note that we may select some long e-mails for posting as separate letters. — In anticipation of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Field Gear Editor Tom Christianson recommended this insightful essay at Holly’s Substack: To Boss Ourselves. Here is a brief excerpt: “I was raised in a culture, if not a family, that taught me my dignity came from somewhere higher than any …
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This weekly column features media from around the American Redoubt region. (Idaho, Montana, eastern Oregon, eastern Washington, and Wyoming.) Much of the region is also more commonly known as The Inland Northwest. The photo above is courtesy of the U.S. National Park Service. Redoubt News Links Going-to-the-Sun Road expected to fully open on Monday for the 2026 season. Video: Political refugees explain why they fled Washington state for Idaho. Buzz kill: Bee truck overturns, resulting in a honey-covered Highway 191, near Big Sky. Quite impressive, for a small-town airshow: Moses Lake airshow 2026 highlights. Federal judge blocks Idaho’s ‘transgender bathroom law’ …
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To be prepared for a crisis, every Prepper must establish goals and make both long-term and short-term plans. In this column, the SurvivalBlog editors review their week’s prep activities and planned prep activities for the coming week. These range from healthcare and gear purchases to gardening, ranch improvements, bug-out bag fine-tuning, and food storage. This is something akin to our Retreat Owner Profiles, but written incrementally and in detail, throughout the year. We always welcome you to share your own successes and wisdom in your e-mailed letters. We post many of those — or excerpts thereof — in the Odds …
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The latest meme created by JWR: Meme Text: The U.S. Treasury Secretary Has Devised a New Tax That Will Balance The Federal Budget A Tax Of Five Cents On Each Personal Pronoun In Every Contemporary Christian Praise Chorus. Note From JWR: Do you have a meme idea? Just e-mail me the concept, and I’ll try to assemble it. And if it is posted then I’ll give you credit. Thanks! Permission to repost memes that I’ve created is granted, provided that credit to SurvivalBlog.com is included.
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“Justice is the constant and perpetual wish to render to every one his due.” – Emperor Justinian I, ‘Institutes’ bk. 1, ch. 1, para. 1
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NEW from Osight comes the XE AMRS and SE red dots! Feature rich and affordable, these red dot sights are available now!Not much discussion since Musk left but what he started is still busy. The sheer volume of stuff is amazing. Not multibillion savings but add them all together and they add up to a lot. A professional services contract for a national health advisor in Senegal for $524K. I would love to know how much eventful ends up in Virginia.
After yesterday's coverage. 6/22/26 Fox News:
A fugitive accused of helping mastermind a $3.7 billion Medicare fraud scheme — one of the largest in U.S. history — is in American custody after authorities tracked him down in Turkey and flew him back to the U.S. to face charges, the FBI announced Monday..
It used to be an article of faith on the left that we would have enough money to take care of every poor person if we were not wasting it on the military. I wonder if we could take care of every poor American if so much of the budget was not being stolen, often by non-citizens.
Only a billion if you round. 6/19/26 Houston Chronicle:
A nurse practitioner from Nevada has been charged with multiple federal felonies after being accused of using clinics in the Houston area to steal hundreds of millions of dollars from Medicare.
Marizel Yukee, of Las Vegas, was indicted Thursday on federal Medicare fraud charges. Yukee is accused of working with others to defraud terminally ill people by providing them with unnecessary treatments and then billing the government for their care.