Sunday Reads...
- Greg McNeilly
- 3 minutes ago
- 4 min read
An irregular roundup of thought-provoking reads. Most made me go “hmm…”
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“[N]othing is more certain than that beneficent aims, however great or well directed, can never serve in lieu of constitutional power.” — Justice George Sutherland in Carter v. Carter Coal Co.
A crazy resource for attempting to understand the Epstein files.
The right approach: A deep dive into Fusionism.
Wages & Fertility: As wages go up for women, they have fewer children; wages go up for men, more children follow suggests this research.
Weed Drama: The tale of one family’s fight over cannabis
The myth of the “Chad.”
The violent sex: Women, suggests new research.
How many hours does it take to become a close friend? There is research to guide an answer.
Research suggests a negative correlation between intelligence and people driven by feelings.
Decay: From 1998 to present, patriotism as a positive slides from 70 to 38 and children from 59 to 30 percent.
“Under the flag,” a reflection on birthright citizenship.
“Rewriting” history or updating it: Oldest writing found in Germany - older than the previous artifacts found in the Middle East.
Even the NYT is willing to publish a piece acknowledging that the “science” of “experts” has been wrong in harming minors in pursuit of transexual ideology.
Winning: Mexico hands over 100 cartel leaders.
Tracking how U.S. college majors have changed since 1970.
Why the Olympians were given stuffed animals.
America’s favorite condiments sorted here.
The double whammy: Science takes a back seat to ideology - first with Covid, and then as this NYT piece notes - with transexual ideology.
Reels are making you retarded: Literally. Research confirms the harm of short-form video.
WSJ: The nerd who bet against the government and won.
Ugh. Another alleged transexual shooter.
James Carville to Ilhan Omar: Get out of the Dem Party.
States ranked by honesty.
Counter-narrative fact: The share of institutional investors in housing? Less than 1%.
Mapping the most expensive median home prices:
Grocery store chains ranked - best to worst - here.
Apparently, the brains of super-agers produce new neurons at the rate of twice their peers.
Ketogenic diets help protect against seizures research suggests.
Listen: Mary Surratt the first U.S. women sentenced to death, a story from history!
State-by-state, a list of locations for famous movies is noted.
Chronicling how each of the 154 female US billionaires amassed their resources.
Study: Transexuals are 12x disproportionately represented in mass shootings.
Meanwhile, alleged transexual shoots border officials.
Government k12 employee side-lighting as a pimp allegedly.
“Dark Showering” a new sleep and relaxation trend.
The power of biology: A young person was declared brain-dead yet their body went through puberty on a ventilator.
A short film highlighting the genius of Cab Calloway.
The “elder statesman of comedy,” the Simpsons reflect after 800 episodes.
Science: When phrases have a rhythmic chime, we tend to think they’re true and sublime.
Debunking the fertile field of Epstein conspiracy theories.
Encouragement: From children now available on demand.
America’s first transexual elected official admits to sexually abusing minors.
Inside the religious antisemitic fight.
Gen Z is less intelligent than millennials research suggests.
A round-up of hated corporate jargon.
AI:
Consolidating group think: OpenAI “partners” with Accenture, Boston Consulting, Capgemini, and McKinsey.
“Do you want to play a game?” AI opted for nuclear war 95% of the time in game-theory modeling.
Research suggests the best way to engage with AI-chat bots.
Apple is hustling to regain domestic domination in chip manufacturing.
CHINA & RUSSIA, IRAN & TERROR:
Russia leveraged smugglers to move $90 billion in sanctioned oil.
Panama cancels China contract - huge USA win.
An ex-USAF pilot allegedly was training Chinese military personal.
China’s covert drone flights seen as rehearsal for attack on Taiwan
Russia’s military was crippled when they were shut off from Starlink.
COURTS:
SCOTUS will hear a Michigan case (Pung v Isabella) that tests the property tax foreclosure practice of local governments.
Listen here.
Judge rules that Special Counsel Jack Smith acted illegally and blocks release of his report as DOJ was ready to publish. Meanwhile, an appeal is already underway.
School District ordered to pay $1.5 million to families for not allowing opt-outs of LGBTQ books in curriculum.
Majority of Americans support the anti-majoritarian SCOTUS’ ruling on tariffs.
ECONOMY:
POLS BEHAVING BADLY:
Dems
Young Man in a Hurry: The drunken escapades of party-man Gavin Newsom detailed.
Mamdani doesn’t have the back of the cops protecting NYC.
89% of political donations from Epstein went to Democrats.
During the SOTU speech, this is what congressional Democrats hosted as their alternative (note: the GOP has a ton of challenges, but this lunacy ain’t on the list!).
Bill Gates admits to two Epstein-related affairs allegedly consensual.
Clinton maintains innocence during assocation with Epstein.
Reps
Trump threatens the Board of a private company because he doesn’t like the (admittedly insane) politics of one of its members.
Congressman Gonzales has some explaining to do.
Is the GOP going to approve Trump’s Wiccan Surgeon General?
Kash Patel, he just can’t help himself.
