The University of California (Berkeley) has ordered the return of new displays to native American tribes under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). That is hardly news except that the items were not human remains or relics, but corn, corn cobs, peas, beans, and other seeds. The university has decided that even such scientific samples are prohibited items of “cultural patronage.”
The Act requires the return of human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony. “Cultural patrimony” is defined as “an object having ongoing historical, traditional, or cultural importance central to the Native American group or culture itself.”
However, according to a federal notice, these were old corn, corn cobs and seeds, beans, and other items used for research and display by the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology. They will now be returned to the Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico, a Native American tribe.
Old corn cobs linked to a Native American tribe are being removed from an anthropology museum at UC Berkeley in accordance with a federal “repatriation” law.
According to a June 4 federal notice, 24 items, including corn, corn cobs, peas, beans, and other seeds, are being removed. They were part of the collection at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology. They will be returned to the Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico, a Native American tribe, to comply with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
The notice from the school states that “Between 1940 to 1941, George F. Carter collected 24 lots of seeds via `field research with Native American agriculturalists’ across the Southwestern United States, including Pueblo of Isleta in New Mexico.”
I understand how one can read the federal law broadly, but this seems wildly out of sync with the purpose of the law. These are plants and seeds used for field research to better understand the food chain of the early periods of life in the Americas. The use of the federal law so broadly undermines the study of these tribes.
Obviously, corn and other crop staples were key to the culture of these tribes, but so was water, wood, and other sustaining resources. I do not understand why the tribes themselves do not want to encourage such research on their heritage and history.
The university could clearly decide that it no longer needs the items or that the items hold more value to the tribes. However, to say that they are compelled under federal law is a dubious reading of the federal statute.
The College Fix quotes Elizabeth Weiss, professor emeritus of anthropology at San José State University, as objecting to the interpretation: “Objects of cultural patrimony are defined as objects that cannot be owned by a single person, and, thus, cannot be sold or given from one person to another. It is hard for me to understand how plants and seeds could fall into this category.”
This is something that the Department of the Interior, Justice Department, and Bureau of Indian Affairs should clarify in the interest of continued research and historical work in this area.
Corn originated in South America.
These mentally damaged educators love every culture but their own.
As for the Indians, they could give away their pickups and clothes and live as they lived long ago. Many wisely choose to run casinos instead. They aren’t as ignorant as the denizens of universities.
While on a visit I went to the museum of art in Albuquerque, New Mexico. There was a fresco sized painting lamenting how the introduction of the horse by the white Spaniards was instrumental in the corruption of the Native American culture.
The Native Americans were nomadic tribes because the game in a given area will eventually be depleted from hunting so they understood that to survive they must move. Previous to the introduction of the horse their movements were accomplished by carrying their worldly goods on their backs. One of the museum guides gushed about the symbolism of the art. I responded about how the introduction of the wheel also caused an onset of the diminishing of the Native American culture. She didn’t care much for my comment as she gazed with tear filled eyes at the art work depicting the devil horse. Thankfully it was the last thing I saw so my visit was not ruined had I seen it upon entering the museum. However, the taste is still bitter on the palate.
👍 interesting.
Don’t forget metallurgy…Winchester and Springfield, tit. Billion bison bit the dirt. Depletion of food source? Iron horse..
I read a story this morning where a Democratic operative said, okay so he had a tattoo. It was not just any tattoo. It was a tattoo that was the symbol of the Nazi SS, the government agency responsible for the roundup of Jews and transporting them to the gas chambers. Oh, no big deal it was just a tattoo. Platner had even said that women are responsible for their own rape.
The Democratic operative continued on and said that even if all these things are true she still wanted Platner over Collins.
Her reasoning was based on not allowing a Republican to be appointed to The Supreme Court. LGBTQ rights are at stake she said. After all, the right to remove the sexual organs of underage children would probably be in danger if a conservative was appointed to the court. They are who they are.
so we stole their land, won’t give it back, and give them worthless old corn.
I’m sure that will make up for it. /s
Until leftys start actually having the courage of their convictions and give the land they are holding back to the natives, I’m declaring them all INSINCERE.
The insincere left.
Turley Writes:
“The use of the federal law so broadly undermines the study of these tribes.”
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The district attorney in Harris County, Texas, said Wednesday that federal authorities have sidelined local officials from participating in an investigation into the fatal shooting of a Mexican man in Houston by an immigration officer.
District Attorney Sean Teare said in a social media post that his office typically conducts a “parallel investigation” into any death caused by law enforcement. But he added: “Unfortunately at this time, federal authorities continue exclusively handling all aspects in this case.”
The Department of Homeland Security’s description of the shooting largely matches what the government said after the killing of Renée Good in Minneapolis last January. In both her death and the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti two weeks later, state authorities later said that federal investigators were blocking their attempts to investigate the deaths.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/07/08/feds-sideline-texas-officials-probe-into-ice-shooting-district-attorney-says/
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Here again we have familiar BROAD claims by DHS that the ‘suspect was using their vehicle as a weapon’. Yet DHS is so confident of their claims, they’ve told local officials to stand-down. ‘No need to investigate. Take our word on this’.
O T – how often have we heard Democrats calling themselves the “defenders of democracy”? They spent two years trying to put Donald Trump in jail to prevent him from harming “our democracy”. Now they are scheming to oust the elected nominee for the U S Senate in Maine. The primary election campaign spanned almost six months. The establishment candidate dropped-out of the running and the insurgent candidate got 72% of the primary vote. But none of that matters! It is not the voters, but the bosses of the Democratic Party who decide who wins the prize. That is what they mean by “our democracy”.
Edward (Estovir), even communist Bernie Sanders advised Platner to get out. No one wants to work on Platner’s campaign anymore. When staffers desert, that’s the end of the campaign. Or didn’t you know that?? And ‘why’ would any Democrat listen to ‘you’??
Turley Writes:
“The use of the federal law so broadly undermines the study of these tribes.”
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As a tidal wave of sprawling energy- and water-guzzling data centers are proposed across the country, opponents are finding that one of their strongest levers for challenging projects has all but disappeared.
That’s thanks to a 2023 ruling from the Supreme Court that dramatically shrank the number of streams and wetlands protected by the Clean Water Act. Once one of the most important permits that virtually all construction projects needed, now everything from subdivisions to oil pipelines to data centers can be built without federal water pollution permits if the streams and wetlands they are filling in or contaminating fall outside the law’s scope.
The massive scale-back of the water permitting process has been a major enabler for the lightning-fast build-out of data centers across the country.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/08/trump-data-centers-water-supreme-court-00958383
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The Supreme Court opened a BROAD loophole that data centers exploit. This explains why community residents never hear about these projects until construction has begun. And one sees that in every story about data centers. Residents are always quoted as saying, “We had no idea this going up in our backyard.”
But Johnathan Turley is forever ‘chilled’ by the prospect of Democrats ‘packing’ the Supreme Court with non-Federalists. Turley strongly believes that only Leonard Leo should be selecting whoever sits on the court.
Wow. Way to go off topic dude….
I love headlines (trump A hole edition)
“Trump’s Education Department celebrates ‘American’ history with British photo”
More proof that Trump is right in paring back the DoE, since the federal government has no business being involved in public education, which should remain local. It seems, then, that you approve of Trump’s efforts to move in that direction.
They don’t allow any Homo erections in China anymore.
If they’re so concerned for those natives, give em back their land, not old corn. What an insult.
“We stole your land here’s some old corn.” This is just adding insult to injury.
Maybe Billie Eilish can start since her multi-million dollar mansion sits on “stolen land” (her words).
Maybe she and all the other wealthy Hollywood elite liberals can remove their security fencing since they think border walls that keep people out are bad.
Wait! China exists on “stolen land?”
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AI Overview
Long before modern Chinese civilizations formed, early human ancestors lived in Asia. Millions of years ago, early proto-humans like Homo erectus roamed China and other parts of Asia. Later, Neanderthals and an extinct group called Denisovans lived there. Modern humans (Homo sapiens) arrived around 50,000 years ago.
Uh oh, here comes the “stolen land BS”. Do you seriously believe that a 16th-17th century indigenous person had any concept of land ownership whatsoever? That concept of ownership came with the European and their Crown that sent them there. The natives were migratory and fought for the best hunting areas amongst themselves for thousands of years, coming and going. They just lost to a more technologically advanced people.
Native Americans did not own land. It was commons area for hunting. Give it back to the bison and beaver.
OT
AI Overview
A coalition of Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, operating under CENTCOM, forms a regional superpower that technologically outmatches Iran through superior air power, advanced armor, and a combined force of nearly 1 million personnel including Israeli reserves. This alliance holds overwhelming superiority in the air with over 800 modern combat jets against Iran’s roughly 200 older aircraft, alongside a modernized tank fleet (Merkava IVs, M1A2 Abrams) that outclasses Iranian armor.
Turley has to dig deep to find obscure stories to use to attack blue states and Democrats, all while ignoring the big stuff. Today, Trump called the leaders of Iran “scum” and “cookoo”. He insulted Spain, dug in to continue insulting Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s prime minister, and attacked NATO. The mis-named “peace agreement” with Iran, which was nothing more than an agreement to agree down the road is off. The Strait is closed again (it was open before Trump started this war he has no idea how to end), Iran fired on ships in the Strait, and gas prices will likely start soaring again. Meanwhile, the death count due to Trump dismantling USAID (via Elon Musk and his chain saw) is estimated to be 780,000, most of whom were children. All of these deaths were preventable. Right after the midterms, millions of Americans will lose Obamacare. Winning?
Gigi – I appreciate the Professor’s selection of topics. The news on Iran or President Trump’s meetings with other world leaders can be gleaned from hundreds of other sources. For anyone following the news, there is no avoiding it.
On the other hand, the Professor’s blog is interesting precisely because it brings stories to light that many people, including myself, would never otherwise come across during the day.
To the extent you perceive the Professor as merely selecting stories to “attack blue states and Democrats,” that is your own interpretation which could be due to your own hyper-sensitivity. In any event, you remain free to engage with the substance of the articles and explain why any such attacks fall flat, in your view.
You also remain free to start your own blog to attack red states and Republicans.
So . . . why not quite the juvenile whining, moaning, and bellyaching, grow up, and engage like an adult?
Oldman: all you have to do is watch MAGA media–where do you think Turley gets the pro-Trump, pro-MAGA topics he is paid to write about? Is it whining, moaning, bellyaching or immature to care about starving children in Africa, who would not have died of starvation or preventable communicable diseases but for Trump lying his way into power and cutting off aid they desperately needed to survive, all while blowing a billion dollars a day on a war based on a lie, applying gold leaf to statues, wasting money on painting the Lincoln reflecting pool, and building a ballroom and arch no one wants? The United States engendered all sorts of good will by sharing in our abundance to help our others less fortunate–before Trump, that is. Now, he insults NATO, Canada, Greenland, Denmark, Italy and other allies–and why? Because of his massive ego.
Gigi – I don’t know what you mean by “MAGA media.” Could you give names of corporations, so I can see if I’m consuming their media products? Who is paying Professor Turley to write about these things?
You speak like an extremist. Trump lying his way to power? He said exactly what he’d do, and he’s keeping his campaign promises. You don’t see virtually any so-called “MAGA” people complaining that he isn’t doing exactly what he said he’d do.
Nobody wants children half way around the world to starve, but how is it that the obligation of the American taxpayer? How is it the duty of the US government to prioritize the world’s problems over doing what’s in the interest of the American people? You seem to have a weird view of the proper role of government, like it’s some world charity. It’s not. It has a much more limited role.
While you disagree with Trump’s policies, he is accomplishing a great deal for the American people. You appear to be too blinded by your own hatred to see that.
A few examples are: ending America’s energy dependence on foreign nations including those that breed terrorists, lowering inflation, ending or helping to end eight wars (including between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan – which serves American interests because the destructive powers of wars tends to ripple all over theh world), getting hostages released, reducing drug trafficking that kills tens of thousands of Americans each year, reducing child sex trafficking on American soil, lowering violent crime, getting men out of women’s competitive sports, taking out Iran’s nuclear program (which they have vowed to use to destroy America), restoring equality and sanity to the justice system, dismantling Joe Biden’s fascist government-social-media censorship complex, securing the border, reducing innovation-killing regulations, and inducing trillions of dollars of investment into American manufacturing.
Stop calling me a name you made up. Trump DID lie to get into office— promising no new wars, promising an immediate precipitous drop in grocery and energy prices; the biggest whopper was denying that Project 2025 was his agenda when polls showed that Americans disapproved of Project 2025. On day one, he signed 180 Executive Orders drafted by Project 2025 without even reading them.
America stopped being energy dependent under Barak Obama. Another huge Trump lie is that he ended various “wars”— another fantasy. He didn’t end any wars—but that points to another lie he used to get elected—-he would end the Russian war against Ukraine “in 24 hours “. Instead, Trump started a war with Iran because he was stupid enough to fall for Netanyahu’s lies about Iran being a nuclear threat. That wouldn’t even be a possibility but for Trump tearing up the JCPOA. Thousands of Iranians and 14 American military personnel are dead as a result.
Trump has DESTROYED credibility and respect for our justice system— using the DOJ and FBI to go after anyone he perceives to be a political enemy. He keeps losing federal case after federal case because the syncophants in the DOJ don’t follow the law but do his bidding instead of complying with their duties as officers of the court.
He’s trying to rig the midterms by demanding voter rolls and withholding federal funds for anti terrorism programs that were approved by Congress. He announced that he thinks he can send federal agents to “monitor” elections in Michigan. Because Trump and Republicans know they are likely to lose the midterms, this is nothing but an intimidation tactic because Michigan is a swing state.
You speak of “censorship”—Trump has gone after mainstream media and leading newspapers that don’t kow tow to his whims— and he keeps losing when they don’t “settle” to limit litigation costs and the case goes before a judge.
You speak of child sex trafficking? Why is Trump protecting the predators listed in the Epstein files—another lie to get votes— the promise to release the entire file, which he will never do. The file allegedly contains a credible accusation that Trump sexually assaulted an underage girl. Recall that he bragged about being able to get away with grabbing women by their genitalia and was adjudicated to have sexually abused E Jean Carroll. The SCOTUS ordered Trump to pay up. He still refuses.
American manufacturing is flailing under Trump, and the deregulation of consumer and environmental regulations are harming us. Trump is a monumental failure all around. Just like he jinxed the Knicks’s third playoff game, he jinxed the soccer game by pressuring the FIFA to withdraw the red card against the US’s main player— who, BTW, is a birthright American citizen because his Nigerian mother went into labor and gave birth here in the United States. If they had won, there would forever be a cloud of doubt on the victory. They didn’t win.
No, we don’t legally “owe” starving people help, but there is and should be a moral obligation to share in the bounty with which we have been blessed. The people who need our assistance are the victims of drought and civil war. Trump allowed millions of dollars of food and medicine to rot in a warehouse in Belgium for no good reason. Trump doesn’t care about anyone or anything but himself and wielding power.
gigi, the word is sycophant, not syncophant. You were previously corrected over this, so it’s not a typo.
Don’t use big words that you don’t even understand, let alone spell correctly.
a syncophant is a dem in SYNC with the other lefty sycophants.
No, we don’t legally “owe” starving people help, but there is and should be a moral obligation to share in the bounty with which we have been blessed.
Let’s assume for sake of argument that that is true. Why is it the government’s job to take money from Americans, that Americans have earned by working for it, and give it to people half way around the world? I believe people should be generous with what they have, and give some of it away, but I don’t want the government taking my money and doing that in my place. Elected officials are supposed to be our employees. What would you think of an employee who showed up at their boss’s door with a gun, saying, “Hand over your money, I think some starving people 8,000 miles away whom you don’t know and whom you’ll never meet need it more than you do”? Why is that the employee’s role? Since we don’t have the option of refusing to pay taxes, and any such refusal will ultimately result in armed men showing up at our door to take us to jail, that is in effect what the government is doing. And incidentally,
To clarify: I hope people are generous, and give something to those who are less fortunate. But whether they must or should do that is up to them. I don’t think it’s right for me to impose my own personal charitable beliefs onto them. They worked hard for their money, and I want them to make that decision. And most of all, I don’t want armed government agents stealing the money from them and give it to people who have no connection to America because “we should be generous.” Unless there’s a vital American interest involved, that is exactly what the government is doing when it gives away our money. And lo and behold, we’re nearly $40 trillion in debt, so anything given away to foreigners as charity is being taken from our children and grandchildren.
OTOH, if you could convince me that there’s a vital American interest that would be served by giving away taxpayer money in that fashion, then I’m willing to listen.
Georgia farmers formulated peanut paste, a highly nutritious food that is well tolerated by starving children and adults, high in protein and added nutrients. So cutting off USAID hurts Georgia peanut farmers too.
Trump and MAGA just don’t seem to understand the inestimable value of goodwill created by saving the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people from hunger, starvation and unnecessary death. The world sees those USAID logos on the trucks carrying boxes of food, medicine and other necessities and that engenders appreciation, gratitude and respect for America.
It’s an arrogant MAGA view that we don’t owe anything in thanksgiving for the abundance we enjoy and that somehow we deserve it and are under no obligation to share. As Bill Gates put it when commenting about Musk arbitrarily cutting off USAID: “It’s the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children.” Musk didn’t even understand what USAID did— he thought it performed abortions. If Musk knew anything about US federal law he would know that no federal funds can be used to pay for abortions.
I don’t know whether you are religious, but every religion I know of teaches that when God is generous with you, you are expected to share with others, especially those in dire need. Everything you have comes from God. It’s really not yours.
Trump and MAGA speak of “America first “. Saving starving people from unnecessary suffering and death does benefit America because it shows the world that America, the world wealthiest country, is caring and generous. Starving people shouldn’t have to hope for relief from charities alone, and the fact that so many people are dying proves that charities can’t pick up the slack. The cost was about $10 per month per person. It was well worth it.
You want to complain about how our money is spent? How about the $1 Billion per day we are blowing on the Iran war? How about the millions spent refurbishing the luxury jet even though there are 2 new Air Force One jets under construction? What about all of the no bid contracts for the reflecting pool, the ballroom (after Trump lied about donations covering the cost), the arch, the slush fund for the J6 insurrectionists, and all of the other vanity projects, like paving the rose garden and tearing down the East Wing?
the inestimable value of goodwill
The problem is the left are spending my ‘goodwill’ until I have none left.
What is wrong with the charities I choose?
Nothing wrong with charities, but when so many people are vulnerable to death and starvation due to causes beyond their control, like drought and civil war, a coordinated and centralized effort is required to get the right aid to the right places where it is needed on a regular basis–charities can’t do that. I read a piece written by a doctor who worked for a relief agency. He talked about a truckload of goods sent by some charity to a hospital where people were in dire straits. They sent things like ChapStick, tissues, ointments, Band Aids and other non-food items that were nice to have but not what they desperately needed. He reported that the people started eating the ChapStick because they were starving to death. USAID coordinated relief assistance and got it delivered to where the need was greatest. Not any more. It’s not a “left” issue at all–it’s everyone’s issue. We are the wealthiest nation on earth. We have more than enough to share with people who will, and have, died without our help. It’s wrong to cut them off to give tax breaks to the wealthiest, to cover statues with gold leaf, to overspend on vanity projects and to bomb civilians in Iran.
“. . . charities can’t do that.”
I’m sure the Red Cross will be happy to know that they’re incompetent.
ding ding ding TDS detector. You came here because your TDS made you. You have TDS haha
the ONLY cure is to acknowledge Trump is your daddy
gigi, you have chronic TDS. it made you post that screed hoping to include others in your madness.
You need help but there is no cure. It made you forget you are gigi.
You believe the world is falling apart, but that is just YOUR delusional world, not the real world. We’re doing better than ever!
Rest assured, Trump has made everything right-way-up now and you can come out of your basement as there is no signs that an orange man is coming to get you.
You have to WANT to get better, gigi. The sky is not falling. We miss our old village idiot, gigi, please come back to us!
OMFK
Spot on Henry!
all you have to do is watch MAGA media–where do you think Turley gets the pro-Trump, pro-MAGA topics he is paid to write about?
So you’re saying these are stories that are already in the media, and your only complaint is that Professor Turley is repeating them?
Now when you say PT is “paid to write about” these things – on its face that sounds like some wild-eyed conspiracy nonsense. OTOH, if it’s true, you’d have some evidence, right? I mean you wouldn’t just say that without evidence, right? So . . . can you tell us all what your evidence is?
why? Trump does these things because of YOUR massive ego!
YOU don’t like anything he does so he trolls YOU with all this important-only-to-you-guys while he makes America great again.
TDS is just narcissism and you have a bad case. I find it funny.
Yes, WINNING!
Given that you are completely ineffective, why are you here?
Have you ever asked yourself that, or is it that you are following orders from the Politburo?
Masochism perhaps?
WE DON’T DESERVE HIM!
And why is the US responsible for all these alleged deaths?
*. I used Google
Anthropology was invented in the 19th and 20th centuries. 1940s is within the time period. My concern is fraud as institutions have been raided and no doubt items such as corncobs put in place. The list of 24 items are 3 cobs, 3 partial cobs, 1 corn husk, corn and chickpea samples, 2 samples unidentified seeds taken by an agriculturalist in NM other such. Unless a botanist verifies their age they may be remnants of last night’s dinner.
It would be nice to imagine California’s University and colleges having art and artifacts, bones, linguistic scholarship, other biological evidence, physical terrain documentation, cultural histories and traditions remain intact somewhere. The Smithsonian is exempt from NAGPRA but not exempt from looters and thieves.
It should be a heyday for yard sales in coming years. A good eye might pick up an original marble bust from antiquity for a few dollars. Imo
*. Censored but stone age and unique.
*. ^^ censored. WHAT FABULOUS insights!
*. The corn cobs and 1 husk etc were part of an FBI, bureau of land management undercover sting. Guess that’s all they had. Anthropology wasn’t a discipline until the 19th century. Charles Darwin published in 1861.
Corn is a grass. Hybrids came along after Gregor Mendel’s Hybrids. It was a tiny grain. These cobs are huge in the 1940s. Tom Hanks in BIG Eating the tiny cobs.
If you own any native American art or artifact contact bureau of land management unless it was sold on the open market? Idk. Mine is fake made in Mexico.
*. Intriguing story by ,PT. FBI was interested in corn cobs? What is the complete list of art and artifacts ever held at Berkeley? 🤔
OT. Did you know vipers give live birth? North American copperhead are such as are rattlesnakes.
OT, oh brother, The Ivy League Cheating Scandal No One Wants to Talk About
“Roberto Serrano believes half his class used AI to cheat. He says administrators at Brown don’t seem to care.”
https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-ivy-league-cheating-scandal-no-one-wants-to-talk-about
The College Fix report on it, not behind a paywall with some quotes from the Chronicle, Brown University professor bans take-home exams after mass cheating
“A culture of effort and hard work should be inherent to learning. I worry many of our students now have the wrong idea, believing that the answer to any question can be obtained with a couple of clicks of the mouse,” he told the Chronicle.
“I tell them that years from now, their grades won’t matter. What will matter is how much they learned and how much stayed in their brain.”
https://www.thecollegefix.com/brown-university-professor-bans-take-home-exams-after-mass-cheating/
Shame. People should not live by lies. They shouldn’t cheat as students, and they shouldn’t refer to a man as a woman. Both are lies.
LIve Not By Lies
AI Overview
Brown University has a total enrollment of nearly 12,000 students, split between roughly 7,900 undergraduates and 4,000 graduate students. The undergraduate student body is about 52% female and 48% male. About 50% are students of color, 15% are first-generation college students, and 12% are international students.
I propose that under NAGPRA, we give them back the moon.
To the Indians (err, native Americans), the moon is a source of spiritual renewal. Thus it’s cultural patrimony — “an object having ongoing historical, traditional, or cultural importance.” Heck, they had (have?) rituals to heal the moon. I gather because it was injured in a fight with the sun.
So, NASA (and Musk): Hands off the moon.
Next up, the Earth. (Hello — “Mother Earth!”)
By definition, “native” “Americans” did not come into existence until 1789.
By contrast, the Asiatic nomads who had no surveys, deeds, bills of sale, recorder’s offices, courts, attorneys, or government had wandered into this geographical region about 14K years earlier and were native only to Asia and mortal and hated enemies of actual Americans and would likely refuse the description “American.”
Turley Writes:
“The use of the federal law so broadly undermines the study of these tribes.”
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On May 1, 2025, a young mother in a small Idaho town said she found her 18-month-old twins dead in their bed, cold and lying on their bellies.
Three days later, she sat for an interview with Children’s Health Defense, the anti-vaccine nonprofit co-founded by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., claiming that vaccines caused their deaths. The story was sensational, billed on the group’s website as “breaking news” of toddlers who were born together and died together, “FOLLOWING VACCINATIONS.”
The organization quickly embraced the woman, Andrea Renee Shaw, naming her the lead plaintiff in two legal actions against the nation’s top society for pediatricians claiming that the organization, the American Academy of Pediatrics, lied about the safety of childhood vaccines.
Then, last week, after a nearly 14-month investigation by the Payette Police Department, a grand jury indicted Ms. Shaw, 23, on charges of murder, claiming that she suffocated the children in an act that was either premeditated or taken in the course of aggravated battery.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/us/idaho-twins-death-shaw-vaccines-murder.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
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How’s this for going broad, “I’ll murder my kids and blame it on flu vaccines”.
Shockingly RFK Jr’s organization, the Children’s Health Defense, continues to stand by this woman even ‘after’ the murder indictment. And to think RFK Jr is running the nation’s health system!
WINNING!
OK, this one was simple too (and yes, I know, don’t feed the trolls) by Anon above whose core assumption was Dr. FU was god and RFK Jr, is Satan:
A common example of a logical fallacy involving connected statements is the slippery slope fallacy, which suggests that a relatively small first step will inevitably lead to a chain of related events culminating in a significant impact, often without sufficient evidence to support such a progression.
100 on the Gunning Fog Index.
Turley Writes:
“The use of the federal law so broadly undermines the study of these tribes.”
Which you then chronically follow with a comment that has nothing to do with the quote.
Your habitual bait-and-switch is a fraud. And is a typical deception for the intellectually dishonest Left.
I have looked at the links provided by the good professor (statute, federal register notice, definitions, etc.),
I am unable to reconcile those guidances and regulatory expansions with the subject items.
I can only recommend that we no longer roll our eyes back and refer to California as the “land of the fruits and nuts” but now must “expand’ our understanding and refer to California as the ‘land of the fruits and nuts and veggies and endless Supertrain to nowhere, formerly known as the land of expatriated billionaires.”
(Disclaimer: maternal lineage tied to California, but they were pretty cool.)
Lin,
Good one!
OT: Speaking of “the land of….” I see that in the land of the Northern Star (Minnesota and Wisconsin), Hannah Dugan, the judge convicted of effecting the escape from her courtroom of a person whom ICE was waiting for outside, was sentenced this morning to NO JAIL time and NO probation.
Equal treatment right? What a freaking joke.
Lin – Even when I was a kid California was referred to as the “Granola State” – land of fruits, nuts, and flakes.
P.S. In re Dugan – that’s our two-tiered justice system. Infuriating.
@oldmanfromkansas: As always, I really do find your comments amusing and most often (but not always) agreeable, but with reference to “Granola State”, please stop making fun of Governor Jerry Brown. Re: “two-tiered justice system”, you may want to consider the historical infliction of the Dual State system also.
Anonymous – thank you!
Insanity is a contagious disease in the liberal community.