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July 6 2022
Good morning from Washington, where the Supreme Court has just completed an especially noteworthy term. Heritage Foundation legal scholars Zack Smith and Alexander Phipps spotlight five big cases. A government transparency group targets evidence that the White House is in cahoots with climate activists, Kevin Mooney reports. On the podcast, a Project 21 leader criticizes the president for an energy policy that especially hurts black Americans. Plus: Jarrett Stepman laments NPR’s un-American turn; Texas counties say they’re being invaded; a White House aide’s questionable testimony; and Jordan Peterson defies Twitter’s censorship. On this date in 1976, the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, inducts its first 81 female midshipmen.
Climate activists are working with the White House and Democrat-dominated congressional committees to silence political opponents under the guise of “disinformation,” analysts say.
Tents fill the sidewalks. Addicts sit on curbs and lean against walls, nodding off to their fentanyl and heroin fixes, or wander around in meth-induced psychotic states. Drug dealers sell in broad daylight.
