Friday Links - 9 August

Natasha Biase at The Publica is first with another story on the fall of Europe. GERMANY: “Extremely Dangerous” Syrian Migrant Will Not Be Deported Despite Attacking Family Of Five With A Knife

Despite committing nearly three dozen crimes in two and a half years, including bodily harm, dangerous bodily harm, coercion, threats, robbery, drug offenses, fraud, [and] shoplifting, the temporary permanent resident avoided police custody until his arrest last Wednesday. He has been labeled “extremely dangerous.”

News of the Syrian refugees’ arrest sparked outrage from the public, with many expressing their frustration that a violent serial offender has been able to avoid deportation while receiving social welfare benefits.

The Other McCain - Crazy People Are Dangerous: Deranged Florida Family Murders Deputy

A deputy was killed, and two others were wounded, when they were ambushed after responding to a situation that began with a woman attacking her neighbors on Brookside Drive in Lake County, Florida.

Tam has a new blog. (New to me, anyway.) Cars Gone By - 1979 Porsche 928

Here's an early Porsche 928. If that Casablanca Beige Metallic paint is original, I think that makes it a 1979 model? I love those wheels, and the flip-up headlights.

Again from The Other McCain - Republicans Dodged a Bullet Today — and Van Jones Tells the Truth About Why!

A week or so ago, when the “short list” of VP contenders was much longer, my brother Kirby more or less predicted that Harris would not pick Shapiro, simply because such a choice would alienate the anti-Semitic segment of the Democratic Party’s coalition.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 7 August 2024: Powerfail Edition

Lots of juicy details from that Google antitrust ruling. (The Verge)

Google pays device makers enormous amounts of money to direct search requests to them. 20% of Apple's profits come directly from Google.

Glenn Harlan Reynolds Substack - J.D. Vance, the New York Times, and Decency

Earlier this week, the New York Times published a collection of personal emails between J.D. Vance and a law school friend of his. The two were politically far apart, but for many years shared a close and respectful friendship in which they discussed the things that they agreed and disagreed about. Then the friend, Sofia Nelson, who identifies as a "gender queer radical pragmatist" broke off the friendship over Vance's support for an Arkansas bill banning gender reassignment for minors.