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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

19th April 2023

Abortion providers pushing handheld abortion tech to primary care clinics across U.S.: ‘A gamechanger’ (Fox)

Chaos in Chicago’s Loop last weekend causing major concerns for business owners (Fox Chicago)

Mob randomly attacks couple walking in Chicago: They said they were ‘going to kill us’ (Fox)

VIDEO | ‘Teen Takeover:’ Hundreds of teenagers destroy property in Chicago over the weekend (WKYC)

America is being destroyed by domestic hate, National Urban League report says (CNN) And whose fault is that?

Study: Fewer Docs Seek Residency in States With Abortion Bans

Gun-Free Zones, Red Flag Laws Only Make Gun Crime Worse: Economist

PBS: Pass Universal Health Care to Boost US Lifespan; End the School Lunch ‘Crisis’

California’s ‘Dream For All’ Home Down Payment Program Ran Out Of Money In 12 Days

Brian Stelter in Denial: ‘We Were Doing Fantastic Journalism at CNN’ In My Time!

The end of the Silicon Valley dream

Florida Education Board Expands Gender Identity Lesson Ban

CBS Hails Another Lefty Comedian, Proclaiming John Oliver as Passionate Truth-Teller

Soros Lieutenant Leaving Foundation Post, Claims Credit for Advancing Biden Agenda

Maine quadruple murder suspect was recently released from prison (NBC News)

Lemon Argues It’s ‘Insulting’ To Say Black People Have Equal Rights

The security state says jump. The media asks ‘how high?’  (Spectator)

Fetterman Filibusters Senate For Seven Hours While Attempting To Say ‘Hello’ (Babylon Bee)

‘They Should Be Worried:’ Teachers Union Attempts to Fight Moms Over Parental Rights Advocacy 

Elementary School Cancels Mother’s and Father’s Day To Protect Students From ‘Triggers’

DC Police Reach Historic Staffing Low

Waco 30 Years Later: It’s Not An Atrocity If The Feds Do It

 

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

19th April 2023

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Authorizes Changes to Simplify Use of Bivalent mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines (FDA)

FDA authorizes 2nd dose of updated Covid booster for older adults (NBC News)

The Great COVID-19 Vaccine Bribe

Masking Uncertainty in Public Health

Watch: Former Director Of National Intelligence Admits That Fauci Lied About Gain Of Function Research  But you knew that.

Rand Paul Rips DHS Over Big Tech Collusion to Muzzle Speech on COVID-19

 

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Today in BIPOC Privilege

19th April 2023

Marc Morial: Violence against Black Americans fueled by ‘hate, intolerance and extremism’ in U.S. (MSNBC) Mostly by other black people, specifically young black males with guns.

State Of Black America: National Urban League Partners With Splc On Signature Report (SPLC) Reporting on hate with the chief hatemongers.

White People Should Know Better: The Racist Premise of DEI

Biden’s Black Astronaut Reads Anti-White Poem to Prep for Mission (Front Page)

Russian Spies Funded Black Liberation Group’s Rallies for Reparations, Feds Say

Teens Charged in Dadeville Massacre

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

19th April 2023

Manchin knocks ‘dangerous’ EPA vehicle emissions standards (The Hill)

Manchin backs overturning Biden auto emissions proposal: ‘Lying to Americans’ (Washington Examiner)

Here’s what to know before going electric with your car (WLNS Lansing)

Fox networks fearmonger over the Biden administration’s new vehicle tailpipe emissions proposal (Media Matters for America)

Why Are We So Afraid of Nuclear Power? (Mother Jones) Don’t ask us–it’s you people who are afraid of it.

‘Don’t fool yourself’: billions more needed to protect tropical forests, warns new report (The Guardian)

Rising sea levels may have forced the Vikings out of a successful settlement (CNN)  Climate change! Is there anything it can’t do?

To Ditch Fossil Fuels, We’ll Need to Raise an Army of Electricians (Mother Jones) And you aren’t going to find them reading Mother Jones.

Energy Abundance Is Liberating Humanity From Grueling Labor (Reason)

Why “Net Zero” Is Not A Rational U.S. Energy Policy

Germany Closes Its Last Nuclear Power Plants – Electricity Bills To Spike Up To 45%

Latest Stunt of the Krazy Klimate Klowns

 

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Today in War

19th April 2023

ToPentagon Gives Statement On Russian T-90 Tank Left At Truck Stop

Germany Says It Delivered Patriot Missile Battery To Ukraine

Bradley Fighting Vehicles Have Arrived In Ukraine

Ukraine live war updates: ‘U.S. can cheat at any moment,’ Russian foreign minister says, claiming NATO’s expansion proves this (CNBC)

US warns Russia not to touch American nuclear technology at Ukrainian nuclear plant (CNN)

U.S. Urges NATO Vigilance For Signs Russia Could Use Nuclear Weapon In Ukraine (Radio Free Europe)

Taiwan To Buy 400 US Anti-Ship Missiles, Announced As China Conducts “Major” Military Drills

Russian Naval Exercises in Pacific Grate on Tokyo

Report: Moscow’s Starlink Takedown Efforts Advancing

Ukraine war: The Russian ships accused of North Sea sabotage (BBC)

3 Nuclear Superpowers, Rather Than 2, Usher In a New Strategic Era (N.Y. Times) I wouldn’t class Russia as a ‘superpower’, judging by its performance in Ukraine.

WaPo Belatedly Admits ‘Proxy War’ Nature Of Ukraine Conflict In Wake Of Leaks

How the CCP Is Embedding Itself in American Cities

China and Iran Carry Out Repression on US Soil With Growing Brazenness, FBI Says

Biden Admin OKs Additional $325M in Military Aid to Ukraine

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

19th April 2023

Who Organized the Dirty 51?

Time For Trump to Go Away

Judge Allows Congress to Subpoena Ex-Prosecutor in Manhattan DA’s Trump Case

‘No one is above the law’: Federal judge trolls Manhattan DA as she green lights ex-deputy’s deposition by House GOP

 

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Today in Witch-Hunt Culture

19th April 2023

Complaints about Justice Thomas’s disclosures sent to judicial committee (Washington Post) Even the slightest chance of doing a mischief to Clarence Thomas motivates the hate mob to continue the witch-hunt.

Senate Democrats eye a hearing on Clarence Thomas as Republicans shrug off gift revelations (NBC News)

Shaub: ‘No excuse’ for Justice Clarence Thomas’s failure to disclose financial deals (MSNBC) They weren’t ‘financial deals’. The fact that the explanation doesn’t suit the hate mob doesn’t mean there is ‘no excuse’.

The only way to get to the truth of the Clarence Thomas scandal (CNN)

Megyn Kelly claps back at being called ‘transphobic’ over Bud Light Dylan Mulvaney take: ‘I speak the truth’ (N.Y. Post)

Who Taught House Republicans to Cynically Fearmonger About Crime in NYC Like That? (HellGateNYC)

Spanish-Language Media Hide AOC Corruption, Smear Clarence Thomas

Democratic governors lose their grip as Republicans nab supermajorities (Politico) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH,,,..

Boycott Budweiser for Validating Trans Hate (The Advocate)

DeSantis is in a rut. His trek to D.C. didn’t help. (Politico) I don’t believe that.

Colbert, Daily Show Condemn DeSantis For Disney-Prison Joke  Progs have no sense of humor. That’s why ‘late night comedy’ isn’t.

Idaho Republicans Auction ‘Trigger Time’ With Kyle Rittenhouse (Daily Beast) Never mind that he was tried and acquitted, to the Daily Beast he is still a ‘baby-faced killer’. Is that how they would refer to him if he were, say, black? I think not.

‘Personal Note:’ Joe Scarborough Makes Dominion vs. Fox Case All About Himself

The View Bashes ‘Radicalized’ Service Members Who Watch Fox News

‘Stand your ground’: the US laws linked to rising deaths and racist violence (the Guardian) Linked to!

MTG Bares Fang-Fangs, Throws House Meeting Into Chaos Over Swalwell ‘Sexual Relationship With A Chinese Spy’  That’s entertainment.

 

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Today in the Biden-Harris Slow-Motion Train Wreck

19th April 2023

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Biden ignores question about claim nine relatives got foreign cash (N.Y. Post) Of course he did.

House Oversight Committee investigating 6 additional members of Biden family (KATU ABC)

Six additional Biden family members ‘may have benefited’ from Hunter business dealings (Fox)

UN rebukes Washington over reports it eavesdropped on secretary general (The Guardian)

U.S. spied on UN Secretary General (The Hill) Does that come as a surprise to anybody?

DHS chief expects ‘surge’ at the border next month when Title 42 ends (N.Y. Post) And what’s he plan to do about it? Nothing.

Sec. Cardona Unaware of CCP Hold in US Colleges

‘Nonbinary’ Biden Official and Luggage Thief Collected Six-Figure Salary During Leave

Biden Justice Department’s Holocaust Remembrance Day Speaker Has an Affinity for Anti-Semites

Then There Were Nine: Comer Alleges A Wider Range Of Potential Biden Beneficiaries from Possible Influence Peddling

The Bidens made $579K last year, and paid a 23.8 percent tax rate, their returns show (Politico) Does that include the skim from Hunter’s operations?

“This Is Industrial Suicide”: Biden’s EV Plan Could Be Key To China’s Global Economic Dominance

Accountability For Biden’s Botched Afghan Withdrawal?  Not any time soon.

Could Illegal Immigrants Cause Polio, Tuberculosis Outbreak?

US Gasoline Prices Rise To 5-Month High  Thank you, Joe Biden.

Biden Pans McCarthy Debt Plan: ‘Huge Cuts’ to Americans  By ‘Americans’ he means ‘Democrat politicians’.

DHS Official Has Office Raided, Covered in Crime Scene Tape (Rolling Stone)

Trump: ‘Fake News’ Missed ‘Watergate Times 10’ on Bidens

‘We Simply Do Not Know’ If U.S. Taxpayer Dollars Are Funding Taliban, Watchdog Says

Biden’s Approval Rating Falls to Near Record Low, Poll Shows

Biden will meet with the ‘Tennessee Three’ at the White House (NBC News) Promoting insurrection? Shouldn’t he be impeached  for that?

Biden To Punish Good-Credit Homebuyers To Subsidize High-Risk Mortgages

US Afghanistan watchdog tells Congress he can’t guarantee American aid is ‘not currently funding the Taliban’ (CNN)

Congressman to Mayorkas: ‘You Have Brought Generational Trauma Upon Our Country’

Biden Admin ‘Mishandling’ Hunter Biden Investigation Says IRS ‘Criminal Supervisory Agent’ In Charge Of Probe

 

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Hunter Biden Probe Is Being Mishandled, IRS Supervisor Says

19th April 2023

Wall Street Journal.

An IRS supervisor has told lawmakers he has information that suggests the Biden administration is improperly handling the criminal investigation into President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, and is seeking whistleblower protections, according to people familiar with the matter.

A letter sent to Congress on Tuesday says a career Internal Revenue Service criminal supervisory special agent has information that would contradict sworn testimony by a “senior political appointee.” The supervisor also has information about a “failure to mitigate clear conflicts of interest in the ultimate disposition of the case,” according to the letter.

The supervisor has details that show “preferential treatment and politics improperly infecting decisions and protocols that would normally be followed by career law enforcement professionals in similar circumstances if the subject were not politically connected,” according to the letter.

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Ivy League Exodus

19th April 2023

The Tablet.

The number of Jews on major Ivy League campuses has been cut in half or more over the past decade by new elite doctrines that downplay merit in favor of amorphous definitions of ‘diversity’ and ‘privilege.’ But one Ivy may be bucking the trend.

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Haiti Fact of the Day

19th April 2023

Read it.

Ticket from Miami to Port-au-Prince: $124.

Ticket from Port-au-Prince to Miami: $1,000-3,000.

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Obfuscation Erupted in the Media

19th April 2023

Gates of Vienna.

For many years the legacy media have identified firearms as the major social problem, one that has to be dealt with by restricting the rights of law-abiding citizens to acquire and retain guns. Whenever some criminal, terrorist, or lunatic blows people away using a gun, politicians and TV talking heads belabor the populace with diatribes about “gun violence” — as if guns made the decision to kill innocent people, rather than maniacs and thugs.

That pesky gunfire just keeps erupting! It’s like cosmic rays — it just happens. The only way to keep people safe is to take away their right to own firearms. That’ll fix it.

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Black Cleopatra?

19th April 2023

Ptolomy I was Greek, one of Alexander the Great’s generals.

In accord with pharoanic tradition, his descendants in the Egyptian royal family depended on brother-sister marriages to ‘keep the bloodline pure’.

Cleopatra was Greek, wholly Greek, and nothing but Greek. Black? No chance.

Apparently black people are comfortable believing six impossible things before breakfast, so long as it’s Good For Blacks.

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‘This Was a Riot’: Protesters Detonate Smoke Bomb, Burn Effigy at Debate on Transgenderism

19th April 2023

Washington Free Beacon.

Protesters attempted to disrupt a debate on transgenderism at the University of Pittsburgh on Tuesday night, detonating a smoke bomb and burning a dummy featuring the face of one of the debate’s speakers.

Campus police released an emergency notification near the start of the debate, between commentators Michael Knowles and Brad Polumbo, after an explosion was heard on campus, the Pitt News reported. Police later identified the source of the explosion as a combination of a firework and smoke bomb. More than 250 people participated in the protest of the debate, which concerned the question of whether transgenderism should be regulated by law.

“This was not a protest like for the other ones,” said Dylan Mitchell, president of Pitt College Republicans. “This was a riot.”

But, of course, as we all know, only Republicans engage in political violence.

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Can You Guess? Professor Asks Students What Group is Known for “Violence, Deceit, Irresponsibility, and a Lack of Remorse”

19th April 2023

Jonathan Turley.

We recently discussed how Wake Forest Psychology Professor S. Mason Garrison described conservatives as “guilty, anxious, and unable to handle stress well as children.” It was indicative of the overt hostility often encountered by Republicans and conservatives on our campuses today. Now, another psychology professor is under fire for a quiz that matter-of-factly explained that white men are characterized as a group for their abuse of others and lack of remorse for their violence and deceit. Like Professor Garrison, the resulting outcry reportedly led Professor Kirsten Bradbury to rescind the quiz. However, the incident reflects both the orthodoxy and hostility that now characterizes higher education. It also follows a familiar pattern when academics are called to account for such biased attacks.

Professor Bradbury gave a quiz as part of her “Personality Psychology” class and included a question that stated “[n]either race nor gender is determinative in Antisocial Personality Disorder.” It then asked:

“However, if we must go there, which sociodemographic group is most likely to repeatedly violate the rights of others in a pattern of behavior that includes violence, deceit, irresponsibility, and a lack of remorse?”

Bradbury then added an addendum stating “Hint: They also happen to hold the most social power and because of that they can get away with the most wrongdoing.”

She gave four choices with three obviously absurd choices of middle class Latino families, female dentists and Asian men of all economic groups. The correct answer was, of course, wealthy white men.

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Fiscal Forecast America: Financial Markets and the Federal Budget

19th April 2023

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According to data from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS, the federal tax agency), in 2019 the highest-earning 1.1% of American taxpayers—all with a taxable income of $500,000 or more—earned 21% of total taxable income. At the same time, they paid 40.4% of all personal federal income taxes. Since taxes on personal income account for 84% of all federal tax revenue, this very small segment of taxpayers pays 34.5% of all federal taxes in America.

Remember that the next time people like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren bitch and moan about rich people not paying ‘their fair share’.

 

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Digital Dictatorships

19th April 2023

American Mind.

Modern regimes are investing heavily in artificial intelligence (AI) to monitor and control society. From China’s surveillance state and emerging social credit systems to Russia’s disinformation campaign in Ukraine to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launching domestic cyberattacks on political opponents, dictatorships are using armies of hackers, bots, and trolls to gather data on citizens in order to manipulate algorithms and mold public opinion.

But when does focusing on data result in knowing less about a country? One answer is when it comes at the expense of what the military calls HUMINT, Human Intelligence, which is information gathered through direct interpersonal contact with human sources. Through spies and informants, HUMINT is said to be the only source of intelligence capable of revealing the group dynamics of insurgent and terrorist groups. And beyond HUMINT, person-to-person relationships connecting government and citizens are just as important for building a society as for shutting down terrorists.

Overreliance on statistical data at the expense of direct communication with citizens can lead to misperceptions and knowledge gaps. Rather than relying on feelings or hearsay, statistical data gives governments quantifiable—and therefore useful—information about society. But data is not enough; collecting statistics about citizens is not the same as knowing citizens.

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Your Country as a Service

19th April 2023

ZMan jerks back the curtain.

In the money game, it is said that if you need hard money to control your ruling class, your ruling class will find a way around the limits of hard money. This is observationally true as every government in the history of man has found some way to corrupt their currency for short term advantage. For most of human history this has meant debasing the currency with cheap metal. In modern times, it means installing humanity’s worst schemers with the task of manipulating the currency.

That expression about money is a pithy way of pointing out that words on a piece of paper are never a restraint on the corrupt. The reason is the written law is just the formal expression of the unwritten law. Those words on the paper represent the spirit that organizes and limits the ruling class. If the people in the ruling class no longer abide by the spirit of the law, they will find a way around the letter of the law. This is something we can see plainly with the basics in America.

It is an eternal truth that written law is no security against evil men in charge of the government.

The most outrageous example is the recent trial of Douglas Mackey. He was arrested immediately after Biden was installed for the crime of mocking Clinton voters in 2016. Mackey operated the Ricky Vaughn account on Twitter, which was notorious for mocking the Left, especially the zombies who lined up to support Hillary Clinton. While obviously a satire account, it was comedy gold in the meme wars.

The government claimed that his jokes about the stupidity of Clinton voters denied these stupid Clinton voters the right to be stupid Clinton voters. That is not an exaggeration or a misrepresentation. The government offered no one who was denied their right to vote but managed to convince a judge and jury that these jokes tricked stupid Clinton voters out of their right to vote. The verdict is on appeal, but Mackey now faces ten years in prison.

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Thought for the Day

19th April 2023

Frazz Comic Strip for April 18, 2023
Frosted blueberry … mmmmmmm….

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A Tale of Three Articles

19th April 2023

Steve Sailer.

Ever since the transgender school shooter in Nashville, the mainstream media has been on the warpath to impose more point-of-sale gun control…while continuing to encourage Soros-funded prosecutors to weaken the kind of point-of-use gun control that not long ago succeeded in reducing New York City murders to Joe DiMaggio-era levels because it tends to put black criminals behind bars.

Yet, this level of flagrant effrontery requires tremendous narrative discipline. On Monday, the front page of NYTimes.com gave a master class in how it’s done across three contrasting articles.

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Red State Republicans

19th April 2023

Read it.

When Democrats are in charge, they work hard to pass legislation pushing issues further and further to the left. This is true on both the federal and state levels. We see blue states working to ban gas-powered cars, ban natural gas stoves, and even override parents when it comes to giving kids hormones and sex-change surgeries.

While that is true of Blue states, there are plenty of states that Red states out there as well. But the question is, what is the Red state equivalent to California? Are there Red states that are as conservative as CA, WA, NY, and NJ are liberal? Does a GOP majority move things to the right as much as a Democrat majority moves the state to the left? Probably not?

The thing is that Republicans aren’t committed, as Democrats are, to the politicization of every aspect of life. That’s what ‘progressive totalitarianism’ means.

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Jim Jordan’s Invisible Hearing in New York City

19th April 2023

NewsBusters.

The House Judiciary Committee held a field hearing in Manhattan on April 17, a brief walk from the offices of the local District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, who’s prosecuting former president Donald Trump. Chairman Jim Jordan and the Republicans said it was important to hear from violent crime victims in America’s largest city. The Democrats ardently proclaimed it was a pro-Trump stunt.

ABC, CBS, and NBC also showed an opinion. They ignored it, treated it like it didn’t exist. It wasn’t “news” at all.

This wasn’t a field hearing in Albuquerque, where they might claim it’s not worth the expense of sending reporters and crews. This was in their own home town, their own home borough.

“Public broadcasting?” NPR offered no story in its comically mis-titled evening newscast All Things Considered, but they did have time to glory in the defamation lawsuit against Fox News. The PBS NewsHour earned some kind of paper medal for at least offering a report, and both parties were included in the soundbites.’

At least the nation’s most prestigious (translation: liberal) newspapers would have to cover it. Actually, no! The Washington Post let democracy die in darkness, instead doing a big front-page story on the House Republicans on the debt ceiling debate.

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Americans ‘Surprised’ by What They Saw Inside the T-90A Tank

18th April 2023

Technology Org.

According to the experienced M1A1 Abrams tank crew member, even during missions, their vehicle never looked as poorly maintained as the Russian T-90A.

A former M1A1 Abrams tank machine gunner spoke negatively about the Russian T-90A tank that was recently delivered to the United States. He wrote about it on his Twitter account.

A US soldier says he literally lived with his crew in an M1A1 Abrams tank for 20 months while in service. During that time, it never looked like the trophy T-90A does.

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PublicSq

18th April 2023

Check it out.

I don’t let politics determine whom I buy from, but for those who do, this is an ‘alternative to Amazon’ that appears to shun Wokery in all its forms.

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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

18th April 2023

Chicago police encourage people to enjoy what city ‘has to offer’ day after ‘Teen Takeover’ chaos (Fox) You first.

2 teens shot in the Loop during large disturbance (WGN)

‘A gamechanger’: this simple device could help fight the war on abortion rights in the US (The Guardian)

Trans Florida teacher worked for weeks after saying she ‘wanted to shoot some students’ (N.Y. Post)

Univision HIDES Crime as Reason for Chicago Walmart Closings

Washington State House Approves Bill Authorizing Hiding Of Children Seeking Transgender Medical Intervention From Parents

Dem Lawmaker: California’s ‘Travel Ban’ on Red States Didn’t Work

These Senate Dems Pledged to Return SBF’s Political Donations. Records Show They Still Haven’t.  The money! It clings!

Memos Show US Fish and Wildlife Head Pushing ‘Woke’ Agenda

Boy Scouts Weighs Eliminating Native American Culture in Program

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Melts Down After Twitter Labels It ‘Government-Funded Media’

Citing Crime Wave, REI Packs Up Its Tent in Portland

Energy ‘Equity’: California Electricity Companies Propose Billing Based on Income

Another One: Fourth Democrat State Legislator Switches Party in a Month

The US Could Use Some Separation Of Media And State

 

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Today in War

18th April 2023

Countries helping Russia in Ukraine will pay ‘high price’, vows G7 (EuroNews)

Japan: G7 foreign ministers discuss Ukraine war, Taiwan tension & Sudan (Al Jezeera)

‘No impunity’: G7 vows tough, unified stance on Russia’s war (Associated Press)

 

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Today in Witch-Hunt Culture

18th April 2023

AOC Joins Jordan Klepper to Trash ‘Florida Man’ Trump and Clarence Thomas (Daily Beast)

DeSantis Has Lots of Plans to Fight the Left—and None to Preserve Millions of Floridians’ Health Care (Mother Jones)

The Far Right Is Roiled by an Underage-Sex Scandal (New York Magazine) Roiled! (To New York Magazine, there is no Right but the Far Right.)

A War Crimes Team Investigated the Portland Police. The Results Are Damning (Rolling Stone) Is there any place more Woke than Portland?

NYC will target food choices in its battle against climate change (Gothamist) Prog totalitarianism leaves no aspect of life unstained.

Lincoln Project lampoons Kevin McCarthy in brutal debt crisis how-to video (Raw Story)

Nets Ignore Shameful Democrat Attacks Against Victims of NYC Crime

Senate Dems weighing a Clarence Thomas invite to future Supreme Court ethics hearing (Politico) Scraaaaazaape that barrel….

Clarence Thomas’s explanations fail the laugh test (Washington P0st) Much like Eugene Robinson’s columns.

As Fox News case heads to trial, far right St. Louis site faces its own defamation suit (Missouri Independent)

Daily Show, AOC Dream About Impeaching ‘National Embarrassment’ Thomas

Key DeSantis Donors Rip Him in Private Chats: ‘What the F-ck Is Wrong With RD?’ (Rolling Stone) Sure, I believe that Rolling Stone has access to ‘private chats’ between DeSantis and ‘key donors’. If you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

Chris Christie: ‘I don’t think Ron DeSantis is a conservative’ (Semafor) Chris Christie wouldn’t know a conservative if one pissed on his leg.

No Labels ‘Would Serve as a Spoiler Benefiting the Republican Ticket’ (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew continues it’s move to the Left.

Biden is literally phoning in his response to GOP extremism (Washington Post)

America’s toxic mix of guns, fear of crime — and fear-mongering (Washington P0st) If Philip Bump thinks that America sucks so badly, when can we anticipate him leaving? Don’t let the door hit you in the butt on the way out….

MSNBC Declares DeSantis to be ‘Un-American’ Amid Disney Fight

Aftershocks from Tennessee Republicans’ fiasco may resonate for years (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin takes a break from bashing Trump to push the fake news Narrative.

Professor Demonizes ‘Wealthy White Men’ for ‘Violence, Deceit, Irresponsibility’

Twitter removes policy against deadnaming transgender people (Associated Press) Twitter users are no longer forced to join in disordered people’s fantasies.

 

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

18th April 2023

Rep. Jim Jordan responds to Bragg’s lawsuit, argues court has no power to block subpoena (N.Y. Post)

Rep. Jim Jordan and Judiciary Committee ask court to toss lawsuit by Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg (CBS News)

House Dem blasts Jim Jordan for doing Trump’s ‘bidding’ with NYC field trip (Raw Story) Hating on Trump is all they have to do with their time.

Trump team prepares to fight efforts to block him from ballots over Jan. 6 (Washington Post)

Donald Trump’s Lawyers Just Made a Big Mistake (Mother Jones) Funny how ‘journalists’ know better than trained professionals in almost every field.

 

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Today in BIPOC Privilege

18th April 2023

Lightfoot: Weekend violence downtown was not ‘mayhem’ (WGN) BRAAAAAAAINS!

Critical Race Theorists Admit Their Revolution Is Failing

MSNBC Guest Claims 2nd Amendment Created to Stop Slave Insurrections

US Charges 4 Americans, 3 Russians in Election Discord Case

An Argument for Gun Control?

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

18th April 2023

‘Without the ice cap, we cannot live’: the Andes community devastated by climate crisis (The Guardian)

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now so huge and permanent that a coastal ecosystem is thriving on it, scientists say (CNN)

Great Pacific Garbage Patch in middle of the ocean now home to coastal species (CBS News)

This floating ocean garbage is home to a surprising amount of life from the coasts (NPR)

Why coastal species have been found thousands of miles out to sea (The Telegraph)

Fashion greenwashing glossary: what do ‘circular’, ‘sustainable’ and ‘zero waste’ really mean? (The Guardian)

How disappearing ice in Antarctica threatens the U.S. (NPR)

From GE to Siemens, the wind energy industry hopes billions in losses are about to end (CNBC)

Historic Asia heat breaks hundreds of records, with extremes in Thailand and China (Washington Post)

Another View: EPA wants to speed up EV switch, as it should (L.A. Times)

The EPA goes after tailpipe emissions, Elon gets an ultimatum and Careem lands $400M for its super app (Tech Crunch)

Rice Is Now Killing The Planet, Apparently  I’ve had my suspicions.

WHAT? State-Affiliated BBC Champions Climate Change ‘Ninja Trollhunters’

Tesla, GM, Ford Among The Only 10 Vehicles That Will Qualify For The New $7,500 EV Tax Credit

New York Mayor Goes To War Against Meat And Dairy As Climate Agenda Escalates  The key aspect of progressive totalitarianism is that it leaves no aspect of your life unstained.

 

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

18th April 2023

Rare COVID symptom reported as latest omicron subvariant hits the U.S. (S.F. Chronicle)

What to Know About Highly Transmissible ‘Arcturus’ COVID Variant as New Symptom Emerges (NBC Chicago)

What to know about the XBB. 1.16 “Arcturus” COVID subvariant (Axios)

Arcturus Or The XBB.1.16 Variant: Is The New Covid-19 Variant More Dangerous? (NDTV)

Senate Report Concludes COVID Likely Caused by Lab Leak

Second Bivalent Booster Approved for Older Adults 

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Authorizes Changes to Simplify Use of Bivalent mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines (FDA)

 

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Today in the Biden-Harris Slow-Motion Train Wreck

18th April 2023

Six additional Biden family members ‘may have benefited’ from Hunter business dealings (Fox)

Mexico feels the strain as Haitian migrants, caught in limbo, mark time (Reuters)

Biden White House blasted for 9 a.m. press lid after president’s Ireland trip: ‘A case of the Monday’s’ (Fox)

Federal appeals court strikes down Democratic city’s natural gas ban backed by Biden admin (Fox)

Biden admin hit with lawsuits for hiding communications involving Cabinet secretary’s daughter (Fox)

Biden’s electric-car mandates slam the working class and boost China (N.Y. Post)

Truckers association challenges Biden administration’s new emission rules: Matter of ‘life and death’ (Fox)

Mayorkas held calls with ACLU nearly two dozen times in five-month period in 2021, documents show (Fox)

FBI Ordered to Release Files That Called Parents Terrorists

Biden’s Fascistic EV Edict

Border Encounters Rise 25 Percent in March

Rep. Comer to Newsmax: ‘Nine’ Bidens Implicated, Evading IRS

Becerra violated Hatch Act by advocating for senator’s election, report finds (Washington Post)

IRS Under Biden Taxing Americans More Than Trump

Biden Plan for Health Care for ‘Dreamers’ Called ‘Back-Door Way to Give Taxpayer Subsidies to Illegal Aliens’  Of course it is.

‘Prostitution Rings’ and ‘Astronomical’ Sums of Money: Rep Nancy Mace Describes Bank Reports on Biden Family Business Dealings

Two-Year Anniversary Of Declining Real Wages For American Workers

‘Terrorist Safe Haven’: Afghanistan-Based Terror Groups Capable of Attack on U.S., Experts Say  Thank you, Joe Biden.

Joe Biden’s Immigration Policy Comes Home To Roost

WATCH: Why Does Sleepy Joe Biden Always Wander Off Like a Nursing Home Patient on the Loose?

Biden Administration Official Unable to Give Clear Answer on Whereabouts of 85,000 Migrant Children

 

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Arkansas Enacts Given Name Act. Here’s What Parents of Schoolchildren There—and Elsewhere—Need to Know

18th April 2023

Daily Signal.

Arkansas lawmakers delivered a clear message to parents of K-12 students this week: You have the right to know how your child is being treated in school.

Lawmakers in New Jersey, California, and hundreds of other school districts across the U.S. operating under policies that do the opposite and allow school officials to hide information about children from their parents should prepare to receive an influx of student-transfer requests.

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Monday signed legislation, the Given Name Act, which says that school officials cannot call a student by a name that does not match the name listed on the student’s birth certificate without a parent’s permission. Likewise, educators cannot address a child by a pronoun that does not match the child’s sex.

The bill’s sponsor, state Rep. Wayne Long, a Republican, explains that a teacher contacted him and said her conscience would not let her “affirm” a student confused about his or her sex. “This single mom was willing to lose her job rather than go against her Christian beliefs,” Long said via email.

Very sad, that it should come to this.

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Slavery, the Left, and Truth

18th April 2023

Dennis Prager.

A generation of Americans is being raised on half-truths and lies about the history of slavery in America.

They are given the impression that America was uniquely bad and that American slavery was uniquely bad. They learn nothing about slavery elsewhere. Among the many lies they are told are that “black slaves built America” and that America is systemically racist.

Since the only mortal enemy of the Left is truth, here are some truths about slavery.

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That Biden Family Business

18th April 2023

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On Twitter Miranda Devine draws attention to newly accessed financial records showing the Biden family enterprise centered on Joe Biden’s political career and connections, with six more family members named — and then there were 9. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer has posted the related press release.

Smoking-gun email reveals how Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian ...

VOTE DEMOCRAT — THEY NEED THE MONEY

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

17th April 2023

You Have to Think of Trump’s Election as Year Zero (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew continue to carry water for the Left.

Revenge is not a winning election message (Washington Examiner) Oh, I don’t know–it seems pretty effective so far.

Trump’s House GOP allies take fight to Manhattan DA’s turf (Associated Press) Trump allies!

 

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Today in the Biden-Harris Slow-Motion Train Wreck

17th April 2023

Immigration is back in the US (Financial Times) Back? Like the illegals, it never left.

PBS NewsHour Co-Host Amna Nawaz Pushes Biden Aide Hard from the Left on Abortion

Americans Will Rally in Texas, Demand Lawmakers Act to Secure Southern Border

Elon Musk Says US Government Had Access To Private Twitter DMs

Bitter Fruit of Bidenomics: 2 Years of Inflation-Ravaged Wages for US Workers

Pentagon Troubled by Offshore Wind Projects “The Pentagon reportedly is concerned about plans by the Biden administration to expand offshore wind projects along the mid-Atlantic coast, warning that nearly all of the new territory conflicts with military operations.”

WH, Dems Fire Back at McCarthy’s Wall Street Speech  They want to raise the debt ceiling and keep borrowing and spending.

How Biden’s ‘Incompetent’ Health Secretary Caused a Child Labor Crisis

Biden EPA’s New Vehicle Emissions Standards Spark Backlash From Auto Industry, Republicans

Alex Berenson Sues Biden Admin for Pressuring Twitter to Ban Him

 

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Today in Witch-Hunt Culture

17th April 2023

‘Outrageous and unacceptable’: Biden slams GOP for standing with NRA in wake of Alabama, Kentucky gun violence (The Hill) If we banned black teen males from carrying guns, the incidence of ‘gun violence’ would plummet. But of course you can’t say that in public.

Donald Trump Jr. Sparks MAGA Fury With Bud Light Comments (Newsweek) In the Narrarive media, “MAGA” means anything they don’t like that has even the most nebulous connection to Trump.

Budweiser releases new pro-America ad with iconic mascot in wake of Anheuser-Busch Mulvaney controversy (Fox) Too little, too late.

Wyoming news site finds more than a third of small-town bars surveyed are experiencing Bud Light boycotts (Fox) That’s democracy in action. But the Left doesn’t like democracy that doesn’t agree with them.

The day the book banners lost in Pennsylvania’s culture wars (Philadelphia Inquirer) Will Bunch fills the Jennifer Rubin chair at the Inquirer.

Nick Fuentes was paid more than $30K by Kanye West’s presidential campaign (The Hill) That’s a definition of ‘white supremacist’ with which I am unfamiliar.

US Appeals Court Judge Rejects ProPublica Story On Justice Clarence Thomas

Rep. Mace: GOP Tone-Deaf on Abortion (NewsMax) I’m sure she’d like to believe that’s true. But it’s not.

Jeeves and Wooster stories censored to avoid offending modern readers (The Telegraph)

Del. Stacey Plaskett Exposes Rep. Jim Jordan’s Glaring Hypocrisy (Huffington Post) Jim Jordan might even notice. But proabably not.

Supreme Court Considers Christian Mail Carrier’s Refusal To Work Sundays

Rep. Paul Gosar promotes pro-Hitler and Holocaust-denying site after it praised him for attacking “Jewish warmongers” (Media Matters for America) He’s a Republican, of course; they wouldn’t say anything like that about a Democrat, even if it were true.

New York Times Sunday Front Page Pretends Transgender Fight Was Started by Right-Wingers

Shonda Rhimes’ ‘Station 19’ Hates on Pro-lifers and Guns in Yet Another Week of Leftist Propaganda

Michigan State University Language Police Warn Of Offensive Words Like ‘America’, ‘Female,’ ‘Wreaths’

‘Wealthy White Men’ Most Likely to ‘Repeatedly Violate the Rights of Others,’ University of Texas Psych Quiz States

Speaker McCarthy Is Feeling the Heat (N.Y. Times) Amazing how many in the Narrative media think they can read minds. I doubt McCarthy cares a lot what Michelle Cottle thinks.

WATCH: NYC Bodega Owner Calls Out Alvin Bragg for Charging Him in Self-Defense Killing

Killer in CBS’ ‘The Equalizer’ Is Congressman Against Open Borders

Jim Jordan Tried to Pull Some D.C. Bullshit on New Yorkers (Rolling Stone) Rules are for thee but not for me.

Crime Victims Speak Out at House Panel’s Field Hearing in NYC  I guess that’s the ‘D.C. Bullshit’ of which Rolling Stone speaks.

Missouri School District to Fight Bias, Racism in Math Curriculum   We all know how racist and oppressive math can be.

DeSantis’s Thuggish Threats Against Disney (New York Magazine) Jonathan Chait’s bleeding heart pours out for Disney (they’re so oppressed).

 

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Today in War

17th April 2023

EU calls Poland, Hungary ban on Ukraine grain and food imports unacceptable (Reuters)

Poland and Hungary ban Ukrainian grain amid glut from neighbor (CNN)

Before We Send Any More Money To Ukraine – Can We Find Out Where The Rest Of Our Cash Went?  Doubtful.

Saudi Arabia, U.A.E. Scoop Up Russian Oil Products at Steep Discounts (Wall Street Journal) Apparently cheaper than they can make them themselves.

Brazil’s Lula Calls For the West To End the War  I.e. let Russia win.

F.B.I. Arrests Two on Charges Tied to Chinese Police Outpost in New York (N.Y. Times)

2 Charged With Establishing Secret Chinese Police Station in NYC (NewsMax)

40 Officers of China’s National Police Charged in Transnational Repression Schemes Targeting U.S. Residents (DoJ)

Zelensky Drives By In Ferarri To Remind Americans Of The Importance Of Filing Your Taxes (Babylon Bee)

 

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Today in BIPOC Privilege

17th April 2023

Family of Black teen shot after ringing wrong doorbell retains civil rights lawyers (NBC News) Of  course they are.

I moved to the US from Kenya. I never fully realized I was Black until I had a son (CNN) And started reading CNN.

A beloved high school athlete was among 4 people killed and 28 injured at a Sweet 16 birthday party in Alabama (CNN)

Kings Probe ‘Racial Bias’ Claims After Rapper E-40 Ejected

Racist MSNBC Leftist: Tim Scott Is GOP’s ‘Racial Pacifier’ In 2024

All Hell Breaks Out In Chicago As Hundreds Of Teenagers Wreak Havoc  Time to leave.

LOPSIDED: Nets Push ‘Tennessee Three’ Side Over Conservatives (107-24)

Chicago Mayor Warns That If Local Walmart Locations Close People Will Have Fewer Places To Shoplift (Babylon Bee)

Crime Killed a Quarter of a Million Black People

CNN’s Dadeville Spin

Ohio Grand Jury Won’t Indict Cops in Fatal Shooting of Jayland Walker  “A gun was later found in Walker’s vehicle, police said.” Democracy has spoken. But Democrats only like democracy when it’s in the service of the Narrative.

New York Passed ‘Revolving Door’ Bail Reform. Now, a Handful of Thieves Are Committing a Third of All City Retail Crime.

EXCLUSIVE: 2 FBI Agents Who Knelt at BLM Rally Gained Promotions

Dramatic Video Shows Large Mob Looting Compton Gas Station Gee, there appear to be a preponderance of People of Color in that mob. I’m sure it has no significance.

 

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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

17th April 2023

Washington bill to allow medical transgender interventions on minors without parental consent (N.Y. Post) Time to leave.

Mayor Lightfoot, Mayor-Elect Johnson Issue Statements on Large Gatherings Downtown Chicago (NBC Chicago)

‘Teen Takeover’ terrorizes Chicago as hundreds of teenagers destroy property, attack tourists (Fox) I’d be interested in the ‘ethnic’ composition of this riot.

Let’s be blunt — legal weed is turning New York workers into zombies (N.Y. Post)

CVS ‘Gender Transition’ Guide Requires Use Of Preferred Pronouns, Sharing Bathrooms

Is Free Speech Killing Us? FDA Commissioner Declares “Misinformation” A Medical Risk

Italy’s Meloni Declares ‘State Of Emergency’ As Illegal Immigration Quadruples  When are they going to call it what it is, an invasion?

Humorless ‘Saturday Night Live’ Lets Non-Binary Comedian Lecture on Trans Kids

How Walmart Pushed Arkansas Public Schools to Go Woke (Washington Free Beacon)

What happened when US police teargassed protesters – a visual investigation (The Guardian) Like most on the Left, The Guardian think that ‘protesters’ have a right to wander around doing whatever they want to do without interference–if they’re on the left.

650 Illegal Immigrants Make It to Spain in Single Week

As Walmart shuts down four stores in crime-ridden Dem-led Chicago, DailyMail.com lists all the big box shops – from Macy’s to Target – which have closed due to millions in losses from rampant theft (UK Daily Mail)

OMITTED: CNN Segment on Boston Marathon Bombing Skips Jihadi Terrorist Brothers

‘Teen Takeover’; Liberal Networks Refuse to Cover Latest Lawlessness in Chicago

We must raise the minimum wage to a living wage (The Guardian) And thereby increase unemployment among the unskilled. Great idea, Bernie.

Watch First ‘Nonbinary’ SNL Cast Member Hang From the Ceiling and Shout About Trans Kids (Washington Free Beacon) Or don’t.

Illinois Supreme Court Justices Received Massive Donations From Dem Gov Pritzker. They Won’t Recuse Themselves From Case Against Pritzker’s Gun Ban.  Hey, they aren’t Clarence Thomas, so it doesn’t matter, right?

Indiana Public School Officials Admit Lying to Parents About Critical Race Theory  Don’t send your kid to a government school.

CBS Slobbers Over Conservative-Hating Jordan Klepper, Omits Failed Show

Disney announces LGBTQ event night at its California resort immediately after DeSantis threats (Raw Story)

Non-Binary SNL Cast Member Also Comes Out As Non-Funny (Babylon Bee)

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

17th April 2023

Climate envoy Kerry: No rolling back clean energy transition (Politico) I’m sure he wishes that were true. But it’s not.

Awash in Toxic Wastewater From Fracking for Natural Gas, Pennsylvania Faces a Disposal Reckoning (Inside Climate News)

California Going Full Commie: ‘Designing Electricity Rates for An Equitable Energy Transition’ (California Globe)

Environmental knowledge is inversely associated with climate change anxiety

Berkeley Ban on Natural Gas Hookups Tossed by Ninth Circuit (Bloomberg)

Russian walrus and polar bears continue to thrive US researchers tell the Washington Post

 

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

17th April 2023

Covid is still a leading cause of death as the virus recedes (Washington Post) I don’t believe that.

Senate GOP Report on COVID Origin Backs Lab Leak Theory

 

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Compton Deputies Back on Patrol Following Gas Station Looting

17th April 2023

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Sheriff’s deputies in Compton are returning to their patrol duties Monday following a chaotic weekend that involved a series of street takeovers and a mob of looters that left a trail of destruction at local stores.

Video captured a wild scene at an Arco gas station near Alondra Boulevard and Central Avenue early Sunday morning where a large group was caught on video bum-rushing an Arco gas station and stealing thousands of dollars’ worth of merchandise, all while the clerk on duty hid inside.

The video shows one man breaking the glass door while dozens of looters crowd behind him. Moments later, the group was seen grabbing everything from drinks, snacks, alcohol and even condoms.

Straight Outa Compton.

Deputies with LASD’s Compton station had been responding to several illegal street takeovers earlier in the night, LASD said.

Investigators said the two largest takeovers took place at the intersections of Long Beach Boulevard and Rosecrans Avenue and near the gas station looting incident.

Time to leave.

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NYPD Can Now Shoot GPS Trackers at Your Car

17th April 2023

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The StarChase Guardian-HX uses the lower receiver from an AR-15 rifle and launches adhesive-tipped GPS trackers to allow cops to track a vehicle remotely.

I’m surprised that it took them this long to think of something like this.

Of course, a 40mm grenade launcher would take care of it immediately.

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Why You Need to Double Check Your ‘Safe Food’ Ingredients If You’re Allergic to Sesame

17th April 2023

Lifehacker.

The new law, called the FASTER Act, took effect as of Jan. 1, 2023. Shortly before that, an industry publication called Food Manufacturing reported that many manufacturers see the new requirements as “not simple or practical.” If the ingredients of a product don’t include sesame, the maker is required to take steps to make sure that sesame stays away from the product.

Labels that indicate the item is processed in the same facility as sesame-containing foods aren’t enough to protect the company from recalls if some sesame were to find its way into the product.

Quite naturally, rather than undergo the tedious and expensive required process to clean machinery of any possible trace of sesame before using it for food that normally doesn’t contain sesame, they just added trace amounts of sesame to all of their foods, therefore saving themselves a lot of government-mandated trouble and expense. The government, of course, didn’t see this coming.

So now people who are allergic to sesame face an incredibly constricted selection of foods, compared to before. “We’re from the government, and we’re here to help.” Thanks a lot, guys.

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Life In the Blue Zones

17th April 2023

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Chicago continues its descent into an unlivable dystopia. Last night, mobs rioted, taking over portions of the city and wreaking devastation of various kinds.

Everyone knows about Chicago’s sky-high murder rate, but this kind of wanton lawlessness, apparently beyond the power of the police and normal citizens to control, is more devastating to the life of a city. Who in his right mind wants to be anywhere near Chicago?

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NYT: Why Did Conservatives Start the War on the American Tradition of Poisoning, Mutilating, and Sterilizing Children?

17th April 2023

Steve Sailer.

From the New York Times news section, an in-depth analysis of how conservatives hold the whip hand in modern American culture and thus started the divisive debate over the time-honored American custom of poisoning, sterilizing, and mutilating moody children due to the transgender mania….

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NYT: “How Gay Men Saved Us from Mpox”

17th April 2023

Steve Sailer.

Thank goodness those heroic gay men saved us so heroically from some obscure disease called Mpox that they didn’t even let become common enough that you or I had ever heard of it.

Oh, wait, Mpox is what they now call Monkeypox because Monkeypox was too memorable and the Authorities were worried that you’d remember it. And if I remember correctly, although who can remember back that far, gay men didn’t save us from monkeypox. Instead, they inflicted it on each other.

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Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong

17th April 2023

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There’s an idea about how children learn to read that’s held sway in schools for more than a generation — even though it was proven wrong by cognitive scientists decades ago. Teaching methods based on this idea can make it harder for children to learn how to read. In this podcast, host Emily Hanford investigates the influential authors who promote this idea and the company that sells their work. It’s an exposé of how educators came to believe in something that isn’t true and are now reckoning with the consequences — children harmed, money wasted, an education system upended.

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