Nature.

The massive changes in US research brought about by the new administration of President Donald Trump are causing many scientists in the country to rethink their lives and careers. More than 1,200 scientists who responded to a Nature poll — three-quarters of the total respondents — are considering leaving the United States following the disruptions prompted by Trump. Europe and Canada were among the top choices for relocation.

Yeah,  well, they’re going to find out that there aren’t very many such jobs in Canada and Europe, which is why scientists from Canada and Europe come to the U.S., both for school and for after-school employment.

This student lost her research support and her stipend when the Trump administration shut down funding for the US Agency for International Development. Her adviser found emergency funds to support her in the short term, but she is scrambling to apply for teaching-assistant positions — now extremely competitive — to carry her through the rest of her programme.

The gravy train is entering the station and getting ready to stop. Time to get off and find a real job.

I’ll bet that, like the Democrats who swear up and down that they’re going to leave, this is all hot air and noise.

The Hill, a Voice of the Crust.

Hundreds of advocacy organizations have called on Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) to reject a budget blueprint from House Republicans.

A letter sent to Thune, led by the liberal health care advocacy group Families USA, features more than 300 organizations, such as Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the NAACP and the American Civil Liberties Union.

“We write to share our deep concerns about the House-passed budget reconciliation resolution—specifically the catastrophic health care cuts it would require and the resulting harm it would impose on families and communities across the country,” according to the letter, sent Wednesday.

As aways, proglodytes assume that if the government doesn’t do something, It Won’t Ever Get Done.

When they say ‘cuts’, they always refer to a reduction in spending increases, not actual cuts at all.

This country survived for centuries without the Federal government paying for people’s health care, and ‘families and communities across the country’ got along just fine. The actual problem they have is that they are afraid that the gravy train of Federal money is going to decrease–it’s too much to hope that it will stop completely–and this threatens their status and paychecks. The government’s job is to keep people safe and keep people honest, not to pay for their stuff.

Slate, a Voice of the Crust.

On Monday, Donald Trump’s Department of Justice made two arguments in two different courts that, taken together, amount to a legal claim of near-dictatorial power by Trump. First, it informed a federal appeals court that the president has authority to declare any noncitizens to be “alien enemies” and to deport them to foreign prison, where they will be forced to perform hard labor indefinitely—without notice, a hearing, or any meaningful opportunity to prove their innocence. Second, it refused to provide U.S. District Judge James Boasberg with details of these mass deportation operations, even in a closed courtroom, even under seal, insisting that Boasberg’s authority must yield to the “mandate of the electorate.” In other words, Trump’s electoral victory grants him an absolute right to conduct these deportations, rendering them unreviewable by the judiciary.

Well, no. What renders them ‘unreviewable by the judiciary’ is the President’s plenary power, under the Constitution, to conduct American foreign policy. This is basic Separation of Powers stuff, and has nothing to do with any ‘mandate of the electorate’. This whole ‘mandate of the electorate’ business refers to the fundamental value of democracy, which sock-puppets for the Democrat party purport to value higher than any other value. Either we live in a democratic system in which people get to determine policy by electing certain people to do that stuff for them, or we do not.

What terrifies Slate and other constituents of the Narrative Media is the prospect that democracy doesn’t mean that they win all the time. And that prospect upsets their entire world-view.

The Register.

The purge of DEI language from US federal websites has claimed another victim. This time, it is NASA’s pledge to land the first woman and the first person of color on the Moon as part of the Artemis program.

Artemis III is planned to be the first mission to put boots on the lunar surface in more than half a century, and the original goal, set during the first Trump presidency, was for the mission to include a woman. This was later extended to include the first person of color.

Now, however, it’s all about humans with text that might fall foul of the US administration’s avowed intent to eliminate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs at federal agencies scrubbed. British journalist Oliver Morton first noted the change.

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Of course they do. Color beats facts every time.

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Evidently much of what she ‘learned’ was wrong.

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It’s only March, and we have yet another declaration of a “constitutional crisis.”

The latest dire declaration comes from roughly 950 law professors, who refer generally to actions and policies implemented by President Trump as “beyond his constitutional or statutory authority.”

So — what happens if the “experts” hold a crisis and no one shows up?

After years of such claims, the perpetual crisis has left a dwindling number of people inclined to panic. Many simply have more pressing matters at the moment and have the same reaction of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger: “There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.”

The latest letter follows a familiar pattern that has played out like a political perpetual motion machine since the first Trump impeachment. It works something like this: A legal academy composed of largely liberal academics announces a “constitutional crisis” caused by conservatives, and then a largely liberal media runs the story with little scrutiny or skepticism. On most echo-chambered media sites, the public rarely hears an opposing view.

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On Saturday night, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents entered a student residential building at Columbia University in uptown New York and detained Mahmoud Khalil, one of the lead negotiators on behalf of pro-Palestine protesters at 2024’s Gaza solidarity encampment. In a sweeping attack on the First Amendment, the Trump administration said this week it would begin revoking visas of “Hamas sympathizers,” specifically citing Columbia University students. The detention followed a two-day targeted online campaign against Khalil by pro-Israel groups and individuals, including Columbia’s high-profile pro-Israel professor, Shai Davidai.

Khalil, an Algerian citizen of Palestinian origin and an American green-card holder, was detained by DHS officials around half past eight as he was entering the Columbia residential building he lives in. He was returning from an iftar, breaking the day-long fast observed by many Muslims during the month of Ramadan.

Khalil’s wife, who is eight months pregnant, was with him at the time. A statement by the pro-Palestine group Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG) stated that he was “abducted and detained without the physical demonstration of a warrant or officially filed charges.” At the time of writing, Khalil is still being detained at a DHS facility in New Jersey, according to a database for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

What goes around comes around.

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Mexico’s government may look for other trade partners besides the U.S., the nation’s president said Wednesday, after U.S. President Donald Trump slapped tariffs on the U.S.’ southern neighbor.

Other nations to which to send illegal immigrants, cartel criminals, and drugs? Knock yourselves out.

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Don’t let the door hit you in the butt on the way out.

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Democrats had expected to begin the cold new year by throwing a great pity party for illegal aliens, instead they have had to paint on their tears for a new victim: the government.

The government is what they had really been talking about all along when they flipped through their roster of victims, Mother Earth, illegals, criminals, welfare queens, drag queens, and put their solutions on the table, solar panels, open borders, open prisons, free stuff and pronouns.

Social justice really means more government. It’s only government that can get rid of the racist highways, rising (or falling) temperatures, the isms and the phobias, save the planet, keep cities weird and raise up the wretched, huddled masses yearning to never work a day in their lives.

The Guardian, a Voice of the Crust.

The for-profit charity organization founded by Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, has done an about-face on its commitment to corporate diversity.

Executives at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) informed employees on Tuesday evening that the organization would in effect do away with both internal and external diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts, according to an internal email and other correspondence viewed by the Guardian. On 10 January, leaders at CZI reassured staff that its longstanding support for DEI was not changing. Zuckerberg’s company Meta had announced earlier that day it would terminate its DEI programs, in the days before Donald Trump’s second inauguration.

Marc Malandro, CZI’s chief operating officer, wrote in the email to all employees: “Given the shifting regulatory and legal landscape, we will no longer have a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility team at CZI.”

The organization also rolled back its Diverse Slate Practice, an effort to ensure that qualified candidates from a diverse set of backgrounds be interviewed for all open roles at the charity. Meta nixed a similar rule last month. The changes “align with our focus as a science philanthropy”, Malandro wrote.

Many organizations indulged in DEI virtue-signaling because the pervasive power of a Woke administration in D.C., I suspect, made them apprehensive of what sort of political persecution that administration might subject them to, considering the egregious and pervasive lawfare aimed at Trump.  Now that Biden is out and Trump is in, I suspect that a significant number of them are tossing DEI into the trash can with a sigh of relief and a willingness to get back to their real business without the distractions of a lot of political posturing.

Dems concede Republicans ‘running circles’ around them online as Trump remakes Washington (Elena Schneider/Politico)

Democrats confront their powerlessness as Trump flexes authority (Edward-Isaac Dovere/CNN)

US Drops Website Wording on Not Supporting Taiwan Independence

As US recedes, NATO scrambles to find a new leader (Politico)  More accurately, a new souce of ‘funding’.

“Washington Recession Begins”: DC Active Home Listings Soar, Jobless Claims Spike As DOGE Drains Swamp

Trump’s true enemy isn’t China or Russia but liberal democracy (Nick Cohen/Writing from London)  More acc accurately,  Liberal ‘democracy’.

House Republicans Drafting Impeachment Articles Against Activist Judges Blocking DOGE

Utah Bans Collective Bargaining for Public Workers (Orlando Mayorquín/New York Times)

Hundreds of Maga Afrikaners rally in support of President Trump in Pretoria

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Refuses to Apologize, DOUBLES DOWN on Sharing CEO Shooter Support Site After Deleting X Post

EEOC Seeks To Drop Transgender Discrimination Cases, Citing Trump’s Executive Order (HuffPost)

Saturday Night Dead

“Taking Away Everything We Have”: Democrats & Unions Launch An Existential Fight Over Buyouts

Boycotting President Elon (Scott Lemieux/Lawyers, Guns & Money)  Oh, like Elon cares.

More Like ‘Inaction Network’: Nationwide Tesla Protest Flops As ‘Rent-A-Protester’ Goes MIA

CBS Host Says Hitler ‘Weaponized Free Speech’ To Commit Holocaust, Gets Shut Down By Rubio

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BLUF:

In 2019, Spicer was appointed by Trump to the Naval Academy’s Board of Visitors. Trump’s current OMB director Russell Vought was also made a member then.

In 2021, both were told by Biden’s White House personnel office that they had the option of resigning their board positions or being fired. Spicer realized an opportunity in the making, so both of them refused to resign and they were fired. They filed suit, alleging an unjust firing. The lawsuit was denied and their dismissals were upheld (as he expected).

Spicer wrote an op-ed before Trump’s recent inauguration, laying out the case for dismissing presidentially-appointed boards and mentioned a specific one: the Kennedy Center Board of Trustees. On February 7, Trump dismissed the entire Kennedy Center board and put in place a new one. One of the fired board members was Katherine Petrelius, who had sent Spicer and Vought the emails in 2021 telling them to resign or be fired.

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A better question would be: what was the need for this exhibit to exist in the first place? It seems a little…cult-ish…even for a place where the highest aspiration is to be a 5th grade field trip stop. But we digress.

“In the past 48 hours, HHS canceled 62 contract[s] worth $182 million. These contracts were entirely for administrative expenses — none touched any healthcare programs. This included terminating a $168,000 contract for an Anthony Fauci exhibit at the NIH Museum,” DOGE wrote on its X account this week.

The cut is part of more than $180 million in cuts being made, according to the New York Post.

The American Mind.

As Donald Trump was sworn in as president for the second time, he was surrounded by the men who deplatformed and silenced him four years ago. Google CEO Sundar Pichai banned Trump from YouTube and removed his app, Truth Social, from Google Play. Mark Zuckerberg sat flanked by Republican politicians despite banning Trump on Facebook and Instagram following the January 6 protest at the Capitol.

Whether it’s due to political opportunism or a real change of heart, the tech moguls’ now cozy relationship with Trump is one of necessity. It was easy to censor someone they thought would never become the most powerful man in the country again.

New York Times, a Voice of the Crust.

But in interview from her home in Colombia, Mr. Castillo’s sister Yajaira Castillo said her brother was not a gang member to be feared, but rather an everyday Venezuelan who had fled his country because of its economic crisis.

She broke down repeatedly during the conversation, crying as she described her pain and confusion around her brother’s situation.

“My brother is not a criminal,” she said. “This is all discrimination and xenophobia, just because he’s Venezuelan.”

If he is present in this country contrary to law, he is by definition a criminal. You don’t just get to follow the laws you like and ignore the ones you don’t like.

The Other McCain.

We do not know why the initial gunshot was fired — robbery? assault? just another Friday night in Canarsie? — but it so happened that at least four cops were within earshot of this incident, and considering how it played out, the suspect is lucky he didn’t get shot dead. Where I come from, you point a gun at a cop, let alone four cops, and you’re likely to die in the proverbial “hail of police gunfire.” What kind of place is this, where gunfire goes off randomly on a Friday night and the perp thinks it’s a smart idea to point his gun at cops? That’s how my curiosity about Canarsie got started; the description included a street address — 754 East 80th Street — and I was able to do a Google “street view,” which showed a pleasant-looking tree-lined street, with brick apartments or rowhouses.

Just looking at it, you wouldn’t think of East 80th Street as “ghetto,” and in terms of its physical appearance, this Canarsie neighborhood probably hasn’t changed much since the days when, as Wikipedia says, it was “a largely Italian American and Jewish suburb.” Alas, the Jews and Italians cleared out decades ago because of a school-zone dispute, and the more recent “gentrification” that turned neighborhoods like Park Slope into hot spots for yuppies never got as far east as 80th Street. OK, so who is this suspect walking around with a pistol? “Moonra Durham” is a sufficiently unique name that I figured it was worth a Google search.

Moonra Durham is a registered sex offender who was convicted of first degree sexual abuse in 2013. Details of his full criminal history were not available, but the fact that a registered sex offender armed with a pistol was just strolling through Canarsie on a Friday night — well, that would be scary, if you happened to be in Canarsie, but my advice is to stay the hell away from there. The New York Times published an interactive map of the 2024 presidential election, which allows you to search results down to the precinct level, and in this particular part of Canarsie, the results were Kamala Harris 93%, Donald Trump 6%. This neighborhood is part of New York’s 8th Congressional District, represented in Congress by Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, who won reelection last year with 75% of the vote.

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If it ain’t woke, don’t build it: Hideous monument to 44th president plagued by delays, cost overruns, and racial quotas.

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Boston University’s much-maligned Center for Antiracist Research will be shut down this coming summer as its founder, Ibram X. Kendi, prepares to jump ship to Howard University.

Kendi had high hopes for his Center for Antiracist Research, saying the $50 million project would “solve seemingly intractable problems of racial inequality and injustice” when he launched the initiative at the height of the “defund the police” movement in 2020. But the center produced hardly any research five years into the project, and Boston University now says it wants nothing more to do with it when its charter expires on June 30.

Kendi’s center was hamstrung by allegations of financial malfeasance under his watch. By 2023, financial contributions to the center had largely dried up as it produced only two original pieces of research and had long since stopped collecting information for its “Racial Data Lab,” which Kendi claimed years earlier would “give us the ability to see the hotspots of racial inequity in real time in this country,” the Washington Free Beacon reported. A Boston University audit ultimately cleared the center of any illegality in the misuse of its $50 million endowment. In September 2023, the think tank slashed a third of its workforce in a restructuring effort that Kendi said would ensure its viability for decades to come.

Another race grifter bites the dust….

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DOJ Pride, an LGBTQ employee resource group at the Department of Justice, has shut down more than a week after President Donald Trump signed an executive order seeking to root out all diversity, equity and inclusion measures from the federal government.

The group “ceased to operate effective immediately,” the group’s board said in an email sent to members Tuesday evening.

“In this time of uncertainty and concern, we have taken the extraordinary measure of ceasing operations of DOJ Pride,” the message said. “We have made this decision in the interest and for the protection of all members.”

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Migrants from Guatemala, Venezuela, and other countries attempting to cross the border into the United States have found themselves stuck in Mexico after the Trump administration closed the asylum system at the border, The Washington Post reported.

On Monday Trump scrapped the program known as CBP One that allowed asylum seekers to schedule appointments on their phones before arriving at the border.

Also this week, the Trump administration began shutting down the processing offices in Latin America that the Biden administration had created to give migrants legal immigration options to dissuade them from crossing the U.S. southern border illegally, CBS News reported.

They could always go back where they came from — or just stay there in the first place — and try to make things better there,  rather than leech off of our successful efforts to create a great country.

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Westminster City council in London has advertised a job opportunity and admitted that while it is open to everyone, white British people will not be favoured over people from a “Global Majority (GM)” background.

The position, which has a starting salary of £54,684, is for an “Executive Assistant.”

The ad states “The council is committed to achieving diverse shortlists to support our desire to increase the number of staff from underrepresented groups in our workforce.”

That’s a lot of words to say ‘A DEI hire is preferable.’

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A lot of people (notice that Narrative Media trick I just pulled there?) will be indulging in a bit of schadenfreude at California’s expense.

UPDATE: Prepare to Be Shocked: Los Angeles’ Fire Chief Is a DEI-Obsessed ‘LGBTQ’ Woman Who Wasted Millions (Bonchie/RedState)

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Economics works whether you like it or not.

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Meet Latavion Lewis:

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Geez, she sure sounds like a white supremacist.

New York Times, a Voice of the Crust.

Adeel Mangi, who would have been the first Muslim American federal appellate court judge, wrote an angry letter to President Biden describing bigotry he faced in the confirmation process.

CBS News, a Voice of the Crust.

A man with a loaded gun in his car and a device in his underwear that would enable the firearm to act like a machine gun was arrested outside the Pentagon last week after attempting to speed off with Pentagon police officers clinging to his vehicle, according to court documents reviewed by CBS News.

Oh, boy. Some MAGA fringe cook or white supremacist, no doubt.

Prosecutors allege Kaleel Nagbe had a loaded firearm with 16 rounds, including one in the chamber, when he was stopped for a traffic infraction — holding a phone while driving — at the Pentagon complex. Prosecutors say the Pentagon police officer who stopped him smelled marijuana and subsequently ordered him out of his vehicle. Nagbe then jumped back into his car, and attempted to speed away, according to prosecutors. Justice Department court filings say “multiple officers hung onto the vehicle,” thwarting the suspect’s escape.

Oh, I guess not. Disappointment!

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The next James Bond is increasingly unlikely to be representative of the British Isles, thanks to the British intelligence services (MI5, MI6, and GCHQ) who are offering final year university students a 2025 summer internship, provided they have the good taste not to be ‘White British’….

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New York Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D.) went on a fiery rant Tuesday blaming “the evil of white supremacy” for Daniel Penny’s acquittal in the death of Jordan Neely, a deranged black man whom Penny put in a chokehold on a Manhattan subway car.

“Whenever you feel discomfort from your whiteness, Black people are harmed or killed. And there is never accountability or justice. This is the evil of white supremacy. It spans across geography and political parties and sickens us all,” Bowman wrote, addressing his 12-post X thread to “White People.”

On Monday, a New York jury found Penny not guilty for the death of Neely, a homeless Michael Jackson impersonator. During the incident last year, Neely threatened passengers, shouting that he was hungry, ready to go to jail, and ready to die, according to witness testimony. Penny—a former Marine trained in how to subdue a dangerous person—placed Neely in a chokehold for six minutes. Neely was pronounced dead an hour later.

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Liberal governments like those running California, New York, and Detroit are rolling out reparations proposals that treat Americans differently depending on their skin color. That’s a constitutional problem.

The 14th Amendment says that governments cannot deny “any person” the “equal protection of the laws.” This means, as the Supreme Court says, that the law applies to everyone “without any differences of race, of color, or of nationality—it is universal in its application.”

The problem that equal protection poses for reparations is obvious: Reparations discriminate by race and make one group more “equal” than others.

Which has been the elephant swept under the rug since the advent of ‘civil rights’ laws in the mid-1960s. Until that time, Americans had a Right of Free Association, by which one could associate with other people or not according to one’s preference. The various cake and photogapher suits by the Alphabet Mafia who don’t choose to work for pervert celebrations are merely the reductio ad absurdam of that trend.

The Hill, a Voice of the Crust.

A federal court in North Dakota has blocked Affordable Care Act (ACA) coverage for immigrants that came into the U.S. illegally as children, also known as “Dreamers.”

U.S. District Judge Daniel M. Traynor on Monday granted Kansas, alongside 18 other states, a stay regarding a final rule from the Biden administration allowing some Dreamers access to the ACA marketplace, according to court documents. He also granted Kansas and the other states a preliminary injunction barring the federal government “enforcing the Final Rule against” them.

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A onetime Black Lives Matter leader called for “Black vigilantes” in the wake of the not guilty verdict Monday of Marine veteran Daniel Penny, on trial for choking to death a subway agitator in New York City in 2023.

Hawk Newsome, who co-founded BLM New York and led daily protests outside of the courthouse for the duration of the trial, reportedly shouted “it’s a small world” inside the courtroom after a jury acquitted Penny of criminally negligent homicide.

Outside the courthouse later, Newsome called for “Black vigilantes,” adding that “everybody else” has these vigilantes and “seeks justice on their own,” according to the Washington Examiner.

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Left wing activist Darcie Bell, who spent years on social media railing to “Defund the police,” has gone viral after her U-Haul truck was stolen in San Francisco and the cops did nothing.

“If you see a 26 foot uhaul truck with the Arizona plate AL50003- would you let me know because it had like everything I own on it,” she wrote on X.

Bell, who goes by “Jerque Costeau” on X, and whose bio reads “will respond to all bad faith arguments w/ad hominem attacks,” blasted the police hours after filing a police report for not immediately finding her stolen items.

Quod abit circum venit circum.

UPDATE: ‘Defund the police’ activist goes viral after begging for help when everything she owned was stolen in San Francisco: ‘The cops didn’t do s–!’ (Jared Downing/New York Post)

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In August, the nation’s second-largest school district announced a major policy shift that caused the soon-to-be-unemployed minds at The Los Angeles Times editorial board to collectively explode last month. Why?

Because in the wake of a federal civil rights complaint filed by Parents Defending Education in 2023, the U.S. Department of Education forced the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) to open up its $120 million Black Student Achievement Plan tutoring program to all students with academic need—no longer conditioning participation on skin color alone.

Read that again: a public school system—underwritten by public tax dollars—is no longer allowed to discriminate on the basis of race. In 2024.

The horror!

“Tell me about a time you resolved a conflict.”
“I had a co-worker who talked all the time and nobody else could get any work done. I took him out to lunch one day, and so far as I know they never found the body.”

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Ahead of the holiday season, Amanda Calhoun appeared on MSNBC’s The ReidOut to deliver a message to its liberal viewers: It’s okay to cut off your conservative relatives.

“So, if you are going into a situation where you have family members, where you have close friends who you know have voted in ways that are against you,” Calhoun told Joy Reid earlier this month, “it’s completely fine to not be around those people and to tell them why. I think you should very much be entitled to do so, and I think it may be essential for your mental health.”

While such sentiments may be common enough among the resistance left, Calhoun is no average liberal activist. She’s a psychiatrist who serves as chief resident of Yale’s prestigious Albert J. Solnit Integrated Adult/Child Psychiatry program—and she’s not shy about her far-left activism and racial biases.

Washington Free Beacon.

n September 2022, the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) made a bold promise to the school’s Office of Diversity, Equity, and Engagement: From then on, the department said, 50 percent of all faculty hires would be either women or minorities.

Citing the need for “culturally relevant pedagogy,” the department explained that “minoritized” professors “tend to have a greater sense” of “the human, social, and communal nature of teaching and learning.”

That is why the department was applying to UIC’s Bridge to Faculty program, which funds the recruitment and mentorship of postdoctoral scholars from “underrepresented” groups.

The money would help the engineering program hit its diversity targets, the department wrote in its application, and, by boosting the number of minority faculty, “enable students” to change “oppressive systems, discriminatory practices, and eventually society as a whole.”

The pitch paid off: When UIC announced its fourth cohort of Bridge scholars in 2023, industrial engineering was one of 10 departments chosen to host one.

There’s money in them thar grifts.

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The District of Columbia’s attorney general is suing a “Defund the Police” activist for misappropriating $75,000 in charity funds for mansion rentals, a Cancún trip, and designer clothes.

Brandon Anderson, the leader of an anti-police D.C. nonprofit called Raheem AI, “misused charitable donations to fund lavish vacations and shopping sprees, and the Raheem AI board of directors let him get away with it,” Attorney General Brian Schwalb (D.), whose office regulates nonprofits in the district, said in a Monday statement.

Schwalb also sued Raheem AI, seeking to shut down the nonprofit entirely. The attorney general called for Anderson to be barred from leading any other D.C. nonprofit and demanded that Anderson or Raheem AI repay the $75,000, according to the New York Times.

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Cue meltdowns.

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The House of Representatives is becoming more of an insane asylum every day, and Rep. Jasmine Crockett is the perfect example of that. During a hearing on Wednesday, the Texas congresswoman went nuts, screaming about “oppression” and the “white man.” Some might call that racist. Democrats call that normal, as depraved as it is.

Representatives are representative, i.e. they reflect their constituents — that’s how they got elected.

If enough people in the district are crazy racists, their Representatives will be crazy racists, too.

None are more crazy and racist than black women. Maxine Waters. Cori Bush. Eddie Bernice Johnson. Sheila Jackson Lee. I’m sure you can fill in the rest of the list.

Public Notice.

Black women have long had to navigate being twice as good to get half the amount of credit. Kamala Harris’s presidential run was evidence of this.

Despite the stark difference in the tenor of each candidate’s campaign and the the quality of their policy proposals, many still questioned whether they could trust Harris’s leadership and opted for her opponent. Ultimately, an overwhelming majority of white voters voted Republican.

National exit polls showed that for white voters, their choice was largely a product educational attainment. Fifty-seven percent of college-educated white women voted for Harris, while 63 percent of non-college white women voted for Donald Trump. For white men, regardless of educational level, a majority voted for Trump. Contrast that with the 77 percent of Black men and 91 percent of Black women who voted for Kamala Harris.

The majority of the Black electorate, regardless of educational level, voted for Harris. But it wasn’t enough. The outcome reminded me of the Glass Cliff and the double standards for Black leaders that come along with it.

It wasn’t that she was totally unqualified, oh no. It wasn’t that she dropped the ball every time it was given to her, oh no. It wasn’t that she had never had a Real Job in her life, oh no. IT WAS WAYCISM, PURE AND SIMPLE.

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Three people were killed and eight others were injured in central Mississippi early Saturday when at least two people opened fire into a group of several hundred people who were celebrating a school’s homecoming football win at an outdoor trail several hours after the game had ended, authorities said.

The gunfire was proceeded by a fight between some of the men at the celebration, but deputies hadn’t yet learned what sparked the fight, said Holmes County Sheriff Willie March.

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Shootings by young men have been an “off and on” problem recently in the county, which has a population of almost 16,000 residents. The young men who talk to the sheriff tell him that it’s often because they have a “beef,” or disagreement with someone.

“It’s hard to see what they are fighting over. I don’t think they are fighting over turf or drugs,” March said. “These are young men walking around with weapons. I wish I had an answer.”

I’ll be happy to say the quiet part out loud: Holmes County Mississippi is 82% black and 15% white, with negligible amounts of other ethnicities.

Imagine how peaceful the world would be if young black males weren’t allowed to possess firearms.

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Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, has reportedly fired about 24 staff at its Los Angeles offices for using their $25 (£19) meal credits to buy items such as toothpaste, laundry detergent and wine glasses.

The tech firm, which is worth £1.2tn and also owns the messaging platform WhatsApp, is said to have dismissed workers last week after an investigation discovered staff had been abusing the system, including sending food home when they were not in the office.

That included one unnamed worker on a $400,000 salary, who said they had used their meal credits to buy household goods and groceries such as toothpaste and tea.

And this is exactly what will happen to recipients of Universal Basic Income if they spend it on not-government-approved stuff. He who pays the piper calls the tune. (Markets work even when you don’t want them to.)

Huffington Post. (Of course.)

This kind of ‘female-entitlement’ attitude is at the root of a lot of today’s problems.

I became a single mother seven years ago. I ended my marriage because I simply wasn’t happy, wasn’t in love and believed I deserved to feel fulfilled. I didn’t want to merely exist in life or in my most important relationship. I wanted to be my authentic self. I wanted more.

This is why over 50% of marriages end in divorce, and over 80% of divorces are initiated by women. (Lesbian ‘marriages’ have the same problems.) The modern woman is a thoroughgoing Disney Princess: It’s all about her, she’s the prize, she deserves the Handsome Prince who will sweep her off her feet and deliver her to that great castle in the sky where she will be waited on hand and foot and be beautiful and adored forever after. When reality breaks into this fantasy, they continue on their hypergamous quest; whatever they had, even though that’s what they chose, isn’t good enough. As the author bluntly says, she wants more. She believes that she ‘deserves to feel fulfilled’.

She might want to wish for a pony while she’s at it.

My estranged husband and I divided our things and worked out a custody arrangement. I worried about the criticism I’d receive for making what still so often feels like an unpopular choice. I wondered if I’d be able to support myself and my kids. But I didn’t worry about dating, or whether it would be hard or scary. I didn’t worry about never finding someone or being alone for the rest of my life — not once.

After all, she’s a Disney Princess. Hot rich guys are just lined up to submit their applications. All she has to do is hang out the OPEN sign.

I had flings and some relationships, none which lasted very long. But each time I dusted myself off and returned to the apps — the place where most romantic connections begin these days — I started to feel a greater and greater sense of dread. It wasn’t exactly that I had grown tired of meeting people. It was that I started to feel as if I was no longer what a growing number of men were looking for.

Men aren’t looking for a Disney Princess. They’re looking for a wife, someone who will be a homemaker and a mother and a member of their team. They’re not looking for a diva. This is the harsh reality that they can never wrap their heads around. They’re also looking for someone quite a bit younger and more fertile with a lot less mileage. Don’t blame me–blame evolution.

Whether they were 28 or 58, they all claimed to want someone who “doesn’t take herself too seriously.” I saw the line again and again, on profile after profile. Bumble, Hinge, Tinder or The Stir (the dating app for single parents), it was all the same: This unserious woman request was everywhere. I couldn’t swipe through five profiles without seeing it. Each time I’d furrow my brow and spit out, “Nope!” Still, after the past few years spent mostly alone, I started to ask myself, am I just too serious?

No, that was code for ‘I don’t want a self-centered shrew’, which this woman obviously is. (The also don’t want a ‘single mother’, because they have no interest in raising somebody else’s child. Sorry, but that’s just the way it is.

As long as she keeps her focus on what she wants rather than on what the men she’s trying to attract want, she’s going to wind up alone.

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As it turns out, when you have a far-left mayor in a city that has been under Democratic control since 1931, within a state dominated by radical progressives for decades, criminals become emboldened and live out their lives as if every day was a scene from the ‘Grand Theft Auto’ video game.

Unmentioned, but easily visible in the videos, the fact that the looters were People of Color.

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A 33-year-old man punched a female MTA worker in the face without provocation in a Manhattan subway station last month, according to an indictment announced on Thursday.

Prosecutors said Robert Ray followed a female MTA employee inside the Lexington Avenue-53rd Street station at 6:05 a.m. on Sept. 16 as she made her way to the bathroom and checked that the escalators were working on her way. He ran up behind her and punched her in the face, causing her to fall to the ground, prosecutors said.

Ray fled the scene and was arrested later that day, prosecutors said. The attack left the worker’s face lacerated, swollen and in substantial pain, they said.

By Coulter’s Law, the fact that they didn’t mention the ethnicity of the perpetrator suggests that he was black, and the fact that they didn’t mention the ethnicity of the victim suggests that she was white. But modern ‘journalists’ are trained not to mention facts that might be inconsistent with the Woke Narrative.