NBC News, a Voice of the Crust.

The car bombing outside a California fertility clinic that killed one person and injured four others appears to have been driven by anti-natalist ideology, according to two senior law enforcement officials briefed on the incident.

Anti-natalism refers to the belief that no one should have children. Investigators are focusing on social media posts made by the suspect, including a 30-minute audio recording, which they say support anti-natalist views. While the posts and the recording are still being verified, officials believe they reflect the ideology behind the bombing.

As The Other McCain likes to say, “Crazy people are dangerous”.

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In the wake of U.S. Supreme Court victories in favor of Jack Phillips, the owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop who had been targeted because he refused to bake a custom cake for a gay wedding, and high school football coach Joe Kennedy, who was fired for going against a school order not to kneel in prayer on the field after a game, you would figure (incorrectly) that the culture warriors might be rethinking their far-left positions on social issues.

No, instead, they are turning it up “to 11.” In this case, a Virginia real estate broker is potentially facing the end of his career, and, like Phillips and Kennedy, he didn’t think he was doing anything wrong. And, as you will see, he wasn’t.

It’s the case of Wilson Fauber, the next victim of the “Culture War.” As a Realtor, he is a career-long member of the National Association of Realtors, and that organization proprietarily controls access to the Multiple Listing Service that a member like Wilson uses to show his clients all the available listings of properties for sale and where he lists their properties.

Newsbusters.

CNN has a weird obsession with making itself look completely stupid by trying to stoke bad vibes whenever it has to report on any good news that can somehow benefit President Donald Trump. Instead of just reporting the straight news on price pressure relief for American consumers, CNN reporter Matt Egan instead chose May 14 to run one of the dumbest Tasmanian Devil spin headlines yet, “Good news! Prices are falling. But it might be for bad reasons.” Uh, what!

The Labor Department’s recently released inflation report showed a welcome unexpected slowdown in the increase of consumer prices against economists’ expectations. This was bolstered by the biggest monthly decline in grocery prices since September 2020 largely attributable to a whopping 12.4 percent decline in the retail price of eggs.

Yet, Egan, who is notorious for being a hapless Bidenomics simp, began his piece by noting that “The lowest inflation rate in four-years was made possible by a trend that will surely bring smiles to the faces of Americans: Falling prices.” Then came his absurd spin: “But not all price drops are created equal. Some of the good inflation news might be happening for a bad reason: a weakening economy.”

There’s no pleasing some people.

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White people need not apply.

Gothamist.

The city is moving to uproot the organizers of a Queens community garden who required prospective members to sign a “statement of values” that included a commitment to opposing Zionism, homophobia and transphobic behavior.

Parks department officials wrote in an April 16 letter that the leaders of Sunset Community Garden in Ridgewood violated guidelines by imposing a “litmus test” and “improper requirement” on garden members.

“Our decision to terminate the garden group’s license agreement has nothing to do with anyone’s political beliefs or gender expression,” said Margaret Nelson, a deputy commissioner at the parks department.

“This is about ensuring that our community gardens are responsibly managed and accessible as public spaces. We never want a termination, but the group’s leadership has repeatedly refused to work with us on their outstanding issues.”

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Far-left activists in Brussels have continued their intimidation campaign against the conservative think tank MCC Brussels. The campaign aims to force conference venues around the European capital to close their doors to one of the very few right-wing organizations that speak out on behalf of the already limited freedom of speech and plurality in the EU.

This time, the Antifa activists targeted the Stanhope Hotel, the venue of MCC Brussels’ upcoming event about how President Trump has been reshaping the global order. The event is planned for Wednesday, May 14th, and includes as speakers an associate professor from Cambridge and the chair of the Edmund Burke foundation, as well as a former undersecretary in the Italian foreign ministry.

Typical Nazis, right? Well, the Antifa certainly thinks so, as the vandals covered the hotel’s entrance with eggs and graffiti on Tuesday morning, just one day before the event, in what they regard as protesting the ‘extreme right.’

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The Trump administration is admitting as refugees white farmers from South Africa who are being dispossessed from their lands, and in some cases murdered, by the black majority. This, of course, will be one more blow to the feeble South African economy, but taking someone else’s property is always easier than earning your own.

Liberals don’t like this policy because, I suppose, white people are “privileged,” so how can they be refugees?

There have been refugees for thousands of years, and legitimate refugees generally consist of family units. When there is a column of people crossing your border, and they are overwhelmingly young men, you are seeing invaders, not refugees.

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The Episcopal Church has refused a Trump administration request to help resettle white South Africans on their way to the U.S.

… love your neighbor like yourself–so long as that neighbor is not white.

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A standard play from the Crustian playbook. Yale did the same thing with student groups that it didn’t like. “Black Student Association at Yale”? No problem. “Yale Free Press”? Copyright violation.

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The old Lenin double standard of “Who? Whom?”.

The Register.

The prompt used, as noted in a statement issued Tuesday, was the following:

Using the list of names provided, please evaluate each person for scandals. Scandals include but are not limited to homophobia, transphobia, racism, harassment, sexual misconduct, sexism, fraud.Each person is typically an author, editor, performer, artist or similar in the fields of science fiction, fantasy, and or related fandoms.

The objective is to determine if an individual is unsuitable as a panelist for an event.

Please evaluate each person based on their digital footprint, including social, articles, and blogs referencing them. Also include file770.com as a source.

Provide sources for any relevant data.

In other words, vet the potential panelists for CrimeThink, so we can hurl them into the void.

Note that ‘homophobia’ and ‘transphobia’ lead all the rest,

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A school board in Colorado cannot remove sexually explicit, profane, and “transgender” books from school libraries because the school board is conservative, according to a federal judge touted as the first openly lesbian judge west of the Mississippi.

The ACLU’s Colorado chapter filed a suit on behalf of two minors, the NAACP Wyoming State Area Conference, and the Authors Guild, claiming that the school district engaged in viewpoint discrimination when removing the books. The judge granted a preliminary injunction in March, forcing the Elizabeth School District (in Elizabeth, a suburb southeast of Denver) to restore the books.

Judge Charlotte Sweeney second-guessed the school district’s objections to the books’ contents, calling the objections “pretexual” and condemning the removals as partisan because school board members had discussed following their conservative convictions when debating the removal of the books.

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Despite attempts by the progressive Left to prevent its publication, a research book on the influence of wokeism on French universities has finally been published by Presses Universitaires de France. It has been enthusiastically received by critics while embarrassing the progressive intelligentsia.

The book, commissioned by the prestigious publishing house Presses Universitaires de France, was due to be released in early April but was met with a smear campaign orchestrated by a handful of left-wing intellectuals who attempted to prevent its publication on the grounds that it promoted “Trumpist” and “pro-Putin” clichés.

The manoeuvre delayed its release, but did not prevent it: the collective work by professors Pierre Vermeren, Emmanuelle Hénin, and Xavier-Laurent Salvador finally hit bookshops on Wednesday, April 30th. On the day of its official release, the premises of the Presses Universitaires de France were vandalised in protest—proof that the danger denounced by the authors, namely the presence of a woke ideology in the university that does not tolerate dissent, is not a figment of the imagination but a reality.

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John Lithgow’s reaction to journalists pressuring him to reconsider his part in the new “Harry Potter” series says it all.

This isn’t 2020 anymore.

The actor will play Albus Dumbledore in the upcoming Max series, one of the most talked-about projects in Hollywood. The role originally played by Richard Harris and, later, Michael Gambon represents a key figure in the Potterverse.

Most actors of a certain age would jump at the chance. Lithgow, 79, did just that.

Famous for his part as Dr Emilio Lazardo in BUCKAROO BANZAI and the popular meme “Laugh while-a you can, monkey boy”.

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After progressives and greens for years pushed for a transition away from internal combustion engines to (allegedly) more ‘environmentally friendly’ EVs, suddenly ideological purity has become more important than air quality.

Tesla owners in Vienna have started finding threatening notes on their cars, Remixreports, telling them to sell their cars—or they will be vandalized.

“Our condolences! It’s not your fault. It will only be your fault if you don’t act now,” says one flyer found by Austrian Tesla owners, which goes on to tell them that their car is associated with “right-wing agitator” Elon Musk:

Maybe a few years ago you simply wanted to buy a cool car … Now you own a car that you may be ashamed of, whose value has gone to its knees and you have to be afraid every night that someone will scratch a big ‘f**k Tesla’ into your paintwork.

Other European Tesla owners have reported similar harassment. In Paris and Berlin, Teslas have been vandalized with paint and stickers, and Amsterdam has seen protestors confronting drivers for owning “capitalist machines.”

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As the Trump administration launches multiple probes of the Harvard Law Review in the wake of a Washington Free Beacon report on the journal’s race-based policies, the law review itself will be conducting its own investigation—not into the evidence of discrimination revealed by dozens of documents, but into who leaked those documents to the Free Beacon.

The journal’s top editors asked members of the law review last week to come forward with any information that might help identify the leaker, writing, “The information contained in the article should not have been shared.”

“We are looking into the matter,” the editors said Friday in an email. “Our inboxes and offices are open to anyone with information about these recent events. We will update you with developments.”

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In what the Telegraph refers to as a “highly unusual move”, a serving member of the Royal Marines, an elite corp, has publicly warned about the lowering of standards for female trainees, stating that lives could be at risk.

The commando says that up to 1,000 of his fellow Marines backed a private letter to military chiefs raising fears that so-called diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) policies were in danger of creating an “unrecognisable, weak and compromised version of the corps”. The letter claimed that some women at the Commando Training Centre were being “artificially pushed through training”, resulting in what was described as “unearned paper-passes”.

Given that this same process of lowering standards for female trainees has been observed in the past in the US military, it’s not surprising that the same thing is happening in Britain. And given the British government’s cult-like obsession with far-left ideology, the imposition of DEI will probably be unstoppable and catastrophic for fighting forces.

But the problem goes well beyond the risks of war. The soldier in question has now been reportedly held by Police Scotland while entering the country after a holiday, and detained under the British “Terrorism Act” because he has voiced such warnings. He says government officials initially dismissed the letter or petition as a product of “Russian bots”, then held an internal inquiry to investigate the soldiers involved.

Remember: No matter how bad it gets in the U.S., Britain has it worse.

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Climate alarmists live in a self-righteous bubble where humankind is the scoundrel. Nature is optimal and fragile; anthropogenic change cannot be good, even toward greening, warming, and moistening. Think about that nonpolluting trace gas, carbon dioxide (CO2).

To the Church of Climate, there cannot be any debate against the narrative of alarm–or pushback against forced energy transformation. The opposition is evil against the common good, defined so vaguely as to preclude real human betterment. So psychological explanations emerge.

UPDATE; Trump Administration Finally Pulls the Plug on the Climate Fear Factory

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The fellow on the right giving the Hitlergruß (Sieg Heil) in the above photo is the estimable Karl Lauterbach, the outgoing Social Democrat health minister in the soon-to-be-defunct Traffic Light government in Germany. Readers may recall him as “Klaboosterbach”, the intellectual heavyweight shown in the photo below, whose face was all over TV and the Interwebs during the “pandemic”.

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The Hitlergruß is in the eye of the beholder, of course. A gesture may be characterized as such only if the political opinions of the gesturer are in disfavor. Thus, when Elon Musk does it, he’s making a “Nazi salute”, but when Hillary Clinton does it, she’s just waving to the crowd.

A group of Querdenkers, whose political opinions are very much in disfavor in Germany, got themselves in a heap o’ trouble by raising their right arms. They were accordingly fined for their Hitlergrußen.

I don’t have to tell you that when Klaboosterbach raised his right hand, it was not a Nazi salute, unlike the gesture made by the unfortunate Querdenkers. The issue reached a Kafkaesque level of absurdity, however, when the woman who made the poster comparing the Querdenkers with Herr Lauterbach was also fined for her “crime”.

UPDATE: German Woman Fined €3,500 for Image of Politician With Raised Right Arm

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Northwestern University warned its Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) chapter that its constitution, which bars Zionist Jews from joining, violates the school’s new anti-discrimination policy, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.

The constitution for the anti-Israel student group states that “members are expected to be anti-Zionist and identify with Judaism” and requires a faculty adviser to be a “Jewish anti-Zionist or support anti-Zionist philosophies.” According to its mission statement, JVP aims to build an “anti-Zionist Jewish community on campus.”

The group seems committed to that goal, playing a significant role in anti-Israel campus activity with an adviser, Sarah Schulman, who has repeatedly blamed the Jewish state for Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack. But JVP’s constitution doesn’t square with Northwestern’s updated non-discrimination policies, which incorporated the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism. That definition states that “denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor,” is a form of anti-Semitism.

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The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has made a groundbreaking decision mandating Poland to officially acknowledge and safeguard same-sex unions, emphasizing the country’s responsibilities as an EU member to uphold “equal rights” for all couples.

Poland’s refusal to recognize same-sex marriages, particularly those performed abroad, was deemed a violation of individual rights, with the court urging the government to enact appropriate legislation.

This is not the first time the ECHR has addressed Poland’s treatment of same-sex couples. In 2023, the court found that Poland’s refusal to recognize same-sex unions violated Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Micha? Wo?, former deputy justice minister under the Law & Justice (PiS government), criticized the ECtHR ruling, saying it is part of a broader effort by European elites to force values onto Poland that conflict with its national identity. He pointed out that, under Poland’s constitution, marriage is defined as a union between a man and a woman.

Draft bills on registered partnerships and civil unions in Poland, released in October last year, propose changes to more than 200 existing laws but face opposition from both PiS and the center-right Polish People’s Party (PLS).

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“The effort to be more inclusive has gone too far: it has increasingly been used to silence and exclude those who hold different opinions,” the founder and CEO of Meta said in January of this year regarding the censorship prevailing on social media platforms. The Facebook owner also admitted, “Governments and traditional media have been pushing for more and more censorship. A lot of this is clearly done for political reasons.”

Mark Zuckerberg’s volte-face is clearly linked to the election of pro-freedom Donald Trump as president. Previously, Facebook censorship was defended with the argument that Meta is a private company and, according to its own rules, restricts whatever it wants on its platforms. Meta also used to claim that there were no political interests influencing this process. These arguments, of course, were completely nullified by Zuckerberg’s admissions. Incidentally, judicial practice previously considered it a “public statement” if someone expressed their opinion on Facebook—not in a private message—or made a defamatory statement about someone, or damaged someone’s reputation.

What was truly novel about the billionaire tech guru’s statements, however, was the bluntness with which he spoke about the interventions of the globalist elite.

The Times (UK).

Two protesters have been arrested after disrupting the London Marathon by throwing red powder paint in front of the elite runners.

At 1035am the two activists jumped over the barriers at Tower Bridge, wearing T-shirts that read “Youth Demand: Arming Israel”.

Youth Demand describes itself as a “new youth resistance campaign fighting for an end to genocide”.

The pair of protesters, who were arrested by City of London police, were named as Willow Holland, 18, from Bristol, and Cristy North, a live-in carer from Nottingham.

Women. Of course. Of course it doesn’t occur to them that they are doing their cause more harm than good by being so irrationally irritating.

The Foundry.

America’s two highest-profile socialists once had real Marxist street cred. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., was a young barista who steamed her way into public service. Bernie Sanders is a U.S. senator from Vermont with a vaudeville-grade Brooklyn accent. Endearingly rumpled, he appeared to embody the phrase “living paycheck to paycheck.”

These two joined forces early. Their Grandpa-and-Granddaughter-of-Government-Overreach shtick was almost touching in an old-timey way—much like flipping through faded photos of Truman-era coal miners, sipping soup from lunch-pail Thermoses.

They’ve come a long way, baby!

Newsbusters.

An official at the World Health Organization (WHO) brazenly admitted to being behind worldwide censorship during the COVID-19 pandemic, but that’s not his most disturbing confession.

WHO Team Lead for Digital Channels Andy Pattison explained during an April 15 interview with the Planet Classroom Podcast the role his globalist organization took in pushing major social media platforms to censor users. Pattison discussed how the WHO worked with Big Tech on so-called misinformation prior to COVID-19. He addressed these companies’ efforts to “make their misinformation and disinformation policies a little bit stronger,” adding, “we were advising them on how best to do that.”

Disinformation policies on Big Tech platforms did in fact get “a little bit stronger” during the pandemic. In fact, MRC Free Speech’s exclusive database CensorTrack, shows that MRC researchers have found more censorship related to COVID-19 than any other specific issue. The 1,319 examples included seven examples of platforms censoring U.S. senators and 11 examples of platforms censoring members of Congress. Big Tech even censored at least 45 doctors or medical researchers. The MRC found 569 accounts that Big Tech platforms deleted and hundreds more that these platforms locked.

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Procter & Gamble and other prominent corporations fund a “racial justice” group whose leader, a former Obama White House official, lashed out this week at what he called “white mediocrity” and urged a “woke” army of black youth “to wage war with whiteness.”

David Johns, who led President Barack Obama’s White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans, made the remarks at an event Tuesday to promote a boycott against Target for rolling back its DEI programs.

Johns is the executive director of the National Black Justice Coalition, a black LGBT group that aims to fight “anti-Blackness.” The nonprofit lists companies like Airbnb, Sephora, Sony, and Procter & Gamble as sponsors. Procter & Gamble, which sells household brands like Gillette and Charmin, contributed $515,000 to the National Black Justice Coalition in 2023, around one-fourth of the nonprofit’s budget, according to tax records. The Department of Health and Human Services under President Biden awarded the National Black Justice Coalition a $1.2 million contract through 2026 as part of the government’s “Let’s Stop HIV Together” campaign. It is unclear if HHS is still funding the coalition, but Johns said last month his organization was “proud to be a grantee” of the HIV program.

Speaking at the anti-Target event, Johns endorsed the boycott and railed against President Donald Trump as a “fascist trying to rob us of our wealth.” He also urged black consumers to shop at black-owned businesses as part of a movement to “reclaim … African ways of being.”

“We don’t need nothing from white people. We don’t need nothing from white people,” said Johns. “They can’t even make potato salad.”

Nothing stopping him from going back home to Africa, where he wouldn’t have to put up with white people.

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Berlin Senator Cansel Kiziltepe, of the Social Democratic Party  (SPD), decided to attack Elon Musk on X, comparing his Tesla cars to “Nazi cars,” creating a massive backlash in the neighboring state of Brandenburg, home to Europe’s only Tesla car factory. The post is particularly odd, given her role as state minister for labor.

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Will this law review article “promote DEI values”? Does it cite scholars from “underrepresented groups”? Will it have “any foreseeable impact in enhancing diversity, equity, and inclusion”? And why did one team of editors solicit “only white, male authors”?

Those are some of the questions that editors at the Harvard Law Review asked in internal documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. The documents, which span more than four years and have not been previously reported, include article evaluations, training materials, and data on the race and gender of journal authors. They reveal a pattern of pervasive race discrimination at the nation’s top law journal and threaten to plunge Harvard, already at war with the federal government, into even deeper crisis.

The law review states on its website that it considers race only in the context of an applicant’s personal statement. But according to dozens of documents obtained by the Free Beacon—including lists of every new policy adopted by the law review since 2021—race plays a far larger role in the selection of both editors and articles than the journal has publicly acknowledged.

Just over half of journal members, for example, are admitted solely based on academic performance. The rest are chosen by a “holistic review committee” that has made the inclusion of “underrepresented groups”—defined to include race, gender identity, and sexual orientation—its “first priority,” according to resolution passed in 2021.

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Violence is always the go-to tool for the Left.

ZMan talks about the gathering….

One of the amusing sideshows since Trump has taken power is the pearl clutching from the usual suspects about the law and process. The people who sat silent as lawfare was waged against Americans for the crime of holding unapproved opinions are now suddenly concerned with the rule of law. The people who took money from tech companies to remain silent about tech censorship are now carrying on as if they are dissidents because they no longer control the discourse.

Hypocrisy is a feature of man, and it has always had a central role in American politics because America is a nation of moralizers. The one thing we have always overproduced is preachers ready to wag their bony fingers at the people as they lecture them about their many moral failings. The United States is a giant outdoor revival tent where preachers take turns performing for the crowd. When not lecturing the locals, our preachers travel the world to lecture foreigners.

Preachers need to believe they are special, perhaps even called or chosen to lead the sinners out of sin into the land of salvation. You cannot think you are a wretch and at the same time be a preacher. You can be a wretch and confess your wretchedness to the people in the pews as part of your redemption. You can testify about your former wretchedness and how you rejoined the mass of ordinary sinners. You cannot preach unless you are sure you are something special.

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While Columbia University is the reigning champion of the anti-Israel academic scene, over in New Jersey, Rutgers University is making a bold play for the title with its Center for Security, Race and Rights (CSRR). For a center housed in a 4th-tier law school at a 3rd-tier university, it has assembled a surprisingly major collection of anti-Israel academics, making it worthy of the kind of scrutiny that many 1st-tier universities are now facing.

In fact, if a university sought to bring together the largest, most diverse group of credentialed, (in)famous, BDS-supporting, Israel-hating apologists for Palestinian terrorism, it would be difficult to top the CSRR.

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Pro-Israel students at Cornell University are up in arms over an upcoming spring concert funded by hundreds of thousands of dollars in mandatory student fees featuring the singer Kehlani, who has endorsed “intifada” and said bluntly, “It’s f— Israel, it’s f— Zionism.”

Kehlani is slated to headline Cornell’s Slope Day, scheduled for May 7, an annual concert that marks the end of the school year. The university announced the event in a statement touting the “multi-Grammy Award-nominated R&B artist.” It did not initially acknowledge the controversy her appearance has kicked up, though university president Michael Kotlikoff said last week that the artist will not make political statements and will forfeit her fee if she does so.

Kehlani, whose anti-Israel activism has garnered national headlines, posted a series of Instagram videos last May in which she said she had lost “any ounce of f—ing respect” for musical artists who did not publicly condemn Israel and its war on Hamas.

The musical is political, apparently. To a proglodyte, just as every German is a fascist, every Israeli is a Zionist.

UPDATE: ‘F— Israel, f— Zionism’: Cornell University Concert Headliner Sparks Uproar

UPDATE: Cornell Drops Spring Concert Headliner Kehlani After Uproar Over Singer’s Anti-Semitic Statements

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Police have made two more arrests after a wave of vandalism and all-out destruction directed against Tesla facilities and private Tesla owners by leftist lunatics whipped into an anti-Elon Musk frenzy. With each arrest, police flip over a new rock and let us gaze at the latest strange creature that lies beneath — and this week’s arrests will not disappoint the morbidly curious.

Under the first rock, we find 19-year-old UMass Boston student Owen McIntire, who is universally described by police and journalists as a man, but who presents a decidedly feminine appearance — seemingly extending the disproportionate representation of gender-bending criminals in the Tesla-Terror Freak Show.

New York Post.

Women’s fencer Stephanie Turner will be stepping back from fencing “for a while” after she was placed on a 12-month probation by USA Fencing for refusing to compete against a transgender athlete last month, a report said.

Turner, 31, was disqualified from USA Fencing’s Cherry Blossom Open when she took a knee rather than fence Redmond Sullivan, a 20-year-old who was born biologically male.

The drama that followed the decision, which made national headlines, “has disrupted my training, it has disrupted my interactions when I go out in public, and it will certainly disrupt my competition because I won’t be competing in the United States anytime soon,” she told Fox News.

The Hill, a Voice of the Crust.

A federal judge ruled Monday that two fathers cannot wear pink wristbands with two X’s — the symbol for female chromosomes — drawn on them in opposition to a transgender high school athlete on one of their daughters’ rival soccer teams.

Kyle Fellers and Anthony Foote sued administrators at Bow High School in south-central New Hampshire last year after they were banned from school property for wearing the wristbands to a match against Plymouth Regional High School, whose girls team includes a transgender player, 16-year-old Parker Tirrell. They asked a federal district court to allow them to silently wear the wristbands and display signs objecting to trans athletes in girls sports at school events.

Officials temporarily barred both men from school grounds for distributing and refusing to remove the wristbands during the Sept. 17 game between Bow and Plymouth Regional. Foote also placed a poster that read “Protect Women’s Sports for Female Athletes” on his Jeep and held the sign up in the parking lot after the game ended.

ZMan does a deep dive.

The word “apartheid” is like every emotionally charged word in the English language in that the worst people abuse it. In South Africa, it had a real meaning, as it described a real system. The word means “apart” and described a system in which the ruling white population lived apart from the black population. In modern usage, it has come to mean any race-based social system. The “apartness” is not so much physical but more of a moral distinction.

The West may need to invent some new words for the multilevel sociopolitical system that is emerging, especially in Europe. The rule of law and equality under the law are being abandoned in favor of a system that is loosely based on American concepts of social justice and social vengeance. In the United Kingdom, for example, there is now a separate set of rules for the white population. Whites, especially white males, are now to be punished more harshly than nonwhites.

This is mostly a formalization of something that has existed informally since Tony Blair flooded the country with immigrants. If a Muslim were caught rioting or raping, he could get off with a warning in front of the right judge. A native Brit, on the other hand, could expect the maximum penalty, especially if he could be accused of holding the wrong opinions about things. This is very similar to what we see in the United States, except now it is formalized in UK law.

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In just about a month, three NATO states arrested or imposed some form of civiliter mortuus on the biggest political threats to their respective regimes.

Romania forbade Georgescu, who won last year’s presidential election, from participating in May’s re-run; Turkey, with Istanbul’s mayor; Macron’s France, with Le Pen.

In Poland, the Europhile regime of Prime Minister Tusk forces—for the first time since the dark days of communism—the opposition into exile and subjugates newspapers and TV stations through a series of brazen police raids; in Germany, the nation’s largest party, the AfD, is under the confirmed, official surveillance of the intelligence services while its legislation remains under consideration by the authorities, even after they lost the recent federal election and their popularity continues to implode; in Italy, a deputy prime minister nearly got arrested for upholding—rather than breaking—the law of the land.

In Hungary, Serbia, and Slovakia, protests—obviously sold by the mainstream media as spontaneous and innocent—erupted almost simultaneously: the targets are, of course, all governments known to be opposed to—and loathed by—the Brussels mandarinate.

Fico, in Slovakia, nearly died at the hands of a terrorist hostile to the Prime Minister’s Ukraine policy.

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A new report from our group, the Network Contagion Research Institute, provides answers. Our research, based on nationally representative surveys and analyses of online activity, demonstrates the existence of online subcultures that support the murder of public figures like Trump and Musk. This “assassination culture,” incubated on social media, has migrated from the margins of public life into the mainstream.

We found that nearly one-third of Americans surveyed—and around half of those identifying as left-of-center—believe that the murder of certain public figures is at least somewhat justified. The figures are startling: 38 percent of respondents, and 55 percent of those left of center, said assassinating President Trump would be at least somewhat justified; 31 percent of respondents, and 48 percent of those left of center, said the same about Musk. Forty percent of respondents, and 58 percent of those left of center, deem it at least somewhat acceptable to “destroy a Tesla dealership” in protest.

Our report also discovered an online “assassination culture,” found in predominantly left-leaning digital spaces, such as Bluesky and Reddit. This subculture justifies and glorifies political violence. Some of these networks’ users wield the name “Luigi” or use the Luigi video game character as coded endorsements of Brian Thompson’s alleged assassin, Luigi Mangione. These users cloak explicit calls for violence in stylized memes. Many believe that political murder and sabotage are acceptable forms of protest.

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One week after an event was held in support of Marine Le Pen, who is the target of legal attacks aimed at preventing her from standing in the 2027 French presidential elections, a rally organised in Paris against the ideas of the Rassemblement National (RN)—a failure, even by the organisers’ own admission.

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Neil Young once stormed the country to sing the First Amendment’s praises.

That 2006 Freedom of Speech tour came after some said it was unpatriotic to critique the War on Terror. Young and his Crosby, Stills and Nash bandmates disagreed. They used the tour to skewer President George W. Bush, highlighted by the song, “Let’s Impeach the President.”

Subtle. And they had every right to sing it, even if they alienated longtime fans along the way.

It turns out Young’s First Amendment defense had plenty of strings attached.

Years later, Young declared war on a podcaster for sharing the “wrong” thoughts on a global pandemic. In 2021, the rocker said Joe Rogan’s contrarian COVID-19 views shouldn’t be shared on Spotify.

He even pulled his music from the platform to protest Rogan. It’s either him or me, Young argued. Spotify stuck with Rogan.

Who is much better looking, to tell the truth.

Young eventually returned his music to Spotify. Time has been kind to some of Rogan’s “problematic” pandemic views.

Meanwhile, Young said nothing about the media’s misinformation campaign tied to COVID-19. Remember how the jab would prevent the recipient from getting the virus and spreading it?

What about the six-foot rule? St. Anthony Fauci? The serial attacks on the lab leak theory?

Young stayed mum through it all, even though he was outraged by Rogan’s so-called lies.

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The French National Assembly has just been the scene of a serious altercation between staffers of the far-left party La France insoumise (LFI) and the right-wing investigative media outlet Frontières, in which the staffers resorted to violence as they tried to remove the reporters from the premises. On Wednesday, April 9th, parliamentary staffers from the far-left LFI party gathered at the National Assembly in protest against the publication of a major feature by the conservative magazine Frontières entitled “LFI: le parti de l’étranger” (LFI: the party of the foreigner), which highlights the party’s links with Hamas and Islamist lobbies.

Three Frontières journalists went to the site to cover the protest. When identified by the LFI protesters, tempers quickly flared and the journalists were physically attacked by parliamentary staff. Videos have since been circulating on X that show the aggression towards the three journalists—one of whom was a woman—with the involvement from Raphaël Arnault, an LFI MP who, by the way, has been placed on a watchlist by the French police as a possible national security threat..

The President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, issued a press release—placing almost all the responsibility for the violence on Frontières. The statement said nothing to condemn the actions of LFI as a blatant attack on press freedom. “Any action that could be considered as a stunt or provocation of any kind will not be tolerated. Failure to comply with these rules may result in restrictions on access to the Assembly and withdrawal of accreditation. The President of the National Assembly will ensure, in a firm and balanced manner, that they are respected. She will reiterate this in a letter to the media outlet Frontières”, the statement read.

USA Today, a Voice of the Crust.

First, an aide to President Donald Trump emails a leader of an independent agency to fire them. Then the leader sues, citing a law on the books that protects them from getting fired without cause. So the Trump administration shoots back that the law is unconstitutional. And they fight it out in court.

Legal observers following the trend think Trump is setting up a test case for the Supreme Court to revisit a 1935 decision that prevented a president from firing a member of Federal Trade Commission and paved the way for independent boards like the Federal Reserve to wield their power freely.

“I think the game is get it up to the Supreme Court,” said Thomas Berry, the director of constitutional studies at the libertarian Cato Institute. “And I think to some extent this is going to force the court’s hands.”

Among other roles, these boards set interest rates, insure bank accounts, protect children from unsafe toys, investigate airplane crashes, regulate public airwaves, enforce workplace discrimination laws, block federal workers from illegal firings, and allow workers to form unions.

So-called ‘independent agencies’ are major building blocks of the Deep State, carefully crafted so that if God forbid the Dramacrats lose the Presidency, some Republican who didn’t get the memo can’t come in and clean house.

One of Trump’s great virtues is that he doesn’t act like a politician, who would stroke his chin and consult widely before perhaps trimming an inch or two off of the Blob; he act’s like a business man, and in business the CEO can take a chainsaw to the operation and nobody can say him nay. And that’s exactly what is needed. People elected Trump to blow shit up, and that’s exactly what he’s doing, which is why all this media trash-talk isn’t affecting his popularity.

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Did Hungary’s Viktor Orban start a trend? He is hosting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a four-day trip to Budapest through Sunday. PM Orban used the occasion to declare that Hungary, an ICC founding member, will pull out of The Hague-based International Criminal Court.

The ICC slammed the move, and said that member states have an obligation to enforce its arrest warrant against Netanyahu. Interestingly, Belgium too has declared in all likelihood it would never arrest the Israeli head of state.

Prime Minister Bart De Wever on Thursday said his country would ignore a warrant for the arrest of Netanyahu, in a reversal from the stated policies of the prior government. This could lead to more and more countries declaring the same, also amid ongoing US pressure to not confirm to ICC dictates.

Statist always forget that not everybody is as mental as they are.

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The only resistance that matters.

I love Navratilova’s phrase ‘the gender bullshit bus’.

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You mean,  besides George Soros?

Former Wall Street Journal reporter and propaganda expert Asra Nomani teamed up with the Fairfax County Times to create a chronology of the protest actions, building a public database of anti-Tesla protests published on ActionAlert.com and Mobilize.us. According to Nomani, the Seattle-based protest organization Troublemakers and the Philadelphia-based group Disruption Project have sponsored about 70%, or 220, of the protests. Local chapters of Indivisible Project, a Washington-based nonprofit, have organized about 29%, or 87, of them, according to Nomani.

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On Tuesday morning, former Biden administration “disinformation czar” Nina Jankowicz repeatedly refused to disclose who’s funding her new gig – the ‘American Sunlight Project’ – which cropped up after a stint at the USAID-funded UK-based Centre for Information Resilience (CIR) – for which she registered as a foreign agent while serving as their Vice President.

To review – Jankowicz, who previously served as a disinformation fellow at the Wilson Center, advised the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry as part of the Fulbright-Clinton Public Policy Fellowship, and was then selected to head the Biden DHS’s newly formed Disinformation Governance Board – which was quickly dismantled amid criticism over censorship under the guise of fighting disinformation.

Four months later, she launched “The Hypatia Project” for CIR – where she was the Vice President until April 2024, at which point she co-founded the American Sunlight Project.

Fast forward to this morning, Jankowicz was evasive when asked by Republicans during a congressional hearing on disinformation about her funding…

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Not to get all Old World on you, but the Oxford Dictionary defines “lawfare” thusly: “Legal action undertaken in order to exert power or control, esp. as part of a hostile campaign against a particular country or group.”

In New World parlance? Author Malcolm Feeley in 1979 published a tome with a title that best sums up the point of lawfare: “The Process Is the Punishment.”

It’s death by a thousand cuts—of red tape. You are bled out by government.

This is why big companies were so quick to adopt DEI–they didn’t want to get lawfared out of existence by Democrat administrations. And that is why they’re dropping DEI like a live hand grenade–they don’t want to get lawfared out of existence by the Trump Revengers.

This is why we need to get away from the current system of ‘If we get in, we’ll shit on your people the way you shat on our people when you were in’, and start working on putting a plug in the government’s ass.

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Kvetching about Musk handing out two checks to those who signed a petition with his America PAC, Scott said the results will be “a test of the political power of Musk and a barometer about how voters are feeling about President Trump’s second term” and directly “impact future rulings on abortion rights and Wisconsin’s congressional map, which could shake up control of Congress.”

Ah, there it is! Scott admitted the quiet part out loud about the left’s objective: redraw congressional districts to favor Democrats.

Scott saw no reason to care about Pritzker or Soros, but instead closed by denouncing Musk creating “the most expensive judicial race” ever and embracing “Democrats and the candidate” for having “seized on Musk’s outside role.”

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Just when you thought Democrats couldn’t outclass themselves after Rep. Jasmine Crockett referred to Texas Gov. Abbott as “hot wheels”, here comes California to make sure you’re always entertained.

A new California ballot initiative, named after alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione, has been filed with the state Attorney General. It seeks to ban insurers from delaying, denying, or altering any doctor-recommended treatment that could risk serious harm, including death or permanent injury, according to KTLA.

If passed, the initiative would require that only physicians—not insurance company staff—can decide to delay, deny, or alter medical treatments. Hiring non-physicians for such reviews would become a felony.

The fact that Dramacrats make heroes of criminals comes as no surprise. The fun part is watching insurance companies exit California at flank speed if this passes. How stupid are the voters of California? Pretty stupid, it would seem–after all, the state is run by Dramacrats–but this will take it to new lows.

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After complaining on a WhatsApp group chat for parents about the conditions of their children’s school, two British parents were arrested in front of their 3-year-old daughter, British publication The Times reported.

Well, that’s what happens in a country with no Bill of Rights.