Steve Sailer.

While this may sound like a new low in public disorder in the northern Bay Area, robbing news crews while they are on the air has been a Thing for at least a decade.

Since news crews are almost always white and robbers are almost always  black, this ought to surprise nobody.

Rapinoe No Victim: US Women’s Soccer Team Earned More Than Men’s Team

China’s Secrecy Affects US

Just Do It For China! Nike Declares Its Brand ‘Of And For China’

Hong Kong Police Arrest Former Apple Daily Journalist at Airport

Chicago Data Appears to Contradict Lightfoot’s Claim of Decline in Crime  BRAAAAAAAINS!

Oakland ‘Defunds’ $17 Million From Police Budget  Prediction: Crime will increase. Preduction: That increase will be predominantly black people. Prediction: Politicians will blame lack of gun control laws.

Facebook Soars Past $1 Trillion Market Cap After District Judge Dismisses FTC’s Anti-Trust Case

Experts SLAM Facebook for Allowing China’s Uyghur Genocide Propaganda

JUSTICE: Facebook Can Be Held Liable for Human Trafficking Cases, Court Rules

Over 500 Election Fraud Cases Are Pending In Texas Courts: Attorney General

CUNY Professor Resigns From Teachers’ Union That Condemned Israel

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Usually the word “hacking” implies breaking into someone else’s data, but farmers are having to hack their own farm equipment just to keep it running, reports Freethink. Companies like John Deere won’t license out the software necessary to diagnose and fix their increasingly complex farm equipment, forcing owners to source that software online.

The fight over “right to repair” doesn’t just extend to totaled Teslas—it affects what makes it onto your dinner table, too. Crops won’t schedule themselves around a 40-mile repair trip to a specific company’s dealership. Mother Nature does not care about John Deere’s terms of service. Farmers say that they need to be able to repair their own ag equipment on their own terms—either themselves or through independent mechanics—as they have always done.

Severian continues his deep dive.

Before turning to look at effective propaganda, let’s address an important objection from Anonymous White Male:

Oh, they always have a capital-T version of the truth, and they pretend to believe it. But, that capital-T truth is constantly changing. Sort of a fungible propaganda. Remember, Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia. Oh, damn! This is Monday. Remember Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.

I hate to sound like Ulynaov’s mini-me, but that’s the kind of “bourgeois objectivism” we need to get over, comrade. They don’t “pretend” to believe it, they DO believe it, with all their hearts and souls… and yet, they don’t believe it, because they can’t. We’ve always been at war with Eastasia today, and we must act like it, if we are to survive… and yet, the very act of “acting like it” entails knowing that we could easily have always been at war with Eurasia tomorrow, and acting like it. I can’t explain it, but somehow it must be both true and not true, simultaneously.

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We have written many times about the sad decline of the City of Minneapolis. Perhaps the number one villain of the story is City Council President Lisa Bender, who famously said on television that calling 911 when someone breaks into your house “comes from a place of privilege.” It is remarkable that such goofballs can be elected to public office.

Minneapolis’s Uptown district has been devastated by riots and general lawlessness since career criminal Winston Boogie Smith was apprehended by law enforcement and fired at officers from his Maserati. They fired back and killed him. He is now being canonized as a hero and a victim of police brutality. A second no-go zone in Minneapolis has been established as a tribute to Boogie.

YouTube takes down Xinjiang videos, forcing rights group to seek alternative  YouTube is becoming a Communist front.

More Police Officers Have Retired Or Quit In The Past Year Than Ever Before, New Survey Shows

No Space Left to Run: China’s Transnational Repression of Uyghurs

Bill Maher Diagnoses Liberal ‘Progressophobia’

It’s only $6 Trillion: ABC Pressures Manchin to Move Left, Bring GOP With Him

Yet More Olympics “Activism”: Medalist Turns Back To Flag During Anthem At Trials

Turmoil erupts in school district after claims that critical race theory and transgender policy are being pushed

Corrupt NYT Skips Dem Crime Crisis: ‘Opportunity to Beat GOP on Law-and-Order’

Blackouts Loom in California as Electricity Prices Are ‘Absolutely Exploding’  Time to leave.

Hungary Told To Repeal Law Banning LGBT Promotion To Children “Or Else Leave EU”  Time to leave.

Masks Required in Philly’s Naked Bike Ride  Be All the Pervert You Can Be — so long as you conform to the Narrative.

TikTok’s Chinese Parent Company Has Unlimited Access to American Data

“Enough Is Enough”: Los Angeles Sheriff Urges State Of Emergency On Homelessness

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For the past five months The Spectator World has been running an anonymous column called Wokeyleaks by a disillusioned social-justice warrior from within the entertainment industry. Wokeyleaks provides an encrypted email address (wokeyleaks@protonmail.com) to which whistleblowers can leak stories about the most shocking and ridiculous aspects of woke culture.

So far, we’ve covered the woke hypocrisy of corporations such as Youtube, Microsoft and Mercedes Benz who tweet their undying support for Gay Pride Month in the West, while staying shamefully silent about gay rights on their Middle Eastern accounts. We’ve covered the British spy agencies who are woke-policing their employee’s conversations and the billionaire attendees at the Saudi Aramco-sponsored World Economic Forum, who fly into Davos on their private jets to chat about climate change. We’ve even had a leak from a whistle-blower within the defense company Northrop Grumman where arms dealers are being given microaggression training so that no one gets triggered while they flog bombs to brutal regimes.

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What, did you think they were actually Catholic? You must not read the newspapers.

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The principal current focus of lawlessness is Uptown, formerly the city’s main entertainment district. Uptown is where Winston Boogie Smith opened fire on law enforcement officers who were trying to arrest him, leading to his own death. Expect his canonization any day now. Uptown has not been free from “protests,” which mostly means unchecked crime, in the weeks that have gone by since.

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I’ve been writing about Colorado cakemaker Jack Phillips’ fight against cultural authoritarians for a long time. This past March, I noted that Phillips would probably be badgered into the grave. And this week, Denver district judge A. Bruce Jones again found that the state could compel speech, claiming that Phillips had acted unlawfully when refusing to create a cake that celebrated the alleged gender transition of a Colorado activist.

When Phillips declined to participate in the wedding of David Mullins and Charlie Craig back in the summer of 2012 — this was before Obergefell v. Hodges and before gay marriage was even legalized in Colorado — he made himself the target of harassment by activists and “civil-rights” commissions that set out to destroy his business over a thought crime; by courts that set out to corrode religious liberty and free-speech protections; and by media that either don’t understand or don’t value free expression anymore.

Victor Davis Hanson.

Wokeism was never really about racism, sexism, or other -isms. Instead, for some, it illustrated a psychological pathology of projection: fobbing one’s own concrete prejudices onto others in order to alleviate or mask them.

Escape From Woke Metropolises  Rod Dreher.

Democrat Lawmaker Suggests Catholic Church Should Lose Tax Exemption If Pro-Aborts Denied Communion

“Inclusion” Means Excluding You

How YouTube’s rules are used to silence human rights activists

CNN’s John King Channels Despondent Dems Crying ‘Armageddon’ as Their Voting Bill Fails

California Gov. Newsom to Face Recall Election

Laughable: Joy Reid Claims No Constitutional Basis for Opposing D.C. Statehood  The same people who are adamant that black people are just as smart at white people keep putting stupid black people on TV. (Of course, they put stupid white people on TV too, so maybe they can’t tell the difference.)

Sesame Street Addresses ‘Complex Issues’ by Introducing Gay Couple in ‘Family Day’ Episode  ‘Complesity’ is merely the proglodyte foot-in-the-door to perversion. Once they get people to admit that ‘it’s complicated’, they stick the other foot in under the rubric of ‘nuance’ and eventually succeed in turning everything upside down. Abortion is the master template for this process, and it’s been working well for them the last five decades.

After Repeatedly Promising Not To, Facebook Keeps Recommending Political Groups

Giuliani Suspended From Practicing Law In New York The fact that lawyers, like doctors, require a ‘license’ to practice law (and the fact that you can go to jail for ‘practicing law without a license’, which means whatever the licensed lawyers masquerading as judges want it to mean) makes the practice of law open to flagrant political meddling — and, boy, do they.

Microsoft Exemption From Antitrust Bill Followed Company Donation to Top Democrat  Money talks.

China Kills Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Newspaper

YouTube removed 3.9M dislikes for White House

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Carl Nassib went from hero to zero in record time. Hailed earlier this week by the Left for being the courageous first active homosexual player in the NFL, Nassib is now getting canceled by the Twitter mob because he is a registered Republican who voted for Donald Trump. Oh, the agony of it!

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No one should be denied credit because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

Ostensibly to deter such discrimination, a proposal in Congress (HR 1443) would require small-business lenders to furnish data to the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau detailing the LGBTQ business-ownership status of credit applicants.

That mirrors current law imposing similar reporting on female or minority business ownership. But regardless of the supposed intent of the bill’s proponents, reporting requirements serve as a next step in bringing quotas to the credit markets.

Ironically, such quotas enshrine discrimination by making success in the marketplace partially contingent on membership in a politically favored category. That conflicts with the American ideal of equality under the law and equal protection of the law.

The fact that this legislation attempts to prevent discrimination against politically fashionable groups in the name of ‘equality under the law’, an obviously corrupt practice, is just a dance around the basic issue that is still unaddressed: What business is it of the government to prevent ‘discrimination’? ‘Equality under the law’ and ‘equal protection of the law’ are TWO DIFFERENT THINGS. They deal with how the government treats individuals with respect to the government — an important thing, no doubt about it, but not the most important thing … which is, how is it the government’s job to decide who I do business with? We used to have something in this country called ‘freedom of association’, which means that it was up to the individual to decide with whom he would associate, either socially or commercially. That freedom has been stomped into the dirt, and people walk over its grave daily without a glance. Even a news organization like The Foundry, which I’m sure describes itself as conservative, has given up the fight about basics and is just squabbling over the details.

Nowadays THE GOVERNMENT decides with whom you are allowed to associate, and in extreme cases CAN FORCE YOU TO ASSOCIATE WITH PEOPLE YOU DISLIKE. That is the essence of tyranny.

The future socialist dictatorship is already here; it’s just not equally distributed.

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Liberal outlet Inside Philanthropy sang the praises of an extremist pro-abortion group funded by billionaires George Soros and Warren Buffett looking to revamp its baby slaughter advocacy.

Catholics for Choice (CFC), a leftist organization that twists the tenets of faith to sanction the monstrous act of abortion, is being rebuilt and rebranded at a time when “the politics of reproductive rights are approaching a boiling point,” IP fearmongered.

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Yes, he attended then-President Donald Trump’s rally in Washington, DC, on Jan. 6, but he never entered the Capitol. He was in a friend’s room at the JW Marriott a 30-minute walk away when the Capitol breach occurred.

Nonetheless, he was raided in February by the FBI anti-terrorism task force, handcuffed, paraded and detained for three hours while his apartment was ransacked and all his devices confiscated. Four months later, he hasn’t been charged and doesn’t have his devices back, but his neighbors are shunning him, and he’s had two strokes from the stress.

Your tax dollars at work.

“It’s A Sovereignty Issue” – Bermuda Pushes Back Against G-7 Minimum Corporate Tax Proposa

Lincoln Project Claims Exoneration by Law Firm of its Own Donors

Mayors Respond to the Murder Surge: We’ve Tried Nothing and Were All Out of Ideas!

Fredo Screams at Democrats: ‘Are You Ready to Play to Win, Now?!’

NYT Hypes Soros-Funded Group’s $20M Fight Against ‘Republican-Driven Voting Restrictions’

Biden Admin Launches “Firearms Trafficking Strike Forces” In Liberal Cities  Which is, of course, where the major problems with gun violence lie.

Michigan County Requests Audit of State’s 2020 Election Results

Pennsylvania Election Audit Shows Benjamin Franklin Voted For Biden  Babylon Bee.

Party Controlling Executive, Legislative Branches Blames Minority Party For Everything Going Wrong  Babylon Bee.

Norah O’Donnell Brags: CBS Is a ‘Fact-Based,’ ‘Fair,’ ‘Neutral’ Network

Zoom updated with custom video filters, support for gender pronouns, and more

U.S. Air Force Base Says Drag Queen Show Was “Essential For Morale”

‘Unbelievable’: Swedish Writer Says LinkedIn CENSORED His Profile for Users in China

Sports Illustrated, Woke Athletes Demand NCAA Punish ‘Anti-Trans’ States

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I’d eat beans and sleep on a board before I’d send my kids to a government school.

UPDATE School Board Walks Out in Virginia County as Parents Criticize Transgender Policy, Critical Race Theory

UPDATE: Va. School Board Meeting Devolves into Arrests of Gender Policy Protestors

ZMan not only pulls back the curtain but he jerks it completely off the rod.

A popular concept in right wing politics is the gatekeeper or sometimes called the controlled opposition. This is the person or group that appears to be in opposition to the Left, but is an insulation layer between the Left and genuine critics. The function of the gatekeeper is to prevent people from abandoning the political morality of the Left, while at the same time making sure to lose every fight with the Left. They channel opposition into positions that can never succeed.

Ben Shapiro is the most obvious example. His primary role is to funnel all opposition into a dead end. His answer to the tech monopolies, for example, is to tell people to build their own new internet. After all, only a communist would demand the government prevent private actors from trampling your rights. Of course, he always tone policing the language of the people he claims to represent. The point is also to cleanse the language of rhetoric that could be effective against the Left.

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Tribal societies don’t have the animus against cheating that WEIRD societies do.

Yes, that includes the Chinese and Koreans. If you’ve ever been to graduate school with Chinese or Korean students, you know that most of them plagiarize and cheat whenever possible, as a matter of course.

Coca-Cola Diversity Policy Risks Violating Anti-Discrimination Laws, Shareholders Warn

Professors Call For Hate Speech Protections To Be Extended To Animals  They’re so oppressed.

San Francisco Walgreens shoplifter seen filling bag with stolen goods arrested while ‘clearing shelves’: cops

The Democrats Have an Elitism Problem. Sheldon Whitehouse Is the Latest Example (Newsweek) Even a blind pig finds an acorn now and then; Newsweek wanders away from the Narrative.

US Olympic athlete Chelsea Wolfe threatened to burn flag on podium  The whole Trans thing may not succeed in destroying U.S. participation in the Olympics, but its increasing politicization will certainly destroy any lingering pretense of having an audience.

Quid Pro Quo? Amazon-Funded Progressive Group Calls Company ‘No. 1 Investor in America’

Colorado Mayor Suspends Pledge of Allegiance at Town Meetings  There must be a lot of Californians moving to Colorado.

A Court Ruled Rachel Maddow’s Viewers Know She Offers Exaggeration and Opinion, Not Facts

Woman Briefly Identifies As Man To Avoid Long Bathroom Line  Babylon Bee.

California will pay off all past due rent

US Govt Seizes News Websites Across MidEast, Including Iran’s PressTV

National Popular Vote Compact Would Disfranchise Smaller and Rural States

“Out Of Order!” Colorado Mayor Bans Pledge Of Allegiance, Then Snaps At Meeting Attendees Who Recite It Anyway  Time to leave.

On The Mean Streets Of America, The Gun Battles Never Seem To End…

Sesame Street Airs 4-Hour-Long Special Where The Count Counts All 471 Genders Babylon Bee.

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News accounts have been swirling for days (though conspicuously not in the NY Times, Washington Post, etc) that a very high ranking Chinese intelligence official (some reports say it is Dong Jingwei, the vice minister for state security) has defected to the U.S., and is confirming the lab leak hypothesis for COVID-19, as well as warning the U.S. of extensive penetration by Chinese agents.

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When my parents were in high school, this sort of thing was considered the essence of the high school experience: Preparing young people for Real Life, such as teaching young men basic trade skills and young women basic homemaker skills, because that’s what most of them would be doing once they walked away from graduation. It was only the combination of Everybody Needs To Go To College and Diversity And Inclusion took over the school systems that such skills-training started to atrophy.

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Most people have heard that old saw about “God made all men, but Sam Colt made ’em equal.” While it’s not strictly speaking completely true, it’s not entirely an exaggeration either.

Why The Davos Elites Just Played The ‘Jon Stewart’ Card  I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.

Police Chief Resigns Over Gun Law He Says Will Help Anti-Police Activists ‘Torment Law Enforcement’

ProPublica’s Half-Baked Exposé Continues To Captivate Credulous Media

Mayhem ensues as Antifa converges on Western Conservative Summit in Denver

Godfather Of Color Revolutions: Is George Soros The Most Dangerous Man Alive?

Governments Are Failing At Their Most Basic Duties… While Promising Free Stuff

ABC Boosts Dems Lashing Catholic Bishops Denying Communion to Biden

Houston PD Deputy’s Home Invaded, Wife, Stepdaughter Shot

Ex-Detroit Police Chief: ‘No Surprise’ Cops Quitting In Face Of Reforms

“Furious” Parents Slam NYC’s “Woke” $57K Spence School After It Shows Video Calling White Women “Entitled” And “Annoying”  Well, you’ve got to admit, they are — at least the ones that would send their kids to a school like Spence.

China Arrests Hong Kong Journalists for Violating Law That Was Praised in New York Times Op-Ed

NY Times Freak Out: ‘Ultraconservative,’ ‘Right Wing’ Southern Baptists

14 States Side With Christian Wedding Photographer Against NY’s Public Accommodations Law

9 Careers More Appealing Than Being A Police Officer In 2021  Babylon Bee.

Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2021

Atlantic Magazine Writer Admits Voter ID Does Not Suppress the Vote

CNN Fails to Link Liberal Policies to Surge in San Francisco Shoplifting

‘Big Brother’? San Jose Requires Gun Purchases To Be Videotaped   Time to leave.

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Middle income families are lashing out against Joe Biden’s punitive new tax plan that would claim a large chunk of the amount someone leaves to their kids when they die just because it has gone up in value over the course of their lifetime.

The harsh new tax – dubbed Biden’s ‘death tax’ – is hidden in his American Families Plan and it’s receiving ferocious backlash. It proposes that when someone dies, any asset they leave behind that has appreciated in value by more than $1million since the time they bought it should be taxed.

The tax rate would go as high as 40% – double what it is now – and it applies to how much the asset has appreciate. So someone who inherited a house their mother and father paid $250,000 for but that’s now worth $2.5million would have to pay tax on the difference.

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The realization that Rush’s show – which had continued since his death with guide hosts and taped Rush playbacks on various topics – was now, in fact, irretrievably over and never to return was both poignant and a tad unnerving for his fans.

Rush was a year younger than I am. I feel as if I ought to be making funeral arrangements, you know, just in case.

The Other McCain does the reporting that American media won’t do.

In case you didn’t see this story already, the fake “whistleblower” Rebekah Jones attempted to destroy the career of a Ph.D. student at Florida State University who only wanted to help get Florida’s COVID-19 death totals accurately counted. The word “psychopath” is now being widely used to describe the woman who was the subject of “Everybody Blog About Rebekah Jones Day” a couple months ago. Because I am a professional journalist, however, I would hesitate to use the clinical term “psychopath” because I have no credentials to make such a diagnosis and it might be construed as defamatory. Nevertheless, I have previously stated my opinion that Jones is “deranged, demented, daft, wacky, bonkers, non compos mentis, off her rocker, nuttier than a Snickers bar, a few fries short of a Happy Meal, and cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.”

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Feminism, micro-aggressions, and Wokeness. Nowadays, you strike up a friendship by trading pre-nups.

The Register keeps you up to date.

With no one onboard to fix it, the craft has been directed to slowly return to base, where it’s hoped it can be repaired.

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A Chinese subsidiary of the Japanese camera company Canon installed AI-powered cameras that only let employees enter office rooms if they were smiling. The cameras were trained to detect if people were grinning happily or not, according to a report on surveillance in the workplace in China by Nikkei Asia.

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When Deer Park resident Brandon English got home from work on Wednesday, his house was hot.
“(My wife) had it cranked it down at 2:30,” English said. “It takes a long time for this house to get cool when it gets that hot.”
English’s wife and their daughters decided to take their afternoon nap earlier in the day.
“They’d been asleep long enough that the house had already gotten to 78 degrees,” English said. “So they woke up sweating.”
Without anyone touching it, they said their thermostat was changed while they were sleeping, making their home unbearably hot.
“Was my daughter at the point of overheating?” English said. “She’s 3 months old. They dehydrate very quickly.”
His wife received an alert on her phone soon after that. The family said their thermostat had been changed remotely, raising the temperature of their home during a three-hour “energy saving event.”

I don’t want a Smart Home. I want a home that will do what the hell I tell it to.

Parent Group Calls On Teachers’ Union Head To Denounce Anti-Semitic Statements

UN ‘Political Declaration’ on HIV/AIDS Prioritizes ‘Sexual Rights’ Over Sexual Health

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A Loudoun County, Va., middle schooler whose family asked that he not be exposed to transgender-themed lessons that go against their faith was placed in a small room adjacent to the dean’s office during that class the next day rather than an alternate lesson, according to the parents.

“[The boy’s mother] wasn’t happy about the fact that he was put in this isolation room,” said Brenda Tillett, president of Standup Virginia, a nonprofit that fights for parental rights and education, law enforcement and safe communities and election integrity. “I think that is giving a child a mental message that they’ve done something wrong because they’re placed in isolation.”

NPR throws its dress over its head.

Missouri has new a law that claims to invalidate all federal gun control laws — and prohibits state and local cooperation with enforcement of those laws.

Gov. Mike Parson signed the bill, known as HB 85 or the Second Amendment Preservation Act, into law Saturday at a gun store and shooting range called Frontier Justice.

The law declares federal laws and regulations “that infringe on the people’s right to keep and bear arms as guaranteed by the Second Amendment … must be invalid in this state.”

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Following the criminal indictment of a fellow officer, the entire Portland Police Rapid Response Team made the unanimous decision to resign, according to police sources via Portland news outlet KXL.

Lawless EEOC chair issues garbage gender guidelines

Americans Are Increasingly “Fleeing” California And New York For Florida And Texas

What Biden knows about being a superpower that Republicans don’t (Washington Post)  As if Jennifer Rubin would know.

The Lithium Mine Versus the Wildflower

John Cusack Rant: America Is ‘F**king Awful’  Don’t let the door hit you in the butt on the way out.

DNC CNN: Don’t Worry, We’ll Keep Lobbying for Gun Control!

Hong Kong Police Raid Newsroom Of Pro-Democracy Paper, Arrests Executives

Iran’s Sham Election

Prediction: The Riots Are Returning to Portland

Big Brother: Facebook Introduces New Censorship Tools for Group Administrators

Corden Sympathizes With Newsom: ‘How Annoyed Are You’ By Voter Recall?

The Hits Keep Coming in Portland

Judge Rules Christian Baker Jack Phillips Must Make ‘Gender Transition’ Cake

P

ressley urges Mass. lawmakers to shift funding away from school police to counselors, nurses (Boston Globe)

Emails From Michigan Attorney General Nessel’s Office Gives Rare Look Into Her Vindictive Office

School board member tells graduating high schoolers to remember their ‘jihad’ and brace for a world of ‘white supremacy’

Exposing the Media’s Blatant Partisanship on Election Laws

MSNBC MANIA: We’ve Seen ‘Last Free & Fair Election’ If HR1 Doesn’t Pass

Lethal Autonomous Weapons Exist; They Must Be Banned (IEEE Spectrum) One of the characteristic delusions of Progressivism (which has, these days, captured all professional organizations like the IEEE) is the banning something is sufficient to make sure it doesn’t happe. This is most obvious in the Gun Control forum, where the focus is always on more and more ban-x ban-y laws rather than on figuring out really effective ways of keeping guns out of the hands of those who will abuse them (like black males).

So Much for Childhood: 30 Kids Shows, Toys Push LGBTQ Agenda Over A Year

CBS’s Shocking Spin for Shoplifting Crime Wave: ‘Act of Desperation,’ ‘Not Getting Rich’

How Blue City Governance Is Destroying Blue Cities

‘Racism is Racism’ Parent Calls Out Elite Private School For Racist Video Against White Women

Biden Wants to Make Catholics Pay for Murder

Liberal Activists Rebrand Sex Changes as ‘Gender-Affirming Medical Care,’ and the Media Is Following Their Lead

Stanford Mental Health Workers Say University Counseling Ignores and Intimidates Jews

Education Secretary Prioritizes Transgender Students Over Biological Girls, Does What Supreme Court Hasn’t

The Other McCain sounds the alarm!

Are you encouraging skepticism toward the Biden administration’s policies? That’s “malicious content,” you extremist! Got a Trump bumper sticker on your car? Your neighbors will rat you out to the Department of Homeland Security, because obviously that’s “threatening behavior.”

Hey, let’s talk about “unindicted co-conspirators” for January 6.

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Uptown was, until recently, one of Minneapolis’s principal entertainment and shopping areas. Now, in the wake of Winston Boogie Smith’s shooting by law enforcement–he apparently opened fire first–a chunk of Uptown has been closed off to traffic and turned into an “autonomous zone” that is referred to by some as Boogie World. The area encompasses Lake Street, one of the city’s principal roadways, from Hennepin Avenue–another principal roadway–to Fremont Avenue. At this point, Uptown is essentially dead.

Marjorie Taylor Greene led early in the House’s crazy stakes. But a dark horse has emerged. (Washington Post) Dana Milbank polishes his Woke credentials. (Hey, pays the bills, know what I mean?)

Boeing Restarts Donations to Members of the So-Called ‘Sedition Caucus’ (Daily Beast) So-called by the Daily Beast, at least.

Ford, Mellon, Rockefeller Made Their Fortunes Thanks to Capitalism. Now, Their Foundations Seek to Undermine It.

Biden’s Biggest Danger Is Democrats Afraid to Tax the Rich (New York Magazine) Jonathan Chait pushes the Narrative.

Is it time to limit personal wealth? (Washington Post) Maybe it’s time to limit envy and fascism instead.

The Delusions of the Radical Centrist (New York Magazine) The never-ending slog of pushing the Narrative.

Child Worker’s Spirits Really Lifted By All The Pride Merch He’s Making For Major Corporations

Vast Majority Of Democrats Support Employers Forcing Workers To Get COVID Jab, New Poll Finds

Biden Administration Uses Term ‘Birthing Person’ Instead of ‘Mother’

Why The New Yorker’s Stars Didn’t Join Its Union

PolitiFact Isn’t Partisan? Pants On Fire

2 Republican Lawmakers Sue Over House Metal Detector Fines

Fleeing Venezuela

Feinstein Accepts Lifetime Achievement Award From Bush Scion’s CCP-Backed Group

Fairfax Board Member Rails Against The Dangers Of “Excessive Individualism”

Report: 40 Percent of Teachers Say Civics Education Should Focus On Critical Race Theory

How Zuckerberg Millions Paid for Progressives to Work With 2020 Election Officials Nationwide

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Does it catch fraud or manipulations of data? No, patently not: peer reviewers are not omniscient, so they cannot divine made-up data, nor can they check all the outputs of a lab to see when they’ve simply copy-and-pasted data between papers. If they were, we wouldn’t have the website PubPeer stuffed to the gills with people flagging potentially serious misdemeanors in published papers, nor Retraction Watch’s endless reporting of papers so dodgy they’re expunged from the literature.

Petition calls for NJ school board members to resign after holidays removed from calendar: ‘Cancel culture’

ABC Gives Boost to Demings’ Campaign Against Rubio, Before Dem Primary

Forget Going Back to the Office–People Are Just Quitting Instead

“YouTube is shutting down dissenting Biology PhDs and MDs”

Election Assessment In Pennsylvania County Uncovers Five “Issues Of Note”

What the Rich Don’t Want to Admit About the Poor (New York Times) Pushin’ that Narrative into the ground. I’d like to see What the New York Times Doesn’t Want to Admit About the Rich.

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A major pandemic that killed more than 600,000 Americans is finally winding down. Taxes are raised on individuals and corporations. The nation has experienced the most progressive presidency in American history. White supremacy is a major threat, as race riots hit some cities. Systemic racism is everywhere. Soldiers are coming home after a long war. A reportedly debilitated President is largely protected by his spouse. Major movements are afoot to improve the human condition.

An apt description of today? Try 1920, (more specifically, 1913-1921) some 100 years ago.

Woodrow Wilson is arguably the most evil person ever elected President of the United States.

‘Day Off’: NJ School District Ditches Holiday Names on Calendar

People Who Ruined World’s Economies Gather To Discuss How To Fix World’s Economies  Babylon Bee.

CNN Tees Up Dem Mayor to Push Plan to Tax You Gun Owners

Texas Governor Signs Executive Order Donating City Of Austin To California  Babylon Bee.

YouTube Suspends Sen. Johnson for Touting Non-Traditional COVID Treatment

Elitist MSNBC Host Dismisses Inflation Concerns, Deceptively Edits Fox Segment

Jayapal’s wealth tax seeks to tap America’s vast riches for the common good (Seattle Times) And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

For Pride Month, Taco Bell To Continue Giving Explosive Diarrhea To All Genders And Orientations  Babylon Bee.

Baltimore City Responds After Dozens Of Businesses Threaten Not To Pay Taxes

Burying the Shocking N-Word Claims Against Hunter Biden  The Crust takes care of its children.

Kristoff: Feminism Demands That Doctors Treat People Like Dogs,

ABC, CBS Ignore Rep. Omar Comparing U.S., Israel to Terrorist Groups

Law Enforcement Struggles to Recruit Since Killing of Floyd  More accurately, ‘since demonization of Chauvin’.

Paul Krugman’s 10-Year History of Being Wrong

Oregon Lawmakers Unanimously Oust Colleague After He Helped Rioters Breach The State Capitol

Teachers Union In Scotland Promotes Upcoming Play Presenting Jesus As Transgender Time to leave.

“We’re On Fire”: Amidst NYC Exodus, Demand For Commercial Office Space In Palm Beach Is Off The Charts  I’d move there myself if I could afford it.

Parents Praise Teacher Suspended for Saying He Won’t Use Transgender Pronouns

Amid Hiring Shortages, Ilhan Omar Says Her Next Step Is ‘Implementing’ Universal Basic Income ‘Nationwide’

Telemundo HIDES Kamala´s Border Lies

‘All We’ve Gotten Is The Cold Shoulder’: Republican Rep. Reportedly Being Blocked From Joining Congressional Black Caucus  Obviously, if you’re not a Democrat, you’re not really black.

LA Sheriff Attributes Crime Surge To Soros-Backed DA Gascón, Supports Recall

Elizabeth Warren Says Cryptocurrencies Are An ‘Environmental Disaster,’ Calls For Regulation

Flag to Dems = Garlic to Vampire

Liberal Group Funded by Swiss Billionaire Spends Big to Attack ‘Billionaires Buying Our Elections’  What’s the use of having power if you can’t abuse it?

Death spiral of American academia

Daily Beast Columnist: Bribe Joe Manchin to Ditch Filibuster Hey – he’s a Democrat; it might work.

California Latino Caucus Rips Both Harris And Trump, Calls For ‘All Asylum Seekers’ To Be Let In

Atlanta Suburbanites Push For Separate Police Force Over Crime Surge

China has created a ‘dystopian hellscape’ in Xinjiang, Amnesty report says

Public School Teacher Warns Parents: Be Afraid of Kids ‘Rooting for Socialism’ by Middle School

‘Wild Attack’: Braun Questions Why DNI Identified ‘Abortion-Related Violent Extremists’ As Principal Threat, But Not BLM And Antifa

AP Snubbed as Al Jazeera Wins Hamas Prize for Gaza Coverage

House Dems Vote to Categorize Art as Infrastructure  Surely brassieres qualify as infrastructure?

From Spank Bank To Food Bank: Toobin Post-Masturbation Redemption Tour Kicks Off

New York Times Relocates Offices To Beijing So Reporters Won’t Have To See So Many ‘Disturbing’ American Flags  Babylon Bee.

“A Dangerous Precedent” – 3rd FDA Advisor Quits After Controversial Alzheimer’s Drug Approval

California Recall Could Cost Taxpayers Over $215 Million  Fixing mistakes can be expensive. It’s usually cheaper to avoid the mistake in the first place.

Joy Reid Rants: Governor Abbott Will Make Students Dumber  Although not as dumb as Joy Reid.

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