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Apple goes far to make its devices seamless and attractive, but it wants to go further and create controls that are invisible until you need them.

Apple already goes to thoroughly unreasonable, impractical lengths to hide elements of devices that other manufacturers wouldn’t even think of. Just look at the light that tells you a Mac mini is on.

If that device isn’t on, there’s no light. That’s not to say the light is switched off, that it’s blank, but rather that it is vanished.

You can call it over-engineering and you can call it unnecessary, but it’s Apple’s acute attention to detail — and the company wants to do more of it.

I don’t like this trend.

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A chemical abortion is a two-pill regimen that ends the life of the baby and poses health risks to the mother.

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During the George Floyd riots in Minnesota last Summer, the first night or two of violence was carried out predominantly by locals. But then the professional rioters and career criminals arrived, in the person of Antifa. That seems to be happening again, as Fox Newsreports, with reporter Mike Tobin on the scene.

 Minnesota Mob Intimidates City Council

Reuters ‘Fact Check’ Rushes to Defend Democrat H.R. 1 Voting Bill

Follow the Science! Washington Post Proves, Using Numbers, That Right-Wing Violence Was 73/25ths More Common Than Left-Wing Violence in 2020

‘New Amsterdam:’ Protections Against HIV-Tainted Blood Donations ‘Bigoted,’ ‘Hate’

UN Chief Wants To Slap Billionaires With Wealth Tax Over Pandemic Profits

Employee refuses to download app that monitors location, says it got her fired

60 Arrested in 3rd Night of Violent Minnesota Shooting Protests  Prediction: Not a single one of them will do any time.

Civil Unrest Continues In Minneapolis: Mass Detainments, Unlawful Assembly Declared

‘Can’t Be Reformed’: Ben & Jerry’s Says Police System ‘Must Be Dismantled’

Nancy Pelosi’s Husband Buys Microsoft Ahead of Big Govt Contract

Protesters Set Police Building Ablaze, Riot Declared In Portland  I’m surprised that Portland has any people left. I’d have moved somewhere else after the first riot.

“Riot” Declared After Protesters Set Fire To Portland Police Association Building

Amazon Creates Online Looting App To Allow The Timid To Loot From Home  Babylon Bee.

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The first Police Officer is a 26-year veteran of the department, with an excellent record. This Police Officer made a traffic stop, of a vehicle with expired license tabs. When the Officer ran the plates through the criminal justice database, the Officer discovered that the driver of the vehicle had an outstanding arrest warrant for assault, and carrying a firearm. The Officer then got out of the squad car to speak with the driver. A few minutes later, after the driver had worked himself loose from the handcuffs being applied, and gotten back into the vehicle to flee, the Police Officer shot him with her gun, while shouting “I’ll tase you, I’ll tase you!” This Officer will be charged with second-degree manslaughter. This Officer’s name and photo is all over the news, everywhere, and riots, burning, and looting are occurring all over the country, in support of the criminal victim.

The second Police Officer was present at a “riot” (also described in all of the Press as an “armed insurrection”). The Officer, in the middle of a crowd of trespassers, shot and killed a “rioter”, while said rioter was standing near a window. The person who was killed was a Veteran, with no criminal record of any kind, and was not engaging in any kind of destruction, nor was the person armed with any kind of weapon. Due to “lack of sufficient evidence”, this Police Officer will not be charged with any crime. This Officer has not been identified in the press, and no riots, looting, or burning are taking place in support of the innocent victim.

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Recently, there has been a drumbeat of expressed concern by the left — the Democrats and their ever faithful messengers, the press — over a rise in hate crimes committed against Asians.  The shooting in Atlanta, in which six of the nine victims were Asian women, brought on a rush to declare this an anti-Asian hate crime.  It turned out, however, that the fact that a majority of the victims were Asians had nothing to do with the shooter’s motivation.  More recently, the brutal attack, caught on video, of a man shoving an elderly Asian woman to the ground, kicking her several times, and shouting “you don’t belong here” was, indeed, a hate crime.  So leftists were palpably anxious to declare it a symptom of their go-to faux bogey, white supremacy.  But the facts revealed that the anti-Asian assailant was a black man and a convicted murderer (of his mother!) out on parole.  (It is inconvenient for this perfidious white supremacist narrative that blacks have committed a sizeable number of the assaults against Asians.)

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In a comment to the video, an Instagram user asked: “Actual KKK in California in 2021?” to which Ortiz responded: “Yeah it’s called a democratic party.”

Another comment under his video asked “Why didn’t you mention BLM and antifa? We know it’s most likely set up by one of those.” In response, Tito said: “I should just say the Democratic party.”

Governor Blocks Biden Administration From Bringing Unaccompanied Migrant Kids To South Carolina

WashPost ‘Reporter’ Aaron Blake Falls On His Face Over Biden Hiding from Media

How Joe Biden Created The Border Crisis

When It Comes To Inflation, What One Does And Doesn’t See Is All Political

Report: Biden Infrastructure Plan Now Includes $300 Million To Bail Out Essential Looters  Babylon Bee.

Texas, Missouri Sue Biden Administration Over Policies Allowing Immigrants To Stay In US

FLASHBACK: Biden Says US Troops Will Be Out Of Afghanistan By 2014

WashPost Submerges Kamala’s Border Duties, Promotes Her ‘Mark’ on the ‘Crochet Scene’

Biden Admin Gives Valuable Defense Contract to China Collaborator

Caught: CNN Staffer Admits Network Reported ‘Propaganda’ to ‘Get Trump Out of Office’

Here’s the biggest myth in the Republican Party today (CNN) Chris Cilizza lectures you on people he doesn’t know and wouldn’t understand if he did.

‘No More Policing’: Rep. Rashida Tlaib Claims Daunte Wright Shooting Was ‘Government Funded Murder’

Big Government Rides To The Rescue Of Labor Unions

Labor Union That Failed To Organize Amazon Workers Declares Moral Victory, Promises To Challenge Election Results. Here’s What Happens Next

Sen. Warnock Admits To Signing Email With Fake Info About Georgia Voting Law

‘Evolving Science’: NCAA Will Pull Championships Out Of States That Ban Trans Athletes

Man at Riot Curses Out CNN LIVE: Press ‘Twisting Up’ Story, ‘Makes This Worse’

How Far Left Infiltrated Corporate America and What Can Be Done About It

The Prince of the Wokes Joins the American One-Party State

Woke-a-Cola: How To Destroy A World-Leading Brand In 60 Seconds

Chinese Propagandists Tout NYT Columnist Thomas Friedman’s Comments

Portlanders Join Nationwide Riots After Cops Kill Minnesota Man; Hurl Bottles, Rocks, & Fireworks  Any excuse to riot will do.

More Than 35 Conservative Organizations Sign Pledge to Reject Big Tech Money

Google Shadow-Bans Searches For “Riots Today” Following Violent Unrest In Minnesota

GM and Ford CEOs Lead Michigan Group Opposing Voter Restrictions

Colbert Balks at Boehner, ‘Crazy’ Left Doesn’t Have Media on Their Side!

School custodian refuses to download app that monitors location, got her fired

Crime and no punishment in Minneapolis

They ‘Make Me Sick’: Kaiser Health News Editor-In-Chief Demands ‘Assault-Style Weapons’ Ban

Watch Protesters Take To The Streets Of DC For Daunte Wright  Any excuse for a riot will do.

Big Corporations Now Deploying Woke Ideology the Way Intelligence Agencies Do: As a Disguise  Glenn Greenwald.

MSNBC host, top House Dem peddle misleading info about waiting periods to legally purchase guns

Minneapolis City Council To Offer Looting Passports  Babylon Bee.

NCAA “Unequivocally Supports” Transgender Biological Male Participation In College Women’s Sports

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Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.

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Facebook’s Oversight Board just moved to OK even greater censorship, despite years of criticism of the site’s attacks against conservatives. The Board announced its intention to expand its ability to censor content by accepting appeals from users who have reported content that they disagree with.

The Oversight Board announced the decision to allow users to appeal complaints to its platform April 13 amidst an already tumultuous year for free speech. “Now, users can also appeal content to the Board which they think should be removed from Facebook or Instagram,” the Oversight Board said. “The Board will use its independent judgment to decide what to leave up and what to take down. Our decisions will be binding on Facebook.” It added that the option to appeal content would “be available to all users over the coming weeks.”

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Armed thugs in Hong Kong broke into the printing facility of an anti-government newspaper to destroy its equipment, the latest example of what the paper says is the Chinese Communist Party’s crackdown on press freedom in the city state.

The Epoch Times, a paper founded by Chinese dissidents in 2000, said four intruders forced their way into the paper’s Hong Kong printing plant during the early hours of April 12. The intrusion marks the fifth time vandals attacked the printing facility since it was established in 2006.

Surveillance footage shows masked attackers, one of them armed with a knife, wielding sledge hammers to destroy printing equipment. The intruders scuttled away after two minutes, stealing a computer in the process.

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Cash-hungry union executives forged an Oregon worker’s signature in order to deduct money from her paychecks, according to a new lawsuit.

The suit, filed in late March, accuses a local chapter of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) of forging Staci Trees’s signature on a membership card authorizing the continued withholding of union dues from Trees’s paycheck. The Oregon woman is turning to the courts to intervene and curtail labor union influence.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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With so much focus on the App Store at the moment, Apple’s leading argument is that its App Store review policies offer security and safety for users. However, unscrupulous apps continue to slip through the net and rake in millions from Apple customers before being caught.

One of the biggest drivers of these scams is the use of fake reviews to prop up apps that otherwise wouldn’t get a second look. A common pattern for such an App Store scam is to make a very simple app targeting popular search keywords, attach aggressive subscription pricing to it, and make it rise high in search results by faking hundreds of 5-star App Store reviews …

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The Guardian has seen extensive internal documentation showing how Facebook handled more than 30 cases across 25 countries of politically manipulative behavior that was proactively detected by company staff.

The investigation shows how Facebook has allowed major abuses of its platform in poor, small and non-western countries in order to prioritize addressing abuses that attract media attention or affect the US and other wealthy countries. The company acted quickly to address political manipulation affecting countries such as the US, Taiwan, South Korea and Poland, while moving slowly or not at all on cases in Afghanistan, Iraq, Mongolia, Mexico, and much of Latin America.

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The rapidly growing trend of veganism is likely to become another major contributor to hidden hunger in the developed world. According to the Vegan Society, the number of people switching to a vegan diet in the UK has risen more than fourfold in the last decade. A study commissioned by the Vegetarian Resource Group revealed that nearly 5% of the US population are vegetarian and about half of these are vegan.

More on Sea-Watch 4 and its Antifa Flag

Is “racism” a public health threat?

China Launches Hotline for Netizens to Report ‘Illegal’ History Comments  We have always been at war with Eastasia.

On pay and wealth, damaging race inequalities prevail (The Guardian) An assertion for which neither evidence nor argument is presented. ‘We say it, so it must be true!’

ABC, NBC Back Biden’s Orwellian Rebranding of Social Programs as ‘Infrastructure’

Celebrating a Century of Communism

Maryland Becomes First State To Repeal ‘Police Bill Of Rights’ After Overriding GOP Governor’s Veto

David “Camera” Hogg Abandons Liberal Pillow Business After Two Months

Nevada GOP Censures Elections Official Who Defended Results

“Far Left Antifa Extremists” Set Fire To Portland ICE Building 

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For years, Austin has attracted far-flung newcomers with its food and music scenes, along with low taxes and cost of living. The city grew 30% from 2010 to 2019, making it the fastest-growing major metro area in the country. It was adding about 170 people per day by the end of that period, according to the latest census count. So while rapid growth is nothing new for the city, the population shift associated with Covid-19 has intensified the struggle to, as the motto goes, “Keep Austin Weird.” Even Congrove—a software engineer who moved from Florida seven years ago—is most concerned about how the new wave of tech workers is affecting his adopted city’s culture. Lately, he’s seen more T-shirts bearing startup logos than band names. New condos have sprouted up where quirky bungalows once stood. And the commute time to his downtown office has tripled.

Turning it into California on the Brazos.

Hating California is a tradition in Texas, but Austin’s growing pains aren’t all California’s fault. According to the Austin Chamber, more than half of newcomers from 2014 to 2018 came from other parts of the state, followed by just 8% from California and 3% from New York. The majority of people who moved to Austin during the pandemic came from other parts of Texas, according to USPS data. The city is also home to the University of Texas at Austin, which attracts tens of thousands of students, who may be more inclined to stick around after graduation because the city is thriving.

Austin is one of the Democrat-run municipalities into which all of the Blue pus in Texas drains. The good news is that those of us who live outside of the city cores don’t have to put up with them.

John Hinderaker at PowerLine.

David Horowitz has published a new book titled The Enemy Within: How a Totalitarian Movement Is Destroying America. What follows is an excerpt from David’s book, published with his permission.

Nation Braces For Most Peaceful Protests Yet  Babylon Bee.

Georgetown’s Cultural Revolution

Multiple New York Times Staff Previously Worked For CCP-Controlled Media  Which is another way of saying that they still do….

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San Francisco residents are abandoning the city in droves, with a large number leaving to Texas and Florida, according to a report released Thursday by the commercial realty firm CBRE Group.

The city lost the most residents out of every major city between 2019 and 2020, with 70 percent moving to nearby Sacramento, according to data that was gathered from the United States Postal Service records through a Freedom of Information Act request.

Moves to Texas increased by 32.1 percent and to Florida by 46.2 percent.

“It’s Class Warfare” – Protests, Tax Hikes Create “Hostile Environment” For Wealthy New Yorkers

Media Hero in the War on Policing Arrested for Murder

Out of Context: Colbert Mocks McConnell With a FAKE Narrative on Woke Corporations

Not Comedy: CNN Claims Republican Voters Really Do Support Biden’s Agenda  That will be news to a lot of people.

Is CBS… Racist? Network Touted GA Boycott, Now Pushing Masters Tournament on CBS

Boehner Hits Right Wing, Ignores His Own Lack of Character  Don’t think of it as selling out; think of it as buying in.

New York Will Spend $2.1 Billion to Give $15,600 Checks to Illegal Immigrants

GOP Critics: Blue States Have Voting Laws Stricter Than Georgia’s

Big Tech Becomes Big Brother? Twitch Announces Plan to Ban Users for Off-Site Behavior

P&G worked with Chinese ad agency on bypass of Apple privacy feature

S.F. isn’t the only city seeing a major exodus, according to Zillow’s Mover Report

EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon Promotes Radical Resources to Kill ‘Extremism in Ranks’

Here’s The Far-Left’s Plan To Take Over Every Federal Court

NY State To Give Up To $2.1 Billion To Illegal Immigrants

United Airlines plans to use race and gender-based quotas to select pilots

Teachers’ Union Head Rips Jews in Interview on School Reopening

Solar Industry’s Reliance on Chinese Forced Labor Threatens Biden’s Green Economy

‘Stoking The Flames Of Conspiracy’: Boehner Rips Into Trump In Upcoming Book, Says He ‘Incited That Bloody Insurrection’  RINOs ASSEMBLE!

EXCLUSIVE: ‘Swamp Creature’ — Trump’s Senior Adviser Accuses John Boehner Of Selling Out Americans By Doing Lobbyist Work For China

Hack Comedian Sam Bee Just Admitted It: We Don’t Want to Mock Biden

‘Wokeness As A Geopolitical Tool’: Author Says China Is Using Social Justice To Manipulate Americans

City In California Pays Homeless People Gift Cards To Clean Their Tents

Cuomo To Hit Richest New Yorkers With Top Tax Rate Over 50%, More Than Most Europeans Pay

San Francisco School Board Reverses Decision to Rename Schools

Tourist On Vacation In New York City Hit By Stray Bullet Near Times Square

Parents Outraged Homeless Encampments Have Popped Up Around Seattle Schools  Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.

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Apparently child care is ‘infrastructure’. Who knew?

UPDATE: 9 Things You Need to Know About Biden’s ‘Infrastructure’ Spending Plan

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Nothing says “anti-fascist” like taking George Soros’ money to work with people-traffickers and bring illegal immigrants across the Mediterranean to Europe.

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And why not? Corporate taxes aren’t paid by corporations but merely passed on to their customers. And they’re taxed only on ‘profits’ which Bezos has carefully arranged Amazon to have little of.

Of course, it’s too much to expect dimwist like ‘journalists’ and politicians either to understand such things or to be able to explain them to others. So we get simpleton government.

UPDATE: Jeff Bezos supports US tax rise after not paying it for two years – and paying tiny amount in 2019

UPDATE: Amazon, Which Routinely Avoids Taxes, Supports Biden’s Corporate Tax Rate Hike  And why not? It’s not as if Amazon is going to pay any of it. And if they can raise taxes on their smaller competitors, who do need to make a (taxable) profit, they’re good with that.

Mea Culpa: Oregon’s Largest Newspaper Admits Defunding Police Was A Terrible Idea As Homicides Skyrocket

Senate Parliamentarian Sets Dangerous Precedent, Grants Schumer Permission For Second Reconciliation Vote

Spending Free For All: Paid Family And Medical Leave Is Infrastructure According To House Democrats

MLB All-Star Game Reportedly Moved To Colorado, A State With Voter ID Laws Similar To Georgia  But it’s a safely Blue state, so that’s all right then.

In The Name Of Social Justice, MLB Moved All-Star Game From Mostly Black City To Mostly White City

Leaked Docs Show UK Government Has Planned For Vaccine Passports All Along

Portland, Oregon Police to City: We Quit

The IMF And World Bank, Who Pay No Taxes, Are About To Talk About Tax Hikes And Inequality

CBS WHORES Out for Crony Capitalism, Backs Biden Billions to Electric Cars in ‘Infrastructure’

North Las Vegas Mayor, Lifelong Democrat, Switches Parties, Citing ‘Socialist Takeover’ In Nevada

Biden Administration Told Senator To ‘Delete The Pictures’ From Border Visit

Key Democratic Vendors Still Doing Business with Lincoln Project After Sex Scandal

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Father P.J. Hughes is the parish priest of Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Mullahoran, a township in rural County Cavan, Ireland. He recently earned the dubious distinction of becoming the first Irish priest for centuries to find himself on the wrong side of the law for saying Mass in public.

John Hinderaker at PowerLine.

Wokery burst onto the scene much like covid or, more appropriately, the Black Death. Or World War II. Has so much stupidity been promulgated so quickly and so broadly at any time in human history? Maybe not. Previous stupid phenomena like the witchcraft scare and phrenology took longer to take root.

CBS News Deletes Tweet Linking To Article That Gave Companies Advice On Fighting ‘Georgia’s Restrictive New Voting Law’

Here are 7 necessary ways to tax the rich (Salon)

Trump’s Campaign Bilked His Fans Out of Millions Because of Course It Did (New York Magazine)

Do the Rich Support the Tax the Rich Campaign? (The New Yorker)

Shock: This CNN Host Exposes Liberal Lies Against Georgia Voting Law

CBS Yanks ‘Straight-News’ Article Advising Companies “How To Beat” Georgia Election-Integrity Laws

CNN Lets Guest Smear GOP as a ‘Cult’ Over Voting Laws

MSNBC Hypes Biden’s Jim Crow Lies, Pushes Fake ‘Nonpartisan’ Experts

PolitiFact Boasts ‘Fact-Checking Festival’ in May Starring…Brian Stelter!?

MSNBC Guest: Sorry I’m Not ‘Woke’ Enough To Approve Attacking Cops

Why Lester Holt’s Declaration That ‘Fairness Is Overrated’ Is So Dangerous

Running a Factory Under Soviet Socialism

Egalitarians are more aware of inequality  Perhaps because they obsess over it.

Report: Facebook, Twitter Employees Donated Almost Exclusively to Dems  My, what a surprise.

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Apparently one kind are assholes, and the other kind are insecure assholes.

Now you know.

Montana Gov. Gianforte Signs Legislation To Ban Sanctuary Cities In The State

YouTube Unveils Hide Feature After Americans Mass-‘Dislike’ Biden Videos

Hillary Attacks “Shameless Gun Worshipers” Who Are Against “Sensible” Control Legislation

Sore Loser Dem Trying to Steal Seat Calls It Quits, Nets Skip Whole Scheme

Joy Reid: You Can’t Oppose China, Transgenderism Because That Encourages Violence

LGBTQ Holy Days

How ‘Defund the Police’ Killed Police Reform

Joe Biden Says It’s Not ‘Right’ Or ‘Fair’ Female Soccer Players Make Less Money Than Men

7 Hong Kong Democracy Leaders Convicted as China Clamps Down

Sweeping Bill Limiting Mail-In, Drive Thru Voting Advances In Texas

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Demands ‘Reparations’ For Families Separated At The Border Under Trump

NBC’s Lester Holt says we don’t need to hear both sides to define truth: ‘Fairness is overrated’

‘Ideological Poison’: Tom Cotton Slams Military’s Promotion Of Critical Race Theory

‘Fertilizer Taxes’ Will Hurt Farmers and Likely Drive Up Food Prices

CNN Clarifies Gender/Sex Claim with More Activist Doublespeak

White House Wedges Pro-Union Provisions Into Infrastructure Plan

Marxist Angela Davis Calls on Students at Pricey California School to ‘Dismantle Capitalism’

Weaponizing Social Justice to Protect School Administrators and Discredit Whistle-blowers: A Canadian Case Study

REPORT: School Committee Chair Says Teachers Against Critical Race Theory ‘Cannot And Should Not Be Tolerated’

And Then the Diverse Came for Ken Burns

Only the Good Get Canceled

NY Times: ‘Sen. Mazie Hirono Wonders How Some Republicans Live With Themselves’  I wonder how the people of Hawaii live with themselves.

Interior Chief Of Staff Reassigned After Scheduling Party Without Social Distancing

‘An Open Conspiracy’: GoFundMe Terminates Fundraiser For Unwoke Parents Targeted By Loudoun County Schools

Over 5,000 Christians Condemn Marjorie Taylor Greene for ‘Blasphemous’ and ‘Evil’ Rhetoric  According to Newsweek, anyway.

A Black Lives Matter activist exposed the role two local police officers played in the Capitol insurrection. Their small town rapidly took sides.

New York Times Outsources Research to Media Matters

Colorado Is Latest to Weigh Ban on Native American Mascots

‘Inclusive’ Star Wars: Hyping Trans and Firing Conservatives

YouTube Intensifies Attack on Religion, Removes ANOTHER Faith-Based Channel

 USA Today Writer Backs Crowdfunding Only Lefty Protest

Gay Twitter is MAD at ‘Fugly B***H’ Sarah Paulson For Not Specifying Pronouns

Top Chef Host Condemns Parents Who Don’t Believe Their Kids Are Trans

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The mother of Kenosha shooting suspect Kyle Rittenhouse claims attorney Lin Wood kept him in jail for months in order to protect him from what he feared would be a post-election breakdown of society.

Wendy Rittenhouse, whose 18-year-old son is charged with two counts of murder in connection to the shootings at a Black Lives Matter protest in August 2020, claimed Wood thought he would be safer at an Illinois youth facility because “Armageddon” was approaching.

Can’t say he’s wrong.

Hulu Cartoon Mocks Police as Illiterates With ‘Hardline Conservative Opinions’

NATO Pushes For Creation Of “Democratic Resilience Center”

New York Times Outsources Research to Media Matters

Mullet over: Aussie boys’ school tells kids ‘business in the front, party in the back’ hairstyle is ‘not acceptable’

AOC Says It’s Wrong To Use The Word ‘Surge’ When Talking About Border Crisis Because Children ‘Are Not Insurgents’  You can’t fix stupid.

Reversing Trump, Pentagon to Release New Transgender Policy

China Revives Dubious Theory That US Military Base Was Source Of Coronavirus

CBS Repeatedly Lobbies: Why Not Just Boycott Georgia Over GOP Voting Law?

Facebook Removes Former President Trump’s Interview, Silences Political Dissent

Two Capitol Police Officers File Lawsuit Against Trump For Injuries From The Capitol Riot

NH Dem Blasts Pelosi Voting Reform Bill

CNN News Article Says ‘No Consensus Criteria for Assigning Sex at Birth’  Guess that whole Y chromosome is just a mirage.

AOC Fires Border Crisis Salvos, Blames ‘White Supremacy,’ ‘Climate’

CNN Just Spews Trans Activist Blather About Sex and Gender

Democrats’ “Terrorist Insurrection” Narrative Collapses As Most Capitol Rioters Likely Won’t Face Jail Time

Highly Educated More Likely To Support Allowing BLM Protests Than Jewish Funerals During Pandemic: Survey

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After weeks of relative silence, Antifa’s destructive activism came roaring back to the Pacific Northwest. And as the trial of a former police officer in the death of a black man is underway 1,650 miles away, this region worries that the violence not only will worsen but threaten to become a permanent fixture.

Violence erupted in both Seattle and Portland, Oregon, in mid-March as jury selection began for the trial of Derek Chauvin in the May 25 death of George Floyd while in the custody of Minneapolis police.

The Other McCain dees a review of the life of G. Gordon Liddy, who just died.

“When the legend becomes fact, print the legend,” as the famous line from an old Western says, and G. Gordon Liddy was certainly a legend.

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Beginning more or less with President Trump’s inauguration in January 2017, when white nationalist and future Biden voter Richard Spencer was sucker punched by a masked rioter on camera while being interviewed in Washington DC, the violent militia and online harassment network Antifa has played an increasingly central role in the accelerating destruction of Western liberal democracy.

Today connected to dozens of homicides, thousands of assaults, and hundreds of millions of dollars of property damage, the movement nonetheless continues to enjoy significant support from global corporate and political elites.

Social media companies allow Antifa accounts to orchestrate harassment and call for violence on their platforms with impunity; corporate media alternates erratically between celebrating Antifa and insisting that they don’t exist, and senior political figures including Republican Senator Mitt Romney and Iraq War proponent Jeffrey Goldberg compare the movement to the American soldiers who defeated Hitler.

Meanwhile, anyone reporting accurately on the reality of a movement which, despite anarcho-communist branding, functions in practice as a combination of the Sturmabteiling and the Stasi is subjected to a campaign of defamation and intimidation from pro-Antifa academics and journalists who tend to serve as apologists and spokesmen for the movement, rather than reporters on it.

 

Matt Taibbi Challenges Joe Scarborough: “Invite Me To Debate Your Network’s Putrid Russiagate Coverage”

UK Now Considering Digital Face-Scanning To Enter Pubs

Cornell Students Call to Halt China Partnership

Australian school makes innocent 12-year-old boys to apologise for rape 

Schools must fight to defend freedom of expression

The Campaign to Thwart Paleogenetic Research Into North America’s Indigenous Peoples

UK terror law reviewer calls for expanded police powers to imprison people who refuse to hand over passwords

New head of diversity and inclusion at US Special Operations Command reassigned as military investigates social media posts

Democrats look to impose capital gains tax at death  Democrat politicians have never met a pocket that they won’t try to pick.

China Furious As 1st US Ambassador To Visit Taiwan Since 1979 Calls It A “Country” 

Are Democrats Trying To Overturn A Certified Election? Here’s What’s Going On  Hint: Yes.

Boat Shoes Meets Blackface: Buttigieg ‘Honored’ to Appear with Virginia Governor He Urged to Resign

“The Largest Tax Hike In Generations” Could Pay For Up To 75% Of Biden’s Next Spending Plan

China Tightens Grip On Hong Kong, Changes Election Law To Ensure Loyalty

Protest Away! US Olympic Athletes Given Free Reign To Shame Country

Tammy Duckworth Suggests The Pentagon Monitor Social Media Accounts To Stop ‘Growing Radicalization’ In Military

‘Perhaps We Skip Trials’: Chelsea Handler Says There Shouldn’t Be Legal Process For Crimes With ‘Audio And Video’ Evidence

San Diego Opens Schools to Undocumented Kids While Students Learn Remotely

Ministry of Truth? Gates/Soros-Funded Org Starts Leftist ‘Information Disorder’ Commission

CBS Airs Puff Piece on Radical Left-Wing District Attorney of Crime-Ravaged San Francisco

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I’m old enough to remember when the ACLU stood for something (agree with them or not). They were free speech absolutists who defended the rights of Nazis to march in Skokie, because they believed that shutting down speech was more dangerous than what the Nazis were saying. They stood up for Japanese-Americans facing FDR’s concentration camps. They defended Communist Party members and Jehovah’s Witnesses.

To be truly principled, though, you need to be honest.

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Another migrant caravan has started making its way from Honduras to the United States’ border with Mexico, according to Reuters.

The caravan, with estimated numbers in the several hundreds, is the second largest migrant caravan to depart from Honduras this year, Reuters reported. Members of the caravan and other eyewitnesses told Reuters the caravan is heading north to flee from the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact, as well as natural disasters, according to Reuters.

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European solar manufacturers have claimed nearly every solar panel purchased from China has its origins in the Chinese Muslim slave factories of Xinjiang.

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Oxford University reportedly is under pressure to stop, or at least curtail, the teaching of sheet music, musical notation, and even the classical music that was scored upon it. The rationale is that all of this is “too colonial,” and that Beethoven, Mozart, and music in general are “complicit in white supremacy.”

It’s not just students and BLM groups that are pushing this insanity. In fact, professors seem to be leading the charge.

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It’s ironic that this issue of The Gentlewoman came out just before her newest movie. Johansson was probably worried about the cancel vultures and wanted to cover her tracks. She’s never before had qualms about giving and forcing her own political opinions down other people’s throats.

In October, she assembled with other Avengers co-stars for a Joe Biden fundraiser. Not to mention she’s a BIG fan of abortion and has no problem glorifying it and supporting Planned Parenthood. It should also be noted that she’s even expressed interest in running for a political office in the future. So this recent claim for actors to just do their job is a bunch of nonsense coming from her … she should listen to her own words of advice.

Biden Describes GOP Voting Law Efforts as ‘Jim Crow in the 21st Century’

House Democrats Can Use Taxpayer Money to Overturn an Election

Mitt Romney Receives JFK ‘Profile In Courage’ Award For Voting To Impeach Donald Trump

Is Gov. Andrew Cuomo Just Going To Northam His Way Through This Impeachment Crisis?

MSNBC Spreads Anti-Gun Propaganda While Smearing Conservatives

More Bisexual Tumblrina Craziness (and Other Random Insanity Updates)

This Week in Campus Insanity

Oakland: 14th Amendment’s “Equal Protection of the Laws” Is Suspended for the Duration

Former Obama NASA Chief Slams Biden for Tapping a Man to Lead Space Agency

New Democratic Push For DoD Cuts Highlights China, Shipbuilding Woes

Bernie Sanders Changes Mind On Space Travel After Elon Musk Builds Him A Fourth Home On Mars  Babylon Bee.

Congress demands tech CEOs to censor the Internet

AP Language Cops: DON’T Use ‘Crisis’ to Describe the Border Crisis

‘We Can & Will Silence The Opposition’: Loudoun County Public Schools Committee Posts, Then Deletes, Call For Action Against Opponents

New MSNBC Republican Sounds Like Every Other Network Liberal, Slams GOP ‘Tyranny’  They keep coming up with these fake ‘Republicans’ who always sound — what are the odds? — just like Democrats. Do they really think that this trick will work?

The Other McCain is on the case.

The description of the fatal incident in this NBC News account doesn’t adequately explain the horror of what was captured on cellphone video by an eyewitness who started recording as Anwar was attempting to prevent the teenage girls from stealing the car. Answer was at the driver’s side door of the vehicle, holding onto the wheel, when the carjackers sped off with him hanging out the side of the door. They swerved left, evidently trying to ram him into a lightpole, and then turned right around a corner. The vehicle disappears from sight in the video, then a loud crash is heard. The witness runs down the street and, when he turns the corner, we see the car toppled onto its left side, the two teenage carjackers scrambling out while Anwar’s apparently lifeless body lies on the sidewalk.

The perps were two black teenage girls.

White House might tax motorists by the mile to fund $3-4T infrastructure plan  I’ll bet you didn’t know that the White House, rather than Congress, gets to decide what taxes people pay. Foolish you.

Judges erase ‘and bear arms’ from Second Amendment

Baltimore will no longer prosecute drug possession, prostitution, low-level crimes

OOPS: WashPost ‘Fact Checker’ Promoted Un-Factual ‘There’s No Migrant Surge’ Article

Cyclist Transportation Secretary Wants to Tax Americans Who Drive Cars

Biden’s Chorus: Hateful CBS Slimes Georgia as ‘Anti-American’ for Voting Bill

Trans Woman Tears Into ‘Transphobic’ TSA In Viral Video Over Scanner Sensing ‘Anomaly Between My Legs That Sets Off The Alarm’

Georgia Election Officials Are Sued Over New Voting Rules  Of course they are.

‘Not My Job’: Scarlett Johansson Hits Back At Idea Actors Need To Share Political Views  She is one of my favorite people.

Congress, in a Five-Hour Hearing, Demands Tech CEOs Censor the Internet Even More Aggressively

The New York Times Can’t Get Basic Facts Right on Election Reform

It’s Officially Now An Offense To Leave England

Democrats claim filibuster is a racist tool — but only when Republicans use it

The Guardian is irate.

Kroger, the largest supermarket chain in the US which makes hundred of millions of dollars in profits, is shutting down grocery stores and laying off scores of employees in response to local hazard pay rules for essential workers even as the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage.

Reality is what sticks around ever after you quit believing in it. Politicians think that they can ignore elementary economics and just hand out other people’s money with impunity.

Proglodytes, of course, think THAT’S JUST TOTALLY UNFAIR:

“Why are they punishing us?” said Hernandez. “If it weren’t for us they couldn’t run the stores. As a person we have value. As workers we have value. They don’t seem to care about you as a human being. They don’t care.”