Critics of corporate diversity efforts emerge, even as initiatives falter (Washington Post)

San Francisco could be on the verge of collapse. What should California do about it? (S.F. Chronicle)

Federal judge slaps down ban on Seattle ICE deportation flights, sanctuary county immediately tries again

Ivy League Schools Are Now Pushing $90,000 Per Year In Tuition This is deliberate–anyone who looks at the Ivy school endowments will realize that they don’t need to charge tuition at all, much less at these nose-bleed rates. The goal is to make it too expensive for anybody except Children of the Crust to pay for an Ivy League education, while cutting breaks in the form of ‘scholarships’ and ‘financial aid’ for favored minority groups to make sure the ‘diversity’ comes out right.

The Media, Far-Left Congressman Jamaal Bowman: Guns For Me But Not For Thee

These 5 states will be the first to kick residents off Medicaid starting in April (CNN) In the Narrative Media, ‘kick off’ means ‘quite extending benefits to people who no longer qualify’. These were people who got a special break because of COVID; COVID is now over, so they get dropped. CNN, who think that everyone ought to get free health care at the expense of taxpayers, of course thinks this an atrocity.

Investigation Reveals ‘Revolving Door’ Of DOJ, Big Tech Employees

One in four college applicants avoids entire states for political reasons (The Hill) I certainly would.

Watch: Anthropology Prof Angered After Being Mocked For Denying Ability To Tell Gender From Human Bones

Democrats Run on Abortion, Even for Offices With Little Say on the Issue (N.Y. Times) Virtue-signaling is paramount.

NYC Man Shot Twice by Thief Charged With Attempted Murder

Trans people face rhetoric, disinformation after shooting (The Hill) Welcome to our world.

Illegal Immigration Surged At Northern US Border With Help Of Americans

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Donald Trump has been indicted, essentially for the crime of being Donald Trump and opposing the Left’s total hegemony over everything. But as Trump himself has often warned, they’re not really after him, they’re after us, and he is just in the way. A 33-year-old Trump supporter named Douglass Mackey discovered the truth of that adage in the worst possible way on Friday, the first day of America as a Leftist banana republic in which foes of the regime are targeted solely for their opposition to that regime. Mackey was convicted of election interference and faces up to ten years in prison, all because of a meme he tweeted during the 2016 election. Yes, you read that right: a meme.

Students sue University of Wyoming sorority for accepting transgender member (N.Y. Post)

7 sorority sisters at University of Wyoming sue Kappa Kappa Gamma to challenge induction of transgender member (NBC News)

Members sue sorority, claim ‘peeping’ trans woman with ‘visible erection’ allowed to live with them (ABC News)

Lawyers share safety worries in anonymity request for students in UW sorority suit (Casper Star-Tribune)

Audience laughs at professor telling Riley Gaines there is no difference between male, female bone structure (Fox)

‘Woke’ University of Pittsburgh professor denies difference in male, female skeletons (N.Y. Post)

Transgender activist tells MSNBC ‘God made me in her image’ (Fox)

‘I know we can do better as a city’ | South Austin business owners nervous as homeless encampments pop up (ABC News) Homeless people migrate to blue areas because they get free stuff.

Cornell’s classroom trigger warnings are a disaster for free speech (N.Y. Post)

TN House Speaker calls Democratic disruption at state capitol an ‘insurrection’ (WKRN)

Red America is growing because blue America is shrinking (Washington Post)

Are people fleeing Oregon? Census data shows population decline (Fox)

New census estimates show which California counties are losing residents (KTLA)

Exodus Trend Persists: Homebuyers Unfazed By High Mortgage Rates Leave Expensive Cities

21 State AGs Warn Top Asset Management Firms About Woke Investing

Tensions Flare Inside NPR After Staff Layoffs and Town Halls (Bloomberg)

The Other McCain turns over a rock.

This “lockstep” nature of a curriculum based upon the average student results in what I’ve called the “Hansel and Gretel” approach to teaching. Those who recall the fairy tale know how Hansel and Gretel left a trail of bread crumbs behind them to help them find their way back home. In a similar manner, the teacher doles out lessons in a time-ordered sequence — the bread-crumb trail of knowledge — with a certain amount of math, grammar, history, etc., to be taught each day, without regard to the abilities or interests of the students. Let us stipulate that this method cannot be separated from the classroom system; we are not passing judgment on whether teachers are “nice” people, or whether they are sincere in their desire to help students learn, when we apply critical scrutiny to the system itself. No matter how intelligent or dedicated the teacher may be, so long as “education” is a matter of group instruction, with children assigned to classrooms by age (rather than by their ability or interest), and the teacher required to bring the children along through a prescribed set of lessons, this “Hansel and Gretel” method must be used, and its effects are predictable, as the critic saw in 1912.

Public education in general violates a basic principle of successful organization, i.e., voluntary association through mutual self-selection. Think about college fraternities. Candidates for membership attend rush parties at the houses that they’re interested in joining. Members of the fraternities meet the prospective candidates, then vote on which ones should receive offers of membership. A student might receive such bids from more than one fraternity, in which case he is free to choose between them. And once an offer of membership is accepted, the pledge must go through a trial period — learning the secret handshake, etc. — before becoming a full-fledged member. Each fraternity has standards of behavior, embodied in a code, and enforced by a membership committee that can expel any member who fails to uphold the code. And if member for any reason becomes dissatisfied with the obligations of fraternity life, he is always free to quit. In a free society, this is how practically all successful enterprises are organized, and a major reason public schools are such a disaster is because they are not based on this principle of mutual self-selection. Public schools are based on government-imposed compulsion, and as such are offensive to the spirit of liberty.

Matt Taibbi.

If the story was wrong, and Trump wasn’t a Russian spy, there wasn’t a word for what was being perpetrated. This was a system-wide effort to re-frame reality itself, which was both too intellectually ambitious to fit in a word like “hoax,” but also probably not against any one law, either. New language would have to be invented just to define the wrongdoing, which not only meant whatever this was would likely go unpunished, but that it could be years before the public was ready to talk about it.

Around that same time, writer Jacob Siegel — a former army infantry and intelligence officer who edits Tablet’s afternoon digest, The Scroll — was beginning the job of putting key concepts on paper. As far back as 2019, he sketched out the core ideas for a sprawling, illuminating 13,000-word piece that just came out this week. Called “A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century: Thirteen ways of looking at disinformation,” Siegel’s Tablet article is the enterprise effort at describing the whole anti-disinformation elephant I’ve been hoping for years someone in journalism would take on.

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With each year that passes since Bethany Mandel wrote that “Modern Motherhood has a Major PR Problem,” the truth of the claim becomes clearer. Earlier this month, the United Kingdom was meant to celebrate Mother’s Day. While flowers were quietly distributed to the women of TERF island by those who retain some sense of honor about the thing, the online world exploded with commentary from professional chatterboxes about just how horrible motherhood really is.

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Left-wing extremists violently storm the state capitol in Tennessee, disrupting the work of that state’s legislature. Let’s arrest them for insurrection and give them 11 months in solitary confinement before we bring them to trial.

The Fine Print.

It’s one of the least polite questions one can pose at any media gathering: “How did your parents’ success in media affect your own career?” For months, we’ve been asking it of people who’ve traversed familial paths. Some replied tersely (“pass, thanks”), others declined to comment with kindness or never replied at all. (Don’t worry: we’ll be naming them all.) But some agreed to share the thoughts that come from a lifetime of anxieties and striving, and their stories spilled out as if unleashed from an electric tension.

It’s not hard to understand why nepotism is such a social taboo in media circles. Privileges of all shapes are under stricter scrutiny lately, and notions that individuals should credit their good fortune to something other than their own talent and work ethic especially rankle. But the subject of nepotism in journalism has long brought out streaks of apoplexy in even habitually mild observers. “Nepotism is by no means confined to politics,” wrote John Bakeless, editor of The Living Age before becoming a journalism professor at New York University, in his 1931 book Magazine Making. He complained it “is especially rampant in publishing, largely because of the attractive character of the work and the prestige which for some odd reason attaches to it. The most grotesquely unqualified people are perpetually struggling to ‘get into editorial work.’” For example, he added, “I have known a proof-reader who could neither spell nor use reference books.”

ZMan turns over a rock.

Paul Gottfried has a post up on the topic of elite whites incessantly condemning white people for alleged crimes against nonwhites. A feature of the current crisis is a rich white person, usually a woman, wagging a bony finger at white people for the alleged crimes of their ancestors. Of course, these white people always live in the whitest areas and rarely interact with nonwhites. This always brings the charge of hypocrisy from the sorts of people who think this matters.

The question that white civic nationalists ask themselves when confronted by this strange behavior is whether the antiwhite scolds believe it. The practical brains of the people attracted to civic nationalism cannot accept anything but a practical answer to the question of motivation. The antiwhite scolds must see some profit in this behavior so they are cynically exploiting it. They do not actually believe what they are saying, which explains how they live.

Gottfried offers up an alternative to this thesis. These antiwhite scolds are acting from some form of self-loathing. Eric Hoffer made this observation seventy years ago in his book The True Believer. People who join causes tend to do so because they have a desire for self-abnegation. This is driven by a hatred of their natural identity and a desire to swap it for some other identity. The group identity then becomes their own, which is why they so viciously defend the group.

Police chief tells NBC News a sense of ‘resentment’ may have fueled Nashville shooter’s attack at former school (NBC) HER penis, you bigot.

Police Identify Nashville School Shooter as Transgender Former Student

Karine Jean-Pierre, liberal reporters’ hypocrisy in White House briefing room covers up this truth (Fox)

NY Times Fires Off Warning to Staffers After Trans Coverage Brouhaha (Daily Beast)

‘We know that they’re coming:’ Portland looks to accommodate influx of asylum seekers (CBS)

Sorry, There’s No Such Thing as a “Fair” Ticket Price in an Age of Income Inequality

DeSantis Expands School Choice to Every Student in Florida

NPR Says There’s ‘Limited Scientific Evidence’ Biological Men Have Advantage Over Women in Sports

Abortion Wins Elections The fight to make reproductive rights the centerpiece of the Democratic Party’s 2024 agenda. (The Cut)

Pelosi: Women Should be Priests ‘That Is Real Power’  For proglodytes, it’s all about power.

Would A ‘Wealth Tax’ Work? No.

Professor Suggests Murder as Alternative to Shouting Down Speakers

This 40-year veteran lawmaker shows top Democrats one eye-popping chart revealing her party’s problem winning over the working class (Business Insider)

CBS Blames Guns for Possible Trans Terrorist Shooting Up Christian School  That’s the Narrative.

Most mass shooting suspects are male. (N.Y. Times) Including this one.

Media Loses Confidence In Preferred Pronouns After Transgender Shooter Attacks Christian School

Hollywood’s Elite Sell Homes to Beat New ‘Mansion Tax’

AFT’s Weingarten: Schools Shouldn’t be ‘Destroyed by Ideologues’  That’s the job of unionized teachers.

Billionaires George Soros, J.B. Pritzker and the Uihleins pour millions into Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race in final weeks (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

Audrey Hale Manifesto Release Raises Major Concerns From LGBTQ+ Groups (Newsweek)

Sunny Hostin: U.S. Is Worse Than China Despite Genocide, Ghana Is Best

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Police gave unclear information on the gender of the shooter. For hours, police identified the shooter as a 28-year-old woman and eventually as Audrey Elizabeth Hale. At a late afternoon press conference, the police chief said Hale was transgender. After the news conference, police spokesperson Don Aaron declined to elaborate on how Hale identified.

In an email Tuesday, police spokesperson Kristin Mumford said Hale “was assigned female at birth. Hale did use male pronouns on a social media profile.”

Apparently this trans nutjob wasn’t a male pretending to be female, but a female pretending to be male.

Biden wants to continue bipartisan efforts like the Safer Communities Act and wants to pass common-sense gun safety laws, including a ban on “assault weapons,” Jean-Pierre said.

“We can’t do this alone. The president can’t do this alone. That’s how government works. Congress needs to take legislative action,” Jean-Pierre said. “It is time to show some courage here. It is time for Republicans in Congress to show some courage and to answer to these parents, to these families.”

The problem is not ‘gun safety’ but keeping guns out of the hands of crazy people, which ‘trans’ people demonstrably are.

UPDATE: Leftists Complain About Transgender Shooter Being Misgendered

UPDATE: Transphobe MSM ‘Deadnames’ Nashville Shooter

Iowa family plans to move out of state over new transgender laws (KCCI) Try California.

Bush, Pressley to launch Equal Rights Amendment caucus (The Hill)

Retirement funds for teachers and firefighters are caught in ESG crossfire (NBC)

Cracker Barrel becomes latest company to flee Portland amid rising crime, retail theft (Fox)

The number of workers below $15 has halved — but the fight isn’t done (Washington Post)

New Children’s Book ‘She Is She’ Combats Attempt to Deny ‘Females Their Womanhood’

Nordic Bishops Take a Stand Against Transgenderism

Riley Gaines: ‘Arrogant Cheat’ Thomas ‘Stole’ Title

“Power At Every Level”, Brags Chicago Teachers Union, As 200 Members Skip School For Political Workshop

We spent 7 months examining the AR-15’s role in America. Here’s what we learned. (Washington Post) According to the Narrative, of course.

Axios.

Not to mention Chinese fentanyl.

New York Times.

For decades, new plants have been blocked by powerful local interests, the owners of hot spring resorts, that say the sites threaten a centuries-old tradition.

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Two French bloggers are being accused of criminal acts against transgender people. The crime? Insisting that the biological differences between men and women be recognised, and arguing that allowing biological men into women’s spaces puts women at risk.

Dora Moutot and Marguerite Stern, both of who proudly wear the label ‘radical feminist,’ have become the targets of four LGBT NGOs. On Tuesday, March 21st, the groups filed complaints that the arguments put forward by the feminist pair amounted to “insults and public provocations to hatred or violence.” If the women are found guilty, they could face a year in prison or a €45,000 fine.

EuroNews.

In the past 48 hours, more than 4000 migrants have reached Southern Italy – a new record – with some 2,000 people disembarking on the island of Lampedusa alone.

According to government figures, arrivals have tripled in the first three months of 2023.

So far this year, more than 20,000 migrants landed on Italian shores. Some 6,500 people arrived in Italy during the same period in 2022.

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The supposedly spontaneous student protest at Stanford Law School was more insidious than it first appeared. It was disturbing enough that students shouted down federal judge Kyle Duncan, preventing him from speaking at all. But the protest was part of a nationwide effort by the National Lawyers Guild, an organization that has a long history of Marxist and anti-American activity.

And their work is not finished. This article provides a background on the NLG, but I’ve selected a few paragraphs that explain how dangerous they are

Michigan becomes first state in decades to repeal ‘right-to-work’ law (Fox) Michigan is cementing its position as California North.

JK Rowling battles Scottish officials in latest gender debate: ‘Is a be-penised rapist a man or woman?’ (Fox)

‘My Trans Daughter Isn’t Allowed to Use Girls’ Bathrooms at School Anymore’ (Newsweek) That’s because he’s a boy.

Iowa Bathroom Bill creating changes in area schools (KWOC)

Council Bluffs Community School District responds to new transgender law for restrooms in Iowa (KETV)

Iowa legislators are putting the lives of trans children at risk (The Gazette)

Progressives’ ‘good cause eviction’ bill spells doom for NYC housing (N.Y. Post)

Public housing tenants demand funding after exclusion from NY’s $3 billion rent relief program (Gothamist)

Asian Voters Abandoning Woke Democrats As Crime Rises In Cities

NPR Laughably Claims ‘Limited Scientific Evidence’ That Men Beat Women at Sports

A clueless Capitol and its obsession with drag shows (Sun-Sentinel)

Anti-Cop Group Sued By LAPD For Posting 9,300 Photos Of Officers With Bounties I think you can assume that these guys are not Republicans.

Marine Veteran Driving Uber Killed in California Carjacking

Trans woman left sobbing in JFK airport after TSA agent hit her testicles: report (N.Y. Post)

NYPD Overtime Budget On Pace For Record As Cop Shortage Worsens

Agatha Christie classics latest to be rewritten for modern sensitivities

Cargo theft, led by food and beverage, is surging across the U.S.

Al Franken May Have Found a Loophole in ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill (Daily Beast)

What to Know About the Gender-Affirming-Care Bans Spreading Across the Country (TIME) People are sick and tired of proglodyte bullshit, that’s what you need to know.

Gender-affirming care bans mount in states (The Hill)

America is poisoning itself. This is the antidote (CNN) More Narrative!

Not Enough? Dems Push Communist-Tied TikTok CEO to Censor Free Speech

Fetterman Expected to Return to Senate ‘Soon’

California Judge Stops Soros Prosecutor From Slashing Triple-Murderer’s Sentence

Defunded Austin Cops Take So Long To Respond To DUI That Driver Sobers Up, Walks Free

Tennessee’s Rejection of $8.8 Million in Federal Funding Alarms H.I.V. Prevention Groups (N.Y. Times)

Don’t Believe The Hype: Woke Is Real And It’s Dangerous

Winning the Pulitzer Prizes for Misinformation

The ESG “Cover Your Ass” Tour Begins As Managers Scramble To Remove References In Pitch Decks

Campus Terrorized (Steve Sailer) “Based on interviews with that person, law enforcement personnel were able to determine that the person was in possession of a curling iron that was mistaken for a weapon.” I could build a gun into a curling iron.

Hollywood Reporter (Purposely) Misses Point on Drag Queen Outrage

Insisting Law School Students Respect 1st Amendment Is Akin to ‘McCarthyism,’ Bloomberg Columnist Claims

‘This Is Just Like Nazi Germany!’ Cries Liberal As Parent Removes Porn From Elementary School  (Babylon Bee)

“I’m A Woman”: Left Wing Host Ana Kasparian Triggers Woke Mob Over “Trans-Exclusionary” Language

The Disinformation-Industrial Complex Vs Domestic Terror

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saw a job advertised in 2016 for a millennial governess: 6 days/week, 12 hrs/day. 100k + benefits + manhattan apt. duties: live-in tutor/nanny/part-time chef/maid/dogwalker & advisor to family ancestry project (???). ivy phd required. https://t.co/gLGQSnir3k

— Sarah Osment (@sm_osment) March 25, 2023

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In Ukraine Russia has displayed a callous attitude towards killing civilians. Russia doesn’t publicize these deaths, but they do make the news when Russian-occupied territory in Ukraine is abandoned because of an Ukrainian offensive. Russia was known for its barbaric “kill them all” attitude in wartime, even when the endangered civilians were Russians. The Ukrainian policy is to get civilians out of the way in a combat zone and not attack them deliberately, even if they are Russians. This is the case in some Russian-occupied Ukrainian areas where Russian civilians have been brought in to cement control over the area. Not surprisingly, many of those Russians have fled back to Russia once the fighting got close to them.

It turned out that Russia has become more enthusiastic about killing civilians because of changes in their combat doctrine several years before the Ukraine invasion. We know this because Russian military leaders openly discussed the matter before the invasion and explained why this was the way to go.

Virginia’s Fort Lee to become Fort Gregg-Adams next month in push remove names of Confederate figures (Fox)

9 military bases removing Confederate links in process costing $62.5 million (NOLA.com)

Fort Bragg to Become ‘Fort Liberty’ June 2 (The Pilot)

Texas ‘preemption’ bills escalate war between liberal cities, conservative legislature (The Hill)

Citizen Activists ‘Weaponized’ Transparency, US Election Commissioner Testifies

NPR cancels 4 podcasts amid major layoffs (NPR)

Squatters Increasingly Taking Over Homes Across US With No End In Sight, Experts Warn

USA Today Again Picks Biological Man As ‘Woman Of The Year’

Multiple States Taking a Page From Florida’s Parental Rights Law

World Athletics Bans Transgender Women From Competitions

Define Wokeness Or how you shall know a word by the company it keeps

STUDY: Networks Obsess Over ‘Far Right,’ Oblivious to ‘Far Left’

How Working-Class White Voters Became the GOP’s Foundation (The Atlantic)

Trans Community Feeling Unsafe Knowing There’s A Hockey Player Somewhere Out There Not Wearing A Pride Jersey (Babylon Bee)

Why Xi and Putin pretend they run democracies (Washington Post)

NBC’s ‘Chicago Med’ Pushes ‘Dreamer’ Doctor Plot, Glorifies Illegal Immigration

The View Wants Americans to Live With ‘Less’ Like Prison ‘Monks’  Not themselves, of course, but you deplorables.

New Atlas.

A monastic brewery near Munich says it’s created the first powdered beer. Just add water, and it’ll froth up, complete with a foamy head and full flavor. The result promises massive savings on transport, because it can be shipped at 10% of the weight.

The End Times are upon us.

Richard Dawkins declares there are only two sexes as matter of science: ‘That’s all there is to it’ (Fox)

‘Two sexes, and that’s all there is to it’: Biologist defends JK Rowling’s comments (Washington Examiner)

Poverty, By America by Matthew Desmond review – how the rich keep the poor down (The Guardian)

Matthew Desmond on ‘Poverty, by America’ (Washington Post) It is a constant trope by proglodytes that if there are people in poverty then that poverty is caused by deliberate oppression by Rich People, who need to be punished somehow.

Private opulence, public squalor: How the U.S. helps the rich and hurts the poor (NPR)

Disney World Defies Ron DeSantis by Hosting Gay Rights Summit in Florida (Newsweek) You bash the balrog and I’ll climb the tree.

Disney Defies DeSantis by Hosting Major LGBTQ+ Conference (Daily Beast)

Mayor Adams kills Medicare Advantage option that’d let NYC retirees stay on traditional coverage: ‘We do not intend to offer this’ (N.Y. Daily News)

Pentagon doctors claim 7-year-olds can make decisions to be injected with hormones, puberty suppressants (Fox)

San Francisco Lawmakers Move to Establish $50 Million Reparations Bureaucracy  Government exists to hire and pay government workers.

PBS Airs Misinformation While Cheering Michigan Dems on ‘Gun Safety’ Laws

Watch: MSNBC Panel Says That Criticising George Soros In Any Way Is “Dangerous”

VIDEO: Watch What Keeps Happening to Conservative Speakers at Elite Colleges

OB-GYN: Parents Magazine Deleted Anti-abortion Info

MLB ‘Remains Progressive’ Amid Censorship Reports

1% of Democrat Counties Make Up 42% of America’s Murders

Stanford Law Disruptions Were Orchestrated by the National Lawyers Guild

Follow the Money! TikTok Employees Donate 94% to Leftists, Dems

Surprise! Wash Post Survey Puts Happy Face on Gender Transitioning

‘Three Years Is Not Enough’: Liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court Candidate Ignored Victim’s Plea To Lock Up Serial Sex Offender

Google’s New Bard AI Is Riddled With Political Bias

World Governing Body Votes to Exclude Trans Women Athletes  Reality keeps intruding on proglodyte fantasy.

Philly’s “Pay-to-Riot” Gives $9 million to BLM Protesters

One Year Later: DC Mayor Stonewalls Probe Into Aborted Babies’ Bodies

Dems Push to Make Oregon a Safe Haven for Child Sex Changes

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The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project is suing the Justice Department for communications related to the department’s failure to apply federal law against far-left protests at the Supreme Court Justices’ homes.

The suit follows Attorney General Merrick Garland’s admission that it is a federal crime (under 18 U.S.C. § 1507) to protest outside a judge’s home with the intent of influencing that judge. Garland has not enforced that law, though both Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin and former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan requested that he do so, and in March, Garland claimed that the U.S. Marshals “on scene” make the decision “whether to make an arrest.”

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Something that did not happen during the ‘insurrection’ on Jan. 6.

A now-deceased transgender Antifa activist on Monday shot and critically wounded a police detective, Seattle police revealed this week.

The activist, 29-year-old Nathan Stolsig, shot detective David Easterly in the torso after three deputies served Stolsig an eviction notice, the Post Millennial reported. Stolsig, who identified as a transgender woman by the name “Eucytus,” belonged to the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), a group that actively encouraged the 2020 BLM-Antifa riots.

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The renewable energy sector is facing a quandary: how Australia will dispose of 80 million solar panels in an environmentally friendly way when they reach the end of their life.

Paradoxically, one of the reasons people are installing solar photovoltaic (PV) panels in huge numbers is to help the environment, but the industry is now grappling with the anticipated waste generated by 100,000 metric tons of panels due to be dismantled in Australia from 2035.

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Google says it has suspended the app for the Chinese e-commerce giant Pinduoduo after malware was found in versions of the app. The move comes just weeks after Chinese security researchers published an analysis suggesting the popular e-commerce app sought to seize total control over affected devices by exploiting multiple security vulnerabilities in a variety of Android-based smartphones.

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Police in Ecuador are investigating attacks on media organizations across the country after a journalist was injured by an exploding USB flash drive.

In a press conference on Tuesday, Xavier Chango Llerena, chief of criminal investigations for the National Police of Ecuador, said authorities had found envelopes containing presumed explosive devices at four media outlets, two in Guayaquil and two in Quito, and at a parcel delivery company.

It’s not clear to me that you could pack enough explosive into a thumb drive to do any good, although it would certainly scare the snot out of somebody–and maybe that’s good enough.

Private opulence, public squalor: How the U.S. helps the rich and hurts the poor (NPR) Usually by electing Democrats. (Whose turn is it to be the victim?)

California law mandating handgun safety features violates Second Amendment, judge says (Fox)

USA Today gives ‘Woman of the Year’ honor to transgender state lawmaker

Liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court Candidate Defends Soft-On-Crime Record

‘Where am I going to be free to be who I am?’ (NPR) Maybe California.

SCOTUS Overturns Appeals Court Upholding Abortion Without Parental Consent

Some people who seek abortions can face prison time in more than 120 countries, analysis shows

Should Nature endorse political candidates? Yes — when the occasion demands it (Nature)

Deranged MSNBC Libs: Attacking George Soros a Dangerous ‘Dog Whistle’

Rampant Crime, Public Drug Use, Vagrancy Are Part of ‘Basic City Life,’ Democrats Argue

“You Know What? I’m Not Doing This Anymore.” (Slate)

After DeSantis tussle, Disney World will host a major summit on gay rights (Miami Herald) Guess they can’t take a hint.

Right-Wing Radicalization May Begin by Reading J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis

Woke Is Just Another Word for Liberal (The Atlantic) Yeah, pretty much.

Fabu-less: GLAAD Warns of 30% Fewer LGBT TV Characters Next Season

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: DEI Training’s Unintended Consequences

Blaming ‘Political Climate,’ Idaho Hospital Won’t Deliver Babies

Daughter ‘Left The Cult’ Of Trans People, Mother Sues Against Pro-Trans Aggressors

Democrats Vow To Arrest As Many Political Opponents As It Takes To Defeat Fascism (Babylon Bee)

TikTok ban would be ‘a slap in the face’ to young Democratic voters, activists warn (NBC) That’s because they are the ones that the Chinese are trying to brainwash. Duh.

8 Big Tech Companies, NetChoice SILENT When Asked Whether US Should Ban TikTok

Massachusetts Governor: Pharmacies Must Stock Abortion Pills

Arkansas Governor Signs Bill Banning Biological Males From Using School Girls Bathrooms

NHL Teams Divided Over Pride Nights

Stanford Puts Diversity Dean Who Berated Federal Judge on Leave  Until things blow over.

Georgia on Track To Be Ninth State To Outlaw Transgender Procedures for Children

Jackson pens solo dissent as Supreme Court vacates abortion ruling (The Hill)

Mayor Adams calls for new tax breaks, dormitory housing in NYC to ease affordability crisis (Gothamist)

Mom rejects school’s belated apology for teacher’s ‘hooker’ game: ‘Not good enough

Sanders Adheres to Proletariat the New Left Long Ago Abandoned

San Jose Sharks Goalie Chooses Not To Wear Pride Jersey In Warmups

MSNBC Blames Colonialism for Mets Pitcher’s Injury at WBC

Cuban Baseball Player Defects From Communist Nation While Playing in Miami

Houston ISD Takeover Is a Trojan Horse For Privatization (Texas Observer) The Texas Observer is Just Another Voice of the Crust, and as good proglodyte statists they hold ‘privatiazaion’ in detestation.

Socialism Isn’t About Creating Economies. It Is About Amassing Political Power

Bike riding is falling in Portland

Another Reason Behind the Rise of Wokeness: The Failure of No Child Left Behind

Ugandan President Blasts Western Countries For Promoting LGBT In Africa

Nevada’s Dem AG Helped Make It Harder To Jail Thieves. Now, He Says Retail Theft Is Out of Control.

Striking Los Angeles Teachers Threaten To Return To Classrooms If Demands Not Met (Babylon  Bee)

‘Unconstitutional’: Federal Judge Blocks Multiple California Gun Restrictions

NPR Commits Random Act of Journalism, Highlights ANOTHER Rolling Stone Scandal

Democrat Representative Says Parents ‘Not Qualified’ To Choose Schools For Their Kids

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The European Parliament had barely voted on the idea of a global wealth tax before its attention turned to another staple of ‘democratic’ socialism: a universal basic income for everyone.

A carefully crafted proposal for a pan-European basic income was put forward by the European Commission in September last year. Formally known as the Council Recommendation on Adequate Minimum Income Ensuring Active Inclusion, the idea was the subject of a parliamentary debate on March 14th.

To be honest, it was not much of a debate. Of the two dozen speakers, Ádám Kósa of Hungary was the only unconditional opponent of the idea. Most of the rest of the speakers offered various iterations of the same argument: there are poor people in Europe, and therefore EU member states must guarantee them an adequate minimum income, AMI. Every adult in Europe would be guaranteed the AMI in lieu of other means for supporting themselves.

PJ Media.

Elite law schools have become training academies not so much for effective and competent lawyers, but instead for militant transformational radicals with a law degree.

Mainstream consumers of legal services, otherwise known as paying clients, would be shocked by the evolution that has taken place in the nation’s elite law schools. Instead of producing lawyers capable of helping clients, these schools now turn out leftist activists who are most competent at using transformational designs to upend centuries of legal traditions and institutions, including, ultimately, the U.S. Constitution itself.

This problem isn’t new. But the shocking behavior at Stanford by rude, belligerent proto-totalitarian students shouting down a federal judge laid bare this rancid evolution for everyone to see.

The next generation of lawyers at these schools isn’t focused on learning contracts, torts, civil procedure, and evidence as much as they are learning how to destroy treasured American institutions such as tolerance, liberty, and free speech.

This is important. Too many Americans still think a law degree from Harvard means that the graduating lawyer is competent to practice law. The opposite is becoming more true.

The example of Alvin “Cocky Chipmunk” Bragg, Harvard & Harvard Law, is a good case in point. Rather than prosecuting regular criminals for what they do every day, he’s reaching back into the past to try to railroad the Left’s favorite whipping boy.

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G.K. Chesterton is purported to have said that “When a man stops believing in God he doesn’t then believe in nothing, he believes anything.” And although there is no record that he actually said it, the truth of the aphorism is becoming ever clearer in this post-Christian age in the West.

A version of the same idea was offered by Catholic French philosopher Chantal Delsol in an essay entitled The End of Christianity. She argued that when people stop believing in Christianity, they do not turn to atheism or nihilism. The religious impulse in humanity is too strong, too deep, for that. They find other beliefs and spiritualities.

Looking at the Western world today, it seems that the religious impulse for those who do not accept established religious doctrines, and even for some who do identify, at least culturally, as Christians, is increasingly being channelled into the embrace of what I call “fantastical beliefs.”

I never met a ‘Wiccan’ who didn’t vote Democrat.

I never met a believer in astrology who didn’t vote Democrat.

I never met an avowed Satanist who didn’t vote Democrat.

So much for ‘follow the science’.

NJ mom reported by military official for post objecting to ‘polysexual’ poster at child’s school: lawsuit (Fox)

AG Letitia James’ ‘Drag Story Hour’ draws over 100 supporters, protesters, cops, even NYC Council guards (N.Y. Post) Your tax dollars at work.

From ‘Comrade Barbara’ to Limousine Liberal: Barbara Lee Dropped $20K On Luxury Cars, Filings Show

The Obscure Maritime Law That Ruins Your Commute (The Atlantic) And the law stays because of union votes.

Oxfam Discourages Use of ‘Mother,’ ‘Father, & ‘Mankind’ To Elevate Poverty

Boston School Asks Kids About Oral Sex, Transgenderism

Men’s Figure Skater Comes Out Of Closet As Heterosexual (Babylon Bee)

Austin American-Statesman.

As any Texas voter knows, we elect our judges—and, except for our highest courts (the Supreme Court and the Court of Criminal Appeals), we elect them locally. That’s true not just for trial courts, but for our fourteen intermediate appellate courts, too. For instance, the “Third” Court of Appeals here in Austin, which hears appeals from district courts in Travis County and 23 surrounding counties, is staffed by six Justices chosen by voters across those 24 jurisdictions.

Three bills recently introduced in the Texas Legislature would take some of the most important cases away from locally elected judges. Between them, SB1045, HB3166 and HJR139 would create a new “Fifteenth” Court of Appeals to hear appeals in most lawsuits against the state or its officers. And although the new court would also sit in Austin, its judges would be elected on a statewide basis. The bills would thus take state-involved appeals away from judges elected in more Democratic parts of the state in favor of judges elected by all Texas voters—who haven’t chosen a Democratic candidate for statewide office since 1994.

Like most big-city media, even in Texas, the Austin American-Statesman is a hotbed of Wokery. Hence their objection to anything that would decrease the influence of Democrats and increase the influence of Republicans. Imagine, if you will, their attitude if the party affiliations were reversed: Would they not be wearing out their fingers about Respecting State-Wide Democracy Versus Local Partisan Prejudice?

You can tell who are the pigs by who are doing the squealing.

The Other McCain.

Where is Charlie Sykes’ in-depth analysis of U.S. foreign policy? If he’s written one, I missed it, but what we get from him instead is a parroting of MSNBC talking points about Trump “channeling Kremlin propaganda,” as if it were impossible to criticize U.S. policy without being a pro-Putin stooge. But the real bottom line is this: Sykes voted for Biden, and is defending Biden’s policy in toto — to criticize Biden is tantamount to treason, according to Sykes’ brand of True Conservative™ principles.

Beyond the matter of Ukraine and Russia, aside from any consideration of policy, foreign or domestic, there remains the disturbing question: What the hell happened to Charlie Sykes?

He joined the Kristol Krew, and was seduced by the Dark Side.

CNBC.

1. New York
2. New Jersey
3. Vermont
4. Massachusetts
5. Maryland
6. Washington
7. Connecticut
8. Maine
9. Illinois
10. Oregon

All Bluest of the Blue. California had better get cracking or they will be left behind.

‘Scrutinized’ female cops fleeing NYPD over anti-police climate, sexism (N.Y. Post)

Idaho hospital to stop delivering babies. One reason? ‘Bills that criminalize physicians’ (Idaho Statesman)

daho hospital to stop labor and delivery services citing “political climate” and doctor shortages (CBS)

Remember When Bill Clinton was Arrested?  Neither do I.

CNN Reporter Robbed While Covering “Rampant Street Crime” In San Francisco Imagine that.

Maryland House Passes Bill Requiring Gender-Affirming Care Under Medicaid (Huffington Post)

George ‘Bimbo Eruption’ Stephanopoulos Politely Preps Ex-Trump Fixer Michael Cohen

Oxfam ‘Inclusivity’ Guide Tells Staff To Avoid Using ‘Offensive’ Words Like ‘Mother’, ‘People’ and ‘Headquarters’

Drag Queens Interrupt Kirk Cameron’s Storytime Reading in Ark.

“The New Normal”: New York To Lower Math And English Proficiency Standards Due To Poor Test Result

Leftist Parents Flee Florida As Gender Treatments For Children Made Illegal  The system works.

‘Conservatives Can’t Define Woke!’ Shouts Leftist Who Can’t Define ‘Man’ Or ‘Woman’ (Babylon Bee)

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Japan’s decision to reignite its nuclear power industry is facing serious setbacks: 11 years of prohibition has led to a shortage of engineers, a lack of students training to fill vacant positions and a dearth of domestic nuclear manufacturing capability.

Something the U.S. and European defense establishments are discovering to their chagrin.

Vox.

For liberal politicians like Moore, Shapiro, and Biden, promoting policies to help the more than 70 million American workers who never graduated from college is rooted partly in politics, as Democrats have struggled recently to earn support from non-college-educated voters, especially men. After decades of prioritizing college attendance, the Democratic Party has been scrambling to figure out how to change the widespread perception that its leaders are out of touch with the struggles of average people.

Unfortunately, with the disintegration of the formerly-high-quality public education system in the U.S., business owners have learned (to their sorrow) that the need to insist on a college degree if they want to get employees who have at least what we used to think of as a high-school education. I remember when I was younger and went to some sort of local job fair where one company insisted that applicants had a four-year degree–it didn’t matter what the degree was in, just that you had a four-year degree.

‘Let’s make these folks famous’: the leftwing push to raise 18 Republicans’ profiles (The Guardian)

The election-fraud crew loves polls now (Washington Post) Philip Bump appears to be the go-to guy for pushing the Narrative in the WaPo.

Journalists Against Journalism: Reporter in Crime-Ridden Philadelphia Criticized for Reporting About City’s Crime Wave

Ohio becomes latest Republican state to leave a key voting data partnership (NPR)

Mike Flynn and MAGA Activists Wage War Against a Florida Hospital (Mother Jones)

These Republicans Want Drone Strikes on Mexico (Daily Beast) Count me in.

Weaponization of the legal system reaches a new level

Joy Reid’s Latest DeSantis Controversy: He ‘Is Short’

More on the persecution of the January 6th protestors

Colorado Shooting Victim’s Son Sues Gun Maker Ruger

Ad Slams Liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court Nominee for Releasing Child Rapist

LA Teachers Making Six Figures Would See Pay Hike Under Socialist-Backed ‘Green New Deal’

Lawmakers Aim to Purge ‘Zuckerbucks’ From Electoral Landscape

Michigan Is Becoming The Anti-Florida On LGBTQ Rights ? And A Lot More (Huffington Post) Which is why people are moving from Michigan to Florida, and not from Florida to Michigan.

As crucial legal test for Antifa ideology heads to trial, right-wing media also scrutinized (USA Today) We must not lose sight of who the real witches are.

Minnesota Is In the News–For Craziness

The Transgender Bite Is Louder Than its Bark

Maher Stumps Dem. Congresswoman With San Francisco’s Woke ‘Madness’

Trans Women: The Patriarchy’s Ultimate Victory

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If you’ve read this blog over the years you know that I’ve increasingly written about a general staleness in urbanist discourse. I’ve characterized it as seeing a need for new ideas in urbanism discourse, superstar cities becoming the victims of their own success, or the needs of interior cities being glossed over in favor of the coasts. They’re all valid. But it comes down to the fact that the urbanism of the 2000s and early 2010s, when the rise of cities gave so many urbanists hope that a new urban era was dawning, is not the urbanism we talk about anymore.

Recently I realized it wasn’t staleness at all that I was reacting to, but a subtle shift that eventually replaced all previous urban discourse. The affordable housing crisis has hijacked urbanism.

America is abandoning rationality to justify illegal immigration (The Hill)

Kentucky Lawmakers Pass Gun Sanctuary Bill

Stephen Colbert Finally Gets Someone To Laugh At His Show (Babylon Bee)

N. Dakota Supreme Court Blocks Abortion Ban; Says Constitution Protects Procedure (N.Y. Times)

Macron Raises France’s Retirement Age Without Parliament  This is Europe; we don’t need no stinkin’ democracy.

CME CEO Terry Duffy Says Employees Too Scared To Return To Office Due To Chicago’s Crime Surge

Reid Holds Therapy Session With Journo Fired for Attacking DeSantis

The Soulless Lingo of the Pro-Abortion Media

ABC’s ‘Abbott Elementary’ Attacks Charter Schools

Senate Democrats’ Double Standard on Judicial Nominee ‘Blue Slips’

If Barney Frank Were a Republican, He’d Be the Media’s Banking-Crisis Villain  But he’s not, so he’s not.

Silent Scrub: Netflix Cancels Kids Show About ‘Non-Binary’ Bison Amid Backlash

Unborn Children Who Might Face Challenges Are Better Off Dead, Abortion Advocates Say  Actually, abortion activists are better off dead.

New York Set to Become First State to Ban Natural Gas in New Buildings  Time to leave.

Will Teachers Unions’ Political Contributions Prevent School Choice in Pennsylvania?

CNN

Which of them gets to play Ukraine?

Joel Kotkin & Hügo Krüger

The Western response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine is widely seen as a sign of a reinvigorated alliance of democracies against authoritarianism. Even historically anti-war publications like the Guardian speak volubly about the West’s heroic “defense of liberty.” Raising concerns about petty issues like a potential nuclear war over Ukraine leads one now to be dismissed as a Putinist stooge, both by those who habitually back wars, like neoconservatives and defense contractors, and those who almost always oppose them, or used to, anyway.

Amidst the relentless virtue signaling, there has been little consideration of how the Russo-Ukrainian War will change the world order, and not necessarily for the benefit of the West. Rather than join in a joint jihad for “democracy” aimed at destroying Vladimir Putin and his detestable authoritarian allies, notably China, there’s actually little support for sanctions, much less military aid, from the largest non-western democracies such as India, Indonesia, South Africa, and Brazil in their attitude to the war.

TikTok says US threatens ban if Chinese owners don’t sell stakes (Reuters)

The Biden administration demands that TikTok be sold, or risk a nationwide ban (NPR)

Snap stock surges on report that Biden may ban TikTok (CNBC)

Banning TikTok is a bad solution to the wrong problem (Washington Post)

Increased minimum wages may benefit small businesses, study co-authored at UC Berkeley finds (S.F. Chronicle) Obvious tendentious bullshit–small businesses are precisely those hurt worst by minimum wage laws.

NYC Mayor Eric Adams faces thousands in fines for potential campaign finance violations (Gothamist)

Mayor Adams’ inaugural arm allegedly accepted $15,600 in ‘prohibited donations,’ but dodges fines for now (N.Y. Daily News)

UFT-hired political adviser paid $150K by NYC Council Speaker Adrienne Adams’ budget staff, exposing conflict (N.Y. Post)

More ‘woke’ companies are going to fail, former CEO warns: SVB collapse was ‘perfect storm’ (Fox)

FACT FOCUS: Claims link ‘woke’ policies to SVB’s demise (Associated Press)

Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, Credit Suisse all donated to Massachusetts Democrats (Boston Herald)

Judge appears sympathetic to abortion pill challenge in consequential Texas hearing (NBC)

SVB Donated $73.4 Million To BLM And Related Entities

Wellesley Students Vote To Admit Trans Men To Historic Women’s College

Netflix Cancels Show Featuring ‘Nonbinary’ Buffalo

Leftist Groups Tapping $1 Billion To Vastly Expand The Private Financing Of Public Elections

MSNBC Claims GOP Could ‘Hurt Its 2024 Candidates’ Bigly…by Not Going on MSNBC  I think not.

NYPD Cop Shortage Result of ‘Woke’ Politics

More Than Two-Thirds of the People Arrested in D.C. Are Never Charged (Washington City Paper)

No, ‘Wokeness’ Did Not Cause Silicon Valley Bank’s Collapse (N.Y. Times)

Acosta Cues Parkland Dad: Forget Woke BS, Florida ‘The State Where People Go to Die’

NY AG Hosts Drag Story Hour For NYC Kids Using Taxpayer Money

First Rule of Journalism: Never Admit You’re an Obnoxious Lib (Even Though You Are)

‘You Know Better,’ Senator Calls Out CNN For Repeating Biden Spin

California Regulators Ban Gas Appliances In San Francisco Bay Area

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The debate inside Stanford Law School, where activist students earlier this month shouted down federal circuit court judge Kyle Duncan at a Federalist Society event, has moved beyond whether those students should face any consequences for their outrageous conduct. The school has made clear they will not.

Now we debate the propriety of the conservative students on the receiving end of that vitriol expressing their displeasure with the school, and their classmates, in the press.

Stanford administrators are hoping this public relations nightmare will blow over if everybody, particularly the Federalist Society students targeted by the activists, would be so kind as to shut up and take this one on the chin.

The administration aims to run the operation like any abusive parent would: Don’t say a word to anybody about how you got that bruise, or else!