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The “For the People Act” (FTP), designated HR 1, is by far the most comprehensive federal voting rights act ever proposed. The bill was introduced into the House of Representatives on January 4 and passed there along strict party lines two months later—220 for and 210 against. This divisive legislation represents a concerted effort by the House Democratic majority to consolidate and build on its gains from the 2020 election cycle. Its unabashed supporters, such as New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice, hail the legislation as “a roadmap to an inclusive, diverse, and equitable democracy.”

While there is much to criticize about the act’s hamhanded efforts to expand the regulation of campaign finance and disclosure requirements, I will concentrate on the FTP’s effort to organize a federal takeover of the electoral process as it applies to members of Congress and the president via the Electoral College. Its proposed changes are manifold. The FTP would mandate an expansion of automatic registration and same-day voting. It would create a two-week early-voting period and extend the franchise in federal elections to all former convicts. Finally, it would allow those citizens who lack any appropriate photo ID to gain access to the polls with sworn affidavits to their identity.

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Actress and former MMA fighter Gina Carano was fired from her role as Cara Dune in Disney+’s The Mandalorian series for not being a liberal back in Feb. Next month an episode Running Wild with Bear Grylls was set to air on National Geographic (note that NG is owned by Disney) with Carano as a guest but it appears Disney recently chose to shelve that, too.

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Two members of Congress are asking the Navy to pull three books promoting identity politics and wokeness from its official reading list.

The books teach young sailors that they’re being asked to fight and possibly die for “a systemically racist country,” the lawmakers say.

The books–“How to Be an Antiracist” by Ibram X. Kendi; “The New Jim Crow” by Michelle Alexander; and “Sexual Minorities and Politics” by Jason Pierceson–are listed as part of the Chief of Naval Operations Professional Reading Program.

All Navy personnel pledge to defend the Constitution, yet these books portray America as fundamentally bigoted, Reps. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., and Vicky Hartzler, R-Mo., write to Adm. Michael M. Gilday, who is chief of naval operations.

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Had enough Zoom meetings? Can’t bear another soul-numbing day of sitting on video calls, the only distraction your rapidly aging face, pinned in one corner of the screen like a dying bug? Well, if so, then boy do we have the app for you. Meet Zoom Escaper: a free web widget that lets you add an array of fake audio effects to your next Zoom Call, gifting you with numerous reasons to end the meeting and escape, while you still can.

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Christianity has been subject to the primitive – modern dichotomy by radicals since the French Revolution. With the rise of science, all religion has been gratuitously lumped into with primitive beliefs. Ironically, this is a primitive belief itself, as humans are biologically wired to believe. Belief is one of the oldest modern human attributes that probably coevolved with language. Like language, belief facilitates knowledge by providing a way to efficiently containerize abstract concepts.

In this regard, radicalism is best seen a primitive reaction to the advance of our material understanding of the world. The French Revolution may have started as a reasonable objection to the aristocratic system, but it quickly led to the Cult of Reason, which looked like a Bronze Age pagan festival. Today we see the same thing, but the pagan god at the center is called science. People are wearing codpieces on their faces and using grimy canvas sacks because science.

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Adam Feinberg and his team have created the first full-size 3D bioprinted human heart model using their Freeform Reversible Embedding of Suspended Hydrogels (FRESH) technique. The model, created from MRI data using a specially built 3D printer, realistically mimics the elasticity of cardiac tissue and sutures. This milestone represents the culmination of two years of research, holding both immediate promise for surgeons and clinicians, as well as long term implications for the future of bioengineered organ research.

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Voiceism is the New Racism.

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My mind has recently been perplexing over the fact that a lot of my old muckers on the Left are stuck in a narrow ideological time-warp. Melanie Phillips outlined her journey and her escape from the Left and from woke Feminism in an interview recently where she describes it as a passage from a fantasy world to reality and the real world. Leftist utopian idealism has no truck any longer with the real world of science, biology, human nature – common sense as any sensible person would recognise it. Everywhere you look on the Left the thinking is full of social constructionist theories paraded as fact and the whole agenda is now riven with ludicrous contradictions.

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L.A.’s criminal underclass has only just realized that the county’s Covid-mandated outdoor dining lends itself well to grab ’n’ go robberies (amazing the revelation didn’t occur earlier, but low IQ leads to terrible R&D). The MO is simple: Case the patrons from the sidewalk—look for purses, watches, wallets on tables. Then just reach over the divider, swipe, and run! We’ve had several such robberies over the past three weeks, the culprits fitting the same racial profile (“extremely not Norwegian”).

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A federal court requested the U.S. Department of Health and Humans Services (HHS) release more information pertaining to the purchase of organs harvested from aborted human fetuses, according to a Monday Judicial Watch press release.

“Documents previously uncovered in this lawsuit show that the federal government demanded the purchased fetal organs be ‘fresh and never frozen,’” the Judicial Watch press release said.

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Liar, liar, pants on fire….

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Color me dubious.

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The bladeless turbines stand at 3 metres high, a curve-topped cylinder fixed vertically with an elastic rod. To the untrained eye it appears to waggle back and forth, not unlike a car dashboard toy. In reality, it is designed to oscillate within the wind range and generate electricity from the vibration.

Clouds From Both Sides Now

Cain Celebrated By Environmentalists For Reducing Humanity’s Carbon Footprint By 25%  Babylon Bee.

Biden Plans Biggest Federal Tax Hike Since 1993 To Fund Infrastructure, Climate Initiatives

Biden FINALLY Comments on Cuomo Scandal, Nets Allow Seconds to His Lame Response

Devout Catholic Joe Biden At Odds With Pope On Gay Marriage, White House Confirms

Rep. Fleischmann: ‘Crisis of Tremendous Proportions’ Happening at Border  Fleeing from oppression, with time to stop and pick up Biden t-shirts.

Exec of #MeToo Group That Covered for Biden’s Sex Abuse Heads His Council to Protect Women

Terrified Biden Wanders Around The White House Wondering Where Obama Went  Babylon Bee.

‘Is It Now A Disaster?’: Fox’s Peter Doocy Presses Jen Psaki On FEMA’s Role At The Border

Democratic Strategist Says Media Should Pressure Biden Regarding The ‘Full On Crisis’ At The Border

Ibram X. Lemon? CNN Anchor Tells White People ‘Stop Saying You Aren’t Racist’

Woman Killed After Shootout With Police Officer

NYT Hires Editor of Student Paper Who Hid in Office from Free Beacon Reporter

‘View’ Adores Don Lemon Lecturing White Conservatives on Their Racism, The Bible

‘Pray That There Is Forgiveness’: Michelle Obama Weighs In On Meghan Markle Tell-All Interview

College English Courses To Replace Study Of Shakespeare With Group Readings Of ‘Antiracist Baby’  Babylon Bee.

Something Has Gone Disastrously Wrong With the Criminal Justice System in Ohio

Gov. Cuomo Defended as the White Emmett Till

Black Lives Matter Page Owner Allegedly Used $450,000 In Donations For Personal Use, FBI Says

‘A Conspiracy Theorist, A Misogynist, Islamophobe, A Troll’: John Oliver Devotes Entire Episode To Trying To Take Down Tucker Carlson

After Grammys Jokes, Twitter Mob Comes for Bill Burr

CNN’s Brianna Keilar Scolds Ron DeSantis For Drinking A Beer And Having Fun In Daytona Beach

Three Countries Suspend Astra Zeneca Covid Vaccine Over Blood Clot / Brain Haemorrhage Concerns

Landlord homeless, unable to evict ‘deadbeat’ tenant thanks to COVID law

Watch: Fauci And Chuck Todd Say More Pandemics Coming Because Of Climate Change

Facebook Labeling All Posts About COVID-19 Vaccines

CDC ‘Analyzing’ Data And May Reduce Social Distancing Guidelines To 3 Feet, Fauci Says  Very white of them.

Over 150 Arrested As Miami Goes Wild During Spring Break

‘Hell No’: Prison Guards Are Refusing COVID-19 Vaccine En Masse Despite Outbreaks In Facilities

‘I’m Pleading With You’: CDC Director Advises Spring Breakers To Follow COVID-19 Guidelines  *sigh* These kids today — no respect for the Narrative….

Hollywood Hypocrisy: Celebs Walk Red Carpet Maskless After Shaming America For A Full Year

‘You Can Only Cry Wolf So Many Times’: Johns Hopkins Professor Rips Health Officials’ Predictions Of COVID-19 Doom

Fauci Warns Against Fixating On Herd Immunity  Don’t be distracted! Follow the Narrative!

Pro-Abortion Kamala Harris Honored as ‘Champion of Kids’ at Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards

Cornell Faculty Revolt Against China Partnership

Evening Newscasts Devote ZERO Seconds to Portland Violence in 2021  Nothing to see here, move along, move along….

Courthouse In Portland Keeps Getting Attacked So City Put Up Barricade Again

DNC TV: CNN Parrots Dem Solution to Border Crisis: Open It Up!

Biden Stooges: Big Three Ignore Report Saying Dems Snuck $60B in Tax Hikes into Stimulus

House Preps To Pass Two Immigration Bills As Border Crisis Intensifies

‘There’s Nothing Subconscious About This Racism’: Joe Scarborough Says Sen. Ron Johnson Wants Listeners To ‘Know He’s A Bigot’  Scarborough is just insane.

Don Lemon Slams Pope Over Same Sex Marriage: ‘God Is Not About Hindering People Or Even Judging People’  Guess Don never read the Bible. Or maybe he’s talking about the God of Wakanda.

Joy Behar Insists, ‘Fictitious’ Antifa ‘Doesn’t Even Exist!’

Pelosi Blames Trump for ‘Humanitarian Challenge’ at Border

WaPo Issues Lengthy Correction After Completely Misquoting Trump In Story About Phone Call With Georgia Investigator

Overwhelming Failure Rate Among Women Causes Army To Halt ‘Gender Neutral’ Fitness Standards

Young Communist Unsettled To Find Hammer, Sickle Represent Physical Labor  Babylon Bee.

Wash Post Concedes It Misquoted Trump’s Call With Georgia Official

CNN’s Kayyem Blames GOP’s Biden Lies for Illegals Surging Over Border

Slate’s Advice: Sure! Abort Your Child and Tell Your Family It Was a ‘Miscarriage’

MSNBC Accuses GOP of ‘Seizing’ on Border Crisis, But TRUMP Created a ‘Time Bomb’!

Recording Of Georgia Phone Call Shows Multiple News Outlets Ran Fabricated Trump Quote

Telemundo Overlooks ANTIFA Role in Portland Riots

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He might now be one of the most powerful men in global media, but I find whenever I see a photograph of former British deputy PM Nick Clegg, Orwell’s quote about everyone getting the face they deserve by 50 comes to mind.

Now 54, the remnants of the boyish idealist are still just about there, but the eyes to me are ledgers of too much unhappy compromise — deadened, I always assume, by the principles he felt forced by David Cameron to sacrifice for personal advancement, and by the amazing decision to see out the remaining years of a career spent failing upwards as Mark Zuckerberg’s lavishly remunerated PR lickspittle.

For a decade and more, Clegg positioned himself as the good guy of British politics — radiating sixth-form actor star power at every opportunity. Now he spins for Facebook, a mega-corporation that in the UK last year paid £28 million ($38.9 million) of tax on revenues of £1.6 billion ($2.2 billion), and whose CEO, Zuckerberg, still flatly refuses to present himself for scrutiny by the UK Parliament on issues that include data harvesting.

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I bought an app for my phone that shows animated knotting but this appears to be free.

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Think of it as evolution in action. Who doesn’t know not to stand under a tree during a storm?

Jennifer Rubin at the Washington Post shows that she’s Just Another Proglodyte Shill.

Sadly, we have only one major party that is fit to govern in a constitutional, multi-racial democracy that demands accountability and self-control from elected officials.

Yeah, the party of Bill Clinton, Andrew Cuomo, Nancy Pelosi, and Maxine Waters.

And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

As if CNN would know.

“I have never called Lincoln a racist,” says Eric Foner, one of the nation’s preeminent historians on Lincoln and the Civil War.

“He shared some of the prejudices of his time. Was Lincoln an anti-racist? No not really. Was he an egalitarian in the modern sense? No. Race was not a major concern of Lincoln. He didn’t think about race about very much. To ask if he’s a racist is the wrong question. And if you ask the wrong question, you’re going to get the wrong answer.”

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These thieves never learn.

Archie’s Title

Status in the royal family is governed by Letters Patent issued by King George V in 1917. Prior to that time, it was governed by Letters Patent issued by Queen Victoria, by which children of the monarch and children of the monarch’s sons were Royal Highness and Prince of the United Kingdom, as was the eldest son of the eldest son of the Prince of Wales; descendants of the monarch beyond that relationship were Highness and Prince.

George V kept things the same for Royal Highnesses but altered the situation for outlying descendants in the male like and their children, who were now treated as the children of dukes (“Lord X”/”Lady X”).

Under that system the Duke of Cambridge’s children were “Lord Louis of Cambridge” and “Lady Charlotte of Cambridge”, with the eldest some George being Prince George of Cambridge and Royal Highness. The Queen altered that by giving all of the Cambridge children the titles of Prince/ss and Royal Highness. No such exception was made for the Sussexes.

Under the existing system therefore, Archie is Lord Archie of Sussex and holds by courtesy his father’s secondary title of Earl of Dumbarton. Any assertion to the contrary is a malignant lie. The Sussexes can choose not to use any of their titles, as Prince Edward and his wife did, and most everybody will respect that, but that doesn’t change the law. (The ‘Duchess of Cornwall’ is using the same trick; by law she is Princess of Wales, and if she wanted to claim that title, nobody could say her nay, although it would be a PR nightmare.)

When Charles becomes King (I predict that he will choose to be known as George VII because Charles is a badly tainted brand — what were Philip and Elizabeth thinking?), then Archie (and his incipient sister) will become (as a child of a monarch’s son) His Royal Highness Prince Archie of Sussex, and the ‘courtesy title’ will be dropped. The Sussexes can choose to use the titles or not, but it doesn’t depend on ‘skin color’ in any respect.

Meghan Markle could have been a real blessing to the royal family, but has chosen to be a chancre instead. Her performance, and Diana’s, demonstrate the wisdom of the royal family not straying too far from the reservation in picking spouses.

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the term “engram” to designate the physical trace a memory must leave in the brain, like a footprint. Since then, neuroscientists have made progress in their hunt for exactly how our brains form memories. They have learned that specific brain cells activate as we form a memory and reactivate as we remember it, strengthening the connections among the neurons involved. That change ingrains the memory and lets us keep memories we recall more often, while others fade. But the precise physical alterations within our neurons that bring about these changes have been hard to pin down — until now.

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A consortium led by Rolls-Royce has announced plans to build up to 16 mini-nuclear plants in the UK.

Cue Eco-Nazi outrage.

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For some years now, a Jewish baking practice has served as a kind of kitchen-based healing service, organized largely by women. Following the commandment in Deuteronomy that orders the removal of a small portion of dough and the donation of that piece to the priests, these home bakers separate a ball of dough, recite a blessing, and then—in the absence of bona fide priests—burn this “challah” offering. As they do so, they recite the names of those in need of healing. No one knows quite how this form of the ritual emerged, but for those who practice, it has a logic and a set of rules all its own.

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Social justice activists have been arguing for some time that scientific societies and institutions need to address systemic sexism and racism in STEM disciplines. However, their rationale is often anything but scientific. For example, whenever percentages in faculty positions, test scores, or grant recipients in various disciplines do not match percentages of national average populations, racism or sexism is generally said to be the cause. This is in spite of the fact that no explicit examples of racism or sexism generally accompany the statistics. Correlation, after all, is not causation. Without some underlying mechanism or independent evidence to explain a correlation of observed outcomes with population statistics, inferring racism or sexism in academia as the cause is inappropriate.

One might have hoped for more rigor from the leadership of scientific societies and research institutions. Alas, this has not been the case. In the current climate, many have simply adopted popular rhetoric and the jargon of critical theory has begun to dominate communications by these institutions. Pandering and virtue signalling have begun to generate proactive initiatives by the highest levels of the scientific community, often replacing the focus on science itself. Here are a few examples from the past few weeks alone.

Explained: The 3 Major COVID-19 Variants

Vax Reax to the Max

US Workers Faced Harrowing Year on Pandemic Front Lines

Europe Stays In Lockdown Mode

CNN Finally Acknowledges Theory COVID Outbreak Linked to Lab in China

“Virtually Every Indicator” Shows Pandemic Sets Back Childhood Development: UNICEF

Fauci: US Weighs 3-Foot Distancing Rule, a Major Change

CDC Vs. Common Sense

Fauci Warns Of New COVID Surge, Urges Trump To Promote Vaccines

GOP Senator Presses Biden Nominee Over Investment In Company That Makes Chemical Used By Mexican Drug Cartels

ABC Fears Border ‘Issue’ Will Distract from Biden’s COVID Bill Victory Tour

Newt Gingrich Locked Out Of Twitter For Criticizing Biden’s Immigration Policy

Meet the Press BLAMES TRUMP for Cuomo’s Refusal to Resign Governorship

WaPo Media Critic Erik Wemple Calls Out CNN’s ‘Love-A-Thon’ Coverage Of Andrew Cuomo Live On CNN

When your own family is racist toward you (CNN)

Breonna Taylor ‘armed’ protesters prompt Louisville police to declare ‘unlawful assembly’

MSNBC: Rename FBI’s Hoover HQ Building After Stacey Abrams

Cuomo Highlights Accusers’ Lack of Diversity

Biden Urges ‘Police Reform’ As Breonna Taylor Protests Turn Violent Across The Nation

‘A Redux Of Jim Crow In A Suit And Tie’: Stacey Abrams Blasts Bills Aimed At Preventing Voter Fraud

‘A Racist Who Went After Martin Luther King’: Democrat Proposes Renaming FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover Building

Biden & Democrats emission reduction schemes misguided, unrealistic, costly & globally irrelevant

Why are most climate models in Fortran

The Problem with Climate Models

Why Isn’t Manhattan Underwater Yet?

Amazon’s book bullying is just the latest act of woke intolerance

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With all due respect to sauvignon blanc drinkers, New Zealand’s trendiest liquid export is something far sweeter than wine. Derived from the nectar of a native bush (leptospermum scoparium), manuka honey has stirred enthusiasm among health-conscious connoisseurs since the early ’80s, when a local scientist first confirmed that it possesses unique, antimicrobial properties. Now, the on-trend sweetener is finding mainstream appeal in the United States as a slightly more savory alternative to its domestic counterparts.

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Many industries use heat-intensive processes that generally require the burning of fossil fuels, but a surprising green fuel alternative is emerging in the form of metal powders. Ground very fine, cheap iron powder burns readily at high temperatures, releasing energy as it oxidizes in a process that emits no carbon and produces easily collectable rust, or iron oxide, as its only emission.

 

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In October, the Committee, after a sixteen-month investigation, produced one of those most comprehensive and informative reports by any government body anywhere in the world about the multi-pronged threats to democracy posed by four Silicon Valley monopolies: Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple. The 450-page report also proposed sweeping solutions, including ways to break up these companies and/or constrain them from controlling our political discourse and political life. That report merits much greater attention and consideration than it has thus far received.

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On Friday’s CBS This Morning, co-host Anthony Mason brought on chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett to swoon over Joe Biden’s COVID speech. Mason highlighted that Biden introduced the topic of violence against Asian Americans and Garrett honored Biden for inserting that topic himself, wildly asserting that there is an “epidemic.”

The media constructed this narrative due to their loathing of Trump’s use of the term “China virus” so they could claim that he is racist and blame him for attacks on Asian Americans. Beware any time a reporter calls anything an “epidemic” that isn’t an outbreak of disease. Do we really need bad “epidemic” metaphors during a pandemic?

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The Seattle “Autonomous Zone” got a lot of publicity before it was finally dismantled, but many people do not realize that Minneapolis has its own no-go area where law enforcement is absent and “militants” rule. It is the area that surrounds the George Floyd Memorial. A man was shot and killed in the Memorial area last weekend, the fourth such death since the zone was closed to law enforcement.

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Whatever happened after all the media hype about gun-control activist David Hogg starting a pillow company? We haven’t heard a peep in more than a month, since several outlets sounded the trumpets of hope….and ka-ching.

Meryl Kornfield of the Washington Post went into a state of high gush on February 10 as she excitedly announced that “Parkland survivor David Hogg launches his own company in a ‘pillow fight’ against Mike Lindell.” There is a GoodPillow handle on Twitter but it has been as silent as Hogg himself since the day you gushed over both.

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Portland, Oregon, has been the most politically violent city in the United States since Donald Trump was elected in 2016. Just a few days after the result, a peaceful protest against the incoming president turned into a riot when anarchists broke off from the main group and rampaged through the Pearl District, a renovated SoHo-like neighborhood adjacent to downtown packed with art galleries, loft apartments, bookstores, and restaurants. Vandals used baseball bats and rocks to break cars, plate glass windows, bus shelters, electrical boxes, and anything else that looked smashable.

The election-night mayhem was not an attack against Republican voters. Donald Trump received a paltry 7.5 percent of the vote in that precinct. It was an assault on the urban middle class and bourgeois society itself, and it was perceived as such by most people who lived there.

New York Colleges Under Fire After Targeting Conservative Students And Groups

Feinstein Bill Bars 205 Rifles, Firearms by Name

Justice Department: Will File 400 Cases Over Capitol Attack  How many have been filed for the Summer of Riots in Portland and Seattle? Anybody? Bueller? Bueller?

Portland Police Surround 100 Rioters After Group Smashes Windows Downtown

COVID Statists at CNN Are All Aglow at Biden’s ‘Mirror Image of the Reagan Revolution’

Portland Police Surround 100 Protesters After Violence Breaks Out

Fentanyl Flowing Into United States At Record Volume

China Splurges On Iranian Oil Despite US Sanctions

How the border crisis could define Biden’s presidency

Border Crisis Explodes: Texas Child Migrant Facility At 700% Capacity As ICE Begs For Volunteers; White House Denies Lawyers Access

NYT Shows Chauvinism for NYC, Demands COVID Deserters Pay!

Is COVID Almost Over?

65-Year Old Texas Woman Tackled, Arrested For Refusing To Mask A Day After Abbott Lifted Mandate

WHO Says COVID Origins Will Be Found “Within A Few Years”

Ulta Beauty CANCELS Teen Vogue Advertising Over Editor’s Ancient Asian Tweets

Vogue declares war on ‘niggling’  You can’t make this shit up.

How California Is Embracing Mandatory Racial-Injustice Study For All Of Its 1.7 Million High Schoolers

The Racial Reckoning Comes for Atlanta

NYT: Hollywood Is So Racist It Is Leaving a $10 Billion Dollar Bill on the Sidewalk Annually

Second Georgetown Law Prof Is Out. His Crime? Saying “Mmmhhhhhh”

Britain Finds Its Long-Needed Great White Defendant

Woke Space Drama Astronaut Rips Racist NASA Treating Her as ‘Token Black Girl’

CNN Pushes Dem Attack on Gun Rights as ‘Common Sense’

Candace Owens Says Meghan Markle Isn’t Black Enough To Experience Racism

Democrats and the War on ‘Whiteness’