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Democratic Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler submitted a request to the Portland City Council on Thursday for a one-time $2 million expenditure for police, months after the council voted to cut nearly $16 million from the police bureau’s budget.

Wheeler, who previously advocated for the Portland Police Bureau’s budget to be cut, cited a dangerous surge in gun violence throughout the city as the primary reason for requesting the funds, according to the Oregonian.

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Academia has become a closed system, a moral community defined by a set of sacred progressive values. The surge of no-platformings which took off in America in 2015 and hit Britain in 2018–19, or the fivefold jump in the rate of cancelling American academics which took place in 2019, present merely the tip of an iceberg of self-censorship and conformity. In this essay, I present extensive new survey data on the scale of the problem in the US, Canada, and Britain from my new report for the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology entitled “Academic Freedom in Crisis: Punishment, Political Discrimination, and Self-Censorship.” This leads, at the end, into a discussion of policy solutions, where I argue that only government intervention can break the spiral of conformity gripping the contemporary university. The British government’s recent policy white paper on academic freedom, which adopted most of the recommendations of my previous co-authored report, “Academic Freedom in the UK,” is a blueprint that other jurisdictions are invited to follow. My current report represents an expansion of the UK report to encompass North America, where the situation is arguably even more pressing.

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“This situation mandates immediate action to protect the life and safety of federal personnel and the aliens in custody,” Michael W. Meade, ICE’s acting assistant director for Field Operations wrote to the law enforcement agency’s senior staff in an email obtained by the Post.

“Start and end dates are TBD, but could begin as soon as this weekend at locations along the SWB, most likely Texas … it is anticipated that the enforcement actions will continue to grow over the coming months.”

In February, the number of illegal immigrants that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) encountered at the border exceeded 100,000 according to the acting commissioner of CBP.

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Swalwell for years maintained contact with Christine Fang, a Chinese national who the FBI determined was working covertly as an intelligence agent for the Chinese Ministry of State Security.

Axios reported in December that Fang raised money for Swalwell’s 2014 congressional campaign and arranged for an intern to work for the lawmaker.

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University of Virginia (UVA) staff helped advise other universities on how to illegally avoid returning excess grant funding to the federal government and discussed the potential consequences if the public became aware of the scheme, according to an investigative report from the Department of Education that was obtained by the Daily Caller.

Biden’s Coronavirus Stimulus Bill: A $1.9 Trillion Disaster

‘Obey!’ – Biden Outlines Post-Pandemic Dystopia In “Dark & Hopeless” First Address

Tax-Funded Propaganda! NPR Slobbers: Biden’s $1.9T Stimulus Will ‘Turbocharge’ Economy

Cartels Give Biden Another ‘Human Trafficker Of The Month’ Award  Babylon Bee. A bit more pointed than their usual offering.

Predictable Train Wrecks On Crime And Immigration

Biden Administration Eliminates Rule Limiting Immigrants That Would Likely Need Welfare

Biden Prepares to Strip College Students of Due Process Rights

UK’s 1st Black female MP reacts to Prince William’s claim that royal family is not racist (CNN)

Bi-racial high school senior who looks white is failed after refusing to confess ‘white dominance’ (Daily Mail) It’s hard to tell the victims without a scorecard.

TOTAL MELTDOWN: Don Lemon Screams About ‘White Supremacy’

Army continues to honor Confederate unit histories, even as base names draw scrutiny (Washington Post)

GOP Decides Equal Representation Is an ‘Assault on Democracy’ (New York Magazine) ‘Equal Representation’ is Left-Coast-speak for ‘vote fraud’.

Trump, estranged from Presidents Club, excluded from predecessors’ PSA (CNN) The ongoing attempt to erase Trump proceeds apace.

Georgetown fires white law professor for saying black students ‘always’ bottom of the class (Daily Mail) The crime of Noticing.

Given the monarchy’s history, Meghan’s allegations shouldn’t be surprising (The Guardian) Given her history, they’re not.

John Dean, White House counsel under Nixon, says Trump will be indicted in ‘matter of days’ (Daily Mail) He’s always been so right before.

Professor to Newsmax TV: Cancel Culture a ‘Soft Version of Taliban

NBC Downplays Sixth Cuomo Accuser, Ignored Impeachment Investigation

Cuomo Accusers Facing Online Harassment

Don’t Mess with Texas! State Unveils Two New Anti-Censorship Bills

DOJ Expects At Least 100 More Charges Over Capitol Riots  Still no word of any charges iu the Portland or Seattle riots, much less the George Floyd riots in Minneapolis.

Woke Athletes Demand NCAA Punish ‘Hateful’ Anti-Trans States

Clay Travis Says Facebook’s ‘Orwellian’ Censorship Cost Company ‘Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars’

First-ever study of all Amazon greenhouse gases suggest the forest is worsening climate change (National Geographic)

BBC: Switching Consumers to Green Energy Tariffs Without Asking Permission Increases Acceptance

Climate adaptation follies. Part II: scenarios of future sea level rise

The Unreasonable Ecological Cost of CryptoArt  I’ll bet you didn’t know that Crypto Art even had an ecological cost.

Buttigieg Shuns Public Transit, Takes SUV Convoy to Pizza Hut for Bicycle Purchase

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he American cloud is the product of a national makeover that started in 1791 with Alexander Hamilton’s American School of economics — a developmental vision of strong national institutions and protectionist policies designed to shelter a young, industrialising nation from British dominance. Hamilton’s vision was diametrically opposed to Thomas Jefferson’s competing vision based on small-town, small-scale agrarian economics. Indeed, the story of America is, in many ways, the story of how Hamilton’s vision came to prevail over Jefferson’s.

By the early 19th century, Hamilton’s ideas had crystallised into two complementary doctrines, both known as the ‘American system’. The first was senator Henry Clay’s economic doctrine, based on protectionist tariffs, a national bank, and ongoing internal infrastructure improvements. The second was the technological doctrine of precision manufacturing based on interchangeable parts, which emerged around Springfield and Harpers Ferry national armouries. Together, the two systems would catalyse the emergence of an industrial back end in the country’s heartland, and the establishment of a consumer middle class on the urbanising coasts. But it would take another century, and the development of the internet, for the American cloud to retreat almost entirely from view.

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Reality in Soviet news was 100% binary, with all people either heroes or villains, and the villains all in league with one another (an SR was no better than a fascist or a “Right-Trotskyite Bandit,” a kind of proto-horseshoe theory). Other ideas were not represented, except to be attacked and deconstructed. Also, since anything good was all good, politicians were not described as people at all but paragons of limitless virtue — 95% of most issues of Pravda or Izvestia were just names of party leaders surrounded by lists of applause-words, like “glittering,” “full-hearted,” “wise,” “mighty,” “courageous,” “in complete moral-political union with the people,” etc.

Some of the headlines in the U.S. press lately sound suspiciously like this kind of work….

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After years of alleging that former-President Trump and, by extension, the Republican Party where doing the bidding of tyrannical Vladimir Putin, Thursday’s edition of CNN Newsroom rolled out the red carpet for propaganda from Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, the leader the group currently fomenting civil war in Yemen commonly known as the Houthis, to express why he and his group, like their Iranian patrons, believe in “death to America.”

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Ex-New York Times journalist Bari Weiss has written a fascinating piece for City Journalabout the trials and tribulations of white, upper-middle-class parents at the country’s most exclusive private schools. Hard to work up much sympathy for them, you might think, but the reason for their current difficulties is interesting: the wholesale capture of these elite educational institutions by the woke cult.

Brentwood, a school that costs $45,630 a year, made headlines a few weeks back when it held racially segregated ‘dialogue and community-building sessions.’ But when I speak with a parent of a middle-school student there, they want to talk about their child’s English curriculum. ‘They replaced all the books with no input or even informing the parents.’ The curriculum no longer features classics such as The Scarlet Letter, Little Women, To Kill a Mockingbird and Lord of the Flies. New books include: Stamped, Dear Martin, Dear Justyce and Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass.

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…it is pretty obvious that the “Biden” administration is a who’s who of all the worst russophobes of the Obama era: Nuland, Psaki, and the rest of them are openly saying that they want to increase the confrontation with Russia. Even the newcomers, say like Ned Price, are clearly rabid russophobes. The folks in Kiev immediately understood that their bad old masters were back in the White House and they are now also adapting their language to this new (well, not really) reality.

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In a private conversation, there was a lively back and forth about the books that new people to our politics should read. One of the hidden truths about this side of the great divide is it is a highly literate movement. People drawn to this type of politics tend to enjoy reading. Then there is the fact that our politics is not cut off from the Western intellectual tradition, which is the case for most conventional politics. As a result, we have a vast library of writing on our topics of interest.

Does Immigration Have Anything To Do With Immigrant Crime?

Israeli Environment Minister Claims Iran Is Behind ‘Worst Oil Spill Ever’ On Israel’s Coast

Macron is Right. Islamo-Leftism is a Threat

Netanyahu Tells VP Harris Israel Will Never Allow Iran To Obtain Nukes

Israel Updating Plans To Attack Iran, Ready To ‘Act Independently’ 

It’s a Taboo: German ICUs Are Being Overwhelmed by Culture-Enrichers

No Terror in Vetlanda, Just Allahu Akhbar

Migrant-Rescue NGOs Being Prosecuted in Italy for Human Trafficking

In Iraq’s Ruined City of Mosul, Pope Hears of Life Under Islamic State

Brace For Oil Surge: Saudi Oil Tank In Ras Tanura Port Hit In Houthi Drone Attack

Oil Jumps Above $70 After Saudi Arabian Energy Facility Attacked

“We’ll Level Tel Aviv”: Iran Responds To Israel ‘Preparing’ Strike Plans Against Nuclear Sites

UK Aid Worker Faces New Charges in Iran as 5-Year Sentence Ends

Journalist Severely Beaten by “Youths” in Reims

New Ballistic Missile Launch Targets Saudi Arabia As Part Of Houthi “Sabotage Attacks”

Knife Jihad in Marseille

Autobus-da-fé in a Paris Banlieue

Tehran on My Mind

French student admits her lie got teacher beheaded

Christians Now Legally Allowed To Say ‘Allah’ In Malaysia After Landmark Court Ruling

UN Investigator Finds Iran Responsible for ‘Egregious’ Human Rights Abuses

Teacher in Mölln Gets a Culture-Enriching Knife Experience

Iran-Backed Militia Publishes Video Of New Attack On US Convoy In Iraq

US Coronavirus Spending Is About To Soar Past What America Spent To Defeat The Nazis In World War II  Very little of which has anything to do with coronavirus.

Watch: Fauci Admits There Is No “Science” Behind Continued Lockdown

Mayor De Blasio, 59 Dem Lawmakers Officially Call On Cuomo To Resign

CDC lets child migrant shelters fill to 100% despite Covid concern

Clinic Reportedly Gives People Empty Shots, Has To Call Back Patients To Get Real Coronavirus Vaccine

Wind Power Is A Disaster In Texas, No Matter What Paul Krugman Says

Media Amplification of Forister’s Feeble Butterfly Science and Climate Fearmongering

Climate Policy: COVID on Steroids?

Can planting more trees keep cities from heating up?  Popular ‘Science’.

GOP push for estate tax reform is a handout to the rich (L.A. Times) Since when is letting you keep more of you own money a ‘handout’?

Texas Rancher Says Illegal Immigrants Are Repeatedly Causing Property Damage And Trashing His Land

Senator Whitehouse Rails Against ‘Dark Money’ Despite His Own Similar Ties

REPORT: California Ethnic Studies Curriculum Calls For ‘Decolonization’ Of America, Has Students Chant To Aztec God Of Human Sacrifice

Six Times as Many Very Liberal Whites as Conservative Whites Believe Violence in Pursuit of Political Goals Can be Justified in U.S.

The growing GOP rebellion against Marjorie Taylor Greene  Chris Cillizza at CNN has a very rich fantasy life.

There Are Still More Than 20 Million Americans Getting Government Jobless Benefits  Which is just where the Democrats want them.

NRCC To Release Website Featuring ‘Socialism Scorecard’ For Tracking Democrats’ Votes

‘We Love Abortion Providers!’ Pro-Aborts Celebrate Their Death Squads

VOGUE Touts Biden’s ‘Brilliant’ CDC Boss, Totally Avoids Team Trump’s Vaccine Push

Popular Security Camera Company Gave ’20-Year-Old Interns’ A ‘Super Admin’ Privilege To Look In On Americans

‘Cuomosexuals,’ The 20 Celebs Who Were ‘In Love’ With Accused Sex Pest/Granny Killer Gov. Cuomo

Man Sentenced For Threatening Trump Supporters Online, Brandishing Assault Rifle At George Floyd Protest

Elite Private School Encouraging Students To Drop Words Like ‘Mom,’ ‘Dad’ Because They’re Not Inclusive Enough

‘Does The Devil Use Microsoft Word Or Google Docs?’: CNN Hosts Mock Republican Criticism That H.R. 1 Was ‘Written In Hell’  When these guys get out of high school, it will be impressive.

‘The Hypocrisy’: Ari Fleischer Predicts Cuomo Will Follow ‘The Northam Model’ And Ride Out The Scandal

China Approves Hong Kong Elections Overhaul To Apply “Patriotism” Litmus Test  Communists being Communists.

Blue State Residents Oppose Woke Education

‘Autonomous Zone’ Occupants Threaten Reporter Near George Floyd Square

Here Come Trillions More: Biden Will Unveil “Next Phase” Of COVID Response On Thursday

‘The Border Is Not Open!’: Juan Williams Gets Heated Defending Biden’s Approach To Migrant Crisis

Biden Iran Envoy Boasted Of Depriving Civilians Of Food In Sadistic Sanctions Manual

Mexican President Says Biden Border Policies ‘Encouraging Illegal Immigration’ And Enriching Cartels

‘Like Looting After A Natural Disaster’: Sen. Kennedy Says $1.9 Trillion COVID-19 Bill Is Exploiting A Pandemic

EXCLUSIVE: Republicans Send Letter To DHS Secretary About COVID-19 Positive Illegal Immigrants Being Bused To NC

Illegal Immigrant Children Detentions Quadruple to 3,200

Biden: ‘We Just Need $2 Trillion In Spending To Flatten The Curve’  Babylon Bee.

“It’s Not Funny”: Reporter Angered After Jen Psaki Laughs At Migrant Children Border Question

Gingrich Guesses Biden Is ‘Very Minor Force’ In White House, That Harris Is ‘Increasingly’ Running The Show

Arizona Highway Checkpoints Shut Down by CBP as Border Crisis Grows

Jesse Watters Flames Chris Cuomo: ‘Why Do Rich, White Liberals Feel Like They Need To See Race In Everything?’

Deans Tell Students Law School Is Too White

UC-Berkeley Unveils Plan For Racial Quota

College-Educated Younger Black Men Are 30 Times as Likely to Get Themselves Shot Dead as Comparable White Men

Oprah Network Drama ‘Queen Sugar’ Brands All White Males ‘Bad Guys’ For Being ‘Born’

House Dems Seek White Supremacy Briefing From FBI

Don Lemon Explodes On Sen. Tim Scott For Saying ‘Woke Supremacy Is As Bad As White Supremacy’  I guess Senator Scott Isn’t Really Black.

College Orders Investigation Into Professor Caught On Camera Saying A Lot Of Her ‘Lower’ Students ‘Are Blacks’  A lot of everybody’s ‘lower students’ are blacks, but you’re not allowed to say that.

Georgetown Law Prof Says She Feels Angst Over Low Performance of Her Black Students, Gets Fired,

The Double Standard on What’s Racist in Entertainment

Teen Vogue’s Newly-Hired Top Editor Begs Her Staff For Forgiveness In Groveling Email

New York Times: ‘Journalists Should Be Able To Destroy People’s Lives Without Fear Of Harassment’

Journalists Start Demanding Substack Censor its Writers: to Bar Critiques of Journalists

FAKE NEWS: Vanity Fair Says Trump’s ‘Probably Beaten a Few Homeless People to Death’

Deadspin: ‘Space Jam’ Should Educate Kids About ‘Rape Culture’

Megyn Kelly Calls Out NYT Reporter As ‘Idiotic,’ ‘Sexist’ For Slamming ‘Stay At Home Moms’

Olbermann Unhinged! Demands Twitter Ban Tucker Carlson, Sean Davis

Glenn Greenwald Eviscerates Ex-BuzzFeed ‘Serial Plagiarist’ For Leading Call To Censor Substack

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Emily Ratajkowski is one crazy lefty. The supermodel, actress and political activist just had her baby, but no one, not even her, is going to know what gender it is. No, it doesn’t matter what Ratajkowski’s child features in terms of anatomy. Only the baby knows what gender it is and we will all find out in due time.

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Nothing to see here … move along, move along….

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Three Republicans on the Committee on House Administration sent a letter to Democratic California Rep. Zoe Lofgren claiming she broke House rules for releasing a report insinuating Congressional Republicans were involved in the Capitol riot.

The Daily Caller first obtained the Thursday letter, which Illinois Rep. Rodney Davis, Georgia Rep. Barry Loudermilk and Wisconsin Rep. Bryan Steil sent to Lofgren, who chairs the committee, saying the report’s findings are wrong and offensive. The three Republicans also said it raises questions concerning her use of Members’ Representational Allowance (MRA) for investigating members of Congress using her personal office resources.

“As the Chairperson of the Committee which is responsible for overseeing the rules governing the use of the MRA, you more than anyone should know that the handbook is clear when it states ‘the MRA may only be used for official and representational expenses.’ Using your personal office resources to investigate other Members of Congress cannot be considered to be related to your representational duties to your district,” the Republicans said to Lofgren in the letter.

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Eighteen months ago, liberals attempted to link the spike in anti-Semitic hate crimes to white supremacist actions. New York City mayor Bill de Blasio and the ADL highlighted the activities of white supremacist groups in upstate New York, despite all of the assaults being in the New York City metropolitan area, overwhelmingly perpetrated by black men. This culminated with black men killing Jews in Jersey City and Monsey, New York. Attempts were then made to rationalize them away rather than focusing on the anti-Semitic beliefs of black-nationalist groups, including the Nation of Islam.

 

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Adam Castillejo, 40, was declared free of the virus a year ago and remains free of the virus 30 months after having stopped anti-retroviral therapy, according to the Independent.

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Kristen Clarke, already under fire for her past anti-Semitic writings and opposition to civil rights prosecutions of black defendants, helped persuade a federal appeals court to deauthorize an integral part of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Clarke and her advocacy group claimed the project was harmful to black residents. Regulators and energy companies objected to the claim before mounting legal costs forced them to shut down.

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When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife handed out hundreds of millions of dollars last year for a national safe-voting initiative, the “donation” was heralded as vital support to “protect American elections” and to “bolster democracy during the pandemic.”

But what the grant money really purchased in battleground states such as Wisconsin was infiltration of the November presidential elections by liberal groups and Democratic activists, according to hundreds of pages of emails and other documents obtained by Wisconsin Spotlight.

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COVID, as well as her now bystander view, has reinforced her bitterness towards America. America has showered McCarthy with $90 million, fame and status. She gives back nothing but hate.

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That really helped those employees, didn’t it? Well done, Democrats!

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Senators and a witness at a Senate hearing Wednesday afternoon called out three left-leaning dark money groups for decrying the existence of conservative dark money groups.

The term “dark money” generally applies to a political organization that doesn’t disclose its donors.

Leaders of the liberal groups People for the American Way, the Center for Media and Democracy, and Take Back the Court told senators that corporate and dark money is corrupting the Supreme Court, but were vague about how.

None of the three liberal nonprofits discloses all donors, The Washington Free Beacon reported, a stance that makes them dark money organizations.

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Universities have traditionally played an important role in preparing young people for a life outside academia. These days, though, it appears that many institutions are more interested in lecturing their academics than teaching students — especially when it comes to using the right kind of language.

That perhaps explains why the University of Manchester in England released on Wednesday a new ‘Guide to inclusive language’ for its staff, made by its ‘equality, diversity and inclusion team’. The guide aims to tell those working at the university ‘how to use inclusive language to avoid biases, slang or expressions that can exclude certain groups’ and has been added to the uni’s house style page, which means academics will be told to follow the guidance when writing for the university.

And while you might hope that one of Britain’s red-brick institutions treats its staff like adults, instead it appears the university has taken a rather more hostile approach to the use of language on campus.

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More like Disney minus.

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Democrats warn that this latest gambit from the right could erode one of the last vestiges of bipartisanship.

‘Bipartisanship’ is Dem-speak for ‘Republicans cave’.

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Bari Weiss has an article in City Journal about how rich parents at super elite private schools like Harvard-Westlake in the Hollywood Hills are surreptitiously aghast at how Woke their children’s expensive educations have become.

The finest ultra-left-wing indoctrination that money can buy.

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Could timber really be a major building material in the dense, vertical cities of the future? In fact, this possibility is well on the way to being realised. In recent years, architects and planners around the world have hailed the coming age of “mass timber”. This term refers to prefabricated wooden building components, such as cross-laminated timber, which can replace concrete and steel in large-scale construction.

Until some jihadist flies a plane into one.

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New York Times senior writer David Leonhardt had written that Democratic administrations have been more “pragmatic” by being “willing to heed economic and historical lessons about what policies actually strengthen the economy, while Republicans have often clung to theories that they want to believe — like the supposedly magical power of tax cuts and deregulation.”

Economist and Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Brian Riedl rebuked Leonhardt and the media for living in an “ideological cocoon” and pushing talking points on behalf of Democrats. “This is just partisan nonsense,” Riedl said of Leonhardt in an exclusive interview with the Media Research Center.

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Emphasis on the ‘cow’.

How sacred is a New York Times reporter? Is one required to kowtow in their presence, or merely bow? If one eats a Times reporter, does one become ritually impure?

These critical questions are being settled right now in the clash over Times technology reporter and factually-challenged busybody Taylor Lorenz.

Lorenz spent the bulk of lockdown season stalking the nascent Silicon Valley chat app Clubhouse. In July, she vowed to quit the app forever for not caring enough about ‘user safety’, i.e. protecting Lorenz from all criticism. But of course, like most addicts who pledge to quit, Lorenz’s promise was a farce, and she was soon back on the app.

Richard Dawkins, whose God is Science.

Safe spaces, diversity quotas, gender-neutral pronouns, culturally relative facts, heteronormative hegemony. Are my right-on credentials right on enough? Am I sufficiently penitent for being white, cis and male? Will I be canceled or de-platformed by the Pronoun Police? What is my woke-quotient? At least as far as science is concerned, it’s a satisfactory zero. Science is not a patriarchal instrument of colonial oppression. Nor is it a social construct. It’s simply true. Or at least truth is real and science is the best way we have of finding it. ‘Alternative ways of knowing’ may be consoling, they may be sincere, they may be quaint, they may have a poetic or mythic beauty, but the one thing they are not is true. As well as being real, moreover, science has a crystalline, poetic beauty of its own.

I’ve just joined a new initiative set up to oppose postmodern metabaloney and bossy woke bullying. Look up ‘Counterweight’ + ‘Helen Pluckrose’, its founder. She’s also co-author of Cynical Theories, an excellent history and analysis of Francophoney postmodernism and the pernicious influence of ‘theory’, driveling out of the universities into the culture at large. The book’s only fault is that, bending over backwards to be scrupulously fair to its subject matter — queer theory, social justice theory etc, chapter by thorough chapter — it can’t help inheriting some of the subject matter’s obscurantist style. The result is not as stupefyingly boring as the original. Nevertheless, busy readers might prefer to skip to the concluding pages of each chapter, where the pretentious original is decisively skewered.

ZMan.

One of the most important things the Left in America does in the culture war is convince their opponents to play the role of devil for them. The American Left operates like a religious movement, but one without an inherent purpose. That purpose must be supplied from outside the movement. It is like a beehive without a queen, always searching for a queen that will define the threat for them, so they can act on their nature and attack the enemy in what they believe is defense of the hive.

That is what these causes are for the American Left. The cause itself is meaningless, because that is just a plot device in the story. It is why they can be so callous to the people they claim to be championing. The Left is now attacking feminists who oppose allowing men in dresses to play girls’ sports. Progressives used to talk about girls playing sports like it was the most important thing ever, but men in dresses are now providing the devil, so trannies are what matter most.

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The USA is the least communalistic and most individualistic nation of any on Earth. It is written into their Declaration of Independence that an individual’s right to the pursuit of happiness trumps, if I can use the word, every other consideration. It is all a little alien to us over here in Britain, which is one reason why we tend to find Meghan Markle a repulsive creature. What the ghastly Oprah Winfrey and indeed Hillary Clinton do not understand is that if there was any resentment towards Meghan in the UK, it was not because she is of mixed race, but because she is American and behaves like a caricature of a particularly stupid American. The color of her skin matters not a jot: it is the noisome ordure which spews out of her mouth on a daily basis that grates. Again, the narcissism and self-obsession and the acquired victimhood, the vapid and banal attempts at self-justification.

Can’t say he’s wrong.

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Ann Coulter.

A governing principle of the Democratic Party is to ask, “Who is in the dock?” before deciding whether to enforce the law.

As we have seen throughout the last year of antifa/BLM riots, in blue states, it’s now legal to commit arson, attempted murder, assault on a law enforcement officer and destruction of property — provided the perp is antifa or antifa-friendly. Andy Ngo’s smash bestseller “Unmasked” gives chapter and verse on antifa’s shocking violence untouched by criminal penalty.

On the other hand, if you’re a conservative, don’t commit a misdemeanor in a blue state. Proud Boys, Capitol Hill protesters, police and other presumed Trump supporters are getting more prison time than actual murderers for minor infractions. Even a couple of personal injury lawyers (liberals) are being criminally prosecuted in St. Louis for brandishing guns at violent looters coming toward their home. The rioters, you see, were BLM protesters.

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Humanity had a vaccine that prevented COVID-19 in January last year. What we did not have was a regulatory system to facilitate rapid assessment of its safety and efficacy or the capacity to manufacture and inoculate at scale.

COVID-19 subsequently caused immense human suffering: over 2.5 million deaths and lockdowns upending the lives of billions. It will be years before most of the world is vaccinated and the global economy recovers.

The problem, as always, is not developing a solution – that is easily done – but in getting the heavy hand of government out of the way of using that development.

Steve Sailer.

The Woke are canceling ever more of the great minds of English history….

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Airlines in the US are already in the process of leveraging apps and smartphones to allow travelers to offer proof that they have been vaccinated, or recently tested negative for COVID-19, and they’re not alone: Across Europe, a growing number of airlines and countries are adopting, or leaning toward adopting, so-called “vaccine passports”.