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You’d think a teacher would be smarter than that.

Oh, wait….

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I haven’t seen much humor in life during the past year or so, but one thing that has been uproariously hilarious lately is the orchestrated media narrative that President Joe Biden is bipartisan and conciliatory. Please give me a moment to catch my breath.

I think it was Karl Rove who recently observed that the media’s effective definition of bipartisan legislation is not that significant numbers of both parties’ lawmakers support a bill but that some poll somewhere shows that a large percentage of Americans of each party support some vaguely described initiative, even if zero Republican legislators support the actual bill. You can frame a poll question to get the result you want.

Glenn Greenwald.

The most significant Trump-era alliance is between corporate outlets and security state agencies, whose evidence-free claims they unquestioningly disseminate.

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After over a year of Democrats and their allies in the liberal media repeatedly demanding trillions of taxpayer dollars be spent on COVID relief and expanding unemployment benefits, on Friday, MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle discovered people were deciding to rely on government checks rather than return to work. She even confronted a top economic advisor for the Biden White House about the troubling trend.

“We know people who’ve been out of work are getting the much-needed enhanced jobless benefits from now until September,” Ruhle remarked to White House economic adviser Jared Bernstein during her 9:00 a.m. ET hour show. However, she then revealed the downside of the government doling out that money: “But I want to share with you part of my conversation with a local florist….She is trying to hire some seasonal part-time workers and here’s what she’s up against.”

Let’s hear it for that Biden Boom.

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The US federal government may very well be the most complex human undertaking in existence, an immortal leviathan with millions of moving parts and thousands of distinct job titles.

Or that’s what it was, anyway. Now, America’s federal workers and appointees, from the lowliest to the mightiest, appear to have but one shared job: fighting racism, sexism, and the other evil -isms, and condemning the country that overpays them. The Joint Chiefs of Staff are now the Joint Chiefs of Women’s Empowerment. The HUD Secretary is Secretary of Reminding You That Redlining Happened 60 Years Ago.

And then we have President Biden’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield. On Wednesday, Thomas-Greenfield spoke to the National Action Network, Al Sharpton’s organization for transmuting activist energy into money. In her address, Thomas-Greenfield indicated that she would much rather be ambassador to your local middle school’s anti-racism presentation in the auditorium.

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n the political realm, the absurdity of it all is too much to ignore. I was talking with a friend who was never fond of Trump. He voted for him, at least that is what he said, but he thought Trump was a clown. He said to me, “You’re my age. Did you ever think Joe Biden would be President?” It was one of those moments when the ridiculousness of the age jumps out at you. Normal white people are walking around with the same thought in their head. We live in clown world.

At lunch the other day, the economy was the topic. One person would mention the bad news, like the rising cost of most things. Someone would counter with the stock market or the supposed hiring spike. This went back and forth until someone finally said, “You know, none of this could be true at all. No one knows what’s going on because we can’t trust anything we’re being told.” Again, I detected that detached bemusement that comes when you stop pretending it matters.

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A friend of mine already has his soon-to-be ex-wife bringing in the county’s Child Protective Services every time he refers to their adolescent daughters as “she.”

Ominous Passover Puppets in Norrköping

‘Mystery’ Blackout Incident At Iran Nuclear Site “Not An Accident”: Israeli Media

Imran Khan’s cowardly response to Pakistan’s rape crisis

“Nuclear Terrorism”: Iran Confirms “Sabotage” After Natanz Atomic Site Blackout, Vows Retaliation  I have to say that pissing off Jews is not a good idea.

Israel conducts successful cyber attack on Iranian nuclear facility

YEMEN: Iran Demands More

Iran Reportedly Blames Israel For Nuclear Attack, Vows Revenge  Uh… OK. What changes?

Israeli Cyber Strikes Iran Nuke Facility; Centrifuges Damaged

Swiss Ban on Full Veil Riles Islamists

How Iraq’s crystal meth epidemic is ravaging the nation

Iran Ramps Up Uranium Enrichment To Highest Levels Ever As Biden Seeks To Re-Enter Nuclear Deal

Israel may have destroyed Iranian centrifuges simply by cutting power

San Francisco State Again Tries to Host PFLP Terrorists

Swedish Pre-School Funneled Money to the Muslim Brotherhood

Iran Teases 90% Enrichment While Threatening To Cut Off Vienna Talks If “Not Constructive”

Car Bomb Blast Kills Four in Baghdad’s Sadr City

Biden DOJ Pick Struggles to Defend Record on Black Panther Prosecutions

Dana Perino Mocks Puff Piece On Kamala Harris Crocheting: ‘George Bush Should’ve Put Dick Cheney In Charge Of The Knitting Circle’

Biden to Abolish the Suburbs

Kristen Clarke, Bigot and Liar

Withdrawing Troops From Afghanistan Went From ‘Sabotage’ To ‘The Right Call’ In Just 5 Months

Kristen Clarke lies under oath about her racist writing at Harvard

Losing Baseball Team Suggests New Rules Allowing Them To Add 4 Players To The Field

ICE Pays $352/Day For 199 Days To House 1,239 Illegal Families

How Biden Administration Redefines Words, Reshapes Facts to Serve Its Purpose

Hispanic Approval Of Joe Biden’s Border Policy Is Even Lower Than The Rest Of America

Biden Admin Bows to Russia, Cancels Deployment of War Ships

Biden’s Border Security Pick Backs Amnesty, Opposes Wall

The Moral Peril of Taking Most COVID-19 Vaccines

COVID Forces White House Correspondents’ Association To Cancel Nerd Prom For The Second Consecutive Year

How Bill Gates Helped Drug Companies Maintain Their Monopoly On Vaccines During COVID

“RCTs for me but not for thee”?

Dr. WHO’s new assistant

Nearly 25% Of UK ‘COVID Deaths’ Were Not Directly Caused By Virus

Infosys says staff are leaving it again – a sign COVID crunch is receding

CNN’s Gupta Questions WHO Credibility on Wuhan Lab Leak

Merck Plans Large Outpatient Trial of COVID-19 Pill, Stops Study in Hospitalized Patients

Former FDA Chief Warns US Will “Struggle” To Reach Herd Immunity As Vaccine Refusals Rise  Perhaps if public officials and the Narrative Media quit lying to the public….

Government Pays Parents to Keep Children Home From School

More Conservatives Deciding Not To Get Vaccinated After Learning Liberals Will Stay Away From Them  (Babylon Bee) I’m in.

Pfizer CEO Says Third Dose Of COVID-19 Vaccine ‘Likely’ Needed Within A Year  Ka-CHING!

Pausing the J&J Vaccine Was Easy. Unpausing Will Be Hard

Poll: Americans No Longer Confident In Johnson & Johnson Vaccine After CDC Pause

Where’s Dr. Fauci As Another Corona-Myth Dies?

‘Godfather Of Gain Of Function’: WaPo Columnist Lays Out Fauci’s Possible Role In Wuhan Lab

Marxist BLM leader reportedly raked in big bucks from jail reform initiative

Unethical race-based healthcare proposal nothing more than ‘political eugenics:’ Professor

The Racist Incident That Wasn’t

Pathologist Blames Floyd Death On Heart Problem, Would Not Have Classified As Homicide

BLM Threatened Legal Action Against Local Black Activist Who Called For Investigation Into Its Finances

NYPD Weighs Going to 12-Hour Shifts Amid Chauvin Trial  Anticipating riots when the Heretic is not, as desired, convicted.

BLM Founder Calls For Abolishing Police In All The Areas Where She Doesn’t Live Babylon Bee.

‘Get The F**k Out Of Here!’: Video Shows CNN Staffer Almost Knocked Clean Out At BLM Protest

Health and Safety? CNN Covers Up Crew Member Battered at BLM ‘Protest’

BLM Rioters Assault CNN Staffer, Chase His Team Out Of Brooklyn Center. The TV Network Hasn’t Even Mentioned It

“A Bunch Of Black Men Have Been Attacking Asians” Says CNN Director During Undercover Tinder Sting

Of Course: Snopes Defends Marxist BLM Leader’s Expensive Home Buying Spree

‘Respect The Chair And Shut Your Mouth’: Maxine Waters Interrupts Tense Exchange With Dr. Fauci To Scold Jim Jordan

‘Don’t You Dare Start This Sh*t Tonight’: Man Screams At BLM Protesters

How medicine discriminates against non-white people and women  The Economist goes woke.

Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Cashes in on ‘Systemic Racism’

Cape Cod Climate Research Station Abandoned Because It’s About to Fall Into the Sea (Daily Beast) Normal erosion, not ‘rising sea levels’, but the Narrative says ‘climate change’ so ‘climate change’ it is.

Alaskan glacier is moving 100 TIMES faster than normal (Daily Mail) ‘Undergoing a rare surge’.

US climate research outpost abandoned over fears it will fall into sea (The Guardian)

Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier’ close to tipping point, unmanned sub reveals

Senate Democrats Want To Make Climate Change A Pillar Of US Diplomacy

The veteran air force pilot hoping to oust scandal-hit Republican Matt Gaetz

Republicans settle on their rhetorical strategy for dismantling democracy: Trolling the left (Salon)

‘Never Apologize To These Satanic MFers!’: Critic Of BLM Founder Jason Whitlock Released From ‘Twitter Jail’

Report: Conspiracy Theorists Now More Accurate Than Journalists  Babylon Bee.

Nothing Can Placate the BLM Riot Mob, and ‘Journalists’ Are Part of the Mob

USA Today Beats Up On ‘Hateful,’ Ignorant Red States For Opposing Trans Athletes

Minding Your Own Business Is Now an Unforgivable Sin

NYT: Rage Is the Only Language I Have Left

Environmental Activist Says Cheese Is Racist, Dairy Shouldn’t Be Served In British Schools

‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Author J.D. Vance Quits Firm Over Voting Law Tweets

‘Cheap Shot Artist,’ ‘Punk!’: Dan Bongino And Geraldo Rivera Sling Insults As Heated Debate Goes Off The Rails

NY Times Says GOP ‘Spread Misinformation’ on Ballot Fraud, Yet Skipped Their Own Stories

NY Democrat Claims ‘Far-Right’ Majority Has Made Supreme Court An Accomplice In ‘War On Our Democracy’

Nanny State Media Now Policing How Macaulay Culkin Raises His Half-Asian Kid

Reid Warns Trump Is Just Like Osama bin Laden, GOP Voters Are the New al-Qaeda

SILENCED! Twitter Suspends Project Veritas Founder James O’Keefe Permanently

Tucker Carlson: America is now one nation with two very different justice systems

Woke Asian American Elites Do Not Speak for All Asian Americans

The New York Times Did A Big 180 In Favor Of Absentee Voting

Brooklyn Center Responds To Riots With Study Group That Will Look Into Violence From A ‘Community Lens’  It’s an emergency! Form a committee!

Rep. Jerry Nadler to Introduce a Court-Packing Bill to Give Biden 4 Extra Supreme Court Nominations  Gee, just the right number to give Biden enough to turn the majority proglodyte again.

Woke Capital and the Triumph of Corporate Democrats

Big Tech bans people who discuss election fraud. That’s a bad idea

Pelosi Won’t Allow Vote On Dems Court-Packing Bill, Says Issue Must Be “Studied Further”

Police Stop Using Tear Gas, Drench Demonstrators In Pepper Spray On Fourth Consecutive Night Of Unrest In Minnesota

Tomi Lahren Talks Getting Heckled At A Campus ‘Back The Blue’ Event

24 Arrested In 4th Night Of Unrest In Minnesota City Following Police Shooting

Police Department In Los Angeles Will Arrest People With Pink Handcuffs To Raise Breast Cancer Awareness  Not the Babylon Bee.

NBC & ABC Justify Left-Wing Court Packing, Cite Dem ‘Fury’ Over ‘Conservative’ Court

Rep. Nunes Blasts Intel Leaders for Politicizing, Weaponizing Intelligence

Absurd CNN Falsely Claims ‘Icon’ Ginsburg Was ‘Not Political’ on Supreme Court

‘You’ve Spent 60 Years Being A Professional Liar’: Ted Cruz Comes At Dan Rather For His ‘Sensitive Soul’ Getting ‘Triggered’

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Oklahoma lawmakers have passed a bill that they’re pretending is about protecting citizens when it’s really about their contempt for anti-racism protesters. The legislation that passed in the Republican-controlled Senate on Wednesday increases penalties for protesters who block streets while granting blanket immunity for drivers who injure or even kill protesters. To the GOP legislators in Oklahoma, I say: If you hate Black Lives Matter so much that you want to run it over in your Honda Pilot, just say so.

The Root is a Black Supremacist website with content as you might expect.

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… there is now a full-blown labor shortage in the US, for one simple reason – trillions in Biden stimulus are now incentivizing potential workers not to seek gainful employment, but to sit back and collect the next stimmy check for doing absolutely nothing in what is becoming the world’s greatest “under the radar” experiment in Universal Basic Income.

If the government is going to give you ‘free’ money, why work?

Taki takes a look around.

Uncharacteristically, the golden geese are fleeing south in April, and by that I mean the fat cats are fleeing to Florida and other points south, leaving the muggers, the homeless, the gang members and Taki behind. Tax-heavy high-cost Bagel may be a magnet for criminals but it’s a turn-off for banks and investment houses that are drawn to low-tax states like Florida and Texas. Here are the facts: crime and disorder are way up, homicides have spiked to 46.7 percent and shootings 97 percent. It is the largest increase in at least 60 years. New bail laws turning every criminal suspect loose have emptied the jails. Homelessness has hit a level unseen since the Great Depression. The Bagel has 80,000 homeless, some of them parked outside glitzy Park Avenue abodes like mine.

Taxes are exorbitant and going up even further. Sales taxes are the highest in the nation, as is the cost of living. What do Bagel-dwellers get in return? From what I’ve seen, soaring crime, public spaces occupied by the mentally ill and the homeless and a non-stop campaign by the news media against white supremacists, a species I have yet to encounter in the mean streets of Noo Yawk.

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

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

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

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

I don’t like this trend.

ZMan is astounded.

There is no getting around the fact that our present is unimaginably weird, relative to our standards of just a generation ago. People like to laugh at what people a century ago imagined was the future, but those past predictions were based on the assumption that crazy people would not take over the country. They feared that left-wing radicals would win and impose communism. That was a legitimate fear, but mentally disturbed men in dresses was not a concern. Why would anyone think such a thing?

What makes it weirder is that we are not living in an age of bliss. We have real problems that need attention. Yet during the transition from Trump to Dementia Joe, supposedly serious people sat around a conference room table wondering how they could recruit a man in a dress to join the administration. No one in the room, presumably, bust out laughing. Some take comfort in believing that they know it is ridiculous, but there is no evidence to suggest this.

If you described modern America to someone in 1960, they would refuse to believe it.

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A North Carolina teacher’s lesson on slavery included a discussion question that downplayed the Holocaust and likened 19th-century Americans to Nazis.

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If you have the misfortune to follow the dreary climate change business, you’ll know that one of the fine points is which long-term emissions forecast to plug into your model. Never mind the accuracy of the models for now—even a good model is vulnerable to the age-old GIGO problem—”garbage in, garbage out.” In climate model forecasting, if you have an absurd emissions forecast, you’ll get absurd (but headline-grabbing) results.

People who follow this subject have long known that the emissions forecast that generates most of the scary headlines of the last few years is known as RCP 8.5 (short for “Representative Concentration Pathways”—never use plain language when you can use forbidding jargon), and most experts agree that its very high emissions forecast is bunk.

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

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When Congress agreed to finance the Interstate Highway System in 1956 by dedicating taxes on gasoline, tires, autos, and trucks to a Highway Trust Fund, it also adopted a policy of not spending more from the fund that was actually collected in highway fees into that fund. This delayed completion of the interstate highways because inflation increased costs without increasing gas taxes and other revenues, but it ensured that the fund remained solvent.

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That is no longer the case, and today Congress spends about $14 billion more per year out of the fund than it collects in highway user fees. Yesterday, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a hearing on the “long-term solvency of the highway trust fund.” Most of the witnesses at the hearing spoke about problems with gasoline taxes and why they should be replaced with mileage-based user fees.

That’s all well and good, but everyone seems to have lost sight of why the trust fund is insolvent. It isn’t, as asserted by one of the speakers (whose testimony was otherwise fine), because of “revenue shortfalls.” Instead, it was because of Congressional overspending.

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Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony from Kristen Clarke, Joe Biden’s nominee to head the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. Clarke appeared along with Todd Kim, the nominee to head the Environment and Natural Resources Division. This meant a pretty easy time for Kim.

Clarke, by contrast, came under heavy fire. She tried to deflect it through a combination of lies and nonsense.

Consider her exchange with Sen. Ted Cruz. In June 2020, Clarke wrote an article for Newsweek called “I Prosecuted Police Killings. Defund the Police — But Be Strategic.” So Cruz asked Clarke whether she still favors defunding the police.

Clarke responded that she doesn’t support defunding the police, and that she wrote the Newsweek article to make it clear that she does not support defunding the police (she later made clear that she equates “defunding” the police with investing fewer resources in the police). Clarke blamed the title of the article, which called expressly for defunding the police, on Newsweek.

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

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Don’t like the rules you find? Find some rules you like.

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An elderly retired French businessman-politician and his wife were beaten and robbed in their home by four African culture-enrichers. The incident is fraught with irony, since the two victims are well-known “refugees welcome” people.

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While reporting on the funeral for slain Capitol police officer Billy Evans on Tuesday, the media skirted around the fact that his killer was an avid Nation of Islam supporter

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From time to time others have noted that today’s leftism is a de facto religion, with its own creed and rituals. With the recent Gallup survey of church-going practices of Americans showing that fewer than half attend religious services, perhaps it is not surprising that politics has become a substitute faith.

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“Researchers can produce tetraalkoxysilane from sand through a reaction with alcohol and a catalyst by removing water, which is a byproduct of the reaction,” says Yuya Sakai, lead author of the study. “Our idea was to leave the water to shift the reaction back and forth from sand to tetraalkoxysilane, to bond the sand particles with each other.”

CNN is sore afraid.

‘s the latest — and best-funded, with an initial budget of $20 million — example of how the 45th President and his supporters are building out a constellation of groups (political, legal and policy) that parallel the structure of the national Republican Party.

And yet more evidence that not only does Donald Trump have no plans to step away from politics, but that he is also constructing what amounts to a shadow version of the GOP.

Lessons In Woke “Science”: Covid-19 And Climate

Aussie ABC: Deal with Climate Guilt by Shifting Blame to Everyone Else

Man with 2 kids burglarizes NYC frozen yogurt shop

BLM’s ‘Marxist’ Co-Founder Raked In $20,000 A Month As Chairwoman Of Jail Reform Group

BLM’s Latest Martyred Saint: Daunte Wright Had a Warrant Out for His Arrest for Attempted Aggravated Robbery Charges After ‘Choking and Holding a Woman at Gunpoint for $820 in 2019’

Police Fire Tear-Gas, Flashbangs As Minnesota Riots Enter 3rd Night

Comedian John Cleese ‘Apologises’ For Making “Fun Of White English People”

The Media’s Selective Reporting of Alleged Criminals’ Race  The dog that never barks.

Pigmentation Nation

Rand Paul Calls Out Democrats’ Jim Crow Legacy at Election Forum

Expert Blames George Floyd’s Death on Heart Rhythm Problem

Meet Kimberly Gardner, the Rogue Prosecutor Whose Policies Are Wreaking Havoc in St. Louis

‘I Refuse To Stand By’: Teacher Speaks Out Against ‘Antiracist’ School As Peddling ‘The Opposite Of Truth’

 Minnesota Mob Intimidates City Council

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Biden Nominee For Border Chief Called Covington Kids ‘Cruel,’ Questioned Their ‘Parenting’

Top Trump Admin Official Praises Biden For Adopting ‘Nearly All’ Of His Predecessor’s China Policies

Texas Nonprofit Hires Biden Transition Official – Then Lands Half-Billion Dollar Contract To Manage Border Crisis  Doing well by doing good.

DeSantis: Florida Continuing With Lawsuit Over Biden ICE Policy

Steve Scalise Says VP Harris Is MIA At The Border, So He Put Her Face On A Milk Carton

Amid Economic Woes, Biden Pushes to Make Megan Rapinoe Richer

Senate Confirms Warren Ally to Lead Top Wall Street Regulator

Expert Says Cop Was Justified in Pinning Down George Floyd

‘I Lost My Job, But I Still Have My Integrity’: Brooklyn Center City Manager Who Was Fired For Calling For Due Process Speaks Out

MSNBC’S Johnson Claims Cops Are as Bad as Criminals, Shouldn’t Be Armed

Officer Who Shot, Paralyzed Jacob Blake Reinstated Without Charges After Investigation

Squad Calls to Abolish Police, Top Dems Distance Themselves

CNN Declares War on ‘Racist’ Fonts

Deranged Hollywood Now Thinks Lefty Aaron Sorkin Is ‘Right-Wing’???

‘Grossly Misplaced Charges Of Antisemitism’: 1,500 Rabbis Back Letter Condemning ADL For ‘Attack’ On Tucker Carlson

Ocasio-Cortez Claims Police Bodycams Don’t Work Because ‘Indefensible System’ Will ‘Find A Way’ To Kill ‘In Other Ways’

‘Every Cop In America Should Be Terrified’: Tom Cotton Accuses Kristen Clarke Of ‘Jumping To Conclusions’ On Jacob Blake

STEADFAST! Whitlock ‘Won’t Post Bail’ After Twitter Censored Him for Roasting BLM Leader

WashPost OBSESSES Over Tucker With 11 Articles in ONLY Six Days

The Loss of Liberties During the Coronavirus Pandemic

UK Cops Break Down Door, Arrest Man For Violating COVID Quarantine Rules

Denmark to permanently cease using AstraZeneca vaccine

Gov. Ron DeStantis BLASTS Big Tech for Censoring COVID-19 Roundtable

California County To Launch Digital Vaccine Passport For Your “Peace Of Mind”

The Covid culture that is Australia

Whitmer’s Health Director Reportedly Vacationed As Michigan’s Coronavirus Cases Surged  I’d have done the same. Who wants to be around a bunch of whiny sick Democrats?

Watch: Rand Paul Demands “Petty Tyrant” Fauci Be “Removed From TV For Fear Mongering”

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

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

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And who could blame them? It’s usually a safe bet that the right thing to do is the opposite of what Democrat politicians and the Narrative Media are yelling at you to do.

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While the media is constantly accusing the right of being domestic terrorists, left-wing extremism is routinely ignored by the media. A Democrat congresswoman’s cry for policing and prisons to be abolished should make the news but as often is the case, it was ignored by ABC, NBC and CBS.

Following the fatal police shooting of Daunte Wright, “squad” member Rashida Tlaib didn’t try to quell the unrest with responsible calls for peace and justice, even as riots erupted in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota and elsewhere. Instead, she threw gasoline on the fire by accusing every police department in the country of being “inherently racist” and demanded they be abolished, despite “defunding” being linked to rising crime.

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The Star Tribune keeps a running toll of deaths resulting from police encounters in Minnesota. For the period 2000 to 2021, the total is 207, of whom 54% were white and 27% were black. Of course, suspect behavior has a lot to do with the likelihood of a fatal encounter with law enforcement. This is evident from the fact that only 3% of those killed by police have been women.

This total of 207 includes many cases–I assume a substantial majority–where the killing was in obvious self-defense, or for other reasons there was no real question about its propriety. Still, even if we take the raw total of 207 deaths, it represents by my calculation around 0.0002 of all deaths in Minnesota during that time period. It seems remarkable that such a tiny number of occurrences have come to play such a major role in our public life.

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Remember Apu, the kindly Indian shopkeeper from The Simpsons? Well, in the time since most people have stopped watching that 32-year-old show, past its prime for at least two of its three decades, the world has come around to deciding that he is actually a really racist character, perhaps even a 2D agent of white supremacy.

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

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You might be woke if: you call a guy a bigot because he doesn’t want to date a “girl” who has a penis.

You might be woke if: you think people are racists because of the color of their skin.

You might be woke if: you think transvestites should host children’s reading events but it’s “cultural appropriation” for a woman to wear hoop earrings.

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Parents in Chicago protested outside the Chicago Teachers Union’s (CTU) headquarters Tuesday to demand the union not continue delaying the reopening of classrooms for high school students, ABC 7 reported.

ZMan looks at Virtue Signaling as a principle.

Montesquieu observed that different political systems have different internal motivations, an engine that drives the people in it. He used the term principle as the thing that gave the system energy. In aristocratic systems it was the desire for honor that drove people to act. In a republic it was virtue. Instead of serving a man who was the manifestation of the state, the republican man served the institutions. He respected the office, not necessarily the office holder.

The principle of liberal democracy appears to be morality. The language of this age is drenched in moral claims. The mantra of the age is diversity, inclusion and equity, which is shot through with sentiment. How much diversity is a good thing? There is no limit, of course, as diversity is a good in itself. Equity is a purely subjective term as it means distributing resources based on the needs of the recipients. The people who make that decision are those who are at the top of the moral hierarchy.

In addition to echoing and updating sentiments from the beginning of western racialism (liberté, égalité, fraternité), the point of these sorts of slogans is to communicate civic piety between the speaker and listener. Alone they are just echolalic babbling, but when spoken or written for an audience, the speaker feels virtuous, as she assumes the listener, upon hearing these code words, will see that the speaker is pious. These terms are about signaling and confirming piety.

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Due to the government mandated coal phase-out, 11 coal-fired power plants with a total capacity of 4.7 GW were shut down on January 1, 2021. But the coal phase-out ended up lasting only 8 days, after which several power plants had to be reconnected to the grid due to a prolonged low-wind period.

The line for ‘I Told You So’ forms on the right….

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For years, activists have demanded stricter gun control in America, on the cogent (though perhaps unconstitutional grounds) that fewer guns will save the lives of young people in American cities.

Cockburn has an alternative proposal: instead of gun control, America needs celebrity control. Lacking any skin in the game and let loose on Twitter, famous people are saying extremely insane things that are going to get people killed.