8th June 2023
BBC.
For 17-year-old Rutvij Holay, getting into an Ivy League university mattered.
These institutions represent the elite of the elite in higher education in the US.
His parents came to the country from India and “started from scratch”, he said, so that he could achieve the American Dream.
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With a resume boasting high test results, work volunteering for political organisations, prestigious leadership awards and the ability to speak five languages, he entered the admissions process with confidence.
He says he applied to 35 different schools, though Harvard was not one of them.
But, he says with a sigh: “I was rejected from all the Ivy League universities.”
Although he cannot provide any concrete evidence, Rutvij believes that admissions officers discriminated against him because he is Asian American.
“The worry that myself and many other Asian Americans have is that when admission officer sees Patel, when he sees a Lee, when he sees a Kim, when he sees any Asian last name, basically the image that comes up is kid just sitting in his school on classes studying away math, and not doing anything that has an impact on society,” he said.
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8th June 2023
The Guardian.
France Info reported that the man was aged 32, was carrying Syrian identity papers and was an asylum seeker. BFMTV reported that the man had refugee status.
Wherever you go,
Whatever you do,
A Muslim waits there
To try to kill you.
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7th June 2023
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7th June 2023
ZMan is not afraid to ask the hard questions.
One of the lingering questions about the Covid panic is why did the West suddenly go insane over a regularly occurring phenomena? Pandemics hit the West every generation or so with varying lethality. Most are like Covid in that they are bad for the old and the sick, but mostly a bad flu for everyone else. Once it was clear that Covid was not the Spanish flu, much less the Black Death, the response should have been like those of the past, but instead we got a panic.
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7th June 2023
John Hinderaker at Power Line.
The Southern Poverty Law Center is a far-left hate group with zero credibility. The people who run it are grifters: for a “poverty” organization it has a remarkable amount of money stashed in offshore accounts. SPLC literally doesn’t know what to do with all of the money that rich people and corporations shower on it. I am hoping defamation lawsuits can take up the slack.
SPLC’s childishly simple dodge is to uncover actual “hate” groups–but only on the right, no Antifa–that no one has heard of, and cover a map of the U.S. with them, as though they were everywhere. The SPLC’s real value to the Left is that it goes on to slander legitimate conservative organizations as additional “hate” groups. These are the ones that the Left actually cares about because they are effective. It is an honor to be identified by SPLC in this way.
SPLC has just produced its 2022 “Hate Map.” What’s new? This year, the Left has put Moms For Liberty in the crosshairs. News accounts breathlessly recount the addition of Moms For Liberty to the “hate” map, as though the SPLC had any credibility.
If you look at the SPLC’s hate map of Minnesota, you see five “hate and anti-government groups”–the same thing, apparently–although the web page’s text says there are 19. Whatever. I have never heard of four of the five groups on the map; I suppose they have one or two members if they actually exist. The fifth is Moms For Liberty in Wright County, Minnesota.
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6th June 2023
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6th June 2023
Newsom threatens DeSantis with kidnapping charges after migrants flown to Sacramento (L.A. Times)
The Supreme Court Is Corrupt Because It’s Conservative (The New Republic) Get yer Narrative, right here.
Is House Oversight’s pressure on FBI just a Giuliani goose chase? (Washington Post) Handwavium from Philip Bump.
Texas sheriff recommends criminal charges in DeSantis’ migrant flights to Martha’s Vineyard (Miami Herald) Bexar County, home of San Antonio, one of the bluest cities in Texas.
N.Y.P.D. Anti-Crime Units Still Stopping People Illegally, Report Shows (N.Y. Times)
Watch: Republicans literally beg migrants not to leave Florida over DeSantis anti-immigration law (Raw Story) Can anyone seriously believe that Republicans are begging ‘migrants’ to stay in Florida? Seriously?
When Did Policing Americans’ Thoughts Become Part of Homeland Security? (The Foundry) When it was created?
Ron DeSantis is dry and dull — yet still more dangerous than Donald Trump (Salon)
RFK Jr. Blames Anti-Depressants for School Shootings (Rolling Stone) Being a Kennedy won’t prevent you from being tarred a heretic–or a sinner.
Newsom Threatens DeSantis With Kidnapping Migrants
Why prosecutors in WA are recharging a man police nearly beat to death (Seattle Times)
University Of Texas Students Behind Censorship Project Targeting Conservative News Outlets
Texas Sheriff Recommends Charges Against Florida for Massachusetts Immigrant Flights Charges from whom? Both Florida and Massachusetts are far, far outside of his jurisdiction.
Team DeSantis bets big on angrier GOP base (Axios)
EU Threatens Twitter After Quitting Disinformation Pact
Fox News’ favorite Democratic presidential candidate (Popular Information) The reason RFK jr. is ‘Fox News’ favorite Democratic presidential candidate’ is that the rest of them are fringe Left nutjobs or geriatric Creepy Joe. That says more about Democrats than RFK.
ABC Cheers Leftist’s Book on Conservatives Justices Being ‘Threat to Democracy’
It Is Completely Bizarre That Florida Is Allowed to Do This (Esquire)
Oregon breakaway effort is down to just 8 votes, deepening urban-rural divide (NBC News)
MSNBC Blasts Haley For Not Agreeing Abortion Is The Biggest Issue Facing Women It’s only the biggest issue for women who want the right to kill their children.
Robert Kennedy Jr., With Musk, Pushes Right-Wing Ideas and Misinformation (N.Y. Times) Kennedy is a threat to Biden and the Deep State and so must be cancelled, despite being one of the Royal Kennedys.
Florida college left without American history professor after axing DeSantis critic (Raw Story)
DHS Intel Report on Cop City Protesters Cribbed Far-Right Activist Andy Ngo (The Intercept) For The Intercept, there is no Right but the Far Right.
Harvard affirmative action challenge partly based on Holocaust denier’s work (The Guardian) Oooo! A heretic! And a sinner! Burn the witch!
CNN Analyst Gives Solution to End Big Tech Censorship of Republicans “Shut up,” she explained.
Tim Scott Wishes Joy Behar Didn’t Hide from Him on The View
There Is One Group the Roberts Court Really Doesn’t Like (N.Y. Times) And, quite by coincidence, it’s a core Democrat constituency.
‘I was hounded out of Oxfam over JK Rowling’ (UnHerd)
Politico Admits It: Press Will Act as Biden Attack Dogs on RFK Jr.
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6th June 2023
Reuters.
The 11-4 ruling from the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is the latest defeat for gun control laws in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year expanding gun rights nationwide.
The decision stems from a 2020 lawsuit by a Pennsylvania man, Bryan Range, who was barred under federal law from possessing a gun after pleading guilty to welfare fraud. He claimed the prohibition violated his right to bear arms under the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
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6th June 2023
Washington Free Beacon.
A Democratic congresswoman who recently claimed she paid “more in taxes” than Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was revealed last week to have skipped out on thousands of dollars in business taxes.
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6th June 2023
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The Biden administration misled investors by prematurely announcing a massive $200 million grant to a lithium battery-maker that has since been revoked, leading to drastic fluctuations in the company’s stock price based on false information, according to the top Republican on the Senate Energy Committee.
The White House and the Department of Energy framed the funding for Microvast as a done deal in press releases last October, but officials later said the companies were still being vetted after the Washington Free Beacon uncovered the company’s extensive ties to China. The administration officially pulled the plug last month on the grant to lithium battery-maker Microvast after facing heat from Congress.
“It is irrefutable the White House and Department of Energy’s deceptive press releases were a major catalyst in misleading investors,” said Sen. John Barrasso (R., Wyo.) in a letter to Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm on Monday. “It is clear that in the minds of investors the Department’s loan to Microvast had been perceived as a guarantee.”
How else are you going to get 10% for the Big Guy?
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6th June 2023
The American Mind.
The words on a poster taped to a teacher’s classroom door at a New Jersey public school expose the precarious corner American parents have been painted into. “If your parents aren’t accepting of your identity, I’m your mom now.” The poster featured a drawing of a mama bear tending to her bear cubs, who are each painted the color of a different LGBTQ flag.
Parents, I have bad news. You’ve got competition. Someone posted a job listing looking for a new authority figure in your house, and they hired everyone who applied. Lots of other adults, most of them unpleasant strangers, would like to raise your children for you—or at least get your children to hate you.
This may already be happening—and you’ll be the last to know! All your hard work to keep creeps, perverts, and kiddie-sniffers away from your kids may get reversed in an instant when you’re not looking.
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6th June 2023
Zman destroys all of your illusions.
In 2016 the Dirt People stole fire from the gods in that they defied their masters and supported Trump in the primary then the general election. Instead of sending a jar containing plagues, they sent another ballot box. In 2020 that box was opened and out came the secret police to carry Joe Biden to the White House. Despite it all, some still cling that that ballot box, hope trapped inside, thinking that maybe this time when they open the box, their hopes will be realized.
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6th June 2023
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6th June 2023
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The Florida judge who oversaw the penalty trial of Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz should be publicly reprimanded for showing bias toward the prosecution, failing to curtail “vitriolic statements” directed at Cruz’s attorneys by the victims’ families and sometimes allowing “her emotions to overcome her judgement,” a state commission concluded Monday.
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6th June 2023
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Unless there’s a war going on, developing new or improved military equipment or weapons is delayed by bureaucrats more concerned about avoiding mistakes than getting the job done. This leads to lots of delays. The Ukraine War has changed that for NATO nations and Russia. While the Ukrainians develop a lot of their own weapons, and always have, they need more and that is what their NATO allies are supplying. With a war going on in Ukraine, it’s easier for the NATO defense procurement officials to say yes. With their nation under attack, Ukrainian developers are coming up with new weapons and equipment as well as upgrades for items they have received from NATO nations. Ukraine can put new or improved systems to the test quickly. Sometimes the Ukrainians don’t tell their NATO allies about new items used or produced in Ukraine because the NATO countries are more likely to publicize that. The Ukrainians are more discreet, realizing that what the Russians don’t know about will hurt them more. At the start of the war the Russians underestimated Ukrainian weapons and military equipment and the Ukrainians’ ability to use it effectively. This continues to supply the Russians with unexpected and unpleasant surprises.
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6th June 2023
The Spectator.
America! The land of the free. A place for second chances. But if you’re a foreigner who wants to keep basking in the aforementioned freedom, the one thing you probably shouldn’t do is write about your excessive drug use in a memoir when you’re on a visa.
That’s the mistake made by Prince Harry, who now faces legal action that could end with his deportation back to Britain.
You’d think a royal armed with the best schooling (and lawyers) money can buy would know that. But as is clear from Prince Harry’s latest debacle, hundreds of thousands of the finest British pounds in tuition will only get you so far. In his memoir Spare he wrote that he had consumed cocaine on several occasions. “Of course. I had been doing cocaine around this time. At someone’s country house, during a shooting weekend, I’d been offered a line, and I’d done a few more since,” Harry revealed. Perhaps you could forgive him the mistakes of a wealthy seventeen-year-old. But then came the chapter in which Harry bragged about having magic mushrooms and the trip that followed while he was at Friends star Courtney Cox’s house in Los Angeles.
But he has to take his wife with him.
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6th June 2023
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“I will not stand by and let criminals undermine our economy and the livelihood of New Yorkers. We are going to act,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams vowed.
After announcing a 44% increase in retail theft in one year, Adams promised a bold new effort called “Second Chance” and “Re-Engaging Store Theft Offenders and Retail Establishments (RESTORE)” that will allow shoplifters “to avoid prosecution or incarceration by meaningfully engaging with services to help address underlying factors that lead to shoplifting.”
What “underlying factors” led gangs to steal hundreds of thousands worth of jewels or handbags, pack them up and walk away, or roll a trash can full of them down the street?
The root cause of the crime wave is a lack of consequences.
“Last year alone, 327 repeat offenders were responsible for 30 percent of the more than 22,000 retail thefts across our city.,” Adams noted.
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5th June 2023
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5th June 2023
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5th June 2023
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5th June 2023
NewsMax.
Robert Hanssen, the former FBI agent turned spy whom the bureau describes as the most damaging in its history, was found dead in his prison cell on Monday, U.S. authorities said.
Hanssen, 79, was sentenced in 2002 to life in prison after pleading guilty to spying for the Soviet Union and later Russia for over 20 years.
Prison staff initiated life-saving measures after finding Hanssen unresponsive on Monday morning but were not successful, the Bureau of Prisons said in a statement. It did not provide a cause of death.
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5th June 2023
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A dozen years ago, National Association of Scholars President Peter Wood posed the provocative question: Could science leave the university?
Wood framed his question in practical terms. There has always been a bargain of sorts between universities and their science faculties. Universities provide the means for scientists to do science—laboratories, students, bookkeepers, etc. Scientists hustle the grant monies not only to do their work, but also to pay for universities’ costs. Wood argued that the bargain works mostly in favor of the universities, because they ride along on the substantial streams of research revenues their scientists bring in. While scientists were not exactly disadvantaged thereby, Wood suggested that they could prosper as much outside the university as in, raising the question that logically follows: who needs whom?
Since 2011, academic scientists have largely stayed put in the universities. “Who cares what universities charge for their services, as long as we are left alone to ‘do science,’” was the prevailing sentiment. Such a blasé attitude is no longer viable. While scientists busied themselves at their benches, the terms of the bargain have been steadily shifting to scientists’ disadvantage. The unique attractions of academic life are relentlessly, if slowly, falling away. Tenure is on its way out. Freedom of inquiry is increasingly constrained. Pushy administrators presume to dictate hiring, promotion, and curricular decisions that should sit squarely in scientists’ hands. Faculty governance has become mostly performative, with no power to make decisions stick—particularly budgetary and personnel decisions, which have become concentrated in the hands of administrators, governments, and favored political activists. Accreditation boards brazenly impose political agendas on faculties of science and engineering. Challenging the new racial / gender / sexual orthodoxies can snuff out careers in the blink of an eye.
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5th June 2023
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Italy’s center-right government is again grabbing international headlines by virtue of enforcing its immigration laws.
On Friday, June 2nd, the Italian coast guard announced that it had detained two German charity-run vessels rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean.
The vessels’ crews, the coast guard explained, had failed to abide by a new law, passed by Italy’s parliament last February, which stipulates that after each rescue, rescue ships have to request access to the nearest port and sail to it, rather than remain at sea looking for other migrant boats in distress.
The scam is this way: ‘Migrants’ get their boat out beyond the territorial limit, an NGO ‘rescue’ boat ‘rescues’ them and then takes them to Europe, where they promptly vanish into the migrant underworld.
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5th June 2023
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5th June 2023
John Hinderaker at Power Line.
For reasons I can’t explain, the Left, including the Democratic Party, has made sex change operations on minors its signature issue. It has become a litmus test: in order to be considered progressive, one must now advocate the mutilation of children’s genitals. If there is a Democratic Party politician who dissents from this orthodoxy, I am not aware of it.
Sex change operations on minors are massively unpopular. Opponents of the practice outnumber supporters by three to one. And from the progressives’ standpoint, those numbers are more likely to get worse than better. This weekend, the superb documentary “What Is a Woman?” got over 150 million views on Twitter. Of course, two seconds counts as a Twitter “view.” But still, millions of people must have actually watched the film. One who did was Elon Musk. Today on Instagram:
If it doesn’t flame out at the polls, “trans” madness will die in a hail of lawsuits. That is what is happening in the U.K., where genital mutilation is increasingly out of favor. The facility where such surgeries were carried out on minors, Tavistock, has now been closed, but youngsters age 18 and above are still being carved up. From today’s London Times, notable because the Times is a liberal paper: “NHS trans surgery damaged my body for ever — it’s not safe.”
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5th June 2023
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The three teens accused of killing and eating a beloved swan in an upstate New York village are refugees, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.
Manlius Police reported Faye the Swan and her four cygnets missing from the town pond last Monday, which prompted horror from the Manlius, New York, residents. Locals flooded Manlius police with tips the next day, which ended in the arrest of 18-year-old Eman Hussan of Syracuse, New York, and two minors, aged 16 and 17.
The posse are refugees from Myanmar and attend high school in the neighboring city, Manlius Police Sgt. Ken Hatter told the Free Beacon. Police say the three were able to steal Faye because she was nesting and did not fight back. The suspects devoured Faye with their family in Syracuse.
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4th June 2023
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4th June 2023
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4th June 2023
Migrants evacuated from repurposed NYC jail after plumbing ‘exploded’ (N.Y. Post)
NYC migrant crisis: Housing asylum seekers (Fox 5 New York)
NYC migrant crisis transforms shuttered Harlem jail, JFK warehouse into shelter options (N.Y. Post)
27 Kids Missing In Last Two Weeks – What The Hell Is Happening In Cleveland? Like most major cities, Cleveland is run by Democrats.
Glamour Magazine Features Pregnant “Man” Cover Model For Pride Month
The Heroine of Antifa is Released From Jail
16 South American Migrants Who Entered US Through Texas Flown to California
To address the migration crisis, state governments should hire the migrants (The Hill)
California is investigating after a private jet carrying migrants arrived in Sacramento, officials say (CNN)
Migrants Stage Pavement Protest Outside London Hotel Demanding Private Rooms, Better WiFi
ATF: Pot Users Can’t Legally Own Firearms Regardless Of State Laws
UVa Board of Visitors floats tracking student, faculty political ideology (Daily Progress)
Anglo-Saxons aren’t real, Cambridge tells students in effort to fight ‘nationalism’ (UK Telegraph)
Allstate Drops California; Will Not Write New Insurance Policies Over Wildfires, Construction Costs California doesn’t allow insurance companies to set rates based on estimated risk, the whole point of insurance, but rather forces them to set rates based on historical risk that may or may not apply. Expect more insurance companies to exit California.
Pretendians and the crisis of the self
Western Europe’s left-wing fascism fantasy
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4th June 2023
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4th June 2023
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4th June 2023
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4th June 2023
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4th June 2023
Freeberg nails it.
The older people get, the more they see conservatism is the right way to go. Liberals protest that’s because old people find comfort in old things and are afraid to try anything new. The truth is, when something new works, that’s an exception and it’s rare. As a general rule, if it worked we’d already be doing it. And it’s the older people who can see it because this is a pattern of averages, and it takes time to see it. You have to watch a few plans put into practice, notice across the years what succeeds and what doesn’t.
Now obviously, if we accepted “new things are no good” as policy to be implemented and enforced across the board, in all contexts, without any exceptions asked for or granted, it would be counterproductive. But guess what? We don’t. Nobody advocates for such a thing. A conservative is not an unreasoning, strident extremist lobbying for the patent office to be shut down because everything worth inventing has been invented. Rather, a conservative asks questions. He refuses to grant the new thing the benefit of the doubt.
It is the liberal who is the strident, unreasoning extremist. “A new thing! Let’s get behind it!”
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