Today in Progressive Totalitarianism
4th January 2023
Don’t leave fat people out of your DEI goals (NBC)
China ESG reckoning looms for investors (Financial Times)
Minimum wage increase could impact businesses in upstate New York counties (WHAM)
Incoming Democratic lawmaker to be sworn in on first-edition ‘Superman’ No. 1 comic (The Hill) You can’t make this shit up.
The Eagles’ latest social justice campaign backs gun violence prevention and financial education, and honors a community ‘changemaker’ (Philadelphia Inquirer) Woman of Color? Check. Virtue-signaling face mask? Check.
Portland woman says homelessness is ‘piece of cake’ thanks to 3 meals a day, lax drug policies, no cops (N.Y. Post)
How Long It Really Takes Your Cloth Grocery Bags to Become More Sustainable Than Plastic
Get A Room: NBC Again FAWNS Over ‘Tough’, ‘History-Making’ Nancy Pelosi
Media Still Fawning Over FTX Fraudsters Caroline Ellison and Sam Bankman-Fried
What the Feds Are Teaching in Diversity Training
Virginia Lt. Gov. Sears torches high school’s equity-based rule on merit awards: ‘This is not America’ Of course, as we all know, merit is equally distributed according to race, sex, and ethnicity. (BREAKING: Virginia AG Launches Investigation of Fairfax School Caught Withholding Students’ Merit Awards)
Repeat of 2020? Left-Wing Tech Group Doles Out $500K in Grants in Eerily Familiar Scheme
George Soros ‘Quietly’ Dumped Another $140 Million into Political Causes in 2021
Homicides Down Slightly in 2022, Still Much Higher Than 2019
Elon Musk Named Honorary Congressman After Making $200 Billion Disappear (Babylon Bee)
Republican Approval Rating At Record High After Bringing Congress To Grinding Halt (Babylon Bee)
Americans Continue to Flock to Florida
Did Illinois Politicians Crush Their ‘EV Hub’ Dreams By Outlawing Right-To-Work? Entirely possible. Democrats think that if you just pass a law everybody will fall in line automatically. But markets work even when you don’t want them to.