VITAMIN D UPDATE: Brigham and Women’s study to test if Vitamin D can reduce coronavirus severity, transmission.
GIDEON RACHMAN: Europe has handed China a strategic victory.
Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, says she wants to lead a “geopolitical commission”. But Ms Von der Leyen concluded 2020 by sending a truly awful geopolitical message — as her commission signed off on an investment treaty between the EU and China.
Over the past year, China has crushed the freedom of Hong Kong, intensified oppression in Xinjiang, killed Indian troops, threatened Taiwan and sanctioned Australia. By signing a deal with China nonetheless, the EU has signalled that it doesn’t care about all that. As Janka Oertel, director of the Asia programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations think-tank, puts it: “This is a massive diplomatic win for China.”
It is also a considerable kick in the teeth for Joe Biden. The US president-elect has stressed that, after Donald Trump, he wants to make a fresh start with Europe. In particular, the Biden administration wants to work on China issues together with fellow democracies. Jake Sullivan, Mr Biden’s national security adviser, issued a last-minute plea for the Europeans to hold off on signing the deal — at least until they had a chance to discuss it with the new administration. He was ignored.
Why would Europe listen to the protestations of someone who is just as eager to make deals with Beijing as they were?
NEW CIVIL LIBERTIES ALLIANCE FILES AMICUS BRIEF IN SECOND CIRCUIT AGAINST CORNELL EFFORT TO DISCRIMINATE AGAINST MALE FACULTY: From the press release:
NCLA’s client, Dr. Vengalattore, was a tenure-track physics professor at Cornell University when a Title IX investigation launched by a false accusation ruined his promising career. NCLA seeks to reverse the decision of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York, which dismissed the case against Cornell and the Dept. of Education without ruling on the substance of the claims presented by Dr. Vengalattore.
NCLA’s brief argues that the disciplinary proceedings violated Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Cornell is trying hard to deny Dr. Vengalattore his day in court by wrongly interpreting Title IX to allow only students and not faculty a right to sue under the statute. But the overwhelming majority of federal appeals courts have rejected this restrictive reading of Title IX, as it is inconsistent with Supreme Court Title IX case law. Title IX states, “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any educational program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance,” which is broad enough language to encompass students and employees.
Cornell’s highly improper investigatory procedures and low ‘preponderance of the evidence’ burden of proof were adopted in response to a threat from the Department of Education (ED) to comply with its Title IX “guidance” or else lose federal funding.
NCLA further argues that the disciplinary proceedings at Cornell that led to the false finding against Dr. Vengalattore were conducted in a racially discriminatory manner in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Faculty members who reviewed Dr. Vengalattore’s employee file made racist comments about Dr. Vengalattore and about his and his students’ national origin in official documents that were reviewed by the dean of the college without any rebuke.
Why is Cornell such a cesspit of racism and sexism?
The brief is here.
THAT NEWSPEAK DICTIONARY ISN’T GOING TO SHRINK ITSELF, YOU KNOW: House Democrats ‘Cancel’ Themselves With Gender-Neutral Rules Excluding ‘Mother,’ ‘Father.’
RASMUSSEN: GOP Voters Strongly Support Senators Challenging Biden’s Election. “More than a dozen senators say they will challenge Joe Biden’s election when Congress meets today to certify the results, and Republican voters overwhelmingly support the challenge. . . . Seventy-three percent (73%) of GOP voters support the Senate effort challenging Biden’s election, compared to just 22% of Republicans who oppose the Senate challenge.”
Playing this to the end will help solidify the base, I suspect. And the Dems’ 2016 intransigence certainly didn’t hurt them in 2020.
POLITICAL SUPPORT HAS “COLLAPSED” BECAUSE TEACHERS’ UNIONS DON’T CARE ABOUT KIDS: Unlearning an Answer Charter schools deliver extraordinary results, but their political support among Democrats has collapsed. What will Biden do?
He’ll do whatever the special interests want. Because that’s his role.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Democrats Go Full Radical Nutjob, Win Anyway.
Insanity Wrap needs to know: What did we do to deserve this?
Answer: We don’t have an answer. We just need an existential-level question to ponder to justify our post-election day-drinking.
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
- Karen goes Crazy Train over unmasked coffee drinker
- Portland businesses pay the price for Portland government fecklessness
- Bill Nye isn’t the only “scientish” in town
Bonus Sanity: Antifa “reporter” actually held accountable for lawbreaking.
And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
SEGREGATION NOW, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER: UF grad students host academic town hall open only to students of color.
DON’T BE EVIL: Google Hasn’t Updated Its iOS Apps Since the Day Before Apple’s New Privacy Labels Requirement. “Google has yet to comment on the report, so the reason for the lack of recent iOS app updates is unconfirmed, but Fast Company makes the reasonable assumption that Google might be trying to delay revealing its privacy label information, especially after the negative attention that Facebook received over its very lengthy privacy label.”
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Profs argue Georgia runoffs are racist.
IF IT ISN’T SUBJECT TO SCRUTINY, IT ISN’T SCIENCE: New Transparency Rule Ends EPA Reliance on ‘Secret Science.’
SO STILL WAITING ON GEORGIA. Notable that Fox isn’t rushing to call it this time. Still possible for GOP to pull one out, but every time I see a photo of Fulton County ballot counting I get a bad feeling.
For the people in the comments complaining about lack of coverage, well, I could do clickbait posts every time some county reports, but I don’t see the value. It will be what it will be, and breathlessly reporting each little snippet doesn’t change that.
UPDATE: Live Updates: Senate control down to close Perdue-Ossoff race after Democrat Warnock wins.
LOCKDOWN NATION: These three states have the worst Covid infection rates of anywhere in the world. “Arizona currently has the highest per-capita rate of new Covid-19 infections, with 785 cases per 100,000 people over the past seven days, followed closely by California and Rhode Island.”
California is under some of the strictest controls in the nation, Arizona has a statewide curfew among other restrictions, and Rhode Island has extended its lockdown orders until January 28.
THAT’S BECAUSE THEY HAVE A LOT TO HIDE: China blocks entry to WHO team studying Covid’s origins.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: 84 Lawmakers Stand Up for Allowing Their Own Guns at Capitol.
JIM TREACHER: Mr. Bean Must Be Stopped Before He Defends Free Speech Again.
As with John Cleese, Rowan Atkinson is discovering that the revolution eventually devours its own.
THE GREAT DIAMOND HOAX OF 1872: If you’ve ever been to NW Colorado, you may have seen Diamond Peak. If you’ve wondered if there are diamonds there, the answer, sadly, is no. But there is a story—one the San Francisco Chronicle called “the most gigantic and barefaced swindle of the age.”
It concerns two prospectors (or, more accurately, two grifters)—the flamboyant Philip Arnold, a Kentuckian born in the same county as Honest Abe Lincoln, and his taciturn cousin John Slack. Arnold had worked for a short while at the Diamond Drill Co. During that period, he had “acquired” a number of uncut industrial-grade diamonds. The diamonds were not especially valuable, but they looked impressive—enough so to thrill several San Francisco investors.
The cousins had a knack for causing such thrills. They told investors that they had found a huge diamond deposit. They appeared concerned—almost overly concerned—about keeping the location of their find secret. This only intrigued investors.
There’s a reason they called this the “Great” Diamond Hoax. Arnold and Slack could have taken the initial relatively modest amounts they were given as investments and run. But instead they traveled to London under assumed names, purchased more uncut diamonds and returned to San Francisco with more “proof” of their find. The list of willing investors grew and grew. It included Charles Tiffany, General George B. McClellan, and General (and Congressman) Benjamin Butler, among many other prominent citizens of the day.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Ohio Governor Signs Gun Bill Eliminating Duty to Retreat.
FIRST, THEY REQUIRE GASOLINE ENGINES SO COMPLEX YOU CAN BARELY WORK ON THEM, THEN… Massachusetts to Ban Sale of New Gas-Powered Vehicles by 2035.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: The Real 2020 Plague Is This Election That Never Ends. “For just a little while last night I was hoping that I would have something definitive to share with you about the Georgia runoff elections by the time I put this Briefing to bed for publication. A pipe dream, I know, but if I ever stop being a dreamer it will be a quick trip to standing in line at the grocery store buying nothing but discount vodka and cat food.”
Related: Results still coming in.
January 5, 2021
IN PRAISE OF TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TRANSACTIONAL DIPLOMACY:
Until the Trump administration began its experiment in 21st-century American transactional diplomacy, “intractable international problems” dismayed, vexed and bamboozled establishment diplomats, whether they hailed from Washington’s Beltway morass, U.N. agencies or cachet townhouses in European capitals.
Wait…trying to recall the Glenn and Ed phrase…ah…yes..read the whole thing.
KEVIN WILLIAMSON: ‘Hilaria’ Baldwin and the Allure of the Invented Persona.
Mrs. Baldwin’s career strategy was not really all that different from that of young Elizabeth Warren, who inflicted self-help books on the reading public (All Your Worth: The Ultimate Lifetime Money Plan) and misrepresented her ancestry — Cherokee cheekbones! — in an attempt to build a reputation and make herself seem more interesting than she is. But Warren got started some years before smartphones were ubiquitous and social media had displaced reality for so many people, and she wasn’t married to a movie star.
Mrs. Baldwin is not the first Hillary we’ve heard do a corny fake accent.
Alec Baldwin is, we have reason to believe, not quite the charming man in private life he is in public. But his celebrity was not built on being a good man, or any particular kind of man, in his private life. His celebrity is built on performing, and he is one of the best in the business. The strange pseudocelebrity of social media is an invitation for everyone to become a performer, but not everyone has the kind of chops that Baldwin has. (Most professional actors don’t.) Social media can be a platform for genuinely gifted performers who take to a digital platform rather than a traditional stage (all those great guitarists on YouTube); but it also involves users in the worst aspects of celebrity culture, without imposing the entry fee of talent and only rarely offering the rewards that go along with it. The would-be celebrities of social media chase the paparazzi instead of being chased by them — that’s the sign of our times.
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The longing after a sense of significance that causes Hillary Hayward-Thomas to reinvent herself as the more exotic “Hilaria” is the same force that powers social-media hate mobs and shallow hashtag activism, cults like QAnon and the anti-vaxxers, and the relatively new but almost ubiquitous phenomenon of partisanship as a form of identity politics.
Every society worships something, and we have decided — disastrously — on ourselves.
The recurring catchphrase of Tom Wolfe’s epochal “The Me Decade” article from 1975 was “Let’s talk about Me,” and the promise of endless change and reinvention. But even he didn’t predict the surprising number of celebrities and pseudo-celebrities who would re-invent themselves into different genders, races, and imagined backgrounds, despite the 21st century left constantly screaming about the imagined dangers of “cultural appropriation.”
As PJM’s Megan Fox wrote last week, “Why anyone would try to pull off this hoax in the age of the internet, I have no idea. It seems so dumb to even try, yet plenty of people do it. Remember Rachel Dolezal? Or Jessica Krug? There’s no getting away with faking your heritage in 2020… I do enjoy, however, the fact that the race imposters are always ideologically far-left, even making a living on the race-obsessed culture in America. Race imposters are never conservatives. It’s always the fringe kook left that does things like this. Why isn’t anyone asking why? Has there ever been a conservative person who impersonated another race in order to be liked or to be more acceptable to their community? Who are the true racists in this country?”
A HUGE BUT LARGELY UNSUNG HERO OF AMERICA’S SPACE POLICY: Pace steps down from National Space Council.
FATHER MICHAEL PFLEGER ASKED TO STEP ASIDE FOLLOWING CHILD SEX ABUSE ALLEGATION:
Prominent Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger has been asked to step away from ministry following a decades-old child sexual abuse allegation, the Archdiocese of Chicago announced Tuesday.
According to a letter sent from Cardinal Blase Cupich to the St. Sabina community, Father Pfleger has been accused of sexual abuse of a minor from more than 40 years ago.
Pfleger is well-known in Chicago as an anti-violence activist and has been the pastor of St. Sabina Catholic Church, located in Auburn-Gresham, since 1981.
Cupich said Father Pfleger has agreed to fully cooperate while the matter is being investigated.
You may remember Pfleger from this classic video from the 2008 presidential election:
UPDATE: Pfleger removed from St. Sabina for decades-old sexual abuse allegation.
MICHAEL WALSH: Having the Election Conform to the Constitution.
Cruz et al. cite the work of the commission as a possible model to resolve the current dispute.
“We should follow that precedent. To wit, Congress should immediately appoint an Electoral Commission, with full investigatory and fact-finding authority, to conduct an emergency 10-day audit of the election returns in the disputed states. Once completed, individual states would evaluate the Commission’s findings and could convene a special legislative session to certify a change in their vote, if needed.
“Accordingly, we intend to vote on January 6 to reject the electors from disputed states as not ‘regularly given’ and ‘lawfully certified’ (the statutory requisite), unless and until that emergency 10-day audit is completed.”
It’s highly unlikely to work, of course. Even though Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s margin in the House is now very small, no Democrat will vote for it. And Sen. Mitch McConnell’s Senate? Forget about it. No matter what happens in the Georgia runoff elections for both Senate seats on Jan. 5, McConnell has already made his peace with a Biden presidency, and squishy “moderates” such as Sens. Ben Sasse and Mitt Romney will be sure to put the boot in.
Still, it’s the principle of the thing—something that’s always in short supply in Washington and desperately needed now. If the courts won’t discharge their duty, then it’s up to Congress.
And for Cruz, Trump’s last rival in 2016, it’s a way to thrill the president’s base and position himself smartly for 2024. Because one way or another, the White House will still be up for grabs four years from now.
Read the whole thing.
INJECT THE HEAVY METAL STRAIGHT INTO MY VEINS! Conspiracy theorists share schematic for “5G chip” they claim is implanted in COVID-19 vaccines – only it’s actually for the Boss Metal Zone Electric Guitar Pedal.
GEORGE KORDA: For Democrats, be careful what you wish for.
DR. DRE SUFFERS BRAIN ANEURYSM: In ICU at L.A. Hospital.
Sources connected to Dre and with direct knowledge tell us, Dre suffered the aneurysm Monday and was rushed by ambulance to Cedars and was taken directly to ICU, where he remains Tuesday.
Our sources say the 55-year-old music mogul is stable and lucid, but doctors don’t know what caused the bleeding and they are doing a battery of tests.
Here’s hoping for a speedy and complete recovery.
I BLAME #ORANGEMANBAD AND SCIENCE-DENYING RED-STATERS: Europe has fallen behind on covid-19 vaccination: The leisurely roll-out of vaccines risks extending the pandemic for months.
Also: Micromanagement Is Plaguing the Vaccine Rollout: A lot of people think that a take-charge attitude by Biden would inoculate America faster. Let’s hope he knows better. Well, in the words of Barack Obama, don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f*ck things up.
Seen on Facebook: “Chik-fil-A would have had everyone in the nation vaccinated by now.”
BANG BANG: I have never owned anything but revolvers, so I defer to those with more firearms experience. This woman, the first female Green Beret, as reported by JustThenews.com, was apparently “practicing dry fire training” and said “she had made a mistake and did not think the firearm had a chambered round when she conducted this training drill.” Wrong. It went off and sent a round through her neighbors wall.
The sidearm was a Smith & Wesson Military & Police Shield 9 mm handgun. Does this make sense? I’ve heard that this weapon will not “dry fire” without the magazine. Your thoughts?
SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Study: Young adults in U.S. overeating during pandemic lockdowns.
STIGMATA DETECTED: “She and I were meeting from our respective bedrooms in the now familiar, strange intimacy of a one-on-one Zoom meeting. She has developed a massive rash all over her boobs. The cause of this rash? Well, this is the Guardian. And so, ‘It’s years of bullshit – racism, micro-aggressions,’ she told me in a matter-of-fact tone. ‘I have never had any eczema before. My doctor said it’s erupted now because I’ve finally given myself permission to acknowledge the toxic stuff I’ve been putting up with during all these decades of my career.’ Readers are invited to ponder whether a reputable GP, one fit for employment, would actually diagnose racist microaggressions as the most obvious cause of boob eczema. Rather than, say, suggesting a change of bra or detergent.”
YEAH, THE EAGLES THREW THE GAME. GOOD. “But by losing the Eagles won, moving from the ninth overall pick in the draft to the sixth. The Not Redskins also won by advancing to the playoffs. The only losers were the New York Giants, but they are used to that this year…The secret to being a Philly sports fan, to enduring all the losing and embarrassment, is to take more joy from the suffering of your enemies’ losses than you do in your own success. That was on full beautiful display Sunday night. Yes, we will revel in the inevitable defeat of the Washington Politically Correct and celebrate the sadness of their fans. This is the big leagues. As far as I am concerned, as a Eagles fan, Sunday night could not have gone better if Santa had been clocked by a D battery.”
PRIDE IN CHEATING: Stacey Abrams Brags About Lack of Signature Verification in Georgia.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Why You Should Practice One-Hand Shooting. I do.
DENNIS PRAGER: I Now Better Understand the ‘Good German.’
What has changed my thinking has been watching what is happening in America (and Canada and Australia and elsewhere, for that matter). The ease with which tens of millions of Americans have accepted irrational, unconstitutional and unprecedented police state-type restrictions on their freedoms, including even the freedom to make a living, has been, to understate the case, sobering.
The same holds true for the acceptance by most Americans of the rampant censorship on Twitter and all other major social media platforms. Even physicians and other scientists are deprived of freedom of speech if, for example, they offer scientific support for hydroxychloroquine along with zinc to treat COVID-19 in the early stages. Board-certified physician Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, who has saved hundreds of COVID-19 patients from suffering and/or death, has been banned from Twitter for publicizing his lifesaving hydroxychloroquine and zinc protocol.
Half of America, the nonleft half, is afraid to speak their minds at virtually every university, movie studio and large corporation — indeed, at virtually every place of work. Professors who say anything that offends the left fear being ostracized if they have tenure and being fired if they do not. People are socially ostracized, publicly shamed and/or fired for differing with Black Lives Matter, as America-hating and white-hating a group as has ever existed. And few Americans speak up. On the contrary, when BLM protestors demand that diners outside of restaurants raise their fists to show their support of BLM, nearly every diner does.
Read the whole thing.
Related: Establishment institutions turning conservatives into outcasts.
ANOTHER BAD FREE SPEECH TAKE FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES. I know, bottom story of the day, etc., but even so, how do you unironically print this?
Mr. Dong, who moved to Hong Kong from New York in the middle of the 2008 financial crisis, decided to leave Hong Kong because the city has felt anemic during the pandemic, while many mainland cities seem to glow with energy and hope. “I don’t think I can find the kind of freedom I want in Hong Kong,” he said.
Could something other than COVID have contributed to a lack of freedom (and “energy and hope”) in Hong Kong over the last year or so?
Exit question: Given that the country that appears to have benefited most from COVID is China, does our ruling class have a plan just in case a slightly different germ “gets out” next time? Or do we shut down every other economy in the world for a year plus all over again?
MINNESOTA MAN GIVING FLORIDA MAN A RUN FOR HIS MONEY: Man brings gun to enforce face mask compliance in gym before manager tackles him.
THE MARTIN CENTER ON REFORMING HIGHER ED IN 2021: A lot of good suggestions for reform here, some of which some colleges may even be willing to try! (Or, due to shrinking enrollment, may be forced to try…)
MINNESOTA NICE: Radical Democrats Are Turning Minneapolis Into A Violent Wasteland.
Downtown’s ghost-town feel is taking a dystopian turn as empty streets are being taken over by a resurging homeless population openly using drugs and increasingly aggressive. The mentally ill are left to similar fates, often found huddled in bus shelters.
A decline in police and mental health resources compounds the impending disaster as winter deepens and shelters fill. This is a city in which some of the most recognizable companies make their national and regional headquarters: Target, General Mills, Wells Fargo, U.S. Bank, and Xcel Energy. They have the resources to ride out the lockdowns, but the corner hot-dog stand, skyway mini-mart, and corner bar likely don’t.
The disease plaguing the streets of Minneapolis’ north side and the areas around Chicago Avenue and Lake Street is less about COVID and more about the consequences of what Fyodor Dostoyevsky asks of man in “Notes from the Underground,” “But why has he such a passionate love for destruction and chaos?” For a far-left Minneapolis City Council at war with its police force and local citizens yet maintaining control due to leftist activism and special interests, the answer may be in the blind devotion to the radical belief of constantly burning and building into the unattainable utopia they so hubristically believe they can create.
Broken eggs are everywhere, but never a single omelet.
HAIL, BRITANNIA: British Carrier Strike Group declared operational. “This is a hugely significant milestone for HMS Queen Elizabeth, the Royal Navy and the whole country. This achievement is a testament to the determination of our service personnel and industry workforce who have delivered this first-rate military capability, a capability held by only a handful of nations. I wish the entire Carrier Strike Group well ahead of their first operational deployment this year.”
It’s good to see Britain serious about seapower once more.
A COOL AND LOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE BICYCLE MENACE: US is now building a giant bike trail that will go coast-to-coast.
(Classical reference in headline.)
HEINLEIN’S CRAZY YEARS (CONT’D): Calif. Requires Insurers to Pay for Breast Mutilation for Gender-Confused Teens.
I’M GLAD WE DIDN’T: Jupiter Is Bigger Than Some Stars, So Why Didn’t We Get a Second Sun?
GEORGIA ON MY MIND: Today, Georgia Decides Which Party Controls the Senate. “Whether the president realizes it or not, a big chunk of his legacy is on the line in Georgia today. Everything Trump did through executive order can be repealed by executive order. With the stroke of a pen, President Biden will put the U.S. back into the Paris climate-change accords, reverse President Trump’s withdrawal from the World Health Organization, repeal the so-called Muslim travel ban, and reinstate the Dreamers. The only changes from the Trump presidency that will remain are the ones passed legislatively — and if the Democrats control Congress, a lot of that can be undone, too.”
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT LIVE: Webinar: The Future of the Second Amendment and the Right to Carry.
STEVE HAYWARD: I Heart Gridlock. (And right now it may be the only halfway appetizing thing on the menu.)
COVID ADVICE: Coping with the loss of smell and taste.
Related: Some Covid Survivors Haunted by Loss of Smell and Taste.
Plus: Patterns of Smell Recovery in 751 Patients With COVID-19.
Some of my friends swear that this works but I don’t know. I have a nephew who lost his sense of smell and taste with Covid before Thanksgiving and it hasn’t come back yet.
ON THE WHOLE, I’D RATHER NOT BE IN PHILADELPHIA: How Bad Is Philly? Worse Than Chicago.
JOSH HAWLEY SAYS ‘ANTIFA SCUMBAGS’ THREATENED HIS FAMILY AT THEIR HOME IN DC.
How can that be, when all the best people assured me that Antifa was merely “an idea?”
LEON TROTSKY COULD NOT BE REACHED FOR COMMENT: Mexico offers political asylum to Julian Assange.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Dangerous Biden-Harris Vaccine Hypocrisy Will Cost Lives.
Insanity Wrap needs to know: When is it OK to spread anti-vax paranoia just weeks before taking the vaccine yourself?
Answer: When there’s an election to steal, of course.
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
- Ring in the New Year the antifa way
- See the London man arrested for hugging the willing
- Hello Biden, goodbye border controls
Bonus Sanity: Ohio Governor Mike DeWine actually signs “stand your ground” bill into law.
And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
LIES, DAMNED LIES, AND GOVERNMENT STATISTICS: As COVID admissions surge, states conflating patients hospitalized ‘due to’ and ‘with’ virus.
“SOCIAL JUSTICE” IS JUST A POLITE TERM FOR “ANTI-AMERICAN LIES.” ‘Stolen Land’ and Fake Numbers: How SJWs Invented a ‘Genocide’ Myth.
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SO VERY WOKE: Alphabet Workers Union launches with hundreds of members demanding change.
Contractors and employees working at Google and other Alphabet-owned companies have banded together to form the Alphabet Workers Union (AWU). More than 50 Google contract employees voted to unionize last year in Pittsburgh, but the AWU now includes more than 200 dues-paying Google employees or contractors, and organizers say it is the first union open to all Alphabet employees in company history. The AWU is launching with support from the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and its Coalition to Organize Digital Employees (CODE) initiative, according to a statement organizers shared with VentureBeat.
Among guiding principles listed on the AWU website are social and economic justice and the prioritization of “society and the environment instead of maximizing profits at all costs. We can make money without doing evil.”
I’d settle for Google just acting as a neutral platform.
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: 5 times anti-Christian sentiment manifested on campus in 2020.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Can the Democrats Start 2021 With Another Stolen Election? “The Peach State was rife with ‘irregularities’ during the general election. My biggest fear is that there hasn’t been enough time to figure it what all of them were yet. And if there is a way to game the system and get a pro-abortion, cop-hater elected to the United States Senate from Georgia, the Democrats will have figured it out.”
ACADEMIA’S ORWELLIAN SELF-ABASEMENT CONTINUES: The “Disappearing” of Joseph Epstein. “As current law-school faculty members at Northwestern, specializing in constitutional law (Koppelman) and professional responsibility (Lubet), we believe that it is a serious violation of academic freedom to penalize a faculty member, including an emeritus one, for expressing unpopular views.”
LAURENCE JARVIK: Trump’s Georgia Rally: Last Hurrah — Or Revival?
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