REBRANDING, OR CAMOUFLAGE? Nearly 90 universities have rebranded their DEI offices, College Fix survey finds.. “Rebrandings appear to be a possible compliance tactic to satisfy anti-DEI directives without fully dismantling ideology on campus.”
June 15, 2025
TRUE EDUCATIONAL DIVERSITY: Williams College declines federal grants due over DEI ban.
WHEN WILL WE KNOW? What Does the Minnesota Shooter’s Manifesto Say?
NO KINGS, JUST COMMISSARS? I report from “No Kings” Boston.
WRITER SAYS PEOPLE OFFENDED BY ‘DEATH TO AMERICA’ ARE BEING INTENTIONALLY OBTUSE:
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Remember this gem from CNN? With the reporter wearing a burqa?
https://t.co/0fplsXD9Oa https://t.co/xGc4B0cIbi
— L (@SomeBitchIIKnow) June 14, 2025
The original poster first blocked replies, and then deleted her account. Perhaps to go to you YouTube watch this classic 2004 clip from MadTV, back when leftists (in a show co-produced by Quincy Jones) could still joke about how insane “Death to America” sounds to the rest of us:
FECKLESS DIPLOMACY’S FRUIT:
If you want to know how we got here –
Exactly 10 years ago, in just a week and a half, journalists revealed that Obama officials had dismantled pressure on Iran and its terrorist proxies, and were in the process of collapsing on their core nuclear demands.
June 9 – the WSJ…
— Omri Ceren (@omriceren) June 15, 2025
ANALYSIS: TRUE.
The left-wing NGOs are a great fifth column in the West today. They're behind every crisis that has plagued our civilization in recent memory: Mass migration. Censorship. Riots. Urban crime. Pull back the curtain, and you'll find the same names and groups, time and time again. https://t.co/JFGSKvyUOI
— Nate Hochman (@njhochman) March 24, 2025
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An article from Fortune was released this week saying, “Bluesky is backfiring. Mark Cuban says the ‘lack of diversity of thought’ is actually pushing users back to X.”
The article details how the echo chamber failed to generate any meaningful engagement, and Mark Cuban has noted a change where the extreme left userbase has started to turn on themselves saying the site has gotten “ruder and more hateful.”
Those normal folk on the other side of the aisle who have been targets of the left’s ire for years can only help but smile knowingly at how rude and hateful the BlueSky crowd can be.
Cuban continued saying, “Engagement went from great convos on many topics, to agree with me or you are a nazi fascist. We are forcing posts to X.”
John Scalzi reacted to this article passive-aggressively, obviously noting that his engagement is down, and though he almost admits he’s a part of the problem, in the same post, he engages in the very behavior Mark Cuban called out as destroying the site.
Scalzi posted, “ALSO, those article writers moaning about the lefties being humorless scolds here on Bluesky are carefully eliding their memories of the lefties being humorous scolds on Twitter too, look, some lefties are just humorless scolds, just like so many righties are just f***ing fascist sh**bunglers.”
The lack of self awareness of being part of the reason normal people don’t want to be around places like BlueSky is entertaining, but he continues, “I mean, if the choice is between exhaustingly hectoring lefties being mean kids and bootlicking righties who will happily rat out their neighbors to masked thugs for not being potential cover models for Aryans Illustrated, I have a pretty good idea about who I’d rather be loitering with online.”
Even though Scalzi seems to recognize there’s a problem, and also recognize that his attitude is a large part of it, he’d still rather watch his own circle crash and burn into irrelevancy than treat anyone else who disagrees with him on a topic as a human. This is the hallmark of the left and exactly what establishment science fiction and fantasy publishing has become in recent years, and why their networks are failing not just through this site, but everywhere as institutions like Worldcon and SFWA descend into further irrelevancy.
Flashback, From Steve in late November: Allow Me to Enlighten You About Your Social Media Problem, Prole.
HMM:
BREAKING: Minnesota Shooter's Wife Detained with Weapon, Ammunition, Cash, Passports
The wife of Vance Luther Boelter, Jennifer Boelter, was detained by police for questioning after a traffic stop late Saturday morning near Onamia, Minnesota.
Her husband, Vance Boelter, is… pic.twitter.com/L7j7Lp8nK3
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) June 15, 2025
AND YET WE’RE ALMOST CERTAINLY LETTING THE CHINESE DO IT IN AMERICA:
If I were in the Iranian government, I would not have let Israel build a secret drone base in my country. Just my opinion, YMMV.
— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) June 13, 2025
ROGER KIMBALL: America on Parade—and on Edge.
Related:
MSNBC wanted the US Army 250th celebration to have a “dark, malevolent energy” and are forced to admit that it didn’t and was a beautiful patriotic parade.
They forget that “dark, malevolent energy” is reserved for their buddy Joe Biden. pic.twitter.com/nKmGFCai6E
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 15, 2025
Also related:
Not…really.
From a basic scan of the pics, it's an insanely old, white, female, middle-middle class (not upper or lower or working), neurotic/masked crowd.
The people at the Army's birthday parade….looked like America. https://t.co/uPglJp7po0
— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) June 15, 2025
THAT’S WHAT XI SAID:
Perhaps it’s a serious case of projection on Whitehouse’s part, as he ponders what the security is like at his club: Pressure Mounts on Sheldon Whitehouse To Resign in Shame Over Ties to Racist Beach Club.
THE IVY EXILE: Hey Hey, Western Civ Has Got to Stay.
June 14, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Party on.
NO KINGS, JUST COMMISSARS? I report from “No Kings” Boston.
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UPDATE:
LOL every crowd shot of this military parade is so much younger and multiethnic than the No Kings protests
— Magills (@magills_) June 14, 2025
Number of kings holding steady at zero. https://t.co/bgXxXUJy8a
— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) June 15, 2025
I don’t think we should make policy to placate elderly lunatics https://t.co/TjVZwL7F2x
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) June 15, 2025
There was a nationwide election 8 months ago. https://t.co/wEYPyqDHus
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) June 14, 2025
The fact that the "No Kings" rally's are full of old white people and the #Army250 parade crowd is full of young mulit-ethnic families really tells you which way the arrow is pointing. pic.twitter.com/Tss6J9s56o
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) June 15, 2025
THEY’RE ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: The Universe’s Missing Black Holes May Have Been Located.
THERE ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: Scientists Discover Anti-Aging Molecules Hiding in Your Blood.
“100 FEET? THOSE ARE ROOKIE NUMBERS.” — THE DUKE BROTHERS. Watch: Why Jump a Chevy Corvette Over 100 Feet? Why Not?
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CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE:
The AR-15 is the most popular civilian rifle in America and is used by tens of millions of law-abiding Americans for lawful reasons.
Total bans on AR-15s are a flagrant violation of the Second Amendment.
Today, the Department of Justice filed an amicus brief telling the Seventh…
— Chad Mizelle (@ChadMizelle47) June 14, 2025
How refreshing to see our DOJ fighting to actually protect the 2nd Amendment, not restrict it
AR-15s are owned by tens of millions of Americans and Illinois’ AR-15 ban is wildly unconstitutional
Thank you Harmeet Dhillon for fighting to protect the Constitution https://t.co/Gwq73syhcW
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) June 14, 2025
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