IT’S A NEW WORLD: A (female) friend who’s partying with the girls in Key West writes: “Drag queens making Kamala jokes. Fantastic. It’s a new world.”
January 10, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.
UNDER THE BUS WITH YOU: LA Fire Chief is dismissed by Mayor Karen Bass after lashing out over department cuts as deadly blazes devastate city.
Of course, now she has no incentive to keep quiet.
UPDATE: Hmm.
#UPDATE Statement from @MayorOfLA office: “The Mayor and Chief met. The priority remains fighting these fires and protecting Angelenos.”
— Josh Haskell (@abc7JoshHaskell) January 11, 2025
THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX rolls Starship out to pad ahead of Flight 7 test launch (photos).
Sked to fly Monday afternoon.
THE TECH BROS ARE NOW UNITING IN FAVOR OF CHANGE. You had Zuckerberg on Rogan. Meanwhile you also have Peter Thiel in the London Financial Times, calling for deep investigations of government misconduct and a Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
The link works for me, and I’m not a subscriber, so I hope it’ll work for you. But exactly what he says is not as significant as the fact that so many tech lords are coming out together against the abuses of the outgoing regime. Keep an eye on Bill Gates, though personally I think he’s too compromised to join the movement.
HMM: High THC, High Risk: The Cannabis-Psychosis Link.
Related:
A far higher percentage of cannabis than alcohol users wind up using daily and/or meet guidelines for addictive or problematic use.
But cannabis culture celebrates "wake and bake" use; people who need a drink to get out of bed know what they are, and what they are is alcoholics. https://t.co/xYXZjdxmHU
— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) January 9, 2025
LOL, LIZ WARREN:
My neighbors are not paying $11 billion in taxes this year. https://t.co/VyxR2re5Dv pic.twitter.com/JQTZUD9XLZ
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) January 10, 2025
CHANGE:
BREAKING: Columbia University law professor, Katherine Franke, has left Columbia after an investigation found that she had discriminated against Jewish and Israeli students.
In the complaint, it was found that Franke repeatedly violated Columbia’s anti-discrimination policy. pic.twitter.com/dqICF8mqGI
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) January 10, 2025
EH, TELLING ANY WOMAN TO “CALM DOWN” RAISES BLOOD PRESSURE, APPARENTLY. Telling new mothers of color to calm down can raise postpartum hypertension, study finds.
DANIEL GREENFIELD: The LAFD is Run by Three Lesbians Named ‘Kirsten.’
Mayor Eric Garcetti had promised to bring the number of women up to 5% from 3.5% and now the LAFD is approaching 8%. No one was allowed to ask if this was going to make the LAFD any better at fighting fires now that it was hiring in order to hit a diversity target.
Beyond DEI, every stupid woke idea found a home under Crowley’s regime. After taking over, Crowley debuted the first “electric fire engine” to fight “pollution”, instead it was sidelined by a water leak. The vaccine mandate ousted some firefighters and suspended others. Last year, with a shortage of firefighters, the LAFD began trying to bring some of them back.
Los Angeles and the LAFD fought the Firefighters4Freedom Foundation group which represented 500 members of the LAFD. Now the LAFD has been reduced to begging for volunteers with firefighting experience. The DEI LAFD seems to be a whole lot more diverse, but also a lot less competent at deploying manpower than the old organization used to be.
While the LAFD might have lost a whole lot white men who knew how to fight fires, it gained a lot of DEI hires who knew how to pursue diversity, inclusion and all the pronoun stuff.
And while LA might have lost a lot of buildings, it gained a lot of lesbian fire chiefs.
Exit questions from center-left comedienne Whitney Cummings:
I love a lesbo but LA fire is run by THREE lesbians? Are you allowed to just only recruit people in your dating pool? pic.twitter.com/ZA3ez92aUA
— Whitney Cummings (@WhitneyCummings) January 10, 2025
UPDATE:
Remember, if you're a man and you end up trapped in a fire, you got yourself in the wrong place. If you're a criminal and you got sent to jail, you're a victim of systemic racism. Welcome to Los Angeles! https://t.co/86bq5XVX41
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) January 10, 2025
RED-PILLED:
Massive news: Meta is ending DEI. Only days after @finkd promised to end biased fact checks, now his company is ending DEI.
I warned Meta in October that they were one of my DEI targets for 2025.
Here’s what’s changing at Facebook & IG:
• Meta will no longer have a DEI team.… pic.twitter.com/owBeg7zIbV
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) January 10, 2025
I’VE BEEN SAYING THAT ESG IS A BREACH OF FIDUCIARY DUTY FROM THE BEGINNING: Texas court rules against American Airlines in ESG 401(k) plan case: The presiding judge found the airline breached its fiduciary duty under federal law by prioritizing non-financial considerations in its employee retirement plan.
This was obvious, but the obviousness was overridden by the sense that anything that’s a fad among the ruling class must be okay.
LIMITED TIME DEAL: Legendary Whitetails Men’s Buck Camp Flannel. #CommissionEarned
FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: He’s Suing Because He Got High on the Stuff He Bought to Get High On. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week we have the frivolous lawsuit to beat all frivolous lawsuits, how not to hit on a cop, and what not to do on a flight from San Francisco to the Philippines.”
NEWS YOU CAN USE: 7 Ways Good Guys Can Screw Up in Armed Self-Defense Situations.
I DO BELIEVE HE’S FALLEN UNDER ELON’S INFLUENCE: Zuckerberg does Rogan.
Alternatively, all the sociopolitical data he has from Meta has shown him which way the wind is blowing, and how hard it’s likely to blow. Either is fine with me.
Related:
Well, or he was hesitant to do it when the WH might have retaliated against Meta, and/or it would have caused a big public backlash in a more left-wing era. The politics aren't one-sided here. It's incredibly naive to think Biden's politics were pure as the driven snow. https://t.co/sWclMqEB6d
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) January 10, 2025
UPDATE:
Holy crap Zuck seems (almost) like a biological human being on Rogan! I don’t think people give Joe enough credit.
— Seán Ono Lennon (@seanonolennon) January 10, 2025
JOANNE JACOBS: Misbehavior is worse, say educators. “The 2024 survey results were slightly worse than in 2023, despite schools’ efforts to engage students and strengthen student-teacher relationships, she writes.”
WHY NOT MORE FIRES IF GLOBE IS WARMING? Good question, especially in light of the many “experts” attributing the recent increase in California wildfires in part to the drought in the area.
In fact, according to Just Facts Daily, (check out the “Global Rainfall Trends” question) there is no record of more or fewer droughts or floods in the past 150 years. One might expect that a correlation of wildfires and droughts would be evident going back centuries, but that just doesn’t appear to be the case.
“Contrary to predictions that global warming would cause more droughts and floods, studies published by the International Journal of Climatology, the Hydrological Sciences Journal, the journal Theoretical and Applied Climatology, and the Journal of Hydrology all found no significant trends in rainfall or droughts over periods that extend back to as far as 150 years ago,” Just Facts explains.
“Previous studies had examined shorter timeframes and found changes that were blamed on global warming, but the results were generally not statistically significant and ‘not entirely surprising