“Having been told as recently as Monday that American voters prioritize the state of the economy over the question of abortion by a ratio of 44:5, the president of the United States has decided to close his party’s febrile midterm campaign by focusing hard on . . . abortion. Even now, with the public roaring its disapproval, Biden is unable to get the message.”
Abortion Zealotry Is Leading the Democrats to a Midterm Slaughter
https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/10/abortion-zealotry-is-leading-the-democrats-to-a-midterm-slaughter/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=next-article&utm_term=first
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“In the vote in Albany, New York, about 66%, or 406, workers rejected joining a union. More than 30 ballots were contested, not enough to change the outcome. In May, a bid to unionize Amazon workers at a Staten Island facility failed following a vote in favor of unionizing at a larger site in the same borough of New York.”
Amazon Workers in Albany Just Voted Against Forming a Union
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“Chanting crowds marched in the streets of Berlin, Washington DC and Los Angeles on Saturday in a show of international support for demonstrators facing a violent government crackdown in Iran, sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of that country's morality police.”
Iran protests trigger solidarity rallies in US, Europe
https://www.wral.com/iran-protests-trigger-solidarity-rallies-in-europe-us/20533620/
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“The S&P 500 is down nearly 24% year-to-date, and the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index has surrendered about 16%. Should both indexes finish the year in the red, it would be the first time that has happened in decades.”
This is the worst year for stock and bond investors since 1969
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“The arrest comes less than a month after Philadelphia residents who have been impacted by violent crime in the city testified before a Pennsylvania House committee. The hearing was part of lawmakers’ efforts to gather evidence to impeach the liberal district attorney. Several mothers who lost their children to homicide testified before the committee in person and through pre-recorded video, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. One mother testified about her anger over her daughter’s killer being released on bail and her frustration over having not been given updates on the case by the prosecutor. Several people who offered testimony suggested the district attorney’s office’s falling conviction rate for some crimes, including gun-possession charges, has meant that offenders do not fear consequences.”
Man Exonerated by Philadelphia’s Progressive DA Arrested on New Murder Charges
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“The male opponent hurled the volleyball at approximately 70 mph, according to the Daily Mail. One bystander claimed that it was “abnormally” fast, the publication said. The female teammate at Hiwassee Dam High School experienced trauma to the head and neck, reportedly.”
Female High-School Volleyball Athlete Suffers Serious Head Injury after Transgender Player Throws ‘Abnormally Fast’ Ball
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“[Stacy Abrams] says abortion can help address inflation issues: "Having children is why you’re worried about your price for gas, it’s why you’re concerned about how much food costs. For women, this is not a reductive issue.””
Stacey Abrams Floats Abortion as an Inflation Fix: ‘Having Children Is Why You’re Worried’ about Rising Prices
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“The America of the Obama-Trump-Biden years now looks a lot worse than the America that alarmed Luttwak and Lind in the Nineties. At the top of the narrowing social pyramid is a tiny class of mega-billionaires who personally own and control a staggering percentage of the country’s wealth, resources, and power, and make their money from the globalised economy. Then comes the professional class that services the billionaires, ranging from highly paid lawyers and investment bankers to chefs and fashion designers and real estate salesmen. Below them is the servant class of bureaucrats, teachers and other lower-status employees whose salaries are paid by the state or non-governmental organisations and foundations, who funnel money back to their political patrons in the Democratic Party in the form of free campaign labour and contributions.”
How Turbo-Wokism broke America: Oligarchs and activists are playing for the same team
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“If you are an American Jew who has been paying attention you have long since learned to lower your expectations. We have learned to live with the strange reality that ours is a culture in which major pop stars revise their lyrics when they are accused of committing microaggressions, but cannot muster a single tweet condemning West’s tirade. There will be no hashtags for the Jews.”
Kanye West's Dark, Twisted Fantasy
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“…when I hear Kanye Wests’ line: “I want Jewish children to look at their Jewish daddies and say, ‘why is Ye mad at us?” I respond to his ranting and raving with my faith and Jewish pride intact.”
Kanye West Blames the Jews
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““These are primarily very, very young people, a younger generation who have apparently completely lost faith that this Islamic Republic can be reformed,” said Trita Parsi, executive vice-president at the Washington, DC-based Quincy Institute. “They’re breaking from their previous generation who was seeking to reform the system from within,” Parsi added. “This new generation seems to not have any faith in that at all.””
A barrier of fear has been broken in Iran. The regime may be at a point of no return
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“A freshman, Caroline, said, "I think speech should be free, but also there are limitations…Speech that is derogatory towards a certain group, I don't think that's OK," she told Fox News. "It's not a progressive conversation.””
Columbia students react to their college being ranked worst for free speech on campus
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“It is now a century since Jewish-free zones first spread to the San Francisco Bay Area (“No Dogs. No Jews”)…Nine different law student groups at the University of California at Berkeley’s School of Law, my own alma mater, have begun this new academic year by amending bylaws to ensure that they will never invite any speakers that support Israel or Zionism. And these are not groups that represent only a small percentage of the student population. They include Women of Berkeley Law, Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, Middle Eastern and North African Law Students Association, Law Students of African Descent and the Queer Caucus. Berkeley Law’s Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, a progressive Zionist, has observed that he himself would be banned under this standard, as would 90% of his Jewish students.”
Berkeley Develops Jewish-Free Zones
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“The result is a liberal city and state questioning whether Democrats can fix the messes that have mushroomed under their watch. Some politicians are trying. For instance Ted Wheeler, Portland’s mayor, is planning to ban unsanctioned homeless encampments. Rather than setting up a tent in Old Town, people will be directed to specific camps where they can get help to find housing or drug treatment. The ban probably would have been shouted down just one year ago. But voters’ anger has drowned out the voices of activists who argue that breaking up encampments is cruel. Oregon is not the only state where rising homelessness has become a political liability for liberals. Cities all along the west coast are paralysed by how to solve the problem. If Oregonians are so frustrated that they elect a Republican, Democrats elsewhere will be put on notice.”
Oregon’s close governor’s race is a referendum on Portland
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“Notice that Durham’s critics, for all their chuntering about the “futility” of his investigation, fear his final report, as evident in the fact that they are already calling for Attorney General Merrick Garland to block it. “Matthew Miller, who was director of the Justice Department’s public affairs office from 2009 to 2011, argued Attorney General Merrick Garland, or another top official at the agency, should review the report Durham is reportedly expected to prepare by the end of the year before making a decision on releasing its findings to the public,” reported the Washington Examiner.”
If Durham Is So Worthless, Why Is the Ruling Class Worried About His Final Report?
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Confirming that we are indeed living through a Cold War reboot, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas expressed his gratitude for Russian support of Palestine last week while meeting with President Vladimir Putin at a conference in Kazakhstan. “Russia stands by justice and international law and that is enough for us,”Abbas told Putin, which provoked the requisite retaliatory response from the United States. “We were deeply disappointed to hear President Abbas’ remarks yesterday to President Putin. Russia does not stand for justice and international law,” said a National Security Council spokesperson. The spat comes amid ongoing tension between the Palestinian Authority and the Biden administration over progress in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with the Palestinians chiding the United States for not doing more to push things forward. The self-serving bastardization of the phrase “international law” continues.
Abbas Praises Putin at Conference in Kazakhstan
https://thedailyscroll.substack.com/p/what-happened-today-october-19-2022
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“They grew up between hypocritical boomers and helpless millennials — and reject both.”
Why Gen X is the Trumpiest generation
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/why-gen-x-is-the-trumpiest-generation/
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“The world’s most highly paid author was asked how she slept at night, “knowing you’ve lost a whole audience from buying your books?”
“I read my most recent royalty cheques and find the pain goes away pretty quickly,” she replied.”
J.K. Rowling laughs all the way to the bank
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“Just before the start of the fall semester, New York University fired the distinguished professor in organic chemistry Maitland Jones Jr. NYU’s dean for Science Gregory Gabadadze informed Jones in a terse letter that his work “did not rise to the standards we require from our teaching faculty.” Jones is a legend in his field who literally wrote his subject’s 1,300-page textbook Organic Chemistry…Jones’s offense? His class was too hard. Earlier this year, eighty-two of Jones’s 350 students signed a petition denouncing the difficulty of his organic chemistry course and bemoaning the high failure rates on his examinations. Although more than 75 percent of Jones’s students did not sign the petition, and although the petition itself did not demand his dismissal, NYU scrambled to placate the disgruntled minority. Every NYU undergrad is, after all, a precious little bundle worth over $300,000 in tuition payments — in addition to potential alumni donations down the road. The students are also far more skilled in social media kvetching than any fortysomething Snopes who works in NYU’s recruitment operations. A bad class, a martinet professor — these things can easily become that afternoon’s widely shared Instagram post or TikTok reel…That’s even though the woke boomer hypocrites who edit the New York Times are apparently worried enough about the quality of their future health care providers that they ran a front-page story about Jones.”
NYU sacks a professor because his class is too hard
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“TikTok’s rapid growth in Latin America—it has an estimated 100 million users in the region—has led to the hiring of hundreds of moderators in Colombia to fight a never-ending battle against disturbing content. They work six days a week on day and night shifts, with some paid as little as 1.2 million pesos ($254) a month, compared to around $2,900 for content moderators based in the U.S.”
Behind TikTok’s Boom: A Legion of Traumatized, $10-A-Day Content Moderators
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“…a conservative judge called on his peers to abstain from hiring Yale Law graduates as clerks because of free speech concerns.
Judge James Ho, a Trump administration appointee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, urged the boycott last month when addressing a Federalist Society event in Kentucky. He argued that Yale Law students haven’t faced consequences for shutting down a speaker last year, meaning “Yale not only tolerates the cancellation of views—it practices it.” Now other judges are slowly signing on to Ho’s boycott, an effort that has landed at the same time Yale Law announced new student disciplinary policies and efforts to protect free speech.”
Yale Law Once Again in Conservative Crosshairs
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“Yusef Qaradawi, the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood who died in late September, was well-known for lamenting that Adolf Hitler didn’t finish off the Jews in the Holocaust. He also called for the imposition of the death penalty on apostates and homosexuals and the chopping off of limbs of thieves. None of these statements, however, prevented leaders of prominent Muslim organizations in the West from lionizing him in their eulogies.”
Qaradawi Called for Jihad, Murder of Jews and Homosexuals, Lauded
https://islamism.news/2022/10/13/qaradawi-called-for-jihad-murder-of-jews-and-homosexuals-lauded/
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“Forget about that MRI or cardiac ablation. Get hold of a certified shaman who knows about the laying on of hands and ancient tribal spells, and above all knows how to play the race card without blushing.”
Doctor’s orders
https://newcriterion.com/issues/2022/11/doctors-orders
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"Take Alexander Vindman. The retired lieutenant colonel testified before Congress during Trump’s first impeachment hearings. Now what’s he up to? Has he retired from public life like the dutiful political servant he made himself out to be on national television? No. He’s retweeting socialist senator Bernie Sanders, making appearances on behalf of anti-police Democrats like Mandela Barnes, and doing cameos with Larry David on HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm. One can assume the irony of endorsing candidates who deride American law enforcement on Russian state television and palling around curmudgeons is lost on him."
Alexander Vindman: A Case Study in Political Hackery
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“Oregon lawyers who filed a class-action lawsuit against the City of Portland last month, alleging that city leaders are allowing homeless encampments to block sidewalks needed by people with disabilities, are now expanding the scope of the challenge to determine if county officials were responsible for providing some of the camping gear in the first place.”
Lawyers Representing Disabled Portlanders Suspect Public Funds Paid for Homeless Camps
