TLDR DIGEST FEB 6-13

HEADLINES

Arizona hospital on brink of collapse after spending $20 million on migrant care: 'Nobody has a solution'

Iranian smuggled in car trunk shows security threat from our open border

Biden Regime Quietly Frees One of 9/11 Terrorist Planners from Gitmo as the Whole Country Watches the Chinese Spy Balloon

The Best Advice Against Antisemitism — From an Antisemite

‘You People’ Furthers ‘Black-ish’ Creator’s Obnoxious Racial Agenda

College Doesn’t Need to Take Four Years

For many students, the standard bachelor’s degree program has become a costly straitjacket.

BBC Radio issues apology after trans gamer rails against J.K. Rowling for 'transphobia': 'We fell short here'

State Leaders Ratchet Up Efforts To Rein In Campus Diversity Initiatives

Since the Florida governor started his efforts to curtail so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, lawmakers in Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Texas have joined the fray.

Taking on ‘Big Tech’ Emerges as the One Issue With Bipartisan Consensus in New Congress

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QUOTES

“…take a hypothetical. Say you’re a member of the American political establishment after the 2016 election of Donald Trump. You’re staring at four years as part of a government-in-exile and need a new message to solve your belief problem. What’s your answer? My hypothesis is such people never bothered to find one. Instead, they declared a state of emergency.  What emergency? Doesn’t matter. Russian interference was a good startup disaster, but you can keep changing them. The important thing is the pattern. One, declare a crisis. Two, spread panic. Three, take emergency measures. If you do this over and over, you end up with permanent crisis, permanent panic, permanent emergency rule. So long as new crises keep evoking unconscious fear and anxiety, the legitimacy of the political establishment is continuously justified.”

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"Today, the U.S. media has the lowest credibility—26 percent—among forty-six nations, according to a 2022 study by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism…Americans suspect that inaccuracies in reporting are purposeful, with 52 percent believing that reporters misrepresent the facts, and 28 percent believing reporters make them up entirely…”

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“The most contemptuous reaction to the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade is coming from, shockingly, a United States district  judge. The judge, Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, has ordered the government to give an opinion on whether by becoming pregnant a woman has become enslaved — and therefore whether abortion must be allowed under the 13th Amendment that declared that “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude” shall exist in America.  Opening that line of questioning in the wake of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization strikes us as contemptuous not only of the Supreme Court, which just ruled that there is no right to abortion in the Constitution. It’s also contemptuous of African Americans who endured the travails of chattel slavery. She is making of the 13th Amendment, one of the most important laws ever passed, a kind of constitutional joke in service of abortion rights.”

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“"People are terrified, especially speaking from my experience of talking to other NCAA swimmers specifically. Lia Thomas’s teammates even. They are told their school has made their stance for them. They are told if they feel uncomfortable seeing male genitalia in the locker room, they should seek counseling resources. They're told they will never get into grad school if they speak out," Gaines said.”