TLDR DIGEST APR 3-17 [PASSOVER AND POSTOVER]

 HEADLINES

Transgenderism Is the New Blackface

If blackface is racist, then ‘womanface’ is sexist.

California Goes Full Communist: Utilities to Base What They Charge on How Much You Make

Kanye’s Campaign Has Paid Holocaust Denier Nick Fuentes More Than $30,000 This Year

Leaked pics show Bud Light exec who wants to update company’s ‘fratty’ culture enjoying fratty party

Heinerscheid could be seen in images on her now-deleted Facebook page downing beers during a 2006 “boozefest.”

The Chicago Teachers Union Now Runs the Mayor’s Office

Electric Vehicles: Volt Farce

Wyoming news site finds more than a third of small-town bars surveyed are experiencing Bud Light boycotts

Plus-sized traveler demands free seats, better accommodations on airlines

Loudoun Co. school board chose Scott Ziegler over accountability in sex assault cases

The evidence to support medicalised gender transitions in adolescents is worryingly weak

Iran vows crack down on people who promote removing the veil

Straw Ban Arguments: How the overhyped environmental dangers of single-use plastic straws were turned into a great moral crusade by a 9-year-old

Penguin Removes ‘Unacceptable’ Words from P. G. Wodehouse Novels, Adds Trigger Warnings for ‘Outdated’ Language

Democracy Dies in Spin: Washington Post Reporters Double as PR Flacks for TikTok

QUOTES

“Claims of an “epidemic” of violence against transgender Americans have been around since at least 2015. … There’s an added complication: if transgender people do experience higher rates of violence, that could be for reasons other than their gender identity. They could be overrepresented in certain high-risk categories, with gender identity itself having no independent effect. In that case, it might still be reasonable to speak of an “epidemic of violence” — though the statement would need to be qualified.”

“…while neocon-libertarian control of the Republican Party under Jeb Bush and others might have lasted into the 2020s or 2030s, at some point it was doomed to collapse under the weight of its incompatibility with domestic and global realities. Whatever else might be said about Trump, by toppling the Bush and Clinton dynasties and the establishments they embodied, he accelerated that moment.”

“[Miller’s] retirement brings an end to a rocky presidency that saw protests and declining enrollment, the New York Times reported, though Miller was able to find success in her goal of increasing diversity on campus.

“There’s no better case of the “horseshoe theory” of politics—where left and right bend toward each other at the extremes—than TikTok…In a rambling monologue, Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson took the side of Ocasio-Cortez, despite calling her “a tool of the national-security state,” because one of the bipartisan proposals that would allow Biden to ban TikTok “is about introducing flat-out totalitarianism into our system.””

“…those in ideological agreement with the losers have expressed continual wonderment and pride at the fact that 8 or 9 percent of the population of the small country is out in the streets on a weekly basis. Yes, but more than 50 percent of the electorate in Israel voted the other way. Imagine if they took to the streets. But you can’t, because they won’t, because they shouldn’t have to.”

“Mulvaney's sponsored posts featuring Bud Light had a tangible impact on the brand's value in the market. Shares dropped dramatically, with The Daily Mail saying it lost $6 billion of its market capitalization and FOX reporting it had lost roughly $5 billion in share value. Currently, the market cap is about $112 billion…Plenty of professionals on LinkedIn have lambasted Heinerscheid for failing to know her brand's target consumer when partnering with Mulvaney. Robert Simkavitz, Chief Technology Officer of Newline USA, stated, "Bud Light vice president of marketing Alissa Heinerscheid has succeeded in killing sales of Bud Light in most of the United States. Who said one person can’t make a difference?””

"No one at the senior level” of the company was aware of Bud Light’s polarizing partnership with Dylan Mulvaney, sources close to the situation claim. The company is also allegedly pausing its marketing efforts and scrambling to implement a more “robust” process for evaluating future influencer partnerships…“No one at a senior level was aware this was happening,” said one source, who was granted anonymity to discuss sensitive internal discussions. “Some low-level marketing staffer who helps manage the hundreds of influencer engagements they do must have thought it was no big deal. Obviously it was, and it’s a shame because they have a well-earned reputation for just being America’s beer — not a political company. It was a mistake.””

“ABC News highlighted certain portions of the government’s complaint against Teixeira that are problematic given claims that Teixeira did this for months with nobody knowing. As we reported Thursday, several stories about Teixeira were stealth-edited on Wednesday and Thursday. One of those stories, from NBC News, originally said that officials had been tracking Teixeira for some time. Then it was changed to say that they were “onto him.” Then that paragraph was deleted in its entirety.”

“Instead of a thoughtful discussion tonight at SFSU, Riley was violently accosted, shouted at, physically assaulted, and barricaded in a room by protestors,…It is stunning that in America in 2023, it is acceptable for biological male students to violently assault a woman for standing up for women’s rights.  This is proof that women need sex-protected spaces. Still only further assures me I’m doing something right. When they want you silent, speak louder.”

“The judge was targeted because of his ruling on a transgender pedophile in 2020, where he refused to allow her bid to get her name changed…Varner has twice been convicted of possessing child pornography and failing to register as a sex offender.  In 2012 Varner pleaded guilty to one count of attempted receipt of child pornography and was sentenced to 15 years in prison which will be followed by 15 years supervised release.   By 2015, while in prison, Varner came out as a transgender woman and began 'hormone replacement therapy' shortly after trying to change her surname to Jett in Kentucky.  However, the US Court of Appeals rejected Varner's appeal to change her conviction records to her new name.  Fifth Circuit Judge Stuart Duncan and others ruling it as 'meritless' because the pedophile was known as Norman Varner at the time she committed the child sex abuse offenses.  But her case sparked anger amongst the woke Stanford law students, and Steinbach, who sabotaged his speech at the prestigious university earlier this month.  Varner's case was widely reported at the time of the court challenge by outlets including NBC News, including details of her vile crimes.  That suggests Stanford students may have known the magnitude of the crimes she committed - but that they decided to defend her anyway.”