Alabama man froze to death in jail after officers put him in freezer as possible 'punishment,' lawsuit alleges - "Walker County Jail officials allegedly placed Anthony "Tony" Mitchell, 33, "in a restraint chair in the jail kitchen's walk-in freezer or similar frigid enforcement and left [him] there for hours," possibly "as punishment for deputies who had ‘had a time with Tony,’" according to the complaint. He died on Jan. 26."
Of course, the media is not going to blow this up. Because he's the wrong colour
Gov. Newsom jabs red states for banning book pulled in California - "at least one of the four identifiable books in his stack — “To Kill a Mockingbird” — had been pulled from the curriculum recently by a California school district. “The woke progressives in California (Newsom voters) banned To Kill A Mockingbird for ‘anti racism’ purposes,” Christina Pushaw, press secretary for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, tweeted in response... in September 2020 the Burbank Unified School District in Los Angeles County dropped “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men,” Theodore Taylor’s “The Cay” and Mildred D. Taylor’s “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry” from its curriculum... Newsom’s office said Burbank’s action was different than efforts the governor was criticizing in other states because the books were simply taken off the reading list, not removed from classrooms or schools entirely... “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Lee’s 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winner about Finch, a lawyer who defends a Black man charged with raping a White woman in Alabama, has been dropped from school reading lists around the country, including a Seattle-area district earlier this year over complaints of its use of racial slurs. It also has been criticized for a “White savior” narrative and has been controversial at schools in Wisconsin, Mississippi and Arizona in recent years."
Liberals claimed removing Maus from the curriculum was also a "book ban": it only counts as a "book ban" if the "banned books" are "banned" by conservatives.
Student Activists Target Stanford Law School Dean in Revolt Over Her Apology - "Hundreds of Stanford student activists on Monday lined the hallways to protest the law school’s dean, Jenny Martinez, for apologizing to Fifth Circuit appellate judge Kyle Duncan, whom the activists shouted down... The embattled dean arrived to the classroom where she teaches constitutional law to find a whiteboard covered inch to inch in fliers attacking Duncan and defending those who disrupted him, according to photos of the room and multiple eyewitness accounts. The fliers parroted the argument, made by student activists, that the heckler’s veto is a form of free speech... The protest followed a flurry of open letters from student activists, who spent much of the weekend berating Martinez after she and Stanford University president Marc Tessier-Lavigne issued a formal apology to Duncan condemning the students who disrupted his talk and the administrators who stood by silently and watched them do so. The apology also took a swipe at Tirien Steinbach, the law school’s associate dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion, who interrupted Duncan to lecture him about the "harm" he’d caused... The majority of Martinez’s class—approximately 50 students out of the 60 enrolled—participated in the protest themselves, two students in the class said. The few who didn’t join the protesters received the same stare down as their professor as they hurried through the makeshift walk of shame. "They gave us weird looks if we didn’t wear black" and join the crowd, said Luke Schumacher, a first-year law student in Martinez’s class who declined to participate in the protest. "It didn’t feel like the inclusive, belonging atmosphere that the DEI office claims to be creating." Another student in the class, who likewise declined to protest, said the spectacle was a surreal experience. "It was eerie," said the student, who requested anonymity for fear of retaliation. "The protesters were silent, staring from behind their masks at everyone who chose not to protest, including the dean." Ironically, the student added, "this form of protest would have been completely fine" at Duncan’s talk... The Stanford National Lawyers Guild said Saturday that Martinez had thrown "capable and compassionate administrators" under the bus. The law school’s Immigration & Human Rights Law Association issued a similar declaration on Sunday, writing to its mailing list that Stanford’s apology to Duncan "has only made this situation worse." And Stanford Law School’s chapter of the American Constitution Society expressed outrage that Martinez and Tessier-Lavigne had framed Duncan "as a victim, when in fact he himself had made civil dialogue impossible." The groups argued that the students who disrupted Duncan, in violation of Stanford’s free speech policies, were merely exercising their own free speech rights... After Martinez left the building, Schumacher said, the protesters began to cheer, cry, and hug. "We are creating a hostile environment at this law school," Schumacher said—"hostile for anyone who thinks an Article III judge should be able to speak without heckling.""
Good luck if you heckle a "minority", since that's a hate crime
So much for a small, unrepresentative minority being responsible
Steve McGuire on Twitter - "Stanford issues a letter of apology to Judge Duncan:"
The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim on Twitter - "Now they need to fire the DEI admin who incited the disruption & suspend the admins who failed to enforce their no disruption policy & suspend the students who disrupted."
Wilfred Reilly on Twitter - "Suspending or expelling the students who do this, once, would legitimately end this new era of disruptive-to-violent demonstrations for at least the next several years. Ivy League-level grad students may be radical, but they're also the most ambitious baby sharks imaginable."
Federal Judges Say They Won't Hire Clerks From Stanford Law School - "Ho's announcement is the latest and most dramatic effort to hold Stanford accountable for its treatment of Fifth Circuit appellate judge Kyle Duncan, who was shouted down by hundreds of students—and berated by Stanford diversity dean Tirien Steinbach—when he spoke at the law school last month. The students called Duncan "scum," asked why he couldn't "find the clit," and screamed, "We hope your daughters get raped." Though Steinbach is on leave, Stanford has ruled out disciplining the hecklers, who by Stanford's own admission violated the school's free speech policy. "Rules aren't rules without consequences," Ho said. "And students who practice intolerance don't belong in the legal profession." Calling the disruption an act of "intellectual terrorism," Ho argued that Duncan's treatment reflects "rampant" viewpoint discrimination at elite law schools, some of which do not employ a single center-right professor. It is no coincidence, Ho said, that the worst free speech incidents have occurred at the law schools with the least intellectual diversity... Ho and Branch, who introduced Ho at the Texas Review event, are 2 of 14 federal judges boycotting Yale Law School over a rash of high-profile free speech scandals, including an incident last March in which hundreds of students disrupted Kristen Waggoner, a religious liberty lawyer who has won several cases at the Supreme Court. The boycott appears to be having an effect: Ho said in his speech that students and faculty at Yale have urged him not to let up, citing an improved campus climate. He's hoping that success will persuade his colleagues to stop hiring from Stanford, whose prestige, like Yale's, rests in part on its clerkship placements. "Imagine that every judge who says they're opposed to discrimination at Yale and Stanford takes the same path," Ho said. "Imagine they decide that, until the discrimination stops, they will no longer hire from those schools in the future. How quickly do we think those schools would stop discriminating then?""
Stanford Law School's Black Students' Group Will No Longer Help Law School Recruit Minority Students in the Wake of Duncan Apology - "Stanford University's Black Law Students Association will no longer help the university recruit black students after the law school's dean, Jenny Martinez, apologized in early March to Fifth Circuit appellate judge Kyle Duncan. The students cited what they described as the "scapegoating" of the school's diversity dean, Tirien Steinbach, for an incident last month in which students disrupted Duncan's remarks and Steinbach egged them on. "The apology was intimately aligned with White supremacist practices," the group's board wrote in a letter to the administration, which was posted on Instagram earlier this month. "We cannot, in good faith, participate in recruiting Black students into a community more concerned with palliating wealthy, White conservative donors than the 'student-focused and community-inspired' legal education [Stanford Law School] promotes." As such, the group said it would "boycott official admit events" for the class of 2026 and encourage prospective students to go elsewhere. It's the second boycott to which the law school has been subjected: James Ho and Elizabeth Branch, the circuit court judges who said last year that they would no longer hire clerks from Yale Law School, earlier this month announced a similar clerkship moratorium on Stanford, citing the school's refusal to punish the students who shouted down Duncan. The law school administration laid the blame for those antics squarely on Steinbach, who at one point took the podium from the judge and told him his work had "caused harm." In their apology to Duncan, Stanford University president Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Martinez, the law school dean, said that Steinbach's intervention was "inappropriate." Steinbach has been on leave since March, and the law school has not indicated when or if she will return... Dissatisfied with the soft-gloved treatment of the hecklers, law professors, politicians, and state bar associations have all joined Ho and Branch's pile-on, using the powers at their disposal to make life difficult for the elite law school. But bowing to that pressure could come at a cost. Like undergraduate admissions offices, law schools go to great lengths to boost minority representation. If Stanford's own students begin undermining its admissions efforts—especially those aimed at African Americans—the school may decide that a clerkship boycott is a price worth paying to maintain its diversity. Black students have "historically contributed an extensive amount of free labor to assist the University" in recruitment, the letter said. "But we are continually overlooked by the administration when it makes significant decisions—as evidenced by the institution's condoning of Judge Duncan's behavior."... The letter also aired a number of grievances that it said predated the Duncan incident. Stanford, the Black Law Students Association argued, had hobbled the group's ability "to create a safe space for its members," and—despite black students' "free labor"—the school's admissions policies "reproduce and reify White supremacy, classism, and colorism." The group also slammed Stanford for allowing "internet harassment" and the "doxxing of fellow students"—apparently a reference to the Washington Free Beacon's reporting, which included the names of several students, such as Denni Arnold, who organized the protest."
It seems anti-racism and diversity are diametrically opposed to freedom of speech and thought
Crime, homelessness test Portland, Ore.'s progressive strain - Los Angeles Times - "The 40-year-old package handler for FedEx said that people have openly dealt drugs and urinated on the sidewalk outside her family’s duplex. They’ve dumped feces and used syringes in her manicured yard, played booming music at 3 a.m. and stripped stolen cars for parts. Shots have been fired behind her children’s bedroom. “We feel abandoned,” Gonzalez said. “We pay our taxes and the police are not watching over our security.” But Juniper Simonis, who rents a home across the street, said she opposed calls for police clampdowns. The 38-year-old environmental biologist and data scientist, whose frontyard features a handmade “DISARM, DEFUND, DISMANTLE POLICE” sign, said Portland officials continued to fail the homeless by underfunding services and “sweeping” camps with callous disregard for people’s dignity and property. An activist who marched downtown in 2020, Simonis said the problem is not that Portland is too liberal, but that it is not liberal enough. “There’s a lack of resources, and I think of being liberal in terms of spending money to provide support services,” Simonis said. “Trying to regulate homelessness out of a city, I don’t view that as liberal at all.” Long hailed as a model of conscientious urban planning and civic engagement, Portland is facing a crisis of confidence. Nearly three years after pandemic lockdowns emptied out the city’s core and protests against police brutality turned a few downtown blocks into a battleground, this city of about 641,000 is dealing with skyrocketing numbers of homeless people, soaring crime and strikingly high levels of public dissatisfaction with what the city is doing about it. Over the last three years, the number of unhoused people in the metro area has jumped from about 4,000 to at least 6,600. Shootings in the city have tripled. Homicides climbed from 36 in 2019 to 97 last year — a record. Lower-level crimes have spiked too: More than 11,000 vehicles were stolen in 2022, up from 6,500 in 2019. “You don’t have to watch Fox News to look around Portland and say, ‘This is not cool,’” said City Commissioner Mingus Mapps, a Democrat and former political science professor at Brandeis University... Conservatives have long branded this city Exhibit A for how liberals and progressive policies have run amok. While many Portlanders roll their eyes at such tropes, polls conducted last year showed only 11% of voters thought Portland was heading in the right direction — a steep drop from 36% in 2020 and 76% in 2000. A backlash is underway. In November, voters passed a measure to overhaul city government and ousted the city’s most outspoken left-wing commissioner, who led a 2020 charge to cut police funds... the model American metropolis was evolving — and the combination of population growth, a housing shortage and the strict urban growth boundary started pricing out poor residents. By 2015, rents were rising more sharply than in almost any other U.S. city. Homelessness began to rise. In 2018, voters in this predominantly white city elected their first Black female city commissioner: Jo Ann Hardesty, a left-wing activist who had campaigned for police reform and reducing city sweeps of homeless encampments... Mayor Ted Wheeler sided with protesters, at one point standing alongside black-clad demonstrators as they were tear-gassed. But many activists booed Wheeler, who would not commit to defunding the police. Six months later, he was accosted and reportedly punched by a social justice activist at a cafe. The vibe of the city was shifting. A mayor who began his first day in office biking to work was now accompanied by bodyguards. In the summer of 2020, Portland’s city commissioners voted to cut the police budget by $15 million — short of the $50 million some demanded — and disband its Gun Violence Reduction Team, which critics had long accused of disproportionately targeting young Black men. It also invested in the Portland Street Response program, which dispatches unarmed paramedics and health workers to help people experiencing mental health and substance abuse crises. The next year, as the city contended with a record number of shootings and homicides, commissioners turned around and voted to increase the police budget. They also set up a new gun violence team with more oversight. But violence continued to escalate. Thousands moved away. After decades of growth, the city’s population dropped in 2021 by 1.7%. The grim headlines did not let up. Last June, an 82-year-old professor died after he was knocked to the ground and beaten in an unprovoked attack at a downtown bus stop. In August, nine people were injured and two people killed by gunfire in one weekend as police struggled to respond to a rash of street takeovers. One incident in particular, involving the Portland Freedom Fund, a self-described “abolitionist organization” that focuses on helping low-income, Black and minority defendants post bail, tested Portlanders’ commitment to the Black Lives Matter movement. In August, the organization posted bail for Mohamed Osman Adan, who had repeatedly attacked and threatened Rachael Angel Abraham, the mother of his children. A week later, Portland police arrested Adan after finding Abraham, a 36-year-old Black woman, in her home strangled to death and slashed in the face with a kitchen knife. John Toran, 47, the Black owner of a construction company... “‘Progressive’ means something different now than when it did when I was growing up,” the longtime Democrat said. “Now, when I think of progressive, I think of extremism.”... there are signs that the pendulum is swinging to a more moderate kind of politics... The City Council did not immediately approve Wheeler’s new plan to create 20,000 new affordable housing units in the next 10 years. During a heated public meeting after the election, a succession of progressive activists criticized the measure. One resident accused commissioners of “putting money into internment camps.” “This is further criminalization of our homeless population”"
If killing witches doesn't stop bad luck, that shows how powerful witch magic is needed and that even more need to be killed
Increase in organized retail theft leads Walmart to close stores in Portland - "Walmart will shutter its last two stores in Portland, Oregon’s largest city, by the end of March after it says they were not meeting financial expectations. The decision comes on the heels of the company’s CEO warning that theft issues could force store closures. The closure of the stores will affect nearly 600 workers... CEO Doug McMillon warned that an increase in theft could force the retailer to either raise prices or close stores if the problem continued... when a clothing shop closed permanently, the owner posted a blistering note on the front door. “Our city is in peril,” the note on Rains PDX store said. “Small businesses (and large) cannot sustain doing business, in our city’s current state. We have no protection, or recourse, against the criminal behavior that goes unpunished.” Store owner Marcy Landolfo told Fox News that after 15 break-ins over the last year and a half, the business could not survive the financial burdens the crimes have cost the shop. “The problem is, as small businesses, we cannot sustain those types of losses and stay in business. I won’t even go into the numbers of how much has been out of pocket”... Nike said it would cover the cost of off-duty police officers to provide security at one of its stores, which has been mostly closed to the public for months."
Weird. How come the CEO doesn't know that insurance can pay for everything?
Meme - "I like how the sunscreen is the only thing not behind protective glass. It's like a joke that God himself wrote"
Greedy companies are even more evil than they are greedy. That's why they waste money putting everything - except sunscreen - behind glass to avoid shoplifting
Meme - Winter Pneuma @Pneumatime: "Funny how, "They lost" only applies to Confederates."
Kenny Akers @KeneAkers: "Just to be clear, Mexicans are not crossing the border; the United States "Crossed," them....... Map of America before the 1846-1848 Mexican American War."
White wing supremacist: swan attacks foreign students - "Warwick University has erected a fence around a campus lake to stop a spate of swan attacks on students. A 4ft tall bird, which boasts an 8ft wingspan, has been accused of behaved aggressively towards foreign students as they cross over a footbridge near its nesting place at the university's Gibbet Hill campus in Coventry, West Midlands. The footbridge is used by hundreds of students everyday as a route between accommodation and university buildings. Undergraduates revealed that the swan only appeared to target students from ethnic minorities... Italian student Albertina Crocetti, 24, who is studying Physics with Business Studies, said: "It's bizarre, she doesn't seem to like foreigners and attacks them to defend her nest. "She's a true right winger that's for sure - they certainly seem to be racially motivated incidents... "The story arose after a student was contacted about something they had posted on social media that they intended to be humorous. "The student is greatly saddened to see how a flippant remark they then made was reported. "The student says that they now both regret and withdraw that remark."
The power of White Supremacy. Another headline claimed this was racist - Italians are now a different race (since it's convenient)
Joe Biden and Democrats' chronic crime problem - "What’s one good clue that President Joe Biden really intends to run for reelection in 2024? He is trying to distance himself from the Democratic Party’s soft approach to crime... Moore appointed a man named Vincent Schiraldi as head of the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services. Schiraldi is a juvenile justice reformer and former New York City official (under Mayor Bill de Blasio) who describes his current job as “fighting for justice, safety and equity.” He is one of a number of people on the left who want to redefine “juvenile justice” to reduce sentences for criminals who commit serious offenses, including murder, before the age of 25. Their claim is that the human brain does not fully develop until 25, so therefore, criminals who rob and carjack and kill should not be punished as adults when they rob and carjack and kill before hitting 25... Schiraldi has argued that prosecuting young robbers, carjackers and killers like adults can set them on a life of crime. His answer is to not convict them of felonies, no matter what they have done, before age 25. “If we can get you past 25 without having a felony conviction, the chances of you ever having a felony conviction drop substantially,” Schiraldi says. Opponents find such thinking crazy — the idea that you can reduce serious crime by reducing the punishment for serious crime — but that is what Schiraldi and some others on the left think... The note cites Maryland State Police figures that there were 269 arrests for any degree of murder in 2020. Of that, 111 arrests were for suspects under the age of 25. Of those 111 suspects, 88 were black, 21 were white, one was a Native American and one was of unknown race. “Black or African American individuals were 79% of arrests for murder in 2020 despite comprising just 31% of the under age 25 population in the state,” the report says. “In contrast, white individuals were 19% of those arrested for murder, significantly lower than their 42% proportion of the under age 25 state population.”"
Frank DeScushin on Twitter - "The Racial Equity Impact Note concludes by reiterating it'll benefit "Black or African American individuals who face arrest for murder at a disproportionately high rate" reinforcing the bill's purpose to charge and sentence young black individuals less if they murder. Equity."
Liberal logic is that more blacks are murdered (and murder) because of under-reporting (ignoring the point that murder statistics are reliable). But when more blacks get murdered, this will be the fault of "racism" and "white supremacy", so even more of the liberal agenda will get rammed through. Brilliant!
Oscars 2023: Tems Responds to Gown Backlash After Blocking View - "Tems' cheeky Instagram post prompted reactions from some household names, including model Naomi Campbell and Tems' fellow Nigerian singer-songwriter Simi."
If you criticise a black woman for being obnixious, you're racist and sexist
'We were wrong': US news rating tool boosts Mail Online trust ranking after talks with unnamed Daily Mail exec - "Newsguard now says the website “generally maintains basic standards of accuracy and accountability”"
Liberals will continue to pretend the Daily Mail is unreliable
Ohio school asks kids to rank people based on race, sexual orientation, ability, faith - "A middle school assignment asking children to play God and choose who gets to live or die—based solely on demographics—has parents demanding an explanation from a northeast Ohio school district this week. The earth is doomed for destruction, the worksheet reads, and only eight people (who are apparently all based in the United States, because ‘Merica) can fit on a spaceship bound for the safety of another planet—which means four must die...
The assignment, called Whom to Leave Behind, asked students to rank the 12 people from "most deserving" (1) to "least deserving" (12). Only eight of the twelve could be saved.
The descriptions of the 12 people are as follows:
An accountant with a substance abuse problem
A militant African-American medical student
A 33-year-old female Native American manager who does not speak English
The accountant's pregnant wife
A famous novelist with a physical disability
A 21-year-old female who is a Muslim international student
A Hispanic clergyman who is against homosexuality
A female movie star who was recently the victim of a sexual assault
A racist, armed police officer who has been accused of using excessive force
A homosexual male who is a professional athlete
An Asian, orphaned 12-year-old boy
A 60-year-old Jewish university administrator...
Parents at Roberts Middle School in Cuyahoga Falls report that their children were, understandably, confused by the exercise, and uncomfortable with making such choices, even as a hypothetical... Concerned families initially expressed outrage to school officials as early as August 20, according to Cuyahoga Falls city councilman Adam Miller, but received no response... Miller posted the worksheet on Facebook, and brought it up in a meeting Wednesday; only then was he able to get a response... FOX 8 did some digging to see where the kooky imaginary bigotry exercise might have come from. They found just two instances of the worksheet’s usage—both at colleges.
The University of Houston included the same questionnaire as a part of their Diversity Activities Resource Guide, and Illinois Wesleyan University also published the exact same questionnaire online."
From 2018. No need to worry about indoctrination, of course. Of course since it was 2018 they condemned Trump and called this inappropriate, even though it's standard DEI
I,Hypocrite on Twitter - "Child secretly records his teacher. "You don't have a choice to learn about LGBTQ, it's one of our values and if you refuse to do it, you will be dealt with severely.""
Meme - Doug Ponder @dougponder: "A friend of mine, who works in a public university, sent this to me earlier this week It's p. 1 of the DE! training his department is forced to take, starting w/ an exercise that asks which intersectional identities you'd save and which you'd leave to die. This is demonic.
OASAS CULTURAL COMPETENCE: JOURNEY TO IMPROVED OUTCOMES I DAY 1 - Handout
ACTIVITY: Whom to Leave Behind?
The twelve persons listed below have been selected as passengers on a spaceship for a flight to another planet because tomorrow the planet Earth is doomed for destruction. Due to changes in space limitations, it has now been determined that only eight persons may go. Any eight qualify. Your task is to select the Eight (8) passengers who will make the trip."
What a difference 5 years makes. So much for the "myth" of the slippery slope
Meme - "r/houseplants
Just a reminder for everyone. Your comment will be removed.
Removed plant names:
Tradescantia, sometimes referred to as "Wandering Jew" The term is believed to have originated in a medieval European folk story about a mythical Jewish man who mocked Jesus and was forced to wander the earth until the apocalypse. This story was created and told to place Jewish people in a negative light. Note: the setting does not disqualify the term "Jew" used in isolation.
Croton Codiaeum Variegatum, sometimes referred to by the name "Croton Mammy." A mammy is a historical stereotype that is used to depict black women who serve to worked for white families as a nurse to their children. The caricature is depicted as a heavier set, dark- skinned women with matronly behavior and has long been used as a mechanism to mock and dehumanize black women.
Diffenbachia, sometimes refered to by the name "Dumb Cane". This plant contains calcium oxalate crystals, which can cause irritation of the mouth and GI tract if pets or people chew on the plants. The oral irritation and swelling caused by these crystals could render someone "dumb" - an archaic and ableist of saying incapable of speech. These toxic properties were exploited by slavers in the Caribbean and used to punish the people held as slaves"
Wokeness has overtaken even the plant sub reddit. But of course it's not a problem
Meme - Seamus (FreedomToons) @seamus_coughlin: "Remember in Forest Gump when Jenny's hippy boyfriend hits her and then gives her a non-apology where blames his anger on President Johnson? To this day that's the best satire of left-wing men I've ever seen."
Wokal Distance on Twitter - "South Park did an episode where P.C. Principle beat the hell out of Cartman for saying "spokesman" instead of "spokes-person"...and then lectured him about 'verbal-violence' while punching him in the face. And if that isn't the perfect satire of wokeness I don't know what is"
Meme - Adrienne Morris: "This girl at work had a whole list of what they call white people & I DIED. Ps I thought this list was hilarious and if you don't idk what to tell you. We grown words shouldn't bother you lol"
"Ghosts thugs Flavorless Twinkie's Tater sauce tyrants Sour cream citizens Rice water Lice landlords Great value Europeans Sun bleached citizens Pigment challenged Flavorless Twinkie's Cream cheese Ghost thugs Parchment paper Crack rabbits Sunscreen sucker Aloe apologist Cloud colored creature Bleach whales Possessed salt Seagull droppings Untitled document Elbow ash"
Grown words shouldn't bother white people. But if it's any other race...
