May 25, 2021                                             

fromReclaimTheNet: New levels of censorship control, as government merges with powerful corporate media.

fromTheMarshallProject: Police are allowed to use “pain compliance.” But experts say dog bites are too unpredictable and severe. “Just because force doesn’t look good doesn’t mean it’s wrong,” says Yakima Police Chief Matthew Murray. “At the end of the day this worked.”
Police State America                                                              The Government is Not Us

fromNationalInterest: It is customary self-indulgence after a change in power in Washington to predict that the other party is not only defeated, but likely to go extinct. This past election was no exception.

fromReason: The Supreme Court has a chance to fix this. The stakes are high.
Police State America                                                              The Government is Not Us

fromPolitico: Conservative interest in the mayor’s race is primarily about the future of policing, and how it might set the standard for the rest of the country.


May 24, 2021                                             

fromGlennGreenwald/Substack: My responses to The Washington Post's article and Daily Beast's questions about accusations from The Intercept that I have "endangered" their writers.

fromNYPost: Lockdowns did more harm than good on multiple levels. Businesses died, mental-health problems abounded, people missed important “elective” procedures such as cancer screenings with long-term consequences, and many kids effectively missed out on a year of education.

fromReason: California bounds from one crisis to another; most of them being self-imposed.

fromTheFederalist: If you know a man is a man and a woman is a woman, then referring to Jenner in the feminine sense violates your moral compass and prescription to the truth.

fromRutherfordInstitute: It never fails. Just as we get a glimmer of hope that maybe, just maybe, there might be a chance of crawling out of this totalitarian cesspool in which we’ve been mired, we get kicked down again.

fromAmericanGreatness: We who swear to uphold the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic owe no allegiance whatever to the oligarchy that now runs this country.

May 22, 2021                                             

fromAmericanThinker: The Liz Cheney brigade. A comprehensive list of the cancerous forces within the Republican Party that should be targeted for removal in 2022.

fromSpectator: It has become deeply unfashionable to worry about inflation. The downside of vision that does not extend beyond one's nose.

fromTheFederalist: The American Revolution proved a people can not only overthrow an existing regime but establish a free, peaceful, and functional government of their own.

fromNewsweek: Republican lawmakers introduced legislation this week that would federally legalize and regulate marijuana, saying the proposal was necessary to ensure "individual liberty" and protect states' rights.

fromCreators: America has a record 8.1 million job openings. The media call it a "labor shortage." But it's not a labor shortage; it's an incentive shortage.

fromPragerU/YouTube: Seth Dillon is the CEO of The Babylon Bee, where they write satire for a living. You’d think that would be easy in today’s absurd world, but in reality, it’s just the opposite. Seth explains why this endangers the very concept of free speech and the open exchange of ideas.

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