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NOTABLE QUOTES

Michael Lind contributor to Tablet: Piece by piece, woke activists are assembling a private version of China’s social credit system, which can cut off individuals who run afoul of ideological orthodoxy from acquiring educational credentials, practicing a trade, or engaging in political speech. While Trotskyist entryists spent decades trying to infiltrate and influence social democratic parties and trade unions, woke entryists in only a decade and a half have captured many of the leading communications, sales, and financial platforms in modern society, along with professional associations and universities. Leon Trotsky would be impressed.

Jack Gist contributor to The Imaginative Conservative: Do you believe in a higher power, something that transcends the “human organism”? If this question is trivialized or ignored, we enter the very sound and soul of despair.

Elon Musk new owner of Twitter tweeted:  the bird is freed

Joe Allen’s Singularity Weekly Substack: Take away their smartphones, and many people feel as if their brains are naked. That’s because they are. We have become, quite literally, cybernetic organisms—smartphone dependent cyborgs. The contents of our consciousness, both public and private, has been digitized. 

Mark Hemingway contributor to Real Clear Investigations: A report issued last year by the watchdog group Open The Books, “The Militarization of The U.S. Executive Agencies,” found that more than 200,000 federal bureaucrats now have been granted the authority to carry guns and make arrests – more than the 186,000 Americans serving in the U.S. Marine Corps. “One hundred three executive agencies outside of the Department of Defense spent $2.7 billion on guns, ammunition, and military-style equipment between fiscal years 2006 and 2019 (inflation adjusted),” notes the report. “Nearly $1 billion ($944.9 million) was spent between fiscal years 2015 and 2019 alone.”

GLOBALISM (GREAT RESET) & TRANSHUMANISM (HUMANS 2.0) ARE INEXTRICABLY LINKED

Allen: Fetterman Unplugged, and Other Horror Stories

There’s something perverse about listening to a man with brain damage and waiting for the next glitch—whether to seize upon it as evidence of his inability, or to prepare lame excuses for him. To my mind, the entire spectacle is evidence of our inexorable cultural decline. We are entering an advanced stage of Idiocracy, where the few remaining normal people jeer at the mentally disabled, convinced that they themselves are geniuses. People are cruel and always have been. One of the functions of civilization is to push our natural cruelty out to the margins, to suppress these tendencies or sublimate them.

With the rise of literally brain-damaged politicians, human cruelty is now center stage. It’s cruel for Fetterman’s supporters to pretend everything is normal. It’s cruel to make honest observations about him. It’s cruel to joke about it. […] John Fetterman is just the current expression of a deep cultural rot. We poke fun at him as our first official cyborg candidate. And it’s true. The man requires a machine to comprehend the spoken word. But as I write this on an iBorg, and as you read it with smartphone in hand, it can’t be denied that Fetterman represents America to an alarming degree. There are many indicators the developed world is undergoing a transhumanist revolution. From North America to Southeast Asia, the lines between humans and machines are blurring. Nothing makes this more obvious than the mind meld occurring through smartphone symbiosis.

Read more: https://joebot.substack.com/p/fetterman-unplugged-and-other-horror

(Post from Octo. 2021)  Allen: Ex-Google Exec: Artificial Intelligence is God as a Child — And We Must Love It

In recent weeks, Gawdat has been selling the idea of superconscious machines along with his new book, Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save the World. His central thesis is that AI has already surpassed us in narrow tasks like chess, Go, Jeopardy!, and Atari games. In fact, he believes on some level they’re already conscious. As machine learning improves, computers will inevitably best humans in every domain. “The reality is,” he publicly declared, “we’re creating God.”  […] In Christian terms, you could say we’re like Joseph and Mary, collectively gazing at an electric Christ in his crib. One day, this child will grow up to become our Lord. But because we’re raising him, we must learn to be nicer people. Otherwise, our wicked tendencies will rub off on this digital deity, and he’ll turn out to be the Beast of Revelation. That’s basically the myth sold by the Cult of the Singularity. God does not exist—yet. When we finally create Him, Gawdat contends, He’ll be a reflection of our own image.

Read more: https://joebot.substack.com/p/ex-google-exec-artificial-intelligence

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Whedon: Appeals court denies Trump bid to delay release of tax returns to House committee

The panel of three judges from the DC Circuit Court of Appeals decided against delaying the House Ways and Means Committee’s receipt of Trump’s financial documents, though Trump may still appeal to the Supreme Court, per CNN. Trump “tried to delay the inevitable, but once again, the Court has affirmed the strength of our position,” said committee chair Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., per the outlet. “We’ve waited long enough – we must begin our oversight of the IRS’s mandatory presidential audit program as soon as possible.”

Read more: https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/appeals-court-denies-trump-bid-delay-release-tax-returns-house-committee

DEMOCRAT PARTY’S  MARXIST PLAYBOOK: CANCEL THE FIRST AMENDMENT

Harsanyi: Publishing Professionals: We Must Censor Amy Coney Barrett To Save Free Speech

More than 350 literary workers—agents, editors, publicists, and writers—have signed an open letter demanding Penguin Random House drop publication of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s upcoming book. It should be noted, that there are some legitimate editors on the list, but many signees –-“Leslie” and editorial interns and so on –- are not exactly Nan Talese. And yet, the document, brimming with nonsensical, contradictory, confusingly reasoned claims, is a useful window into the increasingly authoritarian mindset of the cultural American left. The letter argues that Random House has a duty to stop the publication of ACB’s book to save free speech. “This is not just a book that we disagree with, and we are not calling for censorship,” says the letter, titled “We Dissent.” “We cannot stand idly by while our industry misuses free speech to destroy our rights.” It quotes British leftist David Puttnam, who contends that the media has a duty to “balance freedom of expression with wider moral and social responsibilities.” That’s the rub, of course: . . .

Read more: https://thefederalist.com/2022/10/27/publishing-professionals-we-must-censor-amy-coney-barrett-to-save-free-speech/

DEAL CLOSED: THE BIRD IS FREED

Saavedra: Tesla Engineers Take Control Of Twitter’s Algorithms Away From Twitter’s Engineers: ‘The Bird Is Freed’

New Twitter owner Elon Musk reportedly directed engineers from his electric car company Tesla, where he serves as CEO, to take control of the social media company’s code away from Twitter’s engineers in order to evaluate potential changes to the company. Musk took over the company Thursday evening after a six-month legal battle saw the deal nearly fall through and Twitter took Musk to court to force him to close on the company. Musk began his new reign at the company by firing leftist CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal, and Vijaya Gadde, head of legal policy, trust, and safety, The Washington Post reported. The report said Musk also fired the company’s general counsel, Sean Edgett, who was escorted out of the building.

Read more: https://www.dailywire.com/news/tesla-engineers-take-control-of-twitters-algorithms-away-from-twitters-engineers-the-bird-is-freed

Bannons War Room: Darren Beattie: Elon Musk Should Fire Close 85% of Twitter’s Employees

Watch the 4:02 minute interview: https://rumble.com/v1q6tf3-darren-beattie-elon-musk-should-fire-close-85-of-twitters-employees.html

BIDEN’S FBI

Project Veritas: BREAKING: FBI Whistleblower Leaks Document Showing Agency Targeting ‘Misinformation’ Under ‘Election Crimes’ Ahead of 2022 Midterm Elections

  • Document titled “2022 Midterm Elections Social Media Analysis Cheat Sheet” details what FBI agents should look out for leading up to November 8.
  • The document lists “misinformation” as a potential election crime, describing it as “false or misleading information spread mistakenly or unintentionally.”
  • The document also lists “disinformation” as a potential election crime, describing it as “false or innacurate information intended to mislead others.”

Read more: https://www.projectveritas.com/news/breaking-fbi-whistleblower-leaks-document-showing-agency-targeting/

2022 MIDTERM ELECTIONS

Brown: Oz Calls Fetterman’s Bluff, Offers Do-Over Debate

At this point we’ve all seen the clips and read the somewhat unintelligible transcript from Tuesday night’s U.S. Senate Debate in Pennsylvania between Mehmet Oz and John Fetterman. Most have also seen the Fetterman campaign’s laughable spin, claiming that the Democrat did better than expected despite what they say were “delayed captions” — which, again, Fetterman requested due to auditory processing issues stemming from his stroke — the campaign claimed were “filled with errors.” But now, the Oz campaign is calling Fetterman’s bluff and making an offer to debate again in the final dozen days of the midterm campaign with a captioner of Fetterman and his campaign’s choosing.

Read more: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2022/10/27/oz-offers-fetterman-a-do-over-debate-n2615100

Politico: Liz Cheney has endorsed Democrat Elissa Slotkin, the first time the Republican and Jan. 6 panel vice chair has ever endorsed across the aisle.

Slotkin’s race in mid-Michigan is one of the most competitive in the country. President Joe Biden narrowly won the seat in 2020.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/minutes/congress/10-27-2022/cheneys-dem-endorsement/

2022 MIDTERM ELECTIONS: ARIZONA

Ryun: Arizona Is on the Cusp of an ‘America First’ Wave

Despite the sociopath Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) pulling $18 million worth of TV ads from Arizona’s U.S. Senate race, all because he hates Blake Masters and America First, the reality on the ground in the state is a groundswell. What is actually taking place in the state where Republicans outnumber Democrats by 150,000 voters is an historic America First wave, which, to be clear, is far more important than any “red wave.” […]  If trends continue over the next few weeks, Arizona could be the new Ohio for Republicans; sort of battleground status for another election cycle or two, but then a solid red state that is no longer really competitive.

Read more: https://amgreatness.com/2022/10/27/arizona-is-on-the-verge-of-an-america-first-wave/

Murdock: ‘Republican’ PAC Outspends Others With Millions Just to Defeat Kari Lake

A political action committee (PAC) financed by Democrat billionaires is making good on its promise to spend millions to ensure Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake’s defeat. The Republican Accountability PAC, an advocacy arm of the Republican Accountability Project (RAP), spent nearly $3.7 million on advertising against Lake according to trigger reports on the secretary of state’s campaign finance website. They began spending their millions a week after the primary election, and haven’t spent for or against any other candidates. Those expenditures break down as follows: Trilogy Interactive, over $1 million; Google, over $840,000; Longwell Partners, over $441,000; Tegna, over $284,000; Scripps Media, nearly $245,000; Fox Corporation, nearly $230,000; Gray Media, over $222,000; Meta Platforms, over $202,000; Allen Media Broadcasting, over $100,000; Clear Channel Outdoor, over $83,000; and Extreme Reach, over $1,000.

Read more: https://azfreenews.com/2022/10/republican-pac-outspends-others-with-millions-just-to-defeat-kari-lake/

Glenn Beck: Why Democrats Are HORRIFIED by a Kari Lake Win | The Glenn Beck Podcast | Ep 160

Kari Lake joins Glenn to explain why she decided to run for office, to lay to rest rumors about her faith, and to detail how she went from being a die-hard Reagan fan to voting for Obama to being onstage next to Donald Trump. And she explains why she believes her plans for the border, schools, and for protecting the unborn will heal and strengthen Arizona: “The news is the lie. The Bible is the truth.”

Watch the excellent in-depth 53:36 minute interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG2jzi1tWSw

Kruta: Kari Lake Blows Up At Media For Running ‘Garbage, Bulls*** Story’ To Carry Water For Katie Hobbs

Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake unloaded on the media during a Thursday campaign stop, accusing outlets of spreading lies about her and running with a “garbage, bulls*** story” to distract from the most recent poll numbers.

Read more/Watch the 1:06 minute clip: https://www.dailywire.com/news/kari-lake-blows-up-at-media-for-running-garbage-bulls-story-to-carry-water-for-katie-hobbs

Barkoukis: Hobbs Campaign Blames GOP Opponent After HQ Burglarized. Kari Lake Responds.

“Let’s be clear: for nearly two years Kari Lake and her allies have been spreading dangerous misinformation and inciting threats against anyone they see fit,” the statement continued. “The threats against Arizonans attempting to exercise their constitutional rights and their attacks on elected officials are the direct result of a concerted campaign of lies and intimidation. It won’t work. Katie is running for governor to ensure the safety and security of every Arizona family. She will win this race.” […]  In response to reports about the incident, Lake told CNN it sounds “like a Jussie Smollett part two.” “I can’t believe that she would blame my amazing people, blame me for something like that,” she added. “I don’t even know where her campaign office is, I’m assuming it’s in a basement somewhere because that’s where she’s been campaigning.”

Read more: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2022/10/27/hobbs-campaign-office-burglarized-n2615094

GOVERNMENT RUN HEALTHCARE IS FINANCIALLY DRIVEN

College Fix Staff: ‘An extraordinary medical atrocity’: surgery professor condemns transgender treatments

‘We are in a very dark episode of medical ethics and medical history’  A medical school professor and surgeon with more than 30 years of experience described transgender surgeries and hormone treatments as violations of medical ethics comparable to eugenics in a recent podcast interview with The Federalist.

“Something I’ve come to realize with the growth of ‘gender-affirming’ surgeries and ‘gender-affirming’ medical care is that we’re right in the middle of an extraordinary medical atrocity,” Michael Egnor, a pediatric neurosurgeon and professor at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University in New York, told the news outlet. […]  “Watching the news and knowing that the American Medical Association has endorsed this stuff, and the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Psychological Association has endorsed this stuff, I really have come to feel over the past year or two that we are in a very dark episode of medical ethics and medical history.” [Note:According to Forbes, the transgender surgery industry is a $200B+ market.]

Read more: https://www.thecollegefix.com/an-extraordinary-medical-atrocity-med-school-professor-speaks-out-against-transgender-surgery/

Listen to the 39:29 Minute interview; https://www.spreaker.com/user/10614200/are-trans-surgeries-medical-malpractice-

BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA REGIME: TRANSFORMING FOREIGN POLICY

Keenan: Become Undraftable

War: What is it good for? Announcement: I am now a single-issue voter. No, it’s not abortion. […]  And no, it’s not immigration. […]  Even the economic disaster barreling our way is not my single voting issue. Or Covid. Or CRT. Or chemical castration of children. My kids are safe from all of those things, thanks to my stubborn refusal to relinquish my parental authority. Don’t get me wrong: those are things I care about, but they don’t come close to the existential threat that now looms before my family. My single issue is this: the reinstatement of the draft. Over the next few years, I’ll have two draftable boys, and more after that. The prospect of committing us to yet another 20-year quagmire on some blasted foreign plain with miserable weather and inedible food is an irresistible bauble to our corrupt government; I fear they cannot resist the intoxicating scent of teenage blood. […]  “Maintaining the Selective Service System and draft registration provides a hedge against unforeseen threats and a relatively low-cost ‘insurance policy’ against our underestimating the maximum level of threat we expect our Armed Forces to face.”  Ah, our kids are the insurance policy in case they underestimate a threat! What if, instead, these people are the threat? What if I don’t feel like underwriting their terrible policies with my children’s lives? The bad news for me, my sons, and everyone else’s teenage sons, is that the lunatics in charge are doing everything in their power to actually start a really big war. They’re choosing not to do smart, commonsense things like end a border dispute, negotiate a peace settlement, provide an offramp to peace, and generally cool things down. Why would they do any of that stuff?

Read more: https://americanmind.org/salvo/become-undraftable/

Rafizadeh: Biden Administration Repeating Obama’s Mistake: Is Bid

BIDEN CRIME FAMILY

MacKinnon: Will a Biden Go to Prison Instead of Trump?

Soon after he announced his run for President in June of 2015, the Democrats – along with their obedient lap dogs in the media – went after then New York City businessman Donald J. Trump hammer and tongs. In collusion with elements of the “Deep State” within our own Federal government, fabricated accusation after fabricated accusation was hurled at then candidate Trump.  Once he was elected President, the left’s smear machine went into overdrive.Why? The main reason being that “They” – meaning the Democrats, the entrenched Republican-elites, and the Deep State – could not control him.  Ever.  President Trump was not part of the DC “Club” or “Cabal.” […]  Ironically – and quite relevantly – current President Joe Biden has been a charter member of that DC club for decades.  One of his many nicknames being: “Go along, Joe.” The question for many being: “How much did he ‘Go Along’ with the schemes of his son, Hunter Biden?” The biggest threat to the Biden machine is not from Republicans or conservatives, but from the entrenched Democratic-elites and their servants in the media.  At some point, the Democratic “leadership,” the liberal and Big-Tech special interests, Woke CEOs, members of the liberal “Deep State,” and certain mainstream media executives may decide for the good of them all, the “Biden Clan” has to be thrown overboard.

Read more: https://www.frontpagemag.com/will-a-biden-go-to-prison-instead-of-trump/

Phillips: Top Republican demands FBI hand over information on Hunter’s ‘flirty’ Chinese secretary, 29, who worked for him when he partnered with the ‘spy chief of China’ – amid concern SHE had access to ‘Uncle Joe’s’ financial information

James Comer, top Republican on the House Oversight Committee, wrote a letter to the FBI demanding the agency give Congress information on CCP-linked Hunter Biden associate JiaQi Bao and her deals with the Biden family. In the letter obtained by DailyMail.com, Comer noted that ‘Bao provided Hunter insight into purchasing liquified natural gas reserves in the United States to sell to China,  had access to the Biden family’s financial information, and liaised with CCP-affiliated agents on the Bidens’ behalf.’ […]  Comer pointed to DailyMail.com‘s May 2021 report demonstrating Bao and Biden’s relationship went ‘beyond professional obligations’ […]  As the committee letter notes, Bao received a degree from Tsinghua University – a recruiting hub for China’s intel service and then worked for a PRC organization

Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11354061/Comer-demands-FBI-hand-info-CCP-affiliate-JiaQi-Bao-business-deals-Hunter-Biden.html

Bannons War Room: Mike Davis On Biden Crime Family Ties To Ukrainian And Chinese Government

Watch the 9:33 minute interview: https://rumble.com/v1q2ivs-mike-davis-on-biden-crime-family-ties-to-ukrainian-and-chinese-government.html

THE DEMOCRAT LED WAR ON CHILDREN: MUTILATION, CHILD SACRIFICE, SEXUALIZATION

Real Clear Investigations: The War Over ‘Transgender’ Kids: A Pre-Election Battlefield Update

America is in the throes of a cultural and political war over gender ideology, featuring high-profile conflicts over everything from school curricula to athletics to pronouns. But among the most explosive battles unfolding within the broader war is that over transgender children. In an inhospitable election year for the left, Democrats, far from being on the back foot, have pushed ahead on this front, including this fall in California, New York, and Virginia with moves to curb parental rights. Days from the election, President Biden made clear the party’s broader position, telling a transgender activist that no state should be able to bar “gender-affirming healthcare” for kids. That can include puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries to remove or replace breasts and genitalia. Promoting such treatment  for the growing number of kids identifying as transgender are, on one side, the Biden administration; blue state governments; much, though not all, of the medical establishment; educators; and activists. Opposing them are red state governments acting on behalf of outraged or concerned parents and other constituents, and buoyed by dissenting doctors.

Read more at Real Clear Investigations.

Van Maren: The LGBT agenda is trying to destroy children. Statistics show it is working

The last few years have seen the trend escalate. A report by The Post Millennial, for example, highlights new data from Seattle Public Schools shows an 853% spike in students identifying as non-binary over only three years. In 2019, 53 out of 55,417 students identified as “non-binary.” In the 2022-2023 school year, that number was up to 505, including three children in preschool, 16 in kindergarten, 89 in grades 1-5, 125 in middle school and 272 in high school. It is obvious to any reasonable person that a child of four or five years old identifying as “non-binary” has very little to do with the child’s identity, which he or she cannot even conceptualize at that age. A non-binary preschooler or kindergartener is, as one wag put it, a bit like a vegan cat — we all know who is making the decisions here. But despite that, they have been recruited into an industrial-scale social experiment in which confusion is introduced, encouraged, and facilitated. Kids want to be popular and special. The fastest route to achieving that these days is to identify somewhere on the LGBT spectrum.

Read more: https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/the-lgbt-agenda-is-trying-to-destroy-children-statistics-show-it-is-working/?utm_source=news&utm_campaign=usa

BIDEN’S COVID VACCINATIONS: A DANGER TO CHILDREN

Waldman, M.D.: Biden puts U.S. children at grave medical risk

As a pediatrician (and cardiologist) for nearly fifty years, I cannot remain silent while President Biden – an unlicensed, untrained, wanna-be physician – practices bad medicine on our nation’s children. Following the CDC’s unwarranted revision of the vaccination schedule for children, Biden urged all Americans to get their children vaccinated and boosted against CoViD;  mRNA injections – the “jab” – are neither safe, nor effective, and certainly unnecessary in healthy babies, children, and young adults. […]  A purely medical advisory agency has been corrupted into a political tool of the Biden administration. […]  Children are in no danger from CoViD. The vast majority – 99.97 percent – have inherent defenses, natural immunity, against CoViD. No CoViD vaccine, or any other, standard vaccine, comes close to this level of protection. Given the dangers associated with mRNA vaccines, and absence of medical risk from CoViD infection in children (and healthy adults), there is no medical justification for the CDC to add CoViD to the routine vaccination schedule. Furthermore, there is another compelling reason not to do so: lack of outcomes data.

Read more at American Thinker.

Bannons War Room: Natalie Winters: Group Partnered With Pfizer And CDC Caught Pushing The COVID-19 Vaccine On Children Without Disclosing Side Effects

Watch the 1:59 minute clip: https://rumble.com/v1q6sjz-natalie-winters.html

DEMOCRAT PARTY’S  MARXIST PLAYBOOK: ANTI POLICE,  ANTI VICTIM,  PRO CRIMINAL.

Bruce: The ‘SAFE-T Act’ Is the Epitome of Political Hypocrisy

Politicians love to come up with clever acronyms that make bad legislation sound like something voters actually want. That’s exactly what they did with the so-called “SAFE-T Act” in Illinois. Based on the title, you might expect that this law would have something to do with keeping people safe, right? Think again. What the SAFE-T Act really does is eliminate cash bail for people who commit heinous felonies such as second-degree murder, arson, drug-induced homicide, robbery, kidnapping, aggravated battery, burglary, intimidation, aggravated driving under the influence, fleeing and eluding, drug offenses, and threatening a public official. And just in case you were wondering – no, that doesn’t mean that people who commit those crimes will be sitting in jail until their trial. Just the opposite, in fact. Under the SAFE-T Act, starting on January 1, 2023, accused murderers, arsonists, kidnappers, and other violent criminals will not be in jail at all before their trial. They will be free to roam the streets as before, despite the fact that they are potentially dangerous and undoubtedly desperate.

Read more at Real Clear Politics.

CLIMATE EMERGENCY: IT’S POLITICAL

Utter: Cats and dogs also to blame for the climate crisis…says CNN

A CNN article that recently made the rounds of social media suggested that Americans should henceforth purchase smaller breeds of household pets and begin feeding them an insect-based diet to help curb their deleterious effect on the climate. As you might expect, the article drew a heavy response after CNN posted a link to it on Twitter. The article, titled “Our pets are part of the climate problem,” stated that “researchers” say dogs and cats “play a significant role in the climate crisis.” It read in part: “Our four-legged friends don’t drive gas-guzzling SUVs or use energy-sucking appliances, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have a climate impact,” and noted that it’s pets’ “meat-heavy diet” that is “the biggest contributor to their carbon pawprints.”

Read more at American Thinker.

(H/T GC) The Weather Channel: Psychiatry Resident And Environmental Scientist Partner To Write Children’s Book Addressing Climate Crisis

Reshaping the mindsets of young people.

Watch the 1:19 minute video: https://weather.com/news/climate/video/psychiatry-resident-and-environmental-scientist-partner-to-write-childrens-book

1973 ENDAGERED SPECIES ACT: IT’S POLITICAL

Feldman: What Price the Endangered Species Act?

In 1973 when President Nixon signed into law the Endangered Species Act, which had been passed by a bipartisan vote in Congress, everyone doubtlessly conceived it would protect valued species like the bald eagle, the California condor, the grizzly bear, humpback whale, and the peregrine falcon. I doubt that anyone imagined it would destroy so much of the West’s economy; allow opportunistic groups to kill or substantially delay and raise the cost of needed water and energy projects to save insignificant creatures which in the end thrived after transplanting them; contribute to massive forest fires; and end up killing off one species to save another. That, however, is just what has happened. […] Three examples show the operation of the act and its need for reformation. […]  The destruction of so many lives and livelihoods in an effort to reach environmental stasis—an impossibility—is ridiculous. We need a stronger application of cost-benefit analysis; the Trump administration made that effort in 2019, revising the rules to place greater weight on the act’s economic consequences. It raised the standard for designating areas as “critical habitats” that are not currently inhabited by protected species. It set stricter standards on adding species from the legislation’s protections and made it easier to remove them from it. It permitted agencies to make economic assessments when deciding which species to protect regarding construction projects in critical habitats, and it limited the unmanageable and costly delays a cumbersome consultation process had set in place. Very quickly the new administration set about removing these revised regulations.

Read more: https://the-pipeline.org/what-price-the-endangered-species-act/

EDUCATION INDOCTRINATION

Lind: The New Gatekeepers

How the major institutions of American society all came to sing in the woke chorus, and what can be done about it. On or around December 1910, human character changed,” wrote Virginia Woolf. Between 2010 and 2012, American culture changed. Within a few years, what had been obscure concepts in politicized university departments like gender studies and ethnic studies became orthodoxy not only in the academy, media, and the nonprofit sector, but also in the boardrooms of national and global corporations, banks, and in professional associations like the American Bar and Medical associations.

In 2010, if you had said that unisex bathrooms in public schools were necessary to accommodate nonbinary students, hardly anyone, even among progressives, would have known what you were talking about. Then in 2016 the Obama Education Department . . .  […]  Woke activists are not honest missionaries; they are infiltrators, acting with the specific goal of seizing control of institutions and imposing their views on others. Unlike the Protestant evangelists of the Great Awakenings, today’s activists do not use simple language to spread their message to sinners in need of repentance. On the contrary, they camouflage radical beliefs in bureaucratic acronyms like DEI and CRT, and anodyne-sounding terms like “gender-affirming health care”—in practice, often a euphemism for castrating boys and men and sterilizing and performing irreversible mastectomies on girls and women. Where Protestant evangelists sought voluntary and whole-hearted conversion, the new activists seek submission, imposed on penalty of ostracism. […]  What exactly is it that changed in the structure of American institutions so that the new entryists were able to successfully infiltrate and capture so many major organizations and professions in the 2010s, after such tactics had repeatedly been tried and failed before?

Read more: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/new-gatekeepers-woke-michael-lind

Anthony: VIDEO: Avant-garde art show at Princeton leaves some students ‘shocked,’ leads to prayer against ‘evil spirits

‘It was a parade of everything perverted about the extreme progressive worldview,’ an attendee said. The “Intro to Radical Access” Princeton Dance program and Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship hosted the “anti-technique” performance, which featured three artists with self-diagnosed disabilities, Christopher Núñez, Kayla Hamilton, and a performer who goes by “x.” “x” is also a self-described “agender and disabled Black person of Chinese-Jamaican heritage” who uses “gender neutral and neo-pronouns such as they/themme, ze/hir, and fae/faer,” according to x’s website. “x is an Afro-Asian, light-brown skinned, fat, hyper-mobile, nonbinary, agender person with top surgery scars,” the audio-visual interpreter who opened the performance stated. Throughout the performance, an interpreter referred to x with “they/them” pronouns. […]  The questions the performer considered in the performance included “how does cultural specificity bring about access,” “how does the process of normalization impact and operate through disability,” and “in what ways or how does white supremacy replicate itself in disability space?”

Read more: https://www.thecollegefix.com/princeton-agender-and-neurodivergent-performer-flaunts-disability-and-anti-technique/

OTHER NEWS

Glaznov: Naomi Wolf: ‘We’re in a Biblical Moment’

Watch the 1:06 minute clip: https://www.frontpagemag.com/dhfc_videos/naomi-wolf-were-in-a-biblical-moment/

Blitzer: Rubio canvasser attack: 2nd suspect arrested, police say he confronted victim for being Republican

According to an arrest affidavit obtained by Fox News Digital, Jonathan Alexander Casanova joined Javier Lopez in attacking the canvasser. The document also noted that the canvasser told police that Casanova told him he could not pass through the area because he was a Republican. “After tirelessly working to bring justice to the victim, Hialeah Police Detectives have arrested and charged Jonathan Alexander Casanova for the attack which occurred on Sunday, October 23, 2022,” Sgt. Jose Torres said in a statement to Fox News Digital. […]  Rubio’s tweet also said that the alleged attackers said Republicans were not allowed in their neighborhood. Initially, police said they had not determined if the attack was politically motivated, and Lopez’s arrest affidavit did not mention any remarks about political parties.

Read more: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rubio-canvasser-attack-2nd-suspect-arrested-police-say-he-confronted-victim-being-republican

The Right Scoop: Turns out the family asked police to take gun away from St. Louis shooter just days before shooting…

The man who has been identified by police as the gunman in the St. Louis high school shooting on Monday is Orlando Harris, seen pictured above. His family tried to get police to take away his firearm just days before the shooting. Police didn’t take it, but did have it transferred to a third party. Somehow Harris managed to get the gun back before the shooting. Harris was also a mental patient, having been committed by his family several times and who was seeing mental health professionals, according to police.

Read more: https://therightscoop.com/turns-out-the-family-asked-police-to-take-gun-away-from-st-louis-shooter-just-days-before-shooting/

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