HOW IT BEGINS:
Trans TikToker contemplates converting to Islam and is 'super excited' to learn 'Allah is beyond gender' 𤥠pic.twitter.com/VvkNzy9Crc
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) May 5, 2024
How it ends:
HOW IT BEGINS:
Trans TikToker contemplates converting to Islam and is 'super excited' to learn 'Allah is beyond gender' 𤥠pic.twitter.com/VvkNzy9Crc
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) May 5, 2024
How it ends:
THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: Squad Rep Jamaal Bowmanâs YouTube Page Is a Conspiracy Theoristâs Dream.
Old (internet) habits die hard.
When The Daily Beast revealed in January that Rep. Jamaal Bowman had promoted 9/11 conspiracy theories on his blog while working as a public school principal, the New York Democrat maintained it was just a bygone phase, and that his days of marinating in the nether-swamps of online paranoia were long over. But his personal YouTube account, where he continued to follow new channels and create playlists as recently as last month, indicates his taste for fringe content has endured into his tenure on Capitol Hill.
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Bowman has publicly identified himself in the past as a frequent YouTube user. At a panel discussion held at an Islamic center in the city of Yonkers in January, the Democrat described himself as âstarstruckâ to introduce the incendiary academic Norman Finkelstein, whom he said he knew from online videos.
âI watch them all the time on YouTube,â said Bowman, who subsequently had to denounce Finkelsteinâs praise of Hamasâ bloody raid into Israeli territory on Oct. 7.
Sure enough, several of the pages Inner Peace followsâincluding DiEM25, Real News Network, Free Will, PoliticsJOE, TRT Worldâfeature interviews with Finkelstein.
Moreover, a number of the accounts Bowman has subscribed to are of recent vintage: more recent, even, than his own ascent to power in 2020. For instance, one called Afripostâwhere recent video titles announce âVatican Angry as PUTIN Declares Russia will Only Worship THE BLACK JESUSâ and âAfrican Historian Reveals hidden Secret: God did NOT CREATE WHITE: The Bible is all about BLACKSâ (capitalization original)âwas created in April of last year, just a few months after Bowman started his second term.
Afripost also frequently shares speeches by controversial Nation of Islam minister Louis Farrakhan, known for his antisemitic rhetoric. The most recent such video asserts, falsely, âBLACKS ARE THE TRUE JÂŁWS [sic].â
Flashbacks:
â Three Democrats Attended Private Dinner With Iranâs President And Louis Farrakhan.
â Establishment Media Bury Obama-Farrakhan Photo.
â The deep meaning of Keith Ellison.
Related: The Democrat Partyâs Antisemitism Went Mainstream With Barack Obama.
OLD AND BUSTED: âI Heard You Paint Houses.â
The New Hotness?
EPIC. Case Western Reserve University in Ohio brought a painter to paint over a wall that pro-Palestine protesters vandalized. Some activists tried to stop him and he just painted over them too đ
LEGEND! pic.twitter.com/bAWuBTuF4m
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 8, 2024
WHEN STEREOTYPES FAIL: Study finds little gender difference in the perception of ambient room temperature.
YES. NEXT QUESTION? Did NYC Just Kneecap Airbnb? “I live in Bed-Stuy, too. When my large family visits, they typically stay at an Airbnb townhouse that’s 0.6 miles away from my apartment. I priced out how much they would need to spend for a comparable stay at a decent hotelâputting them two to three miles away, since Bed-Stuy has very few decent hotels â and it was double the price. Many others have chimed in with their personal stories of how short-term rentals have made trips to New York feasible for their families. If every visit becomes twice as expensive, why would anyone come to this rat-infested metropolis?”
WE NEED CONSUMER PROTECTION FOR BLACK-MARKET DRUGS: Counterfeit Oxycontin pills almost always contain fentanyl.
IN THE MAIL: Vows: The Modern Genius of an Ancient Rite.
I’VE BEEN SUGGESTING THIS FOR A WHILE, but GWU lawprof John Banzhaf emails this press release on suing protesters who cause illegal harm and disruption:
llegal protests on university campuses have already triggered a number of legal actions, but so far the lawsuits likely to be most successful, and most effective at strongly discouraging similar criminal activity in the future – class actions brought by as few as one student or faculty member – seem to be overlooked, says a class action expert.
Public interest law professor John Banzhaf – who has been called a “King of Class Action Law Suits,” “a Driving Force Behind the Lawsuits That Have Cost Tobacco Companies Billions of Dollars,” and “The Law Professor Who Masterminded Litigation Against the Tobacco Industry,” points out than even one individual student or faculty member harmed by illegal actions by protestors can bring a class action lawsuit against each and every one of the criminal protestors who can be identified (e.g. by cell phone or video camera recordings, arrest records, etc.).
In addition to the serious financial and other burdens of having to hire lawyers to defend against such suits, and the impact on their future credit ratings, each protestor could be found legally liable for the entire amount of all the damages to all of the thousands of class action plaintiffs under the well-established legal doctrine of joint and several liability, says the law professor, who promoted such lawsuits against the January 6th rioters.
Indeed, it’s a legal tactic even the Wall Street Journal (as well as others) has recommended, even for far less serious crimes such as simply temporarily blocking traffic:
If DAs wonât prosecute, victims can sue for false imprisonment
Such class action lawsuits could be brought for familiar torts (civil damage actions) such as assault and battery, false imprisonment, and tortious interference with existing contractual advantage, as well as less familiar ones such civil conspiracy and prime facie tort, says Banzhaf, who has already inspired such public interest lawsuits.
University protestors seem largely undeterred by actual or threatened arrests since in many cases the typically minor criminal charges are likely to be dropped by the university and/or by sympathetic prosecutors. If not, a tiny criminal fine may be seen as a small price to pay by students striving to achieve a major social goal, argues Banzhaf.
Similarly, many universities are likely not to impose serious – if any – discipline on students who exceeded their rights of free speech and expressive activities by engaging in criminal tortious conduct such as:
â Trespass to land (illegally occupying university property, especially with tents),
â Civil assault and harassment (which need not involve any touching or actual harm),
â Civil battery (even the slightest touching which proves to be harmful or even simply offensive)
â False imprisonment (menacingly surrounding a student or professor, not permitting janitors to leave a building)
â Tortious interference with existing contractual advantage (preventing students from going to classes and/or the library, from taking exams, experiencing graduation, etc.)
A lesser known but very powerful tort action is a civil conspiracy. It allows a plaintiff to seek damages from two or more parties who agree to commit an unlawful act, or to engage in combination even in a lawful act (e.g. hundreds of protestors all telephone or try to withdraw money from their account at the same time to pressure a bank to take some action) and the plaintiff suffers harm (including disruption and/or delay) as a result of that agreement.
Another very powerful legal tool which has been recognized and utilized in many situations is the prime facie tort. It is generally defined as the “infliction of intentional harm, resulting in damages, without excuse or justification, by an act or series of acts which would otherwise be lawful.”
In other words, in addition to all of the other possible civil actions, once a jury found that protestors knew that their actions would harm other students, and that any of the actions (including but not limited to those which violate the law) were not justifiable, it can issue a verdict holding each and every protestor who participated legal liable for all damages to all students who were adversely affected (and therefore make up the “class” in the class action).
Banzhaf notes that his prior articles and other legal analysis inspired civil lawsuits against “cause” lawbreakers, and that similar suits have sometimes led to very large damage awards which shocked the criminal protestors.
Prosecutorial discretion won’t help them here.
Related: Pushback Works: Campus political violence and the moral and practical aspects of resistance.
#RESIST: Prison Guard Resigns After âImmoral, Dangerousâ Trans Policies. “At the peak of his career as a correctional lieutenant inside the California Prison system, Hector Bravo Ferrel couldnât take anymore. Things became dangerous and unethical, he said, after the state passed SB 132, a law that required prison guards to transfer convicts from the menâs prison to the womenâs prisons. The law also allowed male inmates who identify as women to demand they be searchedâin the nudeâby female prison staff. Ferrel walked away from his stable, lucrative career to blow the whistle on âbackwardsâ policies inside the correctional world that he says put female prison staff and inmates at risk.”
Don’t get cocky, kids.
EVERY INSTITUTION HAS BEEN CORRUPTED: Bombshell Evidence Proves That the FBI Staged the Infamous Mar-a-Lago Raid Photo.
FBI spokesman: “Well, we did do the nose. . . . And the hat. But he is a witch!” (Press crowd: “Burn him! Burn him!”)
NO, THEY’RE JUST ON THE OTHER SIDE: THE CAMPUS INTIFADAS ARE NOT ANTI-WAR PROTESTS.
Related:
Pro-Palestine protesters just vandalized a memorial for WWI soldiers and burned an American Flag.
Are you paying attention yet? pic.twitter.com/lPw8irzlyE
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 7, 2024
Also: Hezbollah Leader Praises Campus protesters.
And: Why Are Pro-Palestine Protesters Heckling Holocaust Survivors? “The question answers itself, no? This isn’t about a two-state solution or some formula for mutual accommodation. These protesters want Israel annihilated. They aren’t pro-Palestinian, they are pro-Hamas. And that’s precisely what they should be called too, especially when targeting Jews like this.”
Plus:
Video reportedly shows a group of rioters in Athens, Greece trying to break in and surround a hotel where they heard Jews are staying. This is a lynch mob. Terrifying. pic.twitter.com/3YJjbKtRGp
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 7, 2024
Unconditional surrender is the only way.
DECOUPLING: US revokes some export licenses for China’s Huawei.
The move comes after the release last month of Huawei’s first AI-enabled laptop, the MateBook X Pro powered by Intel’s (INTC.O), opens new tab new Core Ultra 9 processor.
The laptop launch drew fire from Republican lawmakers, who suggested the Commerce Department had given the green light to Intel to sell the chip to Huawei.
The revocations come after a years-long review of the U.S. policy on what U.S. goods and technology could be shipped to Huawei, a flagship Chinese company viewed as a national security threat.
They could hamper Huawei’s recently resurgent revenue, and also hurt U.S. suppliers that have been allowed to do business with the company.
Nobody ever said decoupling would be easy, cheap, or fun.
BE PREPARED: Etekcity Lantern Camping, Flashlight for Power Outages. #CommissionEarned
THE END OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION: You’ll Never Guess What Victorinox Is Removing from Its Iconic Swiss Army Knife. “It’s a steak and salad without the steak. It’s Wham! without George Michael. It’s Presidentish Joe Biden without his teleprompter. Hell, it might even be Biden with his teleprompter.”
SOMEBODY GETS IT:
âI think Israel should go in there and kick the sh*t out of them, just absolutely destroy them, their infrastructure, level anything that they touch.â
This is what Rep. Mast had to say on Holocaust Remembrance Day in response to the news that Hamas had agreed to a ceasefire. pic.twitter.com/zNVY4Kp0cG
— CODEPINK (@codepink) May 7, 2024
The funny part is that Code Pink made and posted this video as if it’s some kind of burn on Mast.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD ONCE AGAIN JUST DOING STRAIGHT UP REPORTAGE: Uighur Slaves Struggling To Keep Up With Demand For Palestinian Headscarves.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: One third of Stanford students OK with violence to shut down speech.
I remember when institutions of higher learning were defended as essential parts of civil society.
Elite higher education has become a toxic industry polluting the body politic.
STAR TREK 2024: THE WRATH OF KHAN:
Voters: sweet merciful heavenly Father, I beg you to give me a third choice
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) May 8, 2024
Details here for the curious: RFK Jr. Says Doctors Found a Dead Worm in His Brain.
Related:
Can we check the other two candidates for worms? That might explain a lot.
— David Mastio (@DavidMastio) May 8, 2024
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