READER FAVORITE: Camping Fan for Tent, 15000mAh Rechargeable Battery Operated Fan. #CommissionEarned
May 11, 2024
PRETTY SURE I SAW SWEDISH DEATH CLEANING OPEN UP FOR THE SCORPIONS AT THE SPECTRUM IN 1985: What is ‘Swedish death cleaning’ and should you be doing it?
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Truman Scholarships overwhelmingly awarded to progressive students for tenth year in row.
WANNA GET AWAY?
I'm traveling to Rome because the solutions to the problems facing our city, country and planet must be solved together — by sharing ideas and strategies.
We will be talking infrastructure, climate change, the asylum seeker crisis and so much more.
Through hard work and… pic.twitter.com/yKeBh2opI9
— Mayor Eric Adams (@NYCMayor) May 10, 2024
Or — and hear me out now — you could just stroll over to the New York Public Library and scroll through the magazine section for the back issues:
ALAN DERSHOWITZ ON IVY LEAGUE CRAZINESS: All These Idiots Get Admitted.
The core problem is in fact admissions.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG:
NEW: Georgia Election Board dumbfounded after finding out that 3,000 ballots were scanned twice in the 2020 election recount in Fulton County.
The board also revealed that 380,761 ballot images from machine count were “not available.”
Q: Does Fulton County know why there are… pic.twitter.com/y0NxRfDNNo
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 10, 2024
CERTAINTY IS THE MIND-KILLER. Check out my speech from USF Health’s commencement last Thursday, a new episode of So to Speak, and a whole lot more in the Eternally Radical Idea Weekend Update.
YOU COULD SEE THE AURORA BOREALIS IN KNOXVILLE LAST NIGHT: Rapid-Fire Solar Flares Unleashed: NASA Witnesses 82 Intense Flares This Week.
Aurora borealis over Neyland. You don’t see that every day. I don’t think I’ve ever seen the northern lights in Knoxville. pic.twitter.com/d1VopkuBVf
— Jake Thompson (@jthomps72) May 11, 2024
We’re are 9 miles north as the crow flies. I just took this. pic.twitter.com/l9AUMGjHBj
— Crass (@CrassBR549) May 11, 2024
Professor Carrington, call your office.
THAT’S NOT A BUG, IT’S A FEATURE: Top Democrat Pollster: RFK Jr.’s Support Among Republicans Will Collapse If They Learn His Real Views. His job is to attract votes away from the Democrats, so the goal is to make sure they hear about his views.
LIMITED TIME DEAL: Apple 2022 MacBook Air Laptop with M2 chip. #CommissionEarned
AND TO THE MICHIGAN/MINNESOTA MUSLIM VOTE: Once Again Biden Caves to the Bernie Sanders Left.
MY SHOCKED FACE IS GETTING TIRED: In Bob Dylan’s “Neighborhood Bully” about Israel (and Jews) being the world’s pariahs, one line of the lyrics says:
“His enemies say, he’s on their land/They got him outnumbered, about a million to one/he got no place to escape to, no place to run.”
So the report from Just the News that The United Nations General Assembly on Friday approved a resolution granting expanded rights to Palestine, permitting it to operate within the U.N. framework in a form of non-voting pseudo-membership shouldn’t shock anyone.
“This is a reward for terrorism and will only strengthen Hamas and make peace impossible. It is one of the most destructive resolutions ever presented in the UN made possible due to the antisemitism and political interests that are so prevalent at the UN,” [said Israeli U.N. Ambassador Gilad Erdan.]
The fact that something isn’t a surprise doesn’t mean it isn’t repulsive.
NO ENEMIES TO THE LEFT: Liberal media is still in denial about post-Oct. 7 antisemitism.
Seven months of an unprecedented surge in antisemitism that has turned American college campuses and even K-12 schools into hostile environments for Jews has changed a lot of minds about the issue. The willingness of much of the political left to downplay or even justify the atrocities of Oct. 7—and then to flip the narrative about the war that Hamas started to one in which the victims of terrorism are somehow the real villains of the story—has shocked even many political liberals into rethinking their assumptions about where the real danger lies.
But not The New York Times.
As two lengthy news features published in the paper this week confirmed, the flagship of liberal journalism in the United States hasn’t let events or the reality of a post-Oct. 7 world interfere with their ideological or political agendas.
In one story, the newspaper devoted the time of four reporters to take a deep dive into contemporary antisemitism. But the result of what is described as their extensive research is that they have come to the conclusion that the real culprits are not the people who seek the destruction of the one Jewish state on the planet, legitimize a genocidal terrorist movement as justified “resistance” or attempt to allow those responsible for the mass murder of 1,200 people to get away with it. Instead, the Times believes that the problem rests with (surprise!) Republicans who are rallying in support of a beleaguered State of Israel and who are opposed to the deluge of Jew-hatred on display in the American public square since the current war began.
In another, the paper reported a congressional hearing about the growing problem of antisemitism in K-12 schools throughout the country as primarily one about how those in charge of these institutions scored points against members of Congress who care about the issue.
These are just two prominent examples out of many that could be pointed to that show how the Times and other liberal media outlets manipulate coverage of this issue to promote their own partisan agendas. They are worth noting precisely because they illustrate how ideological agendas work to present a distorted picture of a crisis that serves primarily to deflect attention from the real cause.
As Glenn wrote in March, “You can always count on the NYT staff to side with the barbarians.” Just ask Walter Duranty — and his modern day successors.
Related: Don Surber: We don’t want journalism back. “Thus the answer to [Matt] Taibbi’s question ‘Is Journalism Back?’ is no. Journalists abandoned objectivity. Readers have decided that they do not want the journalists back.”
IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE SATIRE, BUT. . .
‘I’m Outraged At Accusations I’ve Taken The Side Of Hamas,’ Says Angry Biden Wearing New Keffiyeh https://t.co/JP39wUZTtu pic.twitter.com/qZuZmOPUiz
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) May 10, 2024
“JUSTICE:” Oh, So That’s Why DOJ Isn’t Going After Pro-Terrorism Agitators. “Top Justice Department official Kristen Clarke’s “history of association with known antisemites” may hamper her ability to properly investigate recent civil rights violations at Columbia University, House Republicans said Tuesday.”
Yep, they’re on the same team.
May 10, 2024
OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Starlink soars: SpaceX’s satellite internet surprises analysts with $6.6 billion revenue projection. “Starlink’s achievements over the past three years are mind-blowing.”