Many on the left took the one year anniversary of the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to praise her life, but the ACLU was ridiculed for awkwardly editing her quote to make it more inclusive of transgender people.
The American Civil Liberties Union posted the quote to their official Twitter account on Saturday.
NPR's Rachel Martin talks to conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Dispatch, about what the failed California recall election means for the momentum of the Republican party. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: ...Larry Elder was making claims of voter fraud in the days before the election. He did walk it back a little bit in his concession speech. But still, what are the implications of this line coming over and over again from the GOP?
GOLDBERG: It's suicidal. And we even saw going into the final home stretch of the recall, Donald Trump was talking about how the system was already rigged, the election had already been stolen. It's dishonest. It's a lie. But it's also just sand-poundingly stupid politics to tell your most ardent voters there's no point in showing up because the system is already rigged against you. But the fact that this is what so many of the base of the Republican Party want to hear, even though it is not in the political self-interest of the party, is a great example of the larger dysfunction that the Republican Party has got itself caught up in.
MARTIN: The House investigation into the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is going on right now, despite efforts by GOP leaders to undermine it. When you talk about the built-in political price that the GOP will suffer for pushing this line about voter fraud when there isn't any, what about undermining the House investigation into an attack on the U.S. Capitol? I mean, is that something that the party will pay a price for in the midterms? Or does it not move Republican voters at this point?...Read all.
Norway Official: COVID-19 Can Now Be Compared to the Flu as Country Removes Pandemic Restrictions "Norway will end all COVID-19-related restrictions starting Saturday, Sept. 25, the government announced, joining a growing list of countries and states that have removed pandemic curbs. “It is 561 days since we introduced the toughest measures in Norway in peacetime … Now the time has come to return to a normal daily life,” Prime Minister Erna Solberg told a news conference on Friday. The virus can now be considered as one of several respiratory illnesses with seasonal variation, said Geir Bukholm, the assistant director for the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, according to local media.
...Norway will no longer require businesses to implement social distancing measures...Read all.
Garbage odyssey: San Francisco's bizarre, costly quest for the perfect trash can - Mission Local "...Rather than use off-the-shelf models, San Francisco has engaged in a years-long process to design cans that'll cost thousands of dollars apiece.
And it's not nearly done.
...The city’s initial request for proposals, in 2018, envisioned a top price tag of less than $1,000 a can.
But that price has at least doubled, and could now hit as high as $5,000 a can...Read all.
Joe Biden, the most popular president ever and a guy "independent" "fact" checkers claim is in full control of his mental faculties, is speaking at the United Nations today. He's actually meandering his way through a speech as I write this. Courtney and I will have more on that later. Yesterday, Biden had a kibitz with United Nations Secretary-General Antnio Guterres. The press was assembled to promote it, but not to ask any questions. As you'll see, as a Biden aide freaks the f*ck out and shoos the reporters away as fast as she can.
"...Zimmermann was also the principal clarinetist of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra for more than a decade—that is, until the orchestra fired him last February over accusations of racial harassment.
To hear his accusers tell it, Zimmermann had insulted, intimidated, and even stalked his black colleagues, going so far as to menacingly drive by their homes.
Human resources had already warned the clarinetist in 2019 that his behaviors could be grounds for dismissal, the orchestra claimed in its termination letter to Zimmermann.
His refusal to heed that warning was ostensibly why he was fired in 2020.
But six of Zimmermann’s ex-colleagues and the orchestra’s own documents tell a very different story. They suggest that Zimmermann himself was the target of a witch hunt, instigated by a black oboist whom Zimmermann had stuck his neck out to help...Read all.
1513 - The Pacific Ocean was discovered by Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa when he crossed the Isthmus of Panama. He named the body of water the South Sea. He was truly just the first European to see the Pacific Ocean.
1775 - Ethan Allen was captured by the British during the American Revolutionary War. He was leading the attack on Montreal.
1789 - The first U.S. Congress adopted 12 amendments to the Constitution. Ten of the amendments became the Bill of Rights.
1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor became the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court when she was sworn in as the 102nd justice. She had been nominated the previous July by U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
1983 - A Soviet military officer, Stanislav Petrov, averted a potential worldwide nuclear war. He declared a false alarm after a U.S. attack was detected by a Soviet early warning system. It was later discovered the alarms had been set off when the satellite warning system mistakenly interpreted sunlight reflections off clouds as the presence of enemy missiles.
1995 - Ross Perot announced that he would form the Independence Party.
On "Glenn TV" Wednesday, Glenn Beck said he's just as nervous about America's future today as he was in 2007, except this time it's not just the economy he fears is near collapse. Inflation is out of control. You feel it every time you buy anything these days. And now, even with income tax, sales tax, property tax, death tax, capital gains tax, and ESG-related tax rate increases, the taxes you're paying are no longer enough for the government. To ensure you're paying your "fair share," the Biden administration now wants to require banks to report aggregate transactions into and out of all personal and business bank accounts whose "inflows and outflows of an account total at least $600 in a year, or if the account has a fair market value of at least $600."
Facebook released its updated Content Distribution Guidelines on Thursday, shedding more light on how the tech giant decides what content it suppresses.
While Facebook has previously provided some details on the types of content that receive reduced distribution in Facebook’s News Feed, the updated guidelines are designed to provide clarity and accessibility, Director of Product Management Anna Stepanov announced in a blog post Thursday.
Her latest, laughable attempt to prove racial bias in the media is through criticizing what she terms “missing white woman syndrome.” She claims that missing people of color don’t get the same amount of media attention as missing white women.
Reid is leaving a lot out of the equation. Yes, there is a racial aspect to which stories the press will and will not touch, but not in the way Reid wants to believe.
First, missing white women do get attention in the press, as long as their alleged attacker is white.
If the bad guy is black, the press will shut the story down.
Indeed, this is racial bias.
Remember Brittanee Drexel? The blonde 17-year-old girl who went missing in Myrtle Beach, SC? Odds are you don’t remember her story because, though she was kidnapped, gang-raped, beaten, murdered, and fed to alligators, horrific details a ghoulish news media would usually fawn over, her attackers were all black men. That can’t make the headlines, though. What would people think?
What about that time when blonde and blue-eyed Rachel Stephenson was abducted by Raliek Chambers? She escaped hours later. The story never made it to the mainstream media.
In May, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan denied his request to be released from custody for a week so he could attend his father’s funeral.
Here is the direct letter from Jonathan Mellis addressing the American people:
“My name in Jonathan Mellis.
I am a January 6 Capitol detainee being held in the DC jail.
In the last 7 months I have experienced and witnessed the most inhumane and hateful treatment of my 34 years of life. The DOJ and the Biden Administration are doing everything in their power to break me. I write this from solitary confinement on September 15 with no clear explanation as to why I’ve been isolated or how long I will be here.
I have been locked in this small concrete cell for over a month at this point.
They call solitary confinement “the hole”... ...I am currently engaged in a deep spiritual battle.
I will not let evil win.
I am strong.
But it is hard.
They want to break me.
I will not let them.
My love for this country will never end.
Please do not believe everything you read about me in the news.
They are crucifying me before my trial.
I was trying to help the people being crushed by police."...Read all!!!
A contingent of Republican lawmakers in the House of Representatives introduced three articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden this week, citing the president's failed handling of the crisis at the southern border, his attempt to extend the federal moratorium on evictions, and his bungled military withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Washington Examiner reported.
Ohio Rep. Bob Gibbs first introduced the articles on Tuesday and was later joined by Reps. Andy Biggs (Ariz.) Brian Babin (Texas), and Randy Weber (Texas), who signed on as co-sponsors.
Their analysis shows that 1.45 million children left traditional public schools....
Charter school enrollment increased in all but three of the 39 states that allow them and provided data.
(National Alliance for Public Charter Schools)
According to the analysis:
Charter schools in the 42 states assessed gained nearly 240,000 students, a 7% increase.
Public schools, including district-run schools, lost more than 1.4 million students, a 3.3% loss year over year. There was a decrease in public school enrollment in every state...Read all.
Governor Greg Abbott ordered the Texas Department of Public Safety and National Guard to use vehicles to create a miles-long barrier to stop the flow of mostly Haitian migrants from crossing the Rio Grande. The vehicle barrier, along with the recently constructed Texas border fencing, effectively blocked the illegal crossings and enabled Border Patrol officials to reduce the population of the Del Rio migrant encampment.
The agency didn't just botch the initial test. It resisted mass testing.
"The pandemic was a test of America's public health bureaucracy.
It failed. Those failures were legion, and they were spread across multiple officials, agencies, and layers of government.
But no institution failed quite as abysmally as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which, through a combination of arrogance, incompetence, and astonishingly poor planning, wasted America's only chance to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 before it spread widely...Read all!
Overwhelming majority of college students say shouting down a speaker is acceptable: survey | The College Fix "Sixty-six percent of college students think shouting down a speaker they disagree with is acceptable to shut down their talk, and another 23 percent believe violence can be used to cancel a speech, according to a wide-scale survey released this week. The 2021 College Free Speech Rankings, a follow-up on the first survey in 2020, asked over 37,000 students at 159 top-ranked U.S. colleges and universities to share their views about free speech on campus. ...Not only do 66 percent of students say it is acceptable to shout down a speaker to prevent them from speaking on campus, that result is up four percentage points from last year...Read all.
"...Zimmermann was also the principal clarinetist of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra for more than a decade—that is, until the orchestra fired him last February over accusations of racial harassment.
They call solitary confinement “the hole”...
