Maggie's Farm

The assaults on Donald Trump began when he came down the escalator. Before that he was a popular celebrity. It's because he was running as a Republican. Similar things happened with Nixon, Reagan, Bush. Demonized, and literally hunted. Same thing will happen to any nominee.

Nancy Pelosi said yesterday: "Now Donald Trump has the chance to prove his innocence." 

Diversity Training Disaster

 Pols, teachers unions aim to scrap tests to hide huge learning loss

 TGIF: Showdown Edition - DeSantis vs. Disney. Scotland vs. the UK. The IRS vs. Matt Taibbi. Plus: Gwyneth vs. an Optometrist.

Joe Biden: ‘Transgender Americans Shape our Nation’s Soul’

 "WTF Is Wrong With You": Columbia Center & Law Students Protest Meeting With Justice Kavanaugh

 How the tech elites lost touch with reality - Joel Kotkin on the growing rift between Silicon Valley and the masses.

 Unprecedented: Former President Donald J. Trump indicted by Manhattan grand jury

 Democracy in America on life support as President Trump is indicted

PETA: Crabs are people too, you know

 Mass misconception: The real reason we can’t outpace light speed

 Florida moves on school choice

 Tritium Panic in Minnesota - Once again, a minor incident at a nuclear plant provokes unwarranted fears.

 Biden Targets Air Conditioners In Latest Attack on Americans’ Quality-of-Life Choices

 Legacy Media Struggle to Characterize Trans Shooter’s Sex

 Godwin’s Law Goes Woke: UT-Austin Prof Says Objecting To Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Is “Modern Day Lynching”

 Air Force Academy Focus On Anti-American Critical Race Theory Training Of Cadets

 Majority Still See Hard Work, Tolerance, and Religion as Important American Values

Our pal Stuart Schneiderman has opened at Substack 

 Scholars say U.S. treatment of youth gender dysphoria not evidence-based

 Liberal College Professor Placed on Leave for Suggesting it’s OK to Murder Conservative Speakers

 EU Members Clash Over Nuclear Energy's Role In Climate Policy

Black Lives Matter Activists Executed A Shocking $83 Billion Shakedown Of American Corporations

 Trump’s bizarre behavior a gift to the left just as public opinion was turning on Bragg

 “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

— George Orwell, 1984.

Re-writing Agatha Christie 

 Audubon-NYC’s name change is cowardly way to avoid facing its heritage

 Why Birdwatching Is Good for You: All About the “Profound” Mental Health Benefits of the Avian Pastime

 Another outstanding school takes a hit for equity

 Civils rights class cancelled after student feels "discomfort"

 The disgraceful scenes at Stanford are a flawless embodiment of how diversity doctrine distorts academic life and constrains decision-making.

 Why Did States Require Blood Tests for Marriage Licenses?

 Eminent Oxford Scientist Says Wind Power "Fails On Every Count"

Ban AC in DC 

Yes, some American blacks were slave owners 

Rufo:

 “You have a culture here in which the most aggressive and hysterical factions of activists can have veto power over everything, and that’s gonna stop, and we have to model that we have the courage to set a new standard. And so, I appreciate it, but we’re going to go forward as planned,” he said.

A book:  Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier by Kevin Kelly

 Marriage Isn’t Hard Work; It’s Serious Play

 NPR vs. Masculinity

 How to Shut Down New York’s Unlicensed Pot Shops

Why bother? 

 The End of Remote Work

 A debate on DEI will be held at MIT. The university’s DEI deans refuse to participate.

  "Trump didn't drain the swamp, he merely annoyed it" looks unfortunately true. 

DeSantis’s Trumpy Foreign Policy Goes Deeper Than Ukraine

 US Contractor Killed, 5 Service Members Wounded In Syria - Airstrikes Ensue

Why is US military in Syria?

 Things Are Getting Spicy in France as Mass Protests Turn Violent in Some Areas 

 The US will see northern lights Friday — and great views even sooner

 Why science and its journals should remain free of ideology: an example from Nature

 Government Grows on Crisis

 How to Understand the Well-Being Gap between Liberals and Conservatives

 University removes statement compelling faculty speech after CRO report

Stanford Law announces DEI dean is on leave, students will get mandatory free speech training

 Dean Steinbach still thinks she did nothing wrong

 Doubts Grow Over Bragg’s Case Against Trump. The office of the district attorney is reported to be riven by uncertainty.

 GUESS WHAT: REPARATIONS ALREADY UNPOPULAR IN SAN FRANCISCO

 LIBERALS, STOP TRYING TO KEEP BLACK KIDS DOWN!

 1% OF DEMOCRAT COUNTIES MAKE UP 42% OF AMERICA’S MURDERS

 San Fran Dem: Being robbed by drug addicts is "basic city life experience"

 In Moscow, Xi and Putin Bury Pax Americana

Freud is uncancellable 

 Audubon Society Defies Wokes, Keeps Name. "We are shocked, confused, and deeply disappointed."

 Organic farming fleeces consumers and does not significantly promote sustainability

 Stanford law students who shouted down judge may be reported to California Bar

 America's feral hog problem about to get worse

 A Jolly Good Scoundrel - Three Cheers for Harry Flashman!

 Half Of California Lifted Out Of Drought; Flooding Now A Concern As More Rain Looms

Was Leonardo's mother a slave? 

 Oxfam 'Inclusivity' Guide Tells Staff To Avoid Using 'Offensive' Words Like 'Mother', 'People' and 'Headquarters'

 Black Lives Matter and Related Causes Received Nearly $83 Billion from Corporations

 DEI director fired after rejecting ‘woke’ ideology speaks out: ‘I’m not going quietly’

 Stanford Students Who Shouted Down Judge Demand Their Names and Photos be Removed From News Reports

 Silicon Valley Bank Was on Federal Reserve’s Radar For More Than a Year – Fed Reserve of San Francisco Issued Six Citations and Flagged Bank as Ticking Time Bomb

Joe Biden has been a corrupt politician for a long time, probably decades. 

 Keeping Up with the Bankman-Frieds

 INSIDE STANFORD’S DISGRACE: JUDGE DUNCAN SPEAKS

 Elon Musk says Trump will win ‘landslide victory’ if indicted

Spectator:

 Fortunately, there is a straightforward way to stop this mischief, at least in law schools, and to underscore the importance of free speech on campus. If students are found to have disrupted a speaker (after a fair hearing, in which they can defend themselves), they should face a simple penalty: disclosure.  

Eagle pizza delivery 

 Wellesley College Students Vote to Admit Trans Men and Nonbinary Applicants

 Climate Crisis? What Climate Crisis?

 Arkansas makes it easier for teens to work. Heads explode

 Joe Biden Claims a Child Wrote to Him About the ‘Gender Wage Gap'

He offers a summary of his career. One quote:

 My most widely-read book, The Three Languages of Politics, mentions McRaney, as well as Haidt. It gives a simple model of conservatism, progressivism, and libertarianism. One emphasizes civilization vs. barbarism, the second emphasizes oppressed vs. oppressors, and the third emphasizes liberty vs. state coercion. These are not grand political philosophies, but they indicate the type of language that each tribe is drawn to. These languages serve as war whoops to denounce other tribes.

An author sent me this note received from the CEO of the (US) Author's Guild:

Dear all,

I am disheartened and deeply troubled by the insensitivities and refusal to listen that I saw in some of the comments that were posted in the thread titled "When is discrimination against authors by race not discrimination by authors about race?" 

This forum is open to all members, and all need to feel welcome and respected. Going forward, posts that are insensitive to the historical and current hardships experienced by BIPOC and LGBTQ+ authors will be removed under our current terms of service: (https://authorsguild.org/terms-of-use/), and the person posting it will receive a strike.

A reminder that the AG Council adopted a resolution to try to address the imbalances and lack of equity in publishing, and that it is current AG policy to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion, both internally and in the organizations' respective programmatic work.

See https://authorsguild.org/about/principles/our-commitment-to-diversity-equity-inclusion-and-accessibility/

The Guild will offer DEIA training to all members, and I encourage all to take it, especially if you are not familiar with the inequality and bias that BIPOC authors continue to experience today. You might find it mind-opening. We like to believe that we live in a country where all are treated equally and have equal opportunity, but we are still so far from that ideal. As writers, you have the power to change minds and so to change the world for the better. I behoove you to use your gifts to help lift us reach the American ideal of equality. 

Authors today have so many challenges in front of us. We must support one another and unite to face them. Intentional divisiveness has no place in the AG, and should not be tolerated. 

Thank you,

Mary Rasenberger, CEO

Her Beet Soup turned blue 

TGIF 

WSJ: There's no substitute for meeting in person 

VDH:  The Price of Eliminating Consequences - Magnanimity demonstrated to those harming us at home and abroad is interpreted as American weakness, if not decadence to be further exploited.

No good deed goes unpunished 

 Revenge of the Patriarchy: White House Gives Women’s Day Award to a Dude in a Dress

Very advanced 

 A glimmer of hope for free speech at Yale Law School

 Harvard students demand Winthrop House be renamed, call name ‘harmful’

What? 

Critical race theory is teaching kids to hate each other

 Stop Lying To People. They're Not Perfect Just As They Are

As my wife frequently reminds me 

 The Rise of Father Absence and Its Attendant Social Ills - Fatherless children are at higher risk of delinquency that undermines their own prospects and disrupts the communities in which they reside.

Correlation is not causation 

Feeling good about your fat bod is reserved for Black women

 ‘Indigenous Studies’ lecturer denies historical brutality of Native American tribes, blames ‘white people’

DeSantis is simply avoiding the backbiting of the national media who have made it their goal to destroy him by lying about him.

DeSantis is Hitler + Stalin + Pol Pot. Trump is just Hitler.