Essays on politics and culture from Sasha Stone's Substack. A former Democrat and Leftist who escaped the bubble to get to know the other side of the country and to take a more critical look...

Her podcast note to David Brooks 

The best pizza ovens in 2023

Hand-scanning in supermarkets 

BB:  Report: Record Number Of People Following Their Hearts

COVID:  NO SCIENCE THEN, NO SCIENCE NOW

 Parents reveal why charters are luring kindergarteners away from NYC public schools

 PBS Rolls Out 'Climate Psychology Therapist' For Armageddon-Coping Session

 A Simple Law Is Doing the Impossible. It’s Making the Online Porn Industry Retreat. Pornhub has pulled out of multiple states rather than comply with age-verification laws.

 ‘This Is a Ploy’: California AG Launches Probe Into District that Voted to Alert Parents If Children Identify As Trans

 Legal Migrants Protest Illegal Aliens Living in Brooklyn Park

VDH:  The Remaking of America - Every aspect of American life and culture is under assault

 Asian Law Enforcement Officer Keeps to Faith After Being Wrongly Imprisoned for George Floyd’s Drug Overdose Death

 THE DAILY CHART: MEDIA MENDACITY

 It Sure Looks Like Gavin Newsom Is Looking for a Way Out of His Debate With Ron DeSantis

A new tick-borne disease: Alpha-gal. 

 Strange 'Tasks' Kindergartners Were Expected To Do In The 1950s

 Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Correcting the Record

 How Boycotting Woke Corporate Restored My Dignity

OK, but "her dignity"? 

Readjusting to the Office

 N.S. Lyons on the panic of the managerial class - He interprets recent political conflict

 Doctors Sue California Over Forced "Implicit Bias" DEI Training In Medicine

 Anthony Fauci’s Deceptions - A trove of emails, Slack messages, and other documents reveal Fauci’s behind-the-scenes involvement.

He lied for your own good 

 Remote Learning Damaged the Nation

 The Problem of Hyper-Individualism - Amid a national reckoning with loneliness, Americans should reject the forces driving them away from one another.

I don't see that 

 Costs Beginning To Change The Net Zero Debate In The UK

Ford Says Electric Cars Just Aren’t Affordable

 The war on truth

 Conservatives Can’t Play Political Hardball

From naivete to skepticism. Likeable fellow:

 LOST EGYPTIAN CITY FOUND UNDERWATER AFTER 1200 YEARS

Is "Farm to Table" real? 

 The MSM is experiencing COVID nostalgia and keeps trying to simultaneously drum up fear while suppressing any of the growing questions about the censorship, lies, and dangerously stupid policies that the “experts” imposed on us.

 Amazon Makes Sweeping Overhauls Of Grocery Business To Compete With Walmart, Kroger

 The Problem with Modelling

 Doctors Sue California Regulators over Mandatory Implicit Bias Training for Physicians

 Brave University of Chicago student speaks out against the leftist war on whites

 UC faculty lead 'behind-the-scenes protest' over new equity-based math admissions requirements

 NY mayor to move 80 illegal alien adults to a popular family-friendly park in Brooklyn

 The Obama Factor - A Q&A with historian David Garrow

The Nation will not be happy until Trump is in jail

 ‘He’d Get My Vote. He’d Get My Vote Before Biden” – Joe Rogan Discusses Trump, Biden, and the Dangers of The Deep State

 US soldiers seen liberating thousands of Jews from Nazi train: Found video

 Senator Chris Murphy has proposed combating widespread loneliness in the country by creating a National Office of Loneliness.

Heat Pumps don't work in cold weather

 This is one of the stupidest articles I have ever seen on climate change

 There Is A Financial Crisis Brewing In Offshore Wind Energy

 Why the diversity-industrial complex bubble burst

  How the Left's obsession with wokery and race is turning New York into a crime-ravaged, drug-infested nightmare

 Catholic trade school forges ahead despite obstacles

If true, naval attack drones are tough 

 TGIF: Everyone’s a Fraud - Joe Biden. Dick Cheney. Taco Bell. The Trudeaus. People who hate the ‘Barbie’ movie. Oh yeah, and Donald Trump.

 Hunter Biden raked in millions during "summer of debauchery

"Not illegal, is it?

 Victor Davis Hanson: Two Sets Of Laws For Two Americas

Prof Jacobson re Trump: " That’s a perfectly good reason not to vote for somebody. But that doesn’t mean it’s a crime. And I think the criminalization of politics is a very negative trend in our society."

Powerline: " In sum, the indictment does not make out a case that Trump is a criminal who should go to prison. But it does make out a strong case that Trump is a dishonest egomaniac with terrible judgment who should never again be entrusted with a responsible government position."

Well, he is an immature jerk but he did a fine job as President 

 How Accurate is Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’? A nuclear engineer reviews the blockbuster film.

 FINALLY! First new nuclear reactor in more than 30 years comes online

 A Racist Smear. A Tarnished Career. And the Suicide of Richard Bilkszto.

 The Medical Establishment Has Succumbed to Gender Madness 

 Being Drunk Excuses Crashing Semi

 Incandescent Light-Bulb Ban Started On August 1; Gas-Stove Ban Coming Next

 Nobel scientist’s speech canceled after criticizing climate alarmists

 Eliminating Fossil Fuels Will Produce A Crippling Decline In Human Well-Being

 The unexpected pitfalls of work-from-home parenthood - For all its benefits, the practice can be a double-edged sword — especially for moms.

 America’s Failing Schools

 Study Huge Numbers Of Kids Permanently Damaged By Lockdowns

 UMich, NIH to spend nearly $80 million as part of ‘DEI 2.0’

 Workers to Employers: We’re Just Not That Into You. In the postpandemic economy, we’re living more and working less

Columbia Law Schools Tried to End-Run the Affirmative Action Ruling

Reynolds: Hey, teacher, leave those kids alone. Thoughts on education, age segregation, and politics

 Our Ongoing Cultural Revolution

 The Culture of Transgression - Our antinomian elite’s war against tradition has become a war against the working class

 US Economy Braces For Chaos As $1.5 Trillion Student-Loan Pause Ends

 Central Park among NYC areas considered to house migrants: ‘Everything is on the table'

RFK Jr was compulsive womanizer 

That is news? 

 Anything Democrats Don’t Like Is Now A ‘Threat To Democracy’

 Indicting Trump for political schemes overshadows the actual bad things in politics

 Not everything that’s bad in politics is illegal – especially in a country that has the First Amendment.

 Another Troubling Trump Indictment - Special counsel Jack Smith’s broad theory of fraud has dangerous implications.

 Special Counsel Jack Smith Has Done the Job He Was Hired to Do

 "Until it is proved otherwise, I will find it extremely hard to believe that the president was a party to his son’s nefarious schemes."

At Powerline.  I understand the crossing of the Rio Grande illegally, but how did all of those Africans get to NYC? Strange.

The Roosevelt, next to Grand Central Terminal, used to be a hotel. 

Stuart's  Wednesday Potpourri

 It’s the Year of Universal School Choice, but Barriers Remain. Despite growing momentum, restrictions hinder full access to educational options.

 ‘How Do I Do That?’ The New Hires of 2023 Are Unprepared for Work

 Where woke math goes to die

" The scientists we previously trusted are increasingly abandoning science and replacing it with leftist ideological dictates."

 The Incandescent Light Bulb Ban Starts Today

 Does it seem as though every news story lately is on climate doom?

 New IPCC chief: stop with the apocalypse talk

 Climate protestors are on everyone's last nerve

 "Think of the Implications of Publishing", A whistleblower shares shocking details of corruption of peer review in climate science

 Companies With Good ESG Scores Pollute Just As Much As Those With Low Ones, New Analysis Finds

 Where Have You Gone Woodward and Bernstein?

 It’s Year 5 Of The Biden Crime Family Coverup

" At this point, it’s getting a little ridiculous and frankly, transparent, as to how hard the Biden administration seems to be working to try to take Trump out of the race with lawfare and indictments..."

In 2019, President Donald Trump was impeached for raising the issue of a potential corruption scandal involving Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, and Burisma. 

 Are You My Momager?

 The Misunderstood Reason Millions of Americans Stopped Going to Church

 How Bessel van der Kolk’s once controversial theory of trauma became the dominant way we make sense of our lives.

 Diesel Generators Used to Charge Electric Garbage Trucks

 Transgender America Fights Back - From sanctuary states to the courts, lawyers and political allies resist Republican bans on transgender care for minors

Banks were suspicious  of the Bidens 

 As Oakland Slides Into Chaos, Its District Attorney Fights For Criminals

An Impoverished Europe

 Man who spent $14K to transform himself into collie steps out for first-ever walk in public

" . In the U.S., the EPA’s own ‘Heat Wave Index’ for the continental states shows that the 1930s was by far the hottest decade of the last century.”

 Magic Mushrooms. LSD. Ketamine. The Drugs That Power Silicon Valley.

 The Return of MDMA - Some doctors are itching to prescribe ecstacy again. How do we avoid the regulatory mistakes of the '80s?

Neuroscientists shed new light on the roots of interpersonal neural synchrony during social interactions

 Scrappy local paper takes on San Francisco's homeless-industrial complex

 What History Teaches Us About the Importance of Academic Freedom - This 1949 primer shows us there’s nothing new about today’s controversies about free speech on campus.

 How big tech and big money made our schools go woke

 Does Ukraine really have a neo-Nazi problem? US officials won’t say

" By allowing Ukraine to get involved in a conflict with Russia, Zelensky committed one of the greatest lunacies that can be perpetrated by a head of state. "

Boris Johnson on Barbie 

Politics of Autism 

Bummer: It’s Not Your Fault For The Summer Heat Wave

 A century of climate change and media alarmism

 Our schools are not OK

WEF advisor: COVID is a model for making change

Emails show the NYT got played by COVID ‘experts’

 Emails Show Fauci Knew From A 2020 Federalist Article That Masking Was Ineffective But Demanded It Anyway

 The Real Cost of an Open Border: How Americans are Paying the Price

Hunter Biden story is MAGA propaganda 

 The Bidens: "Stone Cold Crooked" 

  Biden-Harris Regime DENY Secret Service Protection for RFK Jr

The Nation:  The Teamsters’ Proposed Agreement With UPS Is a Great Victory by and for the Workers. But the working class needs much more. And these moments when workers have huge strategic power in a tight labor market are fleeting.

 Harm City - Crime-ridden, dysfunctional Baltimore desperately needs new leadership—and more cops.

It feels good to me. There are only about 10 days/year when I do not hear somebody bitch about weather. New England.

" There are two classes in the Climate Cult: The Grifter Elites and the Brainwashed Faithful."

Sexy song:

Is Taylor Swift really Barbie?

 Scholars and activists in the field of fat studies do not believe that there is an obesity-related health crisis at all.

Well, everything is a "crisis", right? 

 DEI director fired for rejecting ‘toxic racist ideologies’ files wrongful termination lawsuit

Govt and scientists lied about the lab leak 

Governments lie

 E.U. Law Threatens Free Speech, Online Groups Say. The E.U.’s Digital Services Act will encourage censorship around the world and even in the U.S.

 TGIF: The ‘X’ Files

Why did Elon kill Twitter? How did Hunter Biden get rich off his art? Who put the Nazi symbol in DeSantis’s ad? Are aliens among us? The truth is in here…

 ‘Gender Clinics’ Shutting Down Due to Red State Bans

 California’s new math

Bud Light To Lay Off Hundreds Of Employees In Wake Of Disastrous Pro-Trans Marketing

Have to feel bad for them 

Baltimore update 

Sad 

 San Francisco Mayor: We Should ‘Get Rid of Most Taxes’ to Attract Businesses

  New York Post Editor Details Coordinated Social Media Censorship Of Biden Family Corruption

Why do so many people appear to want a government to determine what is true?  Strange, especially in the USA.

As American-bred, I never trust government. Government is another special interest group. Government people lie all the time, for their greater good.

What is an NPC? 

 Woman Found Dead After Grizzly Bear Encounter Near Yellowstone

 Bidens’ dog Commander involved in biting incidents as White House says he’s getting more training

  "Gluttony had a good run as a cardinal sin, but it's just not that big of a deal anymore," 

 What could possibly cause a teen athlete’s heart to stop? Bronny James’s heart reportedly stopped during practice. Incidents like this are rare but explainable.

 As evidence mounts against their position, how long will proponents of “gender-affirming care” for minors hold out?

Why journalists should be skeptical of scientists

 Anthony Fauci Behind Covid Origins Disinformation, Evidence Suggests. Communications between scientists show pressure from “higher ups” to dismiss the lab leak theory of Covid origins

 Harvard ethics professor allegedly fabricated multiple behavioral science studies

NYC to illegals:  We're kicking you out. Find somewhere to go.

 “Western Military Officials Knew Kiev Didn’t Have the Training or Weapons to Dislodge Russian Forces”

 China abandons Paris Climate Accords

Oppenheimer, from 1948

 Burn Some Witches; Save the Planet

 Retract "Proximal Origin?" No, says Nature Medicine editor

 Our society’s ‘top brains’ have gone mad — and dysfunctional politics is the result

 The subways are an insane asylum on wheels — we must get the mentally ill off the trains

 Fed-up NYC businesses sound off as migrant crisis causes chaos in the streets, hits shops’ wallets: ‘Enough is enough’ 

 China is counting on America’s suicidal immigration policy

 Stories like Russiagate and the Hunter Biden affair play into the paranoid underbelly of American politics. For those Americans that look for the hidden hand of a deep state, these scandals are proof that the system itself is rigged.

 Hanania, Rufo, and Conservative Strategy - Going after the Deep Left

 The Jaw-Dropping Hunter Biden–Investigation Revelations

 "We Need A Real Investigation" Of Biden Bribery & Burisma; RFK Jr Says Mainstream Media Criticizing Him More Than Trump

Austria: Ukraine is a bottomless pit 

 Couples in which the woman is the only earner report lower life satisfaction

Doubt it's a problem if the guy has bigger assets 

Solve for X 

I have never used social media 

Re  Bring Back the Asylums

Stuart's Miscellany 

Liberal Faculty Members Flee Florida’s New College Following DeSantis Takeover

 Rethinking Higher Ed with Harvard’s Former President. Larry Summers reveals why universities should ban legacy admissions, scrap elite sports, and make a first-rate education more available to all.

"All"? 

 Many U.S. women’s soccer players refused to acknowledge the national anthem

 Nobel Prize winner SILENCED by IMF after saying ‘I don’t believe there is a climate crisis'

 How California’s weather catastrophe turned into a miracle

 Another offshore wind project goes blade tips up

  'Miss Italy' Bans Biological Males From Beauty Pageant

 DEI and the End of the Constitutional Order - Christopher Rufo

 When a colon just won't work as a vagina

 Trans surgery nightmares revealed: 81% endure pain in the five years after gender-change procedures, more than half say having sex is painful - and a third are left incontinent

 Concerns Raised Over Number Of Students Identifying As LGBT

I am not concerned 

 Biden Overrules Pentagon and Names a Female Admiral to Head the Navy

 The Total Number of Illegal Aliens Who Entered US Under Joe Biden Is More than the Population of 35 States

 Biden Regime Escalates War on American Consumers in the Name of ‘Climate Change’ — Announces New Scheme to Eliminate ‘Outdated’ Water Heaters

 Baltimore experiencing "a new type of violence"

 Why is Mexico’s president Lopez-Obrador sticking his nose in US elections?

 Zelensky Blames Failing Counteroffensive On Lack Of Munitions From West, Delayed Training

 Russia: 15 Leopards, 20 Bradleys Destroyed in 24 Hours, Large Number of Western Mercenaries Eliminated

 The Coyotes Are Not What They Seem. On Hybrid Vigor

 Bob Ross, Populist Artist - A Netflix documentary and a new film about the beloved American TV painter explore a life marked by popular success and personal betrayal.

 NYC to pay 2020 rioters about $10,000 each

 Sadly, Many Happiness Studies Are Flawed. New research concludes that older practices in psychology allowed scientists to find results when in truth there were none

 "Just Stop Pissing Everyone Off": Citizen Heroes Confront Environmentalists' Traffic-Blocking Bull$hit

 Welcome to the 'Climate' Nut House

 Mental Health Round-Ups: The Next Phase Of The Government's War On Thought-Crimes

WSJ:  It’s Time to Bring Back Asylums. Recent cases of violence by the mentally ill highlight the need to reconsider a long-maligned institution that now offers a promising solution.

Another Week, Another Layer in the Hunter Biden Story

 Why Ukraine’s counter-offensive is failing

 I tried to teach for America, and I failed

 The Dark Side of Self-Making - The gospel of radical self-creation distances us from our true selves.

 Ivy League LGBTQ+ numbers soar and students point to identity politics

 Texas professor fired after teaching sex is determined by chromosomes

 "Go Somewhere That Understands Your Worth" - Los Angeles Police Union Boss Tells Cops Leaving City

 TGIF: Swifties Save the Economy. Skims save lives. Bipartisan psychedelics. California’s war against algebra. Queer water (yep). And much more from Nellie Bowles.

The Southern Poverty Law Center Makes Millions Trafficking Hate

 House Dems attempt to censor RFK Jr on censorship -- and he erupts

 Why DeSantis Entering the Primaries Was a Big Mistake

 Strange Increase In Volume Of Congregational Singing Noted When Worship Leader Slips In Old Hymn

 The media is spreading bad trans science. Misleading studies are being taken as gospel

 Where Johnny Cash Came From

 Norman Mailer Was an Out-and-Out Psychopath

 Welcome to the MAGA Hamptons! Every summer, the haute bourgeoisie of Middle America descend on Lake of the Ozarks to jet ski, barbecue ribs, and (until 2023) drink a shit-ton of Budweiser.

Click bait:  Popular "all-American" Companies That Are Now Internationally-Owned

 Welcome To Canada — The Doctor Won’t See You Now, But The Undertaker Will

 Scotland Cuts Down Forest to Make Room for Windmills

 Biden DoD Lets Transgender Service Members Skip Deployments, Receive Indefinite Physical Fitness Waivers

 The Left’s Social Contract Is Broken. Here’s How to Fix It. A relentless focus on dubious forms of ‘oppression’ is alienating traditional leftists. Saving the progressive movement means returning it to its liberal roots

Stanford Law refuses comment on fate of DEI dean who helped shout down judge

 Stuart's miscellany

I have no hate for the guy, but he is in bad shape 

 Jack Smith bought a sandwich at Subway and CNN lost its mind

 Massachusetts asks homeowners to take in illegal migrants

 NYT casually drops a truth bomb: about 30% of "COVID deaths" weren't from COVID

 Top Scientists Misled Congress About Covid Origins, Newly Released Emails And Messages Show

Science begins with observation. Is observation Science? 

 America the Stoned - More states are legalizing weed every year. An estimated 13.2 million Americans use the drug every day. So why is it starting to feel like a bad idea?

 WOKE KINDERGARTEN

 The Comely Face of Western Self-Cancellation - Miss Netherlands is a Mister.

 9th Circuit Shuts Down Bid To Block Lithium Mine

 NYC Restaurants to Be Fined for Providing Forks

 Diversity officers’ exits fuel racial equity con­cerns. Evid­ence grows of cur­tailed invest­ment in schemes three years after Floyd’s murder

 Nearly Three-Quarters of French Public Wants to Strip Migrant Rioters of Citizenship

The fast metabolism myth: Here’s what actually determines how slim you are

 What is the audience for a woke, live-action “Snow White”?

 There’s always something new to report on New York’s housing follies.

 Dumbing America Down

City Journal on The New Censorship:

Only a powerful, watchful government, in the hands of the Party of Truth, can impose democracy on a troubled society by controlling the words said, as well as the means of communication that convey them, to the public. A wise guardian class, advised by specialists, must be mobilized to assume control of politics and culture. In this framework, opposition can never be legitimate—it belongs to the Party of Lies. Those who follow Savio’s exhortation and throw themselves on the gears of the great institutions will be ground to pulp—for their own good.

News That's Not Fit To Print - New York Times & LA Times Dump Sports Reporting

 CDC Used Journal To Promote Masks Despite 'Unreliable' And 'Unsupported Data': New Analysis

Yonkers’ only charter school illustrates just how broken the system is

 Without Affirmative Action Everyone Will Die. "All Americans will bear the burden of a less diverse health care field"

 NYC To Pay Minority Teachers Who Failed Teaching Exam Up To $2M. Each.

 Parents slam woke Massachusetts school district for axing advanced math classes to boost 'equity', after they attracted too many white and Asian students - with families now forced to hire private tutors instead

 California Approves New Math Guidelines That Emphasize 'Social Justice'

 The Fact-Check Racket Finally Unravels

 Biden forgives $39 billion in student loan debt via administrative tweaks

Suckers paid their debts 

 Imploding Cities Will Drag All of Us Down — Even if You Don't Live Anywhere Near One

 The War On Poverty Hasn’t Just Failed, It’s Failed Abysmally

 Jennifer Rubin humiliates herself using data from retracted story

VDH:  Illegal Immigration and Western Spiritual Sickness

 The Incredible Shrinking NATO

 Europe's Muslim Migrant Problem

' Arabs… Chechens’: German Swimming Baths Terrorised by ‘Migration Background’ Men