PAULA BOLYARD: Pinterest Blacklists PJ Media, Other Conservative Sites and This Is Just the Tip of the Censorship Iceberg. “Worse, when I tried to add an image to the pin and clicked ‘save from site,’ which ordinarily brings up images from the website you’re linking to, I got this message:”

Of course, we don’t allow nudity on PJM—in fact, it is our editorial policy to blur it out when it appears in an image that is necessary to explain a story. We are not a po*rn site either, although we do write about it from time to time, most often in the context of pointing out its deleterious effects on the culture and on the relationships between men and women. That doesn’t stop the Big Brothers of Big Tech from categorizing us that way in order to shut us up.

PJM reached out to Pinterest for an explanation but received no reply.

Related: Tech Billionaire to Joe Rogan: ‘The Left Has Won the Culture Wars. Now They’re Just Driving Around Shooting Survivors.’

More: Stacy McCain On Corporate Censorship: A Short History Of The Social Media Thought Police Regime.

(Bumped.)

THERE’S “WOKE” THEN THERE’S “FAKE WOKE.” The mark of the crybully is when a corporation’s CEO postures and preens, but it’s all a PR front. Take Apple, the “wokest” of the “woke”, whose CEO is the openly gay Tim Cook. Spent millions of shareholder money on LGBTQWTF marketing and virtue signalling this month, yet there are still plenty of Apple stores in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where this is a not uncommon occurrence:

Photo: Amnesty International

What I want to know is, where are the shareholder activists?

IT’S AN IDEA SO CRAZY, IT JUST MIGHT WORK: Trump to Move USDA Personnel From D.C. to Where Food Grows.

WELL, GOOD: Unlike House, U.S. Senate Unanimously Condemns Anti-Semitism.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Aren’t delirious Democrats now accusing Team Obama of treason?

If you read the newspapers, tuned into the cable TV pundits or received an email from one of the Democrats running for president, you’d swear Donald Trump was back to his treasonous ways.

All that was missing was an annoying OMG text exclamation punctuating the unfounded claims that Trump might violate the law in 2020 by accepting intelligence on a political rival from a foreign country. The inference, of course, is that it would come from a hostile power such as  Russia or North Korea or Iran.

Actually, what Trump told ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos was that he’d consider taking intelligence dirt about a rival from a friendly ally. (Norway was the actual example he used.)

Sound familiar? That is EXACTLY what the Obama administration did in 2016. It’s something no one in the media or the political space grasped during the tsunami of breathless reaction that followed the interview.

Related: Stephanopoulos has now been branded by Trump: “You’re being a little wise guy,” Trump exclaims in testy exchange with Stephanopoulos.

That’s going to leave a mark.

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BUT WHY IS GUATEMALA HUNGRY? The Answer Eludes Nicolas Kristof:

Kristof, who has been feeling a little literary of late, interposes snippets of high-end conspicuous consumption with his tale of Guatemalan woe. The headline reads: “The World’s Malnourished Kids Don’t Need a $295 Burger.”

Ah, but they do. That is exactly what they need.

Guatemala has many hungry children. “In another world,” Kristof writes, “on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the restaurant Serendipity 3 offers a $295 hamburger. Alternatively, it sells a $214 grilled cheese sandwich and a $1,000 sundae.”

(I am not sure about the word “alternatively” in that sentence; I believe the word he is looking for is “also.” These are And People we’re talking about, not Or People.)

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The economic arrangements that produce the $295 hamburger also produce the abundance that ensures practically no one in the United States is starving to death for purely economic reasons. Hunger, like genuine homelessness — sleeping-on-the-street homelessness, not living-in-cramped-quarters-with-people-I-would-rather-not-live-with “homelessness” — is in the United States a phenomenon that has little to do with economic exchange (much less insufficient production) but is instead mainly the product of addiction, mental illness, and — worse — the terrible condition of being a child dependent upon someone who is an addict, mentally ill, or indifferent.

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What Guatemala needs is capitalism. But what capitalism needs are physical security, property rights, an independent judiciary, political stability, the rule of law, and a functioning civil society. Guatemala does not have these.

But it does have an abundance of “bad luck.” Unexpectedly, of course.

TRUMP, KIM KARDASHIAN WEST ANNOUNCE ‘SECOND CHANCE HIRING,’ RIDESHARE PROGRAMS FOR EX-PRISONERS.

QUESTION ASKED AND NOT ANSWERED: Fox News’ Martha MacCallum Spars With Julian Castro: ‘Is There Anyone You Wouldn’t Let in the Country?’

THE ARC OF THE MORAL UNIVERSE IS LONG, BUT IT BENDS TOWARD THE MEMORY HOLE: Obama White House Deleted Online Speeches About The Immigration Crisis Hours Before Trump Entered Office: Report.

(Via Ace of Spades.)

HERE’S TO ANOTHER 80:  Today is the 80th birthday of Ward Connerly, the University of California Regent who, in 1996, chaired the successful Proposition 209 initiative. Happy Birthday, Ward!

Proposition 209’s core provision reads as follows:

The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.

It is now, of course, part of the California Constitution.

This article, which was written a few years later, will give you a sense of how Proposition 209 was beneficial to minority students at the UC.

Later research (mentioned here) has found that between 1997 and 2003 Proposition 209 increased both the GPAs and the graduation rates of under-represented minority students at the UC. Plus it increased the rate at which under-represented minority students major in STEM. Not bad.

(Yes, I was one of three co-chairs of the campaign.  Yes, I’m proud of it.  Alas, since then, the UC has largely learned to get around Proposition 209.  I wish more resources had been and were being devoted its enforcement.)

FASTER, PLEASE: Gregg Abbott Is Making It Fun to Watch Authoritarianism Die.

The 21st CENTURY ISN’T WORKING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: An Addiction Crisis Disguised as a Housing Crisis — Opioids are fueling homelessness on the West Coast.

The consequences of such denial have proved disastrous: no city on the West Coast has a solution for homeless opioid addicts. Los Angeles, which spent $619 million on homelessness last year, has adopted a strategy of palliative care—keeping addicts alive through distribution of the overdose drug naloxone—but fails to provide access to on-demand detox, rehabilitation, and recovery programs that might help people overcome their addictions. The city has been cursed, in this sense, with temperate weather, compounded by permissive policies toward public camping and drug consumption that have attracted 20,687 homeless individuals from outside Los Angeles County.

No matter how much local governments pour into affordable-housing projects, homeless opioid addicts—nearly all unemployed—will never be able to afford the rent in expensive West Coast cities. The first step in solving these intractable issues is to address the real problem: addiction is the common denominator for most of the homeless and must be confronted honestly if we have any hope of solving it.

What, and risk scaling back an ever-growing bureaucracy?

REVERSE WHAT? AND WHAT GREEN NUDE HEEL? “Losing Earth”… Bad SciFi at its best! And a preview of the Green New Deal.

HINT: SMOKE SIGNALS ARE GOING UP. Which 2020 Democrat Reminds You the Most of Hillary Clinton?

AS A DOG RETURNS TO HIS VOMIT; AS A SOW RETURNS TO HER MIRE:  Rent Control Returns to New York.

Fear not. The Gods of the Copybook Headings are already on the way.

In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selective Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “If you don’t work you die.”

OH, FOR THE LOVE OF LIGHT FANDANGO. WHEN ARE THEY GOING TO FIGURE OUT THAT CURTAILING WHAT THE LAW-ABIDING CAN BUY DOES NOTHING TO STOP THE LAWLESS FROM BUYING/CARRYING WHATEVER THEY PLEASE? WHAT IS BROKEN IN THEIR BRAINS?  British Police Handing Out ‘Blunt’ Knives To Reduce Stabbings.

CRIKEY! NOW HERE’S MY SHOCKED FACE. SHE’S A BEAUT:  Experts Claim It’s Quite Easy To Get Firearms Illegally In Australia.

OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN, GUN FREE ZONES KILL. ABOLISH THEM. IT’S FOR THE CHILDREN: ‘Gun-Free Zone’ Policy Stopped Virginia Beach Victim From Carrying Her Gun To Work.

NIHILISM HAS LIMITED MARKET. IN THE END WE WIN, THEY LOSE:  Messages and Beliefs.

GOOD:  Unlike House, U.S. Senate Unanimously Condemns Anti-Semitism.