THE OCCUPYING JUNTA LIKES TO THANK THE GOVERNORS AND MAYORS WHO HELPED THEM:  Your Tax Dollars Are Bailing Out San Francisco and New York in the Name of COVID Relief.

YEAH. WE’RE WAY PAST THAT:  “They’re a Private Company.”

DOES HE HAVE TO BE A ZOMBIE?  We need a zombie Molière to write “Tartuffe 2021”.

WELL, OBAMA HAS THE MIERDAS TOUCH:  The emmerdization thesis.

DEAR LORD:  Newsom Starts His Presidential Campaign.

Guys, we need to get our voting rights back. He’s not only malevolent. He’s dumber than a box of rocks.

THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE:  Cuomo Order Meant Disabled COVID Patients Died.

WE NEED TO KICK OFF OUR CHINESE-PUPPET GOVERNMENT AND GET IN THE RACE:  China and Russia sign partnership agreement for lunar exploration.

I SUSPECT MOSTLY IN NAME:  Nicaragua forms space agency,

Unless of course it’s some way to funnel international money into the country.

THEY’RE COMING FOR ALL OF US:  Today’s blacklisted Americans: Conservative student journalism conference shut down by city of Alexandria, Virginia.

If we let them.

LET THE PUBLIC DECIDE: The Real Answer To ‘Problematic’ Film Representations.

Stop letting neurotics shame and silence creators.

FIGHT THE POWER: Tucker Carlson Opens Up a Can on the NY Times Over Reporter ‘Controversy’, Leaves No Stone Unturned.

More on this here.

NOW OUT AND DOING WELL: The Deep Rig: How Election Fraud Cost Donald J. Trump the White House, By a Man Who did not Vote for Him. Barnes & Noble version in nook is here.

THE DEAD HAND OF STATE CONTROL: Federal COVID-19 Bailout Prohibits States From Cutting Taxes: The measure could also make it illegal for states to create new tax credit programs, such as those used for expanding school choice.

OPEN THREAD: Don’t disappoint me.

RIP: The Man Who Invented The Cassette Tape Has Died; Lou Ottens Was 94.

THE CALIFORNICATION OF AMERICA:

California’s lawmakers have been trying to “fix” this terminally [AB5] flawed bill ever since it passed, but that’s of no consequence to the social engineers who make up the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives. This week, the House once again passed a labor-reform law crafted in 2020 that seems to have been modeled on AB5, and its effects would be just as disastrous if it were to become law.

The Protect the Right to Organize (PRO) Act would impose the so-called “ABC Test” on all employers. It reserves independent-contractor status only for those doing work that they control, and that they are incorporated to perform, and that falls outside the scope of a contracting firm’s normal business. Advocates insist they’re just trying to extend National Labor Relations Act protections to all workers, but the law would effectively impose AB5’s restrictions on independent contractors and eliminate a freelancer’s competitive advantage across state lines.

Earlier: Biden just endorsed a law that endangers 57 million jobs.

YESTERDAY’S ANTIMATTER POST garnered some interest, so here’s a reply from Jim Bennett: “Actually, as I recall, the big problem was not using the antimatter in this fashion, but obtaining it in sufficient quantity. We can only produce it now in laboratory quantities. Of course, that’s what they told General Groves about enriched uranium in 1942.”

Heh. Indeed. And here’s a report from the 1988 Rand conference on anti-proton propulsion.

JUST LIKE TRUMP, THE DISSIDENTS ARE BEING LOCKED OUT OF TWITTER: Russia slows down Twitter in latest social media clampdown. “The move marks the latest efforts to limit social media platforms often used by opposition figures in the country.”

Everywhere, the oligarchs fear the voice of the people.

TWO WEEKS WAS OKAY, TWO MONTHS WAS CRAZY, LONGER WAS UTTERLY INSANE: Jay Bhattacharya, Stanford Doctor, Calls Lockdowns the ‘Biggest Public Health Mistake We’ve Ever Made.’

BRYAN PRESTON: Court Case Accuses Panda Express of Subjecting Employees to ‘Cult-Like’ Training That Forces Them to Strip With Co-Workers.

In the past few weeks, we’ve learned that Coke and UnderArmour subjected employees to bizarre, woke training that told them to “try to be less white.” One might think that that’s as bad as corporate training could get.

Panda Express in California asks corporate America to hold its beer.

The Boston Herald reports that a former employee is suing Panda Express for degrading training:

A former employee of a Panda Express in Santa Clarita alleges she was required to strip down to her underwear and hug a partially clad co-worker during a “cult-like ritual” at a 2019 training seminar sponsored by the company as a prerequisite to promotion.

The 23-year-old woman is suing Panda Restaurant Group, headquartered in Rosemead, and Alive Seminars and Coaching Academy in Pico Rivera for sexual battery, a hostile work environment and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

This could cross from a civil case over into sexual assault. The Herald doesn’t name the plaintiff in the suit for that reason.

We need a complete and total shutdown of corporate training until we can figure out what the hell is going on.