BLUE ON BLUE: Black Lives Matter infighting reaches a boiling point as members demand ‘accountability.’ “Amid increased scrutiny of Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Coullor’s lavish spending, including her reported purchases of multiple homes totaling upward of $3 million and the installation of fencing and an electric gate around one of those homes, the original ten BLM chapters are demanding more accountability and transparency from the BLM global network.”
Grifters gonna grift.
SEXUAL ASSAULT: A Dean of Students reflects: ‘How Much Damage Have My Colleagues and I Done?’
I thought about the specific faculty members I had relied on to serve as advocates, investigators, hearing officers, the ones who willingly gave time and energy to our efforts to stop students from harassing and assaulting one another. Is that who she was talking about? As a dean of students, I had been indebted to these colleagues. Never once had I heard their motives questioned. I certainly had never questioned them. But as I listened to Young, I realized there was a very different perspective out there.
It had never occurred to me that others might condemn their efforts, and as I listened, this counternarrative came into focus as though I were twisting a camera lens. What if Young had a point? What if these feminist warriors, women in their 50s, 60s, 70s, had taken their academic research, turned it into experiential learning, and in doing so, tilted the playing field toward the students, mostly young women, who took their classes? It was no coincidence, Young claimed, that the rise of women’s studies programs on college campuses coincided with the arrival of women’s centers and victims’ advocate services. . . .
The possibility that this young woman held in her hands the power to derail their son’s education, something these parents might have been imagining since he was in utero, was untenable. The possibility that the process designed to respond to exactly these sorts of accusations already appeared to presuppose his guilt — that was unimaginable.
No amount of assurance on my part convinced them that their son would be treated fairly. If that were the case, why were they already being told he had to leave campus and his classes before there was so much as a preliminary hearing? . . .
“My son’s hearing was a joke,” she said. “He never stood a chance. Do you know that the hearing officer and the investigator are good friends? And that the ‘advocate’” — she practically spit out the word — “they assigned to him was also a friend of theirs? I found them all on Facebook, attending the wedding of the person who is supposed to hear appeals. All friends. I saw them leaving together after the hearing, and in the parking lot of a restaurant heading in together. We decided to eat somewhere else.”
I thought about my colleagues, the small college team I worked with every day. We were friends. We sometimes dined together. We would have walked across campus together after a hearing. It had honestly never occurred to me how that would look to an outsider desperately seeking a fair hearing for her son. In her eyes, the fix had been in. She told me what college her son had been expelled from. I knew some of those people. I knew my counterpart there, knew him to be a highly regarded senior student-affairs professional. I offered no defense, however, because I had none.
There is no reason to trust the system. It’s interesting to see someone who spent years in the system slowly realizing that.
JOHN MCGINNIS: “It Is a Sordid Thing, This Divvying Us Up by Race.”
WE SHOULD ABOLISH QUALIFIED IMMUNITY FOR POLICE AND OTHER BUREAUCRATS — AND ABSOLUTE IMMUNITY FOR PROSECUTORS: Over 24 Cops Raided the Wrong Address and Wrecked an Elderly Man’s Home. They All Got Qualified Immunity.
CATS AND DOGS LIVING TOGETHER, WHALES SWALLOWING PEOPLE — REAL BIBLICAL STUFF: Cape Cod fisherman OK after whale gulps him down, spits him out.
Humpback don’t actually eat people. Experts say this kind of behavior is essentially unheard of, and likely is just a freak incident — a fluke, if you will. There’s a pretty good chance no one outside of Nineveh-bound biblical figures can match Packard’s story.
Marine mammal expert Peter Corkeron of the New England Aquarium told the Herald that humpback whales are “gulp feeders” who eat by unhinging their mouths and taking big lunges through the water. And when you’re 50 feet long and weigh 30 tons, as humpbacks can, sometimes you don’t really have too much fine control over where you’re headed, he noted.
Sounds fishy.
GREAT MOMENTS IN SELF-OWNERSHIP: NBC Hilariously Thinks It Caught Rep Louis Gohmert in a Guam ‘Capsizing’ Moment and Gets Trolled Hard.
HANNAH COX ON reducing depression risk.
COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Guns and Gear Purchases Were up 60 Percent in 2020.
WHY DOES THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION HATE SICK PEOPLE? Rollback of Trump-Era Insulin, Epinephrine Rule Clears Hurdle. “A rescission of a Trump administration drug rule requiring community health centers to give all their insulin and epinephrine discounts to patients has cleared White House review and can be published at any time.”
THE WAR AGAINST HISTORY: TIME Article Deploys Glaring and Obvious Errors in New Slam on the Alamo Defenders ‘Myth.’
YOU CAN’T AFFORD TO HIRE THE KIND OF ACCOUNTANTS AND LOBBYISTS THAT BEZOS, BUFFET, AND GATES CAN: Biden Won’t Close the ‘Tax Gap,’ but He Will Snoop on Your Bank Records.
BREAKING: Feds subpoenaed Hunter Biden during 2016 election, raising worry over unpaid taxes on Ukraine work. JustTheNews is reporting that a newly discovered trove of emails shows that long before Trump was even elected, Hunter Biden and his associates were being investigated for Ukrainian monkey business:
“Emails written five years ago by Eric Schwerin, an executive inside the Rosemont Seneca business empire where Hunter Biden worked, shows there was about $1 million in personal income – about $400,000 in 2014 and $600,000 in 2015 — that the younger Biden had earned as a board member and consultant for Burisma that had not been fully covered by U.S. tax payments.”
The most important part (for me, anyway):
“Nothing was unethical,” Joe Biden declared during the last presidential debate of the 2020 campaign, referring to his son’s overseas business dealings. In fact, the email exchanges between Schwerin and the lawyers make clear Hunter Biden had failed to pay taxes on the Burisma money, something Ukraine’s chief prosecutor tried to bring to light to U.S. authorities starting in fall 2018.”
But of course, back then it was all about Trump being a Putin employee. And many brain-damaged people still believe this.
Another over-sold narrative bites the dust.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Terran R Rocket from Relativity Space Will Be Completely 3D Printed, Completely Reusable.
SHE’S NEVER EVEN “BEEN TO ME”: Kamala Harris Won’t Go to the Border, But We Found a Partisan and Possibly Racist Meeting That She Will Take. “Kamala Harris still won’t go visit the U.S.-Mexico border despite the fact that the crisis her boss created there continues unabated — and he gave her the job of doing something about it. She hasn’t shown up for the job, she had an awful trip to Guatemala that accomplished nothing, and doesn’t like taking questions about any of it either.”
HMM: CDC calls ’emergency meeting’ on vaccine heart inflammation cases. This may well turn out to be overblown — that’s actually my expectation — but it’s another reason for people who don’t really need to be vaccinated, like those who have already had Covid, not to get the shot right now. And maybe a reason not to vaccinate teens and kids, who are at extremely low risk from the disease anyway, but who appear to share the risk of heart inflammation.
FATHER’S DAY GIFTS AT HELEN’S PAGE: Get Dad (or yourself) an original American flag Art piece or find some interesting barware or other gift’s at Your Lushlife’s Vintage shop. The American flag artwork is free with a donation to Special Operations Warrior Foundation (and his listing is verified as I know him) and the latter has a discount at the link.
WHY DID CRASHES GO UP EVEN THOUGH DRIVING WENT DOWN DURING THE LOCKDOWNS? “The proportion of drivers testing positive for opioids nearly doubled after mid-March, compared to the previous six months, while marijuana prevalence increased by about 50 percent.” When you scare people, they self-medicate.
STILL NOT ACTING AS THOUGH THEY BELEIVE IT’S A CRISIS: Sierra Club burns fossil fuel to protest oil & gas industry; deletes Tweet after hypocrisy noted.
WELL, THAT’S SURE TO WIN HIM OVER: DNC chair: Joe Manchin hates America, you know.
Put aside Harrison’s dishonest spin on the bill itself, and just marvel at his political ineptitude instead. Manchin is the only man standing between Mitch McConnell and control of the Senate floor. The massive shift in Manchin’s home state puts enormous pressure on him to flip parties anyway. And now the chair of Manchin’s own political party is calling Manchin a traitor not to the party but to America on national television for not supporting progressives’ performative bill — which has no chance of passing the Senate even with Manchin’s vote.
Harrison probably shouldn’t count on Manchin’s vote for the Green New Deal, either. Can’t wait for Harrison to call Manchin a traitor to the planet when that happens.
So will this push Manchin into flipping? It probably should, but Salena Zito says to quit wishing for a Manchin-led GOP majority. Manchin won’t get chased out of the Democratic Party, and he won’t get bullied into votes either. Manchin doesn’t want a plum committee chair assignment — he wants to make the Senate work again:
Harry Reid, Manchin’s fellow Democrat, did his best to finish off that last goal.
WEALTHY BLM CO-FOUNDER PATRISSE CULLORS BUILDS A WALL AROUND HER POSH ESTATE: “It will have an electronic gate at the driveway portion, a walk up door, and call box, and other safety measures, cameras – you know, to keep the riff raff out.”
Exit quote: “Ah yes, one must keep out the riff-raff. Cullors wouldn’t want an angry mob of protesters screaming at her house through an electric bullhorn…Next thing you know, she’ll have armed guards.”
LIKE TOOBIN, WEINER STANDS FIRM AND PROUD AGAIN: Anthony Weiner back on Confide, app he used in underage sexting scandal.
“This week Anthony Weiner got a lengthy profile in the NYT. Today Jeffrey Toobin got his old job back at CNN. And of course, Bill Clinton is welcome anywhere at any time. Is there a sex pest the libs won’t welcome back for telling them what they want to hear?“, Jim Treacher asks.
See also, Bad Touch Biden:
Last year, voters evidently decided that voting out #OrangeManBad was more important than #metoo:
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