OF COURSE: Trump Dropped UNHRC Because of Terrible Human Rights Records, Biden Rejoins Anyway.

SEGREGATION NOW, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER: Georgetown campus ministry hosts retreat meant only for black students.

SENATE CAFETERIA WORKERS JOBS LOST AS DEMS PANDEMIC: Barring something unexpected, come tomorrow, at least 80 Senate cafeteria workers will be out of a job, thanks to Washington Democrats insistence on wringing every last drop of Pandemic regulation out of the COVID-19 crisis, according to the Washington Free Beacon’s Joseph Simonson. 

The rest of America has returned to a state closely approximating normal, but Capitol Hill, which is controlled by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer still bans the public and all non-credentialed media from entering the premises.

Half or more of congressional staffers rarely show up in their members’ offices to work, preferring instead the comforts of home and telecommuting. The result is much less revenue for the cafeterias in the six big congressional office buildings.

FORGIVING STUDENT DEBT IS JUST A FINANCIAL TRANSFER FROM THE WORKING CLASS TO THE GENTRY CLASS: Yes, the ‘median American’ does have $0 in federal student loan debt.

I HOPE THIS IS A HARBINGER: Kenosha County Just Went Red For The First Time In DECADES After BLM Riots And Kyle Rittenhouse Case.

ROBERT SPENCER: American Stasi: ‘Citizen Sleuths’ Are Ratting Out Jan. 6 Protestors Who Haven’t Been Arrested.

SEGREGATION NOW, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER: Harvard created ‘exclusive space’ for ‘Black-identifying audience members’ by basing theater admissions on race.

SLOWLY GRINDING: Durham Filings Reveal Timeline of Conspiracy to Frame Trump.

MAKE THEM PAY: Former Clemson student wins $5.3 million sexual assault defamation lawsuit.

A former Clemson University student has been awarded $5.3 million by a South Carolina jury as a result of his lawsuit against his accuser and others.

“Last week, a South Carolina jury awarded $5.3 million to a wrongfully accused Clemson University student on defamation and civil conspiracy claims,” SAVE, a due-process advocacy group, announced in a news release yesterday. “The decision is believed to represent the largest amount ever awarded to a student falsely accused of sexual misconduct.”

“The defamation and civil conspiracy claims arose from a consensual sexual encounter between two Clemson University students, plaintiff Andrew Pampu and defendant Erin Wingo in October 2015,” attorney Kimberly Lau wrote in a Substack entry. Lau represented Pampu. She did not provide any official documents from the settlement in her article.

“Ms. Wingo falsely characterized the sexual encounter as rape due to her alleged alcohol-induced incapacitation,” Lau wrote. “However, the evidence showed that Ms. Wingo was not ‘incapacitated’ at the time of the encounter, nor did she forget the incident.”

Lau previously helped Pampu settle with Clemson. The attorney “finalized plaintiff’s settlement with Clemson University to resolve plaintiff’s claims against the University for violations of Title IX of the Education Amendment of 1972 and the Fourteenth Amendment of the Due Process Clause,” she wrote. “The University was required to remove the disciplinary notation from plaintiff’s transcript and make a monetary payment to plaintiff for his damages.”

I bet Clemson is glad that it settled.

I’VE SEEN THE LOCKDOWNS AND THE DAMAGE DONE: Experts warned COVID would hurt students’ mental health. Now, teachers are living that reality. “Following the pandemic, there’s been an increase of depression, panic attacks, eating disorders, fights and thoughts of suicide plaguing students nationwide.”

WE’RE TOLD IT’S UNTHINKABLY BIGOTED AND YET IT’S NOT THAT UNPOPULAR EVEN AMONG ACTUAL DEMOCRATS: Poll: Only 52% of Democrats oppose Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ policy.

THIS WEEK’S MOST UNDERREPORTED STORY: Border Patrol Agents Accused of ‘Whipping’ Cleared of Criminal Misconduct, Union Chief Says.

REMEMBER WHEN THEY SAID TRUMP WAS A THREAT TO THE RULE OF LAW? Reporters call for White House to ‘simply ignore’ Supreme Court decisions.

WE NEED MORE OF THIS: California’s Corporate Board Diversity Quota Law Held Unconstitutional: “… the Legislature is thinking in group terms. But the California Constitution protects the right of individuals to equal treatment.”

JEFFREY SINGER: Against Scientific Gatekeeping: Science should be a profession, not a priesthood.

ICYMI: CHOOSING SIDES: Disney Hires Dem Political Operative to Lead Global Communications.

Related:

I was against copyright extensions for Disney long before the current dispute. I have even argued that they are unconstitutional as violations of the “limited term” provision in the Patent & Copyright Clause. The piece, which was published in the Harvard Journal on Legislation in 2000, is here.

FLASHBACK: “The elites present themselves as anti-fascist and anti-racist but this is merely a way of defending their class interests. It is the only argument they can muster to defend their status, but it is not working anymore.”

#METOO: Head of U.S. Space Force launch operations ‘watching Starship closely.’

WANT A GUARANTEED ANNUAL INCOME? Just move to Palm Springs, California, where the city council just voted unanimously to create a Universal Basic Income (UBI) program.

Hans Bader points out, however, that there is a catch – you must be either “non-binary” or transgender. But don’t worry, it won’t be long before eligibility begins to be expanded because it’s a government program.

BUT OF COURSE: Warning: Biden’s costly overregulation turns ‘extreme’.

BIDEN JUST GETTING STARTED ON BORDER FLOOD: Leaked document from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) talks about “Broadscale Release Mechanisms” to deal with the expected surge of immigrants expected when Title 42 ends.

BRENDAN O’NEILL: Now we know just how dehumanizing the ‘Nazi’ slur can be.

As for the masses who voted for Trump, or for Brexit, clearly they had been brainwashed by neo-fascistic propaganda. The vote for Brexit was ‘in the fascist tradition’, said the Archbishop of Canterbury. Then there were self-styled ‘anti-fascists’ like Paul Mason, who said Trump had tapped into a ‘plebeian mass base for American fascism’. Those fascist-leaning masses. Mason also argues that in modern-day Britain ‘the psychological traits’ that made Nazism possible in the 1930s are now most commonly found among ‘working-class people and the urban poor’. This is surely only a more polite way of saying ‘Nazified masses’, of suggesting that the throng, the mob, is susceptible to fascist-style brain invasion. Pro-war Russian thinkers claim the people of Ukraine have been corrupted by Nazi thought; our own chattering classes claim the people of Britain and the US, especially the poorer ones, posses the ‘psychological traits’ that are amenable to far-right ideology.

No, our elites are not agitating for violence against the ‘Nazified masses’. And yet they share something deeply disturbing in common with the Putin regime and its extremist supporters – an addiction to writing off vast swathes of people as fascists, or at least ‘fascist-adjacent’; a compulsion to dehumanise certain politicians and their voters through the language of the 1930s. The tragedy of Ukraine has shown just how toxic the Nazi slur can be. Those Russian soldiers who appear to have murdered citizens in Bucha will have been fed the lie that these people, like all Ukrainians, are a Nazi menace to civilised society. They will have been told, essentially, that they’re subhuman, for that is the role the Nazi accusation plays today – to depict certain people as morally inferior, as lesser, as lacking the intellectual and moral resources required to function as a decent member of society. It seems to be a terrifyingly small step from believing that somebody is a Nazi to believing that they deserve to be shot like a dog in the street.

Read the whole thing.

HOW CHRISTIANITY COULD HAVE BEEN STILLBORN: What if Jesus’ enemies hid his dead body, so they could roll the rotting corpse down Jerusalem’s Main Street as soon as the disciples began claiming the resurrection? HillFaith Studies looks at why the fact that didn’t happen is immensely important today (and it’s not just so we would have an Easter holiday on the calendar!).

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Democrats All-In On Being the Pervert Option for November. “The Democrats have long been preying upon the youngest among us via abortion. There was a time, however, that the kids seemed to get a bit of a grace period from them if they managed to survive the Planned Parenthood gauntlet. I don’t know what the kids did to them but that grace period is no more.”

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