DISPATCHES FROM THE INTERSECTION OF THE K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE AND WEIMAR AMERICA, PART DEUX: Loudoun County asks parent to pay $36K for FOIA request for documents regarding ‘sexual assault’ or ‘rape.’

DISPATCHES FROM THE INTERSECTION OF THE K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE AND WEIMAR AMERICA: Fairfax County parents demand school board resign after ‘doubling down’ on ‘porn in schools.’ From PJM alum Tyler O’Neil, now at Fox News:

Parents gathered outside the Fairfax County School Board meeting on Thursday, voicing their opposition to what they term pedophilia and “porn in schools” after Fairfax County Public Schools reintroduced two books containing depictions of sexual activity.

“They’ve doubled down on porn in the schools. They’ve all got to go,” Stacy Langton, the Fairfax County mother who confronted the school board with images from the books in September, told Fox News. “Who’s in favor of porn in the schools?”

Parents protested outside of Luther Jackson Middle School, holding signs reading, “No porn in our schools,” wearing t-shirts reading, “Mama Grizzly” and “Papa Grizzly,” and holding signs featuring the photos of school board members with the text, “Resign FairfaXXX.”

Thursday marks the first school board meeting since FCPS reintroduced the controversial books. “Lawn Boy” by Jonathan Evison includes long sections of a boy reminiscing about explicit experiences he had at 10 years old, and “Gender Queer: A Memoir,” by Maia Kobabe includes photos of sexual acts between a boy and a man.

Read the whole thing.

UNEXPECTEDLY! U.S. employers added 210,000 jobs in November, a weaker figure than forecast. “The American economy hit a speed bump in November as hiring unexpectedly dipped before the holiday season, a sign that companies are cautious about prospects for growth.”

As former investment banker Carol Roth notes, “Jobs report was an anemic 210,000 jobs added despite 573,000 expected. It’s almost as if firing people for not taking the vaccine isn’t a great way to improve the labor scenario. On the bright side, the White House says gas is down two cents.”

And they’ve got the dramatic charts to prove it!

President Klain is also getting into the dramatic charts business:

UPDATE (FROM GLENN):

Free falling: A quarter of Dems strongly disapprove of Biden performance in new poll.

Also: Voters worried about inflation don’t know why we’re spending trillions on Build Back Better, says … Dem who voted for it.

And: Biden tormented by Republican guerrilla campaign and ‘I did it’ stickers.

Also: 100Pcs I Did That Biden Funny Car Stickers. #Resist #CommissionEarned

DAVID SOLWAY: Medical Fascism, or, the Doctrine of Vaccination.

OCEANIA HAS NEVER BEEN AT WAR WITH EASTASIA: Stacey Abrams tells Rachel Maddow she ‘did not challenge the outcome’ of 2018 election.

MOVE ALONG, NOTHING TO SEE HERE: Epstein visited Clinton White House at least 17 times.

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Laid-Off Journalist Trying To Learn To Code Horrified To Discover The Code Is Binary. “‘Wow — that’s really problematic, chief,’ Chalet said. After apologizing for appropriating the term ‘chief’ from the Native Americans, Chalet excitedly realized that exposing the bigotry of the programming community would make for a great Huffington Post article. It was a few minutes before he remembered that he wasn’t a journalist anymore, though.”

STALIN JUST CALLED AND SAID THAT SILICON VALLEY MIGHT WANT TO DIAL BACK THE SOCIALIST PROPAGANDA:

WHEN JOHN GILL DISCOVERS THAT HE REALLY IS JUST A FIGUREHEAD: Biden Says He Jokes With His Wife That, By All Appearances, Fauci Is President.

GOODER AND HARDER, FUN CITY: Bank of America execs warn junior staffers to ‘dress down’ as NYC crime surges.

If only there was a system with a proven track record designed to lower crime in Manhattan.

GOODER AND HARDER, CALIFORNIA:

● ‘Violent Robbery Caravans’ Confronting Police On Oakland Streets.

● Councilwoman wants to offer $50K for officers to work in Oakland.

● Spike of Homicides Causes Oakland Mayor to Reverse Course on Diverting Funds From Police.

● ‘Defund the police’ movement is now dead in Oakland.

Flashback: White Progressives Shocked to Learn Black and Latino Voters Don’t Share Their Radical ‘defund the Police’ Views.

Hence the Oceania-style pivot this year, as a form of triage with the midterms looming large.

WELCOME BACK, CARTER: ‘Living the life!’ DCCC hopes you’ll appreciate the graph they worked so hard on and join them in celebrating Joe Biden lowering gas prices:

Meanwhile: Cringey Kamala Harris Writes the Perfect GOP Campaign Ad During North Carolina Stop.

HARRIS: “It’s not right that families have to choose to either buy groceries or pay for healthcare; to either fill up their tank or pay their rent.

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That’s Kamala Harris pretending to drive an all-electric bus, then honking the horn. “The wheels on the bus go ‘round and ‘round,” Harris said, letting out a big laugh as Pete Buttigieg looks on.

Expect either the first, or both clips of Harris to be in wide circulation in GOP ads next year, likely with the above graphic from the DCCC. This is Dukakis in the tank levels of own-goals.

RIP, BIG RAGU: Laverne & Shirley actor Eddie Mekka dead at 69.

POMPEO CHALLENGES NBA TO TAKE ACTION ON CHINA AFTER WTA’S DECISION TO SUSPEND TOURNAMENTS.

JUSTICE THOMAS ASKS WHERE ABORTION IS FOUND IN THE CONSTITUTION: “What specifically is the right here that we’re talking about?”

“I’M GOING TO SHUT DOWN THE VIRUS, NOT THE COUNTRY:” Biden’s COVID campaign promises have aged terribly.

DISPATCHES FROM THE PARTY OF DEATH: Pro-Abortion Death Cult Ghouls Swallow Abortion Death Pills in Front of Supreme Court. (Video at link.)

(Classical reference in headline.)

‘THERE’S NOTHING FESTIVE ABOUT BOARDED-UP STOREFRONTS:’ Union Square retailers look different this holiday season.

As San Francisco approached the critical December shopping month, instead of holiday lights and Santa Claus decorations, dozens of downtown retailers greeted shoppers with plywood-encased storefronts and armed guards in the wake of mass retail thefts in Union Square two weeks ago.

Around a half-dozen stores in the Union Square area were boarded up on Tuesday, including the Louis Vuitton store and others that sustained damage during the robberies. Other luxury stores such as Gucci, which Mayor London Breed said had an existing security gate system and wasn’t damaged in previous robberies, had a guard outside as well.

ELON MUSK JUST TWEETED THIS STALIN MEME ABOUT JACK DORSEY: “Can we please take a moment to appreciate how Elon continuously picks fights with other powerful billionaire magnates without regard for social propriety?? The madman just does not care, and it’s so entertaining!”

DISPATCHES FROM THE MEMORY HOLE: Biden Family Christmas Stocking Photo Leaves Out Hunter Biden’s 3-Year-Old Daughter, Born Out Of Wedlock.

¡NO PASARÁN!: Puzzling Out the Puzzle Pieces.

The puzzle pieces of what has gone wrong are enormous, so much so that fitting two or three together is unwieldy, while attempting to piece all the pieces together is both a fantastical and terrifying project, overturning long-held dearly held assumptions about government, public safety, human worth, personal liberty, and the dignity of our lives. Simply put, piecing together the bigger picture puzzle is traumatizing. To protect ourselves, the puzzle pieces are commonly processed separately, which is to say without correlation.

Read the whole thing.

THE GUILD PROTECTS ITS OWN: MSNBC avoids breaking news of Chris Cuomo’s suspension, refrains from criticizing rival CNN anchor.

“Rival?” Cuomo Adviser Bragged That MSNBC Host Was ‘Saying My Spin Live.’

Even CNN is memory holing its latest modified limited hangout: CNN Gives Chris Cuomo’s Suspension One On-Air Mention, Under One Minute.

Flashback: Jennings and Brokaw Defend Rather Who Sees Effort to “Smear” Him.

ROGER SIMON: Now More Than Ever Conservatives Must Get Off Twitter.

Now, however, Jack Dorsey has resigned and a new CEO installed, the company’s former CTO, Parag Agrawal.

After only one day of the new regime—what breitibart.com aptly calls “Gulag Parag”—Twitter has actually made a turn to the worse, taking it further toward the fascistic.

The platform has issued new rules banning the sharing of images or videos without, in most cases, the explicit consent of those being photographed.

In other words, good-bye the victims of Waukesha because there was no time to ask people questions, let alone get the consent of the mass murderer.

Good-bye, Antifa burning buildings. (Can you imagine getting their permission? You’d probably get bashed over the head with a skateboard, if you were lucky.).

Good-bye, virtually anything that reflects poorly on the left or their ideologies. BLM riots and similar are unlikely to appear again.

What was most interesting about Twitter was its immediacy. No more. We are now in the era of “selective immediacy.”

Twitter will only show what the new regime wants it to. How neo-Stalinist. No wonder Dorsey wanted to beat it and turn over the reins before the inevitable pushback.

Speaking of which, who is Parag Agrawal? He has been accused of racism for, you guessed it, an ancient Tweet.

I’ll give him a pass on that, largely because Twitter itself, through its telegraphic form that rewards the clever put-down over the substantive, consistently brings out the worst in people. Social media, as I implied above, is misnomered. It should be called anti-social media.

I won’t, however, give Agrawal a pass on his new regulations. He comes from the tech world and it seems increasing numbers of techs are skeptical of free speech, perhaps because they study technology, not history. Technology has the illusion of being definitive when it’s not. (Remember “garbage in, garbage out.”)

This is a moment of change toward the further totalitarian at Twitter and, as is written in the I-Ching, “Change… Opportunity.”

The opportunity here is for conservatives to finally get off. Agrawal and company have provided an excuse for those who need it. To remain on a platform that has ramped up its already significant censorship capabilities to such a degree would be a new level of hypocrisy.

And toward what end? Is anybody really listening, anybody who might be convinced of something? Will the gang at CNN finally admit their constant prevarications? Hardly.

Abandoning the decentralized Blogosphere for the walled gardens of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube was a huge mistake, particularly for conservatives. Somebody should write a book about the reasons why.

MICHAEL WALSH: Justice Thomas’s Moment Arrives, as Supreme Court Reviews Abortion Rights.

IT’S ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: Jussie Smollett Uncovers Who’s at Fault for His Race Hoax and You’ll Be Shocked to Learn It’s Not Jussie Smollett.