ELIZABETH SCALIA: New pogroms and old mob mentalities.
Plus the same old news media dishonesty.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
November 7, 2023
WIN/WIN: Viagra could slash risk of Alzheimer’s disease by 60%: study. Helps you remember, gives you more experiences worth remembering.
THEY BETRAY EVERYONE, IT’S WHAT THEY DO: David Mamet: How the Democrats Betrayed the Jews.
IT’S HARD, AND ALLOWS FOR THE POSSIBILITY YOU MIGHT BE WRONG, SO YES, DEFINITELY: MIT debaters clash over whether STEM is ‘systemically racist.’
DON SURBER: Obama Wants Biden Out.
IF IT WERE REALLY “GENOCIDE,” WOULDN’T THERE BE FEWER PALESTINIANS, NOT MORE, THAN THERE USED TO BE? Stopping Israel’s ‘Genocide’ From Becoming an Acceptable Media Soundbite.
Related:
What does it mean: "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free"?@netflix Hapless, Season 2 pic.twitter.com/Za2Z1W0eTP
— David Boxenhorn (@davidboxenhorn) November 1, 2023
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY:
Trucking employment is contracting the fastest on record this century pic.twitter.com/QPkSc2bBRJ
— Don Johnson (@DonMiami3) November 4, 2023
It’s not because they’re rolling out the self-driving trucks, either.
DO TELL: Andrew McCarthy: It Turns Out Joe Biden Was the Clandestine Agent of a Hostile Foreign Power.
This would be dismissable as “conspiracy theory” if there weren’t extensive, documented evidence of the conspiracy.
THEY PROTECT YOU UNTIL YOU’RE INCONVENIENT TO THE ESTABLISHMENT, THEN THEY PIVOT TO DESTROYING YOU: Now That Biden’s Campaign Is Off the Rails, POLITICO Discovers He Might Be Corrupt.
And none of it has anything to do with truth, justice, or what’s newsworthy. It’s just tools being tools.
FAKE INDIAN ATTACKED BY PROTESTERS AGAINST FAKE GENOCIDE: Pro-Palestine protesters removed from Boston City Hall after disrupting Warren, Pressley event.
MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: The Wheels Are Coming Off The Biden Administration — And Democratic Insiders Know It.
DAN MARKEL UPDATE: Jury Finds Charlie Adelson Guilty On All Counts In Dan Markel’s Murder.
SOME PARTS OF AMERICA STILL WORK: SpaceX to launch its 80th orbital mission of the year tonight.
ALL THAT HAMAS-PANDERING, AND FOR NOTHING? New Biden low: First time Arab Americans choose GOP over Democrats.
Maybe turning your party over to advocates of woke sexual politics was a mistake.
IT’S COME TO THIS: Scoop: Biden Demands Gun Control for Israelis.
LOL, IT’S A POLITICAL TRIAL, OF COURSE IT’S HAVING A POLITICAL IMPACT: FAFO, Trump Trial Edition. “So Trump is giving speeches and, as the judge said, trying to turn his appearance into a political rally. What did he think was going to happen? Is there any conceivable reason why Judge Engeron, or the Attorney General, should have expected anything different? . . . Because everyone knows this is a political prosecution by representatives of the Democratic Party, Judge Engeron and Attorney General James have no moral high ground to stand on. They wanted to see Donald Trump on the witness stand, and that is what they are getting.”
JOHN HINDERAKER: Audrey’s Manifesto.
The leaked pages show Hale to have been full of hate for the “crackers” with “white privlages”–she murdered nine-year-olds–who attended the school. They exhibit the mental disturbance you would expect from someone who is about to commit mass murder, knowing that she will be killed in the process.
But they don’t include much, or anything, about her ideology or her motivation. “Trans” leaders had called for a “Trans Day of Vengeance” to “stop trans genocide,” to take place just a few days after Hale’s murder spree. Was that coincidence, or did activists influence Hale to enact her own “day of vengeance”? We still don’t know.
If the political alignments were reversed, everyone would be sure.
INTENTIONAL NATIONAL SABOTAGE: CDR Salamander: Germany’s Delusions Come Home to Roost.
Some blame Merkel, but she only took a raging fire and threw a bomb on top of it all. This was a long running project of the self-loathing left that most Western nations have, enabled by the supine cowardice of the center-right who was too worried they might be called icky names.
Don’t forget, those warning the problem were called names, some had their pre-Elon twitter accounts suspended or removed, people lost jobs, had institutions and friends disassociate themselves from them, etc. History and logic were on our side, but it did not matter.
But here we are.
They were warned.
THEY SHOULD BE PROSECUTED, AND SUED, UNDER THE CIVIL RIGHTS CONSPIRACY STATUTES: RealClearInvestigations: Documents Shed New Light on Feds’ Collusion with Private Actors to Police Speech on Social Media.
In the runup to the 2020 election, cybersecurity experts at the Department of Homeland Security and Stanford University decided they had discovered a major problem.
The issue was not compromised voter rolls or corrupted election tallies but a “gap” in the government’s authority to clamp down on what it considered misinformation and disinformation – a gap identified by DHS officials and interns on loan to the agency from the Stanford Internet Observatory. Given what SIO research manager Renee DiResta described as the “unclear legal authorities” and “very real First Amendment questions” regarding this gap, the parties hatched a plan to form a public-private partnership that would provide DHS with an avenue to surreptitiously censor speech.
The collaboration between DHS’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency and the Stanford outfit would quickly expand into a robust operation whose full extent is only now becoming clear. RealClearInvestigations has obtained from House investigators records revealing in previously undisclosed detail the nature and mechanics of the operation – the SIO-led Election Integrity Partnership.
They show at a granular level the thousands of tweets and Facebook posts on topics from mail-in voting to aberrant election results – arguably core protected speech – that the public-private partnership flagged to social media platforms for censorship, much of which the platforms would suppress.
The evidence shows EIP – sometimes alongside CISA – pressuring platforms to target speech that included statements by then-President Trump; opinions about election integrity rooted in government records and even think-tank white papers; and speculative tweets from statesmen and everyday citizens alike. RCI details notable instances here.
EIP scoured hundreds of millions of social media posts for content disfavored by the government about election processes and outcomes, and collected it from the operation’s governmental and non-governmental partners to identify the offending speech.
The consequences should terrify would-be offenders for decades.
November 6, 2023
ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST:
https://twitter.com/zechariahsharab/status/1721641456174030948
OPEN THREAD: Let’s do this thing.