BACK TO WORK! OR NOT. Amazon’s Seattle campus still quiet as 5-days-in-office deadline hits.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
January 6, 2025
“LABOUR” PARTY. UK Labour Party Determined to Stomp Working Class Into Serfdom. “The revolting self-righteous progressives now in charge of what’s left of Britain are angrily ruffling their feathers at the very nerve of their lowly interrogators. You can hear the disgust drip.”
Well, the road to serfdom always turns left.
CAN’T STOP THE SIGNAL:
Every once in a while you find a gem of a comment hidden in a NYT article about climate (and the comment should really be the headline). pic.twitter.com/U3AD8s0ejW
— Tweets from Zach Weinberg (@zachweinberg) January 4, 2025
BOOK REVIEW: How Elon Musk Thinks, and Why It’s Working.
Related (From Ed): But wait — a powerful new dragon slayer has emerged. Choose your champion!
A "disinformation expert" has descended from the Mountain of Truth to pronounce for all mortals what is and is not true.
This is a fake credential — completely fabricated — and anyone who uses it for themselves or others is a fraud. https://t.co/tFSkflj2VU
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 6, 2025
THAT WILL BE DEVASTATING: Florida plans to examine return on investment of Women and Gender Studies in higher education.
IN A NUTSHELL:
One of the main reasons behind the political alignment we’re seeing in the West is that the working & middle classes finally woke up to the fact that the Left hates them.
— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) January 5, 2025
OF COURSE THEY ARE, IT’S GOING TO TURN OUT THAT HALF OF THEM ARE COMPLICIT IN THE RAPING: British Elite Seem Angrier at Elon Musk than About Migrant R@pe Gangs.
Looking at this case, the Diddy stuff, Harvey Weinstein, Epstein’s Island, etc., and Andrew Breitbart’s demand of the left, “Stop raping people!” seems prophetic.
NOT THIS BULLSHIT AGAIN: Violence Words: Sen Chris Murphy Says RFK Jr ‘Wants to Kill Our Kids.’
MATT TAIBBI: Gaslit Nation: From drones to terrorists, authorities are having a laugh at the public’s expense.
To be fair, they’re laughing, but they’re also laughable.
ICYMI: PREFERENCE FALSIFICATION REVEALED.
It looks like Good Morning Britain's @GMB poll blew up in their face.
Nearly two-thirds of Brits welcome @elonmusk's involvement in UK politics. pic.twitter.com/P98dPgl62R
— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) January 4, 2025
FAREED ZAKARIA: “Why Is the Left Flailing? Look at New York vs. Florida.”
YES: “Encouraging Debate, Not Settling It”: Bret Stephens Interviews Vanderbilt Chancellor Daniel Diermeier. I serve on the board of the Institute of American Civics with Diermeier and I’ve been very impressed with his work there.
January 5, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Will 2025 be the year of Starship? SpaceX’s megarocket is growing up.
If everything goes perfectly, I think SpaceX will send as many as 5 unmanned Starships to land on Mars. They will then manufacture methane fuel from the Martian atmosphere as they wait for (possibly manned) Starships to arrive two years later. It’s basically a variation on Bob Zubrin’s old Mars Direct architecture taking advantage of much better rockets than were around, or expectable, back in 1990.
“INTERSECTIONAL GRIEVANCE MATRIX:”
The vast majority of Democrats voting against a bill to deport child molestors and rapists makes perfect sense once you realize the following:
“Woke” is not “hypersensitivity to bigotry.” It’s an inherently marxist worldview that assigns guilt, not based on the facts of a…
— Nick Freitas (@NickJFreitas) January 5, 2025
IN OTHER WORDS, IT’S COLD & FLU SEASON: Viruses spiking in the United States as peak season arrives in winter.
NICE TO SEE SOMEONE NOTICE:
Over the last few years many people have questioned the “Special Relationship”we have with the US and spoken awfully about Trump.
How ironic as we can now clearly see that two Americans, Trump and Musk, care more about us all and our country than our governments have for…
— Rael Braverman (@raelbrav) January 3, 2025
WHICH IS GOOD, BECAUSE IF YOU PUT THE STATE IN CHARGE OF THINGS, THOSE THINGS TEND TO SUCK: Maj Toure: The State Isn’t In Charge of Gun Safety, We The People Are.
THIS IS A REALLY INTERESTING POINT AND I MAY WRITE SOMETHING ON THIS:
I think overall people are less easily fooled now than they were in the past. Part of the disintegration of a cohesive society is the result of this awakening. I really hope it leads somewhere good. I worry that it won’t.
— Seán Ono Lennon (@seanonolennon) January 3, 2025