EVERYTHING IS RACIST: Professor Denounces Cleanliness as Sexist and Racist.

There was a time when cleanliness was viewed as “next to godliness.” That clearly has changed. It is now apparently next to white supremacy. While it would be impossible to discuss all of the wacky scholarship being published today, Loyola (Chicago) Professor Jenna Drenten is a standout with a new theory that “cleanliness” is a “cultural gatekeeping mechanism” with “racist,” “sexist” and “classist” roots. It turns out that the sweet spice rack that your kid brought back from shop is actually a stratified, structural vehicle for white supremacy and male dominance . . . unless you keep it messy. Otherwise, you are pushing racist, sexist “pantry porn.”

Professor Drenten has struck out at a social media trend of posting videos showing off different ways to organize pantries. Where many see neatness, Drenten sees racism and sexism. She notes that these video creators, “predominantly white women,” have created “a new status symbol” to replace the old one of “nice houses,” “nice yards” and “nice neighborhoods.”

This, I guess, is why we can’t have nice things.

PRIORITIES: Air Force Will Pay Big Money for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Jobs.

THEY CERTAINLY WERE WOKE AND… YOU KNOW THE REST: More On How SVB Screwed The Pooch. “Social Justice is bad enough by itself, but it’s also a marker for those incapable of thinking clearly enough to focus clearly on their main jobs.”

SAY ANYTHING: Lyin’ Joe Biden Says MAGA Republicans Want to Defund the Police.

21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Pornhub Acquired By Canadian Private Equity Firm ‘Ethical Capital Partners.’

A VERY PUBLIC EDUCATION: New Student-Led ‘Red Guard’ Installed in Maine School District Causes Fury at Board Meeting.

“I’M NOT GOING BE IGNORED, DAN”: ‘Shouted Down’: KJP Smiles Her Way Through Mini-Rebellion During WH Press Briefing.

The press secretary said it is “with coordination” with the rules of visiting leaders and the press will be able to ask questions at the Oval Office.

“But he doesn’t answer questions,” one reported said.

“That’s not true, he’s answered questions,” Jean-Pierre said, following a series of shouting from a group of reporters.

“The press is always shouted down when we’re in the Oval Office,” one said.

“They always shout at us to get out,” someone else said.

“I hear you guys, I hear you guys,” Jean-Pierre chuckled.

When Biden was busy barely campaigning in 2020, the press didn’t seem to have much trouble being ignored like this.

MEGAN FOX: YouTube Protects Trans Groomer, Demonetizes My Video About Him as ‘Graphic Descriptions’ of Child Abuse.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ILYA BUYNEVICH: I grew up in the Soviet Union. Even those universities valued merit more than some American schools do today.

Walking near Temple University, I noticed a flyer advocating for “socialism in our lifetime.” The message from an outside group reads in full, “Socialist Revolution: Join the fight for socialism in our lifetime.” Having grown up in Soviet-era Ukraine and now a tenured professor at Temple, I feel strongly that most college-age Americans do not understand what they are saying when they advocate for socialism.

Today, many American college students do not understand that they are advocating for a system that goes beyond what even the Soviets promoted. There is a real distinction that students do not appreciate between the romanticized idea of state socialism in Scandinavia and the reality of socialism – what I experienced as a student in the Soviet Union.

Most student activists tout equity and many undergraduates champion socialism as a means to achieve equity – a process to engineer outcomes. Where I grew up, this would mean giving everyone the same grade, so it was never a factor in Soviet higher education.

Read the whole thing.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Climate Change Whackos Are the Real Danger to the Planet. “The only upside to all of this is that a lot of the younger climate cultists don’t want to breed because they’re convinced that we’re doomed, so a voluntary culling of the herd is under way.”

JULIAN EPSTEIN: Democrats Fear the Truth About Biden’s 2024 Presidential Run.

My fellow Democrats have shown their own kind of cowardice by refusing to say that President Biden shouldn’t run for re-election. Polls show most Democratic voters don’t want Mr. Biden to run again, but Democratic elites apparently believe that any dissent from party leadership or independent thinking—even in the name of an obvious truth—is dangerous to their job security.

To be sure, opposing Mr. Biden’s 2024 run can be tricky. He is a preternatural panderer with nearly every audience, which keeps many activist groups at bay. And increasingly he comes across—even to his supporters—as a foggy retiree. Attacking him can seem ageist, even sadistic.

But unlike his Democratic presidential predecessors, Mr. Biden’s job approval has been consistently in the dumps, and his legislative record is debatable at best. He and his staff promised centrism but instead governed from the far left. Voters of all races—especially working-class voters, for whom Democrats claim to fight—continue to desert the party.

Maybe the real reason Democrats are afraid to speak the truth about Biden is that they don’t have anyone better to replace him.

A VERY PUBLIC EDUCATION: Utah Teacher Has Kids Eat Bugs Because Cows Are Destroying the Environment.

BAN ALL THE THINGS: Bay Area will end sales of gas furnaces and water heaters.

The rules, approved by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, are meant to reduce air pollution from some of the worst home-appliance offenders. The main pollutants targeted are nitrogen oxides, or NOx, which can cause acid rain and smog as well as increase risk for asthma and other respiratory diseases.

People will be able to repair their gas appliances if they break — but the rules take effect when existing gas-powered furnaces or water heaters no longer work and need to be replaced. New construction will also be required to have zero-NOx — effectively, electric — furnaces and water heaters.

Coming up next: Black market furnace and water-heater repairs, just like Harry Tuttle in Terry Gilliam’s Brazil.

Also coming soon: Black market Skittles.

FOLLOW THE MONEY: BLM Shakedown Raked In Billions; This Group Tracked the $$$.

SAY ANYTHING: Fauci Claims GOP Attacking Him Because of His Honesty.

I’M SO OLD, I REMEMBER WHEN REDUCING WOMEN TO THEIR BODY PARTS WAS CONSIDERED GAUCHE: First-Year Med Students Told to Call Women ‘People With Cervices’; Professor Slams ‘Anti-Biological’ Lesson.

GET WOKE, GO BROKE: Vacationers Are Falling Out of Love With Woke Disney Parks.

IF YOU LOOK AROUND THE TABLE AND YOU DON’T KNOW WHO THE SUCKER IS, THE SUCKER IS YOU: White House hopes Biden’s relationship with Xi can defuse U.S.-China tensions.

Now that Chinese President Xi Jinping has consolidated power and effectively ended collective rule, he’s the lone figure in Beijing making decisions that will drive future relations, according to U.S. officials who were granted anonymity to offer frank assessments of the relationship.

It is Xi who will decide whether China invades Taiwan; Xi who will determine whether China gives lethal arms to Russia in its war in Ukraine; Xi who will calibrate how hard to push North Korea into curbing a nuclear arms program that threatens the United States and its allies.

“The answer is China. Now what’s the question?” Jeremy Bash, a former CIA chief of staff, said on the country’s role in global affairs as Xi starts another five-year term.

One question is whether the Biden administration can deter Xi from actions that put the two nations on a path to conflict. Biden often tells aides that when they speak publicly about China, they should stress the need to open lines of communication, a senior administration official said.

Yet because of Xi’s dominance in China’s system, the only conduit that truly matters in staving off catastrophe is the one that exists between the two presidents, administration officials and analysts say.
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Having gotten to know Xi, Biden hopes to use those insights to put the U.S. and China on a safer footing. A recent security assessment written by U.S. intelligence officials warns that China wants to build a “world-class military” capable of “offsetting perceived U.S. military superiority.”

Hope is not a plan. Buffing up the Navy and eliminating the woke BS in favor of real training… now that’s a plan.

WELL, GOOD: Poland Becomes First NATO Country to Send Fighter Jets to Ukraine. “I must add that Poland — and there’s no better way to put this — absolutely rocks.”

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Is Paramount Feuding with William Shatner? “The exclusion of James T. Kirk in modern ‘Star Trek’ marketing is yet another example of efforts to diminish Shatner’s contribution and to emasculate strong male characters on television and at the movies.”

KRUISER: Democrats Continue Construction on Their High-Rise House of Lies. “As a conservative in the entertainment industry for over 30 years, I’ve had a lot of personal exposure to Democrats and progressives. I’ve witnessed their evolution in the 21st century from both macro and micro perspectives, and it isn’t pretty from any point of view.”

HEH: Important Safety Tip. “Don’t attempt to steal a helicopter unless you can actually, you know, fly a helicopter.”

HMM: Trump Super PAC Files Ethics Complaint Against DeSantis.

FASTER? PLEASE! It Sure Seems Like Darkstar, Lockheed’s Secret High-Speed Jet, Is Real. “Aircraft manufacturer Lockheed Martin recently tweeted about the famed SR-71 Blackbird ‘being the fastest acknowledged crewed air-breathing jet aircraft.’ (Italic emphasis our own.) As first noted by The War Zone, the tweet could be a subtle reference to the SR-72, the long-rumored hypersonic successor to the Blackbird.”

I wonder what they actually call it, assuming it exists.

THE PRIMARY BATTLE LINES ARE BEING DRAWN: Prominent GOP Congressman Endorses Ron DeSantis.