I can't think of a precedent for this authoritarian move. We lived through a nightmare while the narrative class tested its power to make it seem like a noble struggle. That apparatus is still in place & so are the major personnel, now doing cleanup. The machine learned a lot.

In the first 30 days of my administration, I’m ending sanctuary city policies/status. I’m conducting a full forensic audit of all municipal budget activities to find out exactly where taxpayers’ money is going. I’m also going directly into our communities, talking to citizens and encouraging qualified Chicagoans to apply to become police officers. We will create strong incentives to recruit and retain officers so we can address the shortage of nearly 2,000 officers. When people know their leadership cares about them, supports them, and has their backs, they don’t mind working hard for you. That’s the kind of leadership I’m bringing to Chicago. Danielle Carter-Walters for Mayor-2027 #justicecarter# #commonsensecarter# #dcwforchi#

👨‍⚕️ This is very true. So why on earth do they charge $$$$ annual tuition? First & second year med students sit in a handful of lectures a day - most often streamed so they’re not even in person! Could play back pre-recorded lectures (free). 3rd/4th years they act as free labor in hospitals & clinics, helping take care of patients as they learn. Again, how does that cost anything? Sure, they have administrative costs and costs for cadavers in the anatomy lab but it’s a drop in the bucket compared to what they charge for tuition, not to mention $100+ application fees per school (which they charge you even if you have no chance of getting in!). I want to open a free or nearly free med school: Everyone accepted as long as they meet prerequisite courses etc. Years 1 & 2: fully online, taught by best professors on earth. Tests at testing centers. Community primary care preceptors 1-2x/week. If you pass boards exam, you move on. Otherwise you don’t. Years 3 & 4: Rotations at local hospitals & clinics. No expensive apartments. No moving. Learn to practice in your own community where you likely intend to practice medicine in the future. Slightly different experience but reduces barriers to entry. Won’t just be for the rich. Parents, middle and lower class, anyone can become a doctor if committed.

Can you give me even one example by name? Most of us know exactly what we ought to do about it, and say so: Treat people as individuals, not members of groups, and we should all do our damnedest to apply the same standards to everyone, whether it's a question of hiring, firing, promotion, or college admissions. For 50 years, public policy has demanded we do exactly the opposite, and it has been toxic--approaching lethal toxicity in 2021-2024.

(long tweet warning) This thread and I want to discuss the issue of the elderly and feeling like second hand citizens. It is DISGUSTING to me that medical providers now shove everything online. My mother was never technologically oriented and now that both her memory and eyesight are failing, she's given up using a computer or cell phone, let alone a smart phone, at all. It causes her genuine distress to have to try to do so because it makes her feel like she is stupid. Every medical appointment is check in through whatever branding the medical provider has slapped on EPIC. There is a massive push to have all visits be virtual. My mother cannot navigage that at all. And, again, making her do so makes her feel stupid and small. As you can imagine, I take that well. No, do not hand my mother a tablet and say here just do this. She can't. She is not cognitively and physically capable of doing that and asking her to do so is just flat out mean. It's also pushing off work from staff to the patient but that's a whole other discussion. My father, bless him, tries to do the check ins and he sorta kinda knows how to use the messaging system. What my father does not know, because I do not tell him as I do not need to hurt his pride, is that all his medical providers call me to ask to clarify what on earth he sent them since his typing is so atrocious. He cannot do virtual visits unless it is set up either first thing in the morning so I can log him in before heading off to work or at a time I can run down during my lunch hour (bless my work for being incredibly understanding of my having to come in late/take long lunches). All the robo calls to confirm appointments come to my cell phone because otherwise my parents wouldn't even get the calls due to the robocall blocking that is set up on their landline. Even something as simple as watching television can be a problem since they'll accidentally hit a key on the remote and that switches the input and they have no idea how to switch it back, even though I have typed up instructions for them in 45 point font so they can read it easily. Fortuantely, my parents have me, someone who is at least moderately tech savvy. I take care of the digital lives that are forced on them. If they did not have me? I do not know what they would do. This enrages me. My parents should not be pushed to the very edges of interacting with society just because they can't use a smart phone. Yet here we are. /fin

This is odd. The Guardian quoted the soccer player Magnus Okuonghae, who went to school with Jason Arday, saying he recalls that Arday could speak. Now they've edited their piece and made the quote anonymous (see the archived vs. current ⬇️).

The argument is: "I don't need you believe my false claim to be something I am not for me to obtain the power to force you to act as if it were true, which has always been, and remains, the goal," which has always been true. It's just that some kind of emollient rhetorical circumlocution is necessary for now.

As much as Ilhan Omar might disgust you, keep this in mind: She represents her constituents EXACTLY how they wish to be represented. Three quarters of a million people in her want her to actively destroy America. Keep that fact in mind to remember what the problem TRULY is.

The judge who released Valdez from prison just 24 hours before he m*rdered an elderly man in front of his home, is Nichelle Holmes. She was appointed by Gavin Newsom. NAME AND SHAME

Pluralism means that some people are free to believe that feeling like a woman is what makes you a woman and other people are free to reject this belief. That belief does not confer any right on a person who holds it and does not impose a duty on any other person to share it. Agencies of the state have no business forcing anyone to share such a belief, teaching it to children in school as fact, or conferring a special privilege to bearers of that belief to violate sex-based boundaries or to coerce others into paying obeisance to those beliefs. When people speak of "trans rights" they are always, without exception, speaking of such special privileges, (to enter women's bathrooms, changing rooms, shelters, prisons, and sports; to force people to refer to them by preferred pronouns, to have the state falsify their official documents in deference to their belief that feeling like a woman is what makes someone a woman, to have a legally enforceable right to enter lesbian speed dating events that no event organizer can deny except at risk of legal penalty) granted on the basis of that claim, and though Cassie is trying to appropriate the language of pluralism, he is speaking of such special privileges too, when he speaks of "rights." That is to say that while claiming to uphold liberalism and pluralism and freedom of conscience, he is in fact seeking to eradicate it for all unbelievers in the false claim that feeling like a woman is what makes someone a woman. His novel move, which impresses folx who are desperate to grant every trans rights demand (essentially all of which have already been granted by every Blue state and city, with some degree of rollback in Red states) while enacting a charade of moderation and reasonableness, is just to say "it doesn't really matter whether my belief system is true, so long as all my demands are granted." The article was written in a way that will attract criticism from trans activists, who are wedding to forcing people to believe the false dogma at the heart of the movement, and also from from unbelievers of trans dogma, who recognize that it seeks the entire package of trans privileges nonetheless, without any grounding in belief -- thus framing itself as a form of "moderation." It's a clever rhetorical strategy, but basically empty filibustering, which is all that Democrats want to do until such time as they regain power and impose the entire package of mandates through state power.

Blue America's model of the world (in this case, professors, not randos) is so false that someone saying "white college student tried to lynch his black friend" is treated as a serious and plausible allegation and not frothing-at-the-mouth lunacy.

🚨 NEW According to DHS, Marcos Iriarte-Valdez—the man accused of stabbing a 68-year-old man in front of his home in Martinez—is an illegal alien. Due to California law, local law enforcement could not turn him over to ICE when he was previously arrested for violating a protective order in 2025 or for burglary earlier this year. Contra Costa County currently allows limited cooperation with ICE after a conviction for certain serious or violent crimes, which is permitted under state law. However, the Board of Supervisors is considering a new non-cooperation policy that would prohibit law enforcement from voluntarily cooperating with ICE in almost all circumstances—even when the individual is a convicted murderer. Today, immigration activists organized to attend the Board of Supervisors meeting to demand that the Board pass an ordinance codifying strict non-cooperation. There was extensive discussion of “safety” and “protecting residents,” but the practical effect would be to shield illegal aliens from being sent home, including those who are dangerous criminals. One speaker accused ICE of being murderers while arguing for protections for actual convicted murderers. The Board will consider the policy change at its September 8 meeting.

To recap: -- Colorado passed a law that makes it easier for convicted sex offenders to change their names legally -- Two speakers gave a public testimony in opposition to that law and used accurate, sex-based language to refer to a man who claims to be a woman. --The legislature interrupted and silenced them and struck their remarks from the record -- The Institute for Free Speech is seeking review by the Supreme Court of the lawsuit that emerged from this exchange. As I've repeatedly pointed out, "misgendering" is the foundational civil right. If you cannot refer to a material fact about a person, you are not free.

so then you agree that there should be no DEI, no preference by race or origin, and absolutely, unconditionally no welfare, healthcare, or housing given to immigrants by the state? because if people can come here and live off the taxpayers and get preferenced for jobs, well, then your whole premise seems false.

Tonight the Libertarian Party will vote on whether LPNH should be kicked out of the party. Regardless of what happens, we're thankful to the thousands of supporters we have across the country. We're proud to be an unapologetic, right-wing voice for liberty. Cheers!

My take on the Arday debacle. Elevator pitch version: 1) Arday is typical of a thriving alternate-universe academia elevating performance art over curiosity; 2) the "anti-racist" people who supported him are either bigots or caught up in recreational tribalism.