If you're here at my pinned tweet, that means I did something very funny or very stupid
If it was funny, you can reward me by donating to Lilith's medical fund
If it was stupid, take comfort that you are donating to someone much smarter & kinder
I find the entire story fascinating b/c the original poaster is basically saying "Fine. If there are no legal / social rules anymore, I will play that game" and everyone is horrified that someone would play that game against people who are already playing that game
On "cancel culture":
Yesterday, they crushed
@KyleKashuv
's Harvard career b/c some shit leaked private messages from when he was 15
Today, they are begging for mercy b/c Harvard law students publicly celebrated the largest Jewish genocide since the Nazis
Tomorrow, they will…
Probably the craziest thing about this video is people saying "god, I hate rich kids" but this is a public school that spends $9K per student
Baltimore spends $16K per student and that gets them pretty much nothing but failing students
Nike is going to remove all their Redskins merchandise, but, in a gesture of goodwill toward China, they will continue allowing their shoes to be made by sterilized Uighur Muslim slaves.
Even if you don't like DeSantis, you have to admit that it was a brilliant move to show a video of the material taken out of schools
Now Dems are sharing his video and calling it porn, effectively conceding that there was porn in school libraries and they want to keep it there
A weird thing about community notes is that journalists just lie to you, the truth is right there below their lies, and they apparently feel no responsibility to address the fact that they just lied
I really want to say this in the nicest way possible:
If a church staged a "die in" after a Christian killed a bunch of people at a gay bar, that would be interpreted as a mockery of the victims
That is what is happening here
A trans die-in after a trans person killed six people including three children is the height of absurdity. Maybe if trans people really wanted to stop trans people from dying, they should encourage more access to suicide hotlines.
I'm trying to avoid the White House tweet b/c it is legitimately the most stomach turning thing I've seen in modern politics
The WH is attacking people who chose to cooperate w/ gov't to keep their employees paid & the entire left is dancing with glee over it
It *is* illegal to teach kids religion in a public school
We *already* have a "Don't Say Bible" law, enforced by a bevy of SCOTUS rulings spelling out the details of how religion must be approached in public schools
people died alone, without their families, without their spouses
my neighbor was torn from her husband's side during his heart attack and not allowed into the hospital until he had already died
it's good to know there are doctors laughing about it
I find this interesting b/c I look at it and think
"have you really consumed zero child-oriented media in the last 20 years?"
There is almost nothing that is pro-boy. My son is obsessed with Calvin and Hobbes in part b/c it is the most *recent* media that celebrates boyhood
Stop it.
Stop it now.
Stop printing this shitty news without any damn context.
193,105 people in Oregon have gotten both doses of vaccine. 4 of them tested positive, and are either mild or asymptomatic.
That's not news. That's completely expected.
This is going to end up being the most easily preventable crisis in the history of American health policy
"experts" and politicians thought they could bully people into the Covid vaccine and ended up poisoning the incredibly hard-won cultural victories for childhood vaccines
There is an ugly inclination in the press to view COVID deaths in red states as the result of malevolent GOP governors and their hick electorate getting what they deserve while the horror of NYC is a largely unavoidable tragedy for which no local officials are truly responsible
do you want a black pill?
like... a really really black pill?
George Carlin would be pro-censorship if he were alive today b/c he didn't actually love free speech, he just fucking hated Christians
Liberals: Wait, I can't speak my mind without losing my job? That's is horrible and dystopian
Conservatives: This has been our lived reality for 10 years
Liberals: That's terrifying! I hope it continues for you but it should definitely stop for me.
The person who sued him made a dozen different requests, including a satanic dildo cake, in her attempt to put him out of business by bogging him down in lawsuits.
The state of Colorado is complicit in this attack on him. They should be forced to pay his legal fees.
When the final history on the decline in institutional trust is written, there should be a chapter on Obamacare
We were subject to 2 years of fact-checks, expert opinions, and projections and they were all bullshit
Obamacare changed nothing, made nothing better
Healthcare…
The message our culture is currently sending is "If you target and kill Christians, we will completely ignore the people you murdered and lavish your preferred group with money, sympathy, and encouragement."
I cannot stress enough how dangerous this is
I once did a deep dive on fact checkers and this "yes, it is true, but we don't like the guy who said it so we will say it is half true" is alarmingly common
One of the most long-standing consequences of the media abandoning any pretense of objectivity is that I basically will not believe any single thing they say about whatever is happening right now
Sorry, that trust bridge is burned. There's no going back.
"Not even in the Civil War did insurrectionists breach our capital"
Puerto Rican nationalists breached the Capitol in 1954 and shot 5 members of Congress
Jimmy Carter commuted their sentences
They count every white male who shoots people as "right-wing" in this study, even if they specifically called themselves socialists
They also include domestic violence as "right wing extremism"
Look, I don't want to get my info from explicitly right-leaning publications but apparently if you want to know anything about that guy who mass murdered people at a parade last week, that's where you have to go.
ngl, i find this kind of shit flat-out evil
people looking to adopt are some of the most long-suffering, vulnerable people who consciously chose pain over comfort for the sake of a child
mocking them is evil. It is (appropriately enough) what cartoon villains do
In six months there's going to be a fact-checker writing "Did Democrats actually try to ban gas stoves? No, this is a conspiracy that Republicans made up and you remember incorrectly."
There is a good chance that the 74 year-old woman who sat in front of an abortion clinic will get more jail time than the guy who killed a kid for being a Republican
fuck them. When the political winds change, you should absolutely take the opportunity to fuck them.
You asked to be left alone and they tried to fire you.
They celebrated the murder of children and now, realizing their folly, they are begging for mercy
No. No mercy for people…
@StephLauren
Lots of unvaccinated people have gotten COVID and not died. They tend not to get it again b/c natural immunity is more protective than vaccine immunity.
I don't know much about Jan 6 & I don't know about federal sentencing guidelines so I can't say much
But I was in Seattle when lefty shitheads set up a separatist camp for weeks, physically attacked the press, & multiple kids were shot & it was treated like a cute hippy thing
Now that Gavin Newsom has announced the COVID vaccine mandate for school children, I'm looking forward to hearing from all the people who told me that DeSantis' "mask mandate ban" was improperly overriding local control of school districts
On Rufo: what do integrity police say about his claim to have “master’s degree from Harvard,” which is actually from the open-enrollment Extension School? Those students are great - I teach them- but they are not the same as what we normally think of as Harvard graduate students
I'm trying to avoid Mr Hogg's pillow company but this is the most astounding parody of gen Z we could ever hope for in which they think that a successful company needs, first and foremost, fully staffed HR and PR divisions before they get around to silly things like products
This is a good example of our different worlds
Stewart fans are like "lol, he owned that dude by changing the subject"
I look at this and say "Um... Stewart completely bailed on the topic of protecting kids from sexual performances. He was losing, so he fled to another topic"
Holy cow this is good.
Jon Stewart easily lures a pro-gun/anti-drag queen Republican into a trap…and then blasts him over his blatant, shameless hypocrisy.
Here is what is happening:
Someone wanted her to create a website. She said no.
Instead of finding someone else (there are a million website creators out there) they sued her
This isn't about the website. This is about punishing the dissenters.
A Colorado designer says she has a First Amendment right to refuse to create websites for same-sex weddings, despite a state anti-discrimination law. The case will be argued Monday before a Supreme Court that has transformed since a similar case years ago.
See, this is why I hate all news
Because Hawaii, famously well vaccinated and with very tight COVID controls, has followed TX almost exactly in COVID rates and all I see in the news is "Texas sucks, look at Texas, fuck them"
"We are seeing"
Dude, been seeing this for years. When I worked at [huge media company], there were open conversations in Slack about how to get conservative colleagues fired
You started this, you begged for it, you demanded it
“We are seeing people being fired from their jobs, being investigated by HR over their social media posts or conversations with colleagues, and having job offers rescinded. There is a clear trend that people’s jobs are being targeted right now.”
This is an absolutely wild exchange
The most insane part is where the View host states that all of
@JedediahBila
's information has been "debunked" but everything she said is either CDC-endorsed info or widely accepted medical opinion
My son's school is closing for Tuesday & Wednesday. Why? Did they find a bunch of COVID cases?
No. The message they sent parents was that they are worried kids will catch COVID over the Labor Day weekend so they're closing school pre-emptively.
This is ridiculous.
Here is what is going to happen y'all
This summer, for the third year in a row, the south is going to get hit with a COVID surge when it gets too hot to stay outdoors
For the third year in a row, the press and Democrats will mock the south, sneer at them for getting sick /1
My liberal friends are posting pictures of the Richmond rally and saying "would you take your kids to this" while, directly below that, my conservative friends are posting pictures of themselves with their kids at the rally.
The downfall of civil society is when unreasonable people discover that they can impose upon reasonable people to a near-infinite degree b/c reasonable people pride themselves on being flexible, kind, and gentle to their opponents
I don't want a teacher wearing a "Jesus Saves" shirt to class
or "Support the NRA" or a MAGA hat or "Back the Blue" or "Free Tibet" or any number of things that will distract from their job of teaching children
Why is LGBTQ+ supposed to be the exception to this?
modern communist China is about as close to Nazi Germany as we have in this era so if you're wondering how people and corporations could have possibly worked with the Nazis, just watch how they work with China today
The fascinating thing about the Great Barrington Declaration is that 30 months into the chaos of Covid, it was clearly correct on every single point it raised
And yet no apologies have been issued to the authors or signers for the attacks they suffered
We've really gotten to a point where masks are more of a symbol of power than an attempt to control the pandemic.
If you're powerless (kids in schools, service workers) you wear a mask b/c they can make you. If you're powerful, you don't b/c they can't.
I am in New Orleans today
Masking here is insane
You need to mask up to enter a bar. 15 seconds later, you take you mask off to order
It is a near-perfect moral signaling device. It serves no purpose other than to show you are Obeying The Authorities
they are bad people. They intend to be bad people in the long term.
They hate you. They intend to hate you in the long term.
They have an entire strategy that involves them being bad people for a half century, accumulating power and money while laughing at your principles.
I don't see how this can go on
The cost of my employer-sponsored healthcare last year was $25K and no one in my family of 5 utilized any kind of significant healthcare
I am deeply worried about our culture
In the last 2 years, I've watched people cheer the deaths of terrified Russian soldiers, helpless left-wing advocates, & elderly right-wing pundits
We are becoming a culture of death, laughing and jeering at the suffering of our outgroup
New CDC Director Mandy Cohen recalls how she and her colleagues came up with COVID mandates during her time as NC Health Director.
“She was like, are you gonna let them have professional football? And I was like, no. And she’s like, OK neither are we.”
I can't tell you how dangerous this is.
At every moment, elite institutions have chosen and are choosing to promote the most authoritarian, vicious, dishonest, arrogant, anti-debate, evidence ignoring, pro-mandate pro-establishment water carriers from the COVID era
JUST IN: The Biden administration has picked its replacement for Anthony Fauci as the new head of NIAID: Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, fanatical and outspoken supporter of COVID lockdowns, the WHO, vaccine and mask mandates for adults and children.
I have this weird obsession with how the smartest people can lose their minds and become obsessed with conspiracies while retaining their remarkable intellectual abilities, like how Bobby Fischer went insane while remaining a brilliant chess master
I bring this up for no reason
Genuinely funny that the mainstream liberal position is "All you have to do is humbly submit to your master. Prostrate yourself in public and you may live in peace."
This is fascinating in that there seem to be a group of people who believe, from the bottom of their hearts, that the way to convince people that their own lives are not so bad is to show them graphs
Reflecting on the recent attacks on Salman Rushdie, crisis pregnancy centers, and Supreme Court justices, the FBI is more committed than ever to tracking down the owners of Betsy Ross flags and trying to talk them into committing crimes
It is insane to realize there is a solid possibility that a hostile foreign power created a virus that killed 10X more people than any nuclear weapon and our gov't response has been "yeah. probably. but we have to keep funding their research or something bad might happen"
It's also worth pointing out that Chick-fil-a's franchising model is designed as a pathway for lower-income lower-education people to make fantastic money
It's an open secret that, economically, Chick-fil-a is basically exactly the company liberals always say they want
The reason we are the first is because all the other countries evaluated the data and determined that giving mRNA vaccines to their youngest children was pointless at best
I've spoken out forcefully against the recent use of tear gas at our borders. I've since learned that this practice was commonplace under Obama, just not widely reported. I readily admit that my outrage is unfairly placed. This isn't just a "Trump" issue. It is an American issue.
Wow.
The US performed about 22K COVID-19 tests on Monday.
In a week, our testing capacity has grown from about 2,500 a day to 22,000 a day.
Some things are bad, but that is very good.
In 10 years, these students who support the murder and rape of Jews will be running every major US corporation and they will fire you if your Amazon Alexa overhears you saying that you think trans ideology has gone too far
This is the final crack in my broken heart - a joint statement from
@Harvard
students. I could be sitting in class with these students, watching children brutally murdered, raped, kidnapped and their mutated bodies torn apart by a jeering crowd - and hear why it’s justified.
I don't like talking about Rebekah Jones, her bullshit is endless
But her saga is one of the strongest examples of the parallel realities we inhabit
Jones lied about this. But it's just flying around twitter as unvarnished truth.
SCOTUS: We are returning the power to regulate abortion to the states.
Blue Governors: This ruling changes nothing, we will still run our state exactly as we see fit
SCOTUS: um... yes. Yes, that's exactly what we just said. And now Mississippi gets to do that too.
Let me be very clear: This ruling changes nothing in Minnesota today, tomorrow, or as long as I am governor. We will not turn back the clock on reproductive rights.
They arrested and convicted pro-life protestors for sitting in front of an abortion clinic. They face up to 11 years in jail
These protestors will not face that retribution not b/c this isn't illegal but b/c the people in charge approve of it
Pro-Palestine protesters vandalize and deface a US Military Cemetery in Los Angeles where 85,000 war veterans are buried.
They need to be arrested and the non citizens need to be deported. This is completely unacceptable. Where are the police?
Not that Joe Rogan would listen to me, but yes. He absolutely should sue CNN. And NPR and ABC and every outlet that said he was taking horse dewormer.
He should sue each one for $100 million and I hope he wins.
B/c they will not stop lying until they feel pain for their lies.
pro-life protestors were arrested, convicted, and the federal government has requested a 33-41 month sentence for a 74-year-old woman with no prior convictions
I've little patience for anyone who says "oh this is a nothingburger"
Twitter's top executives lied. They lied to their users, they lied to Congress, and it is now a proven certainty twitter acted on requests from political actors to suppress speech
that's a big deal
6. Twitter denied that it does such things. In 2018, Twitter's Vijaya Gadde (then Head of Legal Policy and Trust) and Kayvon Beykpour (Head of Product) said: “We do not shadow ban.” They added: “And we certainly don’t shadow ban based on political viewpoints or ideology.”
I've now read a couple of sober pieces (Facebook posts, emails) from friends and colleagues who are effectively anti-Israel and now I think I understand the "tearing down posters" thing a bit better.
They absolutely refuse to acknowledge what happened on Oct 7th.
If these protestors are not arrested, it's proof we live in a country of partisan injustice where the left can commit violence without fear of arrest
There were pro-life protestors who did this but more peacefully and they were arrested and face 11 years in prison
Citi employees are LOSING THEIR SHIT. They literally poured coffee on some of our friends today. They do not respond well to being called climate criminals.
Yeah, it would be really bad if the Journalism Bots swarmed to make false accusations against, say, a high school student from Covington being confronted by an activist, and you didn't get the real story until honest humans reported the truth
People cheer on media layoffs but don’t come crying when your local AI fake news bot starts falsely reporting you were arrested for something and you get fired and there are no real journalists left to cover your plight! Or when there’s a local disaster or corruption!
If you want to make the argument that "teachers are experts just like doctors are experts" that's fine
I hope you will join me in calling for legislation that allows student the ability to sue schools and universities for educational malpractice
If you're pro-life and you "occupy a building" as a protest, you are committing a federal crime and you will arrested and convicted
You will do multiple years in jail, even if it is your first offense
I feel like I'm losing my mind a little: people understand that "occupying buildings on campus" is, like, one of the most common forms of studen protest for decades and not some devious new ploy devised by professional anarchist plotters, right?
I don't care about the Senate dress code one way or the other, but I have yet to see anyone explain *why* Fetterman can't just dress in a suit and tie
Is he refusing to do so? Is he not capable of functioning if he's not wearing casual clothes?
Both those options seem bad
I see that the Obamacare crowd is having fun furiously demanding that paying $22K in premiums alone for high deductible care is good actually and that's exactly what we were told would happen
I would be in favor of state or federal law that says that, if a company wishes to fire an employee based off a viral video clip, they must pay 6 months severance and issue a press release saying they are liable for $1 million per month in lost pay if they got it wrong
I cannot imagine being such a sociopath that I hear a man begging that I please stop my behavior that will send him to prison and I just sit there and let it happen
VIDEO THREAD: Yesterday, July 4, activists demanding Joe Biden declare a "Climate Emergency" blocked traffic on he beltway in Maryland, just outside DC.
One agitated driver got physical with them while saying that he's on parole and could return to prison if late for his job.
It's insane how the "fuck the police" crowd is furious that Youngkin pardoned a guy who showed up at a school meeting distraught b/c someone raped his daughter and then the cops beat the shit out of him and threw him in jail for being upset about his daughter getting raped
Glenn Youngkin is all about law and order until he can use a pardon to help his failing presidential ambitions or try to change the campaign focus from taking away women's rights to his billionaire funded mission to destroy & privatize schools
The community note here is really fascinating b/c it exposes one of the strategies
@PolitiFact
uses to deceive its readers:
They routinely reframe the context of the "fact" in question so that they can claim that their team is honest or the other team is dishonest
I hate hate hate the state of journalism
I thought it was crazy that Idaho made it illegal to travel to another state to get an abortion only to look it up and discover they made it illegal for an adult to take a minor across the border for an abortion w/o parental consent
I'll say this again:
This is a DIRECT consequence of the fact that people let the severe Covid restrictions come and go with zero consequences
Covid taught authority figures that they can treat the people under their authority like trash and they will simply accept it
Here, a USC senior who was robbed of a high school graduation by the COVID Panic reacts to USC cancelling her college commencement because of an anti-Israel valedictorian and fear of protests…
This is the world that liberals want and are creating for her and her generation.😡🥲