Homeless man viciously attacked woman & her dog in Prospect Park. Dog died a few days later. Now the community is debating whether attacker should be arrested. He is black & victim is white. “It’s complicated,” says NYU ethics professor. God help us.
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Christina Sommers
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Senior Fellow, AEI. Former philosophy professor. Author of War Against Boys and Who Stole Feminism? Host of YouTube’s The Factual Feminist.
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In the past week academics on my timeline have variously come out against:
- assigning reading
- awarding grades / measuring attainment
- insisting on attendance
- research
- the idea of academic excellence
This is all parody, right?
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Don Lemon destroys his female co-hosts over unequal pay in sports:
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It's a sign of unhealthy thinking when your movement's position is that the New York Times is inspiring murderous hate crimes nymag.com/intelligencer/
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If you think America is highly polarized, you’ve been fooled by social media selection effects. Twitter is theater; it doesn’t reflect reality, it dramatizes it. And this dramatization convinces us that everything is falling apart.
My new essay.
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This is a wildly irresponsible way to report on sports. To frame a soccer match in 2022 between Morocco and France as one pitting “the world’s colonized” against “the world’s colonizers” is insane. nytimes.com/2022/12/14/bri
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For people asking “is this real?”
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Ideologues, grifters & fetishists got a seat at the table via corrupted DEI initiatives and their goal is always to separate parent from child.
This man is a poster-child for what is wrong progressive ideology in America today.
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“Sam Brinton…played a key role in developing a model school policy adopted in multiple states that instructs school districts to keep "unaffirming" parents in the dark about a potentially suicidal child’s gender identity or sexual orientation.”
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A man walking his dog with a drone
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I will be funding a prize for any novel published in 2023 that isn’t a moving exploration of trauma and identity
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The progressive activist strategy of insisting there's no medical debate about how treat gender-questioning kids, and attacking reporters who show otherwise, is a dead end
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On the Euphemism Treadmill, "unhoused" may soon become the prescribed replacement for "homeless." Here's another idea: how 'bout let's not [FdB]
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Facing a long and cold winter, Kyiv zoo (which became a refuge for zoo animals from all over #Ukraine) is stocking up on firewood.
We will overcome!
#StandWithUkraine #StopRussiaNOW
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Opinion: While Musk has been so busy calling out the inconsistencies, groupthink and lack of rigour in the virtue-signalling left, he seems to have failed to notice his own
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Lowry: “it’s hard to imagine how Trump could have had a worse month-long run. Ordinarily one might say, as a way of exaggerating to emphasize the point, that it only could have been worse if he had had dinner with a Nazi —but, of course, he did that, too.”
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Portlandia bookstore was more fun.(Don’t miss Harper from White Lotus!)
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Lol. A recent event at Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn. Progressive pieties strictly observed. Speakers introduced with their pronouns. Masked host instructs audience “masks are to be worn the whole evening.” All in first 30 seconds.
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“Brittney Griner… is now back on American soil and feeling “upbeat, thankful and hopeful,” according to her agent. If only more of her supporters were feeling the same.”
Absolutely brilliant ..
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UK's media has been reporting on this for years! 2019: "So many potentially gay children were being sent down the pathway to change gender, 2 of the clinicians said there was a dark joke among staff that 'there would be no gay people left'."
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Hopefully this is accurate. I mean - obviously they are facing a supply crunch, but "critical shortage' is a fairly specific term implying immediate tactical implications.
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In today's RUSI lecture, @AdmTonyRadakin_ offers this assessment: "Russia faces a critical shortage of artillery munitions. This means that their ability to conduct successful offensive ground operations is rapidly diminishing". Notably says Russia planned only for a 30-day war.
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“The conventional wisdom that Trump is the favorite to be the GOP nominee is no longer borne out by the polling data.”
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My latest @axios, on Trump hitting the Mendoza line— worst numbers since 2016: axios.com/2022/12/15/tru
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ICYMI, my take on #TwitterFiles at (yes there's a story there; no it's not what it's being sold as). cf
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. is right. The discriminatory ideology known as “anti-racism” is taking over healthcare, and it's endangering the well-being of every patient.
We must speak out and fight back.
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I'm genuinely curious about long this will go on.... Foot binding lasted for a thousand years....
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LA Mayor gets sworn in today with seemingly everyone masked. Occasional theater masking is so silly and embarrassing. 3+ years into Covid and they just won’t give it up.
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The visual system is more sensitive to movement than to stationary stimuli. That's why animals instinctively freeze when they don't want to be seen. Who knows what you might miss because it's not moving? bit.ly/3ipK7mh
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Just published in CJP: “The epistemic significance of social pressure,” by Hrishikesh Joshi. Read now, no login required:
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"Just as Western observers failed to understand how seriously the Ukrainians were preparing—psychologically as well as militarily—to defend themselves, we haven’t been watching as Taiwan has begun to change too," writes:
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I am not impressed by the methodology of this study, it's conclusions, or the newspaper article reporting it. We deserve better from all involved.
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Long Covid has caused or contributed to at least 3,500 deaths in the U.S., a study of death certificates by the CDC found. The tally is less than 1% of all deaths linked to Covid, but it shows that it is possible to die from lingering symptoms. nyti.ms/3hiImJK
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This is beyond disgusting. How anyone could defend this regime is beyond me.
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Iranian footballer Amir Nasr-Azadani has been sentenced to execution by the Islamic Republic for 'campaigning for women's rights'.
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While Taylor Lorenz complains about journalistic ethics, let us remember the time George Conway had to go on Twitter to publicly tell her to stop contacting his 15-year-old daughter for dirt on her mom.
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NEW: At least three (possibly four) guaranteed income initiatives in the San Francisco Bay Area openly discriminate against white residents, limiting or entirely preventing their participation in programs that dole out no-strings-attached cash.🧵
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Some college students say they have started hiding their Jewish identity in fear of rising antisemitism
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Thrilled to have this essay, “Real Life Does Not Fit The Narrative” published by today in her new publication .
It’s a piece about the pleasing strangeness of reality and the unsatisfying falseness of “the narratives.”
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Why Iran’s Protests Could Topple the Regime - WSJ
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I got to go bowling with the vice president’s speechwriter sometime. Really.
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Kamala Harris has a message for Africa's young leaders: "Simply put, your ability to see what can be, unburdened by what has been."
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The Washington Post, which has lost 500k subscribers in the past year, has announced layoffs are coming to the paper. The meeting didn’t go well.
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