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A professor of pan-African studies with a leadership role in Black Lives Matter urged her audience to “f— up” an officer with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Sunday, stating that there should be nowhere the agent could “go where they are comfortable.” Melina Abdullah, a professor of Pan-African studies at California State University, Los Angeles, identified the ICE agent by name, mentioning the hotel he was staying at. She urged her audience to “study guerrilla warfare” and use “every single tool in your toolbox.” “So, when I say f— him up—and I say f— Brian Palacios up, who may be...

“[The 9/11 terrorists] weren’t cowards. But I’ll tell you who is. Democratic party politicians, and I’ll tell you why. Because nowhere has this moral confusion become more obvious than in a place called Gaza, a little strip of land that was not part of the original Israel but which they won in a war launched against them, but then gave back as a peace gesture,” Maher said. “Did they tell you that part on TikTok, kids?” “The people who run Gaza, Hamas, who you celebrate as a liberation movement but are really a terrorist mafia gang just like the one...

I never would have guessed that one of the leading voices in popular culture against the madness of transgenderism would be author J.K. Rowling. She has been making it known in no uncertain terms that she does not believe the nonsense that a man can just wake up one day and declare himself a female, any more than Michael Scott can stand up in the office of Dunder Mifflin and declare bankruptcy legally by shouting, "I declare bankruptcy." Dudes are dudes for life, like it or not. The same goes for biological females. Chromosomes do not change. Your sex is...

America’s most daring and insightful playwright tried to warn us that we were going haywire. By making him a hate object, American theater has made us all poorer. In response to a positive review in The New York Times of the recent revival of David Mamet’s American Buffalo, one young theater maker, @harharharbour wrote, “F**k Mamet, there’s nothing he has to say worth hearing. Stop giving racist transphobic playwrights platforms. This show is shit.”This tweet epitomizes what is now an entirely mainstream, and in some circles mandatory, view of David Alan Mamet, 74, of Chicago, the great American writer of...