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Progressives who’d decided that “soft on crime” is a winning message in urban America got a well-deserved wake-up call Tuesday, as Philadelphia Democrats tapped Cherelle Parker as their nominee, and so near-certain to become the city’s 100th mayor. Like our own Mayor Eric Adams, Parker won voters over with her promise to address public safety and quality of life concerns. She explicitly vowed to restore stop-question-and-frisk (conducted constitutionally) as a policing tactic and to get more beat officers on street patrol. The progressive darling was Helen Gym, backed by Sen. Bernie Sanders, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson....

Ben Werschkul·Washington Correspondent The support on Capitol Hill for what was once a fringe legal theory is growing by the hour as the debt ceiling talks head into their final days. On Thursday, a group of of 11 progressive senators led by Sens. Tina Smith (D-MN), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) released a new letter to President Biden calling on him to prepare to cancel the debt ceiling by invoking the 14th amendment. The increased adoption of an idea that could roil markets is a reflection of growing Democratic anxieties that the White House could be preparing for...

The average Democrat knows the Biden family is profoundly corrupt and they simply don’t care…. Sam Harris spoke for all of them when he said it wouldn’t matter if Hunter’s laptop was packed w/pictures of dead kids. ... This is the dirty secret of our time: the device that the Woke / Progressive elite used to finally get rid of Donald Trump — Covid-19 — shoved them over a cliff Wile E. Coyote style. And now, as they freefall off that cliff, the supposed antidote to Covid-19 — getting vaccinated — is blowing up in their faces, again, Wile E....

The title for this Original Post (OP), does not match with the URL address - explanation:For the Source URL, I used one of the following links, that I found by following a trail of literature favored by a member of Twitter, who appears to not be a fan of Israel, while being a fan of the first author:- - -Author, Enzo TraversoLa Violenza Nazista. Una Genealogiahttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50522048-la-violenza-nazista-una-genealogia The New Faces of Fascism: Populism and the Far Righthttps://www.amazon.com/New-Faces-Fascism-Populism-Right-ebook/dp/B07C6Y5H3B/ Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory (New Directions in Critical Theory Book 17)https://www.amazon.com/Left-Wing-Melancholia-Marxism-Directions-Critical-ebook/dp/B01NACB7D5/ - - -Authors, Penelope Deutscher and Cristina LaFontCritical Theory in Critical...

The sight of people standing with their hand over their heart for the National Anthem at a Southern California restaurant appeared to shock and horrify TikTok users. In a viral video posted to the social media platform last week, about a dozen people are shown standing for the Star-Spangled Banner as it plays on a television screen in the bar area of Rainbow Oaks Restaurant in Fallbrook, California. One TikTok user who was dining at the establishment posted the video with the caption, “By far the most dangerous situation I’ve ever been in.” She used the hashtags #godblessamerica. #getout, #illegal,...

A child rapist deemed too young for jail is to have his sentence appealed by prosecutors after a backlash led by JK Rowling. Sean Hogg, 21, was spared prison earlier this month and instead ordered to carry out 270 hours of unpaid work for raping a 13-year-old girl in a park. The judge in the case, Lord Lake, said that had Hogg been aged 25 or over, he would have been sentenced to between four and five years in custody. However, under Scottish sentencing guidelines introduced last year, courts are told to treat those aged up to 24 much more...

William A. Jacobson: "I have lectured state legislators and many others, and argued here, how the goal of the current ‘progressive’ movement, particularly the CRT and related radicalized movements, is to deconstruct the country. To tear it apart. It’s why I’ve argued “The fight over Critical Race Theory in education is a fight in many ways for our national survival”. It’s not about a particular policy, it’s about tearing down: “There is a thin line in society, between food and anarchy, freedom and repression, liberty and tyranny, safety and street violence. It’s thinner than we want to admit, and it’s...

Riley Gaines, a former NCAA All-American swimmer, was violently assaulted by transgender fanatics for daring to speak out against biological men invading women’s sports. Despite a federal law (familiarly called Title IX) intended to promote equal opportunity for women’s sports, men declaring themselves to be women are muscling their way into female athletic competitions and dominating. Lia Thomas, one of these males posing as a female, won a national championship and was nominated for NCAA “Woman of the Year.” In an effort to make the case against the inequity of allowing the bigger and stronger males to compete against smaller...

The Los Angeles Police Protective League (LAPPL) filed a complaint against LAPD Chief Michel Moore for giving photos, names and other personal information on the City's police officers to an "abolish the police" group called the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, which posted this data on their web site along with the boast that "we have now #published over 9000 names and head-shots of numerous regular and undercover LAPD officers. Let the games begin!!" Robert Rico, general counsel for the LAPPL said "this site puts a bounty on our officers--including those working undercover. The egregious stupidity of Chief Moore defies belief....

I am a strong supporter of President Trump, but I implore you not to protest, especially in Progressive Sh!thole cities such as NYC, Chicago, LA, Baltimore, DC, etc. They have days to setup their Antifa, BLM and Progressive mobs to attack you with impunity. The Soros owned Just Us departments and police departments will incite riots but will be immune to arrest. They will be able to KILL you and get away with it. Don't believe me ... ask Ashley's family. Save your money and efforts for his rallies and supporting real GOP efforts in 2024. They pulled this crap...

Yesterday the chair of the Florida Democrats, Nikki Fried, tweeted this which was followed by an image: null Twitter added the following context to Fried’s tweet (which did nothing except prove DeSantis’ point): null Fried was making a point, just not the one she thought. She was, however, proving Gov. DeSantis correct. What you’re upset about him posting is from an actual book progressives want in children’s school libraries. Funny how it offends you on Twitter but not when it’s in front of children. — The🐰FOO (@PolitiBunny) March 10, 2023 It was an incredible self-own, but later came the incredible...

Texas is generally considered a red (though leaning more and more purple) state. Republicans have been able to keep control outside of the metro areas and even in most of the metros the gab between blue and red is smaller than most other big cities. The exception has been Austin which models itself more after San Francisco and Los Angeles than Dallas or Houston. The city was among those leading the charge during 2020’s big #DefundPolice movement and the results have been bad. They’re about to get worse. According to Fox News:

Clips from the classic children’s TV show ‘Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood’ have resurfaced, and are making the rounds on social media. The clips are "triggering" people on the left because what Rogers calmly and confidently states goes against the current progressive ideology of "transgenderism."In 2023, it’s easy to forget that the liberal view on this issue was considered far outside the mainstream not so long ago. What the generational icon Fred Rogers says in these videos is still the view held by most Americans, despite the efforts of the media and Hollywood to normalize it.FOX News reports: Resurfaced ‘Mister Rogers’ video...

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” former Attorney General Bill Barr stated that “the main danger to our democracy, frankly, is the sort of radical progressive movement” and that free public discourse is under attack in a way that “on a daily basis makes the McCarthy era look like child’s play.” Barr said, “[W]hen confronted with the question, if Trump is the party’s nominee and he’s running against Biden, who would you vote for? And I say it’s hard for me to see — I just find it hard to believe that I could vote against the Republican nominee...

Last year saw the arrest of nearly 350 public-school educators for alleged sex crimes against children, with a hideous 75% (at least!) crimes against students. Strangely absent from the public discourse around this, however, are any calls to defund public education. The left, it seems, is perfectly tolerant when certain public employees commit monstrous abuses of the power the people have entrusted to them. And these alleged abuses are monstrous, including sexual assault and outright rape, with the vast majority — some 290 — committed by teachers. We’re sure the lack of fiery outrage around these crimes has nothing to...

Progressives are taking aim at Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg over the Southwest airlines holiday travel fiasco that continues to cause mass delays and cancellations across the country, urging further scrutiny of the department’s practices. Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), a leading left-wing lawmaker on Capitol Hill, took to Twitter on Thursday to question the Transportation Department’s handling of the debacle that left travelers deserted and frenzied and administration officials scrambling.

Since the French Revolution, leftwing politics, as distinct from the liberal sort, have been essentially about revenge, including in Great Britain with the founding of the Labour Party in 1900, an event recently characterized by the Daily Telegraph as an act of vengeance. Then, leftist vengeance meant class vengeance. While it remains so to some degree, it has lately been greatly expanded, complicated and fortified by identity politics, in which class resentments are compounded and confused by innumerable others hitherto unimagined — and some, indeed, almost unimaginable. Most began as aspects of what was called “grievance” politics, which over the...

Remember back when Twitter started their full court press of censorship and account banning? Immediately after January 6, 2020, they began a huge purge. I lost 5000 followers overnight. Larger accounts saw even bigger losses. Coincidentally, it was only happening to conservative accounts. The progressive talking heads mocked and ridiculed the consternation from the right. Jake Tapper made a snide comment about not even being concerned about how many followers he’d lost because counting followers was beneath him. Of course, he boasts an account with over three million followers.The left scolded the rest of us for our outrage. They pretended...

Joe Biden wasn’t progressives’ first choice for the White House in 2020. And he wasn’t their second or third, either. But defying expectations, liberal Democrats have emerged as the president’s most loyal allies in Congress during his first two years in office, helping to pass a massive COVID-19 relief package, a historic investment in American infrastructure and billions of dollars to combat climate change. Their alliance was as fruitful as it was unlikely. And it could soon be put to the test. Democrats are bracing for losses in Tuesday’s elections that could cost them their majorities in the House and...

Last week Erik Wemple at the Washington Post wrote a really solid story about the firing of James Bennet from the NY Times. In case you’ve forgotten, Bennet was fired after he presided over the publication of an op-ed by Sen. Tom Cotton back in 2020. Cotton argued that the National Guard should be called out to deal with riots which were taking place in locations around the country in the wake of the murder of George Floyd. There was a huge backlash on Twitter and within the Times’ newsroom led by black staffers who argued (if you can call...