Three Plus Eleven

One of George Soros' own is in big trouble:

Unlike many alleged felons in Los Angeles County, the Diana Teran scandal has the potential to topple the county's power structure, or to put a severe dent in it. That potential exists because of the sheer volume of personnel and criminal cases Teran was involved with that might now be challenged in court, and because her actions at issue in the criminal case allegedly involve coordination with high-ranking county officials, such as Inspector General Max Huntsman, District Attorney George Gascón, and current and former members of the county Board of Supervisors. According to a press release from California Attorney General Rob Bonta, Teran "accessed computer data including numerous confidential peace officer files in 2018, while working as a Constitutional Policing Advisor at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, and, after joining the LADA in January 2021, impermissibly used that data at the LADA." That sounds rather vanilla, but additional details on what Teran is alleged to have done demonstrate that there's nothing vanilla about it at all. It's more convoluted than any script Hollywood could come up with.

George knows how to pick 'em...

School's Out

Wells College closes:

As mentioned above, Wells was an all-women's school. This was a point of pride among alumni and staff alike, providing a safe, comfortable environment for all of the young ladies there. That fact also made the school a popular place to visit. My wife shared tales with me about a bus route that was set up to bring young male students from a nearby co-ed college to Wells every weekend. I will spare you the somewhat crude nickname that the route earned, but let's just say there were more and a few collegiate-age men who were eager for a chance to "try their luck." However, that single-sex environment also meant that the school's potential pool of applicants was cut in half. Also, an education at Wells was not cheap. They wound up competing against state schools in the region. Over the decades, they struggled. That appeared to change in 2004 when the school announced that it would begin accepting students of both genders. They actually included something about "gender not specified," but that was before the word transgender became all the rage like it is today. That was a bridge too far for many. My wife stopped donating money to Wells on the day the announcement came out and many of her fellow alumni did likewise. She didn't see it as a "woke" move during that period. The school was just trying to drive up admissions and stabilize its financial situation. Apparently, the plan didn't succeed. They managed to remain open for twenty more years, but now it's over.

Today they probably wouldn't have been allowed to be all-female...

Kid Control

This is what happens when you let children take over:

Activism by kids has been an American ritual since the 1960s. There's a romance to the idea of waving the bloody shirt and calling your compatriots to do battle with the "elites," the "establishment," or "the man" that makes a teenager feel all grown-up and important. There's no thought of consequences or who they might be hurting by their actions. What do you suppose Israeli mothers who have lost a son or daughter to Hamas terrorism feel when they see the children of their powerful ally screaming, "From the River to the sea, Palestine will be free"? Are the kids able to discern the not-very-subtle call for genocide against the Jews? Or, like children soothed by a fairy tale, do they accept the lie that the call for genocide is only "aspirational"? Columbia University tried to treat the children like adults by negotiating with them. For two weeks, they sat in the same room as the children kept "moving the goalposts," making agreement impossible. In the end, they discovered that the kids, as is usually the case, really didn't know what they wanted and were only "negotiating" as a ruse to keep the media circus alive. That's half the problem with these protests. The adults who should be in control have ceded virtual authority to the children, and the result has been chaos. The large question to be asked is why we are paying so much attention to these kids.

Because they demand it...

Weed Review

Pot may get a new deal:

The DEA’s proposal, which still must be reviewed by the White House Office of Management and Budget, would recognize the medical uses of cannabis and acknowledge it has less potential for abuse than some of the nation’s most dangerous drugs. However, it would not legalize marijuana outright for recreational use. The agency’s move, confirmed to the AP on Tuesday by five people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive regulatory review, clears the last significant regulatory hurdle before the agency’s biggest policy change in more than 50 years can take effect. Once OMB signs off, the DEA will take public comment on the plan to move marijuana from its current classification as a Schedule I drug, alongside heroin and LSD. It moves pot to Schedule III, alongside ketamine and some anabolic steroids, following a recommendation from the federal Health and Human Services Department. After the public-comment period the agency would publish the final rule.

One small step...

Bathroom Breakers

The bathroom battle continues:

The EEOC announced last fall a proposed update of its harassment policy affecting to include sexual orientation and gender identity rules. This prompted opposition from 20 state attorneys general, led by Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti. In November, the attorneys general contended what was then the proposed “Enforcement Guidance on Harassment in the Workplace” updates would threaten the First Amendment rights of employers, employees, and possibly customers. “Here, the proposed guidance would require employers to affirm or convey to employees and customers—often against religious conviction or deeply held personal belief—messages that a person can be a gender different from his or her biological sex, that gender has no correlation to biology, or that they endorse the use of pronouns like ‘they/them,’ ‘xe/xym/xyrs,’ or ‘bun/bunself,” the letter from the attorneys general says. “This mandate flouts First Amendment freedoms of religion and speech—yet EEOC rejects any role for accommodation of contrary religious beliefs or speech,” the attorneys general add. “Further, EEOC’s for-cause insulation from direct presidential supervision unconstitutionally blurs the lines of accountability for this overhaul of workplaces nationwide.”

You don't have the right to go everywhere...

Electric Runoff

Ford EV's aren't selling:

It is expected that Ford will continue to lose money on its EV models, as the company predicts a total loss of $5 billion this year. Last year, the company lost $4.7 billion in its electric division, which was about $40,525 per vehicle it sold. A Ford Mustang Mach-E electric vehicle with Ford BlueCruise Hands-Free Highway Driving is at the New York International Auto Show in New York on Saturday, March 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey) Meanwhile the Ford Pro department, which primarily sells internal combustion models, reported a profit of $3 billion. Its Ford Blue department made a revenue of $21 billion, but this was actually a 13% decrease. So, when totaled altogether, Ford’s overall profit was $1.3 billion — one-fifth less than the previous year. Across the United States, consumers bought 352,390 plug-in vehicles during the first quarter. Ford accounted for 10,000 of those car sales.

People haven't driven an electric Ford lately...

Beast Bust

The Daily Beast's editor admits:

In his essay, Cartwright readily admits that after leaving the Enquirer, he worked as a source—with no compensation—for several national news publications as a means of integrating himself back into corporate journalist circles. He says this was prompted after he already technically left his role with the tabloid in July 2017, but remained listed as an employee as part of his severance agreement. This allowed him to retain his U.S. work visa as an Australian national.According to Cartwright, in October 2017, his attorney received a letter from the National Enquirer‘s then-parent company, American Media, Inc. (AMI), which threatened a termination of employment per the severance agreement. This, the letter noted, would result in him losing his work visa and subsequent deportation from the U.S. The letter suggested they believed he was behind several leaks to national media outlets regarding the Enquirer’s involvement in purchasing and burying stories on behalf of several notable public figures. Now, several years after the letter, Cartwright admits AMI’s suspicions were correct. He also suggests his work as a confidential source on AMI likely contributed to his gaining employment with the far-left Daily Beast.

His work was done...

Ragin' Cajun

James Carville isn't happy:

James Carville is having a meltdown after the CNN poll.

The triggering is hilarious.pic.twitter.com/BPdQgfNkCl

— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) April 29, 2024

Laugh Track

Jerry Seinfeld isn't laughing:

"Nothing really affects comedy. People always need it. They need it so badly and they don't get it," he said on a recent episode of the New Yorker's Radio Hour. "It used to be that you'd go home at the end of the day, most people would go, ‘Oh, ’Cheers' is on. Oh, ‘M.A.S.H.’ is on. Oh, ‘[The] Mary Tyler Moore [Show]’ is on, ‘All in the Family’ is on.' You just expected [there will] be some funny stuff we can watch on TV tonight." "Well, guess what? Where is it? Where is it? This is the result of the extreme left and P.C. c--p and people worrying so much about offending other people."

Don't offend the offended...

Welfare State

Welfare for journalism students:

According to Axios, the budget bill creates $30 million a year in tax credits by allowing eligible news outlets to receive a refundable tax credit against 50 percent of the first $50,000 of a journalist's salary. The state designated $13 million for outlets with more than 100 employees and $13 million for outlets with less than 100 employees, and no outlet will be able to receive more than $300,000 in credits. In response to the tax credits, Newsmax host Tom Basile wrote in the Washington Times, "Corporate welfare won’t change that dynamic." He added, "What it will do is advance the death of journalistic independence at the hands of left-wing Democrats who seek to control the public discourse at every turn."

Real free speech doesn't come from the state...

Teachers' Pets

Teachers no longer need to know how to teach:

State Senate Bill 1263, introduced by Sen. Josh Newman in February, would eliminate the California Teaching Performance Assessment, which requires teachers to demonstrate their competence via video clips of classroom instruction, as well as written reflections on their classroom experience. At a April 17 hearing, Mr. Newman argued that removing the assessment would encourage more Californians to become teachers. “Despite its well-intentioned purpose, the demands associated with preparing for the [performance assessment] have actually had the perverse impact of reducing the overall quality of teacher preparation by undermining the capacity of teacher candidates to focus on what’s most important, which is their clinical practice,” he said. Mr. Newman also said the performance assessments duplicate other teaching credential requirements such as proving subject-matter competency and completing more than 600 hours of clinical experience. The bill is also co-sponsored by the California Teachers’ Association, the state’s largest teachers’ union, which represents 310,000 educators across the state.

They don't need no education...

Inside Action

How to deal with anti-semetic protesters:

Gather together in a group of 10 people with clear instructions. Eight should be videotaping, and two should have their phones ready to call the police. Walk into the encampment. Do not put on a mask (they are using these to cover their identities) or even speak with them. Just walk into the encampment together and force the demonstrators to act illegally. You will be threatened by the demonstrators, and they will attempt to force you out with their linked arms. Do NOT fight back, nor engage in verbal altercation: The goal is to get them arrested while you stay safe. As soon as they link their arms sit down as a group where you are. Do not argue or fight; just sit down and wait for them to act. The moment any of these demonstrators put a hand or foot on anyone, immediately call the police. Keep the cameras running at all times so that there is a video record of what they have done for prosecution purposes. Do not threaten to call the police, and do not even speak with them. Just sit down and force them to act illegally. We have as much right to sit in a public space as they do. If they are too close to you (they will be) and try to put a hand or scarf in front of your camera, politely tell them that doing so is a form of assault, and if they do not immediately desist you will call the police. Do not give a second warning, just call law enforcement. The goal is to force them into illegal actions such as assault, and immediately have the police come. Realize that this does potentially put you in harm’s way as some of these demonstrators are bona fide crazy, which again is a reason to stay calm and have a group. Also, it may be a wise idea to bring backpacks of food in case they decide to just encircle you for hours. The most powerful thing that can physically be done to these collegiate idiots is not to get violent, but to just sit down. They are looking for violence, but Gandhi taught us the power of calmly sitting down, being still, and forcing evil to show its true colors. And make certain that at least two people are ready to call law enforcement.

Use their own tactics against them...

News Blues

Keith Olbermann isn't happy:

In a video posted to his account on Saturday, Olbermann alluded to exactly why he was frustrated with Sulzberger – namely, a recent Politico article that detailed the tensions between the New York Times and the White House over the outlets and specifically pointed to Sulzberger. Olbermann’s clip mentioned a quote in the Politico piece from an anonymous Times journalist who allegedly said, "It’s A.G. He’s the one who is p***d [that] Biden hasn’t done any interviews and quietly encourages all the tough reporting on his age." According to Politico, Sulzberger also reportedly confronted Vice President Kamala Harris over Biden's decision to avoid interviews with major newspapers. Following Politico’s piece, The Times released a statement which slammed Biden for granting "far fewer press conferences and sit-down interviews with independent journalists than virtually all of his predecessors." "It is true that The Times has sought an on-the-record interview with Mr. Biden, as it has done with all presidents going back more than a century. If the president chooses not to sit down with The Times because he dislikes our independent coverage, that is his right, and we will continue to cover him fully and fairly either way," it added.

Whether Kieth likes it or not...

Ballot Buster

It seems there was fraud in 2020 after all:

Art Games

Big Art has taken over:

Most art enthusiasts are ignorant of the corrupt business practices among major players in the art establishment, who have colluded over recent decades to form cartels, which industry critics have labeled "Big Art." At an art panel discussion two weeks ago. I met with Tod Volpe, a 50-year veteran of the industry, his colleague, Wendy Fritz, a member of the Getty family, the art critic, Anthony Haden-Guest, and Douglas Dechert, a former reporter at the New York Post and investigative journalist at various art publications who has covered the corruption and criminality in the art world. The art sector has been manipulated for years in favor of well-connected billionaires, to the detriment of non-connected outsiders, who are often charged exorbitant fees by "experts" and auction houses to sell their art on the market. "The players in Big Art are an 'establishment' which includes the management and boards of thousands of massively endowed museums, auction houses, major galleries, powerful brokers and art publications that conduct the trillion dollar international art market," said Dechert. "The major auction houses are nominally competitors, but they function as a cartel with a history of price fixing scandals between them and they participate in systemic collusion with their cronies in the extortionist 'authentication' rackets," he added.

The business of art is cronyism...

Voter Wars

There seems to be an electoral war between the states brewing:

The Nebraska unicameral legislature is ready to make their state a "winner-take-all" electoral state, giving one more electoral vote to Donald Trump. In the past, very red Nebraska would award one electoral vote to the Democratic candidate based on results from Omaha and its suburbs. The other four votes would go to the Republican candidate. In Maine, the vote away from Portland, Augusta, and nearby coastal areas went to Donald Trump in 2020, giving the former president one electoral vote of Maine's four. Now, Maine is threatening to also move to a "winner-take-all" system that would almost certainly deny Donald Trump an electoral vote. In Nebraska, Donald Trump allies have convinced GOP Governor Jim Pillen to call a special session of the legislature in order to pass the change to winner-take-all. “I am steadfast in my commitment to get winner-take-all over the finish line, thereby honoring our constitutional founding, unifying our state and ending the three-decade-old mistake of allocating Nebraska’s electoral votes differently than all but one other state,” Pillen had said. It won't be a sure thing. Democrats can filibuster the change and probably will. There are parliamentary maneuvers that Nebraska Republicans can make to overcome the filibuster but it's something of an uphill climb. But Maine Democrats aren't going to take the change in Nebraska lying down. “Voters in Maine and voters in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District value their independence, but they also value fairness and playing by the rules,” House majority leader, Maureen Terry said. “If Nebraska’s Republican governor and Republican-controlled Legislature were to change their electoral system this late in the cycle in order to unfairly award Donald Trump an additional electoral vote, I think the Maine Legislature would be compelled to act in order to restore fairness to our country’s electoral system.”

I guess actually letting the people decide is too difficult...

NY Times Review

team Biden isn't happy with the Times:

NewsBusters has details: The comical tale of liberal eating themselves began with a seemingly innocuous mix-up between a Times reporter not on the White House beat being unaware with how to attribute quotes from a junior White House press aide becoming a hissy fit that resulted in the Times temporarily being kicked off the administration’s “‘tier one’ email list for background information about various briefings and other materials”. “Biden’s closest aides had come to see the Times as arrogant, intent on setting its own rules and unwilling to give Biden his due. Inside the paper’s D.C. bureau, the punitive response seemed to typify a press operation that was overly sensitive and determined to control coverage of the president,” Stokols explained. Stokols further summarized his tome as based on “interviews with two dozen people on both sides” about “the relationship between the Democratic president and the country’s newspaper of record — for years the epitome of a liberal press in the eyes of conservatives” that’s become “remarkably tense, beset by misunderstandings, grudges and a general lack of trust.” Not surprisingly, Team Biden must think they’re owed Obama-like snuff pieces seeing as how, in their mind, The Times has “fall[en] short in a make-or-break moment for American democracy, stubbornly refusing to adjust its coverage” away from “impartial neutrality, often blurring the asymmetries between former President Donald Trump and Biden when it comes to their perceived flaws” when America itself is at stake.

Toe the line, they said...

Game On

Now Joe says he's ready to rumble:

Biden previously remained noncommittal about debating Trump. Trump is happy to confront Biden on his record, pledging in March to debate him anytime, anywhere, and anyplace. Establishment television networks, in April, pressured Biden to accept Trump’s invitation to debate him. Nearly three-fourths of voters believe that if Biden skips the presidential debates, it shows “weakness,” a Fox News poll found in March. When Stern asked Biden if he would accept Trump’s request, he replied, “I am, somewhere. I am happy to debate him.”

If he remembers when...

Invisible Amendment

The amendment that doesn't exist:

“She told us, ‘Do not bring the Second Amendment into this courtroom. It doesn’t exist here. So you can’t argue Second Amendment. This is New York,'” said Varghese. Judge Abena Darkeh, blasted as a “DEI hire” by online commentators, is also Vice President of the Association of Ghanaian Lawyers of America. She is alleged to have acted as “the most aggressive prosecutor in the room.” The Bill de Blasio appointee is accused of limiting the scope of Taylor’s defense and indirectly instructing jurors they “must vote guilty.”Taylor, a black conservative who has discussed his hobby on YouTube under the pseudonym Carbon Mike, faces ten to 18 years in prison at sentencing on May 18. While prosecutors describe Taylor as having “acquired a massive arsenal of homemade ghost guns,” the 52-year-old insists he was merely machining legal parts together as a hobby. He says he is also a hobbyist carpenter, radio operator, and technician with a “squeaky-clean criminal record.”Taylor’s defenders argue that, federally, manufacturing one’s own firearms is lawful, with the Gun Control Act of 1968 allowing unlicensed civilians to make firearms for personal use only. Taylor’s lawyers argue he did not even fire his guns, still less distribute or sell them.

Unfortunately the actual law doesn't seem to matter in New York...

Camped Out

An antisemetic encampment is canceled for being too white:

The encampment was scheduled for Thursday morning at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle. UW administration privately told Jewish leaders that the school did not intend to intervene with the direct action unless “the event escalates and threatens life safety.” Still, the predominantly white UWPSU opted to call off the encampment in order “to make sure this encampment is a better reflection of the UW community, and having even greater unity with Muslim, Palestinian and Arab students.” “We want to be part of a much larger coalition of groups and make no mistake, WE WILL HAVE A UW ENCAMPMENT! We want to make sure everyone’s voice is included and this action is as safe, secure, and strong as possible,” a UWPSU Instagram statement said.

They need more diverse haters...

Artificial Hate

A principal was framed with AI:

Baltimore County Police arrested Pikesville High School’s former athletic director Thursday morning and charged him with using artificial intelligence to impersonate Principal Eric Eiswert, leading the public to believe Eiswert made racist and antisemitic comments behind closed doors... Police say [Dazhon] Darien made the recording in retaliation after Eiswert initiated an investigation into improper payments he made to a school athletics coach who was also his roommate, and Darien is also charged with theft and retaliating against a witness... Police wrote in charging documents that Darien had accessed the school’s network on multiple occasions in December and January searching for OpenAI tools, and used “Large Language Models” that practice “deep learning, which involves pulling in vast amounts of data from various sources on the internet, can recognize text inputted by the user, and produce conversational results.” They also connected Darien to an email account that had distributed the recording... Darien was being investigated as of December in a theft investigation that had been initiated by Eiswert. Police say Darien had authorized a $1,916 payment to the school’s junior varsity basketball coach, who was also his roommate, under the pretense that he was an assistant girls soccer coach. He was not, school officials said. Eiswert determined that Darien had submitted the payment to the school payroll system, bypassing proper procedures. Darien had been notified of the investigation, police said.

Faking the hate doesn't make it any less dangerous...

Court Dock

It looks like Trump may have the Supreme Court at least partly on his side:

The court heard oral arguments regarding if Trump is immune from prosecution on charges of attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election, as Special Counsel Jack Smith claims. A federal trial court ruled in Smith’s favor that Trump is not immune from prosecution, but Smith’s prosecution in D.C. has been on hold until the Supreme Court weighs in, likely in late June. Arguments revealed that a majority appears to agree that presidents do enjoy some scope of immunity after their term in office, but the ultimate question will be the establishment of a standard. If the Court institutes a test, it would vacate (i.e., strike) the lower court decision that former presidents have no immunity, sending that case back to trial court. That court would then undergo a painstaking point-by-point analysis on each fact to determine if immunity exists. That process could take months. And the Supreme Court appears likely to hold that decision itself would be appealable.

A win is a win...

George's Kids

Guess who's paying for the campus protests:

“The SJP parent organization has been funded by a network of nonprofits ultimately funded by, among others, Soros, the billionaire left-wing investor,” the Post‘s Isabel Vincent writes. SJP with two other groups, Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and Within Our Lifetime, reportedly staked the tents at Columbia University on April 17. “An analysis by The Post shows that all three got cash from groups linked to Soros. The Rockefeller Brothers Fund also gave cash to JVP,” Vincent details. Then there is the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR). The Soros-founded organization Open Society Foundations, which is now run by his son Alex Soros, has reportedly contributed $300,000 to the USCPR since 2017, while the Rockefeller Brothers Fund has given it $355,000 in the past five years. “USPCR provides up to $7,800 for its community-based fellows and between $2,880 and $3,660 for its campus-based ‘fellows’ in return for spending eight hours a week organizing “campaigns led by Palestinian organizations,” Vincent notes.

Soros knows how to share the hate...

Know Nothings

This sounds pretty typical:

🚨VIDEO: A REAL interview we had at NYU:

QUESTION: "Why are you protesting?"

PROTESTER #1: "I don't know. I'm pretty sure there's something about Israel [turns to other person] Why are we protesting?"

PROTESTER #2: "I wish I was more educated."

PROTESTER #1: "I'm not either." pic.twitter.com/8aB2ZoTCCk

— Rudy W. Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) April 24, 2024

No Civility

Being nice is racist, or something:

Former NPR CEO John Lansing pushed employees to consider “civility” more during a question-and-answer forum regarding the outlet’s hip-hop podcast focused on black and queer issues called “Louder Than A Riot” lacking its own budget, the NYT reported. When Lansing made the request after the podcast’s editor Soraya Shockley had pressed him about lack of funding for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), an employee at NPR wrote in the forum’s chat that the term “civility” is “racist” because it is frequently deployed against minorities. “How are we supposed to support diverse programming — actually commit to D.E.I., and make it not a folly — when this company seems scared to talk about money when it is not a $30 million deficit?” Shockley had asked, according to the NYT. Shockley submitted a human resources complaint against Lansing following the session, suggesting the “civility” comments “dog-whistle racism,” an individual aware of the interaction told the NYT. The complaint ended up at an external law firm, which did not advise penalties for Lansing. Lansing declined to comment on the exchange, according to the NYT.

No nice people for them...

Green Con

It's a scam:

Womens' Wishes

Feminism has only made women more unhappy:

According to a recent study by an American medical institute, loneliness is the leading cause of depression among middle-aged females. I should know, as I recently fell prey to the unforgiving maw of mental illness. This has taken me to hospital several times after I experienced impulses so dark that friends became concerned. On one occasion, I recall a nurse in A&E asking me about my plans to end my life, and replying that, like Keir Starmer’s views on women, they were unformed. But the truth is that much of my depression sprung from a solitary existence that would be eschewed by a race of alley cats. I do not know one single woman of my generation who lives such a life and actually likes it. Our plight is like that of the Tory voter, or of certain minorities before the 1960s liberal reforms. Such people as myself lead twilight lives, afraid to go out during the day, commiserating with each other in the privacy of our homes. Now, thanks to Generation Z, we are the demographic that dare not speak its name. Readers may demur, but I have sympathy for Generation Z. I really do. Not for its idleness, but for its desire for emotional fulfilment; for its instinct that human affection and relationships are as important as work, or even more so. Recently, after my depression became debilitating, I had a female student living in my home. She was 24 and had blue-black hair and skin that seemed lit with the sun’s afterglow. After a week of acquaintanceship, it dawned on me that the notion of not marrying and giving birth before the age of 30 was anathema to her, and, like Christ in the garden of Gethsemane, she wished to dash this cup from her lips. In short, she wanted to conduct her life like a woman.

Unfortunately modern feminists wouldn't allow it...

Bear Tales

How the grizzly bear might have gotten a bad rap:

Much of the grizzly bear’s long-standing narrative comes from stories, artwork and early photographs depicting California grizzlies as huge in size and aggressive in nature. Many of these reports, which found wide readership in newspapers elsewhere in the West and in the cities back East, were written by what Alagona calls the Californian influencers of their time. “They were trying to get rich and famous by marketing themselves as these icons of the fading frontier,” Alagona said. “A lot of the historical sources that we have about grizzlies are actually not about grizzlies. They’re about this weird Victorian 19th-century celebrity culture.” The team of ecologists, historians and archivists compared the image of California grizzlies from these frontier reports to harder data in the form of bear bones from museum collections all over the state. The frontier myth had painted the California bears as larger than grizzlies elsewhere in the country, but the bone analysis revealed that they were the same size and weight, about 6 feet long and 440 pounds for the average adult. In an even larger blow to the popular story of the vicious grizzly, the bones showed that before 1542, when the first Europeans arrived, the bears were only getting about 10 percent of their diet from preying on land animals. They were primarily herbivores, surviving on a varied diet of acorns, roots, berries, fish and occasionally larger prey such as deer.

There were bears in the woods...

Pay To Leave

How to get rid of squatters:

“Squatters put in rooms that should not have been built,” Choudhary said, noting that intruders had erected temporary walls to create more bedrooms. Once he notified the DOB about the illegal construction, that was a way to legally evict the squatters. In December 2022, the NYPD and a fire marshal, operating under a DOB vacate order, ousted the ringleader and nine illegal occupants. Still, Choudhary was taking no chances on them coming back. “I paid some of them $500 to $1,000 to leave quietly and permanently. The police said I did not have to do it. But I didn’t care,” he said. “They finally left and we got our houses back.”

Paying the barbarians is one way to get rid of them...

Team Players

Let the men in, they said:

Separate letters from over 300 academics and about 100 advocacy groups were also sent to the NCAA. Among the signatories were left-wing activist athletes like Meghan Rapinoe and Sue Bird. “To deny transgender athletes the fundamental right to be who they are, to access the sport they love, and to receive the proven mental and physical health benefits of sport goes against the very principles of the NCAA’s Constitution,” the letter from the athletes claimed. “By barring transgender athletes, you would be severely limiting the capacity of your member institutions to protect and support their athletes. Moreover, you would be actively disparaging transgender athletes – the same athletes you chose to protect when you agreed to serve on the Board of Governors.” “We call on you to be on the right side of history and affirm that sport is truly for us all,” the letter added. “Do not ban transgender women from NCAA women’s sports.” In a statement released by Athlete Ally, Rapinoe said, “The time is now for the NCAA and the nationwide athletic community to speak up and affirm that sports should be for everyone, including transgender athletes.”

Sexism for everyone...

The Green Continent

Green colonialism is killing Africa:

Space Cases

Real art, the final frontier:

The complaints boiled down to artists losing their jobs to AI computers, as though all kinds of people haven’t lost their jobs over the last five decades to computers. What makes these crybaby artists so special? “Please don’t use AI cover. Kids deserve more than AI salad,” whined one xweeter. “This is gross,” xweeted another. “Step back from your doubling down on this, reflect, support actual artists and, you know, be the person Kirk would be. .... Then, according to what the record company told Shatner, the album cover wasn’t generated by AI. An actual artist was involved and paid well for their work. This gave the Star Trek star plenty of ammunition to ridicule his critics. “Imagine, so called enlightened individuals who were quick to misjudge and put down a fellow associate’s work,” he xweeted. “Shows you how much they know about their medium and calling out works as AI.”

Real art, the final frontier...

Kid Speech

Censorship for the kids:

The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) was prompted by the Surgeon General’s report on “Social Media and Youth Mental Health,” which complained of “hate-based content” and how “transgender youth are disproportionately impacted by online harassment and abuse.” In turn, the Surgeon General’s report was prompted by left censorship wing activist and Facebook “whistleblower” Frances Haugen, who complained that the tech giant didn’t censor enough conservative speech. The NAACP, President Biden, Microsoft, and dozens of left-wing senators, including Elizabeth Warren, Brian Schatz, and Chuck Schumer, all support it. The bill’s conservative supporters are reacting to the severe problem of social media addiction and its relationship to teen depression and anxiety — very real problems. However, KOSA goes far beyond addressing this problem by requiring social media companies, online video games, and even websites like 4chan to take “reasonable measures” to prevent “online bullying and harassment.” of minors. Vague laws about “harassment” have been the favored tool by Big Tech and Democrats to censor conservative speech. The bill empowers State Attorneys General to enforce these rules. Blue State AGs such as Letitia James have already cited “harassment” and “cyberbullying” to threaten social media platforms for not censoring speech. James filed an amicus brief in Missouri v. Biden, which defended the Biden Administration’s collusion with the tech companies to “misinformation” because this prevented them from “protecting children from online harassment.”

Keeping kids safe from free speech...

Gender Crimes

Biology is now misinformation:

The article states that there are three types of “misinformation,” and they are “oversimplifying scientific knowledge, fabricating and misinterpreting research, and promoting false equivalences.” The piece asserts that “Many of the arguments against trans rights center on the idea that transness itself is not legitimate—that there are just two sexes, period.” There are only two sexes though. It then turns to ‘scientist’ Simón(e) Sun, a self described trans(sexual) ándrógýne \ (neuro)biologist, pronouns in bio person and notes “You describe this idea as ‘sex essentialism.’ Can you explain that term, and talk about how it shapes the debate.” They/she then states “Essentialism is the idea that you can take any phenomenon that is complex and distill it down to a particular set of traits. In the case of sex essentialism, the idea is that you can sufficiently describe sex by a few particular characteristics. In this debate, it used to be chromosomes, now it’s gametes (egg and sperm cells).” Yeah, that is biology 101 and no matter how many times they/she says it’s changed and that anyone who doesn’t agree is a ‘transphobe’, it hasn’t.

Nature is still "transphobic..."

Climate Troops

Here comes...the climate army:

Here’s the announcement: Here’s the announcement:

.@POTUS: “I’m proud to announce that Americans across the country can now apply to become the FIRST members of the American Climate Corps. We’re recruiting for over 2,000 positions in 36 states, Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico with more on the way.”

— Karine Jean-Pierre (@PressSec) April 22, 2024

So what in the heck is this garbage? According to the White House website: So what in the heck is this garbage? According to the White House website: “As part of the inaugural class of the American Climate Corps (ACC), you’ll join thousands of young people getting paid to fight the impacts of climate change today, while learning the skills to be part of tomorrow’s clean energy and climate-resilience workforce.”

For those who don't want a real job...

Hot Dog

Meet the Thermonator:

Devil's Work

No satanic chaplains:

The Florida Phoenix reports, “Some have said that if you do a school chaplain program that, somehow, you’re going to have satanists running around in all our schools. We’re not playing those games in Florida. That is not a religion. That is not qualified to be able to participate in this. So, we’re going to be using common sense when it comes to this. You don’t have to worry about it.” Satanists are displeased. The Christian Post reports the co-founder of The Satanic Temple responded to the new law with a request to debate DeSantis. Lucien Greaves, co-founder of The Satanic Temple, which oversees After School Satan Clubs and planned to take advantage of the law, argued in a series of social media posts summarizing his comments to media that DeSantis’ words “hold no authority” because the U.S. Constitution “guarantees equal treatment under the law.” The group has threatened to sue if its members were prohibited from participating in the chaplain program. Greaves stressed DeSantis “invited Satanic chaplains into public schools, whether he likes it or not” because he is “not at liberty to amend the Constitution by fiat.” He also noted that The Satanic Temple is recognized by the IRS as a tax-exempt religious organization. After a call with DeSantis’ office on Friday, Greaves announced he instructed the organization’s Executive Director of Operations to send a formal proposal for a debate between DeSantis and Greaves.

The Devil made them do it...

Flagging The Dog

It's come to this:

City-dwelling dog owners are marking their “colonial” territory with pooches who are “gentrifying” neighborhoods, critics say in a bizarre online debate. Sparking the controversy was a story in The Cut that delves into the growing hostility between dog owners and the dog-free in New York. The article quotes Mia, of Prospects Lefferts Gardens, the proud owner of two terriers, who noticed a growing anti-dog sentiment brewing on her community Facebook group. One post about picking up dog poop eventually spiraled into bonkers accusations that the pooches of PGL were “gentrifying the neighborhood.” Mia, a New York-born Latina, told the outlet upon reading this she wondered “Are they saying that only white people have dogs?”

The Left are a bunch of pooper scoopers...

Snapped

Don't make him angry:

No Bragg

Bragg backs down:

Trump appeared to call Bragg’s bluff, saying in April that it would be a “GREAT HONOR” to become a “modern-day Nelson Mandela” in the “clink” for speaking the truth about Merchan. Bragg called for the Tuesday hearing to ask Merchan to punish Trump for allegedly violating his gag order. Merchan has the authority to fine and send the former president to jail for up to 30 days for allegedly violating the order. Bragg appeared to get cold feet in the hearing. He backed down and did not request the judge to punish Trump with jail time.

No Bragging rights for him...

Blue Burglar

Maybe she wanted her allowance:

Sen. Nicole Mitchell, 49, was booked into the Becker County Jail on Monday for a suspected first-degree burglary offense, according to online jail records. A homeowner on the 700 block of Granger Road in Detroit Lakes reported an active burglary to 911 around 4:45 a.m., Detroit Lakes Police Chief Steve Todd told FOX9 Minneapolis. During a search of the home, officers found Mitchell dressed in black clothing and a black hat, according to a criminal complaint obtained by the station. A flashlight with a sock over it and a black backpack containing two laptops, a cellphone, a driver’s license, Senate identification and Tupperware.

She couldn't wait to steal from the voters...

Declaration Of Woke

The Declaration of Independence now has its own trigger warning:

Demonstrating the totality of NPR bias, new chief executive Katherine Maher is in the spotlight after a series of bizarre tweets resurfaced in which she sounds like an Artificial Intelligence parody of a leftist media elitist, such as when she excused looting during the summer 2020 riots. Berliner targeted Maher directly on X: "I cannot work in a newsroom where I am disparaged by a new CEO whose divisive views confirm the very problems at NPR I cite in my Free Press essay." One example of anti-American wokeness is the “editor’s note” NPR staff felt obliged to place on archived stories about its on-air reading every Independence Day of the Declaration of Independence in full, an honorable tradition apparently now consigned to the ash-heap of history. Yes, one of America’s founding documents now requires a trigger warning, in the view of partially government funded radio (hat tip: Masks are bad, actually on X): Editor's note on July 8, 2022: This story quotes the U.S. Declaration of Independence -- a document that contains offensive language about Native Americans, including a racial slur. The transcripts of previous years of the annual reading now include the warning, relating to the Declaration’s reference to the “merciless Indian savages” purportedly whipped up by King George III of England to wage “domestic insurrections” on the rebellious colonists.

I'm sure they were worried about offending King George...

Saudi Surprise

Guess who's in charge of gender equality at the UN:

Sherine Tadros, the head of the New York office of Amnesty International, told The Guardian, “Whoever is in the chair, which is now Saudi Arabia, is in a key position to influence the planning, the decisions, the taking stock, and looking ahead, in a critical year for the commission.” “Saudi Arabia is now at the helm, but Saudi Arabia’s own record on women’s rights is abysmal, and a far cry from the mandate of the commission.” The Personal Status Law passed in 2022, which the kingdom points to as proof of “progress,” still requires that women must have the permission of a male guardian to marry regardless of their age or former marital status. If a woman refuses to have sex with her husband, does not live in the marital home, or dares to refuse to travel with him without a “legitimate excuse,” withdrawal of financial support is justified under the law. More disturbingly, women who openly speak out for human rights reforms can be imprisoned, face travel bans, and are unable to speak freely.

But don't tell them that...

Mother's Work

Motherhood is sexist, or something:

Kimberly Ells at Mercator, who attended the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women, said it was heavily focused on “unpaid care work.” Ells wrote, “I spent a week listening to an endless parade of events focused almost exclusively on ending poverty by eliminating ‘unpaid care work.” “What is ‘unpaid care work,’ you might ask? It is work done in the home without specific monetary payment. Most people would call that kind of work simply being alive,” she continued. “It could also be called running your own castle. But the forces that converged at the United Nations this spring called it an atrocity.” Ellis writes: To be an “unpaid care worker”—especially if you’re a woman—was seen as an afront to human decency. And because on average women worldwide do more labour in the home than men, people in UN circles call this “gender inequality,” “gender injustice,” and even “gender-based violence.” I’m not kidding. I heard these phrases repeated time after time in events sponsored by countries and organizations the world over. While there is such a thing as genuine gender-based violence, vacuuming the floor for free isn’t it. Will freeing women from children will make everyone rich and happy? So how do we solve the grave and unjust gender-inequalities supposedly manifested by women mopping more floors or changing more diapers than men? I saw only one solution proposed by UN partners and it was repeated over and over again: provide state-funded universal daycare for all families. That way, they say, the world can unite behind women and propel them out of the home and into the workforce where they can enjoy true freedom and engage in “socially productive work.” With ‘women’ like Katie Neeves, who serves as the UK’s new UN delegatefor the Commission on the Status of Women, no wonder actual women are being denigrated.

Motherhood is not the most discriminatory job...

Robot Rule

Our new overlords:

Squat Off

It's a start:

College Era

Welcome to...Taylor Swift class:

Ghost Rapping

Dead man rapping:

Trade Off

The education alternative:

A young man named Sy Kirby told NPR he knew a four-year degree was not the path he would take because of the cost. After being hired by a local water department in Arkansas at 19 years old, he learned skills that eventually helped him build his own construction company, the outlet reported Monday: Now at age 32, Kirby finds himself mentoring many of his employees, who also opted to learn a skilled trade rather than shelling out tens of thousands of dollars to pursue a degree that they wouldn’t use after graduating. … Kirby is among the growing number of young people who have chosen to swap college for vocational schools that offer paid, on-the-job training. In 2018, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-TN) wrote in an op-ed that going to a trade school was just as valuable as the path to higher education, according to Breitbart News. She “made the case that the way we discuss education in America is ‘classist’ in a column for the Wall Street Journal. By looking down upon those who attended trade schools and praising those with advanced degrees, we are suggesting that one is more valuable than the other,” the outlet said.

Snobbery doesn't pay the bills...

Green Warning

Illegal immigration is bad for the environment:

In his 2002 autobiography, Beyond Earth Day: Fulfilling the Promise, Nelson warned that mass immigration to the United States would cripple quality of life for Americans and force the destruction of wildlife sanctuaries. Nelson wrote: In 2000 the US population topped 280 million. Not surprisingly, adding population hasn’t improved American society, the economy, or the environment. Yet we are headed at current growth rates, toward having well over 500 million people on the same land resource within the next seventy-five years and 1 billion people within the next century. Does anyone imagine we can grow like that without tremendous cost to the environment and our quality of life? [Emphasis added] … In order to bring a halt to exponential growth, the number of legal immigrants entering this country would have to match the number of emigrants leaving it – about 220,000 people per year. Yet, while federal actions have increased the immigration rate dramatically during the last four decades, any suggestion that the rate be decreased to some previously acceptable level is met with charges of “nativism,” “racism,” and the like. Unfortunately, such opposition has silenced much-needed discussion of the issue – recalling the smear tactics of the late Senator Joseph McCarthy. The first time around it was “soft on communism.” This time the charge is “racism,” because a significant number of immigrants are of Hispanic descent. Demagogic rhetoric of this sort has succeeded in silencing the environmental and academic communities and has tainted any discussion of population and immigration issues as “politically incorrect.” As frustrating as it is to see the president and members of Congress running for cover on such a monumental issue, it is nothing short of astonishing to see the great American free press, with its raft of syndicated columnists, frightened into silence by political correctness. [Emphasis added] The issue is not racism, nativism, or any other “ism,” however. The real issue: numbers of people and the implications for freedom of choice and sustainability as our numbers continue to grow. Population stabilization will be a major determinant of our future, how we live and in what conditions; talk of it should not be muzzled by McCarthyism or any other demagogic contrivance. Rather, the issue must be brought forth and explored in public hearings and discussions precisely because it is a subject of great consequence. [Emphasis added] In a 2001 interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Nelson seemingly blasted left-wing politicians for claiming to care about the environment while ignoring the impact that mass immigration has on issues of sustainability. “… in this country, it’s phony to say ‘I’m for the environment but not for limiting immigration.’ It’s just a fact that we can’t take all the people who want to come here,” Nelson said. “… the subject has been driven out of public discussion because everybody is afraid of being called racist if they say they want any limits on immigration.”

Including the environment itself...

Broadband Bucks

Broadband access by Biden decree:

“The NOFO left open for states to decide whether they want rate regulation or not and then turns out it really wasn’t a suggestion, it was more of an order,” Joel Thayer, a D.C.-based tech and telecom lawyer, told the DCNF. Thayer went on to say that the NTIA was denying the grant applications of states that don’t include price regulations in their plans, like what happened with Virginia. “There is clearly a concerted effort within the NCIA to essentially buck the statute and say ‘we are the ones deciding that rate regulation is going to be part of these fund allocations and we are going to force the hand of all these states to adopt them,'” Thayer continued. Furchtgott-Roth agreed with the interpretation that the infrastructure law prevents the NTIA from regulating internet prices and said that the agency’s $30 price cap amounts to regulating prices. David Ditch, a senior policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation, told the DCNF that the NTIA’s maneuvers are part of a broader strategy employed by the Biden administration to tie left-of-center agenda items to federal dollars. “I believe this mandate absolutely violates what Congress passed,” Ditch said, in reference to the NTIA’s rejection of Virginia’s broadband proposal. “It is unfortunately symptomatic of the administration’s approach of oftentimes using congressionally authorized funds for inserting a wide range of left-leaning mandates,” he continued.

It's what they do...

Museum Pieces

A night at the "racist" museum:

The National Great Blacks Wax Museum has a wide array of statues from all stages of black history, and is receiving $250,000 in taxpayer funds. It received $2 million in federal funds last year. It reports having 150,000 annual visitors. The Lewis museum claims to have over 10,000 items in its collection. It reported 15,000 general admission visitors in its 2023 annual report. The art museums that did not receive the Mayor's funding, include the three most prominent museums in the Charm City such as the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Walters Art Museum and the American Visionaries Art Museum. But none of those three appear to be hostile to black art, black leadership, or are especially white-run, in contrast to the Mayor's statements. The Baltimore Museum of Art's Director is Asma Naeem, who is Pakistani as noted in the press release announcing her appointment. The Mayor's comments about Baltimore's art museums being white-run as it relates to the Walters Art Museum are even more out-of-touch with reality though. Oddly, Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott sits as a trustee on the Walters Art Museum's leadership board. As well, the Chair of the Board is Guy Flynn, is black. The third traditional Baltimore art museum, the American Visionary Art Museum was, until very recently, similarly led by a black woman, Jenenne Whitfield. Whitfield was the director of the museum from March 2022 through September 21, 2023, because of unstated creative differences with the organization's board of directors. The museum's co-founder Rebecca Alban Hoffberger is currently serving as an interim until they can find a permanent replacement. So the motivation as stated by the Mayor to fund all-black art outlets at the expense of the more traditional art museums in Baltimore because they were all white-run, appears to be wholly false. National Public Radio has previously said that criticism of the Baltimore Mayor was racist, no matter the terms used.

But he'll still get paid...

Climate Church

Pray to the climate gods:

Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon took on a wacky piece from Scientific American that tries to defend “transgenderism” in the face of the blindingly obvious fact that a person cannot, in fact, change his sex through surgeries, hormone injections, clothes, or hairstyles. But “scientific” progressivism is no longer about science or truth; it is an irrational and dictatorially dogmatic religion, in which anyone who questions a pronouncement made in the name of “The Science” is figuratively burned at the stake for his inexcusable heresy. Scientific American tweeted out its piece with the summary, “Three types of misinformation are being used against transgender people: oversimplifying scientific knowledge, fabricating and misinterpreting research, and promoting false equivalences.” Dillon replied to the post on Twitter by slamming not only Scientific American but all such woke pseudo-science. “Modern science — in the name of progress — has gone from trying to understand reality to denying it altogether,” he commented. “Scientific progressivism is a religion. Don't be fooled by the fact that its priests wear lab coats.”

They still want your blind faith...

Change Of Heart

Never Trumpers admit:

Avenatti said that his change of heart had come about because he realized that the whole thing was a charade: “There’s no question [the trial] is politically motivated because they’re concerned that he may be reelected. If the defendant was anyone other than Donald Trump, this case would not have been brought at this time, and for the government to attempt to bring this case and convict him in an effort to prevent tens of millions of people from voting for him, I think it’s just flat out wrong, and atrocious.” No doubt about it. The political persecution of Trump is so clear that even those who detest him and would never vote for him in a million years should be outraged about it. The fact that they are not is an indication of how much the American public square has already deteriorated. Avenatti continued: “I’m really bothered by the fact that Trump, in my view, has been targeted. Four cases is just over the top and I think there’s a significant chance that this is going to all backfire and is going to propel him to the White House. Depending on what happens, this could constitute pouring jet fuel on his campaign.” Maybe. But just a few weeks ago, Avenatti also said of the Stormy Daniels case that he did so much to propel in years past: “You know, I think the case has a lot of problems. Now that does not —I don’t mean to suggest that that means that Trump will not be convicted because I think he will be convicted.” Then there was former Attorney General Bill Barr, who said in 2022: “I don’t think he should be our nominee, the Republican Party nominee, and I think the Republicans have a big opportunity. It would be a big mistake to put him forward.” On Saturday, however, Barr said: “The Biden administration is in fact the greater threat to democracy. I think that they have a totalitarian temper. They have bought into the progressive movement. And they’re trying to squelch opposition and freedom of speech. It’s a heavy-handed bunch of thugs in my opinion, and that’s where the threat is.”

The real threats are from within...

Bad Programming

Hollyweird really isn't for kids:

Votes For Sale

Biden's vote buying works-for the wealthy:

Biden continues paying off successful young voters: Sorry, I mean “forgiving student debt.” Biden this week paid off another $7.4 billion in student loans, making his total student loan cancellation something like $153 billion. And by cancellation, I mean tax dollars were used to make the ledger go to zero. How much exactly? From Penn Wharton’s analysis: “We estimate that President Biden’s recently announced ‘New Plans’ to provide relief to student borrowers will cost $84 billion, in addition to the $475 billion that we previously estimated for President Biden’s SAVE plan.” But that goes to really needy people, right? Well, actually, at least 750,000 of those households are “making over $312,000 in average household income.” Meanwhile, to anyone who questions this allocation of resources, the White House answer is to shame them from official White House accounts by listing how much in pandemic loans were forgiven for House Republicans who own individual small business, which is weird because the reason businesses needed pandemic relief was because the White House banned them from operating. It’s a trap! And the only answer is to pay off every Media Studies PhD student’s loan. Colleges, for their part, are now charging up to $100,000 a year. Yes, literally. And since that’s ultimately going to be paid for by the taxpayers, why work to make it less expensive? Why cut corners when you need to remodel the cafeteria?

"Free" loans for those who make the grade...

The I Word

Don't say it:

“According to an email describing the incident, sent to local officials and shared with Carolina Journal, a young man in class took offense to his question and reportedly threatened to fight him, prompting the teacher to call in the assistant principal,” the Carolina Journal’s Brianna Kraemer reported. “Ultimately, his words were deemed by administrative staff to be offensive and disrespectful to classmates who are Hispanic.” “I wasn’t speaking of Hispanics because everyone from other countries needs green cards, and the term ‘illegal alien’ is an actual term that I hear on the news and can find in the dictionary,” the student told the newspaper in his defense. He’s now concerned that this incident could jeopardize his future hopes for an athletic scholarship. “Because of his question, our son was disciplined and given THREE days OUT of school suspension for ‘racism,’” his mother said. “He is devastated and concerned that the racism label on his school record will harm his future goal of receiving a track scholarship.”

But don't offend those who aren't supposed to be here...

Blue Review

Progressivism isn't selling like it used to:

Several Democrats have left the Congressional Progressive Caucus, with some leaving due to a rift over the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. One of the most high-profile departures came when Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) confirmed he was no longer in the caucus and shied away from calling himself a progressive when speaking with NBC News this month. “I consider myself an Arizona member of Congress who works across the aisle with everybody,” Gallego told the outlet when asked if he still considers himself a progressive. “I work for Arizonans,” he added. “And sometimes that makes me cross a lot of political spectrums.” Gallego, who is running against Republican Kari Lake in the race for an Arizona senate seat, claimed he let his membership to the caucus lapse because members “increased their dues tremendously,” adding that he works for his constituents. Arizona has traditionally leaned Republican but has recently given Democrats hope with the return of a strict abortion ban from 1864. The Senate race is expected to be one of the tightest races in November. He was widely seen as the “progressive” challenger to Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), who holds the seat and was a Democrat until December 2022. Now that Sinema has announced she is not seeking reelection and his only opponent in November will be a Republican, he has shied from the label. A wave of progressive Democrats were elected in the House in 2018, labeled the “Squad.” The group was led by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).

They need a new label...