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Feel-Good Friday: Bailey the rescue dog edition
A newly adopted Husky-mix dog from the Animal Rescue League of El Paso went missing from her new home. She found her way back to her adopted humans after using a clever trick.Read More
Jamelle Bouie wrote about trans dignity but his readers are asking for a little nuance
Today Jamelle Bouie wrote a column about human dignity and trans people. It's not a bad topic for a progressive writer on a deadline even if it is a bit well-trodden by this point. Still, it's a bit odd to see him…
Why we fight: The blacklist against conservative viewpoints by Big Tech
And some may have thought we were kidding or overreacting when criticizing Big Tech and its silencing of opposing viewpoints. If anything, we may have underestimated the weaponization of Big Tech platforms. In a blockbuster…
Chamber of Commerce pushing DEI hard
For some odd reason, I follow the MN Chamber of Commerce on Twitter. Probably because I had to in order to do work on some campaign I wrote speeches for long ago.Read More
Talk we must about Super Bowl ads
It's Super Bowl weekend and you know what that means. It means companies are spending millions of dollars on advertising during the biggest game of the year for football fans. Fox is happy to take their money. Ad spots…
Collusion: Looking back on the media’s Russia narrative
Last month, the Columbia Journalism Review published a massively long (24,000 words) investigation into the media's coverage of the Trump-Russia collusion story. Ed wrote about one aspect of it, Bob Woodward's…
NYC schools sent FBI fingerprints of teachers who refused COVID vax
NYC fired teachers who refused the COVID vaccine.Read More
Fighting Irish dean fighting mad when architecture department DEI hire dissed
YOU ARE LITERALLY WORSE THAN HITLERRead More
LA Times asks ‘What’s the matter with Portland?’
On Tuesday of this week, Portland's KGW 8 sent reporters to a tent camp that was about to be cleared out by the city after many complaints from neighbors. Instead of getting what they expected, i.e. placid…
Arrest made in assault of Democrat congresswoman in D.C.
Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN) was assaulted in the elevator of her apartment building in Washington, D.C. on Thursday morning. The assailant was arrested Thursday night. The 26-year-old homeless man was charged with simple…