NYC to Track Household Food Consumption to Fight Climate Change

Macron Working with Beijing on ‘Secret Plan’ for Peace Deal Between Ukraine and Russia

Obama’s leading from behind.

Related:

Spurned by Biden, Israel Asks China to Help Contain Iran Threat

Biden’s border policy may be worse:

Biden Welcomes Nearly Five Million Illegal Aliens to U.S., Exceeding Populations of 28 States

Bud Light: from Spuds MacKenzie to Dylan Mulvaney

“…“It’s like we need to evolve and elevate this incredibly iconic brand. What does evolve and elevate mean? It means inclusivity,” she opined. “It means having a campaign that’s truly inclusive and feels lighter and brighter and different. And appeals to women and to men. And representation, isn’t it the heart of evolution?”

She went on: “We had this hangover, I mean Bud Light had been kind of a brand of fratty, kind of out-of-touch humor, and it was really important that we had another approach.”

This corporate jabber and diversity talk might wow the sisters and woke crowd. It makes many of her actual beer drinkers want to barf.

Born into a high-powered lawyer family with connections extending from Texas to Southern California and the East, she attended Groton, Harvard and then Wharton. Alissa is the ultimate brand manager and Prep-Woke Girlboss.

Alissa talks in fluent psychobabble: the trendy drivel of her finding emotional safe spaces to process her feelings, the listening and empathy, the journey and trials. In this self-scripted narrative, she overcomes uncertainty, hardship and suffering to be the best in her field, catnip for aspiring female managers. She professes to be a beacon, “bringing women along with me and inspiring the next generation of female leaders to keep moving forward and pursue careers in male-dominated industries.”

But does Alissa Gordon Heinerscheid, Anheuser-Busch’s vice president for marketing Bud Light, by far the nation’s biggest beer brand, know her product or her customers? Does she even like them? At least she could pretend…”

Trump is running up the score with endorsements in DeSantis’ backyard

New York bans Native American names for schools

Naming things after native Americans is a sign of respect for them.

We live in the age of stupid.

https://twitter.com/defundnpr3/status/1648473792988196864

Failure is a choice

Colorado becomes first ‘Transgender Tourism’ state for mutilating children

NYC’s Top Doctor Warns that Half of Migrants Heading to City Are Not Vaxxed for Polio.

The former Director of National Intelligence agrees with the former CDC Director that Dr. Anthony Fauci lied to Congress under oath about funding gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab:

"Some of Dr. Fauci's testimony is inconsistent with some of the intelligence that we have… pic.twitter.com/raoVCBQdyR

— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) April 18, 2023

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Intel community may be stalling COVID origins assessments for political reasons, ex-director says

 

Chicago’s mayor-elect warns against ‘demonizing’ rampaging teens after unrest

Criminals are criminals and should be treated as such. At some point, Chicagoans themselves are to blame. This is generational failure where grandparents, parents and children have voted for one party for years. The party has failed to manage the city responsibly. Voters continue to support the same failed policies. It appears most Chicagoans do not recognize failure when they see it.

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New Chicago Mayor Excuses Rioters. Expect More

King’s College London Rejects Research on Trans Athletes for Calling Men ‘Males.’

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Modern bigotry in Canada: Simon Fraser University declares math “racist”

University ‘blocks’ academic from her own gender wars research over ‘dangerous’ data.

Disney May Soon Wish It Hadn’t Messed With Florida

We live in the age of stupid.

Related. Woke business is not good business:

Disney’s financial fairy tale in Florida is coming to an end thanks to Ron DeSantis.

Why Homelessness Is Worse in California Than in Texas: Today, the Lone Star state counts 90 homeless people per every 100,000 residents. In California, the problem is almost five times as bad

We are lucky to live in a city not badly affected. On my morning walks I see more homeless in the last few years in our area. Most appear to have some sort of mental disability – talking to themselves, collecting things, brandishing sticks, etc.

Biden’s ATF Director Was Asked to Define ‘Assault Weapon’ and It Didn’t Go Well

“…Steve Dettelbach, the man President Biden chose to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), followed in the footsteps of other Biden administration officials who have been stumped by seemingly straightforward questions from lawmakers, questions that deal with subjects within what is supposed to be their purview.

On Tuesday, Director Dettelbach was asked by Rep. Jake Ellzey (R-TX) to give a brief, 15-second definition of the term “assault weapon,” the thing President Biden and Democrats have demanded must be banned within the United States in order to reduce the frequency of crimes committed by individuals with guns. Dettelbach, however, came up completely empty during his testimony in the House Appropriations Committee’s hearing focused on the ATF’s FY2024 budget.

“I’ll go shorter than that because I, honestly, if Congress wishes to take that up, I think Congress would have to do the work, but we would be there to provide technical assistance,” Dettelbach told Ellzey. Huh? So, the man in charge of ATF doesn’t even have a guess when it comes to defining a firearm type that is mentioned and demonized almost daily by the White House?…”

Related. Just say anything. Most people don’t know if it’s true or not.

This literally never happened.

Here's the DOJ saying it didn't happen https://t.co/H4IPoUBHVF

Here's JAMA saying it didn't happenhttps://t.co/L8RsI35nq9

Here's RAND saying it didn't happenhttps://t.co/eRff2Pwmh0

Here's NYT saying it didn't happen https://t.co/Q6Db7XhuQA https://t.co/pQn778L7YN

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) April 10, 2023

Kathy Griffin Says She Has ‘Complex PTSD,’ Suffers 8-Hour Panic Attacks

“…Left-wing comedienne Kathy Griffin said she has an extreme case of complex post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that arose shortly after her cancelation resulting from her photograph of holding a bloodied Trump severed head.

Griffin revealed her struggle with mental health in an Instagram video in which she used a blurred filter that she said reflected how she feels internally…”

Biden Official Praises Eco Impact of Lockdowns

“…Delusional: Claims Many Felt ’Quality of Life’ Improved.

The Department of State’s Monica Medina says that during coronavirus lockdowns, “we saw pollution levels go down.”…”

Tenured professor who challenged social justice funding fired in secret board vote

“…California’s Kern Community College District didn’t act on termination recommendation during public portion of meeting dominated by Matthew Garrrett’s supporters, including black pastor.

Bakersfield College has fired a tenured history professor formally charged with “dishonesty” for disagreeing with colleagues on diversity issues, including a proposed “racial climate task force” to supersede the gridlocked diversity committee on which he served.

The secretive move against Matthew Garrett followed a contentious public meeting on his fate Thursday.

The Kern Community College District Board of Trustees, whose vice president publicly compared Garrett to livestock that should be culled before apologizing for the remark, apparently held an unrecorded vote without public notice Thursday, either in closed session between morning and afternoon open sessions or after the public meeting. Local media were confused, with KGET reporting that Garrett’s status remained unknown as of noon Friday…”

Michigan bill requires employees to give home address, phone number to unions

This is legalized corruption.

Guess Who’s Behind the 51 Intel Officials Letter Dismissing Hunter Biden’s Laptop?

“…For the past couple of years, we’ve been led to believe that the letter from 51 national security officials was some sort of spontaneous, grassroots effort by the intelligence community to warn us about the potential foreign influence behind Hunter Biden’s laptop.

The laptop has since been confirmed to be legitimate, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence confirmed that there was no foreign disinformation campaign involved. But new information from House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan and congressional investigators, with the help of two Obama-era CIA officials, has revealed a new twist in the story. The investigation has uncovered evidence linking the letter dismissing the Hunter Biden laptop as Russian disinformation during the 2020 election to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign.

The unsettling revelation of evidence linking the dismissal of the laptop to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign raises grave concerns about the suppression and censorship of crucial information by big tech and the mainstream media leading up to the 2020 election. This could be one of the most significant instances of legitimate election interference in our nation’s history, with far-reaching implications that leave a dark cloud over the integrity of our democracy. The implications of this investigation are deeply disturbing and must not be ignored.

Jordan revealed to Just the News that a report on government weaponization is set to be released later this month, detailing the individuals involved in the letter and the evidence linking them to the Biden campaign. Jordan suggested that the letter may have been a significant interference in the presidential election and was motivated by political considerations. Jordan declined to provide more details as further witness interviews are being conducted this week…”

Can Chicago Survive Brandon Johnson?

“…Chicago’s new mayor, Brandon Johnson, might drag his city into the urban doom loop. Inheriting a city already in crisis, Johnson plans to soak commuters, businesses, and the “ultra-rich” in taxes, has claimed that defunding the police is an “actual real political goal,” and promises to splurge on social spending. All this will make the Windy City’s situation more dire still.

In an urban doom loop, a city’s tax base flees, draining revenue and thus stressing already-underperforming core services. As conditions deteriorate, the cycle spins faster, pushing the city further into the fiscal and public safety abyss. Though Johnson backed away on the campaign trail from his most strident defund-the-police rhetoric, the city’s pension problems are already doing the trick…

…Chicago’s election highlights several aspects of our research, including ballooning expenditures, rising crime, and cratering commercial real-estate markets. Perhaps more than anywhere else, the Windy City exhibits the telltale signs of a negative spiral.

In the 2010s, Chicago saw a small population increase of around 2 percent, but the number of municipal employees fell by almost 5 percent, owing to the pension crowd-out effect, in which rising pension costs squeeze other city priorities. Chicago’s pension spending has nearly tripled in the past ten fiscal years, from around $15,700 per full-time employee to more than $45,000. Pension expenditures now total more than $1.5 billion—over 12 percent of the city’s total revenue. For every person Chicago employs, in other words, it is effectively paying $45,000 to a city employee who has already retired. And the problem will worsen in the years to come, with the city’s pension debts exceeding those of 45 states and the recent market downturn intensifying its funding shortfalls. As these costs rise, they limit the revenue available for needed services.

And Chicago can hardly afford to tighten its belt on public safety. From 2020 through 2022, more than 2,000 people were murdered within city limits. The 2021 figure of nearly 800 was roughly 60 percent higher than that of 2019—yet the Chicago Police Department recorded less than half the number of physical arrests in 2021 as it did in 2019. Crucial to understanding these numbers is that the police force has shrunk by 8 percent in less than half a decade…”