How did an obscure diversity trainer from an impoverished background become one of the most influential thinkers in the world? Last summer, at the peak of the George Floyd protests, Robin DiAngelo’s slim volume White Fragility, which was already a bestseller in America, became the number one selling book on Amazon’s website: it sold so many copies it soon ran out of stock.
Though the Supreme Court today declined to get involved in a case brought on by a former high school transgender student who claimed their rights were violated when they weren’t allowed to use the restroom of their choice at school several years ago, the battle over whether or not to allow transgender women further access to women’s dressing rooms, locker rooms, sports programs, etc. is far from over.
The United States finds itself dead last in media trust among 92,000 news consumers polled across 46 countries, according to a poll conducted by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford. Only 29% of Americans surveyed trust the media. Finland is the country with the highest degree of media trust at 65%.
Schoolchildren in a number of Western countries are taught that Jesus was bisexual, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov claimed on Monday, accusing the West of an attack on “the genetic code of the planet’s key civilizations.”
Writing in Moscow daily Kommersant, Lavrov expressed his opinion that the so-called “rules-based world order” is a “neo-colonial” policy that imposes Western values on countries around the world, including when it comes to moral and religious ideas.
Nearly 70 people were shot during another violent weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago.
Breitbart News noted 27 were shot Friday into Saturday night alone and by Monday morning at 5:15 a.m. ABC 7 reported the number of shooting victims had risen to “at least 67.”
Take them to our leader.
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson says he doesn’t think we “are alone” after reading the US intelligence community’s recent report on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), adding that the launch of a new telescope later this year could find more planets potentially home to intelligent alien life.
NEW: Fox News host Tucker Carlson says a government whistleblower told his team that the NSA is spying on his team's electronic communications and is "planning to leak them in an attempt to take this show off the air." pic.twitter.com/DqOf6jndFC
— Daniel Chaitin (@danielchaitin7) June 29, 2021
h/t Mauser
A Canadian woman was released from a camp for ISIS detainees in northeast Syria on the weekend, a lawyer representing her family said on Monday.
The woman, believed to have left Alberta for Syria in 2014, has been taken to northern Iraq, setting the stage for her return to Canada.
She is the first Canadian adult to leave the makeshift camps and prisons for suspected ISIS members captured in Syria during the conflict.
Back in time to vote for Justin.
U.S. Supreme Court rebuffs ‘Number of the Beast’ religious dispute
WASHINGTON, June 28 (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a religious rights case involving an Idaho man who refused to provide the state his Social Security number in a job-related filing because he said it was “the number of the beast” – an ominous biblical reference.
The justices let stand a lower court ruling against a man named George Ricks who in a lawsuit against Idaho demanded an exemption due to his Christian beliefs from the state’s requirement that he provide his Social Security number to apply to work as a state contractor.
Only 14 per cent of Canadians back some move to eliminate the national holiday
Across virtually every age, region and political affiliation polled, most Canadians intended to celebrate the July 1 national holiday, are cheered by the sight of the Maple Leaf and — all things considered — saw Canadian history as something worth celebrating.
He doesn’t like to hear talk of the continent’s “roots.”
One of the loudest cheerleaders for Islamic migration to Europe is Pope Francis. His predecessors called for the revival of a historically Christian Europe, but he makes no such call. Future historians will no doubt find it perplexing that the emergence of “Eurabia” happened not in spite of the Roman pontiff but in part because of him. “Europe will be Islamic by the end of the century,” predicted the historian Bernard Lewis.
Tucked deep in San Francisco’s sixth district is Dodge Place, a residential street located in the notorious Tenderloin neighborhood. It’s been overtaken by drug users who come to get high, descend into madness, and then destroy themselves and their surroundings. Dodge is a dead end, literally and figuratively—a combat zone, with all sides fighting for their lives.
A 21st-century version of Lysenkoism has become the dominant pseudoscience of the American Left, with ever-changing theories associated with anthropogenic global warming having shaped Democrat control policies and crackpot economic schemes for over a generation.
Toronto Mayor John Tory is supporting the renaming of Dundas St. and all other city assets that carry the moniker of Henry Dundas.
A report to next week’s meeting of the executive committee says almost 14,000 people signed a petition last year asking city council to change the street name due to the role the Scottish politician played in delaying the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade in the late 1700s.
