Author: Blazingcatfur
Pelosi, Democrats eject Marjorie Taylor Greene from House committees
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and fellow House Democrats on Thursday voted to remove Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) from the Education and Budget committees to which she had been appointed by the Republican minority.
Most Republicans stuck by Greene, arguing that her adherence to an array of conspiracy theories predated her election and that the vote would set a worrying precedent for removing minority-party legislators from posts.
Canceling San Francisco
The city’s school board is busy stripping the names of public schools that honor Lincoln, Washington, and others, even as it refuses to reopen its classrooms.
Sacramento
“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle,” wrote the city of San Francisco’s namesake, St. Francis of Assisi. Catholics revere the Italian friar — canonized in 1228 — for his great love of animals and all of God’s creation. As the current pope said in adopting Francis as his papal name, St. Francis also advanced the “idea of poverty against the luxury, pride, vanity of the civil and ecclesiastical powers.”
We don’t need deprogramming: Defining political dissent as a psychological problem is a Soviet trick
Christopher Gadsden’s famous ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ flag needs to updated to ‘Don’t Deprogram Me’. That’s the latest threat; if you supported the wrong candidate, you won’t just get trodden on, you’ll get therapy. Is it just me, or does being trodden on sound preferable?
‘There are millions of Americans, almost all white, almost all Republicans, who somehow need to be deprogrammed. It’s as if they are members of a cult,’ Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson said of Trump supporters on January 12.
CRENSHAW: The Lie Of ‘Systemic Police Racism’ That Kills
Four years ago, five Dallas Police officers lost their lives after they were targeted simply for wearing the uniform. Last September, two officers were shot in the face at point blank range for the same reason. One of them was a young mother. During the months of violent riots that one Democrat politician called the “summer of love,” more than 2,000 officers were injured. By July of last year, officer deaths had risen 28 percent compared to the previous year.
UK revokes broadcast license of Communist China’s CGTN TV propaganda outlet
According to a statement issued on Thursday, the broadcasting regulator Ofcom has revoked China Global Television Network’s license to air its programs in the UK.
… Its investigation found that CGTN is controlled by Chinese Central Television, which, as part of the China Media Group, is “controlled by the Chinese Communist Party and therefore disqualified from holding a broadcast licence under UK laws.”
Ryerson student journalist claims he was fired from campus newspaper over his Catholic views
A Toronto student journalist claims he was fired from a Ryerson University student newspaper because he holds strict Roman Catholic views, including adhering to church and biblical teachings about how being gay or transgender is sinful.
Greta Thunberg faces criminal conspiracy probe in India over farm protest tweets
Greta Thunberg accidentally shared a message showing she was getting told what to write on Twitter about the ongoing violent farmers’ revolt in India — leading Thursday to her being probed for criminal conspiracy by police there, according to reports.
AOC’s Stolen Riot Valor Reveals Her Heartless Cruelty Toward the Rest of America
At the height of the riots in Portland over the past several months, the actual mayor of the city had to flee his home. Riots made it too dangerous for him and his neighbors.
France bomb plot: Iran diplomat Assahollah Assadi sentenced to 20 years
An Iranian diplomat has been convicted of a plot to bomb a big French rally held by an exiled opposition group.
Assadollah Assadi, 49, who worked at the Iranian embassy in Vienna, was given a 20-year jail term by the court in Antwerp in Belgium.
It was the first time an Iranian official had faced such charges in the EU since the 1979 revolution.
Three others were also convicted. They were arrested during a joint operation by German, French and Belgian police.
No. It’s because you really are an anti-semite.
Ilhan Omar accuses ‘Looney Tunes’ Republicans of using her as a scapegoat by calling her anti-Semitic to distract from calls to fire QAnon Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene – and says ‘it’s because I’m a black Muslim woman’
Shutting down Keystone XL shows Biden’s preference for symbolism over substance on environmental policy.
Biden’s Empty Environmentalism
For at least the past two decades, the American environmentalist movement has been split into two camps. On one side, less conspicuous, are the conservationists—dedicated to working with public and private actors to keep our air and water clean, preserve America’s natural beauty, and advance common-sense solutions to pressing issues like climate change. On the louder and more flamboyant side are the progressive activists, who prioritize heated rhetoric, symbolic measures, and political purity tests over practical solutions.
Symbolism over substance? Boy does that sound familiar.
Chasing the Dragon
On his first full day in office, President Joe Biden signed a massive executive order that, among other things, killed the Keystone XL pipeline project. Buried in that same order were two short sentences that will allow the Chinese government to get into the American electrical grid.
Located at Section 7(c), the order reverses a previous directive by the Trump administration last May, which found that “foreign adversaries are increasingly creating and exploiting vulnerabilities in the United States bulk-power system, which provides the electricity that supports our national defense, vital emergency services, critical infrastructure, economy, and way of life.”
Fired Parler CEO: I Tried To Warn Them To Crack Down
Let the recriminations begin! Parler CEO John Matze announced that the board has fired him as of Friday, not long after the social-media company got deplatformed by Google, Apple, and finally Amazon. Matze tells NPR that majority investor and conservative rainmaker Rebekah Mercer gave him the boot, and while he wasn’t given a specific reason, Matze says that a fundamental clash over Parler’s direction may have been the issue.