A border facility in Carrizo Springs, Texas, re-opened this week dedicated exclusively to holding children unaccompanied by their parents to await processing. The facility had to be reopened, after being shuttered during the Trump administration, in order to comply with new pandemic regulations, says the Biden administration.
Arizona professors develop VIRTUAL REALITY program to demonstrate ‘systemic racism’ & ‘microaggressions’
Five professors at the University of Arizona have launched a virtual reality project to show what it’s like to experience anti-black racism, providing yet another tool to help push academia’s social narratives.
Funded with a $50,000 grant from the state university, the researchers aim to create settings, such as department meetings and classrooms, where participants wearing virtual reality headsets can see what it’s like to be black – or at least what it’s like in the version of reality created by the authors.
5 Things You Need To Know About The Extremist ‘Equality Act’ House Democrats Just Passed
On Thursday, the House of Representatives passed the so-called Equality Act by a vote of 224 to 206. While Democrats have marketed this legislation as a simple civil rights law designed to protect LGBTQ people from discrimination, it is far from that.
The statutory language instead provides for an extreme remaking of all aspects of society, destroys the promise of equality for women, and threatens religious liberty and the privacy rights of all Americans, especially children. The proposed law also will upend state and federal protections of the unborn—yes, the Equality Act is about abortion too.
AOC urges Albany to probe Cuomo over sex harass claims
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called on the state Legislature to investigate the “extraordinarily serious” sexual harassment accusations leveled against Gov. Andrew Cuomo by a former staffer, Lindsey Boylan.
During an interview with DC reporters in the Capitol Thursday, AOC described the accusations as “extraordinarily serious” and said alleged victims “deserve to be heard.”
More popcorn please.
Brain chips to improve mental health and exoskeletons to make us stronger: Major study predicts how we will use technology to ‘upgrade’ our lives and ourselves over the next 10 years
Over the course of the next decade humans will integrate more with technology to ‘upgrade’ our lives including brain chips and exoskeletons, a new report claims.
Produced by dentsu, a global advertising and digital agency, the report looks at ways the world could change over the next 10 years and the impact on global brands.
h/t Marvin
FUREY: As GTA mayors call for reopenings, John Tory still won’t budge
Just who runs Toronto anyway? It’s a question more people are asking, as Mayor John Tory still won’t take the reins and call for a responsible reopening of what has become one of the most locked-down cities in North America and, by some measures, the whole world.
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Why is the woke mob so scared?
Whenever a person is “cancelled” or “no-platformed”, a public battle is inevitably waged. On one side, there are those who uphold the value of free speech; on the other, those who insist free speech depends on what is being said, or believe the whole debate is some kind of smokescreen for smuggling extremist ideas into society. What goes unnoticed, however, is that there is a pattern to these eruptions.
Conrad Black: The hard truth that Quebec’s intelligentsia never admit
French-Canadians owe their cultural survival to the Roman Catholic Church; they owe their achievement of approximate economic equality with English-Canadians to Duplessis
San Francisco to Redistribute $120 Million from Police to Black Community
San Francisco Mayor London Breed released a plan Thursday to redistribute $120 million from the city’s law enforcement budget to projects aimed at helping the city’s black minority.
‘Gaping’ holes in law let extremists turn people into terrorists, warns former police chief
New joint report with terror tsar calls for tighter rules to stop spread of hate online
Extremists who turn young people to terrorism are operating with impunity in the UK because of a “gaping chasm” in the law, the UK’s former counter-terror chief has said.
In a report to be presented to ministers, Sir Mark Rowley said the UK’s laws were so ill-defined that hate preachers such as Anjem Choudary had been able to get away with recruiting hundreds of young people to terrorism without being prosecuted and were still able to do so.
He cited cases of how extremists could use social media to glorify terrorism by Islamic State (IS) murderers and evade prosecution as long as they avoided “encouraging the commission, preparation, or instigation of acts of terrorism”.
#RIPTwitter Trends After It Unveils Paid Super Follows Subscription Feature
Twitter’s plan to let people charge money for access to additional or exclusive content was criticized by some users on Friday.
The hashtag #RIPTwitter became a top-five trending topic as it was used thousands of times to reject the new feature, which is known as Super Follows. Memes were widely shared to illustrate the stance, some attracting thousands of shares.
Things are going well for the blog on GAB, Twitter is dying.
Nigeria’s Zamfara school abduction: More than 300 Nigerian girls missing
More than 300 schoolgirls have been kidnapped by unidentified gunmen from a school in Nigeria’s north-western Zamfara state, police say.
Security officers have been dispatched to the town of Jangebe where the girls were seized early on Friday morning.
Local officials have confirmed the attack but have not given more details.
This is the latest mass abduction targeting schools in recent weeks. Armed gangs often seize schoolchildren for ransom.
Zuckerberg Challenged on Facebook Censoring British ‘Faggots & Peas‘ Delicacy
British parliamentarians have challenged Facebook tsar Mark Zuckerberg over the tech giant’s abortive efforts to censor a history group for discussing the traditional Black Country dish faggots and peas.
