Tuesday Links - 5 April

Flopping Aces starts us off with a bleak assessment of our situation. Goodnight America

Our borders are wide open and the steady influx of unvetted, illegal, uneducated, poor, aliens has turned into a tsunami. Our military has been intentionally gutted like a dead fish. Our Democratic run cities are crumbling. Drug use, mental illness and poverty have reached epidemic proportions. Crime is surging. Inflation is raging. Stagflation is on deck and Depression is sitting in the dugout waiting for a turn at bat.

Legal Insurrection - Appeals Court Upholds Gibson’s Bakery Massive Verdict Against Oberlin College. Or the "Get Woke, Go Broke" University edition.

Based on the actions of college officials in conveying and promoting the defamatory accusations, a lawsuit was filed, resulting in massive verdicts for the owners of the bakery, David Gibson and his father, Allyn Gibson. Legal Insurrection was the only national media outlet to have someone in the courtroom reporting, including when the verdicts came down:

The Feral Irishman - Good thing we got rid of those pesky plastic straws.....

As consumers turn to alternatives to single-use plastic, drinking straws made of plant-based materials like paper are coming into wider use, and many are marketed as biodegradable or even compostable. But an analysis of drinking straws available in the US detected 21 per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)—called “forever chemicals” for their extreme resistance to environmental breakdown—in 36 out of 38 brands of plant-based straws tested.

Victory Girls - Jackson: Slapping Pedophiles On Their Wrists For Years

As nomination to the highest bench in the country becomes imminent, the mainstream media chooses to downplay Ketanji Brown Jackson and her track record for letting off pedophiles.

“Just a smear campaign from racist Conservatives,” they’ll say. “An attempt to smear Jackson as a black woman,” others will quip.

The Post Millennial - Oregon Secretary of State report on domestic terrorism cites violent extremism by Antifa in Portland

A report released Wednesday by the Oregon Secretary of State's Office offers ways the state can do more in its attempts to counter "domestic terrorism" and "violent extremist attacks," citing cases of far-left violent extremism by Antifa in Portland.

The Other McCain - Taylor Lorenz Is a Dangerous Sociopath

Nowhere in all the mainstream media’s coverage of the so-called “harassment” directed at Lorenz does one ever find any useful description of what she has done over the years to attract criticism of her work. Her original claim to fame (or, at least, the first time anyone on the “right wing” paid attention to her) was when Lorenz doxxed the teenage daughters of conservative blogger Pamela Geller. Considering that Geller has long been a target of Islamic terrorists — two ISIS gunmen tried to kill her in Texas in 2015, the same year another Muslim was shot by police after threatening to behead her — what was the point of doxxing Geller’s teenage daughters?

Watts Up With That - China Continues To Laugh At Western “Green Energy” Foolishness

With an energy cost crisis now striking Europe and to a lesser extent the U.S., some cracks have begun to appear in the “net zero” utopian dreams being pursued almost universally by Western politicians. Nevertheless, at this writing, the rapid elimination of use of fossil fuels, supposedly to fight “climate change,” remains official government policy throughout Europe, at the federal level in the U.S.

Antiplanner - Equity Is a Complex Issue

Schank notes that Los Angeles voters approved funding for a bus-rapid transit line in the Vermont Avenue corridor, “one of the busiest transit corridors in the U.S.” But the LA Metro board held up the project based on the argument that it might be more “equitable” to build a subway in the corridor. Since subways take years to build, this “represents a very narrow view of equity that in practice postpones improvements for those who need them the most,