If only someone had warned us

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Migrants flooding NYC’s justice system — making up ‘75% of arrests in Midtown’ — as ‘pathetic’ sanctuary city laws handcuff cops

Across New York, recently arrived migrants are flooding the criminal-justice system — at far higher rates than public officials have acknowledged.

Police sources shared with The Post a staggering estimate that as many as 75% of the people they’ve been arresting in Midtown Manhattan in recent months for crimes like assault, robbery and domestic violence are migrants. In parts of Queens, the figure is more than 60%, sources there estimate.

On any given day, Big Apple criminal court dockets are packed with asylum seekers who have run afoul of the law.

The problem is made much worse by sanctuary city laws that mean New York cops aren’t allowed to work with ICE on cases where they believe suspects are in the country illegally. Additionally, the NYPD says it is barred from tracking the immigration status of offenders.

This makes it almost impossible for authorities to get their arms around the problem, experts and sources on the ground say.

“New York City eliminated a tool to get rid of violent criminals. What a mess,” Jim Quinn, a veteran ex prosecutor at the Queens Districts Attorney’s office, told The Post.

“The sanctuary city law is pathetic. It’s disgusting. It’s crazy.”

Making matters worse, police sources say that word has gotten out in the shelters about the city’s lax bail guidelines — meaning migrants know they’re going to get kicked back to the street quickly after they’re nabbed.

A City Hall spokesman pointed to Mayor Eric Adams’ previous calls for the City Council to change the sanctuary city laws. Last week, Adams said, “Right now, we don’t have the authorization to be able to go and coordinate with ICE. We have to follow the law.”

Bad, racist Orange Man!

February 7, 2018, PBS: Trump continues to cast some immigrants as criminals

WASHINGTON — Making his case for tighter border security, President Donald Trump has repeatedly linked immigration to criminality, highlighting immigrant gang violence, calling family reunification a national security threat and bemoaning the death of a pro football player involved in a car accident with a man living in the country illegally.

Speaking to law enforcement officials at the White House on Tuesday, Trump singled out the MS-13 gang, which is believed to be behind 25 killings on New York’s Long Island in the past two years, and has become a prime target of the Trump administration.

Related

What’s behind the Trump administration’s crackdown on MS-13?

By Patty Gorena Morales

“We’ve really never seen anything quite like this, the level of ferocity, the level of violence, and the reforms we need from Congress to defeat it,” Trump told law enforcement officials and lawmakers, eventually threatening another federal government shutdown if Democrats don’t agree to pass an immigration package he said would help keep gang members out.

“If we don’t get rid of these loopholes where killers are allowed to come into our country and continue to kill … if we don’t change it, let’s have a shutdown,” Trump suggested. “I’d love to see a shutdown if we don’t get this stuff taken care of.”

Trump’s latest threat is part of a pressure campaign he has been waging to try to get Democrats to sign onto a sweeping immigration plan that they’ve rejected. The president wants billions for a southern border wall, major cuts to legal immigration, and more money for interior enforcement and other changes in exchange for granting a pathway to citizenship for up to 1.8 million young immigrants living in the country illegally.

Earlier Tuesday, Trump called on Democrats to “get tough” on immigration, citing the death of Indianapolis Colts linebacker Edwin Jackson, who was killed in a suspected drunken-driving crash involvin

June 7, 2021, Newsweek: Trump Says 'Rapists,' 'Murderers' Crossing Border, Calls Biden Not Visiting 'Disgraceful'

Years after being heavily criticized for referring to migrants as "rapists," former President Donald Trump resurfaced the controversial comment while highlighting the "incompetence" of his successor's approach to the southern border.

Trump told Fox Business' Stuart Varney on Monday that "criminals," including "rapists and murderers and drug dealers" are taking advantage of the "totally open" border.

“His comments were reminiscent of a description he used in 2015, when he announced that he was running for president at Trump Tower in New York City.”

At the time, he called America a "dumping ground for everybody else's problem," and honed in on the need to crack down on undocumented immigrants, a staple of his candidacy and presidency.

"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best ... They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people," Trump said.

It is beginning to seem easier to just shrug, and walk away

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Climate change classes should be ‘mandatory’ in med school, doctor says

‘Irresponsible’ not to train ‘future practitioners for the realities they will be facing’

“My personal opinion is that it should be mandatory,” Dr. Lisa DelBuono told The College Fix via email. “Climate change has been politicized, but it is not a political issue…

“Fossil fuels pollution and climate change are making Michigan residents sick today, and the impacts are on track to become much worse going forward,” she said. “The good news is that climate solutions are health solutions and most of what we do to address climate change will improve human health, save lives, and save healthcare dollars.”

She is the founder and president of Michigan Clinicians for Climate Action.

Harvard to offer course on 'Queering Education,' focuses on 'young people’s schooling experiences'

Participants will study the supposedly ‘hidden curriculum’ of ‘heteronormativity and cisnormativity.’

The course aims to highlight the strategies that schools allegedly use to ‘privilege heterosexual, gendered identities and ways of being.’

Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education will offer a spring semester course titled “Queering Education” that will discuss sexuality in children’s education.  

The course, which will run from March 24 to May 2, explores “the role of gender and sexuality in shaping young people’s schooling experiences, opportunities, and outcomes, and the role of schooling experiences in shaping young people’s notions of gender and sexuality.”

More specifically, the course will teach students to understand the supposedly “hidden curriculum” of “heteronormativity and cisnormativity.” The course description alleges that American schools promote “subtle” strategies that “privilege heterosexual, gendered identities and ways of being,” and that “heteronormative schooling” hurts “all students.” 

According to ScienceDirect, heteronormativity is the belief that “heterosexuality is the norm and all individuals are expected to conform to traditional gender roles and relationships.” 

Somehow, this reminds me of our own government spending

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Create money out of nothing; spend it; outrage when the pretense is ended

”Infinite Money” TikTokers go wild over Chase bank 'glitch' - but they are in for a rude awakening

A 'glitch' at Chase bank's ATMs which allowed customers to withdraw money from their account after depositing fake checks for large sums has seen a wave of people flaunt their cash online.

It appears some Chase customers wrote checks with outlandish amounts and deposited them to get tens of thousands of dollars that weren't theirs, which had some calling it an 'infinite money hack.' 

But experts say this isn't a harmless life hack but rather a case classic check fraud, which is punishable by fines and jail time in serious cases.

Social media users who 'tried' the hack reported seeing the money initially reflected in their account balance or were able to get cash from ATMs before their fake checks cleared.

However Chase, one of the oldest banks in the country, was quick to crack down, leading to many customers posting update videos where they're devastated over huge negative balances in their accounts.

'We are aware of this incident, and it has been addressed. Regardless of what you see online, depositing a fraudulent check and withdrawing the funds from your account is fraud, plain and simple,' a Chase spokesperson told DailyMail.com.

Let us hope our relationships with our own families are a little better than this one was

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who loves ya, baby?

Mommy Dearest:

Maine woman memorializes mother’s ‘wake of destruction’ in obituary

A four-sentence obituary published Friday morning on the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel’s website said that a Glenburn woman died “without family by her side due to burnt bridges and a wake of destruction left in her path.” 

The obituary for Florence “Flo” Harrelson, 65, was written by her daughter, Christina Novak.

“Florence did not want an obituary or anyone including family to know she died,” the obituary read. “That’s because even in death, she wanted those she terrorized to still be living in fear looking over their shoulders. So, this isn’t so much an obituary but more of a public service announcement.”

In a phone call with the Bangor Daily News on Friday, Novak described her mother as abusive and controlling toward her and other family members. Yet she said she didn’t feel any anger while writing the obituary, only relief.

Harrelson served in the Marines and was a guard at Maine State Prison, [unsurprising — Ed] Novak said. She was predeceased by her husband and brother. When she died in February of heart failure, it had been more than a decade since Novak had broken off contact with her.

It wasn’t until Aug. 23 that Novak, who lives in Maine, learned that her mother had died. 

After confirming that it was true, she thought she would have liked to know earlier so she could have passed the previous six months without worrying that her mother might reappear in her life. Harrelson had been diagnosed with cancer, Novak said, but died of heart failure.

Novak started to write a traditional obituary but she kept finding herself drifting into sarcasm or spinning into a litany of wrongs her mother had done to surviving family members. Finally she hit on the idea of the public service announcement.

She ran the finished draft by several relatives, including an older one she thought might take issue. After a pause of a day, that person simply corrected the spelling of the word “destruction,” Novak said.

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At $1.25 a word Novak opted to keep it simple. The obituary appeared without a photo. It cost her $86.13, but the entertainment was “priceless,” she said.

“When I wrote it. I wasn’t mad, I wasn’t angry. I was actually sitting with pen and paper and giggling to myself,” she said.

He makes a strong argument for bringing back dwarf tossing

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back to berkeley with ye!

Ed Driscoll:

BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: Robert Reich, writing in the Grauniad, is against free speech:

Elon Musk is out of control. Here is how to rein him in.

3. Regulators around the world should threaten Musk with arrest if he doesn’t stop disseminating lies and hate on X.

Global regulators may be on the way to doing this, as evidenced by the 24 August arrest in France of Pavel Durov, who founded the online communications tool Telegram, which French authorities have found complicit in hate crimes and disinformation. Like Musk, Durov has styled himself as a free speech absolutist.

Here’s the full article by the little fellow; substitute George Soros or any other of Reich’s billionaire friends for Musk, and we’d have a different essay from Reich or, in fact, no essay at all, merely silence.

Elon Musk is out of control. Here is how to rein him in

Robert Reich

He may be the richest man in the world – but that doesn’t mean we’re powerless to stop him

Fri 30 Aug 2024 06.00 EDT

Elon Musk is rapidly transforming his enormous wealth – he’s the richest person in the world – into a huge source of unaccountable political power that’s now backing Trump and other authoritarians around the world.

Musk owns X, formerly known as Twitter. He publicly endorsed Donald Trump last month. Before that, Musk helped form a pro-Trump super political action committee. Meanwhile, the former US president has revived his presence on the X platform.

Musk just hired a Republican operative with expertise in field organizing to help with get-out-the-vote efforts on behalf of Trump.

Trump and Musk have both floated the idea of governing together if Trump wins a second term. “I think it would be great to just have a government efficiency commission,” Musk said in a conversation with Trump earlier this month streamed on X. “And I’d be happy to help out on such a commission.”

Musk reposted a faked version of Kamala Harris’s first campaign video with an altered voice track sounding like Harris and saying she doesn’t “know the first thing about running the country” and is the “ultimate diversity hire”. Musk tagged the video “amazing”. It’s got hundreds of millions of views, so far.

The Michigan secretary of state has accused the Musk-supported America Pac of tricking people into sharing personal data. Although the Pac’s website promises to help users register to vote, it allegedly asks users in battleground states to give their names and phone numbers without directing them to a voter registration site – and then uses that information to send them anti-Harris and pro-Trump ads.

According to a new report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate, Musk himself has posted 50 false election claims on X so far this year. They’ve got a total of 1.2bn views. None of them had a “community note” from X’s supposed fact-checking system.

Evidence is mounting that Russia and other foreign agents are using X to disrupt this year’s presidential race, presumably in favor of Trump. Musk has done little to stop them.

Meanwhile, Musk is supporting rightwing causes around the world.

In the UK, far-right thugs burned, looted and terrorized minority communities as Musk’s X spread misinformation about a deadly attack on schoolgirls. Musk not only allowed instigators of this hate to spread these lies, but he retweeted and supported them.

At least eight times in the past 10 months, Musk has prophesied a future civil war related to immigration. When anti-immigration street riots occurred across Britain, he wrote: “civil war is inevitable.”

The European Union commissioner Thierry Breton sent Musk an open letter reminding him of EU laws against amplifying harmful content “that promotes hatred, disorder, incitement to violence, or certain instances of disinformation” and warning that the EU “will be extremely vigilant” about protecting “EU citizens from serious harm”.

Musk’s response was a meme that said: “TAKE A BIG STEP BACK AND LITERALLY, F*CK YOUR OWN FACE!”

Elon Musk calls himself a “free speech absolutist” but has accepted over 80% of censorship requests from authoritarian governments. Two days before the Turkish elections, he blocked accounts critical of the president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

And his friendly relations with authoritarians often seem to coincide with beneficial treatment of his businesses; shortly after Musk suggested handing Taiwan over to the Chinese government, Tesla got a tax break from the Chinese government.

He may be the richest man in the world. He may own one of the world’s most influential social media platforms. But that doesn’t mean we’re powerless to stop him.

Here are six ways to rein in Musk:

1. Boycott Tesla.

Consumers shouldn’t be making him even richer and able to do even more harm. A Tesla boycott may have already begun. A recent poll said one-third of Britons are less likely to buy a Tesla because of Musk’s recent behavior.

‘His rhetoric has made Tesla toxic’: is Elon Musk driving away his target market?

2. Advertisers should boycott X.

A coalition of major advertisers has organized such a boycott. Musk is suing them under antitrust law. “We tried peace for 2 years, now it is war,” he wrote on X, referring to advertisers who criticize him and X.

3. Regulators around the world should threaten Musk with arrest if he doesn’t stop disseminating lies and hate on X.

Global regulators may be on the way to doing this, as evidenced by the 24 August arrest in France of Pavel Durov, who founded the online communications tool Telegram, which French authorities have found complicit in hate crimes and disinformation. Like Musk, Durov has styled himself as a free speech absolutist.

4. In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission should demand that Musk take down lies that are likely to endanger individuals – and if he does not, sue him under Section Five of the FTC Act.

Musk’s free-speech rights under the first amendment don’t take precedence over the public interest. Two months ago, the US supreme court said federal agencies may pressure social media platforms to take down misinformation – a technical win for the public good (technical because the court based its ruling on the plaintiff’s lack of standing to sue).

5. The US government – and we taxpayers – have additional power over Musk, if we’re willing to use it. The US should terminate its contracts with him, starting with Musk’s SpaceX.

In 2021, the United States entered into a $1.8bn classified contract with SpaceX that includes blasting off classified and military satellites, according to the Wall Street Journal. The funds are now an important part of SpaceX’s revenue.

The Pentagon has also contracted with SpaceX’s Starlink broadband service to pay for internet links, despite Musk’s refusal in September 2022 to allow Ukraine to use Starlink to launch an attack on Russian forces in Crimea.

Last August, the Pentagon gave SpaceX’s Starshield unit $70m to provide communications services to dozens of Pentagon partners.

Meanwhile, SpaceX is cornering the rocket launch market. Its rockets were responsible for two-thirds of flights from US launch sites in 2022 and handled 88% in the first six months of this year.

In deciding upon which private-sector entities to contract with, the US government is supposed to consider the contractor’s reliability. Musk’s mercurial, impulsive temperament makes him and the companies he heads unreliable. The government is also supposed to consider whether it is contributing to a monopoly. Musk’s SpaceX is fast becoming one.

Why is the US government allowing Musk’s satellites and rocket launchers to become crucial to the nation’s security when he’s shown utter disregard for the public interest? Why give Musk more economic power when he repeatedly abuses it and demonstrates contempt for the public good?

There is no good reason. American taxpayers must stop subsidizing Elon Musk.

Here’s a fun fact about the man Clinton once brought into his administration as Secretary of Labor: he opposed a proposed low-income tower near his Berkeley home, ostensibly because he didn’t want to see his neighborhood lose its character, but really because, as he admitted to FWIW, the tower would have ruined his view, and forced the 4’11” dwarf to have to resort to jumping up and down on his sofa pillows to get even a glimpse of the world outside. That, and because the wild little savages low-income housing brings in can be big and mean, even 12-year-olds, and Reich wouldn’t last ten minutes on the sidewalks after midnight.

While affordable housing has been a central issue in Reich's activism, in July 2020 Reich opposed a high-density development project in his own neighborhood in Berkeley.[63] He supported making a 120-year-old triplex a landmark to prevent the construction of a 10-apartment building, one of which would be deed restricted to be rented to a low income tenant, citing "the character of the neighborhood".

You'd think her support dog could have helped her out here

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I read this morning, but can’t lay my hands on it right now, part of her “explanation” for her flip-flop on fracking: it certainly wasn’t because she needs to win Pennsylvania — oh no — it’s because “there have been (unspecified) changes in the process over the past four years”. In fact, not that facts matter with this lying bitch, there have been no such changes.

These are the people, these are the acts that the wokettes on campus are supporting

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From Memri TV — interesting website

Bodies of 6 hostages, murdered by Hamas just days ago, found in Rafah – IDF


The bodies of six hostages abducted alive by Hamas on October 7 were recovered from a tunnel in southern Gaza’s Rafah overnight, shortly after they were murdered by terrorists, the Israel Defense Forces announced Sunday.

The hostages were Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, Eden Yerushalmi, 24, Ori Danino, 25, Alex Lobanov, 32, Carmel Gat, 40, and Almog Sarusi, 27.

Goldberg-Polin, Yerushalmi, Lobanov, Sarusi and Danino (an off-duty noncommissioned officer) were abducted from the Nova music festival near Kibbutz Re’im, while Gat was taken from Kibbutz Be’eri.

Their bodies were found with gunshot wounds to the head and other parts of their bodies, the Ynet news site reported. An autopsy found they were murdered in the 48 hours prior to the discovery of their bodies, the report said.

IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said the six were “brutally murdered” by Hamas shortly before troops arrived — possibly only a day or two before they were found.

“According to an initial assessment… they were brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists a short while before we reached them. They were abducted alive on the morning of October 7 by the Hamas terror group,” Hagari said in a press conference.

Ed Driscoll:

ISRAELI-AMERICAN HOSTAGE MURDERED BY HAMAS AS IDF RESCUE TEAM CLOSED IN:

The body of Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin has been found in the tunnels under Rafah. Hamas had abducted the 23-year-old dual citizen on October 7 from the Nova music festival and an IDF rescue operation was closing in on his position when Hamas murdered him along with 5 other hostages.

There are no words to describe the inhumanity of the act. For the six hostages to have survived almost a year in the most unspeakably brutal conditions only to have their captors cruelly murder them when they were on the brink of being rescued demonstrates the heartlessness and cruelty of human beings without conscience, without a spark of human decency.

Goldberg-Polin’s parents had traveled the world, looking to put pressure on Netanyahu to come to an agreement with Hamas and bring the hostages home. The couple gave an emotionally wrenching speech at the Democratic National Convention last week.

“This is a political convention. But needing our only son — and all of the cherished hostages — home is not a political issue. It is a humanitarian issue,” said his father, Jon Polin. His mother, Rachel added very quietly, “Hersh, if you can hear us, we love you, stay strong, survive.”

Joe Biden took a moment away from working on his suntan to make a statement.

“I am devastated and outraged. Hersh was among the innocents brutally attacked while attending a music festival for peace in Israel,” Mr. Biden said. “He lost his arm helping friends and strangers during Hamas’s savage massacre. He had just turned 23.”

“Make no mistake, Hamas leaders will pay for these crimes,” said the president.

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said, “He who murders abductees – does not want a deal. We are in a difficult day. The heart of the entire nation was torn.”

John Podhoretz writes, “And I cannot help but ask. I cannot. Had the Biden administration’s will not been bent and twisted in the months following the attack by the fiendish propaganda campaign causing them to worry about the war’s effect on Joe’s chances in Michigan—due to a population that effectively supported the terrorist monsters and cared not a whit for the eight Americans, let alone the 240 other innocents dragged into Hell—would Hersh and these others have survived? Imagine an Israel that had not found itself restrained and under assault, not told to pause, not scolded in pissy little phone calls with petulant American establishmentarians, without arms and aid held up, without being lectured about the geostrategic value of going slow or not going at all.”

https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2024/08/31/columbia-anti-semitism-task-force-problems-are-serious-and-pervasive-n3793908

HotAir has posted a synopsis on Columbia University’s Second Report on Anti-Semitism on campus; nothing that distinguishes Columbia from dozens of other universities here in the Land of the Free.

Not having had the benefit of the listening sessions, some members of the Columbia community have expressed skepticism that students are experiencing discrimination. To the degree that they are, the skeptics say, such experiences are rare or not serious. Many wish to challenge the identification of these incidents as antisemitic. Our intention is to report these incidents as they were reported to us and to share evidence, provided here by our students, of Jews being singled out in ways that would be considered intolerable in any other context.

What follows is several pages of examples, testimony really, from the students themselves.

One student who had moved into her dorm room in September, told us she placed a mezuzah on her doorway as required by ritual law, as traditional Jews have done for centuries. In October, people began banging on her door at all hours of the night, demanding she explain Israel’s actions. She was forced to move out of the dorm. 

Visibly observant students, like ones who wear traditional head coverings, have been frequently met with extreme hostility. “On campus, my friends have been spit on, been called like terrible, terrible names, a very close friend of mine was called, a lover of genocide and then a lover of baby killing. This was only a couple of days after October seventh.” A student told us she had been chased off campus with her brother one night.5 In many cases, episodes like these have led to efforts to hide markers of Jewish identity: while some students felt that they could previously “wear our Jewish identity,” now they don’t want their peers to know that they are Jewish. The fear of consequences permeated the atmosphere of campus during these months. One student put it this way: “If I walk on campus right now with my star out or kippah or say ‘am Yisrael chai’ [“the people of Israel live,” a traditional song], I could start World War III.” Many Jewish students said they now avoid walking alone on campus.

Students have reported having necklaces ripped off their necks and being pinned against walls, while walking back to their dorms on Friday afternoon and when they were on their way to synagogue. There were also multiple reports of visibly Jewish individuals simply walking past 116th Street who have been followed, stalked, and subjected to ethnic slurs and hateful statements, like “go back to Poland” and “I hope you guys suffer. You guys think it’s okay to kill innocent babies and bomb hospitals. Yes, Habibi, I’m talking to you,” and, when the hecklers saw that the student was filming them, one said to send the video “to all your Israelis.”

Columbia also has a private online forum called Sidechat where anti-Semitisim was running rampant.

Many students reported that Sidechat, an anonymous online platform accessible only to Columbia students, is suffused with hatred toward Jews and Zionists. In one instance, a user posted, “All you Zionists out there? You are the modern day Hitler.” In another instance a user posted, “If you support Israel, you are piece of filth not even worthy of being called human… I wish you enormous pain and suffering.”14 Another posted, “I sincerely hope any IDF veterans here (and this includes [student X], currently ‘proudly’ serving) die a slow death.”15 By targeting Israelis, these threats and stereotypes can constitute discrimination based on national origin under Title VI. Discrimination against military veterans also violates Columbia’s rules. Military service is mandatory for most Israelis. The claim that someone who has served in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is by definition threatening, a sentiment that was openly expressed by both faculty and students this spring, makes the campus a hostile place for virtually all Israelis. 

One student captured more than 750 antisemitic online posts written by Columbia students and organizations, 16 although many of these do not rise to the level of legal violation, they are nevertheless deeply troubling, and would be attracting universal opprobrium if directed against other groups or countries.

Even in classroom settings, students were not free from this anti-Zionist fervor. The report recounts a Masters of Public Health class where a professor gave a rant attacking Jewish donors for whom the school itself and buildings on campus were named.

In the first session, the professor extensively discussed, by name, Jewish donors to Columbia University, one for whom the school is named and another for whom one of the school’s buildings is named; the faculty member called these Jewish men “wealthy white capitalists” who “laundered” “dirty money” and “blood money” at Columbia.

An Israeli student was called a murderer by a faculty member.

An Israeli female student who served in the IDF was harassed in the classroom by a faculty member teaching a class that included material about the conflict. According to the student, conversations were consistently one-sided and often included inaccuracies. The IDF was portrayed as an “army of murderers.” The faculty member reportedly told the student that as a former IDF member, she too should be considered a murderer.

And of course there was the protest camp in the center of campus.

Students witnessed and sometimes experienced threats of violence or actual violence in these settings. Several recalled being assaulted while holding Israeli flags, which in at least one case protesters attempted to burn. One recounted having seen a student holding up a sign reading “AlQassam Brigade’s next target” standing in front of a Jewish student peacefully singing the Israeli National anthem. Students told us about chants such as, “Al-Qassam you make us proud, kill another soldier now,” “Yes Hamas, we love you, we support your rockets too,” or “We say justice you say how, burn Tel Aviv to the ground.”...

The hatred toward Israelis has reached alarming levels on campus. While hanging signs with pictures of hostages captured on October 7, an Israeli student was physically attacked.53 Following the attack, he had to deal with a false complaint that was submitted about him to Columbia (and was eventually dismissed).54 False complaints targeting Israeli students increased during the spring of 2024...

Protesters called for violence against Israel. “There is no safe place, death to the Zionist state,” “From the River to the Sea Palestine will be Arab” (in Arabic), and “We don’t want two states, we want all of it.” As another example, an Israeli student encountered a demonstrator who showed her a phone adorned with a Hamas flag and indicated “we will follow you to Israel and burn your family.”

The conclusion of pro-Israel students was that the Columbia administration was doing nothing to stop this and was in fact legitimizing it by agreeing to hold negotiations with the pro-Palestinian students responsible. If I had to guess why President Shafik resigned just in advance of this report, I'd say it was this summary of the school's handling of the situation.

Overall, these Israeli student experiences underscore a feeling of having been abandoned by the University administration. They see the University’s failure to enforce rules, as well as the University’s negotiations with leaders who called for the death of Zionists and the destruction of Israel as legitimizing the hatred directed at Israeli students. As one student respondent in a survey of Israeli students noted, Columbia “not only failed to keep its students safe, it allowed discrimination from both students and faculty.” Another Israeli student wondered why some Columbia faculty would consider calls for violence and terror as a free speech right, allowing this speech on campus and inside academic buildings. “Globalize the intifada,” “all IDF soldiers deserve to die,” “Glory to the Hamas militants,” “Death to Zionists,” “F** the Jews,” are examples of the hate speech that Israeli students reported. As one student in the survey sadly concluded, “Israeli students’ dreams of attending Columbia, a rigorous educational institution devoted to debate and discovery, have been shattered, as we feel the administration has normalized antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment.”

Remind me again: how are these people the lifeblood of our nation?

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is there some reason we wANT THEM?

FROM CBS NEWS’ IMMIGRATION APOLOGIST EXPERT:

U.S. has welcomed more than 500,000 migrants as part of historic expansion of legal immigration under Biden

By Camilo Montoya-Galvez

July 18, 2023 / 9:50 AM EDT / CBS News

The Biden administration has welcomed over half a million migrants under programs designed to reduce illegal border entries or offer a safe haven to refugees, using a 1950s law to launch the largest expansion of legal immigration in modern U.S. history, unpublished government data obtained by CBS News.

The unprecedented use of the parole authority has allowed officials to divert migration away from the southern border by offering would-be migrants a legal and safe alternative to journeying to the U.S. with the help of smugglers and entering the country unlawfully. It has also given the administration a faster way to resettle refugees as it attempts to rebuild a resettlement system gutted by drastic Trump-era cuts.

… To come live and work in the U.S. legally, immigrants generally must have a visa or approved refugee status. But a law dating back to 1952 allows officials to use the parole authority to admit those who don't have visas if doing so furthers an "urgent humanitarian" cause or "significant public benefit."

AND, TAKING A BREAK FROM COLORADO, WHICH ABSOLUTELY DOESN’T HAVE AN ILLEGAL ALIEN PROBLEM, THIS, FROM CLOSER TO HOME:

NYC migrant shelter overrun by teen ‘fight club,’ constant shrieking as residents rip disturbance: ‘Becoming unbearable’

The residents of a Queens apartment building say they’ve hardly had a moment’s peace since January when a 128-room hotel in Long Island City was transformed into a city-run migrant shelter.

Children living in the seven-story building loiter outside the front entrance in large, unsupervised groups practically every evening, claim residents next door at 911 44th Drive. From 8 p.m. until well past midnight, the kids fight and chase each other around, shouting, screaming — and disrupting neighbors’ sleep.

“Five or six teenagers between 12- and 14-years-old were beating on a small child the other night,” the resident said. “Kid couldn’t have been older than 8, and they were kicking him in the head after forcing him onto the sidewalk.”

Videos provided to The Post show the teens screaming and fighting outside the shelter’s main door, sometimes with the shelter’s security guards watching and egging them on.

Smaller children are seen in the footage being overwhelmed by a mob of other kids and pulverized. In one video, a larger boy walks up to a much smaller boy, places him in a headlock, and, after several minutes of back-and-forth struggling, drops him to the ground like a pro wrestler.

Other videos shows the kids playing on skateboards late at night, after dark. Others kids are seen playing chase, with the building’s security guards getting involved.

“It’s disturbing to have to see that kind of thing every night, and some of these kids are really just defenseless,” said Cabrera, an interior design student. “Where are the parents? Why is no one watching these kids?”

Channeling Colorado’s Polis:

…. A Department of Social Services spokesperson would not even confirm the former hotel is now a shelter, “to safeguard the privacy of vulnerable New Yorkers” and “social services beneficiaries residing at these locations.”

Stupid is as stupid does

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OUT: EVs. IN: EREVs. “What’s EREV mean? It stands for extended-range electric vehicle, and it’s distinct from the plug-in hybrids Hyundai and others more commonly offer. As the name implies, it’s an EV, with a decent-sized battery powering electric motors that in turn propel the car down the road. The whole range-extender part comes in the form of an internal-combustion engine whose sole purpose is to act as an onboard generator for the electric bits. Simply fill the tank with gas, and you can extend the vehicle’s effective range beyond a set radius surrounding an EV charger, with the engine kicking on to generate electricity when the battery’s initial charge is depleted. ….

So if I have this right, instead of one engine in a car we’ll now have two, one to keep the other running; aside from adding expense, weight and an extra motor to maintain, this is an improvement … how?