Former NFL Player Threatens to Sue MSNBC’s Reid over ‘Child Abuse’ Tweet

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Tuesday on Newsmax TV’s American Agenda, former NFL player Jack Brewer responded to MSNBC’s host Joy Reid comparing children from his charity program attending Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ (R) signing of an anti-Critical Race Theory (CRT) bill to “child abuse.”

“This mis-use of Black boys is tantamount to child abuse,” tweeted Reid, who is arguably the most hateful, racist propagandist in mainstream media. “I would really like to hear the back-story on who these kids were and how they would up at a DeSantis event. Given how anti-Black DeSantis is, using Black children this way is extra sick.”

“It actually sickens me. Saddens me,” Brewer stated. “You know, I’m not angry with Joy Reid. I’m disappointed. I’m disappointed that she uses her platform to spew this much hate to folks that she claims to be representing. You know, we work hard, tirelessly. I have kids in our facility right now who are trying to study their reading and math proficiency levels. Many of these kids are suffering from the direct effects of CRT, and my kids understand very well what CRT is and what it means. When they go to school, and they make Ds and Fs, and the teachers tell them that it’s OK because of the color of their skin, they’re promoting oppression, they’re dividing this nation, and people like Joy Reid are the mouthpieces for this. They’re the spokespeople for CRT, and I stand against it. I think it’s the antichrist. I think it’s racist. I think it takes us back decades when we’ve made so much progress in this nation.”

“But I think Joy Reid really made a mistake,” he continued. “I don’t believe she realizes what kids she was picking on. You see, the fact that the matter is that she said nothing about all those white kids or Hispanic kids that was there. She literally circled my black kids, my babies, the kids that I worked so hard to uplift. Most of them are fatherless, and most of them are working on their reading and math and are suffering from the same garbage that she’s spewing.

“Those are the kids that she chose to point out,” Brewer added. “And so it’s so damaging. I tell you, I hope MSNBC and Joy Reid issue an apology — not to me, but to my kids because they deserve that. This was a moment in their life that they saw as a very special time — an opportunity that they get to meet their great governor, and then all of a sudden, it gets turned around on them, and now they’re being harassed.”

Brewer went on to say he stands “against everything that Joy Reid is about. She should be disgraced for that.”

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Reid Says “Education” Is a Racist “Code” Word

During MSNBC’s election-night coverage on November 2, 2021, Reid — noting that in the state of Virginia, where many parents’ opposition to the teaching of Critical Race Theory principles in their children’s schools had led them to support Republican candidates rather than Democrats — claimed that those parents were essentially racists: “[T]he exit polls showed that — which was interesting — that the coronavirus, or that the virus was a very — was not important to many voters there. It was education, which is code for white parents don’t like the idea of teaching about race. And I mean, unfortunately, race is just the most palpable tool in the toolkit. It used to be of the Democratic Party back in the day when they were Dixiecrats, and now of the Republican Party. It just is powerful.”

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Documents Show Biden Agency the National Credit Union Administration Enforcing Critical Race ideology

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Judicial Watch announced that it received records from the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) in response to a Freedom of Information Act request which shows the government agency responsible for regulating credit unions required “inclusion and unconscious bias training” for the agency’s employees and contractors and offered advice on how to recognize and address alleged “microaggressions” in the workplace.

The NCUA is, “an independent federal agency that insures deposits at federally insured credit unions, protects the members who own credit unions, and charters and regulates federal credit unions.”

“Americans should be disturbed that the Biden administration is using the agency responsible for regulating credit unions to subject employees and the public to an extremist and discriminatory Critical Race Theory ideology that attacks individuals based on race,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.

A February 25, 2021, email from the Office of Minority and Women Inclusion (OMWI) to “All NCUA Staff” with the subject line “Inclusion and unconscious bias training now available,” notes that an attached memo provides information about a “new, required training course” called “Inclusion at Work: Managing Unconscious Bias at the Office.”

The accompanying memo notes that the training unit was required for “All employees and contractors” as part of “required annual diversity and inclusion training.”

The memo states: “The NCUA is committed to building the diversity and inclusion competencies of employees to advance NCUA’s Strategic Objective 3.1 – to attract, engage and retain a highly skilled, diverse workforce, and cultivate an inclusive environment.”

In a February 10, 2022, email to “All NCUA Staff” from the Office of Minority and Women Inclusion (OMWI), all employees are invited to attend a “virtual OMWI Talk” where they will “watch a video and discuss the role our institutions and public policies play in shaping opportunities and one’s ability to accumulate wealth.” It notes that they will watch the film “Race: The House We Live In,” which is the “first film about race to focus not on individual attitudes but on the ways our institutions and policies advantage some groups at the expense of others. Its subject is the ‘unmarked’ race. We see how benefits quietly and often invisibly accrue to [the majority], not necessarily because of hard work, but because of the racialized nature of our laws, courts, customs, and perhaps most pertinently, housing.” The email describes OMWI Talks as a “safe place to have difficult conversations about race, identity, privilege, unconscious bias, cultural appropriation and a host of other thought-provoking topics.”

A July 12, 2021, OMWI email to all staff advises them to “Save the date” for the next OMWI Talk, which is titled “Deconstructing White Privilege.” The talk features a video from Dr. Robin DiAngelo, author of “What Does It Mean to Be White? Developing White Racial Literacy.” The email describes DiAngelo as an “anti-racist educator,” who has “heard justifications of racism by white men and women in her workshops for over two decades.” It continues, “This justification, which she calls ‘white fragility’, is a state in which even a minimal amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves.”

In an internal NCUA newsletter, called VIBE, sent by OMWI to all NCUA staff on March 1, 2021, the new NCUA Chairman, Todd M. Harper, writes a message, noting that “I truly look forward to working with OMWI to VIBE and advance diversity and inclusion not just within the agency, but also in the entities and communities we serve.” He notes: “NCUA’s Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Plan outlines five additional goals for this work, including one specific to diversity and inclusion in credit unions and another for diversity in our business activities. These are not just OMWI’s goals. They are agency-wide goals.” The newsletter mentions the creation of a new position called Diversity and Inclusion Specialist, and thanks the departing director of OMWI who, it notes, created such programs as “the Credit Union Diversity Self-Assessment,” the “Credit Union Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Summit” and “much more.”

A section of the newsletter titled “Diversity and Inclusion Learning” includes:

  • Take a few minutes to read through these Seven Ways to Be More inclusive in Your Everyday Life.
  • Learn how to Be Inclusive Every Day
  • Got your eye on a promotion or a new position? Use the Inclusion Guide for Interviewees to prepare yourself for diversity and inclusion related questions that may come up in the interview.

In the issue of the VIBE newsletter emailed to all NCUA staff on December 1, 2021, under a section titled “Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Learning,” employees are told, “A microaggression is defined as an indirect, subtle, or unintentional form of discrimination against members of a marginalized group. But for those who experience them, microaggressions are more than just insults or insensitive jokes – they are painful, powerful, and can inflict lasting harm.” It offers links to three articles, titled: “What is a microaggression? 14 things people think are fine to say at work – but are actually racist, sexist or offensive;” “How to Address Microaggressions in the Workplace;” and “Microaggressions at work: Recognizing & overcoming our biases.”

In the first article, published on March 1, 2021 by Business Insider, types of “microaggressions” include “telling a new female worker that she ‘looks like a student’ to asking a Black colleague about her natural hair,” adding “they can make a workplace feel uncomfortable, unsafe, and toxic.”

The article “Microaggressions at work: Recognizing & overcoming our biases,” published by Culture Amp, states that “microaggressions” can include “Asking a lesbian co-worker, ‘Who’s the man in your relationship,’ ” “Mispronouncing someone’s name because ‘it’s too difficult to say,’ ” “Mistaking a Latinx colleague for a service worker,” and “Naming all the buildings or rooms after White men.”

Judicial Watch obtained the records in response to a February 8, 2022, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for:

  1. Policy documents and training materials produced by, sent to, and/or used by the NCUA Office of the Executive Director (ED) and Deputy Executive Director (DED) containing any of the following key words: a) “whiteness”; b) “unconscious bias”; c) “intersectionality”; d) “white privilege”; e) “Kendi”; f) “Robin DiAngelo”; g) “systemic racism”; h) “structural racism”; i) “close
    hold”; j) “climate justice”; or k) “critical race theory;”
  2. Emails and text messages sent to and from officials in the Office of the ED and DED instructing or suggesting that any individuals or groups of people are fundamentally privileged, oppressive, oppressed, racist, or evil on account of their race; and
  3. Emails and text messages sent to and from officials in the Office of the ED and DED instructing or suggesting that America is a fundamentally racist or evil country.

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PODCAST: Abuse of Power: Inside the Three-Year Campaign to Impeach Donald Trump and More …

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PODCAST: The WHO’s Toxic Prescription for World Government

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In October 2019, a group of globalists and U.S. and Chinese officials conducted an ominous tabletop exercise called “Event 201.” Among other things, it modeled how a coronavirus pandemic could be used to strengthen world government.

Within weeks, the CCP unleashed such a pandemic. As predicted by the Event 201 team, the World Health Organization assumed a prominent role in the response. We soon learned, however, that it was basically a shill for Communist China and its “model” of totalitarian mask mandates, lockdowns and inadequately tested vaccines.

The Biden administration nonetheless seems intent on greatly increasing the power of the World Health Organization to dictate responses to future pandemics. On May 22nd, 2022, votes are expected that would subordinate our national sovereignty and decision-making to the dictates of the WHO without the approval of the U.S. Senate.

Will we let that happen?

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Don’t Wait for November, Let’s Work on Closing the Border Now

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Calls are growing for the impeachment of DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas – if Republicans take back the House – for failing to faithfully execute the nation’s immigration laws and leaving the southern border wide open.  Mayorkas, you will recall, keeps yapping about “equity” which, when translated into the immigration context, means bringing as many nonwhites into the country as possible to fight the evil white supremacist American people.  Apparently, he believes his own propaganda, making him a deeply troubled man willing to ignore or break any law to implement his vision of racial payback.

His brand of equity comes at a cost, however.  Mayorkas’ policies have effectively put drug cartels in control of the southern border.  Border agents seized 123 pounds of heroin, cocaine and marijuana in the El Paso area earlier this month.  That’s just the tip of the iceberg.  The cartels are using thousands of drone flights to spot gaps in border enforcement, thus informing them where to concentrate their drug smuggling and human trafficking activities.  The drones are also used to get fentanyl across the border, since it doesn’t take big amounts of that drug to get a big pay-off.  The DEA is warning about a spike in “mass-overdose events”, clusters of fentanyl overdoses and deaths in Austin, Omaha, and other cities.

Another cost of pursuing racial payback is the growing national security threat from an open border.  Twenty-three illegal aliens caught crossing the border last year were on the terrorist watch list.  We still don’t know what the Biden administration did with them, despite people asking questions.  Were they released into the interior of the country like so many other illegal aliens?  We don’t know; the Biden administration isn’t saying.

The administration is also hiding the ball on data regarding arrests and deportations, information that was routinely released in previous years.  The lack of data allows criminal illegal aliens to run free in the country and prevents analysis of the true effects of the government’s immigration policies, critics say.  They also say this suits Secretary Mayorkas and his colleagues just fine because they oppose their own Department’s mission, and don’t care who gets hurt in the process of pursuing racial payback.

The administration also continues to keep illegal alien night flights secret.  Critics say the activity shows a systematic plan to move illegal aliens by the hundreds of thousands – or millions – to multiple states around the country, many of them unaccompanied children.

But the ideologues at DHS aren’t done, yet.  After the pushback on lifting Title 42 COVID restrictions at the border, the Biden administration has already started letting more illegal aliens into the country by exempting them from health regulations.  A memo went out instructing the Border Patrol to work with advocacy groups to get as many illegal aliens as possible into the country using the exemption process.  This means the expected Title 42 avalanche of new arrivals is already starting.  By the way, exemption from health regulations means not only more COVID, but more Ebola, yellow and dengue fever, and drug-resistant tuberculosis being brought into the country in the name of ‘equity’.  [Frank Gaffney’s Secure America show, 4/26/22]

Some states are fighting back. Texas Governor Greg Abbott made news when he put illegal aliens on buses to drop them off in Washington, D.C. Twenty-six Republican-led states have joined forces to share intelligence and fight drug and human trafficking.  But there’s only so much states can do, after the Supreme Court told Arizona it could not enforce federal immigration laws on its own ten years ago.

If you are an activist fighting the open borders crazies in DHS and the Biden administration, get in touch with me at tips@liberato.us.  I can amplify your work through my network of more than a thousand activists, many of whom have substantial activism and media platforms of their own.  We don’t have to wait for the Republicans to take back the House. We can put our heads together and figure out ways to get better enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws now.

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The 10 Most Dangerous Neighborhoods In Sarasota County, Florida in 2022

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On September 27th, 2021 we reported on the most dangerous neighborhoods in Sarasota County, Florida. Here is a video we posted in September 2021 about some citizens of Sarasota wanting to defund the local police:

We now have new data for 2022 from AreaVibes.com on the most dangerous neighborhoods in Sarasota County, Florida.

AreaVibes.com on its website wrote:

Here are the most dangerous neighborhoods in Sarasota for 2022. The rankings are calculated based on the number of violent crimes per 100,000 people for each neighborhood, compared to the Sarasota violent crime average. Violent crimes include murder, rape, robbery and assault. The most dangerous areas in Sarasota is based on data from the local law enforcement agency and when not available, also includes estimates based on demographic data.

1. DOWNTOWN
Statistic Downtown/100k people Sarasota/100k people Florida/100k people National/100k people
Total crime 12,960 (estimate) 3,341 2,153 2,346
Murder n/a 1.7 5.9 6.5
Rape n/a 54.2 35.4 38.4
Robbery n/a 100.0 62.2 73.9
Assault n/a 435.6 280.1 279.7
Violent crime 2,589 (estimate) 592 384 388
Burglary n/a 384.7 240.6 314.2
2. ROSEMARY DISTRICT
Statistic Rosemary District/100k people Sarasota/100k people Florida/100k people National/100k people
Total crime 12,712 (estimate) 3,341 2,153 2,346
Murder n/a 1.7 5.9 6.5
Rape n/a 54.2 35.4 38.4
Robbery n/a 100.0 62.2 73.9
Assault n/a 435.6 280.1 279.7
Violent crime 2,352 (estimate) 592 384 388
Burglary n/a 384.7 240.6 314.2
3. 17TH STREET
Statistic 17th Street/100k people Sarasota/100k people Florida/100k people National/100k people
Total crime 10,140 (estimate) 3,341 2,153 2,346
Murder n/a 1.7 5.9 6.5
Rape n/a 54.2 35.4 38.4
Robbery n/a 100.0 62.2 73.9
Assault n/a 435.6 280.1 279.7
Violent crime 1,757 (estimate) 592 384 388
Burglary n/a 384.7 240.6 314.2
Theft n/a 2,154.2 1,352.7 1,398.0
Vehicle theft n/a 210.2 176.1 246.0
Property crime 8,383 (estimate) 2,749 1,769 1,958
Statistic Original Gillespie Park/100k people Sarasota/100k people Florida/100k people National/100k people
Total crime 11,324 (estimate) 3,341 2,153 2,346
Murder n/a 1.7 5.9 6.5
Rape n/a 54.2 35.4 38.4
Robbery n/a 100.0 62.2 73.9
Assault n/a 435.6 280.1 279.7
Violent crime 1,521 (estimate) 592 384 388
Burglary n/a 384.7 240.6 314.2
Theft n/a 2,154.2 1,352.7 1,398.0
Vehicle theft n/a 210.2 176.1 246.0
Property crime 9,803 (estimate) 2,749 1,769 1,958
Statistic Central Cocoanut/100k people Sarasota/100k people Florida/100k people National/100k people
Total crime 9,215 (estimate) 3,341 2,153 2,346
Murder n/a 1.7 5.9 6.5
Rape n/a 54.2 35.4 38.4
Robbery n/a 100.0 62.2 73.9
Assault n/a 435.6 280.1 279.7
Violent crime 1,519 (estimate) 592 384 388
Burglary n/a 384.7 240.6 314.2
Theft n/a 2,154.2 1,352.7 1,398.0
Vehicle theft n/a 210.2 176.1 246.0
Property crime 7,696 (estimate) 2,749 1,769 1,958
Statistic Saint Armands/100k people Sarasota/100k people Florida/100k people National/100k people
Total crime 9,891 (estimate) 3,341 2,153 2,346
Murder n/a 1.7 5.9 6.5
Rape n/a 54.2 35.4 38.4
Robbery n/a 100.0 62.2 73.9
Assault n/a 435.6 280.1 279.7
Violent crime 1,394 (estimate) 592 384 388
Burglary n/a 384.7 240.6 314.2
Theft n/a 2,154.2 1,352.7 1,398.0
Vehicle theft n/a 210.2 176.1 246.0
Property crime 8,497 (estimate) 2,749 1,769 1,958
Statistic Amaryllis Park/100k people Sarasota/100k people Florida/100k people National/100k people
Total crime 7,442 (estimate) 3,341 2,153 2,346
Murder n/a 1.7 5.9 6.5
Rape n/a 54.2 35.4 38.4
Robbery n/a 100.0 62.2 73.9
Assault n/a 435.6 280.1 279.7
Violent crime 1,379 (estimate) 592 384 388
Burglary n/a 384.7 240.6 314.2
Theft n/a 2,154.2 1,352.7 1,398.0
Vehicle theft n/a 210.2 176.1 246.0
Property crime 6,063 (estimate) 2,749 1,769 1,958
Statistic Indian Beach-Sapphire Shores/100k people Sarasota/100k people Florida/100k people National/100k people
Total crime 9,259 (estimate) 3,341 2,153 2,346
Murder n/a 1.7 5.9 6.5
Rape n/a 54.2 35.4 38.4
Robbery n/a 100.0 62.2 73.9
Assault n/a 435.6 280.1 279.7
Violent crime 1,154 (estimate) 592 384 388
Burglary n/a 384.7 240.6 314.2
Theft n/a 2,154.2 1,352.7 1,398.0
Vehicle theft n/a 210.2 176.1 246.0
Property crime 8,105 (estimate) 2,749 1,769 1,958
Statistic Poinsettia Park/100k people Sarasota/100k people Florida/100k people National/100k people
Total crime 3,684 (estimate) 3,341 2,153 2,346
Murder n/a 1.7 5.9 6.5
Rape n/a 54.2 35.4 38.4
Robbery n/a 100.0 62.2 73.9
Assault n/a 435.6 280.1 279.7
Violent crime 927 (estimate) 592 384 388
Burglary n/a 384.7 240.6 314.2
Theft n/a 2,154.2 1,352.7 1,398.0
Vehicle theft n/a 210.2 176.1 246.0
Property crime 2,757 (estimate) 2,749 1,769 1,958
Statistic Bayou Oaks/100k people Sarasota/100k people Florida/100k people National/100k people
Total crime 4,873 (estimate) 3,341 2,153 2,346
Murder n/a 1.7 5.9 6.5
Rape n/a 54.2 35.4 38.4
Robbery n/a 100.0 62.2 73.9
Assault n/a 435.6 280.1 279.7
Violent crime 914 (estimate) 592 384 388
Burglary n/a 384.7 240.6 314.2
Theft n/a 2,154.2 1,352.7 1,398.0
Vehicle theft n/a 210.2 176.1 246.0
Property crime 3,959 (estimate) 2,749 1,769 1,958

Date & Last Updated: This data reflects the 2020 calendar year and was released from the FBI in September, 2021; this is the most current data available.

Crime data for this area is not available from the FBI. Data from local enforcement agencies is analyzed and algorithms are applied to estimate the number of crimes in the area.

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The Bottom Line

one of our contributors on December 15th, 2021 published in a column titled “Crime and No Punishment” ending with,

The founders of America were very concerned about order in society.

What’s happening in America today with our crime wave is bad anthropology run amok. Biblical anthropology asserts that man is sinful and crimes need to be punished. Bad anthropology, like that espoused by Marxists, asserts that man is basically good—but that it’s society or structures that are bad and need to be torn down. Instead, the theory goes, we will rebuild these structures to be more just, affirming the goodness of man. We see the results now being carried out by coddled criminals on the streets.

What horrors Marxism has unleashed on planet earth. Yet it continues to exert its demonic influence. These magistrates, many funded by the George Soros the Marxist, are among the latest examples.

And we all suffer—especially the poorest among us—who lack stronger security measures.

The founders of America showed a better way to live in a controlled society, with liberty under the rule of law. How much better that is than the chaos that so many leftist elitists try to unleash on the rest of us.

We agree with Jerry. Marxists blames someone else for the crimes committed by the individual. Just as Democrats believe that guns kill people and Conservative know that people kill people using their weapon of choice.

The neighborhoods above include the predominantly minority Rosemary District neighborhood. Crime must be punished. Not to punish crime, like allowing those who break our laws by illegally crossing our borders, are encouraging lawlessness.

We will keep you informed and updated on crime in our community as a public service.

©Dr. Rich Swier. All rights reserved.

Ohio State University: Student leader says he’d ‘love’ for blacks to be taught they’re ‘superior’

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Thanks to the Left’s dominance of American education, we’ve come a long way from judging a man by the content of his character rather than the color of his skin. John Fuller wants this race supremacy to be taught to everyone, and why not? It has certainly been taught to him.

Ohio State University student leader says he would ‘love’ for Black people to be taught ‘they are superior’

by Adam Sabes, Fox News, April 21, 2022:

An Ohio State University student leader is facing criticism from other students for a comment he made during a student government meeting in March, stating that he’d “love” to live in a world where “Black people were taught that they are superior.”

John Fuller, who was parliamentarian of the Ohio State University Undergraduate Student Government General Assembly at the time of the meeting, made the comments while presenting a resolution aimed at condemning all anti-critical race theory legislation, according to OSU’s student newspaper The Lantern.

During the March 23 general assembly meeting, Fuller said that White people are taught they are “superior” to other races, and would “love” to see that change.

“I just wanted to say that and make this very clear, the only people who are taught that they are superior to another race are White people,” Fuller said. “And I would absolutely love to live in a world where Black people were taught that they are superior.”

Fuller said that he “full-heartedly” believes that Black people are superior.

“I would love it because I full-heartedly believe that,” he added.

Fuller said that taking away the teaching of one race as superior is White supremacy.

“By taking away the teaching of one race as superior to another, that is inherently White supremacy,” Fuller said. “Because White people learn from birth that they are superior, there is nothing that they need to be taught in school that tells them that. They learn that from their lived experiences.”

Fuller later repeated his original claim, saying that “I do believe that Black people are superior.”

Undergraduate Student Government President Jacob Chang told the student newspaper that the comments were “diverging from our values.”

“The comments made during the General Assembly session is fundamentally, like, diverging from our values as the student government of Ohio State,” Chang said….

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Growing up lonely: Generation Z

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Smaller families, increasing divorce rates and single parenthood have had isolating effects on Gen Z.

There’s a growing concern that young adults today are experiencing an epidemic of loneliness, social isolation, and disconnection. A lot of blame is being placed on social media, or more recently the pandemic. Delayed family formation is another likely factor — young adults are marrying later than they once did.

But what if Gen Z is lonelier today not simply because of how much time they spend on social media, or because they’re single. What if young adults today are lonelier because of how they were raised?

Childhood blues

Americans who belong to Generation Z (born between 1997 and 2012) are far more likely to say they were lonely growing up. A majority (56 percent) of Gen Zers report they felt lonely at least once or twice a month during their childhood. In contrast, only about one in four (24 percent) Baby Boomers say they felt lonely this often as children.

Unfortunately, these experiences are not limited to childhood. Our formative experiences are fairly strong predictors of where we end up as adults. Americans who had a lonely childhood are much more likely to report feeling lonely or isolated as adults.

Two-thirds (66 percent) of Americans who felt lonely every day during childhood say that today they feel lonely or isolated all or most of the time. In contrast, only 7 percent of those who were never lonely during their childhood report they often feel lonely or isolated today. Roughly three-quarters (76 percent) of Americans who report they were never lonely growing up say that today they hardly ever or never feel lonely or isolated.

But what accounts for the massive differences in childhood loneliness across generations? Much of it is likely tied to changes in family structure that have occurred over the past few decades.

Broken homes

Compared to previous generations, Gen Zers are far more likely to have been raised in single-parent households. A recent report from the Pew Research Center found that nearly one-quarter of US children live in single-parent homes, a rate higher than any other country. This trend may be having an effect on childhood loneliness.

New findings from the American National Family Life Survey show that Americans raised in single-parent homes are more likely to report having felt lonely growing up than those raised in two-parent households. They’re also more likely to miss out on formative experiences, such as daily family meals, an activity that has been associated with lower rates of depression. Only 37 percent of Americans raised in a single-parent home report having had regular meals with their family growing up, compared to 69 percent of those raised in two-parent households.

The experience of living through a parental divorce may also explain higher rates of childhood loneliness among young adults. Past research has shown that adolescents with divorced parents are more likely to struggle socially and experience greater feelings of social alienation. More recent studies bear this out.

A 2021 survey found that more than half (52 percent) of Americans raised by divorced parents felt lonely at least once or twice a month growing up. In contrast, only a third (33 percent) of Americans raised by married parents say the same.

Finally, shrinking family size may play a part. Young adults today are significantly less likely to have been raised in large families. Even before the pandemic completely upended the conversation around child cost and family size, Americans were increasingly drawn to smaller families. A recent report shows that only children are also more likely to have been lonely growing up than those with siblings were.

Fostering friendships

It’s impossible to rewrite history, but childhood experiences do not necessarily dictate how we live today. The good news is that we know a lot about how Americans make and maintain social connections. Research has shown that attending college is associated with higher levels of social connectedness. So is belonging to a religious community. Even regularly spending time at a third place — such as a coffee shop, library, or public park — can help foster social interactions and a sense of belonging.

There are no simple solutions to the rising rates of loneliness in American society — probably because there is no single cause. Whatever interventions we attempt should acknowledge that young adults did not suddenly become lonely after they reached adulthood. For many, formative experiences continue to influence and shape their social lives.

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The Absurd Fear of Free Speech: Reactions to Elon Musk Owning Twitter

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We have been watching Twitter since Elon Musk took control. The leftists are going so crazy that Elon tweeted the following:

Here are some tweets related to the transfer of power from those who censor to one who supports freedom of expression:

The Bottom Line

This tweet says it all.

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Biden’s Wind-Solar-Powered U.S. Economy is a Dangerous Myth

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In a Gatestone Institute column titled “A Mostly Wind- and Solar-Powered U.S. Economy Is a Dangerous Fantasy” Francis Menton wrote:

When President Biden and other advocates of wind and solar generation speak, they appear to believe that the challenge posed is just a matter of currently having too much fossil fuel generation and not enough wind and solar; and therefore, accomplishing the transition to “net zero” will be a simple matter of building sufficient wind and solar facilities and having those facilities replace the current ones that use the fossil fuels.

They are completely wrong about that.

The proposed transition to “net zero” via wind and solar power is not only not easy, but is a total fantasy. It likely cannot occur at all without dramatically undermining our economy, lifestyle and security, and it certainly cannot occur at anything remotely approaching reasonable cost. At some point, the ongoing forced transition… will crash and burn.

[I]t doesn’t matter whether you build a million wind turbines and solar panels, or a billion, or a trillion. On a calm night, they will still produce nothing, and will require full back-up from some other source.

If you propose a predominantly wind/solar electricity system, where fossil fuel back-up is banned, you must, repeat must, address the question of energy storage. Without fossil fuel back-up, and with nuclear and hydro constrained, storage is the only remaining option. How much will be needed? How much will it cost? How long will the energy need to remain in storage before it is used?

There should be highly-detailed engineering studies of how the transition can be accomplished…. But the opposite is the case. At the current time, the government is paying little to no significant attention to the energy storage problem. There is no detailed engineering plan of how to accomplish the transition. There are no detailed government-supported studies of how much storage will be needed, or of what technology can accomplish the job, or of cost.

It gets worse:…. Ken Gregory calculated the cost of such a system as well over $100 trillion, before even getting to the question of whether battery technology exists that can store such amounts of energy for months on end and then discharge the energy over additional months. And even at that enormous cost, that calculation only applied to current levels of electricity consumption…. For purposes of comparison, the entire U.S. GDP is currently around $22 trillion per year.

In other words: we have a hundred-trillion-or-so dollar effort that under presidential directive must be fully up and running by 2035, with everybody’s light and heat and everything else dependent on success, and not only don’t we have any feasibility study or demonstration project, but we haven’t started the basic research yet, and the building where the basic research is to be conducted won’t be ready until 2025.

Meanwhile the country heads down a government-directed and coerced path of massively building wind turbines and solar panels, while forcing the closure of fully-functioning power plants burning coal, oil and natural gas. It is only a question of time before somewhere the system ceases to work…. [I]t is easy to see how the consequences could be dire. Will millions be left without heat in the dead of winter, in which case many will likely die? Will a fully-electrified transportation system get knocked out, stranding millions without ability to get to work? Will our military capabilities get disabled and enable some sort of attack?

No sane, let alone competent, government would ever be headed down this path.

Net-Zero is a Dangerous Myth

The (CFACT) echoed Mr. Menton in an article titled “Net-Zero and ESG are Worsening the Energy Crisis – and Weakening the West” by Rupert Darwall who wrote:

The day after President Biden announced that the United States would ban imports of Russian oil and gas, a group of eleven powerful European investment funds that includes Amundi, Europe’s largest asset manager, outlined plans to force Credit Suisse, Switzerland’s second largest bank, to cut its lending to oil and gas companies. The juxtaposition of these two events dramatizes the fundamental disunity of the West. At the same time as the Biden administration is sanctioning Russian oil and gas producers, Western investors are sanctioning Western ones. Under the banner of ESG (environmental, social and governance) investing, the West’s capital is being deployed to create an artificial shortage of oil and gas produced by its companies and reward non-Western oil and gas producers such as Russia and Iran with higher prices. In doing so, the West is undermining its own security interests.

Before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, energy markets were already extremely tight. In the past, high oil and gas prices stimulated a supply-side response leading to increased output and to prices falling back. This relationship has broken down. According to analysts at JP Morgan, capital spending by S&P Global 1200 energy companies peaked in 2015 at just over $400 billion and shrank to around $120 billion last year – less than half its previous trough of $250 billion in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, even though global demand is now around 15% higher than it was then.

[ … ]

Over the past decade and throughout the pandemic, investors could earn higher returns elsewhere, such as in tech – but with soaring prices, that assumption doesn’t hold any longer. In remarks to oil executives at the CERAWeek energy conference in Houston last week, Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm pointed the finger at Wall Street. “Your investors are demanding climate action,” she told an audience filled with executives of energy firms. To ESG investors, climate action means deliberately starving oil and gas producers of capital for non-financial reasons, leading to under-investment and rising prices.

[ … ]

The IEA’s net zero scenario for 2050 relies heavily on “ever-cheaper” wind and solar. Nuclear barely gets a look in, and the IEA magically solves the intermittency problem of wind and solar by not mentioning the word “intermittency” once in the report’s 224 pages. By ignoring the inherent limitations of weather-dependent electricity generation, the IEA gave its imprimatur to a green fantasy of near 100% renewable electricity generation, with fossil fuels playing an insignificant role in keeping the electrical grid stable and the lights on. This fiction was necessary to justify the report’s most quoted passage. “Beyond projects already committed as of 2021, there are no new oil and gas fields approved for development,” it said of its net zero pathway, meaning that “the focus for oil and gas producers switches entirely to output – emissions reductions – from the operation of existing assets.”

The Bottom Line

This is a real “Let Them Eat Cake” moment for Transportation Department top dog Pete Buttigieg, as most Americans can’t afford electric cars and the infrastructure isn’t there for them in all parts of the country, but Buttigieg here reveals the Biden agenda.

He doesn’t care about skyrocketing gas prices because he wants to drive internal combustion engines out of existence anyway.

It’s part of the Green New Deal plan. The suffering he will cause by doing so is of little moment to Biden and Buttigieg; they won’t experience it. Neither will EPA top dog Michael Regan, who makes the plan clear.

In a column titled “Wind and Solar Power are the Welfare Dependents of the Energy World” CFACT reported:

[T]he wind and solar power industries each receive such enormous taxpayer subsidies that all other energy industries combined do not receive as much taxpayer pork as either wind or solar power alone. According to the U.S. Energy Information administration, the net subsidies for coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear power combined amount to only 1/9th of the amount of federal renewable energy subsidies (see Table 3: https://www.eia.gov/analysis/requests/subsidy/pdf/subsidy.pdf).

Zero-emissions is a dangerous myth and is unattainable as is going all solar and wind for our energy needs.

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Left-Wing Crazies a Danger to Themselves and Others

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You might have seen the news over the weekend about a Colorado man who died after setting himself on fire in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.  What was not widely reported, however, was the fact the man was a climate activist and his self-immolation was a protest against climate change. A friend of his, a climate scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund, said it was a “deeply fearless act of compassion to bring attention to climate crisis.” The left-wing press might have wanted to ignore this part of the story, but I’m going to zero right in on it because it’s part of a pattern: left-wing crazies are a danger to themselves and others.

Speaking of fire, a member of the Nashville school board was caught on a hot mic saying during a meeting break, “Can we just go set Marsha Blackburn on fire?”  The member was objecting to the Tennessee Senator’s asking the nominee if she could define a ‘woman’ during the confirmation hearings.

A medical student in North Carolina got mad at a patient who laughed at the student’s pronoun pin and deliberately missed the patient’s vein, necessitating a second needle stick for a blood draw.  The student was unhinged enough to brag about it on social media, but it all makes perfect sense when you learn the student had published papers about transgenderism and led a far-left medical group devoted to advocating for LGBTQ+ patients.

A violent left-wing mob chased several members of Young America’s Foundation after the mob disrupted a speech by black conservative Allen West at the University of Buffalo earlier this month.  The mob screamed ‘go get her, go capture her, the girl in the red dress.’ They went after the event organizer who said, ‘I realized I was the target for these protesters, and about 200 of my fellow students started hunting me down on campus, started chasing me,’ she said.  The mob captured one of the YAF members and beat him.

Actress Sally Fields was ranting about pro-life lawmakers recently, calling them “ignorant” and “power-hungry”.  Her harshest words were for the Governors of Texas and Florida:  “I can’t say enough horrible things about what I feel about those men,” she said, adding, “If you see them coming toward me, those two governors specifically, lead me out of the way because I cannot be responsible for what I would do.”  You know what?  I believe her, after reading about all the other violent left-wing crazies out there.  This flying nun flew over the cuckoo’s nest.

There’s more. Late-night political hack Stephen Colbert called for Joe Biden to slap Fox News reporter Peter Doocy for daring to ask Biden to clarify his Russia regime change comments last month. Another late-night hack, Jimmy Kimmel, suggested someone slap Marjorie Taylor Greene in the face for not supporting Ketanji Brown Jackson.  Greene reported the remark as a threat of violence to the Capitol Police, as well she should have.

This is the same violent Left that burned down cities and tried to burn 113 police officers’ eyes out with lasers in the riots of 2020, while other crazy leftists denied the riots were happening or said they didn’t mean anything.  Who could forget that iconic moment when the crazy leftist CNN reporter was saying the riots were ‘mostly peaceful’ when a building was burning on camera behind him.

Hate to break it to you Lefties, but violence is not normal, despite your best efforts to make it so.  Every time you stick us with needles, point lasers at us, and chase us down, is another reason for the American people to reject you and everything you stand for.  You’re sick.  You are a danger to yourselves and others.  As a result, your credibility has gone up in smoke.

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PODCAST: Throw-down – Obama vs. Musk on free speech

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Last week, former President Barack Obama declared that government needs to start regulating free speech on social media platforms because their “content management” efforts are failing to keep rhetorical “raw sewage out of the public square.”

This week, billionaire Elon Musk bought one of the most influential of such platforms, Twitter, with the pledge to restore free speech – an apparent repudiation of what is not so much about managing content as it is the suppression of information and opinion politically intolerable to radical leftists like Obama.

Time will tell whether these were coincidental developments or, for that matter, whether Mr. Musk will really enable freedom of expression on Twitter. What is clear already is that the fight for that fundamental liberty has never been more necessary – and the emergence of a formidable man professing to be its champion more welcome.

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FLORIDA: University Professors Unhinged by Bill to Hold Faculty ‘Accountable’

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What a brilliant first step. Further, taxpayers should no longer fund these subversive, radical indoctrination camps. They destroyed our country. We shouldn’t fund our own demise. It’s gotten so bad on left-wing college campuses, they have become unsafe for patriots, and even more so, Jews.

DeSantis is a confederation of something like thirty five states right now in the new reparative direction of the country, they’re signing on… He’s leading the effort of red states taking care of their people turning back the liberal contamination that has been going on.

University professors unhappy by Florida Gov. DeSantis’ attempt to hold faculty ‘accountable’

One professor said that the state of Florida’s universities ‘could be bleak’

By Adam Sabes, FOX Business, April 22, 2022

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College and university professors are unhappy with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ attempt to hold faculty “accountable” by imposing a review every five-years for tenured professors.

DeSantis signed the bill into law on Tuesday, which he said is aimed at holding faculty accountable and evaluate their performance, according to WPTV.

“We need to make sure the faculty are held accountable and that they don’t just have tenure forever without having any type of ways to hold them accountable or evaluate what they’re doing,” DeSantis said.

Every five years, under the new law, tenured faculty will be reviewed by the institute’s Board of Trustees.

DeSantis calls it the “most significant tenure reform,” adding that tenured faculty can now be evaluated based on performance.

Florida Governor, Ron DeSantis speaks at a press conference at the Eau Gallie High School aviation hangar.

“Tenure was there to protect people so that they could do ideas that maybe would cause them to lose their job or whatever — academic freedom,” DeSantis said. “Now you’re gonna be in a situation where, OK, if the productivity is not there, if you’re not adding anything, then you can go your separate ways.”

Florida State University student Taylor Walker said at the press conference that tenured faculty members should be held accountable.

“If we’re paying an institution to guide me and expand my mind, should we not be able to hold that institution accountable?,” Walker said.

The law will go into effect on July 1, and some professors are expressing their distaste toward it.

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President Donald J. Trump: ‘Deranged Group of Extremists’ Running U.S.

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Understatement.

Trump: ‘Deranged Group of Extremists’ Running US

By: Eric Mack, Newsmax, April 24, 2022:

Pulling no punches, former President Donald Trump excoriated President Joe Biden and his stumbling administration at his Save America rally in Delaware, Ohio, on Saturday night.

“In this moment together, we’re standing up against some of the most menacing forces, entrenched interests, and vicious opponents our people have ever seen or fought against,” Trump told his rally, which aired live on Newsmax. “Despite great outside powers and dangers, our biggest threat remains the sick, sinister, and evil people from within our own country.

“There is no threat as dangerous to democracy as they are. Just look at the un-select committee of political hacks and what they’re doing to our country while radical-left murderers, rapists, and insurrectionists roam free: Nothing happens to them.

“But no matter how big or powerful these corrupt radicals may be, you must never forget this nation does not belong to them. This nation belongs to you. This is your home. This is your heritage, and your great American liberty is your God-given right.”

Trump took particular aim at Biden’s struggles and embarrassing moments of late.

“We have a president right now, sadly, who has absolutely no idea what the hell is happening,” Trump said. “He’s shaking hands with the air. He’s walking around, somewhat bewildered.”

Trump referenced an incident Monday where the Easter Bunny was redirecting the president away from answering reporters’ questions during a children’s Easter event.

“It’s no good, and he’s taking orders from the Easter Bunny,” Trump continued. “You saw that one?

“You know, the Easter Bunny was a political operative. He did a good job, actually, that guy. We should hire that guy. He was very good. He said, ‘No, no, don’t talk, don’t talk; don’t talk to those people.’

“And [Biden is] doing all of this while [Vladimir] Putin does nothing but talk about nuclear weapons and destroying the world. We have our signals very crossed in our country. We have never had a situation like this.”……..

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