Author: Blazingcatfur

“Burn the College’s Buildings to the Ground”

For left-wing academics, violence against the right targets is a form of patriotism.

Aaron Hillegass attended New College of Florida as an undergraduate, had a successful career as a software engineer, and returned to the school this January to teach in its new data science program. But there was one problem for him: Florida governor Ron DeSantis.

Hillegass believes that DeSantis’s democratically approved higher-education reforms are a form of “fascism” and that the new slate of conservative trustees at New College, including me, are dangerous “sycophants” and “chuckleheads” who have “terrified the students and faculty.” Hillegass has been teaching at New College for only three months, but the reforms—designed to improve the struggling college, which ranks dead-last on Florida’s state performance metrics—were too much.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives

Colby Cosh: CBC editorial independence is a lie

Probably some of our readers are chuckling this week at the chaos that has broken out on Twitter over the correct verification labels for various public broadcasters. A couple of days ago, Elon Musk, the owner and CEO of the social media site, made an appearance on BBC television and was challenged on Twitter’s decision to give the BBC’s main account a “government-funded media” label. The “government-funded” tag isn’t meant to be purely a criticism or warning: in Twitter’s scheme of tags, a media company or news agency that is directly government-controlled and used to promote a country’s foreign policy would attract a different “state-affiliated” label.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Government Owned News Media

Joe Biden’s Irish fantasy

At the end of a winding country lane on the shores of Lough Allen in County Leitrim sits a beautiful little cemetery, seemingly all alone in the world. I discovered it while looking for the resting place of my grandad’s long-lost father; a man he’d never known and about whom we still know little. My grandad was raised in a Catholic orphanage in Liverpool. His mother had moved to England sometime before he was born, desperately tried to keep in touch but eventually lost contact after going into service. Such was the world that was.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"President Dementia AKA Joe Biden"

French protesters barricade Constitutional Council with rubbish bins

Protesters barricaded the entrance to France’s Constitutional Council with rubbish bins on Thursday, as people took to the streets around the country over Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms.

Police expect around 400,000 to 600,000 people to take part nationwide. That would be fewer than half the nearly 1.3 million reached in March at the height of the protests against the reforms, which include raising the retirement age to 64 from 62.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inFrance

Douglas Todd: Federal Liberals are directly inflating house prices

Canadian polls show young adults are drifting away from the federal Liberal party. It seems they’re slowly figuring out that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, despite his sympathetic rhetoric, is working against their dream of buying a first home.

While it’s taken a while for young and old to realize it, top bankers, retired civil servants, housing analysts, former property developers and housing activists are now declaring the Liberals are directly causing house-price inflation.

The retired head of B.C.’s civil service, Don Wright, recently wrote a piece titled, “Will Trudeau make it impossible for Eby to succeed?”

It explained how B.C.’s effort to reduce housing prices and build affordable dwellings “will be largely hostage to the federal government’s immigration policy.”

Wright, an economist, said Trudeau’s government routinely raises the “almost entirely fallacious” argument that Canada has a labour shortage to justify welcoming a record 438,000 new permanent residents in 2022, while adding another 680,000 non-permanent residents, including foreign students and other guest workers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Green-Scam

Intelligence agency says cyber threat actor ‘had the potential’ to damage critical infrastructure

One of Canada’s intelligence agencies says a cyber threat actor “had the potential to cause physical damage” to a piece of critical infrastructure recently.

“I can report there was no physical damage to any Canadian energy infrastructure. But make no mistake — the threat is real,” said Sami Khoury, head of the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security out of the Communications Security Establishment.

They won’t say but they’re talking bout BCF.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

I Helped Make Corporations Woke, and I Regret It

I sat in the Washington office of a major airline’s head of government relations, where we were joined by the top lobbyist for one of America’s largest hotel chains. It was 2013, and I was president of the gay conservative group Log Cabin Republicans. I had come to secure corporate support for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which would have banned discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Pressure from leading corporations, I correctly assumed, would push waffling Republicans to vote for the legislation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak Woke"

Where’s the DEI at Historically Black Colleges and Universities?

The lack of diversity policies at Historically Black Colleges and Universities makes clear that the concept means something other than its public definition.

It’s a curious feature of America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) that they rarely have any diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) administrators or policies on their campuses, beyond what federal law requires.

Howard University, for instance, the alma mater of Vice President Kamala Harris, has no central administrator dedicated to DEI, and its student affairs programming aims to help the disabled and LGBTQ students. Neither Jackson State nor Grambling State, two famous HBCUs, have DEI plans or central administrators. North Carolina’s four public HBCUs also have very little DEI presence on campus. Much the same is true of Texas’s HBCUs, none of which has DEI deans at the college level and almost none of which has DEI in its college strategic plans. Tennessee State has less DEI than any four-year university in the Volunteer State. One could go on.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"DEI - Diversity Equity Inclusion"

Starbucks Does It Again With Oleato

The media is lampooning Starbucks for its biological miscalculation.

What can you say about a 52-year-old multinational behemoth that caused intestinal distress in its clientele? That it didn’t test the product first?

In Italy in February, Starbucks introduced a new suite of products named Oleato. Speaking with near-cosmic euphoria, interim CEO Howard Schultz gushed over “ the next revolution in coffee that brings together an alchemy of nature’s finest ingredients – Starbucks arabica coffee beans and Partanna cold pressed extra virgin olive oil.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Biden DOJ recommends no jail time for cross-dressing vandal of Catholic church: ‘F— Catholics’

President Biden’s Justice Department offered what critics are calling a sweetheart plea deal to a vandal who admitted to defacing a Catholic church with profane graffiti, destroying a statue of the Virgin Mary, assaulting a church worker, and resisting arrest.

A plea agreement reviewed by Fox News Digital shows that the DOJ recommends zero jail time for the perp, Maeve Nota, a 31-year-old transgender individual who vandalized the St. Louise Catholic Church in Bellevue, Washington, following Roe v. Wade’s overturning last June.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Tranny

What Is Really Happening at Jerusalem’s Holy Sites?

Since the beginning of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan on March 22, Israeli authorities have taken a series of measures to enable free access for Muslim worshippers to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, also known as the Temple Mount or Haram al-Sharif (Noble Sanctuary), in Jerusalem.

The measures include providing free-of-charge shuttle services for the worshippers, as well as sealing off several main streets in Jerusalem to traffic so that the Muslims will be able to enter and exit the city without delay.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIsraeli - Islam Conflict

CBS Pushes Dubious ‘Gun Violence’ Study, Includes Accidents/Suicides

The liberal media are all for live fact-checks and dishing out Pinocchios when they’re targeting conservatives, but their obsessive desire to nitpick and say “It’s accurate, but…” goes right out the window when it’s for their agenda. This was the case on Wednesday’s CBS Mornings when they pushed a dubious “gun violence” study from the Kaiser Family Foundation that wrapped firearm accidents, suicides, and defensive uses together with mass shootings and crime for an anti-gun rights message.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGun Control, Gun Rights

Pity the Poor Budweiser Clydesdales

A Missouri Budweiser distributor is canceling events featuring the beer giant’s famous Clydesdale horses. This is in response to the boycott Bud Light faces in response to its man-girl media influencer and spokesman Dylan Mulvaney. They are also pulling back from events in the South, according to the Beer Business Daily newsletter. “We reached out to a handful of A-B [Anheuser-Busch] distributors who were spooked, most particularly in the Heartland and the South, and even then in their more rural areas,” it wrote.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Tranny