[NYPOST] To borrow one of her song titles: "Truth Hurts."
Lizzo, 34, took to social media Sunday morning to share her thoughts on cancel culture.
The outspoken "About Damn Time" singer argued that cancel culture has "become trendy" and diminishes more serious issues.
"This may be a random time to say this but it’s on my heart ... cancel culture is appropriation," she tweeted. "There was real outrage from truly marginalized people and now it’s become trendy, misused and misdirected."
She continued, "I hope we can phase out of this & focus our outrage on the real problems."
Last summer, Lizzo came under fire for using an "ableist" term in her song "Grrrls."
Disability advocates on social media slammed the singer for the use of the word "sp-z" — a common American slang for the term "spastic" to mean "going crazy" or "freaking out," but is highly offensive in UK and aimed to belittle people with cerebral palsy.
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“Cancel Culture is an appropriation.” At some point woke jargon becomes a new language that will require a google translate function.
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Wait.....Spaz?!
You telling me this generation couldn't make it past 90 minutes of 80's teen movie?
Lizzo. Not a fan, but fukem'. Whatever you thought Cancel Culture was, it isn't anymore. I'd call it the purist definition of what the 80s would call Retarded.
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] A Minnesota liberal arts professor was allegedly fired after showing students images of Mohammad in a class about Islamic art even after warning students about the works in the syllabus and before the images were displayed in class.
According to the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... , Hamline University adjunct professor Erika López Prater warned students in the course syllabus that the class would contain images of religious figures, including the Buddha and the prophet Mohammad.
Students were informed that they could contact her with any concerns but according to the report, no one did.
The report stated that Prater also warned students repeatedly a few minutes beforehand that the images containing depictions of Mohammad would be displayed so that anyone who might be offended would have time to leave the classroom.
Despite the warnings, Aram Wedatalla, a senior in the class complained to administrators about the imagery the day after the images were shown and gathered support from Moslem students who were not in the class, which resulted in Prater not being welcomed back at the school.
Wedatalla, who is also president of the Moslem Student Association, told the campus outlet the Oracle, "I’m like, 'This can’t be real.' As a Moslem, and a Black person, I don’t feel like I belong, and I don’t think I’ll ever belong in a community where they don’t value me as a member, and they don’t show the same respect that I show them."
Hamline University President Fayneese Miller wrote a letter to students last month that apologized for the incident. "It is not our intent to place blame; rather, it is our intent to note that in the classroom incident—where an image forbidden for Moslems to look upon was projected on a screen and left for many minutes—respect for the observant Moslem students in that classroom should have superseded academic freedom."
Miller said in the letter that "academic freedom is very important," but that "it does not have to come at the expense of care and decency toward others."
Hamline’s associate vice president of inclusive excellence David Everett emailed students describing the incident as "undeniably inconsiderate, disrespectful and Islamophobic< ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do....
"He added, "In lieu of this incident, it was decided it was best that this faculty member was no longer part of the Hamline community," wrote Everett.
According to the campus outlet, Everett’s email also said the university debated if the professor’s conduct was a "hate crime" but that administrators decided it was an "act of intolerance."
Prater told the student newspaper, "my perspective and actions have been lamentably mischaracterized, my opportunities for due process have been thwarted," and that Everett’s accusation of intolerance was "misapplied."
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"I’m like, 'This can’t be real.' As a Moslem, and a Black person, I don’t feel like I belong, and I don’t think I’ll ever belong in a community where they don’t value me as a member, and they don’t show the same respect that I show them."
A quote from a student who was not in the class. You can demand respect, but mostly it is like wages, given when earned.
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It is like the jobs report; they are jacked every time. This article can be recycled with a changed date as the FBI will not change the methodology. It becomes like catching a Biden Press Secretary in the same lie for the third time. It is no longer a happening. The lie is the process.
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[Federalist] Colorado officials are still refusing to cooperate with local counties after the secretary of state’s office sent more than 31,000 foreign nationals postcards on how to register to vote in time for the 2022 midterms.
According to a newly released report by the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), the Colorado secretary of state’s office has refused to give county election officials the names of foreign nationals who received voter registration instructions in their counties back in October. According to documents obtained by PILF, Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Beall refused to give the names of 54 foreign nationals who were mailed the voter registration postcards in Moffat County.
A front man for Beall told a Moffat County official there were "potential legal issues that need to be addressed before lists of erroneous recipients in each county can be shared" and that he did not have a timeline for when such issues would be resolved — "or if they can be at all."
Because the secretary of state’s office is refusing to cooperate with county officials, there is no way for them to check if such ineligible residents voted illegally in the 2022 midterms.
[EpochTimes] Republican Arizona candidate Abe Hamadeh filed a new motion with the Republican National Committee in Mohave County to again challenge the Nov. 8 election results in the attorney general’s race and claimed there is new evidence of voter disenfranchisements after hundreds of ballots were located in Pinal County.
Hamadeh, who was backed by President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... and is an ally of GOP candidate Kari Lake, released a statement Wednesday saying they are filing the lawsuit "as a result of newly discovered evidence that voters were clearly disenfranchised."
A recount of Hamadeh’s race against now-Attorney General Kris Mayes shows that he lost by about 280 votes. But a 600-page motion for a new trial (pdf) filed this week asks a Mohave County judge to resurrect his lawsuit challenging the results.
"We simply ask that we be given the opportunity to apply the Pinal County process across the board to conduct a physical inspection and hand count of ballots that if the Pinal County issue repeats itself anywhere else in the state could be outcome determinative in this election," Hamadeh wrote on Twitter of the latest challenge.
The motion stated that "the vote count totals are likely inaccurate with thousands of Arizonans’ votes not counted, thus casting further doubt about the actual result." Information that was presented in the motion was not available during the trial last month, where the judge ultimately tossed his election challenge.
Following the statewide automatic recount, Mayes’ advantage over Hamadeh shrunk by about 230 votes—from more than 500 to about 280—over Hamadeh. Earlier this week, Mayes, a Democrat, was sworn-in as attorney general, replacing former GOP Attorney General Mark Brnovich, during a ceremony in Phoenix.
"The statewide automatic recount was primarily conducted by machine. However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... during the course of this recount at least one county, Pinal, was conducting a parallel audit of its own elections processes which discovered discrepancies significant in the context of this race," Hamadeh’s motion stated. It then cited the Pinal County election director as publicly saying that one factor underlying this disparity is that the canvass was filed prior to taking an adequate opportunity to investigate any possible anomalies we could discern from polling place returns.
"In other words, given more time, new evidence, and the physical inspection of ballots—the results changed," it argued. After a "partial" investigation into the matter, Hamadeh gained 277 votes, his lawyers further contended.
A judge had tossed Hamadeh’s previous lawsuit about two weeks ago. The suit had alleged errors in Maricopa County voting systems, which were announced by brass hats on Nov. 8, may have cost him the election.
[DailyWire] Arizona’s Maricopa County announced an investigation Friday into problems that plagued the 2022 election.
Former Arizona Supreme Court ...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations... Justice Ruth McGregor agreed to lead the "independent" endeavor, county officials said in a statement. McGregor was a member of the state Supreme Court from 1998 to 2009 and participated in a 2019 investigation into security issues at Arizona’s prisons.
McGregor will hire a team of "independent experts to find out why the printers that read ballots well in the August Primary had trouble reading some ballots while using the same settings in the November General," Maricopa Board of Supervisors Chairman Bill Gates and Vice Chairman Clint Hickman said in their statement. "Our voters deserve nothing less."
After Maricopa County, which includes the capital of Phoenix and is Arizona’s most populous county, became an epicenter of voter integrity issues stemming from the 2020 presidential election, it again faced controversy in last year’s November 8 contest when tabulators in roughly 70 of 223 voting centers reportedly had trouble reading ballots. The problems were attributed to printers that failed to produce sufficiently dark "timing marks" to inform scanners of voter information, according to the News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
In response to a November request for information from Arizona’s then-Attorney General Mark Brnovich, Maricopa County said affected residents were offered alternative ways to vote and insisted the printer glitches did not prevent anyone from casting ballots. Still, some candidates have raised concerns.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake sued after the results showed that she lost her November contest to then-Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs (D) by roughly 17,000 votes. Lake claimed election officials worked to disenfranchise voters and alleged "hundreds of thousands of illegal ballots infected the election in Maricopa County." A judge rejected the lawsuit, which included a claim of intentional misconduct related to malfunctioning ballot printers, but Lake is appealing.
Abe Hamadeh, the Republican in the race for Arizona attorney general who is also going to court to fight his November defeat, responded to the investigation news Friday, tweeting, "Maricopa County, Pinal County, what else? Democracy demands answers."
Hobbs and others who were declared the winners of their respective contests were sworn into office this week.
[ZeroHedge] Election Watch (EW), a Wisconsin election integrity watchdog organization, has discovered that more than 150,000 votes cast in the 2020 presidential election cannot be connected with a valid address.
EW computer analyst Peter Bernegger said the group’s study of Wisconsin’s voter rolls found 45,000 such occurrences involving people who were living out of state in the Nov. 3 ballot, with another 107,000 documented instances on the part of voters who moved to another address within the state and cast a ballot in a different jurisdiction from the one in which they actually reside.
"That’s over 150,000 votes cast in the 2020 presidential election that cannot be tied to a valid address," said Bernegger. "That’s illegal in the state of Wisconsin.
"Though there may be a reasonable explanation for most of these, the number of instances is so large that if only two out of 10 were nefariously cast votes, that was enough to tip the election to Biden."
Former Wisconsin resident Jacob Alldredge, a 27-year-old industrial engineer living in Tennessee, is a case in point.
"I was outraged to learn that the Wisconsin state voter roll shows that I voted in person at the polls on Nov. 3, 2020, when the fact is I was living, registered to vote, and voted in Tennessee. I was not in Wisconsin that day," he told The Epoch Times.
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If we had a legitimate national government, elections boards would be treated the same way police departments are for repeated violations of citizens' civil rights. They lose their 'independence' and have to operate strictly in accordance with judicial oversight for a period of time till they demonstrate they are functioning iaw the law.
[WorldTribune] The Georgia election worker who was caught on video engaging in what critics say was highly suspicious activity on election night 2020, was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal at the White House on Friday.
Ruby Freeman was honored by the person who those who dispute the 2020 election say was the main beneficiary of her actions, Joe Biden. Freeman, her supervisor daughter Shaye Moss, and ten other individuals were also honored.
The White House portrayed Freeman as voting rights heroine who had suffered cruel right-wing harassment in the aftermath of the election.
"Inspired by the voting rights legacy of her beloved Atlanta, Lady Ruby Freeman viewed her civic duty as a Fulton County Election worker as a sacred mission so the people of Georgia could exercise their fundamental right to vote freely and fairly," a White House staffer said during the award ceremony.
Freeman and her daughter "were seen on the surveillance video pulling boxes filled with ballots out from under a table at State Farm Arena after supervisors had told poll workers they had quit for the night," Debra Heine reported for American Greatness on Friday.
"After Freeman, Moss and another election worker retrieved the ballot boxes from underneath the table, the video shows Freeman and Moss scanning and rescanning stacks of ballots into an election computer."
[RedState] Well, this is certainly an interesting turn of events. According to CBS News, 10 classified documents were located at Joe Biden’s vice-presidential office at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington.
The documents were discovered by Biden’s attorneys, who were reportedly packing up Biden’s stuff to vacate the office. Attorney General Merrick Garland has assigned a US attorney to review what was found.
Now, I’m not exactly good at math, but given the Penn Biden Center didn’t even open until 2018, that would have to mean these classified documents were taken there by the current president (or one of his underlings) after he no longer had the right to possess them, right? And an out-of-office vice president certainly doesn’t have declassification powers.
One must admit, the setup here is pretty ironic given Donald Trump is currently under criminal investigation by Joe Biden’s DOJ for taking supposedly classified documents (Trump claims he declassified them) to his home in Florida post-presidency. Yet, here we have the current president getting caught with classified documents during a period when it was illegal for him to have them.
Nothing is going to happen, though. I think we can all be certain of that. Per the report, the DOJ is looking at whether a special counsel will need to be appointed, but there’s no real chance of that. This will be brushed aside while the crusade to get Trump continues. More at the link.
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Hey, it's just a slight, perfectly innocent oversight. No big deal. Nothing at all like Trump.
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Sauce for the goose... A promise kept — credit where due.
McCARTHY confirms Swalwell, Schiff & Omar will be off committees they’d previously served: intel/foreign affairs.
“Swalwell can’t get a security clearance in the private sector. I’m not going to give him a government security clearance. Schiff has lied to the American public…”
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One small step for Congress. Now they need to find Swallwel, Shiff and Omar in contempt for wasting millions of our money falsely accusing Trump and send them to jail...
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I have to wonder if Swalwell and Hunter hang out together.
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How to handle this has been established by the LSDs' DOJ already. Common Law is basically ...What's good for the Goose (TRUMP) is good for the Gander (Biden / LSD's).
Biden and his homes must all be raided.
He must be indicted, His wife's and his collection of underage female underwear must be collected, inspected and pass a DOJ sniff test. Lots of stuff stolen / "accidentally" misplaced and etc...
OH that's right!
What was I thinking, He is a Elite Liberal.
He is exempt from being held to the same legal standards as us common fork.
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Last month, the Justice Department appointed special counsel Jack Smith to oversee the growing probe into those documents.
Trump has downplayed the importance of the seizures, but critics say his alleged mishandling of the records could have allowed highly sensitive material to fall into the wrong hands.
"The disregard and disdain for legal norms and rules simply cannot be accepted from anyone," said Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal. "No one is above the law."
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said Democratic Sen. Richard "Da Nang Dick" Blumenthal
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Trump has downplayed the importance of the seizures, but critics say his alleged mishandling of the records could have allowed highly sensitive material to fall into the wrong hands.
What "highly sensitive material" and to whom is it all that sensitive? Isn't it really just kompromat on Joe and some of the other Democrats? Isn't that why Trump declassified it?
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[FOXNEWS] The House of Representatives is slated to vote on a bill Monday night that would cut more than $70 billion in Internal Revenue Service funding in an effort to prevent the agency from conducting new audits on Americans — fulfilling newly elected House Speaker Kevin McCarthy ...the GOP house majority whip. He replaces Eric Cantor, who got whupped because his politix are like Kevin McCarthy's... ’s promise ahead of taking the gavel.
What a happy thought.
The Family and Small Business Taxpayer Protection Act from Reps. Adrian Smith, R-Neb., and Michelle Steel, R-Calif., would roll back the billions of dollars of funding for the IRS ...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies... that was approved in the Inflation Reduction Act last year.
Smith’s bill leaves in place funding for customer service and improvements to IT services at the IRS but rescinds several categories of unobligated funding, including money that could be used to conduct any new audits on Americans. In total, it would claw back $72 billion of the funding Congress approved for the IRS last year.
The Inflation Reduction Act granted an $80 billion boost to the IRS over a 10-year period, and more than half of those funds were aimed at helping the agency crack down on tax evasion. In 2021, the Treasury Department estimated that $80 billion would be used to hire 87,000 auditors and other new staff. Republicans have said they would fight this aggressive expansion that would more than double the agency’s current size.
"The last thing the American people need right now are more audits from an out-of-control, bloated IRS," Smith told Fox News Digital on Monday. "The Inflation Act funding for IRS would lead to the hiring of 87,000 new IRS employees tasked with raising enough revenue to pay for Democrats’ Green New Deal priorities."
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...The Usual Suspects are already screaming something to the effect that since these new IRS agents were going to hoover up more than a hundred billion dollars, not spending the $72B would actually result in a net loss of IIRC $124B USD.
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#3 B, where is the graft (election contributions, et al) in that? It's all a protection racket scheme. Talk up 'soaking the rich', then the J street hustlers and congresscritters write work arounds for their 'donors'. Money to be made.
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Based on McConnell’s work, this may have to go on the growing debt ceiling negotiation pile along with pipeline approval, Reservist Vax mandates etc.
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Now get that through the Senate and have Hairplugs sign it.
[The Hill] "I have no other job skills. Pay me $"
Democrat Stacey Abrams, the two-time failed candidate for governor in Georgia and a renowned voting rights activist, says she will "likely" run for office again but did not specify for which position.
Abrams, who lost her second bid for Georgia governor in November to incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp (R), made the comment in an interview with actress Drew Barrymore on her daytime television show broadcast Monday.
"I will likely run again," Abrams said. "If at first second third you don’t succeed, try try again. If it doesn’t work, you try again."
Although Abrams lost her contest against Kemp by nearly 8 points, she is seen as a fundraising giant in the Democratic Party. She raised $113 million for her 2022 campaign and $27 million in 2018 when she previously challenged Kemp for the governor’s mansion.
Abrams, a former state lawmaker, has been influential in Georgia politics. She has built two of the largest voting rights organizations in the state, Fair Fight and New Georgia Project, and has dedicated much of her career to expanding access to the ballot box in disenfranchised communities.
"My first responsibility is to make sure anyone who wants to vote can," she said in the interview. "Protecting democracy is not about a person. It’s about the ideals."
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...There is an old and thoroughly crude joke about a bear and a hunter. I shall not repeat it in full here, for this is a family blog. The punchline is applicable, however:
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I think the enthusiasm function for Beto and Abrams campaigns is exponential and approaches zero.
Pro Tip - if you plan to run again repeatedly, pay your staff and vendors. Wait to stuff everybody on your way out the door.
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Unfortunately, there are a lot of rich a$$holes in the US and elsewhere who will bankroll creatures like Tank and Beetle indefinitely.
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Well it is a lucrative gig. I doubt she would walk away from that trough. (Or any trough)
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She has failed her way to wealth and fame.
Great gig, you never have to accomplish anything useful, just be obnoxious. Kinda like Bite Me Boy. (I notice that the losers never seem to be bothered to take down their signs...)
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Well, I have no problem with whatever amounts of money liberals want to send her as long as her sausage-like fingers never come anywhere near any lever of power anywhere.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NYPOST] To borrow one of her song titles: "Truth Hurts."
...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do...
[FirearmsNews] FBI Underreports Defensive Gun Use to Congress
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations...
[The Hill] 
