Links for 10-16-23

California's state-owned children

🚩 In California, parents may soon effectively lose custody of kids 12 and older. From: Daily Signal. In California, “stranger danger” may be about to acquire a whole new meaning. Forget warning kids. It’s the parents in California who will need to be terrified of strangers if a new bill passes.

Sympathy for the devil. From: Bill O’Reilly. The cancel culture has turned against the radical left in America.

Former Yankees pitcher blasts brands like Nike, Bud Light ‘coming into sports and trying to create a woke atmosphere.’ From: American Wire. Former New York Yankees pitcher David Wells feels some kind of way about “woke” corporations like Nike and their effect on Major League Baseball.

🤥 Matthew Shepard's murder was almost certainly not an anti-gay hate crime. From: Reason. President Biden commemorated the 25th anniversary of his tragic death by celebrating legislation passed in Shepard's name. But it was based on a major falsehood.

MSNBC’s punishment for pro-Hamas propaganda? Ratings death. From: NY Post. The network’s lost 33% of its primetime viewers since Hamas struck Israel even as Fox — which accurately reports on the situation — has seen a massive 42% jump in total viewership.

‘Bidenomics’ branding backfires as inflation runs rampant. From: Las Vegas Journal-Review. Mr. Biden faces challenges no matter how he tries to gussy up his administration’s economic missteps.

💉 COVID-19 vaccines ‘may trigger' rheumatic inflammatory diseases. From: Epoch Times/Zero Hedge. The short time span between COVID-19 vaccine administration and the onset of R-IMIDs suggests the potential possibility of a cause-and-effect relationship.

The complicity of compliance. From: Brownstone Institute. Agendas tell people what to do, identifying moral rightness with compliance. Increasingly, they also punish non-compliance. In so doing, they deny conscience, agency, and thereby the essence of morality.

Federal Reserve redoubles efforts to reeducate the young. From: Joshua D. Glawson/Activist Post. The Federal Reserve has taken its propaganda activities into a new, younger medium, Instagram and Threads.

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