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From the left: Dems Need ‘Bigots,’ Too
“Some people don’t want a tent so big that it includes bigots,” explains Matthew Yglesias at The Argument of a “common sentiment on the left.” For Democrats, “this ethic of shunning is counterproductive and unworkable.” The progressive coalition hasn’t grown as a result of “the range of views that one is allowed to hold or express” as a Democrat “has gotten smaller.” So “fewer people are in it” and “Republicans are winning more elections.” Martin Luther King, Jr. understood this in his need “to make common cause with low-income white people,” who had “been prevented from joining forces due to bigotry.” The “indifference to the plight of nonwhite Americans was, in fact, racist” and counter-productive. “So, yes, I do want a tent so large it contains a lot of bigots” as a result of it’s “the only tent that ever wins.”
Campus watch: CUNY’s Rotten Prof Union
Gov. Hochul and Mayor Adams “must launch a full probe into the Professional Staff Congress’s practices, enforcing strict separation between union activism and public resources, urges Bob Capano at The Hill, after the professors’ union “was exposed for illegally using government email accounts to electioneer for socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.” It’s not simply law-breaking, “but also a symptom of the systemic corruption of our colleges and universities with leftist indoctrination.” “Students deserve a balanced education — not a propaganda-mill environment where free-thinkers must bite their tongues.” Yet “here we are, with union leaders using CUNY’s taxpayer-funded infrastructure to mobilize for a socialist who shares their radical agenda.”
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Health beat: Weed Gets Truly Nauseating
“Recreational cannabis use is legal” in 24 states and Canada, however the dangers of CHS, cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome, “are often dismissed or downplayed,” reviews The Free Press’ Josh Code. “Caused by heavy marijuana use,” CHS “entails vomiting, nausea, and intense cramps that can last for days.” Few, even docs, are conscious of CHS, but it’s “by some measures is becoming a quiet epidemic.” “So why is President Donald Trump considering reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug? Put simply, it’s good politics. Once a pet issue of hippies on the left, legal weed is now a political no-brainer with broad support among Republicans and Democrats.” Too dangerous “the only way to stop the symptoms” of CHS is to “stop getting high.”
Legal take: Trump Upheld on Guard in Portland
The left-leaning Ninth Circuit has affirmed President Trump’s proper to federalize National Guard troops in Portland, notes the Washington Examiner’s Byron York, as a result of “many” protests on the federal building “have turned violent,” and “the Portland city government did not seem overly concerned about the federal building’s security.” Protesters’ systematic efforts to “impede operations” included “mortars” and doxxing workers. The governor “refused” to “call out National Guard troops to protect the ICE facility,” and sued when the War Department ordered 200 troopers to protect the building. The appellate judges ruled that the decrease court docket had “just ignored most of the evidence of violent protests,” and that claims of Trump violating the Tenth Amendment had been unfounded and thus “put aside.”
Speech beat: Stealth War on Conservatives
Robert Sigg’s Real America’s Voice “seeks to bring a unique voice to the marketplace of ideas” as “the platform for ‘The Charlie Kirk Show’ and other populist voices,” however RAV is the sufferer of “a pernicious form of censorship,” argues RealClearPolitics’ David DesRosiers, as its “approach is not welcomed by those who control access to advertising and traffic.” Indeed, RealClear’s own advert rating “gets dinged for aggregating RAV content,” regardless of pairing it “with liberal counter-programming.” For the sin of platforming right-wing content material, the “commanding heights of government, advertising, and traffic went full Orwellian on RAV,” extending advert boycotts to RAV’s apolitical WeatherNation. “Sen. Eric Schmitt and Rep. Jim Jordan are putting in the work to extirpate the censorship industrial complex from advertising and web traffic,” so “things are getting better, but slowly.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
