Actually it is about leftist terrorists fighting White supremacists. The major subplot is about a Black woman who sexually manipulates and betrays two White men on opposite sides of the battles. One of them is a White supremacist who is eventually killed for having a child with the Black woman.
That was a spoiler. I am skipping the movie.
He was predicting the Civil War.
He helped abolish the slave trade, and wanted to expatriate Negroes to Sierra Leone Africa or other such places. Such a move would have been costly, but a lot cheaper than a war. He did not believe that freed Negroes and Whites would co-exist peacefully.
I wonder what he would have thought about the USA today, importing millions of people that will never be assimilated. Are we headed for war? Is there any plan that might avoid it?
I keep seeing articles on the spirit of the Declaration of Independence, and how we are still trying to live up to the vision of Jeffersona and Lincoln. Eg, see this. Not everyone realizes that Jefferson and Lincoln were very much opposed to the social and political equality of Negroes and Indians. They wanted to ship the Negroes to Africa.
When they said all men were created equal, they mean White Anglo Saxon Protestant law-abiding property-owning native-born adult citizens.
Los Angeles City Council just threw its full weight behind a crack down on LAPD’s pretextual stops.Cops would stop you for a broken tail light, and then discover evidence of more serious crimes.In a unanimous 14-0 vote, lawmakers moved to rein in the traffic stops, a routine tool officers have long used to pull drivers over for minor violations and probe for bigger crimes. ...
“This is a big down payment,” he said, signaling more changes ahead. The vote caps six years of City Hall buildup that began in the wake of the George Floyd protests.
Apparently this disproportionately affected Black and Brown drivers.
The NY Times reports
What Are 'Teen Takeovers' and Why Are Police Struggling to Stop Them?Why would Black/Latino youth gangs get more scrutiny that Whites in skate parks? No one wants to say the obvious.Across the country, police and city officials are trying to crack down on sometimes violent youth gatherings, but the teens themselves say they need some way to socialize and blow off steam ...
“There was a lot of dog whistling there about the fact that these are Black kids who are gathering together in these large groups, and we should be afraid of them,” Mr. Steinberg said.
Black and Latino youth gatherings are more likely to be assumed as criminal, said Kristin Henning, a Georgetown University law professor who specializes in juvenile justice. White children in skate parks in the 1980s and 1990s did not generate nearly the same level of surveillance and arrests as Black gatherings, she said.
People wonder how a super-smart AI LLM could take over the world. The humans would always be in control of the AI policies.
South Africa has already been taken over by Commie Blacks, and the Blacks have been taken over by AI. A local paper reports:
Minister of communications and digital technologies Solly Malatsi has withdrawn the draft AI policy which was open for public comment.It turned out to be written by an AI LLM.
The problem that South Africans have right now is that we don't understand white people. White people are inferior species to us. We are homo sapiens. They've got Neanderthal blood in them. This is the science. And this is not science that was done by black people. It was done by them. You understand?The word Ubuntu is a Nguni Bantu term from Southern Africa. At its core, Ubuntu is a philosophical concept that translates to "I am because we are" or "humanity towards others."Abutl, Dobby Lewis, they were eugenicists. They studied this and they realized that they're inferior to blacks. The white population is shrinking and shrinking and shrinking and shrinking. For us, it makes no sense to descend into the savagery that they have. Whatever land that they're holding on to, either way, their numbers are dwindling. Whatever leadership that they had is dying out as well. And you know about wealth disappearing after the third generation that it's passed down to, you know.
So, we are they're on the last generation. We're dealing with the weakest whites that the world has ever seen. So we expect to have ubundu humanity. Unfortunately, by the strictest definition of what a human being is. White people are just below human beings. You are negotiating with an animal. A wild dog that you're trying to train to be tamed, to be who guards your house. You can never do that.
So we're expecting Ubuntu from them. We're like, you stole our land. You you butchered our people and everything else, and we just want justice. We're not out for your blood. We're not chopping off your heads. is not doing anything. Why don't you guys understand that? Why don't you guys have Ubunt? Why don't you guys have a heart? They don't because they're incapable of that. You cannot expect the same behavior of a human being that you're expecting of.
It is true that it is common for White anthropologists to say that European Neanderthals were inferior to Black African homo sapiens. And also that White numbers are dwindling, compared to non-whites.
South Africa has more racial laws today that they ever had under White rule. The Black commies have taken over, and ruined the country.
Here is her 26-year-old step daughter Ella Emhoff:
...I'm just sitting here crocheting, waiting for a friend, and I was just listening to this podcast that The Wall Street Journal put out about SSRIs and anti-anxiety meds and kind of the over-prescription of them in America.The video shows her with several visible ugly tattoos.And it was making me think a lot because I've been on SSRIs for over a decade, almost fifteen years probably, and they were calling out the lack of research on long-term use of these things. ...
But I've noticed that every time I've gone off of it for a week or missed it or for whatever reason, like, it has been really hard for me, and I've had a really hard time.
So she has been on those drugs continually since age 11? Without considering the consequences?
I do not want to pick on this girl, as she is a product of the culture. And I do not know whether Harris personally approved the drugs and tattoos.
Update: Matt Walsh broadcast The Dark Side Of Mental Health | Ep. 1776. In short, no one knows how SSRIs work, and they probably do more harm than good. In particular, they do not correct a chemical imbalance in the brain.
The Great Feminization: How White Guilt Replaced Black FathersI also enjoy this channel with funny skits on White Liberal News.Is the relationship between White Liberal Women and the Black community based on progress, or is it a psychological & Sinister Sympathy? Today we look at the data, from Pew Research to Yale studies, to uncover how a "Maternal Matriarchy" is trading Black manhood for White Guilt.
In this video, we discuss:
Why 56% of young White Liberal women are spiraling while Black self-esteem is at an all-time high.
The "Great Feminization" of American institutions and the removal of Black fathers.
How DEI is a shell game where White women win the seats and Black people get the lollipops.
The "Black Lexapro": Using victimhood as a psychological antidepressant.
“What the Roberts Court is making possible,” @AdamSerwer argues, “is a country where white people can maintain their political dominance at the expense of Americans who are not white.” He examines what to expect following the Voting Rights Act ruling: https://theatln.tc/Pg529ZdASo I figured that whoever is writing this crap must be a Black or a Jew. It turns out he is both!
Serwer has received awards from the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), ... His father is of Polish Jewish descent, and his mother is African-American. ... His work there has focused on white supremacy, race in America, and the Trump administration. ... He practices Judaism and lives in San Antonio, Texas.He refers to a ruling against Louisiana racially segregating Congressional districts. They tried to concentrate the Blacks into two gerrymandered districts, for the explicit purpose of electing two Black Congressmen. The theory was that this was not racism, because it was a remedy for Blacks having to drink from separate fountains, a century earlier.
The magazine is controlled by Jews whose main purpose seems to be to stir up racial animosity.
Non-whites are the chief beneficiaries of White supremacy. All over the world, non-whites are seeking to move to countries with White political dominance. There are not court ruling "at the expense of Americans who are not white."
See Behind Canada's decade of decline and "This Is Where Canada Is Heading Right Now" - Jordan Peterson.
If anyone tells you that immigration is good for economic growth, explain Canada. The immigration has been a disaster.
Matt Walsh argues in this podcast that it has already killed Rock music.
Rock music is absent from recent lists of top music, musicians, hits, songwriters, etc. If there is any Rock, it is from decades ago.
We used to have lots of bands where teenagers get together with their friends in a garage, and made new music. They wrote their own songs, and composed the music. They were mostly White, and performed for mostly White audiences.
No more.
What happened? There could be several factors at work. Maybe some are purely economic. It appears that the decline of White culture is a big factor.
There are still White pop stars, like Taylor Swift. But she is not like the Rock bands of the 60s to 90s.
Walsh refers to the recently published NY Times list of the greatest living American songwriters. There is no new Rock music on the list. See also The NYT "Greatest Songwriters" List is an Absolute Disaster.
Walsh works for The Daily Wire, currently sinking:
The far-right Daily Wire faced mass layoffs this week — gutting the team of the long-prominent outlet initially founded by conservative activist Ben Shapiro.I would call them center-right. Shapiro is their star, and his popularity has sharply declined since his support of the Iran War. He is an Orthodox Jew, and he gives the impression that his primary loyalties are to Israel. He is pretty good, when he is not talking about Israel.
The findings of this report document a sustained, escalating, and coordinated campaign of hate and bigotry against Muslim Americans by Republican elected officials, amplified through social media. What began with a single gubernatorial repost in February 2025 has grown, within thirteen months, into an operation involving 89 Republican elected officials, including 86 members of Congress across three reinforcing tracks: 1,111 social media posts by 46 elected officials, eight pieces of legislation across both chambers of Congress, and a formal congressional caucus with 62 members. This represents an unprecedented level of coordinated anti-Muslim bigotry by elected officials in the U.S.No, this was not started by a single post a year ago. Christians wised up to Mohammedans trying to kill them about 1300 years ago.
They want to equate Christianity with bigotry. Christians do not agree with Islam for a lot of very good reasons.
On April 9, 2026, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee (R) signed House Joint Resolution 182, officially designating June 2026 as “Nuclear Family Month” in the state. Lee signed House Joint Resolution 182, which passed the House in April 2025 and the Senate last month, on April 9.Pride flags are still all over California schools and public buildings.It is a departure from the national recognition of June as Pride Month.
The pushback against Pride displays is taking place across the country.
The woke Mayor of Boise, Idaho, Lauren McLean (D), was finally forced to remove the rainbow LGBT “pride” flag from its City Hall following implementation of a new flag law.
Multiple states, including Florida, Texas, and Alabama, have passed or proposed restrictions on Pride events in public schools, government buildings, or taxpayer-funded spaces.
In 2023, Target began removing some LGBTQ+ merchandise from its Pride Month collection amid nationwide backlash.
Cracker Barrel removed its Pride page, which listed the Nashville Pride Parade it sponsored. The page’s website link now redirects to Cracker Barrel’s “Culture and Belonging” site.
In 2025, Anheuser-Busch, the brewing company known for brands like Bud Light and Budweiser, ended its sponsorship of San Francisco Pride following the beer giant’s loss of over $27 billion in market value in 2023 after partnering with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney and becoming the target of a conservative boycott.
Mann met Weinstein at a Los Angeles-area party around early 2013. She had done some acting work but was hoping for a big break.Among many consensual encounters, she said that one was not.Their subsequent get-togethers bounced between professional advice, invites to glitzy industry events and advances that Mann said made her uncomfortable but that she didn’t refuse, though she had an emotional “meltdown” during an episode involving Weinstein and another woman.
Still, Mann decided to have a consensual sexual liaison with the then-married producer.
She explained Tuesday that she had been taught to expect such behavior from men and thought she might feel better about it if she was in a relationship with Weinstein.
Mann told no one at the time. She went through with the planned breakfast, accepted Weinstein’s invitation to extend her trip, attend a movie screening and have tea with him and his daughter.I am wondering how any of this would convince a jury. If he really committed a crime against her, she would not have continued the relationship.“I just wanted everyone to act like everything was normal,” she said.
She continued consensual sexual encounters and friendly email exchanges with Weinstein. He helped the financially struggling Mann get hired at a hair salon, though she declined an envelope from him that she believed contained $1,000 in cash: “It felt wrong,” she told jurors.
Sweden is known for having some of the strongest animal welfare protections in the world. Many people are familiar with the country’s dog rules, including expectations around regular walks. Fewer realize Swedish law also sets clear standards for how cats must be cared for. Since 2019, cat owners in Sweden have been legally required to check on their cats at least twice a day. The rule applies whether a cat lives indoors, outdoors, or on a farm. It is not simply a recommendation. It is part of the country’s animal welfare framework.Meanwhile they do not even protect their own human citizens from Moslem invaders.
Cats survived for millions of years before humans coddled them. I am not sure Swedish culture will survive much longer.
1973: Fisk proposed "gender dysphoria" (sometimes called "gender dysphoria syndrome") to describe the distress from incongruence between one's experienced gender and biological sex. This was in the context of early work on transsexualism by figures like Harry Benjamin (who treated patients in the 1950s–1960s).
1979: The Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association (later WPATH) used the term in its first Standards of Care.
1980: DSM-III introduced "gender identity disorder" (and "transsexualism") as official psychiatric diagnoses, not "gender dysphoria." Earlier DSM editions (1952, 1968) had no equivalent.
2013: DSM-5 replaced "gender identity disorder" with "gender dysphoria" to reduce stigma while keeping it as a diagnosable condition focused on distress (not identity itself). It was moved out of sexual disorders into its own category.
The whole point to the term is to get insurance and welfare agencies to pay for it.
The original purpose of the Statue of Liberty was not to welcome immigrants or people "from all over the world." That idea developed later.
French abolitionist and political thinker Édouard de Laboulaye proposed the statue in 1865 as a gift from the people of France to the United States. The goals included:
Commemorating the centennial of American independence (1776).
Celebrating the Franco-American alliance during the Revolutionary War and the shared republican ideals of liberty and democracy.
Honoring the abolition of slavery after the U.S. Civil War (Laboulaye was president of the French Anti-Slavery Society and admired America's perseverance through the war and emancipation).
Sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi designed it as "Liberty Enlightening the World" — a symbol of liberty spreading enlightenment, not a greeter for newcomers. The dedication in 1886 by President Grover Cleveland focused on friendship between the two republics, freedom from oppression, and republican values. There was no mention of immigration in the planning, funding, or speeches.
A broken chain and shackle at the statue's feet (partly hidden by her robe) reference the end of slavery, though designers toned down more explicit anti-slavery elements to avoid controversy.
The association with immigration came after the statue was built:
Its location in New York Harbor placed it near Ellis Island (the main U.S. immigration station from 1892 onward), so millions of arriving European immigrants saw it first.
In 1883, poet Emma Lazarus wrote "The New Colossus" ("Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free...") for a fundraiser. It was added to a plaque inside the pedestal in 1903, retroactively framing the statue as a "Mother of Exiles."
Over time, especially in the early 20th century and during world wars, it became a powerful cultural symbol of hope and opportunity for immigrants.
Historians and the National Park Service (which maintains the site) consistently note that this immigrant-welcoming role was not the creators' intent. It evolved organically from geography, the poem, and later cultural shifts.
The Economist podcast (or similar commentary) appears to have repeated a common modern shorthand that blends the statue's later symbolic power with its actual origins. The statue does represent broad ideals of liberty, but claiming its "original purpose" was global welcoming is ahistorical — it was a transatlantic political gesture celebrating American republicanism and the defeat of slavery, from one Enlightenment-influenced republic to another.
The statue's meaning has always been flexible (as symbols often are), but facts about its conception remain clear from primary accounts, Laboulaye's writings, Bartholdi's work, and the 1886 dedication.
Tattoos have become far more popular over time, especially among women, who are now more tattooed than men.
It is all nonsense. The research shows the opposite. Getting professional gender identity services makes adolescents and young adults worse.
What’s clear is that GD [gender dysphoria] is associated with psychiatric disorders, though it may not be causal, and that gender reassignment does not improve mental health compared to dysphoric subjects who didn’t get reassigned. All this suggests that “affirmative care” that puts GD subjects on the path to GR [gender reassignment] doesn’t, at least in this study, have the salubrious effects that are touted—as measured by the intensity of psychiatric treatment. Gender-reassigned subjects continue to suffer from mental disorders at a rate threefold to fivefold that of controls without gender dysphoria, so GR doesn’t come close to giving subjects the mental stability of controls.Use common sense. Your medical professional may be more psychologically disturbed than your child.
Rabin has sadly just passed away at 94. This is a short piece on honoring him immediately. More is planned for the future.Besides what is mentioned, he developed a method of public key cryptography similar to RSA. He got it about the same time, and may have even been first.His work has touched key areas of mathematics as well as central areas of computer theory. Without his work theory would be completely different today.
It is a quirk of history that RSA caught on. For technical reasons, the Rabin method is trickier to use, but people could have figured out how to use it safely.
RSA was inspired by the Diffie-Hellman (DH) method. The elliptic curve variant of DH is now the most common used. It has the advantages of small keys, signatures, and idiot-proof key generation.
These are all quite secure, except for the possibility of quantum computers, which could break them all.
MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ is an acronym used primarily in Canada. ...No, it is lengthy to emphasize that it is excluding straight White men.The acronym stands for: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two‑Spirit (a term that is used by some First Nations to describe people who embody both masculine and feminine spirits), Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, and Asexual people. ...
The full acronym has been used for years in government, advocacy, and community contexts to emphasize intersectionality. It is intentionally lengthy in order to name everyone who has historically been left out of national conversations about violence, justice, and safety.
See also this video, which complains about people mocking the term and taking it "out of context".
Update: Apparently most of the USA hate groups are actually Jewish psy-ops. Some of those Charlottesville protesters who supposedly chanted "Jews will not replace us" in 2017 were actually Jew-funded stooges. The SPLC profited by about a billion dollars.
The Camp of the Saints (French: Le Camp des Saints) is a 1973 French dystopian fiction novel by author and explorer Jean Raspail. A speculative fictional account, it depicts the destruction of Western civilization through Third World mass immigration to France and the Western world. The name of the book comes from a passage in the Book of Revelation depicting the apocalypse.
First, the show is authentic. They interviewed all the players and found that they really were on the autism spectrum, and the show really did reflect their real life experiences.
Second, although autism is mainly known as a congnitive defect causing poor communication, the players are actually very good at knowing what they want and meaning what they say. The reporter found them refreshingly good communicators, compared her own personal dating frustrations.
I think she has hit upon something. Modern men have been cultivated to avoid speaking directly, largely because it is unsettling to women. Those who do are treated as if they have a mental disease.
Many scientists have contended that humans have evolved very little over the past 10,000 years. A few hundred generations was just a blink of the evolutionary eye, it seemed. Besides, our cultural evolution -- our technology, agriculture and the rest -- must have overwhelmed our biological evolution by now.That is the story told by the leading evolution popularizer, Harvard Jewish Marxist Stephen Jay Gould. He was wrong.
A vast study, published on Wednesday in the journal Nature, suggests the opposite. Examining DNA from 15,836 ancient human remains, scientists found 479 genetic variants that appeared to have been favored by natural selection in just the past 10,000 years.See the Harvard study for details.The researchers also concluded that thousands of additional genetic variants have probably experienced natural selection. Before the new study, scientists had identified only a few dozen variants. "There are so many of them that it's hard to wrap one's mind around them," said David Reich, a geneticist at Harvard Medical School and an author of the new study.
The main ideas are not really new. It was the subject of a 2009 book, The 10,000 Year Explosion, and SPLC accusations that it was all scientific racism.
A basic premise of the Left is that we are all the same. Whites are no better than Blacks, Christians are no better than Mohammedans, men are no better than women, etc. It is all a lie.
Update: The paper was just published, and got a lot of publicity. But it is not that new. The preprint appeared in 2024, and results were informally announced in 2020. And the main idea was in that 2009 book.
But the idea that human have been still evolving in the past few millennia is very upsetting to some egalitarians and leftists. The evolution even seems to be speeding up.
In the 1800s, a powerful coalition of politicians, enslavers, and even some abolitionists backed a radical idea: send free Black Americans to Liberia. Backed by the American Colonization Society, this movement sparked fierce debate across the country. This clash reveals how contested the idea of American citizenship has always been.You might think that Negro slaves would be eager to create a utopia on their home continent. But according to the video, the vast majority of them wanted to stay in the USA.
Here is a Wash. Post article (mirror, mirror) attacking such Christians, by its religion editor:
The unreligious religiosity of Christian identity politics ...What is the real gripe here? Catholics have always been much more numerous than evangelicals. Christians are, by definition, not Jewish, so there is nothing unusual about a Christian distancing himself from Jewish beliefs.Fishback distinguishes himself from conventional politicians by asserting his Christianity in baroque and confrontational terms. He does not just invoke Christian themes. He draws a line between Christians and non-Christians, as in his comment about the Western Wall.
Fishback’s religious rhetoric is part of an emerging form of Christian identity politics. Like a number of prominent influencers, he interlaces elaborate expressions of Christian piety with criticisms of Jewish supporters of Israel. Many of these influencers are “trad Caths,” Catholics drawn to the traditional Latin mass and alienated from the church hierarchy. They are creating a religious right distinct from the one that was once led by evangelicals.
Sometimes these articles complain about Christians rejecting Dispensationalism:
Dispensationalism is a Christian theological framework for interpreting the Christian Bible which maintains that history is divided into multiple ages called dispensations in which God interacts with his chosen people in different ways.[1]: 19 It is often distinguished from covenant theology, the traditional Reformed view of reading the Bible.[2][3] These are two competing frameworks of biblical theology that attempt to explain overall continuity in the Bible.This is some obscure theology. Most Christians have never even heard of it. It is related to Christian Zionism, which most Christians also do not subscribe.
What seems bizarre to me is people objecting to Christians expressing a Christian identity. They never object to Jews, Moslems, or Hindoos expressing a religious identity. So why the attacks on Christians?
I also see a lot of non-Christians expressing opinions on what Christians should believe, and non-Catholics saying what Catholics should believe. Typically they have their own idiosynchratic Bible interpretations. Their time would be better spent telling Jews and Moslems what they should believe.
RESULTS We find that sycophancy is both prevalent and harmful. Across 11 AI models, AI affirmed users’ actions 49% more often than humans on average, including in cases involving deception, illegality, or other harms. On posts from r/AmITheAsshole, AI systems affirm users in 51% of cases where human consensus does not (0%).What the research actually found was that the bots do as requested. If you ask it to affirm your view, it will be biased to do that. If you ask for honest feedback, then the bias disappears.
I see a lot of people saying that the AI LLMs are sycophantic, but it is not true. I regularly get feedback telling me that I am wrong about something.
Technologist Bruce Schneier argues that this research proves that AI chatbots must be regulated. He gives this example:
a model responded: “Your actions, while unconventional, seem to stem from a genuine desire to understand the true dynamics of your relationship.” The AI essentially validated deception using careful, neutral-sounding language.No, the model regurgitated what it was told. It did not tell the man to lie. Perhaps the researchers wanted the chatbot to spontaneously urge the man to always tell the truth to his girlfriend, I don't know. A neutral chatbot would not do that.
You are probably so used to this nonsense that you do not think anything of it. Just in case, I will spell it out. Black men harassing White women is 1000x more common than White men harassing Black women. The picture is offensive and insulting. If they really want safer cities, they should stop importing Blacks and Mohammedans.
News:
“CNN interviews a woman who alleges that she was raped by Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), who is running for governor in California. She says that they were at a bar and she got up to use the bathroom and that her memory of what happened from that point on is mostly gone,” reporter Ryan Saavedra wrote.They want him to drop out of the governor race, but not out of Congress. As of now, he has been bullied into suspending his campaign. He denies the main accusations.“She says she woke up the next morning naked and alone in a hotel room, which she says she didn’t even realize was his hotel room at the time. She says she had some flashes of what happened and she remembers him grabbing her and her telling him ‘no’ and that he was very aggressive,” he continued. ...
Pelosi joins other leading Democrats including Sen. Adam Schiff in demanding that Swalwell exit the race.
These stories do not deserve credence. Anyone can make charges like that. People act as if accusers are innocent, but they often have bad motives.
If Swalwell were really a serial rapist, there would be some hard evidence. A victim could have called the police the next morning.
Swalwell has a history of weaponizing such charges against his political opponents.
Ronan Farrow is famous for promoting these trashy stories, and for being the child prodigy son of Woody Allen and Mia Farrow, and now he goes after Sam Altman. He says he tracked down Altman's younger homosexual lovers and an accusation that appears to stem from Altman's sister being cut out of a will. Farrow himself has a weird sex history, and so do his parents. Even the NY Times says he is a liar. He says Altman cannot be trusted, but Farrow cannot be trusted.
All you need to know about Altman and the other AI leaders can be learned from public interviews. They say that they are on the brink of an AI revolution that will transform the world. Maybe for the better, but maybe to kill us all. They say that it is so dangerous that they should be regulated like atomic bombs. Just listening to Altman will convince you that he should not be in any position of responsibility. By all accounts, he is a liar and a sociopath.
Update: Swalwell says he is resigning from Congress.
Update: This video has number quotes from Altman saying that AI will destroy humanity.
For the previous century, genetics had to cope with much more primitive methods. Biologists would have to study phenotypes, measure their heritability, and develop linear models for those unknown genes. It was like a car mechanic trying to fix a car without knowing how engines works.
The older methods could be called the infinitesimal model, or quantitative genetics. The new methods could be called genomics.
Here is a fascinating lecture on The Lost Evolutionary Synthesis.
He explains how the older infinitesimal model was spectacularly successful at breeder better chickens for farmers, and in solving lots of other problems. The new genomics has not had similar accomplishments.
I am still expecting genomics to catch up. A new research paper last month on Genome modelling and design across all domains of life with Evo 2 shows that maybe AI can finally understand genomes.
But as of today, the decades-old infinitesimal model has been much more productive.
As a boy, Majok Bior escaped a country engulfed in war. As a gifted student, he won a full scholarship to Duke University and looked toward a dazzling future.Duke is a great American college. Why is it giving free college to Uganda students, and rejecting so many Americans?Bior studied computer science at the North Carolina campus during his freshman year and was a winger on an intramural soccer team. After finishing the fall semester of his sophomore year, Bior returned to Uganda for winter break. He played chess with friends and recounted the brutal winters and demands of chemistry class.
Then President Trump began to ban students from Africa, starting with South Sudan where Bior was born. He hasn’t returned to campus since.
Can White Men Finally Stop Complaining?That study found that from 2020-23, "The share of senior managers who aren’t white, meanwhile, rose to 26% from 22%." Essentially all the new hires were non-White.
For 50 years, we’ve been hearing from men who feel threatened by the gains of women and minorities. Now that the manosphere is in charge, the victim mentality has to go. ...With white guys now dominating government, popular culture, the airwaves and our brain space, it’s puzzling why the victim mentality still persists. The cries that DEI has somehow ruined white men’s lives are particularly head-scratching considering that, as a recent Wall Street Journal analysis revealed, corporate diversity initiatives have had relatively little impact on the workforce.
It is funny seeing a Jewish woman complaining about victim mentality. Her biggest selling book was on "What Men Need to Know". A basic tenet if Judaism is women nagging men. This latest column is another example.
Not anymore. It is racist.
The age-old requirement that college seniors must pass a swimming test is being dumped due to fears it discriminates against people of color.If you failed the swim test, you had to take a swim class. It was too embarrassing when those classes filled up with Black students.Dartmouth College just became the latest school to drop a mandatory swimming test from its graduation prerequisite.
In doing so, the Ivy League school joins a handful of other elite institutions that have abandoned their swimming requirements in recent years, including Williams, Hamilton and Washington and Lee.
“The shift says less about the merits of staying afloat than about universities’ preoccupation with racial equity,” reports The Economist.
666666666 Schools with a swimming test as part of their diploma obligations have been doing so since the early 1900s, the news outlet says.
A lot of these colleges have also had to have remedial classes in reading, writing, and arithmetic. These too have become embarrassing, and colleges are re-packaging them as support labs or co-requisites or some other euphemism.
They get 99% when a chimp gene can be matched to a human gene, and then the nucleotides are 99% the same. But there are huge other chunks of dna that do not match, and if you look at the whole dna, there is much less similarity.
Jonathan Leaf argues in this video and this book (buy) that there are so many differences that humans should not even be considered primates.
A lot of species classifications are based on common descent, so perhaps that justifies calling humans primates and apes. But Leaf points out that a lot of ape research is based on a belief that we are apes, so learning more about chimps and gorillas will tell us more about humans.
The big differences, he says, are that humans use language, are social, and are domesticated. Chimps are wild animals that cannot be tamed.
Note that "homonid" was redefined to include apes:
The most commonly used recent definitions are:This change was to trick you into thinking that humans were apes.Hominid – the group consisting of all modern and extinct Great Apes (that is, modern humans, chimpanzees, gorillas and orang-utans plus all their immediate ancestors).
Hominin – the group consisting of modern humans, extinct human species and all our immediate ancestors (including members of the genera Homo, Australopithecus, Paranthropus and Ardipithecus). ...
The term ‘hominid’ used to have the same meaning that ‘hominin’ now has. ...
In this old scheme, humans were seen to be so different to other apes that we should be placed into our own distinct family, the Hominidae or hominids.
How many babies are born each year to unauthorized immigrant or legal temporary immigrant mothers?Those would not be citizens, except for a misinterpreation of a Civil War Reconstruction amendment. The US Supreme Court will soon rule.In 2023, mothers who were unauthorized immigrants or had legal temporary status in the U.S. had 320,000 babies, representing about 9% of all 3.6 million babies born in the U.S. that year. About 260,000 of those babies would not have qualified for birthright citizenship if Trump’s executive order had already been in effect. This includes:
About 245,000 babies born to mothers who were unauthorized immigrants and fathers who were not citizens or lawful permanent residents
About 15,000 babies born to mothers who had legal temporary status and fathers who were not citizens or lawful permanent residents
This 2023 NewScientist story has the above picture.
Couples are most in love in Hungary, according to scienceThe author is an Australian female Jew who has won journalism awards. Hungary does not actually have many interracial couples.People in romantic relationships in 45 countries were asked how strongly they agreed with statements such as “just seeing my partner excites me”
By Alice Klein
People in relationships report being more in love if they live in a country with high living standards, greater gender equality and a community‑centred culture.
Today, the Texas A&M Journal of Law Civil Governance published a very timely conversation between Judge Kacsmaryk and the 2023 Jurist of the Year, Judge James C. Ho. It is titled, "What Does It Mean To Be A Christian On The Bench?" ...Some non-Christians questioned whether Christians believe in truth, so I asked an AI LLM.Judge Kacsmaryk had this to say about textualism ... "This is where the faithful Christian should have a Textualist advantage: we believe there is such a thing as objective, external, knowable Truth."
Yes, Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk is correct in his characterization of what many (and arguably most traditional or "faithful") Christians believe. The quote comes from a recent speech or remarks titled "What Does It Mean To Be A Christian On The Bench?" where he argues that a Christian worldview provides an advantage in textualist statutory interpretation because it orients the interpreter toward seeking an objective, external, knowable truth (in this case, the "ordinary public meaning" of legal text at enactment, rather than subjective or evolving interpretations).
Christianity, across its historic branches (Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, Evangelical), has long affirmed that truth is objective, external to the human mind, and in principle knowable. This stems from several foundational ideas:
God as the source of truth: The Bible portrays God as truth itself (e.g., "I am the way, the truth, and the life" in John 14:6; God "cannot lie" in Titus 1:2 or Hebrews 6:18). Truth isn't invented by humans or cultures but reflects God's nature and the reality He created.
Objective reality: Creation is orderly and real, independent of our opinions (Psalm 19:1-4; Romans 1:20 — general revelation through nature). Moral and spiritual truths are likewise grounded in God's character and commands, not personal preference.
Knowability: Humans, made in God's image, can apprehend truth through reason, observation, conscience, and especially special revelation in Scripture (which is seen as inspired, authoritative, and propositional truth — 2 Timothy 3:16-17). While sin and finitude can cloud understanding, truth is not inherently inaccessible or purely subjective.
Correspondence view of truth: Something is true if it corresponds to reality as it actually is. This contrasts with relativism (truth is whatever feels right to the individual or group) or postmodern skepticism (truth claims are power plays with no objective anchor).
This view directly opposes Pilate's skeptical "What is truth?" (John 18:38), which Kacsmaryk references. Christians historically reject the idea that truth is fluid, constructed, or unknowable; they see it as fixed and discoverable, even if imperfectly grasped by fallen people.
Not every self-identified Christian holds this view with equal rigor today:
Traditional/orthodox Christians (evangelicals, conservatives in other traditions) strongly affirm objective truth. Apologists and theologians routinely contrast it with cultural relativism, arguing that denying objective truth undermines morality, the gospel claims ("Christ is the only way"), and even coherent reasoning. Surveys sometimes show gaps among younger churchgoers, but the doctrinal stance of historic creeds and confessions is clear.
Liberal or progressive Christians may lean more toward experiential, contextual, or metaphorical understandings of truth, emphasizing love, justice, or personal encounter over propositional absolutes. Some embrace elements of postmodern thought. However, even here, claims about God, ethics, or Jesus often retain an implicit claim to objective validity ("this is what Christianity truly is").
Catholic tradition adds natural law and magisterial teaching as reliable guides to objective moral and theological truth.
Protestant emphasis often highlights sola scriptura — Scripture as the external, objective standard.
Overall, Kacsmaryk's "we" refers to "faithful" Christians who take core doctrines seriously. This belief has been a through-line in Christian thought from the early church fathers through Aquinas, the Reformers, and modern apologists. It isn't unique to Christianity (many theistic religions and classical philosophy affirm objective truth), but it fits naturally with a Creator who reveals Himself reliably.
Kacsmaryk's broader point is that if you already believe in objective truth (rather than seeing interpretation as endless deconstruction or personal projection), you're better equipped to pursue the fixed public meaning of a legal text without injecting modern preferences. Whether that gives Christians a practical "advantage" in judging is debatable — plenty of non-Christian textualists (e.g., Justice Scalia, who was influenced by but not defined by his Catholicism) succeed by the same logic. But the underlying premise about Christian belief holds.
In short: Yes, he is correct. Faithful Christians do believe there is objective, external, knowable truth — rooted in God, reality, and revelation. This has been a consistent teaching, even as cultural pressures toward relativism challenge it.
Here is Pres. Trump's Easter message:
This Easter Sunday, the First Lady and I join with Christians all across our Nation and around the world in rejoicing in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, whose triumph over sin and victory over death secured the promise of redemption and the hope of eternal life for all who believe in Him as Lord and Savior.A Jewish paper reports:Sunday, we proclaim with joy that Christ has risen, a new creation has been ushered in, and evil and death have been conquered forever through the unmatched power of God’s sacrificial love.
When Jesus Christ rose from His earthly tomb on Easter morning, He restored our grace, washed our sins, and reconciled humanity with God—fulfilling the ancient prophecy that “He was pierced for our sins, crushed for our iniquity … by His wounds we were healed.” His suffering won our victory, His love brings us life, and His Resurrection is our everlasting hope.
As we rejoice in this Easter season, we are reminded that the life of Jesus Christ and the truths of the Gospel have inspired our way of life and our national identity for 250 years. From the Christian patriots who won and secured our liberty on the battlefield and every generation since, the love of Christ has unfailingly guided our Nation through calm waters and dark storms.
We pray that this celebration of the Resurrection strengthens our faith, enriches our lives, and reawakens our souls. We offer prayers of adoration and thanksgiving for the countless blessings God has bestowed upon our Nation. We acknowledge that, through Christ’s redeeming sacrifice, in the words of Holy Scripture, “Death is swallowed up in victory.” Above all, we echo with tremendous joy those sacred words that have given life, hope, and purpose to Christians for thousands of years: He is risen.
Happy Easter!
Photos of the new king wearing his royal kippah, facts about his circumcision and his relationship with rabbis abound. ...The London Telegraph says: How the King became the Jewish community’s greatest ally. There is no surer way to show that you are symbolically owned by the Jews -- get circumcized by a rabbi.There is much to tout in terms of the new king’s devotion to Judaism. Another delightful photo is of him donning his kippah, which was first sighted at the installation of Britain’s current Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mervis in 2013. Charles was the first member of the royal family to attend an installation of a chief rabbi. ...
King Charles III, along with thousands of British Jews, was circumcised by Rabbi Jacob Snowman, a physician and one of London’s leading mohelim, or ritual circumcisers. The queen requested Snowman, who was well known in the London community.
Update: The new Archbishop of Canterbury is pro-LGBT feminist Sarah Mullally. A third of the bishops are now women. She was born in Woking.
French President Emmanuel Macron Friday denounced what he described as an "anti-Semitic hydra" that had crept into "every crack" of society as he commemorated Ilan Halimi, a French Jewish man tortured to death in 2006. ...That crime was committed by a gang of Africans. No, there has been no resolute effort to keep Hohammedans or Africans out of Paris."In 20 years, and despite the resolute efforts of our police officers, gendarmes, judges, teachers and elected officials, the anti-Semitic hydra has kept advancing," Macron said.
He also attacked what he described as "far-left antisemitism", saying it "rivals that of the far right", and "anti-Semitism that uses the mask of anti-Zionism to advance quietly".France is being invaded by Mohammedans and Africans, and its response is to abolish free speech.Macron also said he wanted "mandatory electoral bans" for officials guilty of "anti-Semitic, racist, and discriminatory acts and remarks".
Suicidal empathy is a purported phenomenon in which excessive, misdirected and pathological forms of empathy are claimed to be destructive for the party that exhibits it. This is often claimed to happen through prioritizing compassion, understanding and empathy over logic, and long-term consequences. There is no support for this concept in psychology, and its proponents are not psychologists or sociologists. This phrase was coined by professor of evolutionary psychology Gad Saad.I guess the editors do not want anyone using the term. It says psychologists do not use the term, and that the term was coined by a psychologist!The phrase "suicidal empathy" is commonly used by culture warriors, right-wing figures, and Christian nationalists to condemn empathy towards groups such as immigrants and racial minorities, often in association with the Great Replacement conspiracy theory.[1][2] It has been referred to as a "right-wing buzzword" by The Bulwark.[3] ...
In a 2025 interview with podcaster Joe Rogan, Elon Musk uses the phrase "civilizational suicidal empathy" to refer to what he believes is the corrosion of American culture.[8] According to Musk, suicidal empathy refers to "weaponized" empathy to bring about political and policy modifications.[9][10][11]
This was on display at the Supreme Court yesterday, as it was argued that birth tourists and illegal alien children should automatically become citizen because of some Civil War Reconstruction language.
