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Fairfax County Public Schools made a show of defying Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkinās order that schools respect parental rights on masking
At this point, they canāt put the toothpaste back in the tube. Lockdowns and school closures have already led toĀ uncountable lossesĀ for young people, and the mediaās dogmatic, uncritical terror campaign is largely responsible. Itās not a crime for the media to get things wrong; but itās a journalistic crime to deliberately align reporting with select politicians, bureaucrats, and corporations in order to wage a crusade against free and open debate.
For years, their preferred censorship tactic was to expand and distort the concept of “hate speechā to mean “views that make us uncomfortable,ā and then demand that such āhatefulā views be prohibited on that basis.
The COVID coup began with declarations of an āemergencyā in four-fifths of the states ā and why, with very rare exceptions, those āstates of emergencyā remain in effect to this day, nearly two years later.
California is considering a bill, S.B. 871 that would mandate COVID-19 vaccines for all students attending a public or private elementary or secondary school, childcare center, day nursery, nursery school, family day care home, or development center.
The volume of pesticides and exposure is occurring on a scale that is without precedent and world-historical in nature. Agrichemicals are now pervasive as they cycle through bodies and environments. The herbicide glyphosate has been a major factor in driving this increase in use.
As the latest anti-Substack campaign shows, more and more people are forgetting why free speech works. Even in a society with fairly robust protections, as ours once was, the most dangerous misinformation is always, without exception, official.
Holocaust survivor Vera Sharav described the striking parallels between what she witnessed as a child in Nazi Germany, and COVID policies being enacted today by governments around the globe.
In a new video Alex Gutentag dives into the devastating impact that COVID school closures have had on public education and our children.
Human augmentation will become increasingly relevant, partly because it can directly enhance human capability and behavior and partly because it is the binding agent between people and machines.
Jimmy Kimmel: Yokel-bashing reaches impressive new heights, yet another year of record profits and a widening wealth gap go unnoticed.
Clem and Barney join other tourists in various pfuture exhibits and rides, and eventually encounter a simulation of then-President Richard Nixon similar to the “audioanimatronic” President Lincoln at Disneyland.