By Selwyn Duke

Called “the most powerful social media executive you’ve never heard of” by Politico, she banned a president and then helped elect a new one. She also, while supposedly serving as an “unbiased” censor, donated thousands of dollars to Democrats. In this she certainly was no anomaly at her workplace, Twitter, where 98.7 percent of recent employee political donations have gone to Democrats. But here’s what does separate India-born attorney Vijaya Gadde from her fellows:

The dual citizen makes $17 million dollars a year — censoring the citizens of her adopted country and manipulating their politics. Welcome to the Big Tech oligarchy, globalist style.

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By Selwyn Duke

The alarm has been sounded.

Because the Biden administration is “not doing well,” it’s trying to “silence” its critics,” warned intrepid Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson opined likewise, saying that Biden knows he “cannot continue to control this country if you have free access to information.” Missouri attorney general Eric Schmitt called the administration’s actions “Orwellian” and stated that they should “shock the very core of the American belief system.” The issue?

In the wake of billionaire Elon Musk’s buying of censorial, Big Brother-enabling Twitter and vowing to transform it into a free speech platform, the Empire Strikes Back:

Biden’s federal government has created a “Disinformation Governance Board” (DGB); this entity is designed to monitor Americans’ speech for “lies,” which, critics fear, will simply mean anything the government disagrees with.

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By Selwyn Duke

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By Selwyn Duke

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By Selwyn Duke

“There’s no one as illiberal as a liberal.” This saying could come to mind with one of the latest cancel cultist campaigns: getting Marvel Studios to replace actor Chris Pratt over views on homosexuality.

But not Pratt’s own views. The performer has never publicly expressed his positions on sexuality, period. The issue is that he attends a church that, its pastor once told The New York Times, patterned itself after a different church whose major figures have expressed disapproval of homosexual behavior, according to DeseretNews.

Put differently, he knows a church that knew a church that the sexual devolutionaries wish was unknown.

That is, if Deseret is correct. NBC claims that Pratt attends that patterned-after institution, Hillsong Church in Australia, though NBC isn’t exactly known for reportage rectitude (see George Zimmerman et al.).

Regardless, the message is clear: Even a tangential association with Judeo-Christian tenets that have been held for thousands of years — and which are dogma in many churches today (e.g., Catholicism) — and which reflect the beliefs of billions of people worldwide, is supposed to disqualify you from success and polite society, according to the wokesters.

How this gels with liberals’ longtime appeals for “tolerance” was not reported.

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By Selwyn Duke

In the greatest loss of materiel in history, the Biden administration left $83 billion worth of military equipment in Afghanistan during the disastrous 2021 American withdrawal from that nation. Now, with billions in weaponry being sent to Ukraine, there’s a related concern:

How much of this hardware will be destroyed upon arrival by the Russians or, even, land in their hands?

That we don’t really know where the weapons will end up has already been admitted by Washington. As CNN reported last week, “The US has few ways to track the substantial supply of anti-tank, anti-aircraft and other weaponry it has sent across the border into Ukraine, sources tell CNN.”

Military expert Colonel Douglas Macgregor (Ret.), a former senior advisor to the secretary of defense, was even more definitive.

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By Selwyn Duke

“I don’t think white privilege is a thing,” said journalist Sarah Hernandez last week. “I think Brown privilege is a thing because I get away with a lot of stuff.”

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By Selwyn Duke

It’s “just devastating to, especially from a young age, to be lied to by adults at school and by medical professionals and told that your body is wrong, you need to change it, you need to get hormones, you need to get surgeries….” So said Helena Kerschner, 23, who lived several years taking cross-sex hormones and claiming to be male. Yet she was fortunate, Kerschner states, because she emerged from her delusion medically “unscathed.”

Not so lucky was Nathaniel (last name withheld), who had “bottom surgery” a month after his 18^th birthday. Regretting the decision less than a year later, he called the operation a “Frankenstein hack job” that caused him to reflect. “I had turned myself into a plastic-surgery facsimile of a woman, but I knew I still wasn’t one,” he lamented in 2019. “I feel as though I have ruined my life.”

Unfortunately, instead of heeding the object-lesson warnings Nathaniel and other such teens issue, the Biden administration has decided to roll out a MUSS (Made-up Sexual Status, aka “transgender”) policy that endorses the life-rending interventions in question. This is even as more liberal countries, such as Sweden, France, and Norway, are abandoning MUSS meddling, having recognized its folly.

Thus warned Suzy Weiss, sister of former New York Post reporter Bari Weiss, in a Substack article last week titled “The Testosterone Hangover.” In it, she chronicles the woes of MUSS teens who underwent so-called “gender affirming care,” but, as with Kerschner and Nathaniel, later regretted the malpractice visited upon them. Weiss contends that these youths simply needed “a little time to grow up,” and, in fact, science bears this out:

Data show that insofar as sexually confused adolescents go, upwards of 80 percent of girls and more than 90 percent of boys will outgrow their “gender dysphoria” — if left alone.

Weiss opened her piece with the story of a girl who wasn’t left alone, Chloe; in fact, the teen was given puberty blockers and testosterone and had a double mastectomy at 15.

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By Selwyn Duke

It’s a simple concept: As the numbers of low-skilled workers increase relative to the number of jobs available to them, their value decreases in the market. This is welcomed by and great for big business, which can then hire employees at lower cost. But it’s not so good for the low-skilled, as finding jobs becomes more difficult and their wages will be lower.

This also means, however, that this phenomenon is not so good for another group: American blacks — as they constitute a disproportionate percentage of low-skilled workers.

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