San Francisco passed a law requiring convicted felons to be referred to as "returning residents"

The Special Providence God reserves for fools, drunkards and the United States of America may still be in effect:

The routine violation of civil rights law was normalized and open, hesitating to do so would have been seen as the problem

DOCUMENTS: At many universities, giving point for race has been so routine and ubiquitous that faculty casually put it in writing—in widely-circulated emails. At Northern Illinois University, computer science job applicants got a boost for being non-male or “non-caucaian.”

BC gets more ridiculous every day: Okanagan Falls is the 1st town to incorporate since UNDRIP; this means Indigenous grps (not Mayor & Council) get to rename the town. Citizens don't want a rename, just 2% are First Nations & there are 0 Indigenous language speakers in OK Falls.

Fringe parties cease to be fringe when a critical mass of the public decide their ideas are viable. European electorates are warming up to the idea that regulating the pace of immigration is within their discretion as sovereign peoples and that the attempt to anathematize such choices by a class of supranational elites can be ignored.

I spoke too soon. They did something worse. I thought they had returned the woman to the actual meaning. Instead, they snuck the wokeisms into the definition of female. This is even more insidious.

The dissenting opinion in the 8th Circuit case makes an important point, one that I hope state AGs will take to heart in the remaining state court lawsuits. The dissent points out that the trial court accepted the plaintiff's assertions about gender. "As the district court found, “[t]ransgender people have a gender identity that does not align with their birth-assigned sex,” and gender dysphoria is the “significant distress” associated with “[t]he lack of alignment between one’s gender identity and their sex assigned at birth.” In 2025, there is no excuse for any state AG to uncritically accept the use of the terms gender or gender identity. Gender and gender identity have no scientific basis and their existence should never be admitted in a brief by the state. The term "gender" itself should only be used in quotes. These terms have no more scientific support than the idea of a human soul.

Why did those dastardly humanities professors make us do this?

Critics of Trump's takeover plan are right that violent crime in D.C. is falling by all the available measures. But in their haste to attack him, they've ignored exactly how bad violence in the city is. My latest in @TheAtlantic: