Cancel Culture
New York City has agreed to pay $2.1 million to three former white Department of Education executives who alleged they were demoted due to their race in favor of less qualified candidates of color.
The payouts of $700,000 each to Lois Hererra, Jaye Murray, and Laura Feijoo resolve a $90 million lawsuit filed in 2018. The former officials accused the education department under then-Chancellor Richard Carranza of discriminating against them based on race as part of a push for racial “equity,” the New York Post reports.
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Read MoreIn this paper we examine three questions: do people gain significantly from being part of a family; what are the trends in family formation in Canada over the past two decades; and what factors explain these trends?
We find that being part of a family is very beneficial, both in terms of income and of overall well-being. Adults in a couple earn significantly more per person than singles of the same age, and married people live longer and have better mental health and well-being than non-married people, even common-law couples. Children in two-par
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Read MoreCBC President Catherine Tait was questioned on the public broadcaster’s policy on non-disclosure agreements.
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Read MoreDr. Jordan B. Peterson sits down with actor and environmental advocate Adrian Grenier. They discuss his early life on the streets of New York City, his eventual rise to stardom, the reality and decline of Hollywood, why he walked away after reaching the top, and how he grounds himself now through natural practices and the cultivation of his fully sustainable environment-first community.
Adrian Grenier is an American actor, musician, and environmental advocate. He is best known for his portrayal of Vincent Chase in the television series “Entourage” (2004–2011). He has appeared in films such as “Drive Me Crazy” (1999), “The Devil Wears Prada” (2006), “Trash Fire” (2016), and “Marauders” (2016). In 2021, he acted in the Netflix series “Clickbait.” In 2010, Grenier and his business partner Peter Glatzer started SHFT, a brand that promotes sustainability through multimedia. The website won two Webby Awards in 2011 for best website in its category. In 2020, he moved to Austin, Texas, settling on the Kintsugi Ranch, which he and his family have been turning into a fully sustainable, renewable community.
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Read MoreIn March 2021, the Biden White House initiated a brazenly unconstitutional censorship campaign to prevent Americans from buying politically unfavorable books from Amazon.
The effort, spearheaded by White House censors including Andy Slavitt and Rob Flaherty, began on March 2, 2021, when Slavitt emailed Amazon demanding to speak to an executive about the site’s “high levels of propaganda and misinformation and disinformation.”
Their subsequent discussions remain unknown, but recently released emails from the House Judiciary Committee reveal that the censors achieved their intended result. Within a week, Amazon adopted a shadow ban policy.
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Read MoreThe super PAC supporting Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for president said it plans to sue Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, for the company’s “blatant censorship” of a new film about Kennedy and his work challenging corporate corruption.
Super PACs, or “political action committees,” can raise unlimited sums of money to advocate for or against political candidates, according to OpenSecrets.org.
Actor Woody Harrelson narrates the 30-minute biographical film, “Who is Bobby Kennedy?,” which details Kennedy’s life and why he’s running for president.
Kennedy, Children’s Health Defense (CHD) founder and chairman-on-leave, said in a press release, “If supporters of all candidates do not have equal access to the digital public square, then we have a democracy in name only.”
He added:
“This goes beyond restricting freedom of expression on issues and ideas. Meta is censoring a biographical film about a major candidate in an election year. How can voters make an informed choice if they are denied basic information about a candidate’s life?”
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Read MoreQuebec Superior Court judge grants authorization for class action lawsuit against YouTube over COVID-19 censorship on its platform.
Éloïse Boies, pictured below, is a YouTuber with the channel ‘Élo Wants to Know.’ She has been granted authorization to proceed with a class-action lawsuit against YouTube. The lawsuit alleges that the platform has been censoring content related to the pandemic, vaccines, and the Covid-19 virus that it disagrees with, citing it as medical misinformation.
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Read MoreThousands (or is it millions) believe covid vaccines harmed them
12 claims paid out, average of $3,600
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Read MoreIs the “Overton Window” — the range of narratives acceptable to the mainstream media and policymakers — expanding to include perspectives that contradict the official narrative on COVID-19 vaccines and treatments?
Speaking on this week’s edition of “The Defender In-Depth,” Dr. Pierre Kory said he believes it is — at least in the mainstream media.
Kory, president and chief medical officer of the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC), cited several op-eds he wrote with journalist Mary Beth Pfeiffer since August 2023.
The op-eds were published in mainstream outlets, each of which incrementally expanded the range of counternarratives considered acceptable for publication.
The first op-ed, published in August 2023 by USA Today, addressed the unexplained increase in excess deaths in 2021 — without mentioning vaccines.
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Read MoreFirst, Jordan shares a text message from Mark Zuckerberg to Sheryl Sandberg, Nick Clegg and Joel Kaplan – the company’s highest-ranking executives at the time, in which he asks if Facebook can tell the world that “the [Biden] WH put pressure on us to censor the lab leak theory?” – hours after Biden accused Facebook of “killing people.” On July 16, 2021, Mark Zuckerberg texted Sheryl Sandberg, Nick Clegg, and Joel Kaplan.
Three of the highest ranking executives at Facebook.
Could Facebook tell the world that “the [Biden] WH put pressure on us to censor the lab leak theory?” pic.twitter.com/B1Wno3ayTW
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) May 1, 2024
Clegg responded that the Biden White house is “highly cynical and dishonest,” while Sandberg said that they were being scapegoated because the White House wasn’t hitting its vaccination numbers.
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