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Big Tech enforcement and deplatforming is ever more obviously becoming political and subjective. Despite running it by any number of lawyers, the only real standard for the political stuff is the Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart metric, “I know it when I see it”. Here’s Google’s latest mandate.  Alphabet-owned Google will not help websites, apps and YouTube channels sell ads…

Ukrainian diplomacy is starting to feel like being accosted by a homeless man on the subway. “Give me a buck, give me a smoke, I need a dog.” When it comes to Israel, Zelensky’s people made it sound like he was demanding Iron Dome.  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky used his address to MKs and cabinet ministers…

These are really bad numbers, especially for an era of rigidly lockstep partisan politics, mindless echo chambers, and constant media spin. The Biden numbers are obviously bad overall, but the weakness among Democrats is what really stands out. Fifty-six percent of Americans feel that Biden’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has not been tough…

This is the same old, “Your speech is violence, their violence is speech” standard in which questioning whether burning down cities is a good idea is worse than the BLM riots burning down cities. You may think this comes from Jennifer Rubin, Greg Sargent, Margaret Sullivan, or one of the Washington Post’s more embarrassing party…

Apparently, blackface is fine if you wear a hijab. Except this might actually be whiteface. As David Lange at Isreallycool notes, “Linda Sarsour is now officially Black!” The wife of former Washington D.C. Mayor Marion Barry has a “Blacks in Wax” show she puts on every year. Confusingly, unlike the many black wax museums which feature wax…